Hello and welcome to Altenew Markers Release Blog Hop + Giveaway. Today we’re releasing two new sets of Artist Markers! I believe it’s an exciting release for those who love Altenew markers and waiting for new colors:)
You probably came from Vicky Papaioannou blog. If not – you may consider starting from the beginning at Altenew blog and see what other members of Altenew design team and guest designers sharing (and also you have a chance to win a prize).
NEW ARTIST MARKERS SETS
So lets first talk about the new sets. With the previously released Artist Markers Set A now there are 36 colors of Altenew markers, matching Altenew Dye Inks. And even though we can never get enough of different shades of inks and markers – these three sets I believe create a good variety and include colors, that may satisfy many coloring needs.
Artist Markers Set B includes: Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris, Midnight Violet, Morning Frost, Evening Gray, Moon Rock, Lava Rock, Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Caramel Toffee, Paper Bag.
Artist Markers Set C includes: Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue, Sapphire, Blush, Rouge, Crimson, Velvet, Mango Smoothie, Cotton Candy, Peach Perfect, Dark Chocolate.
COLORING OVER MARKERS
My first card is a result of an experiment, which didn’t turned out as I expected and at first I recorded it as an Epic Fail. But continued coloring and at the en really liked it.
Here is the story. I tried several times creating distress or oxide background and then colored over it getting quite interesting results. So I wanted to do the same, but use Altenew Metallic Shimmer Sprays to create a background. Which I did onto a watercolor panel using Ruby Red, Warm Sunshine and Caramel Toffee Sprays. I sprayed a bit of each onto my glass mat, sprayed the watercolor panel with water and dipped it into the sprays puddles. Since the panel was wet – spray ink got picked up very well and I got quite intense background.
Next I grabbed a sandwich bag, picked up some ink left and transferred it onto my panel, doing so in kind of touching motion. To create these interesting ink blots.
Then I stamped Sketchy Floral using Grapevine Ink and started coloring the image. And that’s where it went not the same way I expected. When markers are used on a paper they soak into it, mix and blend together. Well, in my case this did’t happened. Markers behave rather like when are used on a non-porous or semi-porous surface, like vellum or acetate. After adding shades with darker marker I colored over with a lighter shade, but instead of getting blended result I saw that one color kind of replaced another.
Which was a bummer. I think that ink sprays created some kind of coating on my panel, turning it into a semi-porous surface. Probably metallic particles are the reason. So markers didn’t work as I expected.
But as I said I continued coloring and the more I colored the more I liked the result. All these weird spots and unevenness created quite an artsy look.
I used Velvet, Crimson (set C) and Grapevine (set A) to color red elements. Dark Chocolate (set C), Paper Bag and Caramel Toffee (set B) to color brown elements.
To finish off the card I added a sentiment die-cut using Script Words 2 Die Set out of Solar White Cardstock and adhered the panel onto a white card base.
COLORING OVER MARKERS – TAKE 2
When I was creating background for the first card I had some ink leftover on my glass mat and didn’t want to discard it. So I picked it up with a sandwich bag and transferred onto another watercolor panel. This background happened to be not as intense as the first one.
And after I colored the first card I decided to try coloring over spray background one more time. Surprisingly enough – this time marker behaved exactly the way I expected them initially. Soaking into the paper an blending together.
I stamped a beautiful floral image from Just Because Stamp Set using Grapevine Ink and also colored it with markers. I didn’t color elements of this bouquet using “real” (so to speak) colors. For example non of the leaves are green. But followed the color of the background under each element.
And you can see that I got quite regular result, which we usually expect from using markers. They did blend very well. I think in this case when I was creating the background using leftover spray ink – I didn’t get as much metallic particles, but only ink. So my surface was quite porous.
After I finished coloring I stamped over the same bouquet in black to intensify outlines. Next I stamped the sentiment in black and foam mounted the panel onto a white card base. Lastly I added some clear droplets to accentuate the card.
BLUE AND GRAY
My last card is very simple and straightforward. I stamped an Arabesque Medallion onto a white panel and colored it using new blues from Altenew Artist Markers Set B and warm grays from Altenew Artist Markers Set C.
So I simply stamped the medallion onto a white panel and colored it using basic light to dark and then dark to light technique. Then I stamped the sentiment in black and adhered the panel onto a Pale Gray card base.
PRIZES
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to SIX lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog by Monday, November 27th for a chance to win. Six winners will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on Wednesday, November 29th.
I will also randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $30 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Monday November 27th at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner here in this post on Tuesday, November 28th.
WINNER
The winner of $30 Gift Certificate is Stacey Kowbel. Congratulations!
I will be e-mailing you instructions 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 amazing Nina-Marie Trapani. If you got lost, please go back to Altenew Card Blog.
