Hello, crafty friends! Welcome to the Altenew’s 2nd anniversary blog hop. If you came from the Pretty Pink Posh’s blog, you are right on track. This is a three day event with tons of inspiration and amazing PRIZES!
To celebrate the Altenew’s 2nd anniversary, I created a watercolor card with floral background. I used the flower images from Altenew’s stamp sets: Wild Hibiscus and Botanical Garden. Then I watercolored them with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors.
Last weekend I went on the Altenew retreat to New York, and I had some fun crop night with Tasnim Ahmed and Jennifer Rzasa. Jen showed me some tips on watercoloring as I was struggling with this card. She asked me to let the paint dry before adding more color to the image. I think it worked so well for today’s card.
I’m absolutely happy with how my card turned out. Since I’ve started watercoloring, this is the best card I made. Hope you love my card as well. 🙂
I made a video tutorial to show you how I created my watercolor card. You can watch the video here or in HD on YouTube. Hope you find it helpful.
How to Make a Floral Background Card using Watercoloring
- Stamp the images from Wild Hibiscus and Botanical Garden with Ranger Archival black ink on a piece of Arches cold pressed watercolor paper. (Make sure to use a waterproof ink.)
- Watercolor the images using Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 color set.
- Mount the watercolor panel on a A2 sized top folding card using foam tape.
- Stamp ‘Celebrate’ from Super Script with watermark ink, heat emboss it using gold embossing powder, die cut it with coordinating die and adhere it on the card front using foam tape
- Stamp the sentiment from Label Love with black ink and adhere it below the die cut.
- Finish off the card with some gold metallic thread and Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
Altenew’s Special Offers
- First 100 orders : 1 free mini stamp set (Starting April 7th at 9:00 AM EST)
- Orders over $75 : 1 free mini stamp set (Now through Sunday, April 10, 2016)
Giveaways
Leave comments along the way for the opportunity to win one of THREE prize packs valued at over $100 from Altenew! There are 8 awesome companies who are celebrating with us, and they are offering the following prizes:
- Pretty Pink Posh : $30 Gift Certificate
- WOW! Embossing Powder : $30 Prize Pack
- Simon Says Stamp : $30 Gift Certificate
- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L : $30 Prize Pack
- Ellen Hutson : $50 Gift Certificate
- Freckled Fawn : Gypsy Kit valued at $27
- My Sweet Petunia : Mini MISTI
- StampNation : Three 3 Month Subscriptions
Be sure to leave comments on each stop by Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. 13 winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the hop list and will be announced on the Altenew blog on Apr 14th.
It is now time to head on over to the amazingly talented Iwona Palamountain’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. But I’ve got the entire hop list for you below. Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy hopping!
Kim Daniel
Such beautiful water colors.
Apr . 11 . 2016Miriam Romero
Amazing watercolor card!! the Altenew stamp set is so beautiful!!
Apr . 11 . 2016Petra Wolf-Sizemore
Nice and colorful
Apr . 11 . 2016Maria D
Wow so colorful and creative! Maria D
Apr . 11 . 2016Elizabeth Grimball
I love the string behind the sentiment and the fact that not every flower is colored.
Apr . 11 . 2016Jojo
Great card, just love the colorcombination, reminds me of springtime
Apr . 11 . 2016Super Stick Chick
Beautiful card, love your design.
Apr . 11 . 2016Alison Henderson
Gorgeous card you have inspired me to try using these stamp sets differently than you
Apr . 11 . 2016Thuy
This card is so lovely!
Apr . 11 . 2016carsher
Gorgeous water coloring on those flowers! Spectacular card!
Apr . 11 . 2016Dana
Wow May! Love the floral explosion – perfectly restrained and wonderful.
Apr . 11 . 2016Alex Vendt
I love the watercolor look in this card! So clean and fresh!
Apr . 11 . 2016Vanna Kuor
Beautiful card! You did a wonderful job with your watercolors.
Apr . 11 . 2016Renee Hoffer
What fun colors–love your card!
Apr . 11 . 2016Izzy Scrap
Love the combination of the two stamp sets, it gives a very nice background with nice and vibrant colors.
Apr . 11 . 2016Thanks for sharing !
Sheryl Peavy
Beautiful card
Apr . 11 . 2016Tineke de Jong
Fabulous Card. Love the colouring. XXX
Apr . 11 . 2016LeslieF
Beautiful! I love how the flowers fill the whole space!
Apr . 11 . 2016CraftedBySteph
Oooh I LOVE Altenew’s flower stamps! They are so versatile, elegant and simply stunning!! The color combination of those powdery pinks and teals is amazing – love the card absolutely! Thanks heaps for the amazing inspiration! Yours, Steph
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Olga Moss
Oh my goodness what a stunning card!It is GORGEOUS!!!!!!
Apr . 11 . 2016Kris in Alaska
You make it look so easy and so lovely!
Apr . 10 . 2016Sheri Elmont
Your card is gorgeous! It looks like vintage fabric, soft and worn. (In a good way!)
Apr . 10 . 2016Sandy Small
Very nice! I like how you did not watercolor everything!
Apr . 10 . 2016Farhana Sarker
Amazing!
Apr . 10 . 2016Kathy Crosby
Beautiful card! I love the softness of the watercolor technique.
Apr . 10 . 2016