Hey everyone! It’s the 7th of the month, which means it’s time for the March 2021 Craft-a-Flower reveal (ALT)! I’m so excited to join Altenew for the brand new Craft-a-Flower: Buttercup Release (ALT) and Blog Hop! Thanks so much to Lydia Evans at the Altenew Card Blog for relaying you over to my blog. If you want to relive the amazing project ideas from the team of designers for this release, head back over to the Altenew Card Blog or keep reading to find the complete blog list. Don’t miss the wonderful giveaway opportunities as well–more on that down below!
Craft-a-Flower: Buttercup Release
![]() Craft-a-Flower Subscription |
![]() Craft-a-Flower: Buttercup |
![]() Craft-a-Flower: Buttercup and Gradient Cardstock Bundle |

Like any of the build-a-flower/craft-a-flower/paint-a-flower releases from Altenew, I spend quite a bit of time looking at images on Google on the actual flower. What I noticed about the Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus) was its shiny appearance in the petals and delicate arrangement overall.
I started with a scrap panel of foil flecked cardstock and die cut the base layers. I used the Summer Afternoon family of inks to gently ink blend on this base layer for a hint of bright yellow.

I arranged the layered cardstock according to the layering instructions found on the Altenew die packaging. One of the petal layers overlaps the main flower for dimension. I raised this layer on scrap pieces of black cardstock for added height. Then I die cut pink patterned paper for the supporting foliage included in the die set.

I finished this arrangement with ink blended details on the flower for added texture and to mimic form shadows. I added Frayed Leaf ink splatters as my background. I also used Frayed Leaf cardstock for my sentiment (Paint-a-Flower: Sunflower) and added Frayed Leaf enamel dots from the Green Fields Enamel Dot Set.
Materials and Supplies
![]() Craft-a-Flower: Buttercup and Gradient Cardstock Bundle |
![]() Celebrate 6X6 Paper Pack |
![]() Ink Blending Tool – Small |
![]() Summer Afternoon Mini Cube Set |
![]() Green Fields Mini Cube Set |
![]() Green Fields Enamel Dots |
![]() Paint-a-Flower: Sunflower |
![]() Mini Blossom Die Cutting Machine |

Giveaway!
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 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 05/13/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/15/2021.
Thank You!
I really appreciate you stopping by and participating in this blog hop. If you like what you’ve seen from me, please give me a follow over on my Instagram (@jaycee.gaspar) and/or subscribing to my blog and YouTube if you haven’t already.
Your Next Stop is Sandhya Iyer‘s Blog!
Altenew Card Blog
Jaycee Gaspar
Sandhya Iyer
Emily Midgett
LauraJane
Virginia Lu
Terri Koszler
Laurie Willison
Amanda Baldwin
Verity Biddlecombe
Therese Calvird
Linda Westfall
Nathalie DeSousa
Teresa Litchfield
Maryam Perez
Jenny Colacicco
Carol Hintermeier
Ardyth Percy-Robb
Joylita Dsouza
Keren Baker
Michelle Short
Seeka
Tina Smith
Tricia Schaden
Nandini Karmarkar
Helen Kalb
Yoonsun Hur
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Love your attention to details, makes the buttercups on this card look so realistic. Nice work!
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What a gorgeous card! I love your use of patterned paper and inks to create the flowers! The foiled flecks really give an interesting look!
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Your work always wows me. Raising the petal makes such a difference combined with your delicate shading. The foiled paper and delicate splatter are wonderful details . Thanks for inspiring me once again.
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Love your floral arrangement!
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I think it’s great you look up the scientific name of the flower and research the way the flower looks in nature. Your artwork always shows attention to detail. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow!!! Gorgeous card!!!!
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This is a stunner… love those beautiful flecks of color. Wonderfully done Jaycee!!
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Love your attention to detail. Also, never would have thought to change out the leaf color to pink… and I like it!
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Love how you made your flowers!
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I love the colors and the speckled texture look! Stunning!
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All I can say is WAUW, I love the card!!
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Build me up buttercup…beautiful card
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Great attention to detail, the time you spent looking at images, really payed off. Another fabulous CAF And lovely design! TFS!
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Interesting color choices but they really work. Love the idea of popping up the one petal. Really makes a difference. Thanks for sharing!
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Pretty card!! I LOVE the pink leaves with the yellow buttercup
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Such a pretty card! I love the colors you used. Very nice!!
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Gorgeous cards Jaycee! That new paper pack is a must have for sure. It really adds the little details in your marvelous flowers!
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Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing…
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Love that you went off script and chose pink for the leaves! Beautiful card Jaycee.
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Love the dimension with shading used and the speckles.
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Beautiful buttercups! This Craft-A-Flower design is one of my favorites! Love your card!
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Colors are so awesome!
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It’s amazing that you actually went and researched the flower, and cool to say they turned out ahh-mazing!
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Beautiful buttercups, beautiful card. I would never have imagined pink leaves but they look wonderful.
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These CAF flowers are so brilliant!
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Wonderful card and fabulous stamp set. Love buttercups, they make you smile x
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Love the gold speckle paper on this
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The speckled paper really adds to the flowers.
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I love the layering, I wish I had more patience for that.
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