BLOG HOP
Altenew Card Blog
Kathy Racoosin
Laura Bassen
Mindy Baxter
May Sukyong Park
Agnieszka Malyszek
Lydia Evans
Tammy Tutterow
Lilith Eeckels
Suzy Plantamura
Nicole Picadura
Jessica Frost-Ballas
Enza Gudor
Sveta Fotinia
Erum Tasneem
Altenew Scrapbook Blog
Kelly Latevola
TaeEun Yoo
Kymona Tracey
Yoonsun Hur
Kristina Pokazanieva
Therese Calvird
Erica A-B
Vicky Papaioannou
Svitlana Shayevich
Nina-Marie Trapani
Virginia Lu
SUPPLIES
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 Altenew Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock Click A Shop: AN |
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 Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock Click A Shop: SSS |
 Altenew Just Because Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Sketchy Floral Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Arabesque Medallion Stamp Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Script Words 2 Die Set Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Ruby Red Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Warm Sunshine Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Caramel Toffee Metallic Shimmer Ink Spray Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
 Altenew Grapevine Dye Ink Pad Click A Shop: SSS | AN |
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 Ranger Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue Click A Shop: SSS | AZ | SC |
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 Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting And Embossing Machine Click A Shop: SSS | SC | SB |
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I like your experiment and the unusual results you obtained.
Such a creative way to use the markers, these cards are fantastic!!!
It is great to read your process and that you turned around your experiment into a beautiful card. Inspiring!
Wow! Fantastic cards! Love the bright and bold colors!
Your cards are always so lovely and vibrant and different from everyone else! Thanks for sharing!
Love your cards! So interesting backgrounds!
Beautiful and interesting cards. I love doing the background with sandwich bags, you have something different every time.
Awesome cards!
fabulous cards!! looking forward to meeting you!!
Love your choice of vibrant colours . Gorgeous cards. ?❤️
Love how your samples show how vibrant these new colors are:)
Oh my! I love the bright, brilliant colors and the way you used them on these cards. Beautiful.
Love your cards
Wow…fascinating. The second card is stunning!
Before I read your story, I thought ‘artsy’ on the first card – and I like it, too!
The 2nd is just as beautiful and I can see the difference. I also love the blue and
gray together. Lovely cards.
Beautiful! Thanks for the giveaway 😉
Your experiment went well and I loved the intense red colors! But the subtle grays and blues of the last card are stunning in their simplicity! Well done!
I guess you never know until you try! Thanks for showing us your experimental cards. I think they are pretty amazing. Such intense colors!
So very pretty!
These so lovely take my breath away!
Great cards! Wonderful couloring!! Thank you for sharing with us 🙂
Such amazing coloring! The colors are so vibrant!!
Your first card is absolutely stunning, what a gorgeous “epic fail”. Love all your cards.
Goodness, your cards are stunning.
Wow! Check out those reds. Can’t wait to get my hands on these markers but I don’t think I will get those awesome results you do
LOVE these cards – love the rich colors you’ve used. Thanks for the heads up regarding how the markers react with the sprays – less experimenting for us! These really are fabulous. Thank you for sharing your designs and insight.
Love your cards. Thanks for sharing…
Fabulous cards, that technique looks fun!!!
Wow! Beautiful colors! Love them!
Beautiful work!
Love the vibrant colors on your cards.
Your first card is what we’d call a very happy accident – love the artsy look of your first 2 cards!
All the cards are lovely
and really like how the
second one came out.
Carla from Utah
Wow! These are amazing! Just look at all that color!
Beautiful projects! I love these new markers! I love both of your first 2 cards, the experiment was a success as far as I’m concerned!
Your cards..Wow! Just wow! I love the colors combos and the backgrounds!
Cool technique on your cards!
Funny, the “epic fail”is the first thing I noticed and I think it’s fabulous!
Love the new markers.
so interesting to see the various colors you achieved in your experiments with the sprays – so vibrant – lovely cards!
Absolutely beautiful cards. Love them!
They are all stunning. I love the way you experiment and even your “epic fail” is beautiful. Thanks for sharing your art.
Amazing results from your experiment. These markers can really blend into great, intense colors.
Wow, your colouring is AMAZING! Beautiful, vibrant colours! Love your cards!
Beautiful results!! (Even if it wasn’t what you expected!) I love all your projects!
Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh no! Not failed, that one is my favorite! Beautiful.
Great coloring & awesome designs!
ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁) crossing my fingers….
These cards are lovely and unusual. Just goes to show that persistence always pays!
Can’t believe you were thinking of the first card as a failure- love your creativity and so pleased you persevered. Gorgeous work.
thanks for sharing, your cards are gorgeous!
