Category: watercoloring

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 22 Comments

Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Gerbera Revolution Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Preeti Chandran’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

This is such Gorgeous Gerberas. I did No line watercoloring with Woodless Watercolor pencils on these large blooms.

Over to my card,


This card features Gerbera Revolution Stamp set

Other products are: 

Featured Sentiments Die Set

Woodless Watercolor pencils.

Jet Black Crisp Dye cube ink

Made a simple CAS card for today. Did No line Watercoloring and then splashed with generous amount of White calligraphy ink and then let to air dry. Then fussy cut and mounted onto a white diecut panel. Sentiment from the today’s release set is added and die cut using Featured Sentiments Die set.



And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

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 04/28/2022 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 04/30/2022.


Next stop in the Hop is Lovely Nandini Karmarkar

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog

Jenny Colacicco

LauraJane

Erum Tasneem

Colleen Balija

Jaycee Gaspar

Nenette S. Madero

Virginia Lu

Teresa Litchfield

Nathalie DeSousa

Terri Koszler

Preeti Chandran

SathyaKala Sankaran  (You are here)

Nandini Karmarkar

Rosie Neustaedter

Natasha Davies

Carol Hintermeier

Katrina Howe

Linda Westfall

Ann Taylor

Amy Hill

Sande Woodson

Daniel Diaz

Hussena Calcuttawala

Eva Bussom

Bridget Casey

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this Wonderful stamp from today’s release.


I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.
Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.
Happy Hopping!!

Altenew April 2022 Gardens Around the World Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 20 Comments

 Hello All, 

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew April 2022 Gardens Around the World Collection Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Reiko’s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

I have made few cards using the variety of products in this Awesome Release.

Over to my cards,


This card features Meadow Reflections Stamp Set. It has a co-ordinating die set, which has not been used here. The bg is by ink blending the Distress oxides. This set is one of my favourite from the release for its very beautiful silhouette images and Pretty butterflies. It’s a must-have stamp set for Perfect Sentiments too.

This card features Morning Flowers Stamp and Die Set.

Used Altenew cube inks: Cool summer Night for the flowers and Green Field cube inks for the leaves.

This card features the Oh-So Beautiful Castle Garden Stamp set. Wanna make a monochromatic goodness with this stamp. Stamped with gray cardstock using Rock collection cube ink and used graphite and white charcoal to do the subtle coloring. White gel pen inks for the centres of the flowers. Splashed generously with white calligraphy ink for interest and the sentiment is from Fancy Greetings Stamp set.

This card features the stunning outline flower bouquet of pretty arrangement of roses and calla lilies. This set has 6 cheery sentiments. Did No-line watercoloring on this pretty set and showcased it with a lovely sentiment.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

Giveaway Prizes


$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $25 gift certificate to 8 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 04/20/2022 for a chance to win. 

Altenew will draw 10 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 04/22/2022.


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Altenew Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 51 Comments

 Hello Everyone, 

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Release Blog Hop + Giveaway .

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Nandini Karmarkar‘s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lily Product Description: 

Brighten a loved one’s day with stunning Belladonna Lilies. These gorgeous summer bloomers produce multiple fragrant flowers on each impressive stalk. In this stamp set, we have brought this exotic plant to paper through a delicately drawn outline image. The flowers have four coloring layers, and the stem has two coloring layers that will add depth and character to this beautiful flower. The Build-A-Flower: Belladonna Lilies special edition stamp and die set is only sold as a bundle. It includes one 6″ x 8″ clear photopolymer stamp set (20 individual stamp images) and one coordinating die set (1 die).


This card features Altenew Build-A-Flower Belladonna Lily

The floral inflorescence is white heat embossed on watercolour cardstock to watercolour those gorgeous dainty petals using Woodless Watercolor Pencils. Few more inflorescence were white heat embossed on Vellum to bring about the softness to the entire focal element. The embossed look of the bg is achieved by dry embossing Classy Stripes stencil on a heavy white cardstock.

Hope you like it!

Over to my card,

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

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 04/06/2022 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 04/08/2022.



