Hi! I hope you are enjoying the amazing inspiration shared by the designers that are participating in this blog hop. The blog hop begins from the Altenew Card Blog.
You must have come here from Virginia Lu's blog. Virginia is not just insanely talented, but also one of the sweetest people I know! She was my mentor during the AECP program and really helped and encouraged me.
If you love coloring, the new Paint-a-flower release is for you! This month's stamp features beautiful lotus flowers. If you are like me and not really confident about your coloring skills, you will love this stamp set because it has the most gorgeous outline images which create a lovely, aquatic scene.
I made two slimline cards for the release. I followed the same procedure for both the cards, just changing up the colors.
I started with two panels of watercolor paper, each
measuring 4” x 9”. I used two sets of mini ink cubes for each panel; green and
blue for the first and purple and yellow for the second. To create the
background, I swiped the pads from the outer edge to around midway on the panel.
I went from light to dark and repeated the colors till the end. Then I sprayed
each panel with a lot of water and allowed them to dry overnight.Next day, I simply stamped the PAF Lotus and heat embossed
with metallic gold embossing powder. The sentiment is also from the same set. Here are the ink colors I used.
Card #1:
Altenew Cool Summer Night & Tropical Forest mini ink
cube sets
Card #2:
Altenew Pocketful of Sunshine & Rose Petal mini ink cube
sets
To finish, I trimmed the panels and adhered them to Kraft
card bases for two slim-line cards measuring 9” x 4” each.
I hope you liked my cards and will give this technique a try. I would love to know which card is your favorite!
Shopping Links:
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If you don't want to miss even one of these beautiful stamp sets, you can enroll in the monthly subscription program. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in the monthly Paint-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month - at a specially discounted price! ($15.99 →$12.99)
We also have special bundles for the Paint-A-Flower: Lotus Outline Stamp Set (which will also go live in our shop on 05/22/2021 at 12:01 am EDT
Giveaway Prizes:
$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 05/28/2021 for a chance to win.
Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 05/30/2021.
Blog Hop Order:
The next person in the hop is Seeka.
Altenew Card Blog
Emily Midgett
Keren Baker
Joylita Dsouza
LauraJane
Norine Borys
Erin Thompson
Sandhya Iyer
Erum Tasneem
Nathalie DeSousa
Terri Koszler
Lilith Eeckels
Jenny Colacicco
Verity Biddlecombe
Virginia Lu
Nandini Karmarkar - That's me!
Seeka
Tenia Nelson
Carol Hintermeier
Ardyth Percy-Robb
Linda Westfall
Teresa Litchfield
Helen Kalb
Amanda Baldwin
Love,
Nandini
