Hello crafty friends!
Today I’m excited to be taking part in a special blog hop celebrating Altenew’s Celebrating Parents Card Drive, and I’m sharing a bright and cheerful floral card created with the Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Bunch Layering Die Set.
Buttercups are such joyful flowers, and I love how this die set makes it easy to create dimensional blooms with beautiful layered petals and delicate stems. For this project, I paired vibrant yellow buttercups with a soft blue background to create a fresh spring palette that really lets the flowers shine.
If you’re hopping along today, you should have arrived here from the previous stop on the hop. Be sure to visit all the designers for lots of inspiration and your chance to win prizes!
Why you’ll love the Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Bunch Layering Die Set
The Craft-A-Flower series from Altenew is always a favourite of mine because it makes creating layered florals so easy and effective.
Here are just a few reasons why this set is a must-have for floral card makers:
- Creates beautifully layered dimensional buttercup flowers
- The individual layers allow you to customise colours and shading
- Includes stems and leafy accents for full floral arrangements
- Perfect for spring cards, thank you cards, and encouragement cards
- Works beautifully with simple ink blending for realistic petal shading
For this card, I blended yellow inks onto the petals before layering them together to create that glowing centre effect that buttercups are known for.
Card Inspiration Buttercup Thank You Card
For this project, I wanted the flowers to be the main focus, so I kept the layout clean and let the buttercups form a natural bouquet across the card front.
The soft blue background provides a gentle contrast to the bright yellow blooms, while the layered die-cut sentiment ties everything together.
The white paint splatter adds a little extra texture and helps give the card a fresh, airy feel.
Step-by-step instructions
- Die cut the layers for the buttercups using the Craft-A-Flower: Buttercup Bunch Layering Die Set.
- Blend yellow ink onto the flower petal layers, concentrating the colour towards the centres to create depth.
- Assemble the flowers by layering the die-cut pieces together.
- Die cut the stems and leaves using green cardstock and assemble the floral arrangement.
- Create a card base using light blue cardstock and add a slightly smaller layered panel on top.
- Arrange the buttercups across the card front and adhere them using liquid glue and foam tape for dimension.
- Die cut the “thankful” sentiment and adhere it across the centre of the bouquet.
- Add a small “for you” sentiment strip underneath.
- Finish the card with white paint splatter and a few clear embellishments for sparkle.
Giveaway
Altenew are also hosting a generous giveaway as part of the hop:
- 2 winners will receive a $50 Altenew gift certificate
- 5 winners will receive a $20 Altenew gift certificate
To enter: Leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by March 31, 2026 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 Blog Hop post on April 2, 2026.
You can visit the main hop post here: https://altenew.com/blogs/paper-crafting-inspiration-and-tips/celebrating-parents-card-drive-2026-blog-hop-giveaway-200-in-total-prizes
Blog Hop
If you arrived here from the previous stop on the hop, welcome! If not, be sure to visit the full hop list below so you don’t miss any inspiration from the talented designers taking part today.
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So pretty! Love the delicate flowers!
Wonderful card, Martin! I love the color combo you used – and I totally agree that yellow flowers are such happy flowers!!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Very Pretty❣️
I love this innocent look. The colors, the speckles, and the PRETTY flowers!
Great color combo and beautifully arranged.
Love the contrast between the bold yellow flowers abd the soft blue background. Thr buttercups are so cheerful.
your card is gorgeous!!! nice to see another guy enjoying card making!!
Love your card. The yellow screams Spring. I’m so ready for spring. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely card Martin! I love those yellow buttercups against the blue cardbase.
just luv this!!!
The Cloudy Sky and Buttercream together…fabulous! What a gorgeous card
Yellow is my favorite! Gorgeous card design!
Your cards are always so lovely 💜
And a lovely choice of color, too. 😍
Love these beautiful buttercups! Awesome colors and dimension! Wonderful card for the hop!
Lovely colour combination
Lovely buttercups, very pretty card
I have this set. I have used it several times. Your card looks fantastic and the colors used choices really pops
Love the card.
The background color allows the yellow to pop! Love it!
Beautiful buttercup floral card
Such a pretty card Martin. Love the yellow flowers with the gray background!
Absolutely stunning. Gorgeous .
Stunning. Gorgeous card.
Such a sweet card!
Beautifully designed card; the colors are lovely!
Stunning card! Love the splatters on it.
Such a beautiful card
The buttercups are so pretty
The Buttercups are a joyful flower. Whomever receives this card will be joyful. You can’t help but smile with all the lovely yellow inks and contrasting greenery and paper.
I remember buttercups from my childhood. Absolutely adore this card.
Wow! Those buttercups are so beautiful! Gorgeous card design!
Very Pretty!! Your description is spot on, light and airy, springy. I like your blue background with dimension and spatter with the yellow buttercups, very nice design.
Beautiful card, love this background color with the lovely buttercups! TFS!
The buttercups are beautiful and I love the soft blue background with white splatters!
So beautiful
Gorgeous card! The flowers appear to be floating on the raised card panel. The colors blend so beautifully well together. Thank you for the lovely inspiration!
The card is lovely. Thank you for all the details on your page regarding how you did it and what was used.
The cloudy sky paper was a wonderful choice to use for the bright yellow buttercups. I really like the card design with the smaller piece of card stock used for the flowers. A splash of white really finishes it off.
What a beautiful card! I love those 3D flowers.
Love your card! What a fun flower. Thank you.
OOH lovely! the buttercups stand out on the light blue cardstock! i was thinking misty morning but its cloudy sky! LOVE it!
Gorgeous shading on this card. So lovely!
What a cheerful card. The yellow flowers are so beautiful. The the color of the background is perfect. Thank you
Gorgeous card! Love the yellow flowers!!