Altenew Card and Envelope

The current Time Out Challenges is "In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." sponsored by Altenew. https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/ 

When I saw the sponsor I knew I could use some new products I just ordered. Making a thankful card is in joy of friendships, so often we send people we love flowers, both for joyful and sad occasions.

I've been using a lot of metallic paper for holiday cards and have a ton of scraps. I looked at this "Itty Bitty Flowers" die set and was going to use traditional floral colors for the blossoms but then thought, why not use all those itty bitty scraps? I cut the branch out of black cardstock but cut each layer of flower out of different metallic scraps. The set comes with a layering guide and I'll be honest it's a bit difficult to figure out which shapes go with which. Lucky that I really like putting together dies while watching YouTube! 

I was really pleased with how it came out, and just wanted to attach it to a white background. I usually think some kind of texture is important, so I chose the "Blooming Branches" 3D embossing folder by Altenew, which resembles the branch. I cut the square panel down. I cut a frame from some copper metallic paper I bought at Michaels, using 2 rectangle dies to make a frame. The white card I used is 5"x6.5" and too big to use the square folder for embossing, so I diecut more of the branches and just glued them around the panel. I popped up the panel and diecut "Thankful", an old Simon Says Stamp die, and now it looks perfect for Thanksgiving.

I didn't have an envelope to fit this card so I made one. I saw that this week's SSS blog challenge for Wednesday is "Card + Matching Envelope". I wanted to emboss the envelope but it's really hard to get it to fit properly, so I just cut to fit a piece for the front and attached it and a thin strip of copper paper, leaving room for the "To" area on the envelope. I think it looks pretty special.

Here's the 2 Altenew products I used for the card and envelope.

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