Sunday 10 December 2017

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello Everyone! Today I’m excited to be a part of some special event called Advent Calendar Extravaganza. This is my second year in a row joining my friend Taheerah, and this year’s Advent Calendar Extravaganza is even bigger and better than last year - with ONE HUNDRED special links being hidden behind that magical door!




Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!


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Today I'm sharing a quick and simple Christmas card using a lovely Winter Cottage stamp from Altenew. I inked my image with two tones of blue (Dusk and Starlight inks) to create a simple background. Then I aded little stars from Happy Holidays Stamp Set.


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To finish my card I used Inline Alpha Die Set to create the NOEL sentiment. I die cut the letters out of gold glitter cardstock and popped up them with foam tape for some dimension.

noel

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It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by Seven Hills Crafts so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.

Don't forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 
Aga

Friday 8 December 2017

Altenew December Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew December Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Lilith’s blog then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Altenew Card blog and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

There are lots of fabulous products being released today! Stamps, dies and a Mini Blossom Die Cutting Machine! All are now available for purchase at the Altenew online store.

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Friday, December 15th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Sunday, December 17th.

In addition, one winner will be chosen from the comments left on this blog post and will receive a $30 gift certificate!

Today I've created three cards to share with you. For my first card, I stamped images from Frosted Garden Stamp Set with blue and green inks. Then I used the Altenew markers to add some colour details to the flowers and leaves.

hello


To finish my card I stamped Hello sentiment with black and die cut using a die from the Dot Labels Die Set.

hello


For my next card I combined stamp from the Frosted Garden Set with a sentiment from Birthday Builder Stamp Set.

happy birthday


I also used markers to add some details to the stamped images.

happy birthday


For my last card I created a stamped background using a new lovely set called Love You So Mush.

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I stamped images from the new set using Sand Dunes and Permanent Black inks and again used Altenew markers to mimic some watercolour look. To finish the card I added a sentiment and some small black details between stamped mushrooms (the leafy stamp comes from the Happy Holidays stamp set).

it mush be love


That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is Enza Gudor and I can't wait to see what she came up with today!

And if you want to start from the beginning to check all the amazing projects along the way here is the full list:

Agnieszka Malyszek <--you are here

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Altenew November II 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner


Hello! It's time to announce the winner of the $30 gift voucher for the Altenew November Release Blog Hop. Congratulations go out to:


Congrats Sherry! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com by 12/15/2017 with the subject line Altenew 11/20/2017 Release Blog Hop Winner from Aga's Blog to claim your gift certificate!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Blog Hop and for all your wonderful comments!
Aga

Monday 20 November 2017

Altenew November II 2017 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew November II Release Blog Hop! If you came here from May’s blog, then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Altenew Card Blog and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

There are some fabulous sets of markers being released today and they are now available for purchase at the Altenew online store.

To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Monday, November 27th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Wednesday, November 29th.

In addition, one winner will be chosen from the comments left on this blog post and will receive a $30 gift certificate!

For my project today, I decided to create a clean and simple card using a beautiful stamp from the Charmed Stamp Set. I stamped the image with Permanent Black Crisp Ink, which is perfect to use with Altenew Artist Markers.

hugs


Next I used the new Altenew Artist Markers from set B and C to do the colouring. To finish my card I stamped a sentiment and few little stars from the Sentiments and Quotes Stamp Set.

hugs


Here’s a picture of colours I used on my card:

hugs


That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is Lydia Evans and I can't wait to see what she came up with today!

If you want to start from the beginning to check all the amazing projects along the way here is the full list:

Agnieszka Malyszek <--you are here

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga

Altenew November 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner

Hello! It's time to announce the winner of the $30 gift voucher for the Altenew November Release Blog Hop. Congratulations go out to:


Congrats Stef! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com by 11/30/2017 with the subject line Altenew 11/8/2017 Release Blog Hop Winner from Aga's Blog to claim your gift certificate!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Blog Hop and for all your wonderful comments!
Have a great week!
Aga

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Altenew November 2017 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew November Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Hussena's blog, then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Altenew Scrapbook Blog and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

There are some fabulous stamps and dies being released today, and they are now available for purchase at the Altenew online store.

To celebrate this release, Altenew will draw six lucky winners who will each receive a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, November 16th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Saturday, November 18th.

In addition, one winner will be chosen from the comments left on this blog post and will receive a $30 gift certificate!

For today’s blog hop I’ve created two cards to share with you. For my first card, I combined a new great December to Remember Stamp Set, which contains some sweet and timeless messages, with two different sets: Garden Treasure and Happy Holidays.

believe in magic

First I stamped my sentiment and a floral design using two different shades of blue: Dusk and Desert Night. Then I added little elements from the Happy Holidays stamp set.

believe in magic

To create my second card I used a great stamp set to commemorate the year 2018, it would make the perfect addition for any scrapbook layouts, journals and New Year's cards!

2018

I started by stamping it in the centre of my card, and then I created my background using a floral image from the Charmed Stamp Set. To finish my card I used markers to colour in the numbers and added some black ink splatters.

2018

That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is Virginia Lu and I can't wait to see what she came up with today!

Here is the full line up for the blog hop today.

Agnieszka Malyszek <--you are here

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga

Friday 3 November 2017

Altenew October 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner


Hello! It's time to announce the winner of the $30 gift voucher for the Altenew October Release Blog Hop. Congratulations go out to:


Congrats Daša! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com by 11/15/2017 with the subject line Altenew October 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner from Aga's Blog to claim your gift certificate!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Blog Hop and for all your wonderful comments!
Have a great weekend!
Aga

Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop Winner


Hello! It's time to announce winners of the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop.

