Wild Flora W/Altenew Watercolors

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For today's card, I will be water coloring using a new stamp set from Altenew. Whether coloring with Zig Markers, Colorbursts, watercolor paints or Copic Markers, Altenew has a great selection of floral stamps to choose from. For my coloring, I will be using Altenew 36 Pan Watercolor Set along with water brushes to apply and blend the color. Let's get started!!

I will be doing all of my work today on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.

I start by placing a panel of Distress Water Color Cardstock into my MISTI Stamp Positioner and prep it with my Anti Static Powder Bag. I choose an image from the Wild Flora Stamp Set, position it onto the cardstock then stamp it using Versamark Embossing Ink. I then add Detail Silver Embossing Powder and heat set with my Heat Tool.

For my coloring, I will be using the 36 Pan Watercolor Paint Set. Using my Water Brush filled with clean water, I wet my first petal. I then take my second water brush and add the color, Coral Berry to the base of the petal. Next, I take the clean water brush to pull and fade the color out towards the end of the petal. I repeat this process until all of the petals are colored. *I use a paper towel to clean off my brush between colors or to remove water if the brush gets too wet.

For the second flower I add the same color, Coral Berry using the same process from above.

Going back to the first flower, I add the color Grape Vine to the base of each petal as well as any overlapping or upturned petals. I add color with one water brush, then pull and blend the color using my second water brush. I repeat the process for the second flower.
For the leaves and stems of each flower, I add the color Forest Green along the veins of each leaf then blend the color out. I add a thin line long the stems then blend out.

To darken the leaves and stems a bit, I add the color Evergreen then blend. For a little color variation I add the color Paper Bag to the middle of the veins and blend out. For the centers of my flowers I add the color Cosmic Berry.

Once my coloring is finished, I take the biggest die from my Stitched Rectangle Die Set and my panel and run them through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. To give my card some dimension, I take a piece of Double Sided Adhesive Foam and adhere it onto the back of my painted panel then mount it to a Plum Punch card base.

I now take my Friend Layered Die and cut three times out of Plum Punch Cardstock, then take the shadow die and cut out of Vellum running them through my Big Shot. I then stack and glue the three die cuts together using Liquid Glue, then glue my stacked dies onto the vellum shadow die cut.

Rather than mount the vellum flat onto the card, I cut two more friend die cuts and glued them together, I then glued them to the back of my greeting lining up the letters. This is a great way to give dimension behind the vellum without having to cut slivers of foam tape to pop up the greeting.

I forgot to stamp a sentiment onto my panel before adhering to my card base. I started with my mini misti (pictured) but the card was too thick with the foam to get a good stamped impression, so I opened my card and place it into my original size MISTI. I set the die cut onto my card to plan my stamp placement then remove the die cut and stamp my sentiment from the Sentiment Strips 2 Stamp Set using Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink.

Finally, I add Liquid Glue to the back of my die cut and adhere just above the stamped sentiment. To finish, I use my Jewel Picker to add Water Droplets with Liquid Glue and this completes my card.

I hope you enjoyed today's card. This stamp set has two more images that I plan to create with in the near future.


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Jeannie