Video: Watercolor Iris Card using Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors
Hello, and welcome to the Altenew May 2017 Release Blog Hop! If you came from the amazing Joni Andaya’s blog, you are right on track! Today the design team girls and guests are sharing some fabulous projects to celebrate a release of stamps, dies, and embossing powders.
I created a one layer card featuring new stamp sets from Altenew: Enchanted Iris and Crafty Friends. These flowers are a delight to color with any medium, and I decided to color them with my favorite watercolors: Mijello Mission Gold watercolor set.
I’ve felt intimidated by no-line watercoloring for a while, and I accidentally tried no-line watercoloring for today’s project. You can watch my happy accident in my video tutorial below. 🙂
It took me about two hours to watercolor entire images. Of course I had so much fun watercoloring. Don’t you just love those paint splatters? I just love the beauty of randomness.
By the way, I made this card for my super talented friend, Debby Hughes. She taught me how to watercolor florals while we were on the craft retreat last month. Since then I became more confident with watercoloring.
I stamped the sentiments from the Crafty Friends stamp set. That’s exactly what I wanted to say to Debby.
Video
I made a video tutorial to show you how to create my card using the Enchanted Iris and Crafty Friends stamp sets. I’m also sharing an overview of Altenew’s new products and some watercoloring tips in the video you won’t want to miss. You can watch it below or on my YouTube channel:
Watercolor Card using Altenew Stamps and Mijello Mission Gold Watercolors
- Cut down Arches cold press watercolor paper slightly larger than A2 card size using Tim Holtz paper trimmer.
- Prep the watercolor paper with the EK Success Embossing Powder Tool to prevent any stray powder from sticking to unwanted areas.
- Stamp the flowers and leaves from the Enchanted Iris stamp set on the watercolor paper with Versamark Watermark Ink.
- Color the images with Mijello Mission Gold watercolor set. (I created a gentle gradient by starting with intense colors first with less water and then using a paint brush wet with clean water to diffuse the color. If you make a mistake with your watercolors, you can fix it by adding some clean water on the paper and picking up the colors with the paper towel or paintbrush.)
- Cover the images with scrap paper and add paint splatters over the background.
- Stamp the sentiments from the Crafty Friends stamp set with Altenew Crisp black ink.
- Mount the watercolor panel on the A2 sized folding card using double sided tape.
I also created a clean and simple card using the Layered Letters AFG stamp set. You can mix and match the letters and sentiments for endless possibilities.
I couldn’t stop playing with the Layered Letters AFG stamp set and ended up making more than 40 mini cards. Hehe..
These are new stamp sets from Altenew May 2017 release. Make sure to visit the Altenew store HERE to check out the rest of awesome new products.
Giveaways: There are two ways to win!
- To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners. Leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Thursday, June 1st at 11:59 pm EDT for a chance to win.
- And there is more! I have a $30 Altenew gift certificate to give away. Leave a comment below, telling me what’s your favorite stamp set from Altenew May 2017 release. I will announce one lucky winner on Thursday, June 1st. Good luck!
Facebook Giveaway
- I’m giving away the Crafty Friends stamp set on my Facebook page. The lucky winner will receive one Crafty Friends stamp set and some crafty goodies. Enter HERE by June 1st.
Blog Hop
It is now time to head on over to the fantastic Lydia’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. Thanks so much for stopping by today. Happy hopping!
Supplies
I have listed the supplies I used below. I participate in several affiliate programs including Simon Says Stamp(SSS), Ellen Hutson(EH) and Altenew(AN). It means I get a small commission at no additional cost to you when products are purchased through links I share here. Thank you for your support.
