Altenew February 2020 Stamp/Die/Stencil/Watercolors Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello and welcome everyone! I am super delighted and honored to be a part of the February 2020 Stamp/Die/Stencil/Watercolors Release Blog Hop over at Altenew. You are going to love these Artists Watercolor 24 pan set as it has a wide range of fun colors. You can check all the new release products HERE.

You should have come here from the lovely Nathalie DeSousa's blog :)

I have four cards for you using various techniques to show how versatile these colors are.

Card 1

I created this fun look using watercolor to stamp the pretty leaf from the Retro Plantines stamp set. 

I applied some watercolors onto my craft mat, spritz little water. I now used this as my ink pad and stamped the images to a panel of Fabriano Artistico hot press paper. Flick some black watercolor to it. This technique gives a lovely soft effect.

 I then stamped the sentiment onto a blue cardstock and die-cut in a circle. To give more focus on the sentiment, I simply die-cut the smallest of the Nesting Labels die using white cardstock and vellum. I adhered the vellum onto the white die-cut for a softer effect. Adhere the sentiment onto it using 3D foam.

Adhere the panel to a blue cardbase.

Card 2

For my 2nd. card, I was trying out the watercolors and simply painted some freehand florals and leaves onto Arches cold press watercolor paper.  The sentiment I used is from the Incredible stamp set from the January release.

Once the image was dry, I flicked some black splatters and stamped the sentiment. 

Love how this card turned out :)

Card 3

Since, I enjoyed the freehand watercoloring process, I made the next card a bit easier. I stamped the Watercolor Halftone floral cluster onto arches cold press watercolor paper panel using Altenew Rose

Quartz ink. Now I had a shape ready for me to play with the watercolors. I used the watercolors to color the image.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment from the Incredible stamp set using silver embossing powder.

Card 4

For this card, I went with no-line coloring technique. I love this technique in all the coloring mediums. First I created a background watercolor wash in muted colors. I then stamped the florals from the Garden Treasure stamp set and the leaves from the Leaf Clusters stamp set using Antique Linen distress ink onto Fabriano Artistico hot press watercolor paper. 

I find this ink to be perfect for my kind of coloring. I colored in all the images and die-cut them. Once everything was ready, I simply created the cluster and adhered them to the mat layer.

 

Finally, I adhered the panel to a mint cardbase.

Prizes:

To celebrate this release,Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 6 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by 2/18/2020 for a chance to win.

There will also be a winner from each blog to receive a $20 gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 2/21/2020. 

The next stop on the hop is wonderful
Jenny Colacicco

Below is the full list of the hop participants.

Altenew Card Blog

Norine Borys

Kathy Racoosin

Erum Tasneem

Emily Midgett

Jaycee Gaspar

LauraJane

Laurie Willison

Caly Person

Lilith Eeckels

Kelly Griglione

Therese Calvird

Vicky Papaioannou

Maryam Perez

Keeway Tsao

Nicole Picadura

Amber Rain Davis

Reiko Tsuchida

Agnieszka Malyszek

Virginia Lu

Kelly Janes

Svitlana Shayevich

Ashley Tucker

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Nathalie DeSousa

>>>Isha Gupta <<<You're Here

Jenny Colacicco

Zinia Redo

The Hedgehog Hollow

Kymona Tracey

Keren Baker

Sveta Fotinia

Lisa Spangler

Mindy Eggen

Jen Schow

Nicole Watt

Teri Wilson

Ashlea Cornell

Jennifer McGuire

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!