Celebrating Watercolors Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 Worth of Prizes!)

Hi there everyone! Welcome to the “Celebrating Watercolors Blog Hop.” Who doesn't love watercolors?! I know some of you are intimidated by them, but if you have been following my tutorials, you should know by now they are super fun and easy to work with. All you need to do is let loose sometimes.

To wrap up World Watercolor Month 2022, we are hosting a fun and inspirational blog hop to showcase Altenew watercolors and highlight incredible watercolor art from some of our designers and guest designers.

So, get out your watercolors, hop along, get inspired, and have fun watercoloring!

Celebrating Watercolors Project Inspiration

I used the Paint-A-Flower: China Rose Outline Stamp Set and stamped it partially on A2 Watercolor Cardstock in Obsidian Ink. Next, I used the Artists' Watercolor 24 Pan Set to color the image. I used mostly purple and a bit of pink for the flower on some of the petals. And for the leaves, I used a bunch of greens.

Once I was done with the watercolor, I used Woodless Coloring Pencils and added shading into the nooks of the petals or where I thought the shadows would be darkest. This gave my flower dimension.

Next, I added splatters of black paint onto the white card base. Then I die cut a circle using Halftone Circles Nesting Dies out of one of the papers from the Essential Black and White 6×6 Paper Pack. I adhered these elements to the card front. To finish, I adhered the sentiment.

You can watch the watercoloring process video below or on YouTube.

Before you hop along, feel free to browse Altenew's wonderful collection of Watercolor Pan Sets!

Giveaway Prizes

$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this special blog hop, 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 08/05/2022 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 08/09/2022.

Blog Hop List

Here's the complete list of the amazing designers joining today's Celebrating Watercolors Blog Hop! Drop by each stop and leave them lots of love!

Altenew

Jenny Colacicco

Kelly Taylor

Therese Calvird

Amber Rain Davis

Seeka

Virginia Lu

Tina Smith

Ishani Sai

Isha Gupta

Tenia Nelson

Joylita Dsouza

Karen Brown

Sandhya Iyer

Terri Koszler

LauraJane

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nenette Madero

Happy hopping! Thanks for stopping by!

~SUPPLIES~

Paint-A-Flower: China Rose Outline… [ ALTN ] Halftone Circles Nesting Die Set [ ALTN ] Paint-A-Flower: China Rose & Woodless… [ ALTN ] Artists' Watercolor 24 Pan Set [ ALTN ] Obsidian Pigment Ink [ ALTN ] Watercolor Paper Set (A2 loose sheets) [ ALTN ] Artists' Watercolor Brushes – Detailed [ ALTN ] Essential Black & White 6×6 Paper Pack [ ALTN ] Woodless Coloring Pencils [ ALTN ]