Home is where the craft is.....: Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes)

22 April 2022

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes)

Welcome to the April Paint-A-Flower release blog hop and giveaway, you should have arrived here from Nathalie DeSousa, if not you can go back to the start of the hop at any time by visiting the Altenew Card Blog

This month's Paint-A-Flower is the Gerbera Revolution. I have a card to share with you using the new stamp set, lets take a look and I'll tell you all about how I nearly threw this card away.

I started by stamping the image onto Neenah solar crest cardstock using an alcohol friendly ink. I then used my Altenew Artist Makers to add colour to the image, I wanted it to be a very simplistic look, so didn't do any amazing blending etc

After colouring the image I noticed that my outline wasn't very sharp, I tried to re-stamp the image over the top but I had removed the stamp from my Misti and when I tried to align it, I was off and ended up with a double line...At this point I gave myself a good telling off and thought about throwing it away and starting again. Instead I reached for my Fine liner pens and used them to bridge the gap between the double stamped outlines. This resulted in a thicker line.

To add a background I used a blue marker to add a halo and then bled it out with a blender pen. I then used an inkpad in the same colour as the marker to ink blend and add inky splatters. I then stamped the sentiment in black, voilà the card was finished. Do you think I saved it? Or should I have thrown it away and started again?

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 04/28/2022 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 04/30/2022.