Hello everyone, and hello July! It’s a new month and that means it’s reveal day for Altenew’s Build-A-Flower. This month is the Bearded Iris – and this beauty is just gorgeous – I can’t wait to show you my project. My post today is part of a release hop, and you should have landed here from Tenia’s blog. If not, you can start the whole hop from the Altenew blog.

Build-A-Flowers always come with wonderful layering stamps to create a three-dimensional looking floral and leaves, and this one is no different. But my post today features just the outline as I wanted to do some no line watercoloring! The layering guide is an excellent reference point to get shading ideas when watercoloring.

I stamped both of the iris and some leaves in Silver Lake ink onto cold press watercolor cardstock, and then using my 36 pan watercolor set and Altenew brushes, I watercolored them. I used a yellow and pink for the flowers, building up the layers and letting them blend, and light green and deeper green for the leaves. I let them dry then die cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I haven’t used patterned paper in a while, and really liked the papers from the Wildflower collection. I thought this pretty peachy pattern would be a fun backdrop, so trimmed it down to 4 x 5.25″ to create a white border and adhered to a. white. notecard. I then mounted my flowers and leaves with foam squares.

The sentiment from the set was heat embossed in Antique Gold and trimmed out and popped up too. I still thought it needed a little something, so I die cut a couple of the Geometric Frames from gold mirror cardstock, and tucked them in behind the florals. Kind of like how I would do with a few die cut leaves! I finished with some pink sequins.

GIVEAWAY

$200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 5 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 07/07/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 7 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 07/09/2021.

Your next stop on the hop is the absolutely super-talent that is Emily Midgett! You can check out the full line up below!

Jenny x

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  7. Beautiful no-line water coloring. Love the soft colors and the patterned paper you used in your design.

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  18. Great shading and choice of colors. The peachy backdrop was a great choice, love the card. Thanks for sharing!

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  25. I so like this card! Beautiful no line coloring of this beautiful stamp set. The background paper is perfect and I like the lovely gold die cut! Inspirational.

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  26. I love, love this card. Your blending of the colors is awesome! The pastel colors are beautiful and your composition is right on. Thank you for the inspiration and sharing your talent!

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  30. Beautiful choice of colors for your watercolors on this new flower, so beautiful! Love the design of your card, too! Thanks for sharing.

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  31. Thank you for the watercolor inspiration! I just took up the brush. Patience and not overworking an area is hard! This is beautiful.

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