Road Trip

 Hello,

Cindy here to share a fun "Real or Faux Watercolor" card.

This image, "Road Trip" by Art Impressions - our May sponsor is so fun, I think I want to join the ladies.  I watercolored the image, hand cut and adhere on faux watercolored background.

Art Impressions is giving a $25 gift code to the store as the challenge prize.

May's challenge theme is "Real or Faux Watercolor", you can use real watercolors, distress inks,  distress oxides inks, or other medium that makes your creation looks like watercolors.  

Now it's your turn.  Pull out your favorites supplies and join in the fun.  But of course, remember to use your die cut machine in the process, ie.  add die cuts and/or dry embossing to qualify.  Click the "Monthly Challenge" button on the right side bar for the linkup.

For full supply list of my project, please visit my blog: Escape To Stamping.

Thanks for being here, have a good one!

Altenew Winner Reveal 2025

 

 Altenew is giving a $50 gift certificate to the  
 winner of Die Cut Divas April Challenge

#112 Karen L K

 Winner:  Be sure to contact Die Cut Divas at thedcdivas@gmail.com so we may send your email address to our sponsor.

The Die Cut Divas' favorites follow:

Linda fell in love with this beauty by #100 Anesha:

Lucille  likes the simplicity and colors of this card by #5 Renate

Cindy really enjoy #115 Lynne R's softly color Japanese Anemone.

Arlene loved the CAS feel to Elle-Jeanne's card #108

Sue chose #83 by Ionabunny-such a cute treat box!

 

And Michelle chose #96 by Betty as her favorite-

 

Art Impressions 2025 and You!

Art Impressions has some wonderful products and the Divas are ready to hopefully inspire and delight you with their projects.

Art Impressions is giving a $25 gift card to the

 Winner of the May challenge. 

The challenge is to make your creation look like it is water colored.  You can use water colors, distress  and distress oxides or whatever you want to get the water color look we want to see.

Let's take a look on what the Divas created for you.

Cindy thought of this quote "Friendship is the Wine of Life" by Edward Young when she saw Art Impressions' Wine Tasters stamp set.

Michelle made a get well soon card-

Arlene had fun playing with a car full of fun ladies here.

Annie Created this fun card featuring the Got Style stamp set

 

Join us in this month's challenge.  We love to see what you create!

 

 

A Big Thank You to Altenew 2025

  Have a Wonderful Time of the Year with Altenew in 2025!

 

 Altenew is giving a $50 gift certificate to the  
 winner of Die Cut Divas April Challenge.

 Let's give a big Thank You to Altenew.  Their products are so much fun to work and create with.  

Be sure to enter your FLOWER project

in the April Diva gallery

by 9:00 p.m. Pacific time tonight.

Here's some final floral inspiration:

Arlene's card used the freebie printables at Altenew.

Sue N's card features Altenew's Charming Doodles stamp and die set which unfortunately is retired. However, Altenew has so many floral stamp and die sets which would work similarly. For details on how she created her card, please check out her foleysfriend blog.

Dawn has used an old favourite Altenew set Beautiful Day   

You can see full details at Dawn's World.

and made a bonus card - using an older stencil - Sweet Spring.

Lucille made a flower card with a blank inside to be used for any occasion.

Linda used several Altenew sets, including Dear Dahlias.

For details & a bonus go HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

The Divas

Bloom and Grow with our sponsor Altenew

 

Our sponsor this month is Altenew . They will be giving our winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store.  The theme for our challenge this month is flowers and as it's Springtime the ideas are flowing.  Here's a flower card I made to inspire you:

There is still time to play along.  See you soon

Lucille

Hello You Floral

 Hi Dawn here to share my sample for this month's challenge.  It's a challenge that warms my heart... my favourite theme and sponsored by my favourite company....

FLOWERS

Our sponsor this month is Altenew. They will be giving our winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Thank you Altenew for this very generous gift.

Here's what I came up with.

I used Altenew Perfect Gift set - stamps, stencils, dies and embossing folder to make this one.  I used the embossing folder to add the embossed background.  It embosses the frame and the flower.. but I chose to stamp the flower separately and used the stencil to add the colour before die cutting it.   I used purples from Altenew Enchanted Garden set and greens from Tropical Forest set. The centre was Fresh Lemon but I added some Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen.   For my sentiment I die cut two from Altenew Versatile Greetings set from purple card.   I also made the little purple embellishments by cutting some paler purple card with a tiny circle background die - not sure where I got it as it is unbranded.  Made a LOT of dots!  I added a few here and there and added some glossy accents to them so they look like enamel dots. 

We'd love to see your gorgeous FLOWER projects here . 

Dawn and the Divas

An Inky Bouquet!

Hey there Diva friends - I hope you had a wonderful weekend!! It's Diva Linda here sharing inspiration for our April Challenge - FLOWERS with Altenew as our fabulous sponsor.

