Altenew Educators’ "Clean and Simple" Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway
Today I am very happy to be participating in the Clean and Simple hop at Altenew - CAS is one of my favorite styles so this theme was a lot of fun for me! And look! Altenew used my fruit for the blog hop banner, yeah!!! Since it is summer time in Germany where I live I was inspired to use the Simple Fruit stamp set and my gorgeous Altenew Crisp Inks for my cards. The first cards I made for this hop were the two strawberry ones, because we had just eaten some sweet and delicious strawberries after dinner, I felt super inspired! For a good color gradation and making these strawberries look a bit more realistic; I first stamped the fruit in the lightest color then partially over-stamped in one or two darker colors, sponging away some of the ink from the stamp every time. Please note that for the strawberry I cut off the leaf part to stamp that individually in several shades from the Green Fields family. For the card above I used the Red Cosmos color family and for the next card bel