Next stop in the HOP is Awesome, Mindy Eggen

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this Wonderful stamp from today’s release.


I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.
Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.
Happy Hopping!!

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Zinnia Magellan Rose Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 39 Comments

 Hi All,

Am SO excited and happy to be part of Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Zinnia Magellan Rose Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop.

I feel so honoured and humbled by this Awesome opportunity.

You should have arrived from lovely, Natasha Davies ‘s blog. Else if you are starting from here, I have a full blog hop list at the end of my post.

This is such a Gorgeous Zinnia. I watercolored this single large bloom to my heart’s content.

Over to my card,

This card features Zinnia Magellan Rose Stamp set

Other products are: 

Dynamic Blossom Die Set – ‘You’ Script Die

Featured Sentiments Die Set

 Made a simple CAS card for today. Did No line Watercoloring and then splashed with generous amount of White calligraphy ink and then let to air dry. Then fussy cut and mounted onto a white diecut panel. Scripty word Diecut from Dynamic Blossoms Die set and sub sentiment from the today’s release set.

And now for the exciting part!! Giveaway!!

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 03/28/2022 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 03/30/2022

Next stop in the Hop is Awesome, Amy Hill

Blog Hop List

Altenew Card Blog

Jenny Colacicco

Hussena Calcuttawala

Nathalie DeSousa

LauraJane

Jaycee Gaspar

Colleen Balija 

Virginia Lu

Teresa Litchfield

Terri Koszler

Nenette S. Madero

Reiko Tsuchida ***Note: Due to strict regulations in Japan, you might not be able to leave a comment on her blog post. 

Carol Hintermeier

Natasha Davies

SathyaKala Sankaran (You are here)

Amy Hill 

Bridget Casey 

Katrina Howe

Linda Westfall

Nandini Karmarkar

Daniel Diaz 

Keren Baker

Preeti Chandran

I hope you were inspired by my card and will try out this Wonderful stamp from today’s release.


I appreciate you stopping by and participating in this Bloghop.
Like to see more of my projects, do give a follow over on my Instagram (@sathyakala.23) and/or follow my blog if you haven’t already.
Happy Hopping!!

Sunflowers for Ukraine : PowerPoppy

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

Hiya Friends,

Like most of the world, I have been following Ukraine invasion updates with bewilderment. Totally heartbroken for the Ukranian people, who are affected by this terrible invasion. This wonderful papercraft community showing their support by making handmade cards.
Sharing here my little token and support .. And sending across loads of Prayers and Hugs 🤗
.
@powerpoppy  @marcellahawley sharing this Wonderful free digi – ‘Sending Warm Hugs’ over her store. Sunflower, National flower of Ukraine, symbolising Bravery & Solidarity 🌻💙💛
..
Share your versions and Show your Support 💙💛

Over to my card,

Absolutely love this Sending Warm Hugs Digi from PowerPoppy .

Watercolored using Daniel smith Watercolors, from Jean Haines Master Artist set – new in my stash.

Hope you like it!

Happiest of Birthdays | Irresistible Peonies | PowerPoppy

~ Sathya ~ 3 Comments

 Hiya Friends,

Am here today with a noline watercolor card using PowerPoppy Irresistible Peonies Digital stamp set .

Over to my card,

  • Printed Power Poppy Irresistible Peonies Digital stamp onto a watercolor cardstock in grayscale mode to attempt Noline watercoloring.
  • Colored using Karin Brush markers.
  • Few polychromos pencils for shadows
  • Splattered left over pink inks and Calligraphy white inks for interest.
  • After drying, diecut using MFT Rec stax dies.
  • Foam mounted this panel over my favorite A2 sized top fold Green cardbase.
  • Few clear droplets are added to finish off the card.
Linking this card to 
The Flower challenge: #65 Occasions


 

Full Bloom : Altenew Statement Flowers

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

 Hiya Crafters,

Past 2 months were too busy churning cards for my blog and its just continuing this month too but with a change. Making cards but scheduling for later dates. Yeah, busy making Guest designing projects and so personal projects taking back seat at the moment. Yet squeezed some time today and whipped a card using my new products in my stash – Altenew Woodless Watercolor pencils.

