Altenew July release blog hop and Giveaway!

 

Today, I'm taking part in a blog hop to celebrate the July release from Altenew. This release includes some really gorgeous Christmas products, and I was so happy to see multiple poinsettia products! You can find the release HERE!

I created this card using the Lush Botanicals - Poinsettia products, which include layering dies and a coordinating embossing folder to create some amazing texture. I thought it would be fun to add some glittery leaves behind the red poinsettia. I also used the new Holiday Essentials sentiment dies, and the Paper Echoes stencil. 

And I made a video! 

 

 

 

• $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by July 16th for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew's Blog Hop Post on July 18th, 2026.

• The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog. 

   

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AECP Hop - Layer it Up!

 Today, I'm taking part in a video hop on YouTube with my fellow Altenew Educators! Please see my video on YouTube for your chance to win!  

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Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive Hop

Today, I'm taking part in a hop for the Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive! 

There's $200 in total prizes! To help support this card drive, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by March 31, 2026 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Blog Hop post on April 2, 2026.

See below for the list of blogs in the hop! 

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Altenew will donate $1 with every order from the Floral Stamps collection from 3/6/2026 until 4/17/2026 to the Food Bank of Central New York to support seniors in need. 

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CASEing a superstar - Jennifer McGuire

Today,  I am celebrating my 1000th post to this blog!  YAY!

I thought I would celebrate in two ways - firstly, I'm CASEing some of my all-time favourite cards over the next week - ones that I have pinned on Pinterest.  These are from some of my favourite card-making superstars.  Today's CASE is of a card by Jennifer McGuire.

Here's the card I CASEd

Then I decided to make another CASE of the same card!

Here's the second way I'm celebrating - I thought I would do a giveaway :) 

I have a bag full of goodies, including things from Hero Arts, Simon Says Stamp, Kaisercraft, Stickles, Basic Grey, My Minds Eye, The Twinery, Imaginisce, Pebbles, Prima, Uniball, Kuretake, and a couple of other goodies thrown in for good measure!

All you need to do for a chance to win this giveaway is fill in the Rafflecopter thingamajig below.  There are multiple ways to enter, and each one gives you an entry (or more than one)! I will announce the winner sometime in the week following the close of the Rafflecopter - you have until Friday, 14th August at 2pm AEST (that's 12am EST for my friends in the US and Canada, or 4am GMT for UK and European peeps.)

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!

Now, if you know anything about Jennifer McGuire, you know that she is one of the sweetest and most generous ladies there is.  So when I asked her whether she was OK with me posting a photo of her card here on my blog, not only did she say she was honoured (and my jaw dropped), but she also offered an extra giveaway for my blog event - free registration to the latest Online Card Class - Background Check! Can you IMAGINE how excited I am by this - I have taken part in every single Online Card Class since they began, and I've loved every single one! So, to win a spot in this awesome card class, all you need to do is comment on this post, telling me your favourite background stamp (my current favourite is Hero Arts/Basic Grey Highline Ironwork Background). You have until Friday, 14th August to comment.

Many thanks to Christine Drogt at Create a Smile and Jennifer McGuire at Online Card Classes for their generous sponsorship!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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