Oh my! The first card just glows! It really looks as if there is some sort of light source behind the color! thanks so much.
Bright and beautiful cards…
When your page loaded I actually lost my breath! Seeing the gorgeous trio of cards made my heart race and I think my eyes actually popped out of my head! It was a mind blowing few minutes as I sat and stared at them. I just had to drink in every little detail of each one!
I wish I had even a tiny bit of your skill and talent! TFS! ?✨?✨?
Wow, these cards are stunning and I LOVE both of your experimental technique cards with the shimmer spray backgrounds. The blue and gray medallion coloring is awesome too
who would of thought of an experiment that you thought had gone wrong would turn out so beautiful. Well done! Thanks for sharing.
amazing I love the bold colors!
Wonderful, love the new markers the colors are just great. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! These are so vivid and stunning!
I loved your “experiment”.
the colors are rich and vibrant and fantastic.
the next card was also throbbing with
color. Fantastic cards.
thanks for sharing.
WOW ! Fantastic coloring !!!! Your cards are fantastic !
I Like BOTh coloring over sprayed BGs very much! SOmetimes when things don’t work as you had planned, BEAUTIFUL things emerge:)
Such amazing coloring! Love all your pieces
So fun to see such creative and new ideas! And that markers were used makes them even more unique!! Thanks
Love your cards – so bright and beautiful.
Such gorgeous colors!
Such vivid colors! Beautiful results.
I think all of your creations are just fantastic.Well done.
Wow! Amazing colors! Love your gorgeous cards! Excited about the new marker sets!
The colors in the cards are awesome. The first card is a happy accident, maybe you should experiment some more as that card is amazing.
Awesome cards. I really like the arty touch with the ink background and the blue and grey together is glorious.
Three cards with these markers are really spoiling us, the thank you is so bright, bold & beautiful, a great male or female card. The other two are amazing with the stunning, I know you thought the first was an epic fail at first but If would be truly honoured to make or receive a card like that, the colours pop & the image is so clear, really stunning. Thank you for sharing these with us x
I am loving the markers and their colors from Altenew.. I can’t wait to play with them myself. I love the blending I have been seeing and the results are fabulous.
Your coloring is striking! You really know how to put them together!
Beautiful vibrant colors!
Oh that first card is so cool! What a lucky mistake! And the last one, WOW! So bold and striking!
Great project. You made fantastic card.
Wow! Those cards are gorgeous! Love the floral image stamped on the backgrounds!
Твои “кровавые” открытки просто воу-воу! Особенно первая, там мне больше цветы нравятся))) Вообще огнище просто! И покрасила ты безупречно!
I love all your cards, but your first one really caught my eye! I wonder if it’d be possible to reproduce that fabulous background effect?
Fabulous cards
I love, love, love your first card. The colors so vibrant and everything seems to fall in place with one another, I think this experimint is very successful!
Your other cards are also stunning. Thanks for your time and effort to show us your beautiful art.
Love the artsy look of the first two and the clean look of the last.
Love the vibrant colours in your first card. So happy that the experiment was all worth it in the end.
Wow! What a great technique. Sometimes a wrong turn becomes a right turn. Can’t wait to try this myself.
Super creative!
That’s a wonderful set of cards, but my favorite is actually the first one !!!
margessw@icloud.com
Wonderful cards. The vibrant colors are beautiful.
Firstly let me Thankyou for being in the Altenew blog hop (I may never of found you and your talent otherwise) ?. Your use on using the new markers are superb and I love the fact you made something you weren’t pleased with into this stunning art work. Thankyou for sharing and being a great source of inspiration to us all. Xx
WOW Svitlana, the results of all of your experiments turned out beautifully if you ask me. These are all so rich in colour. I love them all. Well done.
Gorgeous cards! Love this!!!?
Thanks for sharing ☺️
God bless!
All of your cards are great but my favorite is your first one! Love the background color and the stamping and coloring over the top. Thanks for sharing.
I’m glad this experiment grew on you as the end result if fabulous. Thanks for the inspiration.
Fantastic cards! I love how your first card turned out! And absolutely love that you kept playing with it when it didn’t turn out the way you wanted until you liked it. Great reminder to keep trying.
How amazing and vibrant.
I love the reds and oranges mixed together. They are stunning. Thanks for the inspiration
Congratulations to Stacey.
Wow- love the cards!
How is the giveaway closed so early? The rest of the hop goes until Friday. With the huge list it’s taking me a while to get through all of them. Didn’t get here in time 🙁
Hi Cassie, Maybe you confused it with another blog hop, for December release ? http://craftwalks.com/2017/12/08/altenew-december-release-blog-hop-giveaway. That one is opened till end of Friday