Guest Designing at Altenew Card Blog | Watercolored cards | Video | Giveaway

Hello friends,

Always happy to see you here!

Today I’m guest designing on Altenew Card blog. Please head on over to the Altenew Card Blog for the featured post and leave me some love there! 🙂

I also have a giveaway to thank you for being my loyal subscribers and viewers!

I’ve created three cards to show you different ways to color with watercolors.
For my cards, I used Courageous You Stamp Set and Geometric Elements Stamp Set from the Altenew July Release, Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors and Winsor & Newton watercolors.

I filmed two videos showing my creative process. Many of you have asked to film the whole process of my coloring, so the second video is a long video and it shows my no-line watercoloring from scratch.

First Card

I started to work on my first card by heat embossing images in Antique Gold embossing powder. I stamped the images in clear embossing ink on hot pressed watercolor paper, heat embossed them with Altenew gold embossing powder.

I then watercolored the flowers. I wanted to create a “Dramatic Look” for my card, so I decided to do a black background and bright flowers. To add more shine to the panel, I also added gold paint splatters.

Once my coloring was done, I trimmed the panel, added a sentiment, and mounted it on a white card base. The sentiment was heat embossed in white Embossing Powder. To finish, I added a few Altenew Antique Gold Sequins.

Second Card

When I first saw the Geometric Elements stamp set I thought about colorful gemstones.

First, I wanted to color these elements with alcohol markers but then I thought it would be better to color them with watercolors. This set is so versatile! It’s perfect for CAS cards and for masculine cards, also.

I started working on my card by stamping the elements in Altenew Obsidian Pigment ink on watercolor paper and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I then watercolored the elements using different colors to achieve the “gemstone look”. First I added water to the image and dropped in color. To make this more interesting, I added a little bit of gold/silver color pigment to each element. I used “wet on wet” watercoloring technique. It means that you begin by applying clean water to your paper to make it moist, then you lay down your color.

After I was done with watercoloring, I stamped a sentiment in black and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder as well. I then trimmed the panel and glued it onto a pink card base.

Video – Part 1

Watch the video below or in HD on my Youtube channel.

Final Card

To make my last card I stamped the flowers using Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and did no-line watercoloring with Winsor & Newton watercolors.

After the panel was dry I stamped a sentiment and mounted it onto white card base.

Video – Part 2

Watch the video below or in HD on my Youtube channel.

That’s it from me for today.

I hope I inspired you to use these gorgeous stamp sets!

Giveaway

You have been amazing with your encouragement throughout my creative journey!

To celebrate, Altenew generously provided me a $15 gift certificate to give away and I’m glad I have this chance to say thank You, my supportive followers with this giveaway! Please leave me a comment below by 8/16/2020 for a chance to win. The winner will be randomly chosen and announced here on my blog on 8/17/2020.

Winner Update

Thank you, everyone, for your lovely comments and support of my creative journey!!

Natasha Vacca is the lucky winner of the Altenew $15 gift certificate.

The winner was chosen by a random number generator!

Natasha, please get in touch with Altenew at winner@altenew.com  with the subject “Winner $15 Gift Certificate – Guest Alex Syberia”

Supplies

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Thank you so much for stopping by today! And thank you Altenew for having me!