Coral Charm Peony Hello Card

I recently attended an Altenew Educator Workshop led by the creative Traci Starkweather, and she created a card design using Altenew's Coral Charm Peony. She did some lovely ink blending on her petals, but I decided to die cut my flower and leaves out of papers I had painted with alcohol inks instead. I just love the look of alcohol inks! And now that I use white posterboard instead of Yupo paper when working with them, I can die cut my panels easily. 

I started with a top-folding A2 card panel. Then I adhered a panel of black cardstock I had trimmed to 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Once that was done, I die cut all the layers for the flower and leaves out of my alcohol ink panels and assembled the flower. This is Altenew's Coral Charm Peony, and it's one of their Craft-A-Flower die sets. 

Once I knew what size the flower would be, I decided to use Altenew's Fine Frames: Squares die set and die cut the largest square out of a panel of white cardstock I had trimmed to 4 1/8 by 5 3/8 inches. I then embossed the pieces using the 3D embossing folder in Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Eclectic Bouquet project kit and popped up the square using Altenew's Instant Dimension Foam Tape. There is a small black frame around the popped up square because the Fine Frames: Squares die set cuts out a very thin frame around the squares it die cuts. I simply saved the thin white frame it die cut when I ran it through with my white cardstock panel for another project. 

I adhered my peony using more foam tape and then trimmed a sentiment from Altenew's Mini Sentiments 3D embossing folder. I went over the letters of the sentiment with the gold marker from Altenew's Essential Permanent Markers set and adhered the sentiment to the card. 

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Challenges I'm entering: 

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (4/5 for the week; 4/10 for the challenge; ends 11/11/26)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focus (4/5; ends 11/12/26)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with option of Sentimental Star (3/8; ends at the end of the month)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge ...: ATG (3/3; ends 11/14/26)

Allsorts challenge blog: Moodboard or ATG (3/5; ends 8/19/26) 

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (3/4; ends 12/2/26)

Crafty Catz: ATG (3/3; ends 11/18/26)

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG (3/3; ends 11/20/26)

Digi Choosday Cardmaking & Crafting Challenge: ATG (3/4; ends 11/29/26)

A Place To Start: ATG with the option of Easel Card (3/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG (ends 11/12/26)

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog: ATG (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Cut Above: ATG with die cuts (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with embossing with option of Numbers (3/3; ends 11/11/26)

Triple B: ATG with birds, blooms, and/or butterflies (3/3; ends at the end of the month)

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

Numbers 6:22-26