Hello, and welcome to the Altenew & Tombow USA collaboration blog hop! If you came from the amazing Therese’s blog, you are right on track! Today the design team girls are sharing some fabulous projects using both Altenew and Tombow USA products, and here is what I came up with:
I love creating my own stamped background and I went further this time to achieve a gallery style look. Instead of stamping the images directly on my card base, I watercolored and popped up my images on the card front.
I used Tombow Dual Brush Pens to watercolor my images and I spend less than 10 minutes watercoloring. You’ll see how easy and quick watercoloring can be in my video. You can watch it below or on my YouTube channel.
How to Make a Watercolor Card using Tombow Dual Brush Pens
- Stamp the images from Garden Grow stamp set with with black ink on some watercolor paper. (Make sure to use waterproof ink for watercolors. Or you can heat emboss the images with white/clear embossing powder.)
- Watercolor the images with Tombow Dual Brush Pen Set : Primary. (I tried to color loosely and not to overcolor the images.)
- Die cut the watercolored images with Garden Grow die set.
- Die cut the frame out of Woodgrain White cardstock using Scallop Frame Die and adhere it on the A2 size top folding card using foam tape. (I also used Woodgrain White cardstock for my card base.)
- Stamp the sentiments from the same set and mount the die cut images inside the frame using foam tape.
Giveaways
- There are TWO $30 Tombow USA prize packs and TWO $30 Altenew gift certificates up for grabs. Winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below. Please leave your comments by Friday, June 3rd and winners will be announced on the Altenew and Tombow USA blogs on Saturday, June 4th.
- And there is more! I have a $15 Altenew gift certificate to give away to one winner. Leave a comment below and I will announce the lucky winner in this post on Saturday, June 4th.
It is now time to head on over to the talented Cynthia’s blog to see what creation she has to inspire you all. I am sure she has something amazing made up. Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy hopping!
Tombow USA
Altenew
Jennie Garcia
Serena Bee
Marika Rahtu
Smitha Katti
Therese Calvird
May Sukyong Park (you’re here!)
Cynthia Banessa
Agnieszka Malyszek
Lauren Fitzmaurice
Sveta Fotinia
Beth Watson
Amy Gray
Anna Kossakovskaya
Giveaway Winner (Edited to add)
Congratulations, Denise! Please email Altenew at winner@altenew.com to claim your prize with a subject line : May 2016 Collaboration blog hop winner from May’s Blog.
Mayholic in Crafts 
Altenew always has the most beautiful stamp sets which allow for your creative colouring juices to flow! Lovely card; gives me a lot of ideas!
Great card, love the layout.
Oh I love your little collection of garden paraphernalia! It’s so sweet! Reminds me of things you’d put in one of those sectioned shadow boxes. So darling!
I love how you combined all those small items.
I love your card, the watercoloring is perfect. I guess I need to order more of these markers soon.
Great card!!!
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Love all the elements you used!!!
Betty
That card is a gardener’s delight. I love it.
Awesome card! Great stamps!
what a fun card
thanks for sharing
Just love watching your process of coloring & always with such great layout. Beautiful style!!!
Love your layout and your color combination
Loved the garden card, my Mum is an avid gardener and I would love to make this card for her
What a unique and clever design!!! Love it.
Love how you did the water coloring. Beautiful background – great to use as a card when giving away things from the garden. Thank you
Very pretty card – I just finished planting all of my annuals and this card is so appropro for this time of year!
wonderful card – and will have to get my Tombow markers out and give this a try!
I’m inspired!
Such a pretty card, May! Love your soft watercoloring and how you popped up the images.
Lovely card, May! I love the watercoloring and the card design– your cards always inspire me!
You are so imaginative – I love the way the little items are all popped up on the base – really brings them to life.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win these great prizes!
Your videos are teaching me a lot about paper crafting. Thank you! I like seeing how you use so many stamps on one card.
Cute card.
Love this Altenew set…the background is lovely with that frame around around your diecuts…casts a lovely shadow. And the coloring is, as usual, spot on. But I miss hearing your voice.
Awesome coloring and design! Love all the cards you make with garden grow stamp set! ❤️
Oh how fun! Love the garden theme and fun stamping design ♥
Enjoying watching the videos on the blog hop! Thanks for the chance to win some nice prizes!
Super fun little layout!!
A cool fun card!! 🙂
This is such a beautiful card, thanks for the chance to win some great prizes! Good luck everyone 😊
Darling card! I’m such a fan of Altenew — thanks for the tutorial, too.
I would never had imagined such card with these garden elements. Lovely card
I absolutely love everything you create! Love the gallery inspired layout.
Your cards are always amazing! This one just takes me back to mom’s gardening days. Thanks for sharing your talent with us!! 🙂
I’ve been out gardening so this is a fun card for me to see. Thanks for sharing it!
Seems pretty easy and effective! I would love to get a set and try them out. I like the idea of the extra control they provide, especially on small pieces/cards. Thanks for the info and for the give away!
