altenew: statement flowers

Hi crafty friends! After a very long break, I am continuing on with my Altenew Educator Certification Program. I am glad I took some time away and continued on when I had time to really focus on the material. For this card, I took ideas and inspiration from the Color Your Day class by Therese Calvird. I took my inspiration from Lesson 2 in this class and used analogous colors on the color wheel (groups of 3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel) including red, orange, and red-orange (and a bit of yellow) for a soft and warm palette. I also took inspiration from Lesson 5 and used a new medium (DIstress Reinkers) that I have not colored or stamped with before. For me, this took a bit of time and patience to paint, but in the end I was really pleased with the result. I used the gorgeous Statement Flowers Stamp as the focal image of my card. 

To color my card, I used Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers in Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold and a bit of Squeezed Lemonade for the flowers. For the petals, I used Crushed Olive and Twisted Citron. For these you only need the tiniest drop of reinker mixed with water as they are super concentrated. Keep in mind that you can also mix colors together to get different, in between colors. 

To begin, I stamped the Statement Flowers stamp in Antique Linen Distress Ink onto watercolor paper. Then I started painting the petals by adding a wash of water over each petal and filling it in with the colors drying between each layer and building up the dark areas. Once the painting was dry, I cut it out with the Statement Flowers die. To finish the card, I adhered it to a panel of striped paper, then solid paper in the coordinating color. I created a thin sentiment strip using the Sentiment Strips stamp set and adhered a few sequins to complete it. 

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