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!
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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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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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DISCLOSURE
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.Â
38 thoughts on “Muted tones with watercolours – Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Clematis Josephine Release Blog Hop + Giveaway”
This is a fun card. I like the colors primarily; the background has more pigment than the blooms and somehow makes the pastel flowers stand out more. This is very creative.
Such a pretty card & your blue background just makes it POP!
Such a Lovely card!!! Love the colors!!!
The background brings the muted colors alive.
The watercolors look lovely
Great card; love the flowers in the muted tones. Thanks for sharing
So beautiful! Love the pretty colors and the artsy background.
Simply stunning! Love how the bright background brings out the flowers!
Gorgeous card. Your coloring is beautiful and the background is amazing.
Very pretty card. Like the background.
Wonderful stampset and gorgeous creation, I especially love your beautiful coloring and the spatters!
Stunning coloring and background!
Your soft colors look very pretty, especially the peach.
This is such an elegant card. I think I’ll try one.
Very pretty card! Thanks for sharing.
Lovely card! The flowers are gorgeous and the teal/blue colored background really set them off. Thanks for inspiration for this lovely stamp set.
This is beautiful! I love the paler flowers against the darker blue background. It’s always fun to see everyone’s interpretation of these designs!
Adorable card!
So pretty!
I love the technique, thank you for sharing this!
Very nice technique, so soft and pretty yet it stands out.
This is so pretty!
Lovely card Verity. I really like the loose watercoloring style; gives me confidence on my watercoloring. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lots of beautiful watercolorinb by all designers for this PAF. All very well done. Great coloring on your card.
I love your creative use of this awesome new set.
What a nice card, love the watercolor look. I appreciate your explanations too, thanks!
Fabulous color combo on your gorgeous card!
Great color share. I like the background fill and the soft color for the flowers.
Another beautiful set! You did a wonderful job painting thIs floral image in a soft palette. Thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous background and painting!
I love the loose watercoloring! So pretty!
Verity, I just love the blue background, and the lighter pastel flowers are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing and giving us inspiration.
Simply lovely muted colors. I love that the clemastis is shown in two stages. Fills the card superbly! TFS
Verity…what a pretty name! Your card is gorgeous, TFS!
Love the brighter background with the softer flowers. Very pretty card.
Oh what beautiful colors! I can’t wait til mine comes!
Gorgeous card! I loved learning how you did the watercolouring too. As a newbie to watercolouring that was super helpful 🙂
Love the muted watercolor technique, and the soft effect on the card ?