WOW, I have this set and have only used it a few times, I like your layout …looks like I may need some Tombow markers in my near future!
This is so cute, for a gardener or a want to be, like me.
Another ‘all over’ masterpiece, May! Off to maybe do a little whistling to your video? xx
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This is such a sweet way to incorporate lots of small stamps. The gardening theme is so cute.
I love your card filled with all these items from the Garden Grow stamp set and they are framed so prettily with the scallops. The Tombow Markers are great for colouring these stamps and thanks for the great video. x
What a cute card – that looked like lots of fun!
I love the gallery style layout you designed with the Altenew stamps and your colouring with the Tombow dual brush markers is pretty and quick. I like the frame around the gallery. Altogether a lovely card. Thanks for sharing.
It’s a lovely card ! It would be great for father’s day ! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win.
Thanks for sharing May…I’ve had this stamp set for awhile now, just haven’t had any inspiration on how to go about using it. Such perfect combo with the Tombow markers!!!
I love your stamped backgrounds, especially when you use this garden stamp set!
your shadows and shading are always so perfect!
What a cute and fun card to send to a gardener!
Your card is so pretty & I love the coloring. Great stamp set.
Gorgeous colors
What an adorable card! Beautiful!
cute stamp set. Love the coloring too
How cute this card came
out. Love the water coloring
and all the popped up items.
Carla from Utah
Such a sweet arrangement!
Gorgeous card! Love that you popped up the individual images. Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the background detail on this lovely card. This is very inspirational:)
I have his stamp set… loveit but have never usedit. Maybe this weekend!
simple cute and pretty card. really love thiscard
lovely card, just wish it didn’t remind me of the work I have to do in my garden lol
Adorable stamp set and card. Every time I come to your blog I am in awe. Clean and simple with beautiful coloring. Video is filled with information. Thanks for sharing and all the inspiration.
Cute and creative card!
Your card is so adorable.
Fabulous Garden Themed Collage Card…..LOVE it!
Love your great layout with those wonderfully colored images!
Great use of small stamps.
Fun, colorful card. Thanks for sharing.
Love your card! Nice job!
Beautiful card love the soft colors so pretty.
;I love your card, especially the muted colors. The stamp set is a charmer!
Such a fun stamp set for summer! I like the watercolors and your ability to shade to make the objects look so realistic – great job!
So fun watching you put your pretty card together. Love your coloring and your stamp set.
Cute card!
This is so cute! I love gardening.
Fabulous gardening card!
What a fun – adorable card!!!
Fantastic card, I loved watching how you created it too!
So cute. Fantastic coloring.
This is an awesome card May, I can think of lots of gardening friends that this card would be perfect for!
what a fun ensemble!
The frame and the simple watercoloring really gives that Gallery look you wanted to achieve.
Love this set and your card.
Adorable card!!
The use of marker is awesome
I like the coloring in your awesome card.
So cute May !
Adorable card! Love the fun stamps you used and your awesome coloring!
What a delightful card. Perfect accompaniment for gifts from the garden.
such a fun card. . . . enjoying the blog hop. . .
So many cute images! I bet it was so relaxing to watercolor them all! Not sure it was so relaxing to position them all on foam tape 🙂
Such a cute cheerful card.
How cute!! Love the border!
Very sweet card May,perfect for a gardener! Love your video,thanks for sharing!
A Gardener’s delight! So fun!
Love this garden set and what you did with it!
Some really cute stamps.
Neat card, thanks for the tutorial.
Dolores
So cute!
☘☘ Oh so Cute! ☘
May another great card. love your light touch of water color
Cute cute card.love your cards
Love the use of all the stamps.
Lovely card, and with so many cool details – looks really cool! It’s nice to use a lot of stamps, too, and feel that one is getting good use of the stash! 🙂
Love love this card. It’s inspired me to do a card like this for my partners mum who loves gardening
Very pretty card, love all the little touches, so much to share. Beautiful
As always, love your card! The little shadows around the images make all the difference! 🙂
As an avid gardener, it’s no surprise that I think this card is FABULOUS, May! Love the soft colouring details and how you popped up each image within the scallop frame.
Such a fun card .wish i could look as organized as you when playing with all these die cuts
Great video pleeeeeease make more 🙂
Love the gardening images and your style is always beautiful
SWEET card May 🙂
Your garden goodies look SO PRETTY in their scalloped frame!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your INKY INSPIRATION and video … added watercolouring with markers to my to-try list!!!
May, this is so pretty!
Great layout and fab way to use this set.
Pretty card!
So pretty! I like it framed in!
Cute card!
Love your card composition – really cute!
Gorgeous!!!
I always love your backgrounds! You make them look so easy!
LOVE your cute card!!!
The garden images look so nice popped up in your scalloped frame May!
Love how yiu added dimension to all the little pieces.
Yep…it’s that time of year…..we all look forward to gardening after a long winter indoors! Your project is so timely and – ADORABLE! Thanks for sharing.
