This is a first! A truly marvelous first.
Each month Altenew has five amazing subscription sets. This month, Altenew is releasing all five subscriptions at once! If you are hopping along with us, you have just come from Reiko Tsuchida. Your next stop is Tenia Nelson. For more information, check out the Altenew Card Blog.
How many different ways can you color an image? For this month’s release I used 5 different methods of coloring images. Let me know your favorite way to color in images.
Build a Garden: Nature’s Garden
Adding color with Woodless Coloring Pencils
Build a Garden: Nature’s Garden has beautiful floral sprigs and uplifting sentiments.
For this card, I used the Woodless Coloring pencils to color in the images after I stamped them in Vanilla Cream. The sentiment is stamped in obsidian ink.
After finishing coloring the florals, I decided to color the background in a soft blue. Coloring the background helps the flower images stand out.
Supply list
For your convenience, supplies are listed below. Affiliate links are used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
 Altenew Woodless Coloring Pencils Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Build a Garden Subscription Shop at: Altenew |
 BAG: Nature’s Garden Shop at: Altenew |
Craft a Flower: Cape Marguerite
Adding color with inking die cuts
The Cape Marguerite Craft a Flower has two beautiful daisies. The layered die cut petals provide so much detail and texture and are easy to put together. For this card, I wanted to make white flowers with a monochromatic feel so I paired the white flowers with purple leaves and a gray background.
The background is the Altenew Dotted Swirls Debossing folder. Since there is so much texture in the flowers, I wanted to continue a bit of that texture to the card base.
To achieve a white flower look, I die cut the flower petals from white paper and then inked up the petals with Limestone ink. The leaves were inked up with Ultraviolet ink from the Enchanted Garden Ink Set.
The sentiment letters were die cut from gold foil paper using the Tall Alpha lowercase letters.
Supply list
For your convenience, supplies are listed below. Affiliate links are used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
 Enchanted Garden Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Rock Collection Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Gold Foil Cardstock Shop at: Altenew |
 Craft a Flower Subscription Shop at: Altenew |
 Mini Blending Brush Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Tall Alpha Lowercase Die Set Shop at: Altenew |
 CAF: Cape Marguerite Shop at: Altenew |
 Dotted Swirls Debossing Cover Die Shop at: Altenew |
Project kit: Silk Art
Adding color with embossing ink
The Silk Art Project kit stamps are beautiful. For this project, I used Razzleberry embossing powder to color the flowers, platinum for the leaves and Rose gold for the sentiment.
To add a sense of movement, I used the Feathery Leaves stencil with Marshland ink from Nature’s Wonders Ink Set.
The Silk Art Project Kit comes with an embossing folder and a coloring stencil. After embossing the image, I used Caribbean Sky embossing powder to color the first layer of flower petals.
For the rest of the image, I ink blended using the stencil. I then cut out the entire image and added it to a card front which had been ink splattered with Sea Glass Ink spray. The sentiment is stamped in Obsidian Ink.
Supply list
For your convenience, supplies are listed below. Affiliate links are used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
 Altenew Obsidian black ink Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Razzleberry embossing powder Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Caribbean sky embossing powder Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Platinum embossing powder Shop at: Altenew |
 Cool Summer Night Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Feathery Stencil Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Rose Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Nature’s Wonders Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Craft Your Life Subscription Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Sea Glass Metallic Shimmer Spray Shop at: Altenew |
Mini Blending Brush Set Shop at: Altenew |
 PK: Silk Art Shop at: Altenew |
Mini Delight: Hooray!
Adding color with stamping
Hip Hip Hooray! This mini delight set is a celebration. For this card I used repeat stamping of bright colors to set the background: wisteria, pink diamond, sunkissed, citrus burst, firefly, sea glass.
The blue hip: Ocean Waves and Desert Night. The green hip: Firefly and Shadow Creek. The hooray: Orange Cream.
To highlight the sentiment, I used the hexagon stamp from GeoFrames which I stamped in Pure Graphite ink.
Supply list
For your convenience, supplies are listed below. Affiliate links are used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
 Warm & Cozy Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Pocket Sunshine Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Green Valley Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
Cool Summer Night Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
Enchanted Garden Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 Cherry Blossom Mini Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
Rock Collection Crisp Ink Set Shop at: Altenew |
 GeoFrames Stamp and Die Set Shop at: Altenew |
 MD: Hooray! Shop at: Altenew |
 MD Subscription Plan Shop at: Altenew |
Paint a flower: Flowering dogwood
Adding color with Woodless watercoloring pencils
I love dogwood flowers – they really are my favorite. The Flowering Dogwood was an easy one to paint with the Altenew Woodless Watercoloring Pencils.
The Woodless Watercoloring pencils are a great way to color on the go. I lay down some color with the pencils and then use the Altenew waterbrush to blend the color. With these pencils, I can control the amount of pigment.
I finished the card with some splatter with Antique Silver ink spray. The sentiment is stamped in obsidian ink.
Supply list
For your convenience, supplies are listed below. Affiliate links are used at no cost to you. Thank you for your support.
Altenew Obsidian black ink Shop at: Altenew |
 PAF monthly subscription Shop at: Altenew |
 Altenew Woodless Watercolor Pencils Shop at: Altenew |
 PAF: Flowering Dogwood Shop at: Altenew |
GIVEAWAY: $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 06/18/2022 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 06/20/2022.
Thank you for joining us on the blog hop celebrating the June Marvelous Monthly Series. If you are continuing on the hop your next stop is: Tenia Nelson. I would love to know if you have a favorite from the subscription – let me know in the comments below. I hope you get some time to craft today and thank you for spending just a bit of time looking through my projects. Have a great day.
Your colours and design are wonderful! Such beautiful cards. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks for the lovely inspirations!! I really enjoy the Paint-A-Flower card.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards! Great inspiration.
Love the cards, beautiful colors! Thank you for sharing your creativity!
Very pretty designs! I love the blue flowers!
Love all the inspiration. Making a background with the mini delight Hooray stamp set is something I will be trying.
Twana – you should definitely try it. and with any sentiment set.
My head is spinning from this fantastic release. Your cards are amazing — love them all!
OMG, thanks for all the demo of techniques. My favorite is the silk flowers card.
You are so welcome. I think the silk flowers came out great. I am enjoying doing different things with embossing powder.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful cards with us!
All of your cards are amazing!
Beautiful job with all of your cards. I love your color choices . I will need to get some woodless pencils… looks like fun . tyfs 🙂
Linda – the pencils are so much fun and easy to take with you.
All the sets are lovely and so are your inspiration pieces. TFS!
Fantastic cards!!! So much inspiration!!
I love your inspiration, thank you for sharing
The blue flowers are so pretty and different. I really like them.
Thank you – would you believe it is embossing powder!
Such a great set of cards.
Stunning coloring and designs! WOW!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful cards Amy!
Thanks Debbie!
Amy, I love your cards but especially your rendition of the Cape Marguerite and Dogwood cards. Just exquisite.
Thanks, Jeanette. The CAF Cape Marguerite was so easy to put together too.
Beautiful cards
All are quite stunning
Thank you so much! and thanks for hopping along!