Altenew Enchanted Irs Stamp Set Shop at: AN |
Altenew Crafty Friends Stamp Set Shop at: AN |
Arches Cold Pressed Watercolor Pad Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Tim Holtz Tonic Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Versamark Watermark Ink Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Mijello Mission Gold Watercolor Set Shop at: SSS | AZ |
Altenew Jet Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Dahle Self-Healing Cutting Mat 18×12 Shop at: SSS | EH |
Be Creative Double Sided Tape Shop at: SSS | EH |
Silver Black Velvet Brush #2 Round Shop at: SSS |
Neenah Solar White Cardstock 80LB Shop at: SSS | EH |
Hero Arts Blush Mix Layering Papers Shop at: SSS | HA | EH |
Teflon Bone Folder Shop at: SSS | EH |
Hero Arts Acrylic Block Shop at: SSS | HA |
Absorber Cleaning Cloth Shop at: AZ |
Altenew Layered Letters AFG Stamp Set Shop at: AN |
Altenew Crisp Dye Inks Shop at: SSS | AN |
Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Tim Holtz Tonic Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
Altenew Jet Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AN | EH |
Dahle Self-Healing Cutting Mat 18×12 Shop at: SSS | EH |
Absorber Cleaning Cloth Shop at: AZ |
Altenew Moonrock Cardstock Shop at: AN |
Kris in Alaska
Those flowers are simply stunning!
May . 29 . 2017Rose J
Your iris card is so elegant & very pretty. Love the idea of the mini cards. It’s always hard to pick one favourite but I really love the halftone hearts.
May . 29 . 2017Stefanie White
Great card! My favorite part of this release is the argyle background stamp. Thanks for a chance to win one!!
May . 29 . 2017Jill Sharp
The iris card is beautiful and the video is very informative. Thank you.
May . 29 . 2017Jessica S
I Love Crafty Friends and Modern card! Very Beautiful cards!
May . 29 . 2017Francine
Your coloring technique is always amazing. I love your IRIS and that would be my favorite set from this release.
May . 29 . 2017Angie Hall
I love the colors you chose to water color the iris. The card is beautiful. The layered Alphabet letters are stunning.
May . 29 . 2017Cate S
Gorgeous card, May! You used my favorite set- the enchanted iris.
May . 29 . 2017Nana Griffin
Love them all!
May . 29 . 2017Susan O'H
Great video! Your painting of the irises is lovely, so much detail and depth of color.
May . 29 . 2017Urvi
It’s a lovely stamp set and loved the way you designed the cards. Awesome 😍😍
May . 29 . 2017Monika/buzsy
Beautiful Iris card May. Love the coloring! the Layered Letters card is so cool. That set is growing on me. 🙂
May . 29 . 2017chesneymcintosh
Your mini cards are so colorful and much fun! I can’t get over how versitile that set is.
May . 29 . 2017Hey Jude Cards (Jude U)
Your cards are fantastic and those mini cards are amazing!!!!! My fav stamp set this time is the crafter one.
May . 29 . 2017Kristina "CraftyPaws"
So beautiful and fun too!
May . 29 . 2017multiplicitycrafts
Such a wonderful job you’ve did… love!!
May . 29 . 2017Sharon Thompson
My favorite is the iris. Love that you did it in watercolor.
May . 28 . 2017Holly Paplow
Your irises are beautiful! I love how you water colored them.
May . 28 . 2017pinkheelscreative
Wow, the iris card is so gorgeous! Altenew was so clever to come up with the layered letters and the sentiments to go with them, so cute!
May . 28 . 2017Liz mcallister
Your watercoloring is fantastic. Now I want that iris stamp!
May . 28 . 2017Angela Person
Lovely cards! I especially love the iris card and your coloring.
May . 28 . 2017joherbert.com
Wow your colouring is so exquisite. I love love love watching your videos and how you create your beautiful cards. HugsJo
May . 28 . 2017Rebecca Ednie
Your water coloring is stunning. This is my favorite Iris of the whole blog hop!
May . 28 . 2017Jackie L
Wow! Didn’t realize all the possibilities for the layered letters. Thanks for sharing. And your Iris card is stunning.
May . 28 . 2017Rema DeLeeuw
Fabulous cards. I love all the sets in this release!
May . 28 . 2017