Paper Hugs,
Jan
I am a gardener so I love this card.
I really like how you arranged all the individual images on your card.
I love it when you create these backgrounds and popping the images up gives it such a dramatic feel too!
Pretty card!
Your card is really great. I’ve got also this stamp set and love it, it gives so many possibilities and now, thank to you, I’ve got new ideas…..
I’m hooked on Tombow!! I’ve made an creative artist resources tower (CART) using Tombow and scortape! It holds all 358 Copic markers and over 500 more items. Including 72 Derwent Inktense pencils, 24 Inktense blocks 60 distress inks, and many 12×12 paper or card pads! It spins around too! So yes I love my Tombow it’s a 20 mule team strong!
Love the soft coloring on this sweet card.
Nice work! Love the colors.
That’s a very cute card.
Great stamp set for gifts and to get kids interesting in gardening!
This is so cute! Love the scalloped frame!
Gardening. Just in time for spring. Nice,
Great card and video! Love how you framed and popped up each of the tiny images.
This is such a charming card! I love the gallery layout–very creative. Thanks for sharing!
Love that stamp set and you used it beaitifully!
I lov that card! Fantastic!
What an amazing and fun card! I love the Tombow watercolored scene popped out, it adding great dimension!
OMG! I love the garden theme! So cute!
Such a cute card – love how all the objects look like they’re in a shadow box!
Wow!!! Great blog hop!!!
And as always, your cards are amazing!!!! This is so cute!!!
Loving card! Beautiful colouring! 🙂
Great card for a gardener, I love this stamp set and will have to look out for it.
How does your garden grow…with ink and markers.
Love this fun little card with all of the garden images. Thanks for the video and inspiration!
Love the card..I am avid gardener and appreciate the look. The video was inspiring. Thanks
for the opportunity to win any of the great prizes.
Just the cutest. Liked your technique of putting the color on a palate. Really liked how you laid everything out. Not too cluttered. Thanks.
What an adorable card! So cute, fun and colorful. I liked that the colors you chose.
So very fun!
Totally adorable!! Love the assortment of images and the colors are cool!! TFS!
Beautiful coloring!
Your card is adorable. Love the coloring and images.
Fabulous card! Love the layout!
What a great set and May, what you’ve done with it is just amazing! TFS!
Cute card! Thank you for sharing!
I always love your cards and today’s card is no exception. Very cute.
Love the look you achieved with the pens. Your coloring is beautiful.
I just love those garden grow stamps. What a cute card!
Sweet card! Great design for using lots of little stamps.
Super cute card….Spring is just around the corner .Loving the look that everyone is achieving with these Tombow pens.
So sweet! Love how you framed all of your popped up elements.
A cute idea for this set and the tombo markers.
What a pretty card and great watercoloring technique with Tombo markers. Thank you for sharing it 🙂
I should do this card with gardening theme… My DH is an avid gardener.
A fun and lovely card.
Very cute–love the garden theme.
Nice watercoloring! Love the colors!
I bow in awe, you have truly made this stamp set shine (again). Thanks for the inspiration and all the hard work, this hop was a complete success and I am loving all the fabulous projects (and videos / instructions) along the way!
great watercoloring! I would never know it wasn’t pre-printed!
Love how you used all the smaller stamps – I never know the best way to showcase them – TFS!
LOVE your card!
What a fun card 😀 Kinda different. Thanks for sharing ❤
Your collection of garden images has me smiling, especially as I absolutely love to garden! I have a handful of Tombow markers (and an ever-expanding wishlist of both markers and Altenew products!), so I’ll definitely be taking a cue from you and trying your technique! Thank you for the marvelous inspiration!
~carol
Just love when you make this kind of card. I could watch you for hours. (your music is great too)
Fun and happy card! GREAT collab, too.
Adorable and such a great idea!!
Such a fabulous showcase of the Duel Brush Pens! I absolutely love your card! Thanks for sharing it with us for this special hop! Super inspiring!! 🙂
I am always impressed with how you pull small stamps together to make a visual ‘whole.’ So FUN! Thanks for sharing!
Great card! Thanks for showing how to use the markers in this way. 🙂
What a fun card for anyone that loves gardening!
What a sweet card!!
This card is adorable. Great job.
Thank you May…This is sweet..Makes me wanna go get in my garden….
Fabulous colouring, beautiful card, so much inspiration, thanks May!
cute card. Love all of the garden elements. TFS
What a HAPPY card!!!
Love the watercolor look with these Tombows! TFS
Always excited to get inspiration from new designers.
Cute card
Cute card! It’s always nice to try different ideas that are fun and out of your ordinary card making scheme. ..very cute. Thanks for sharing!
May – this is lovely and the absolute prettiness of your coloring is amazing!! Such sweet, soft tones on this card – it is AWESOME!!
So very cute!
Beautiful card!! Love the background you have created with the stamps! Your coloring is awesome!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
cute card.
Super cute, thanks for sharing your creativity.