Hello crafty friends! Welcome to the Altenew August 2023 Marvelous Monthly Series Release Blog Hop + GIVEAWAY worth $300 worth of prizes! If you aren’t sure where to start, you can always begin the hop HERE at Altenew.
If you are hopping along, you should have arrived from the blog of Mindy Eggen. Next up will be Seeka.
My card today features the Craft-A-Flower Bellflower Layering Die Set combined with the previously released Dotted Waves Stencil.
You can check out the entire August 2023 Marvelous Monthly Series collection HERE.

To create my flowers, I used a blend of purple Altenew card stock colors from their Gradient Cardstock Set – New Purple. I also used some purple Altenew Inks to create my card background using the gorgeous Dotted Waves Stencil. My card measures at 3.5″ x 8.5″ to fit perfectly into a standard business sized envelope.

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$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $40 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 08/24/2023 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 6 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 08/26/2023.
*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.


The bellflowers are gorgeous! This is one that is on my wishlist from this release!
The cardstock pack makes the dies easier to make. I can never decide what color goes where
Very clever and pretty design!
So pretty! Love the purple!
So pretty!
Gorgeous purples!!! My favorite color! So beautiful!
OMG this card is simply gorgeous – love everything about it!!!!
Such a pretty card, I absolutely love these flowers and the purple is so nice.
So pretty, but you can’t go wrong with purple.
So pretty!
Rachel, this is so striking!
Love the colors and great new craft-a-flower dies!
The colors you used are great! Such a lovely card 🙂
Wow… such beautiful bellflowers. 😍
Stunning card. So beautiful!
Your purple bellflowers are just gorgeous!
Beautiful design. Love how you did the background.
Beautiful! I love the dotted wave stenciled background.
What a stunningly beautiful card I just love the colors
Such a pretty card. I love the color and how dimensional it looks.
Beautiful bellflowers with the purple gradient cardstock and inks!! Gorgeous using the previous release stencil as well!! Look so ethereal! Gorgeous!!
I love all the purple and the gorgeous background! So pretty!
Gorgeous card, Rachel. The purples are so vibrant and lovely!
I do like your pretty in purple craft a flower!
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WOW, they look so exotic when presented in this way. I LOVE this!
Beautiful purple flowers and a lovely card!
Like this design and Like the different paper to use for this, really like it
Absolutely gorgeous Rachel!!! I Love how used the different varients of Purples!
I was more interested in the Bougainvillea, but now with seeing your card I’m going to have to get both!
What a fun new CAF! Pretty shades of violet- just stunning!
So pretty love those purples.
Love these beautiful flowers! Great color combo for your pretty card!
I rarely work in these colors but find your card is lovely. It’s a great die. The details to it are very nice.
You got me with the purple! 💜💜💜 So beautiful!
Gorgeous purples!!! My favorite color! So beautiful!
Beautiful card, love the bright purples!
Absolutely gorgeous! I want those flowers in my garden. 😉
Purple is my favorite color, your card is stunning.
I love the unique way you used the waves stencil. So clever to make it fit intona standard envelope.
I love the stencil and ink blending in the background! You used such vibrant colors throughout! Beautiful!
So pretty and vivid! Love the color palette and the background too.
Nice design and layout share.
Very pretty. Wonderful colors!
So pretty with the shades of purple.
Very pretty card.
Gorgeous card! I love those purples, and the bellflower images are exquisite!
I love slim-line cards. They are so pretty, and your use of the purple with the waves stencil makes a lovely background.
Wow, beautiful card! I really love the matched inking in the background!
Beautiful slimline card design! The purple hues are wonderful.