Altenew • 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop. Video + Giveaway

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Hello and welcome!

You all may know about wonderful a month long coloring event that Kathy from The Daily Marker runs several times a year. And we all who love coloring waiting them impatiently, and are shocked when they’re ended. Well, Kathy brought another 30 Day Coloring Challenge that will run for the whole month.

Kathy from The Daily Marker is the creator of  “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge”.The Challenge is a great way to gain confidence with your coloring and join in a community of positivity and coloring enthusiasts. The challenge is also a great way to get full use of your stamps and coloring mediums.

(When sharing use #TheDailyMarker30Day so Kathy can find your work)

THE GOAL IS:  To color something daily even if it’s a few minutes but, certainly not required. It’s  been proven that coloring can lower your blood pressure & make you feel happy and relaxed, so it’s worth carving out a little time for yourself each day. You will find that Kathy encourages you along the way to stretch your creativity a little bit more and to feel successful with your coloring.

CAN YOU PARTICIPATE in the 30 DAY CHALLENGE?  Yes! That will be awesome if you want to participate & feel free to jump in at any time during the challenge! Everyone is welcome! If you miss a few days, don’t feel like you have to catch up. The challenge is meant to be fun and with no stress.

QUESTIONS? Read more on Kathy’s blog post here to see how to share your work and if you have questions, how to share, giveaways, etc. Prepare to be inspired with daily posts and many videos for 30 days.

To celebrate this event many companies gathered together for an inspiring and fun 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop. Altenew is the part of this blog hop and I’m thrilled to have my project among another wonderful creations of Design Team to represent Altenew in this blog hop.

I really like working with layered stamps. Especially ones that give realistic results. It’s all you need to get a wow effect and impress a person you made a card for. But this time I decided to go further and add coloring over stamped images.

I started with stamping images from Layered Lily set onto Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock. I stamped a couple of flowers, using Coral Berry, Frosty Pink, Ruby Red inks, and several leaves using Evergreen, Forest Glades, Frayed Leaf inks.

Next I colored flowers and leaves using Artist markers. I knew that I will be using markers to color over so when was choosing inks for stamping I took those that match existing markers.

I started coloring from the darkest top layers of my images (Ruby Red for lilies and Evergreen for leaves). I was laying color to cover darkest layers completely and then extending it beyond the borders of these layers.

Then I moved to working on middle layers, using Coral Berry marker for lilies and Forest Glades for leaves. I was pressing my marker on the areas where I already had the darker color to soften it. And then continuing adding color to cover middle layers completely.

With the same marker I also laid some color onto the bottom lightest layers of my images. Which then I colored using lightest markers. Frosty Pink for lilies and Frayed Leaf for leaves.
I blended out the middle layer color ending up covering bottom layers completely.

As inks that I was using bled a bit from contact with alcohol markers, and the markers matched inks – this bleeding created an interesting effect of kind of painted flower.

This technique can also be applied if you mess up layered stamping by not aligning stamps properly (happens to me very often, even using MISTI). You can hide any boo-boos by coloring over with markers.

Next they all were hand cut using scissors. There is a matching die set, you can use it by all means. I just wanted my stamping to cover whole cut images, with no white border you get using dies.

To finish off my card I created a floral cluster in the middle part of a white card base, shifted to the top a bit. I was adhering flowers and leaves using liquid adhesive and both regular and thin foam adhesive squares (to position different elements on different heights). And added a sentiment from Label Love set stamped with Pure Graphite ink.

Lastly I added dots all over the cluster using fine tips of markers (I think I went a bit overboard with these dots lol) and added several clear droplets.

Whoa! It was a challenge to describe the coloring technique I used for this card. Especially in English.:) Although I’m not sure I’d do a better job in Russian too lol. Some things are easy to describe with just writing. Something you just need to see to understand how it works. Like brain surgery or coloring.

So I dared to film a video for this card

You can see my video here or Watch it in HD at YouTube

PRIZES

During the hop, you will find lots of giveaways along the way. The full list of ALL winners from the individual blogs will be announced on The Daily Marker blog on March 12th.

Altenew is giving away TWO $30 gift certificates, so be sure to leave comments over at Altenew blog and our designers’ blogs along your way. Winners will be announced on Altenew blog on March 11th.

There is more! Place an order with any of our 19 stamp sets from the Coloring Challenge Collection, and you will automatically be entered to win a Big Prize! One lucky winner will be chosen to win Reflection Scrapbook Collection, Artist Markers Set A, and Fresh Freesia Stamp Set, valued at over $100. No minimum purchase needed! Giveaway ends on 3/10, 11:59 PM EST. The winner will be announced on March 11th.

Please visit Altenew blog to learn more about The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge blog hop and leave a comment on the Altenew blog for a chance to win a giveaway.

SPECIAL OFFER

Receive a FREE Apple Tree Stamp Set when you order stamps from the Coloring Challenge Collection! No need to add to cart, will automatically ship with orders. Limit one per customer, while supplies last. Not applicable on previous orders. Offer ends on Sunday March 5 at 11:59 PM EST.

GIVEAWAY

I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $15 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Friday, March 10th at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on Sunday, march 12th.

WINNER

The winner of $15 Gift Certificate is Linda F. Congratulations!

Please e-mail winner@altenew.com to claim your prize. I will also be e-mailing you.

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments! I really appreciate your attention to my works!

 SUPPLIES

If you’re interested in the supplies I’ve used – they’re listed below. Where available I use compensated affiliate links (which means if you make a purchase I will get a small commission with no additional cost for you). Click on the letters below to go to a favorite store: Simon Says Stamp (SSS), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), etc.
I truly appreciate your support!

Altenew Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock Click A Shop: AN	Altenew Label Love Clear Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Layered Lily Clear Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Coral Berry Dye Ink Pad Click A Shop: SSS | AN	Altenew Frosty Pink Dye Ink Pad Click A Shop: SSS | AN
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Ranger Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue Click A Shop: SSS | AZ | SC	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue Click A Shop: SSS	Ek Success Craft Tweezers Precision Tip Click A Shop: SSS | SC	Ek Success Honey Bee Non-stick Scissors Click A Shop: SSS | AZ	Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board Click A Shop: SSS | AZ | SC
Mini MISTI Precision Stamper Stamping Tool Click A Shop: SSS | AZ | SC	Tonic Studios 12 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer Click A Shop: AZ	Altenew Markers Set A Click A Shop: AN	Studio Katia Clear Round Drops Large Click A Shop: SK	Studio Katia Clear Round Drops Medium Click A Shop: SK
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Like these projects? I created a Pinterest-friendly pictures that give several views of the cards. You can pin them and save for later.

 

 

This post is also available in: Russian