Altenew Sticky Essentials Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!)

 Hello Friends,

Today I am part of the Sticky Essentials blog hop featuring Altenew adhesives and it's a two-for-one! 

If you have come from Yes, Virginia! you are right on track.

Today we are concentrating on some of the products from the Altenew adhesive collection the Sticky Essentials!



For my cards today I first created the striped background using the Double Sided Adhesive Sheets:

  1. Cut a card panel to A2 size
  2. Cut a piece of an Altenew Double Sided Adhesive Sheet slightly smaller than A2 (if it's a tiny bit smaller it's much easier to center on the A2 panel) and stick to the panel.
  3. Cut strips of paper in coordinating colors and various widths to create the background - I used Canson papers because I have a nice stash of that but you can use any paper you may have. 
  4. Then cut strips of Altenew Glitter Gradient Cardstock in coordinating colors. I used Golden Beryl, Peridot and Titanite adding green and gold to my red, light blue and taupe Canson paper color scheme.
  5. Remove the backing paper from the adhesive sheet and start sticking down the strips on an angle, cover the whole piece. Cut away the excess strips from the sides using a cutter or scissors.
  6. Trim the striped background to slightly smaller than A2.


To finish the card:

  1. Cut a heart towards the top third of the background using the Halftone Heart Nesting Dies - save the heart for your second card!
  2. Adhere to a card blank using Instant Dimension Foam Tape to lift it up just a bit from the card surface.
  3. Stick down a piece of Double Sided Adhesive Sheet to some green Glitter Gradient Cardstock and die-cut the word NOEL using the Tall Alpha Die Set.
  4. Line up the word on your work surface and pick it up with Satin Masking Tape, remove the backing from the adhesive and stick down inside the heart.


For the second card:

  1. Stamp Happy Holidays from the Pine Cone stamp set repeatedly on one of the card strips in Red Pigment ink.
  2. Die-cut a slightly larger sized heart from Canson light-blue paper backed with a piece of Double Sided Adhesive Sheet.
  3. Stick the heart to a square 4 and 1/4 inch card base.
  4. Using Instant Dimension Foam Tape, glue the striped heart down on an angle as shown in the photograph above.
Keep scrolling for a bonus card using slightly different colors!

To celebrate this special blog hop, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and  a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! For a chance to win, please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer's blog post no later than October 5, 2022. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments and will announce who won on the Altenew Winners Page on October 6.

To see what all the designers have made for the hop and leave comments for a chance to win!
The hop starts at the Altenew Card Blog where Svitlana is hosting. 
Then hop on to Virginia Lu - if you are following along, this is where you should have come from before me.
My blog: Helen Kalb - you are here! I am surrounded by super talented people...
Once you have left a comment here, hop on to Lilith Eckles - your next stop on the hop

Here is my bonus card - not a twofer because I managed to tear the heart... the color combo is not exactly the same, replacing the red with dark brown makes for a very different mood.


Perhaps you can tell me if you use adhesive sheets in the comments below.
Have a great and hopefully crafty day!
Hugs, Helen

Disclosure: Please note that I do not participate in any affiliate programs and do not receive any payment for producing this or any other blog post. I only post about products I love and provide product links purely for the convenience of my readers. On this occasion Altenew generously gifted me the adhesives used for these cards, they are truly great products! All other products used were purchased by me.

Comments

  1. Helen, These adhesive sheets look like they are the go to adhesive. I am going to site now to order. Thank you.

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  2. Love both cards, I need some adhesive sheets.

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  3. What a very unique card!

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  4. Love your colors of stripes on these cards and how you used the positive and negative to make 2 cards. I'm interested in the instant dimension foam tape, too.

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    1. The Dimension Foam Tape is great!

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  5. oh what fun cards - love the colors on them

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  6. Sweet cards! Love 2 for 1! Yes I love adhesive sheets!

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  7. Love the double sided adhesive and the 2 for 1 card.

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  8. Beautiful cards!!!! Best adhesive sheets Ever!!!!

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  9. The glittery stripes look cool. Nice idea.

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  10. Love the striped backgrounds! Great designs!

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  11. SUPERB, Helen!! Love your beautiful color choices and creative use of adhesive!

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  12. Beautiful cards. Love the learn about the adhesives. Thanks for sharing.

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  13. A lot of work in these cards ! But they turned out great. I love that you tilted the inner heart. As always you are the best.

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  14. I do use adhesive sheets, especially like you did here but not very often.

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  15. Sandra BaggarlySeptember 30, 2022

    Thanks for sharing your lovely cards!

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  16. Adhesive sheets are perfect for stripes. Beautiful cards. TFS!

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  17. Your color choices are such a delight! Amazing cards - so glad you shared them.

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    1. Choosing colors is one of the biggest joys in cardmaking for me - so glad you like these!

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  18. Unique cards! Thanks for sharing

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  19. Very nice cards! The strips layout is always a fun one and who doesn't love the glitter!

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  20. I love ideas that make 2 cards at 1 time! :) Awesome!

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  21. Fun cards. Love the two for ones

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  22. This technique is a fantastic scrap stash buster! The adhesive sheets are a live saver for this. Very clever two for one design. Thanks for the inspiration.

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    1. We all need great scrap stash busters, don't we?!

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  23. What a clever idea to add the heart at an angle - looks very effective. Love when one lot of work gets me 2 cards, thanks!

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