Over to my card,

Colors are inspired from current Altenew Feb challenge

  • Stamped the Altenew Statement flowers stamp set floral onto Canson Montval Watercolor paper in DI Antique Linen for attempting no line coloring.
  • Then colored using Altenew Woodless Watercolor pencils.
  • They are so easy to work with.
  • Then fussy cut and splashed generously with White Calligraphy ink for added interest
  • Took a diecut watercolor panel and with green woodless pencils, made few scribblings  and wet those areas with water liberally to create an organic bg.
  • Air dried and then splashed with left over paints to finish off the bg.
  • Once dried totally, stamped sentiment from Altenew Dahlia blossoms in green ink cube.
  • Foam mounted the panel onto Olive green A2 card base and Fussy cut bloom is foam mounted with few clear dew droplets as accents.
Hope you like it!

Favorite projects of 2021

~ Sathya ~ Leave a comment

 Hi Craftypeeps,

Heading towards 2022 and I take up this moment to thank all the souls who took out time to like, comment on my projects over my blog here and in my other social media links.

Your words means a lot to me and that is the driving force into my crafty passion.

Sharing here few of my projects in different interests as favorite 9s in collages.

First collage showcases my WaterColoring interest 🙂


This showcases my Pencil Coloring interest 🙂 

This collage showcases my Diecut Projects 🙂 

This showcases my Handlettering/Calligraphy Interest 🙂 

This showcases Embossing Folder/Focal Panel Fun 🙂 

Finally, this showcases my current interest :  Digital Illustration in Procreate 🙂

Hope you like as much as I love it!

Wishing you all my blog visitors, fellow bloggers a Fabulously Wonderful 2022!!!

Happy Crafting!

Thanks for stopping by!

Altenew: A Year In Review Blog Hop + Giveaway

~ Sathya ~ 18 Comments

 

Hi Crafty Peeps,

Am SO honoured and humbled to join this year Altenew’s A Year in Review BlogHop with such talented artists. Thanks SO much Altenew for this Awesome Opportunity. This is such a special year to me, as I joined Altenew as Guest Designer and joining them now in their Year end Blog Hop too.

You must be here from talented Sandhya Iyer’s blog

SO Stoked to share this graphic with you all !! 

These four are my most favorite projects done for Guest Designing and these showcases my Diecutting, Watercoloring and Pencil coloring projects.

Made a simple CAS card for this Blog Hop. 

Featuring Thanks Mega Die | Daisy Bed Embossing folder | Mega Greetings Stamp | Dainty Bouquet Stamp | Featured Sentiments Die Set

Sharing below few of my favorite projects done in 2021. 

Post  

Featuring Forever in Love Stamp | Beautiful Day Stamp

Post 

Featuring Statement Flowers


Hope you like all my projects which mainly showcases my Watercoloring / Pencil coloring interests. 

Prizes

Altenew is giving away a $30 GC to 5 lucky winners and $15 GC to 4 lucky winners!!
Please leave a comment on Altenew Card Blog or share Altenew projects with #AltenewBest2021 on social media by 01/06/2022 for a chance to win. 9 winners will be announced on Altenew Winners Page on 01/08/2022.

Additional Prize

I will announce a winner on my blog on 01/08/2022 for a $10 gift certificate to the Altenew store.

     Your NEXT STOP is Seeka

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Crafty Hugs!!

Wishing the Best | Altenew

~ Sathya ~ 2 Comments

 Hiya Crafty Peeps,

Made  a floral card using Altenew Daisy Bed 3D Embossing Folder.  

Over to my card,

  • Took a 7cmx14cm watercolor sand dry embossed with Altenew 3D Daisy Bed Embossing folder.
  • Watercolored the embossed panel using Karin brush markers.
  • Splashed generously with white acrylic paint.
  • Foam mounted this panel over Olive green A2 top fold cardbase.
  • Sentiment from Altenew ‘You are’ stampset and diecut using Altenew Featured sentiment die set.
Hope you like it!!