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Muted tones with watercolours

Muted tones with watercolours – Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Clematis Josephine Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Watercolours are perfect for creating soft muted tones with your card making and I’ve done just that with the new Altenew Paint-a-flower: Clematis Josephine. This card has a calming effect when using muted tones with watercolours, and of course, I heat embossed the stamp design first for easy watercolouring. With the colouring process, the looser the better and it helps to speed up the process!

You should have arrived here from the fantastic LauraJane. You can always start at the beginning of the hop over at the Altenew Card Blog here.

Make sure you check out the end of the post for more details on the hop, along with your next stop!

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Muted tones with watercolours

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Muted tones with watercolours: loose colouring

Heat emboss the Altenew Paint-a-flower: Clematis Josephine onto watercolour cardstock with Primary Ebony embossing powder. Once heat-set you’re ready to start colouring the image in. 

I used muted tones with the Altenew Artist Watercolour 24 pan set to colour the image in. First, drop clear water into the flower you wish to colour and start to then drop in colour into the wet area. The clear water will help the colour spread and move naturally. 

Muted tones with watercolours: assembling the card

To create the background, I added a higher concentrate of blue around the edge of the flower and heat embossing. Then pull this colour out with clean water to soften and fade the colour out. In addition, add some paint platters in blue and black to add texture to the background. 

To finish the card off heat emboss a sentiment from the stamp set in gold embossing powder onto black card. Fussy cut/trim this out and then foam mount onto the card. 

Muted tones with watercolours

Muted tones with watercolours

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GIVEAWAY PRIZES & next stop

$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 06/27/2021 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 06/29/2021.

>>>>> Your next stop on the hop is  Victoria Calvin    <<<<<<

FOR MORE INSPIRATION FOLLOW ALONG THE ALTENEW Paint-A-Flower: Clematis Josephine Release AND COMMENT ALONG THE WAY FOR YOU CHANCE TO WIN!

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Muted tones with watercolours

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Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Detailed
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Artists Watercolour 24 pan set – Altenew
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This post was produced as part of my Guest Design work for Altenew  I have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Altenew to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of with products that I love.   The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert. 

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Hi, I am Verity and I live in the UK.  I love to create beautiful projects whenever I can. My main passion lies with Papercrafting, however, I will always turn my hand to a new project or craft any chance I get.

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