Altenew Paint-a-flowers are beautiful designs that are great to colour in with your paints, pencils or pens, and can create stunning no-line pieces. However, even if you’re not an advanced colourist, you can still create with the Altenew Paint-a-flowers and today I’m showing you how to quickly add colour with loose watercolouring.
This card features the new Altenew Paint-a-flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia stamp set which is a beautiful trio of florals in a bunch that can take centre stage on a card. I use them with a mini-slimline size card and it turned out beautifully. But don’t forget, you can try this technique out with any stamp set in you stash, so let’s get crafting!
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Stamp set available to buy from 07/22/2021 at 12:01 am EDT
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Start of by stamping the Altenew Paint-a-flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia stamp set in black dye ink onto watercolour cardstock. As we will be working with water we need to ensure the ink we use doesn’t bleed so do not use a water-based ink like pigment ink unless you heat emboss it.
Quickly dry the ink with your heat gun and next add clear clean water over the stamp design. Using the Altenew Essential watercolours, start dropping colour into the clear water. Go in a rainbow order around the design, allowing the colours to blend with one another.
Try not to allow too many of the colours to mix in the middle as this will turn brown. However, we will add sentiment over the top, so you don’t need to worry too much. Heat emboss a sentiment from the stamp set onto black card in white embossing powder.
Trim the sentiment down and foam mount onto the front of the card to finish the card off.
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 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.
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Quicky add colour with loose watercolouring
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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.
35 thoughts on “Quickly add colour with loose watercolouring! (Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Fashion Monger Dahlia Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway)”
Very nice. Thanks for the inspiration
How, that watercolor gives it such character!
I like how simple this was to create–and it’s so pretty…
Thanks for the inspiration.Pretty card
Nicely and prettily done!
Love the artsy style of this card. It looks amazing!
Beautifully watercolored. This is my type of watercoloring…loose and artsy!
Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Nice.
I love this! So soft finish, stunning! Will definitely give this a go!
Love your watercoloring! This PAF is perfect for this technique, and I am definitely going to give your technique a try. Love this card!
Love this card. The colors and the technique. I always forget what beautiful cards can be made with uncomplicated techniques. Thanks for showing this!
I love the soft watercolor technique for this card! So beautiful!
Very pretty! The sentiment done in black is striking against the bright flowers.
I think even I can do that kind of watercolor! Very pretty!
So pretty. I love that technique! I am going to have to try that! Beautiful!!!
“Loose”….. now that I can do!
Cute card! Thanks for sharing.
Great card and inspiration.
So pretty.
Gorgeous, subtle card. Very elegant!
Love it!!
Simply beautiful!
Pretty rainbow colors!
Love the rainbow background!
This would be an amazing way to practice water coloring. I can see turning out a large number of these and really getting the feel for how the watercolors move and mix. Looks like I have my weekend project; thank you V.
Love this loose watercolor rainbow technique. Thanks for the inspiration Verity!
I definitely need to give loose watercoloring a try! I love your card!
This is so pretty!
Gorgeous card Verity! I love the soft loose watercolouring! I must try it more often. It looks amazing! Wonderful inspiration!! Stay safe! 🙂
Gorgeous! I love the beautiful, colorful, fun background.
Beautiful style and colors!
Love the soft rainbow wash over the flowers ?
So pretty. I like the loose watercoloring.
Beautiful card! Love the background