Altenew Color Therapy Blog Hop + Giveaway (CLOSED)

Hello and welcome to Altenew Color Therapy Blog Hop. This hop features projects from fantastic designers, all colored with Altenew Markers.

You probably came from Laura Jane. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew Card Blog and see what other members of Altenew design team and guest designers have created. There are so many beautiful projects from talented designers. Also you on each stop you you have a chance to win a prize.

For my card today I used Tulip Stamp Set. It’s a great set that has both outline and layering stamps. And with such sets I usually opt for stamping. But since today we’re featuring coloring of course I colored the tulip which was stamped onto a Solar White Cardstock with Permanent Black Ink.

I used red markers Ruby Red R318, Coral Berry R304, Cotton Candy R403 for the tulip head and green Evergreen G554, Forest Glades G715, Frayed Leaf G702 for the stem and leaf. And initially I wanted my card to be very clean and simple. Just one proud tulip and a sentiment onto a white panel popped onto a white card base.

But it’s hard for me to stay purely clear so I decided to add some interest by making the panel narrower and popping it onto a gray card base… Theeen I thought – hm.. maybe I need to make a settled background on this card base?… By stamping just tulip outlines in some light ink. I stamped one tulip, placed the white panel on top to see how it looks and of course, because it’s me, that first tulip happened to be completely covered by the panel. Which was nothing to worry about, just another piece of work that is totally hidden in a finished project.

It’s not the first time for me but definitely one of the easiest. Usually I can spend HOURS stamping layers, masking or coloring to then cover a piece with some other element lol.

So it wasn’t a biggie. Will just stamp another tulip and see how it goes. But then I had a thought -“Since this first tulip will be covered anyways let’s try coloring it too and see how it goes”. And I tried and I couldn’t believe my eyes of how cool markers coloring on gray cardstock looked. I love using colored cardstock for many purposes. I like using it as a base to created a ink blended background (so I don’t need to bout down too much ink and work), I like color with pencils onto a non white cardstock. And it’s surprises me that I never tried coloring on a non white cardstock (unless I don’t remember it haha).

In general since ink in markers is dye coloring on non white surfaces isn’t a good idea. As dye ink is translucent and non-white cardstock would “eat” some color. In other word cardstock color will mix with your coloring and coloring will differ from if it was done on a white cardstock. For example coloring in yellow on kraft would look rather dull and faded out and coloring in yellow on brown won’t be visible at all.

BUT! Turned out that coloring on a somehow light color cardstock with the markers of similar shade create this very interesting sort of x-rays look.

I stamped away the whole card base with tulips and colored them all with warm gray markers Morning Frost WG01, Evening Gray WG03, Moon Rock WG05. Then popped up the white panel onto it and added several confetti to finish off the card.

SALE

Save 15% on all Artist Markers with code HAPPYCOLORS at checkout. Valid 7/12/2018 at 12:01 AM EDT through 7/15/2018 at 11:59 PM EDT. Shop HERE.

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PRIZES

Altenew is giving away a $30 gift certificate to six lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Wednesday, July 18th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew blogs on 7/22/2018.

I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $20 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Wednesday, July 18th at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on Thursday, July 19th.

WINNER

The winner of $20 Gift Certificate is Beverly Jordan.

Congratulations!

I will be e-mailing you instuctions of how to claim your prize.

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

GET HOPPING!

The next stop in the blog hop will be Lydia Fiedler. If you got lost, please go back to Altenew Card Blog.

BLOG HOP

Altenew Card Blog
Kathy Racoosin

Kelly Latevola

Laura Jane

Svitlana Shayevich

Lydia Fiedler

Kristina Pokazanieva

Kymona Tracey

Gayatri Murali

Laurie Willison

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Barb Engler

Emily Midgett

Zinia Redo

Dana Gong

Virginia Lu

Erica A-B

Leigh Houston

Norine Borys

Agnieszka Malyszek

Kelly Griglione

Justine Hovey

Lilith Eeckels

Michelle Short

Nina-Marie Trapani

Yoonsun Hur

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), Studio Katia (SK), Altenew (AN), Ellen Hutson (EH), Scrapbook.com (SC), Amazon (AZ), Spellbinders (SB), etc.
I truly appreciate your support!

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