All That Glitters

ALTENEW INDIAN LOTUS BLOG HOP + GIVEAWAY

Hi There!

Welcome to the release of the Altenew Build-A-Flower Indian Lotus Release. You should be coming to me from LauraJane. Didn't you love her use of the soft pastel colors. Amazing!

What a Beautiful Stamp set! If you want to google images of an Indian Lotus,  you can see what beauty comes from nature and what a beautiful set this is. See it Here

I started by stamping the outline image twice from Altenew Indian Lotus stamp set on some masking paper, and then cutting them out. Then I stamped the same image on gray cardstock with Versafine black ink and then clear heat embossing them, stamping the flowers that would be in the front, heat embossing them, and then repeating the process with the flowers in the back.

I shaded in the flowers with some colored pencils. Two gray, black and white, using a similar stroke that you would use when using alcohol markers. After the coloring with the pencils, I added shading around the outside, and then black to the areas that would be deep with a Copic Multiliner. I then added highlights to the flowers with a white gel pen.

I stamped the "You", sentiment in the same fashion as the flowers, and stamped the "we appreciate" with VersaMark ink and heat embossing it in white on a black strip of card.

I adhered the sentiment to the panel and added spots in varying sizes to the panel with a white gel pen and the black multiliner. Finally, I adhered the panel to a white card base, and this card was complete.

I loved the colors of the Indian Lotus when I searched for images of what the Indian Lotus looked like.

I started this second panel in the same way as the first card, but on some watercolor card instead. Then I used the Altenew 24 pan watercolor set to paint in the flowers. Added highlights and spots on the flowers with the white gel pen, and to the card with a Copic Multiliner.

I stamped the "birthday wishes" sentiment from Altenew Birthday Greetings stamp set on another strip of black cardstock with VersaMark ink and white heat embossing it. I cut straight along the top and bottom of the sentiment closer, and then cutting around the parts that stuck out further.  

 I added a small strip of gold washi to the bottom of the sentiment piece, and also to three sides of some black cardstock. I adhered the black cardstock on a hot pink card base, and then adhered the panel on top of that. Finally adhering the sentiment to the card.

Thank you so much for joining in the hop today. From here your next stop will be Nathalie DeSousa.

Find more info about the Blog Hop at Altenew Card Blog.

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Giveaway Prizes

$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 05/06/2021 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 05/08/2021.

Blog Hop Participants.

 

Altenew Card Blog

Norine Borys

Amanda Baldwin

Emily Midgett

Carol Hintermeier

Amber Rain Davis

Erin Thompson 

Therese Calvird

Jenny Colacicco

Tenia Nelson

Joylita Dsouza

Virginia Lu

Keren Baker

LauraJane

Linda Westfall (you are here)

Nathalie DeSousa

Nandini Karmarkar

Sandhya Iyer 

Seeka

Teresa Litchfield

Terri Koszler

Verity Biddlecombe

Helen Kalb

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