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!
Rina
Such a happy card! Love it!
Apr . 12 . 2016Karthikha
Beautiful card and lovely background 🙂
Apr . 11 . 2016Jennifer D
Wow this just looks AMAZING your colours and colouring is so Inspirational love it all. Enjoy your Week.
Apr . 11 . 2016Shilpi G. Shivhare
Beautiful card May….loved your water-coloring tutorial too…. 😉
Apr . 11 . 2016Anna
Happy Birthday! I wish you lots of ideas and inspiration too!
Apr . 11 . 2016dana driscoll
The water color card looks great, May!
Apr . 11 . 2016Liz mcallister
Love this! Reminds me of a mixed bouquet of flowers!
Apr . 11 . 2016Elaine
The colors are so pretty! And I love the gold thread detail, really ties everything together.
Apr . 11 . 2016Adaline Banks
Perfect for celebrating an anniversary! A card and a dozen flowers! LOVE :))))
Apr . 11 . 2016Alma
Your coloring and card is just amazing, per usual!!!!! 🙂
Apr . 11 . 2016Lori Johnson
Brilliant advice “let the paint dry before you add more color”. The result is beautiful!
Apr . 11 . 2016Carole Lovill
Beautiful background for your card!
Apr . 11 . 2016TFS, Carole Lovill
Debbie Doughty
Lovely!
Apr . 11 . 2016Ashley Wells
Your cards always amaze me! Great job on the water coloring!
Apr . 11 . 2016Silver River Creative
Lovely colours and design. Well done
Apr . 11 . 2016Irene Dalton
Lovely card! Thanks for sharing.
Apr . 11 . 2016Mary P.
Beautiful card! Just beautiful…
Apr . 11 . 2016Joanna Szotkiewicz
I love this card, I just started using watercolors on my cards.
Apr . 11 . 2016Jennifer Mitten
What a stunning card – love it!
Apr . 11 . 2016Judy Bennett
What a gorgeous card and wonderful video. I love the way your colors blend and enjoyed watching how you did it, even though it was speeded up. 🙂 Thank you for sharing and participating in this great blog hop!
Apr . 11 . 2016Wendy Kirk
Beautiful work – love the “Celebrate” – looks like I’m buying that set now…lol.
Apr . 11 . 2016Jennifer Delauter
All of your cards are so beautiful!! I really like this card with the yellow, teal, and pink color palette!! It definitely has a spring feel to it!! Your voice is very relaxing!! Thank you for sharing and participating in this blog hop!!
Apr . 11 . 2016Dana
Beautiful card and great video. Thanks for sharing.
Apr . 11 . 2016Allison H
Beautiful background! Love the colors.
Apr . 11 . 2016Emily
I love that you used watercolors on your card. You did a great job!
Apr . 11 . 2016