Hello, and welcome to Altenew’s Watercolor Brush Markers Release Blog Hop! If you came from the super talented Laura Bassen’s blog. you are right on track.
To celebrate a release of the Watercolor Brush Markers – Spring Garden Set, I created a dimensional floral watercolor card using a very easy watercolor technique.
FYI, here is the list of Altenew products I used for my card:
- Watercolor Supplies: Watercolor Brush Markers, Watercolor Palette Bundle, Watercolor Brushes Bundle
- Stamp Sets: Remember This, Beautiful Day, Coral Charm, Simple Flowers
- Ink: Permanent Black Ink, Embossing Ink
- Others: Pure White Embossing Powder, Jet Black Cardstock, White Cardstock 110LB
Video Tutorial
I made a video tutorial to show you how to create my watercolor card from start to finish. You can watch it above or in HD on YouTube.
This video includes:
- Introduction to the Watercolor Brush Markers – Spring Garden Set
- How to choose the images for your watercolor projects for a beginner
- A quick and easy way to watercolor stamped floral images using watercolor brush markers
- How to splatters on the background including a quick tip for a watercolor beginner
- How to add interest and depth on your watercolored images by adding dots and different colors
- Techniques: stamping, watercoloring, die cutting, splattering, heat embossing
- How to arrange your floral elements in balance
- My craft desk after the project was done! I also included the bloopers at the end of my video just for fun!
I started by stamping the images from a few stamp sets with Altenew Permanent Black Ink on the A2 size Arches cold press watercolor paper. FYI, I stamped each image 4 times to make sure I get a nice crisp impression using Original MISTI Stamping Tool. 
Since I used the pigment-based ink for my stamping, I dried my stamped images with the heat tool to prevent from ink smudge. Then I die cut the images using the coordinating dies before I started coloring. I found coloring the die-cut images helpful instead of coloring the images on the whole watercolor paper. Because I didn’t need to worry about my hand touching and ruining the watercolored images.
I colored the images with Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers – Spring Garden Set and the fine tip watercolor brush. I used a quick and easy watercolor technique that anyone can do.
For the first a few petals, I applied the color straight from the watercolor brush marker toward the bottom of each petal and blend in the color with a watercolor brush. But it was hard to control the amount of ink came out from the marker, so I decided to scribble my watercolor brush marker on the watercolor palette first and pick up the color with my watercolor brush.
Once I picked up some color from my watercolor palette with my watercolor brush, I applied the color toward the bottom of each petal and the areas where two petals meet together to indicate the shading areas. Then I took my watercolor brush and pulled the color out from the darker stroke.
To create a gradient look of the color, it’s important to remove the ink from your watercolor brush and wipe off the excess ink using a paper towel in between before you pull out the color. You can go over the image to diffuse the color or to add more color. Please note that I intentionally left some white areas to indicate the highlights on the petals.
To support my colorful floral images, I colored my entire background of my A2 size watercolor paper using the watercolor wash technique. It’s a shame I ended up covering my beautiful background with die cuts.
To add interest on my background, I splattered the background with Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers. Make sure to dry the previous splatters using a heat tool before you add the next splatters with a different color to avoid the colors mixing up together.
You can also add dots using a colored pen to create a look of the controlled splatters if you are not good at creating splatters.
Next, I mounted my colored die-cuts on the card front using 3M foam tape to build my own floral arrangement. I recommend you set the placement of your large images first to help you decide the placement for the rest of the images. Then just move and rotate your elements and see if they look good together.
I heat embossed the sentiment from Altenew Simple Flowers Stamp Set using Pure White Embossing Powder on a piece of black cardstock. After cutting out my sentiment into a thin banner, I mounted it on the card front using 3M foam tape to give dimension.
I finished off my card by adding some tiny dots on my two large flowers using a white gel pen. What do you think? Hope you love what I created for this blog hop.
(Photo credit: Altenew)
Altenew Watercolor Markers
Make sure to visit the Altenew store HERE to check out the new Watercolor Brush Markers – Spring Garden Set.
Giveaways
- To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $40 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners. Leave a comment on Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 10/10/2018 for a chance to win.
- And there is more! I have a $30 Altenew gift certificate to give away. Leave a comment below, asking me ANY question. I’ll plan to answer your questions in one of my future videos. One lucky winner will be announced HERE on my blog on 10/9/2018.
Blog Hop
It is now time to head on over to the fantastic Kelly Latevola’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. You can always start at the beginning of the hop at the Altenew Card Blog.
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 Altenew(AN), Simon Says Stamp(SSS), and Ellen Hutson(EH). 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 Watercolor Brush MarkersShop at: AN |
 Altenew Watercolor Palette BundleShop at: AN |
 Altenew Watercolor Brushes BundleShop at: AN |
 Arches Cold Pressed Watercolor PadShop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
 Altenew Permanent Black InkShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Remember This Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Build-A-Flower Coral CharmShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Beautiful Day Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Simple Flowers Stamp SetShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Altenew Embossing InkShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 Tim Holtz Tonic Paper TrimmerShop at: SSS | AZ | EH |
 Wagner Embossing Heat ToolShop at: SSS | HA | EH |
 Inkadinkado Embossing Magic Powder BagShop at: SSS | EH |
 EK Success Craft TweezersShop at: SSS | EH |
 Dahle Self-Healing Cutting Mat 18×12Shop at: SSS | EH |
 Be Creative Double Sided TapeShop at: SSS | EH |
 Uni-Ball White Gel PenShop at: SSS | PS | EH |
 Spellbinders Platinum Diecut MachineShop at: SSS | AZ |
 3M Foam Tape 1/2 InchShop at: SSS | AZ |
 Neenah Solar White Cardstock 110LBShop at: SSS | AN | AZ | EH |
 Altenew Glue TapeShop at: SSS | AN |
 Original MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | HA | AN | AZ | EH |
 Altenew Pure White Embossing PowderShop at: SSS | AN | EH |
 T-Square RulerShop at: SSS | EH |
 Tonic Nuvo Crystal GlazeShop at: SSS |
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