Hello, and welcome to the Altenew & Tombow USA collaboration blog hop! If you came from the amazing Therese’s blog, you are right on track! Today the design team girls are sharing some fabulous projects using both Altenew and Tombow USA products, and here is what I came up with:
I love creating my own stamped background and I went further this time to achieve a gallery style look. Instead of stamping the images directly on my card base, I watercolored and popped up my images on the card front.
I used Tombow Dual Brush Pens to watercolor my images and I spend less than 10 minutes watercoloring. You’ll see how easy and quick watercoloring can be in my video. You can watch it below or on my YouTube channel.
How to Make a Watercolor Card using Tombow Dual Brush Pens
- Stamp the images from Garden Grow stamp set with with black ink on some watercolor paper. (Make sure to use waterproof ink for watercolors. Or you can heat emboss the images with white/clear embossing powder.)
- Watercolor the images with Tombow Dual Brush Pen Set : Primary. (I tried to color loosely and not to overcolor the images.)
- Die cut the watercolored images with Garden Grow die set.
- Die cut the frame out of Woodgrain White cardstock using Scallop Frame Die and adhere it on the A2 size top folding card using foam tape. (I also used Woodgrain White cardstock for my card base.)
- Stamp the sentiments from the same set and mount the die cut images inside the frame using foam tape.
Giveaways
- There are TWO $30 Tombow USA prize packs and TWO $30 Altenew gift certificates up for grabs. Winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below. Please leave your comments by Friday, June 3rd and winners will be announced on the Altenew and Tombow USA blogs on Saturday, June 4th.
- And there is more! I have a $15 Altenew gift certificate to give away to one winner. Leave a comment below and I will announce the lucky winner in this post on Saturday, June 4th.
It is now time to head on over to the talented Cynthia’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. I am sure she has something amazing made up. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy hopping!
Tombow USA
Altenew
Jennie Garcia
Serena Bee
Marika Rahtu
Smitha Katti
Therese Calvird
May Sukyong Park (you’re here!)
Cynthia Banessa
Agnieszka Malyszek
Lauren Fitzmaurice
Sveta Fotinia
Beth Watson
Amy Gray
Anna Kossakovskaya
Giveaway Winner (Edited to add)
Congratulations, Denise! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com to claim your prize with a subject line : May 2016 Collaboration blog hop winner from May’s Blog.
Barb Macaskill
Totally adorable!! Love the assortment of images and the colors are cool!! TFS!
May . 29 . 2016Jen
So very fun!
May . 29 . 2016Lisa Stolp
What an adorable card! So cute, fun and colorful. I liked that the colors you chose.
May . 29 . 2016BeverlyBL
Just the cutest. Liked your technique of putting the color on a palate. Really liked how you laid everything out. Not too cluttered. Thanks.
May . 29 . 2016Eloise L.
Love the card..I am avid gardener and appreciate the look. The video was inspiring. Thanks
May . 29 . 2016for the opportunity to win any of the great prizes.
Connie MacFarlane
Love this fun little card with all of the garden images. Thanks for the video and inspiration!
May . 29 . 2016scrappergirl56
How does your garden grow…with ink and markers.
May . 29 . 2016Linda Ford
Great card for a gardener, I love this stamp set and will have to look out for it.
May . 29 . 2016deckle57
Loving card! Beautiful colouring! 🙂
May . 29 . 2016raggiodiluce82
Wow!!! Great blog hop!!!
And as always, your cards are amazing!!!! This is so cute!!!
May . 29 . 2016mandalj
Such a cute card – love how all the objects look like they’re in a shadow box!
May . 29 . 2016Cassandra Noyes
OMG! I love the garden theme! So cute!
May . 28 . 2016Valgerdur R.
What an amazing and fun card! I love the Tombow watercolored scene popped out, it adding great dimension!
May . 28 . 2016Jody Thorsen
I lov that card! Fantastic!
May . 28 . 2016Cheryl B
Love that stamp set and you used it beaitifully!
May . 28 . 2016jillhq
This is such a charming card! I love the gallery layout–very creative. Thanks for sharing!
May . 28 . 2016Super Stick Chick
Great card and video! Love how you framed and popped up each of the tiny images.
May . 28 . 2016Kari Treddenbarger
Gardening. Just in time for spring. Nice,
May . 28 . 2016Rebecca Ednie
This is so cute! Love the scalloped frame!
May . 28 . 2016Toni C
Great stamp set for gifts and to get kids interesting in gardening!
May . 28 . 2016Tema
That’s a very cute card.
May . 28 . 2016Kari
Nice work! Love the colors.
May . 28 . 2016suemcrae
Love the soft coloring on this sweet card.
May . 28 . 2016Jenna Del
I’m hooked on Tombow!! I’ve made an creative artist resources tower (CART) using Tombow and scortape! It holds all 358 Copic markers and over 500 more items. Including 72 Derwent Inktense pencils, 24 Inktense blocks 60 distress inks, and many 12×12 paper or card pads! It spins around too! So yes I love my Tombow it’s a 20 mule team strong!
May . 28 . 2016Isabelle Baudin
Your card is really great. I’ve got also this stamp set and love it, it gives so many possibilities and now, thank to you, I’ve got new ideas…..
May . 28 . 2016