Hey everyone! Happy Saturday!
I’m beyond thrilled and excited to be here today to be a part of Altenew Stamps’ second release Blog Hop!!
Welcome to Altenew’s second Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from my awesomely talented friend Kelly Griglione’s blog. If not please make your way over to the Altenew blog where Tasnim and Jen are kicking off the Hop in style!!
Altenew is a relatively new stamp company that opened its doors in April. In a couple of days they will be releasing their second collection of stamps. All the stamps that you will see here will be available for purchase at 9:00 am EST on Monday July 14th.
I’m sharing a card created with the delightful Ramadan Greetings set – and you might just see a little of Sketchy Cities Abroad here too! *wink* I have longed for some stamp sets that celebrate Islamic events for so long so I was so excited to see this month’s release contains sets to mark both Ramadan and Eid! For those of you who may not know, Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar and Muslims observe a month of fasting, abstaining from food and drink between sunrise and sunset every day. Following this comes the festival of Eid Al-Fitr to celebrate the end of Ramadan.
Anyway, back to the stamps and card, lol! Here’s what I came up with:
I could not be more thrilled with how this turned out!!
I started with an Onyx Shimmer cardstock panel and splattered on Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Mists in Gold Lame and Black Velvet, and Perfect Pearls Mist in Heirloom Gold. Next I stamped the skyline and sentiment from Ramadan Greetings using Versamark ink and heat embossed them witb WOW! Metallic Gold Sparkle embossing powder.
I added some of the stars from Sketchy Cities abroad, stamping and embossing as before. I then added some sequins (including some of the little centres from the sequins that you would normally throw away!), adhering in place with Glossy Accents. All that remained was to adhere my panel to my True Black card base using Pinflair Glue Gel and I was all done!
To celebrate their second release, Altenew is giving away five stamp sets of choice to three lucky winners! The winners will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.
And there’s more! I will choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be two stamps sets of your choice.
You have until Monday July 14th 7:59am EST to leave your comments. You may enter up to two comments on each blog:
- Comment on the project, or the stamps.
- Like Altenew on Facebook
The winners will be selected and announced on Monday July 14th at 9:00 am EST!
Here’s the full Hop order for your pleasure!
Supplies
It is neat to have stamps celebrating special holidays for all cultures. Nice job!
I love how it turned out too! Love the shimmer!
Wonderful clean and elegant design and I love all the shimmer!
Love the beautifully stunning card. The image looks fabulous against the dark background!
Susan
wonderful and beautiful cards. stunning….
I follow Altenew on Facebook too.
Stunning night sky, I am really inspired by your beautiful card!
Stunning card.. I have so many friends to whom I can send Ramadan and Eid cards…
Love the card!
Stunning card!!! Love!
Lovely card!!
CAS and stunning!
Well done, Taheerah, the gold really does make the card!
My friends tease me that I have a stamp for every occasion. Well guess what…………..no Ramadan stamp! Hoping to win so that the playful teasing continues!
I love that Altenew creates stamp designs that are sometimes so unique and difficult to find, if you will. …not so mainstream. 🙂 LOVE this!!! Very very cool!! I'm so happy to have found a fresh and innovative stamp company that thinks outside of the box!
What a beautiful card!!! I love your style!!! Thanks for being a part of this super inspiring hop!!!
Gorgeous card!
I love the starry night sky….absolutely beautiful.
Love the night sky…I will have to create that on a card here at home. Your site was new to me…happy to have found you! Always looking for new and creative designs and designers.
Wow! Love the gold embossing powder on that sparkly cardstock, super great combo!
Thank you for sharing such a great card.
Gorgeous stamps. Thanks for the opportunity. Your projects are terrific.
Beautiful starry sky card! Absolutely stunning!
Very cool card! And it's so nice to see a Ramadan stamp set, finally!
I like it – makes the night come alive.
Such a pretty card and so stunning!
What a beautiful and professional-looking card!
The card's beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful!!
VERY VERY gorgeous stars….and pretty sky, Taheerah! I can almost see the stars! Happy to see your lovely work in the hop 🙂
Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful card! So shiny and shimmery 🙂 Love it!
Love the technique that you used
I like Altenew on FB
Shimmery gorgeousness Taheerah! I adore this!!!
Beaujtiful background. All the elements you used came together beautifully.
Beautiful!
Beautiful cards- and weighing for you a Blessed Ramadan as well
Beautiful cards thanks for sharing
Barb Housner
Your card is gorgeous! I love the diversity in these stamp sets!
Very pretty!!!
I like on facebook.
Wow. This card is stunning. I love what you did. All that black and gold is so beautiful together.
such a pretty starry night. that would look good with the new cities stamp too.
I liked you guys on FB and shared the hop on my timeline!
Your Ramadan card is delicious!
Oh this is so beautiful!!
Beautiful card, Taheerah! Your sky looks amazing!
The effect on this card is beautiful!!!
Stunning card Taheerah! I love all the detail in the night sky too!