I’m super excited to be part of today’s Altenew Educator’s Instagram Hop! We are all doing the theme ‘For the Love of Altenew’, using some of our favourite Altenew products, and I chose some of my current favourites!

This is an Instagram Hop so to be in with a chance of winning one of the $20 gift cards that Altenew are offering, you need to head over to Instagram and follow the instructions in my post.

Also, if you are interested in becoming an Altenew Educator yourself, you can check all of the details for Altenew’s Educator Certification Programme (or AECP) here.

You have to be really careful when painting onto vellum as it really won’t take much water at all; so I worked really slowly, spreading out the portions that I coloured so as not to get one particular area too wet.

It’s also a little tough to see the image when painting, so you need to go slowly and identify each part of the image before you commit to adding paint!

When working with the Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers, I like to add colour to a palette first, before transferring it to my image with a smaller paintbrush; this is just because these markers are highly pigmented and I find it so much easier to control the pigment this way.

Attaching vellum can be tricky because no matter what claims a product makes, you will always see the adhesive through the vellum, so the best way I’ve found is to be a little canny about where you place tiny dots of wet adhesive. I added dots behind the darkest parts of the leaves, on the embossed portions of the jar, plus you see those sequins & the sentiment…they cover a multitude of sins! ?

I added the circular sentiment, which is also from the Eucalyptus Jar stamp set, popping it up onto foam adhesive for extra dimension.