Hey Crafty People
Today I’m taking part in an Altenew blog hop to celebrate Altenew Paint-A-Flower: White Swan Echinacea Outline Release.
If you aren’t familiar with the Paint-A-Flower, it is a monthly, floral outline stamp set series, and it is available as a subscription service.
I love that these are smaller sets and they are so wonderfully versatile!
I decided to pair this stamp with the gorgeous mixed media inks released earlier this month!
Altenew Paint-A-Flower: White Swan Echinacea Outline Stamp Set Release 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 08/28/2021 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 08/30/2021.
Mixed Media Backdrop
I had so much fun playing with the new Glacier Caves Mixed Media inks, making the background for my card!
I started with an a2 panel of Distress Watercolour Cardstock and used a simple ‘ink smooshing’ technique, building up several layers of colour. (If you are unfamiliar with this technique, you can check out some of my past tutorials here.)
Once I was happy with the level of colour, I left the panel to dry thoroughly.
Next I wanted to add even more texture to my background, so I used an egg shaped makeup application sponge to apply some more of the ink through the Fine Tulle stencil.
I didn’t want the pattern to be all the way over the panel, so I focused the inking on certain spots; using lighter or darker inks depending on the colour that they were going over.
(The awesome thing about these inks is that they will layer on top of eachother in a way that Crisp Dye Inks wouldn’t do!)
Adding Coloured Pencil Details
Once the panel was thoroughly dry again, I grabbed the beautiful White Swan Ecinachia PAF stamp and, using my MISTI, I stamped it onto the lower left hand side of my panel, using Obsidian Pigment ink.
Then I stamped a sentiment from the same set just above the flowers.
To accentuate the blue on the petals, I used some different shades of blue pencil crayons. Focusing the darkest shading to the bases of the petals, or anywhere else that I though there would be shadow.
I used a couple of greens for the stems & leaves and some yellow/browns for the flowers’ centres.
The variety of depth of colour beneath the pencil shading gives such a beautiful contrast across the three flowers! ?
Next up on this hop is the uber talented Sandhya Iyer and the full blog hop lineup is at the bottom of this post for your information!
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Natasha Davies <— You are here! 🙂
That mixed media background is just terrific, it gives such oomph to the card.
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Amazing background! Great colors!
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Lovely card!
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Love these in blue!
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This is another great look for this set.
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beautiful!
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Beautiful card!!!
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Awesome card!
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So pretty!! I love that background, it is so beautiful!
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Stunning.. that background is perfect ..just love this stamp set
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Love how you built up the background! Gorgeous card.
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Love your design! Gorgeous card.
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Wow! I love how you made this card! Fabulous!
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Yup! Love the blue. Great card!
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Nice project share for the set. Good color and layer share.
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Great card. Thanks for sharing
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Pretty mixed media look in a gorgeous shade of blue.
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Great look with all the blues! Can’t wait to test these inks.
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I really love them!!! <3
Simply gorgeous!
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Lovely card and I’m loving the mixed media inks. I also like the subtle die cut edge,well done!
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Very creative card! Love the texture
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Gorgeous! Those bright blue blooms against that lovely background are stunning.
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This is beautiful!
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Love the Background, great choice. Beautiful card.
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Great card! I must try this technique!
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So pretty.
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I like the background for these pretty blue flowers.
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Awesome monochromatic look using this lovely PAF set and your stencil work. Thanks for the tutorial on how you created that base—so cool! Thanks for sharing with us.
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Another great Paint A Flower stamp set. Beautiful smooshed and blended background, love the bold blue colors. Thanks for sharing.
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I love the layers in your background. Ink smooshing is a little hit or miss for me.
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The trick is to let it dry and then add multiple layers…and also keep a check on which colours you have down at the same time, as you can end up with a muddy brown which is…not so good! :S
Love the bold blue and the background! Thanks for sharingx
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Love the blues!
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I love all the blue! Very pretty background!
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Very pretty, love the blue cheery color and background.
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flowers look like daisies, but I like the use of blue
this cancels my previous comment as I didn’t leave my name for contact
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I was feeling the blues that day! 😀