Altenew Color Therapy Blog Hop & Giveaway

I've been on a bit of a coloring kick lately. I do this sometimes to sort of break up my creative routine. So if I have a long stretch of watercolor, I switch to markers or pencils.

Lately, I've been reaching for the marker.

So today I challenged myself to get a watercolor look with alcohol markers. I had tried the Altenew markers at Creativation in January - and just now got my first set - I got set C - and I wanted to play with them. So I chose a layering stamp set - (see my post using the layers here - it's the third card in that post) - but didn't use the solid layer so I could color. Then I just used two markers from the set for the leaves, trying to make them look like wet on wet watercolor.

Here's what I did:

1. Saturate the leaf with yellow - 2 or three layers.
2. Working quickly, add deep red to the top of the leaf.
3. Touch the yellow marker to the red marker to pick up red ink, and then blend the line between the red and the yellow on the ink.

Keep practicing it - you'll see some of my leaves are blendier than others - and that's fine - that's how watercolor is too! The sentiment is from this set.

Altenew LEAF CANOPY Clear Stamps ALT2330 [ SSS ] Altenew LEAF CANOPY Dies ALT2331 [ SSS | ALTN ] Altenew FLOWER ARRANGEMENT Clear... [ SSS ] Altenew FLOWER ARRANGEMENT Die Set... [ SSS | ALTN ] Altenew Artists Markers SET C ALT1783 [ SSS | ALTN ] Artist Markers — Altenew [ ALTN ] Hero Arts NEUTRALS MIXED ACCENTS... [ SSS ] Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White [ GNK ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSW | HA | SSS | ELH | SBC | MFT ] Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth [ AMZUS ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding... [ AMZUS ] Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675 [ SSS | ART | AMZUS ] Essentials by Ellen Storage... [ ELH ] Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC [ ELH | SSS ] Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two... [ SSS | ART | BLIC | ELH ] Ink Off Cloth [ INK ]

It's nice to have markers that match inks I own too. These are nice because they have a brush tip and a bullet tip, so you can do large or small areas of color. You can buy them all in one set, or they also have them broken into families  - A, B, C and Warm Greys, as well as mini bundles of four markers. You can see all of them here.

So my experiment with these markers was in perfect timing for the Altenew Color Therapy blog hop today, so I'm happy you're here if you've been hopping. I can't wait to see what everyone does. 

Here is the list of lovelies hopping with me today. 

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

AND - they are offering a sale on the markers in conjunction with the hop too. Code is below!

AND, on top of the sale, I have one $20 Altenew gift card! So leave me a comment below with your plans for this weekend, and I will draw a winner and post the winner on the 19th, when I'll be back with a Christmas card - STOP YELLING AT ME I KNOW IT'S JULY! :)

Loveyameanitbye.