We thank Altenew for the generous $50 gift card to award

to our random April winner!

We love Altenew for their fabulous floral sets. I chose a fave of mine which, sadly, is sold out right now - Inky Bouquet. The sentiment is from the Bellaroma Hybrid Tea Rose set.

You can see all the details, plus a bonus card HERE on my blog Scrappin', Stampin' & Singin'.

Thanks for stopping by today & we hope to see your beautiful card using flowers in our April gallery. Reminder: use a die cut &/or embossing folder in your design & max of 4 entries. 

Good luck! 

Orange Roses

 

 

 Altenew is giving a $50 gift certificate to the  
 winner of Die Cut Divas April Challenge!

Established in April 2014, Altenew has quickly become a leader in the inspiration industry and continues to innovate and influence the world of paper crafts. Altenew strives to encourage crafters to express their own unique creativity through the art of paper crafting.

The Challenge for this month is Flowers.

 Here is my project-

 

 

 

My mother loved orange roses-especially one called Tropicana. She always had at least one Tropicana rosebush at all times, but never in the same areas! This card was inspired by those roses.

 

For more information on this card, please join me at Just a Nutter Paper Crafter.

 

Flowers with Altenew

Hi! It's Sue here on the Die Cut Divas blog today. For the month of April, our challenge is

FLOWERS

Our sponsor this month is Altenew. They will be giving our winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store. Thank you Altenew for this very generous gift.

Here's my card

For my card, I used parts of Altenew's Perfect Gift bundle including 3D embossing folder, layering stencils and die set. I embossed first, then used the layering stencils and distress inks to add color. The sentiment uses Altenew's Adore You stamp set. For more specifics on how I put together my card, please visit my foleysfriend blog.

Happy Crafting!

Thinking Of You Art Journal Page

 Hello there,

Cindy here to present another Flower theme inspiration.  Today I've created an art journal page featuring Altenew Craft-A-Flower Pansies Layering Die Set.

I did some ink blending on the background paper (mix media paper already slightly colored).  I stamped some text randomly, and applied volume paste thru stencil in selected areas.  After everything is nice and dried, I adhered the watercolored pansies onto the page.  To truly make this my own, I hand wrote "thinking of", the meaning of the Pansies in Chinese.

Altenew is our sponsor this April, and they are giving away a $50 gift card to our challenge winner (randomly selected from all the eligible entries).  Our challenge theme this month is: Flowers.

Remember to use die cut and/or dry embossing with Flowers for our April challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations.

For further details and full supply list, visit my blog: Escape To Stamping.

That's it for now.  Have a great day! 

Winner of the March Challenge 2025

Sunny Studio Stamps is giving a $30 gift certificate to the Winner of the 2025 March challenge. 
#57 Wendylynn's Paper Whims

 Winner:  Be sure to contact Die Cut Divas at thedcdivas@gmail.com so we may send your email address to our sponsor.

The Die Cut Divas' favorites follow:

Cindy really liked #3 The Craft Den's adorable gift bag.

Linda loved the background embellished with die cuts by #85 Vicki.

Sue N really loved #47 - Hey There (Heather) because the critters are so cute!

Arlene loved the coloring and all around sweetness of

#102, Trina Pham's card.

Be sure to enter April's challenge.  We love your entries.

Spring with Altenew 2025

 Have a Wonderful Time of the Year with Altenew in 2025.

 

 Altenew is giving a $50 gift certificate to the  
 winner of Die Cut Divas April Challenge

Established in April 2014, Altenew has quickly become a leader in the inspiration industry and continues to innovate and influence the world of paper crafts. Altenew strives to encourage crafters to express their own unique creativity through the art of paper crafting.

The Challenge for this month is Flowers.

Arlene is celebrating April with her favorite flower.

 

Cindy thinks yellow daisies will cheer you up.

Michelle likes unusually colored lilies-

 

Lucille chose to make a gate-fold card with sweet, little daisies

 

Annie made an encouragement card featuring the Primrose 

Last Day of March 2025

 

Let's give a big Thank You to Sunny Studio Stamps.  Their products are so much fun to work and create with and they have lots of critters!

 The challenge Theme for March is critters, real or imaginary! 
Sunny Studio will generously contribute a $30 gift Certificate to the winner. 

Be sure to enter your project by 9:00 p.m. Pacific time tonight.

Some more inspiration from the Divas!

Arlene is using this cute cat set on a mini-slimline card and just had the best fun coloring these darlings.  Are these not the cutest?

Sue N used the Oceans of Joy stamp set to make her critter card. She chose a really big critter! For details on how she put together her card, check out her foleysfriend blog.

Linda used a trio from Sunny Studio's Christmas Critters.

See details & a bonus on her blog HERE.

Dawn used Miss Moo stamp set with Floating By stamp set to make her mini slimline card

Check out her blog HERE