Today I’m taking part in the Altenew Craft-A-Flower: California Giants Release Blog Hop + Giveaway
If you aren’t familiar with the Craft-A-Flower, it is a monthly, floral layering die set series, and it is available as a subscription service.
Altenew Craft-A-Flower: California Giants Release Blog Hop + Giveaway Details
To celebrate the release of this latest Craft-A-Flower, Altenew are hosting a fun blog hop, the full list is below but feel free to head over to the Altenew Card Blog to start at the beginning of the hop!
Of course there are prizes to be won along the way!
$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 8/13/2021 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 08/15/2021.
Creating Depth in a White Flower
I decided to start by cutting all of the necessary pieces from Neenah 80lb cardstock; this way I would be able to colour each layer myself and it was also a really good way to get a feel for how the pieces layer together before committing to how dark I wanted each to be.
I wanted the flower to appear white, but if I left all of the pieces white the flower would look really flat and unnatural. Even white objects have areas of shadow, and I decided to use my warm grey copics to add the colour to the right places.
This is such an easy flower to layer; the bulk of the ‘work’ is just to layer one detail piece on top of a base layer. This top piece becomes the highlights, so adding the shadow was as easy as just colouring the base layer using W1.
i coloured each layer of the leaves and bud, just following the layering information on the pack to choose the right colour for each piece. I also coloured some stems.
It may seem like a daunting task to begin with, but if you follow the helpful layering guide that comes in the packaging, you can tell where each piece fits in and also, which pieces should be the same colour.
I cut the two layer sentiment from some more Neenah 80lb and I coloured the base layer with the same brown marker I used for the flower centre.
The Diamond Frame cover die made the perfect backdrop to these large floral elements, and I cut it from Gold Mirror cardstock, then layered it onto an a2 panel of Neenah 80lb.
Altenew Craft-A-Flower: California Giants Release Blog Hop
You should have arrived to me from the amazing Virginia Lu …
Next up on this hop is the uber talented Emily Midgett and the full blog hop lineup is at the bottom of this post for your information!
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