The winner of the $20 gift voucher is:



Congrats Lieve! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com by 11/20/2017 with the subject line Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop Winner from Aga's Blog to claim your gift certificate!

In addition I’m going to send a hand made card to THREE persons:



Ladies, please drop me your snail mail (email me on the sidebar) and I'll get it in the mail next week!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Blog Hop and for all your wonderful comments!
Have a great weekend!
Aga

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Altenew October 2017 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway


Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew October Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Kymona’s blog, then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Altenew Scrapbook Blog and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

There are lots of new products being released today! New fabulous embossing powders and a new Family Scrapbook Collection kit and they are now available for purchase at the Altenew online store.

To celebrate this release, Altenew will draw six lucky winners who will each receive a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Thursday, November 2nd for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Saturday, November 4th.

In addition, one winner will be chosen from the comments left on this blog post and will receive a $30 gift certificate!

For today’s blog hop I’ve created a simple card using Floral Fantasy Stamp Set and the new Rose Gold Crisp Embossing Powder.

thanks


First I stamped my floral background using the following Altenew Crisp Dye Inks: Sea Glass and Frayed Leaf for the first layer, Volcano Lakes for the second and Caribbean Sky for the leaves. Next I used Clear Embossing Ink for the last layers of flowers and some leaves and heat embossed them in gold embossing powder to add some texture and shine to my background. To finish my card I added a "thanks" sentiment cut out with Signature Words Die Set.

thanks


That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is Vicky Papaioannou!

Here is the full line up for the blog hop today.

Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Terhi Koskinen
Svitlana Shayevich
Sandra Dietrich
Therese Calvird
Bea Valint
Erum Tasneem
Ashley Horton
Debby Hughes
Enza Gudor
Laurie Schmidlin
Isha Gupta
Flora Monika Farkas
Virginia Lu
Lilith Eeckels
Sveta Fotinia
Kim Jeffress
Yoonsun Hur
Reiko Tsuchida
Dana Gong
Kymona Tracey
Agnieszka Malyszek <--- you are here
Vicky Papaioannou
Altenew Card Blog

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway



Hello everyone and welcome to the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop! If you came here from Terhi Koskinen’s blog, then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Altenew Scrapbook Blog and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

Today I'm very excited to join Altenew along with lots of talented designers for a special blog hop celebration in honour of the amazing community of crafters.

Crafting is one of my favourite hobbies and I feel very lucky to be a part of such a supportive and amazing community! It’s always so inspiring and motivating and I’m very grateful for all the opportunities and experiences that this community has provided me. I hope someday I will be able to meet and hug some of my online friends in person!

So back to the blog hop, to celebrate our unique community there are special offers and prizes up for grabs!

Special Offer
FREE U.S. shipping with code CRAFTY or $5 OFF international shipping with code FRIENDS at checkout. Offer valid from October 17th at 12:01 am EDT through October 19th at 11:59 pm EDT. Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.

Prizes
Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:


Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 prize pack of three Altenew stamp sets
Online Card Classes: 3 class spots
Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate
My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI
Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate
Pretty Pink Posh: $30 gift certificate
Simon Says Stamp: $30 gift certificate
Chameleon Pens: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon pens
Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 dual brush pens
WOW! Embossing Powder: $25 gift certificate
Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate
Freckled Fawn: $20 gift certificate
Papercraft Magazines: One copy of each of the latest issues of four magazines
Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 1-year subscription

Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 20 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017.

In addition, one winner will be chosen from the comments left on this blog post and will receive a $20 gift certificate!

For today’s hop, I created a clean and simple card using a beautiful Crafty Friends stamp set, perfect for creating cards for all the crafty friends in our live!


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To thank you for your visits, support and always thoughtful comments I would love to mail this card to someone chosen from the comments, just let me know if you would like to receive it!

That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is My Sweet Petunia.

Here is the full line up for the blog hop today:


Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga
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Friday 13 October 2017

Altenew September 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner


Hello! I do apologise for the delay of the announcement! The winner of the $30 gift voucher for the Altenew September Release is:


Congrats Kirsty! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com by 31/10/2017 with the subject line Altenew September 2017 Release Blog Hop Winner from Aga's Blog to claim your gift certificate!

Thank you everyone for taking part in the Blog Hop and for all your wonderful comments!
Have a great weekend!
Aga

Saturday 7 October 2017

Winnie & Walter World Cardmaking Day 2017



Hello Everyone and Happy World Card Making Day! Today I'm excited to join Winnie & Walter along with lots of talented designers for a special blog hop celebration in honour of WCMD! If you came here from Miriam Pranter’s blog, then you are on the right track. Otherwise, go back to Winnie & Walter and start from there, as you won't want to miss anything!

To celebrate this bog hop, 5 random winners in total will be drawn from all the comments left on the different stops along the hop. Each winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to the Winnie & Walter shop!

For today’s hop, I created a clean and simple card using a leaf stamp from In Bloom: Renee's Leaves set and Thanks Cutaway.

thanks


I stamped my leaves in light pink colour and used alcohol markers to colour them in. Next, I added the “thanks” sentiment which I die cut out of black cardstock and popped up with foam squares for dimension. To finish my card I added a stripe of gold glitter washi tape at the bottom.

thanks


That’s it for me, your next stop on the hop is Kate M Capper.
Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop!
Aga