Altenew Paint-A-Flower: African Daisy Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($200 in Total Prizes)

Hello everyone and Welcome!

I am Ishani and I am so honoured and happy to be a Guest at this gorgeous Paint-A-Flower: African Daisy Release blog hop. You should be arriving here from the very talented Colleen Balija 's blog, but if not, you can go back to the Altenew Card Blog and start from there. After me your next stop is - Nenette S. Madero.

I love these flowers and so I couldn't stop just with one card so today I have 2 projects projects with the beautiful new stamp - Paint - a -flower - African Daisy. One of the first flower names that I learnt along with Mesembryanthemum was OSTEOSPERMUM.. and do you know that African Daisies are called that? I am in India and we don't have a very harsh winter but have an early spring and Osteospermums are one of the flowers growing everywhere along with Poppies and Petunias.

I will try to sound cool and intelligent by calling them Osteospermums :D In nature they come in various colors and if you have seen my video with Dendrobium Orchids you'd know how I find inspiration to color.

For my first card I chose to water color my beautiful Osteospermums! Are you crazy for fonts? I am in love with the fonts of the Paint a flower series of stamps. They are so classy and combined with block letters, they give the handlettered feel!

My second card has my favourite color of Osteospermum - WHITE and combines Watercolors and alcohol inks. I have taken botanical illustrations inspired watercolors class by Jaycee Gasper and in his lessons, he had colored white flowers and had told to get color out of the flower to create contrast. I was a little scared for darker colors so I smooshed some blues for a Sky look for my White African daisies and used some grey markers for my white flowers shadows. I fussy cut only 3 of the flowers and foam mounted them for added interest!

Giveaway Prizes:

$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 09/27/2021 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 09/29/2021.

 Blog Hop Order:

Altenew Card Blog

Terri Koszler

Daniel Diaz

Amanda Baldwin

LauraJane

Emily Midgett

Seeka

Tenia Nelson

Joy Baldwin

Jaycee Gaspar

Sandhya Iyer

Jenny Colacicco

Michelle Short

Nathalie DeSousa

Virginia Lu

Lilith Eeckels

Amy Hill

Bridget Casey

Colleen Balija

Ishani  - -------------------- you are here

Nenette S. Madero

Joylita Dsouza

Preeti Chandran

Rosie Neustaedter

Verity Biddlecombe

(Can I share my joy of seeing both my cards on the banner for my favourite Spring flower?

                                                      Can you see me grinning?? 😄)

I have some creative ideas with this months Craft your life project kit - Hello Beautiful. 

If you haven't, you can watch the video here.

I hope you liked my cards and would love to know which one is your favourite? 

YOUR NEXT STOP is - Nenette S. Madero

Thank you for stopping by :) 

 

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