Hi there! Time for a new Paint-A-Flower from Altenew? Don’t mind if I do! Today’s gorgeous bloom is the Zinnia Magellan Rose – a big, bold bloom perfect for your coloring fun! Today’s post is part of a blog hop, and so you were hopefully sent here from the Altenew Card Blog – stay tuned for details of a giveaway to celebrate today’s reveal!
While this bloom is big enough to fill in an entire card front, I wanted to fill my entire panel with them. I stamped them several times with embossing ink onto Altenew Watercolor paper, and heat embossed with Antique Gold embossing powder. I love watercoloring heat embossing – it’s so quick and easy! Those heat embossed raised lines are a natural, non-porous barrier that keeps the paint where you want it.
I painted the flowers using Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers – using the Autumn Festival Set and Spring Garden Set. I chose a few purples and pinks for the florals, and used just one color per flower, focusing the intense color in the centre, and then pulling it out with water towards the edges so they fade out. I did the same thing for the leaves, using green. For my background I used an intense brown – I’m not sure why I chose it but wanted a darker, maybe more earthy look. I like how it turned out and I added plenty of splatters (including a little water)
I trimmed down the piece and adhered it to a white notecard. For my sentiment, I die cut the Be Kind die using vellum and Gold Mirror cardstock layered together and adhered it to the centre of the panel to finish.
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 03/28/2022 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 03/30/2022.
Your next stop on the hop: Hussena Calcuttawala
Jenny x
Supplies
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Full Hop List
Jenny Colacicco >>>YOU ARE HERE!
Hussena Calcuttawala >>>GO HERE NEXT!
Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post.
Gorgeous card, love the colors.
I am new to Blog Hops. I love the gold sentiments that you chose for your card.
Love the gold embossing and the beautiful bright colors. Fabulous card!
This card is lovely! Love all the color!
love the vellum behind the be kind – a great idea and a lovely card
I love how you accented everything in gold! My favorite color! Awesome job!!!!
Such a great card and love the background!
Oh Jenny, this is a gorgeous design!
Gorgeous!! Beautiful colors!
Beautiful card! I love Altenew!
I love this big bold Zinnia Rose! What stunning colors and sentiment!
Beautiful colors.
Love the colors you chose.
Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Love the colors and the gold.
Great release. Beautiful card. Love the colors and the watercolor intensity. Lovely card.
Beautiful idea with the earth colored background
Gorgeous!
pretty card, love the bright colours you chose.
Cool design! I love the bright colors!
Beautiful card
Gorgeous bold watercolored Zinnias! The sentiment is one of my favorites! Thanks for the inspiration Jenni!
Beautiful card. I love embossing on cards.. Makes it stand out. tyfs 🙂
justloving all the beautiful colors in the flowers, gorgeous!
This is really beautiful.
Such a pretty life-like floral card.
What a fun and festive card! I love the vibrancy of your flowers and that BIG, bold sentiment!
Love zinnias. You’ve captured them
at their best colors. thanks for sharing
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love the colors!
Your card is beautiful! I love the colors.
Gorgeous card! Love your coloring.
The gold embossing is gorgeous!!
That is an absolutely GORGEOUS card! Love the colors and composition.
That’s a really nice card. Bright.
Nice design share. I like the arrangement of the flowers.
Hello from Minneapolis, MN. How amazing is it that Altenew is celebrating their 8th Anniversary, so happy for them. Jenny, the Zinnia, is a beautiful flower to begin with, and I love this flower for the layers of pedals it has as well. You personally captured the right color(s), along with the sentiment is something we all should be thinking about is others and being kind to one another. Thank you for your talents, I look forward to seeing what else you bring to the table moving forward.