Hey everyone. I’m participating in the Altenew – Paint A Flower Sunflower blog hop today. You should have arrived here from Tania’s blog. The Paint A Flower Sunflower is absolutely stunning and creates beautiful cards. Let me share what I’ve created.
For my card today I used the newly released Woodless Watercolor Pencils and the Paint-A-Flower Sunflower. I love sunflowers so this stamp set was perfect for me to color. With the new woodless pencils that I am currently obsessed with it was easy to create a gorgeous card.
Stamping my image in brown ink, I pulled a few of the watercolor pencils out and began to add color to my image. I pulled color directly from the pencil and also by adding color directly to the paper. Mixing tones of orange, yellow and greens allowed my palette to rest easily on my off white watercolor paper.
I made sure to build up my color gradually instead of all at once. Making sure to heat set the color before adding more. Once I had the last round of color on my image I heat set it once again.
Wanting to pull in some brown from the watercolor panel, I trimmed down my watercolor paper and layered it on a piece of dark brown cardstock. I only allowed the brown color to peek through at the top and left side of the image. To finish off my card I stamped a sentiment from the Paint-A-Flower Sunflower set and added a few gold baubles. I placed my panel onto a white card base.
In case you thought your watercoloring collection couldn’t get any better, think again. Create stunning watercolor effects with our Woodless Watercolor Pencils! This set includes a wide range of beautiful, vibrant colors, and each pencil comes pre-sharpened and ready to use. You can either apply the color onto paper and blend with a wet brush, or pick it up with the brush directly from the pencil. The pigment dissolves smoothly, leaving no marks on the paper, and the colors can be easily mixed and layered for various effects.
This set contains 24 pencils that come in 24 unique colors. The Woodless Watercolor Pencil 24 set is $44.99 and well worth the price. Here is an color swatch so you can see the colors. If the woodless watercolor pencils are out of stock make sure to sign up for a back in stock notification email on a product page.
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 10/28/2020 for a chance to win. We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 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 Winners Page on 10/30/2020.
Next on the hop is Jaycee. I’ve attached the entire list of participants as well.
Have a great day everyone and good luck.
![Hello everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful Thursday. Unfortunately I will not be able to complete my holiday card series this year. The strain of sitting in my craft room for long periods of time is causing my back to endure more pain. In August I had my second back surgery in 18 months and was hopeful that my back pain would be resolved. My healing process has been a LOT SLOWER than I had anticipated and while trying to rush back to crafting, I am not doing my body any good.
With that being said, I am trying to keep my spirits positive and create the best I can right now. That means limiting my time in my room and resting my body. On top of everything I ended up with Covid a month ago and I still have lingering side effects. However I have a strong faith and I know this is just a hiccup in the road of life. Things will be better, my body will heal and I will be refreshed to return to the crafting I have loved for over 20 years. Feel free to catch up on my precious holiday card series in my playlist to keep you going on your holiday cards. Link In bio.
I wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and let's bring in the New Year healthy! Until then, stay safe and I'll see you back here soon!
P.S. I did try Amber's @ [17841400753513434:@damasklove] felt holiday wreath while sitting on the couch. Oh SOOO cozy!
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This is Stunning!!! Bright and bold!!! Love it!!!
Pretty card!! I love how the blended the colors in the flowers and leaves
So beautiful. Thanks for sharing
Your sunflowers are sunny and cheering . This card is just a joy to see.
Simple looking and sweet. Very nice colors!
Lovely card! I like the sunflowers colors! Charming!
Oh, I like how they are coming from the left hand side. What a different idea that doesn’t take any extra effort. You always do something a little bit different. I LOVE it.
Lovely card. I like the way you offset the card and the addition of the gold dots adds so much
Absolutely beautiful coloring!
Beautiful card! Love how you offset the panel on the brown card stock- great idea!
Wow – Sunflowers and watercoloring – two of my favorites. Beautiful card.
This release is another great one. I like the sunflower stamp but I am intrigued with the watercolor pencils. TFS
Pretty coloring and I like the sentiment.
Beautiful coloring job. I like the way you offset the main panel.
Thanks for the inspiration! Very pretty card.
Beautiful sunshiny colored sunflowers. Love what you made.
Dana, beautiful job. Those sunflowers look so real.
I just adore the simple cards
So very lovely! Your design is very nice & love the black border.
So beautiful! Love it!
I love the brown tones! Beautiful coloring. TFS!
Very pretty! I like how you positioned your flowers and your colors are so warm.
Beautiful touch of gold and love the offset design
The Black and White go so well together!
Classy card! Thanks for the inspiration.
A stunning card highlighting another wonderful release!
Beautiful card. I love that sentiment and I love this release.
Fun card. Really feeling the need for this pencil set. I love seeing the beautiful cards that you all are able to make with them. Stunning.
I like the accents of the gold with this beautiful card
Love the new pencil release!! Also your card is gorgeous!
SO pretty! And a message I am trying to live by these days — “choose happy.”
A fabulous card…so pretty and classy…
Beautiful sunflower design and colors!
Nice color example. Good use of the layers and additional embelishments.
So simple and golden. Love it!