Hello and welcome to the Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia Blog Hop! You should be arriving here from LauraJane’s blog, but if not, simply click back to the start of the hop at the Altenew Card Blog.
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I made two cards with this release, and I go into more detail on the Altenew Card Blog today about how I made them, if you’d like to check it out.
To start though, I stamped the floral image in this stamp set, (embossing ink and white embossing powder) all over an A2 sized card panel of watercolor paper before painting it with a color scheme of moss green, blue, turquoise and emerald green.
I sort of limited the moss green to the leaves, but really didn’t worry about where what colors hit what other areas of the stamped panel. The sentiment was a nice surprise – to discover that yes, you absolutely can stamp with Obsidian Black Pigment ink overtop of other stamping (white) and heat emboss the black without negatively impacting the original white embossing!
I added a few black enamel dots to support the black sentiment and finish off the card.
For the next card, I painted some cut off watercolor cardstock strips (leftovers from trimming up a watercolor paper pad into A2 sized panels, and destined for the trash if I hadn’t decided to use them like this) in all the same colors of paint as the card above.
Then I trimmed the painted paper strips to varying widths and adhered them all together with Washi tape on the back. I placed that stripped panel in the MISTI and stamped the Dahlia image multiple times to get a solid white heat embossed outline image. I heat embossed one of the sentiments in the set on a strip near the bottom and added some clear and some white hole-less sequins to finish off the card.
I usually color the Paint-A-Flower sets with paint, markers or coloring pencils, but it’s nice to see that these designs look just as amazing used with this quick and easy technique!
Your next stop on the hop is Verity Biddlecomb’s blog, but before you go, be sure to check out the bundles Altenew is offering and the giveaway prizes up for grabs!
Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia & Artists’ Watercolor 24 Pan Set Bundle
Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia & Watercolor Essential 12 Pan Set Bundle
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 07/28/2021 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 07/30/2021.
A reminder that the Paint-A-Flower series is just one of the monthly subscriptions that Altenew offers.
- Paint-A-Flower Monthly Subscription Plan link https://altenew.com/products/paint-a-flower-monthly-subscription
- This is a monthly subscription plan for our Paint-A-Flower. When signed up, you are guaranteed a spot in our monthly Paint-A-Flower releases and will receive a set each month – at a specially discounted price! ($15.99 →$12.99)
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