altenew: watercolor dots

Hi crafty friends. I have been signed up as an Altenew Educator Certification Program participant for a while now, and have just gotten around to taking some of the classes I need to take to finish the next level of certification…I love Altenew products and have been using them in my classes for a few years, but I thought it was time to make it official! The latest class I have completed is the Beyond Basic Backgrounds with Lydia Evans. This class had so many fun ways to create backgrounds with all different types of techniques.

One of the lessons in this class created a background with ‘water bleaching’, which is a technique that I love the look of, but have not played around with it in a quite a while and this reminded me to revisit it. It’s such an easy way to change up supplies we may already have on hand. To create this fun background, I inked up a watercolor panel with some of my favorite colors of Distress Ink using a foam blending tool, then I misted the stamp with water and stamped the panel. I thought the effect would look even more pronounced with a big bold dot stamp like the Watercolor Dots stamp set. 

To finish off the card, I added a some big bold flowers and a sentiment from the Inked Rose set…

Here’s a close up of that fun background. I have a lot more classes to complete, and really forgot how fun it was to explore techniques…so I will be sharing some makes from the next few classes soon.