Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

Altenew Watercolor Coloring Book Release Blog Hop + Giveaway!

Hi there! Altenew is having a really fun blog hop today to help introduce their new watercolor lovers’ products: Watercolor Coloring Book, Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Round, and Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Detailed. You should have arrived here from Seeka, and your next stop is Amanda Baldwin. Here are a few details on the new products being released today:

Watercolor Coloring Book

Watercoloring just got a whole lot more fun! Make way for a brand-new, specially-designed Altenew original product – our Watercolor Coloring Book.

Recognize the florals? This gorgeous coloring book features popular Altenew flowers in beautiful compositions. You will enjoy coloring 12 floral designs with both black and gray outlines. Coloring on the light gray outlined images will give you a no-line watercolor look, while coloring on the black print will give you a stamped look. 

The high-quality watercolor paper is thick enough to avoid warping and ripping when you color in the designs with your favorite inks and watercolors.

This coloring book will open up a whole world of crafting possibilities for you. Use the pages for framed home decor projects, turn them into cards, or simply have fun coloring the day away!

Details

Quantity: 24 sheets
Content: 12 unique designs
Paper Dimensions: 5″ x 7″
Quality: 100% cotton, cold press watercolor paper
Paper Weight: 300 gsm

Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Round

Are you an avid or aspiring watercoloring artist? If so, you will love this fresh, high-quality set of round watercolor brushes.

Our Artists’ Watercolor Brushes come in a variety of sizes to suit all of your needs. They will allow you to try out a variety of watercoloring techniques, from background washes to fine detail work. These elegant and beautiful brushes feature synthetic squirrel/sable hair and black birch wood handles accented by a black metal ferrule. 

This set includes four round brushes in sizes 1, 2, 3, and 4, and a size 18 flat brush. The brushes come in a specially designed black cloth container to encase the brushes safely and elegantly in your craft room.

Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Detailed

Do you wish you had finely-tipped brushes for tiny watercoloring details? If so, you will love this fresh, high-quality set of detailed watercolor brushes.

Our Artists’ Watercolor Brushes come in a variety of sizes to suit all of your needs. They will allow you to try out a variety of watercoloring techniques, from background washes to fine detail work. These elegant and beautiful brushes feature synthetic squirrel/sable hair and black birch wood handles accented by a black metal ferrule. 

This set includes four detail brushes in sizes 0, 1, 2, and 3. The brushes come in a specially designed black cloth container to encase the brushes safely and elegantly in your craft room.

I have created a sunny yellow project for you today using one of the panels from the Watercolor Coloring Book and some of the Watercolor Brush Marker Refills to do some tie-dye watercoloring. Let’s get started with the details!

I began by taping down my chosen Watercolor Coloring Book panel to my watercolor board, as this tie-dye technique requires quite a lot of water and I wanted to reduce warping. The panels are 5×7, which leave plenty of room to tape them down and still create an A2 card front. I love that they give you the option for a traditional black outline image or a more subtle gray line to do some no-line coloring. I then wet the panel completely with the large brush from the Artists’ Watercolor Brushes – Round and dropped in diluted versions of Sunkissed, Warm Sunshine, and Citrus Burst watercolor all over the paper, moving the color around while the paper was still quite wet, to create a mottled, “tie-dye” background.

Once the background had dried completely, I used more concentrated versions of Sunkissed, Warm Sunshine, and Citrus Burst watercolor, adding in some Espresso, Moss, and Limeade for extra shadows and foliage. The multi-colored, mottled background creates some fun variation on the flower petals, helping them look a bit less flat. I also added a few deep green splatters just for a fun artsy look!

To create an A2 card, I trimmed down the finished panel, then added a deep green Handwritten Hello die cut, which I cut three times from dark green cardstock and adhered together using liquid adhesive to create a dimensional die cut. I also white embossed a sentiment from Sentiment Strips on another panel of deep olive cardstock, which I popped up with dimensional adhesive.

Well, that’s all for my project today! As always, Altenew has some wonderful giveaways to celebrate this latest release:

$300 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 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/16/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/19/2021.

They are also running some special promotions to make the new products even more enticing:

Receive a FREE brand new Poppy Arrangement Stamp Set (worth $23.99) with every order of the new Florals Coloring Book and Watercolor Bundle from 2/11/2021 at 12:01 AM EST until 2/14/2021 at 11:59 PM EST. Shop HERE. Free gift will be added to cart automatically.

Your next stop on the hop is Amanda Baldwin. Thanks so much for stopping by, and happy hopping!

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Comments

  9. This is a beautiful color choice for this image. I like that the same colors are used for the background and blooms, just with different intensities. The sentiment placement is perfect too. It’s a great card.

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  17. This is just beyond gorgeous, Emily! The depth you created is so warm and the highlights are so sunny! I’m looking forward to spring!!

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  19. Gorgeous painting Emily! Love the contrast and depth in this panel. Love the illustrations, looking forward to play with the new brushes! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  21. Love your colors choices of Yellows and Browns. I never would have thought to put Brown with the Yellow. Such Inspiration!

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  24. Dear Emily
    Your coloring is always a treat to watch. Love the way you use colours to get what you want. You are so talented. Stay safe and blessed

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  28. So sunny. Using the same colors for the background and the flowers worked beautifully. Thanks for the description of your technique. I love the results.

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  29. This is such a beautiful card! I’m loving seeing what everyone has created from this amazing coloring book and you aced it!

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  36. This blog hop is one of the best I have seen. The pictures and colouring is exceptional and the variety is amazing. So many talented watercolourist sharing their work.

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  38. Gorgeous. . .I haven’t done a blog hop in years. But this is amazing stuff. Love all the white space you left. I so struggle with that. What a work of art you created.

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  61. I’m just trying watercolor and love it. It’s so relaxing and enjoyable to slowly paint your way to being stress free! I think the coloring book is a great idea and can’t wait to try it.

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  65. Very pretty! Love the color of the blooms and the peachy pink and yellow in the background. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

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