Hello there everyone! I hope you’re enjoying your spring weekend – let’s get it off to a good start shall we? Time for a new Altenew Paint-A-Flower! This month’s flower is a part of a really interesting image, very different from previous images – it’s the Lotus! And its part of a scene that even has a teeny fish! Don’t you love it! My post today is part of a hop that starts at the the Altenew blog, if you didn’t already land here from Lilith’s blog I’d recommend heading there first. Of course there’s also a giveaway so stay tuned!

Of course, I went for no line watercolor. I stamped in pale ink (Vanilla Cream) and colored with Altenew 36 pan watercolors on hot press watercolor cardstock – smooth cardstock which is easier to stamp on when doing detailed stamps like this.

This image was a little tricky to color! Altenew’s detailed watercolor brushes were handy to add those little darker contrasting details, like on the leaves, fish and rocks. When I finished painting the main image, and largely dried, I swept the flat brush across the image with watered down blue mix of watercolors to create an underwater look, which also blurred the image slightly like it was under water! I also added pale splatters for a little bit of ‘wind’ outside.

To finish, when it was all dry, I stamped the sentiment directly over the top in Obsidian black ink, then mounted to a white note card.

GIVEAWAY

$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 05/28/2021 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 05/30/2021.

Your next stop on the hop is: Verity! I can’t WAIT to see what she’s created! The full hop list can be found below.

Jenny x

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  11. Like Erum’s card, this has such a dreamy quality and at the same time, it is so different from hers. This stamp set is really amazing. How can Altenew possibly outdo themselves now?!

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  29. Beautiful no line water coloring! Your underwater effect is wonderful. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  35. Very nice example of no-line coloring! I have to admit, though, that when I first got here I thought I was in the wrong place because I didn’t see the image from the Blog Hop! I finally found it, though, so I’m glad I kept looking.

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  37. So pretty! I love the way you colored this beautiful image! Lovely effect with the soft colors!

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  39. Had no idea that hot press paper is better with stamping! I had no idea. Thank you for the tip! Gorgeous!

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