My last Altenew class for Level 3 in AECP is "Creative Coloring with Erum - Advanced Techniques" taught by Erum Tasneem. This class covers many different ways to color. From creative texture with embossing pastes and glitter to use of watercolor paints and alcohol markers - 6 different lessons and lots of inspiration - Erum gives you lots of examples of "Creative Coloring".
All of the products I used for these cards are from Altenew - except for colored cardstock from my stash. For my first cards, I focused on the 2nd lesson which was "Playing with Texture". In this lesson we applied embossing paste through a stencil (Bursting Dahlia) and on one of the images we added glitter to the embossing paste. Then set the panels aside to dry. Once they were dry, I got out my Altenew 36 color watercolor paint set and started adding color. For the embossing paste with NO Glitter panel I did a rainbow of colors on the Dahlia petals and finished with same color of splatter around those petals. Once that was dry, I spritzed and splattered with Iridescent Shimmer Spray before adding my sentiment and clear dots.
The second panel with the glitter I also watercolored but chose cool colors and tried a little of the dripping water technique around the edges of the dahlia. As per my usual MO, I spritzed and splattered Iridescent Shimmer spray before adding a sentiment and black enamel dots. This was a fun technique that I will need to play with more to be more confident in the process.
For my next card, I focused on Lesson 5 - Splatter Watercolor technique. I started by embossing my floral image - Paint a Flower - Fashion Monger Dahlia - onto watercolor cardstock. Then I wet the floral portions and splattered pinks and oranges - I did this numerous times drying in between to get the colors more vibrant. I masked off the flowers and did the same with the leaves in shades of green.
Once I had these where I wanted them, I went back to lesson 1 - adding detail to stamped images - in this lesson it was about using markers to add details, but I reached for my Woodless Colored pencils to add subtle shading and details to the flowers. I finished this card by fussy cutting the bouquet and foam mounting it to a piece of green cardstock that I had stenciled the Sunburst onto in a slightly darker shade of green. Once that was adhered, I added splatters in white and Puffy Heart. This card was finished with 2 sentiments from the Bold Sentiment stamp set - one of my favorites. The splatter technique is fun and a great way to "loosely" watercolor and get a really unique and fun looking image.
Your projects turned out great!!
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