Altenew Thanks and Blessings Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

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Creating simple geometric backgrounds is a quick and easy way to make breathtaking handmade cards for your loved ones. I’ve been obsessed with pattern building recently (you might have noticed the Playful Patterns Stencil Set and Cool Decades Stamp Set I designed in July), and I can’t get enough of it.

In the September Altenew release, I designed a very simple stencil design that packs a lot of potentials. Block Builder Stencil is designed to be rotated, flipped, and overlapped to create all sorts of stunning geometric designs. On the Altenew website, you can find a layering guide for initial inspiration along with project ideas from some amazing designers. So for my cards today, I tried to create patterns beyond the ones you can find on the layering guide.

Simple Hexagons

To create this simple pattern just use Stencil 1 of the set, rotate it 180 degrees, and reink with a slightly different color.

Overlapping Points

The second pattern is also extremely simple. Again you only use Stencil 1 of the set. You want to ink it once, nudge it a bit to the right, and re-ink, overlapping with your first layer. Repeat this till you fill the whole line, it took me 4 layers in total.

Overlapping Peaks

For this pattern, I used both stencils. I started with Stencil 1 inking it, flipping, and re-inking it with a different color. Then I took Stencil 2 and aligned it so that the peak of the triangle, slightly overlaps the peak of the Stencil 1 design. Again ink, flip and re-ink with a different color.

Abstract Geometric

This design looks a bit more complicated but in reality, is very simple. Ink Stencil 1, flip vertically, and re-ink it. Then use Stencil 2 to fill one of the small gaps. You can re-align Stencil 2 and color the second triangle gap, but I really liked how the white space looked so I left it as is.

Inspired by Pinwheels

This last pattern is more random than the rest, I didn’t really align any specific elements, I just kept rotating my stencil around and filling the gaps while overlapping with my previous inked impression. My initial plan was to create a pinwheel pattern (you can totally do that with this stencil if you want) but I really liked the messy overlapping approach so I went for it. I only used Stencil 2 of the set to create it.

To finish all the cards, I used a die-cut sentiment from the new All About Thanks Word Die Set. I absolutely adore the font in this die series. It perfectly matches All About You Word Die Set and you can mix and match words from both sets to create even more sentiment combinations.

Products Used

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If you want to check even more inspiring cards, follow along the blog hop lineup. If you can from Amy’s blog you can move to the next stop: Tania Ahmed. If you just joined in, you can start at the top with the Altenew Blog.

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 09/09/2021 for a chance to win. 

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 09/11/2021.