Altenew Love & Friendship Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway: Simple Watercolor Backgrounds

 Hello Crafters! 

Two posts in one week, did you just fall out of your chair? 

Welcome to the Altenew Love & Friendship Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived here from the wonderfully talented Seeka or if you're just popping by you'll want to head over to the Altenew Card Blog where all the fun starts. 

and there's giveaways! 

$300 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 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/08/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/11/2021.

 

I have three cards for you today all using quick and easy watercolor backgrounds. 

I used my Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers for all the backgrounds and several new sets from tody's release. 

For the first background I did a simple color gradient using three different shades of green. The watercolors are super bold. I applied them to my watercolor paper and then used a wide flat brush to sweep water across the entire background. 

I added a few splatters of water, each color, and gold perfect pearls. Once it was dry I used the Tall Foliage stamp and gold emobossed them onto the background. the large sentiment from Modern Greetings finished the card off. 

This background is the same idea as the first but it involves mixing colors this. I laid down the colors the same way as the first background with one exception, the yellow. Yellow can get easily overwhelmed in a rainbow so I leave a gap between the too so that there is at least some pure yellow even after the color blending. 

Again water spatters and shimmer spatters in the background for some interest with a bold black sentiment. 

This last card involves lots of color mixing which isn't everyone's style so feel free to skip it if it isn't for you. I used several colors including greens, blues, reds, and purples for this background. I opted to leave it a simple stamped image this time around but you could certainly dress it up with your artist markers, colored pencils, or more precise watercolor shading. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Anna Mahtani. 

If you get lost along the way here's the entire hop list 

Altenew Card Blog

Laura Bassen

Kelly Griglione

Emily Midgett

Tenia Nelson

Virginia Lu

Terri Koszler

Lilith Eeckels

Michelle Short

Laurie Willison

Amanda Baldwin

Svitlana Shayevich

LauraJane

Jaycee Gaspar

Jenny Colacicco

Maryam Perez

Verity Biddlecombe

Vicky Papaioannou

Norine Borys

Christine Pennington

Dana Joy

Nicole Watt

Justine Hovey

Tania Ahmed

Cheryl Espie

Reiko Tsuchida

Preeti Chandran

Amber Rain Davis

Seeka

Kelly Latevola

Anna Mahtani

Rosie Neustaedter

Teresa Litchfield

Erum Tasneem

Tina Smith

Yoonsun Hur

Karen Brown

Therese Calvird