Hello, crafty friends! Today I’m sharing a softly watercolored floral card featuring Altenew’s Build-A-Garden: Softly Sketched Blooms Stamp Set. This beautiful arrangement has a wonderfully loose, hand-sketched quality that seemed perfect for watercoloring. I chose a combination of golden yellow, deep violet, soft gray and natural green, allowing the colors to move beyond the outlines […]
Hello, crafty friends! Today I’m sharing a colorful thank-you card featuring Altenew’s Build-A-Garden: Harvest Bouquet from the September 2026 subscription. Although the set includes coordinating coloring stencils, I chose to color the beautiful floral image with Copic markers and paired it with a loose, painterly background. Creating the Background I scribbled Faber-Castell pigment sticks onto
Large floral stamps are always fun to work with, and this beautiful image from the Altenew Build-A-Garden: Garland Grace (April subscription) made it easy to create a vibrant anniversary card. The oversized floral cluster fills most of the card front, and the coordinating stencils make coloring quick while still achieving beautiful blended shades. I paired
Lately, I’ve been reaching for dies nonstop especially from Spellbinders and Poppystamps, layering cardstock pieces, building dimension, and playing with textures. And while I absolutely love that look, I found myself craving something different… I really wanted to sit down with a beautiful floral stamp and just color. So for today’s Altenew challenge card, I
The title may sound relevant to all card-makers as we do create card with our heart. But in this particular case I literally meant with Heart as our theme for The Flower Challenge is “Add A Heart” Hello everyone! There are many ways to use heart in front of a card. You can use the