Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop

 Hello, Color Throwdown Fans!  It's Lynn here and today the Color Throwdown Challenge is excited to be participating in the Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop!  

To celebrate this fantastic blog hop, Altenew is giving away $35 gift certificates to FIVE lucky winners. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on October 17th, 2016.

Altenew is also offering a free gift with every purchase now through September 16. (No need to add to cart, we will include the Coffee Ring stamp set. Limit one per customer while supplies last.)

And....at the bottom of this post is a link where you can enter an Altenew project where 5 projects  from the entries will be chosen and featured on the Altenew blog on October 17th.

I created two cards using the beautiful Altenew stamp sets, Spring Daisy and the new Bamboo Rose.  I used our current Color Throwdown Challenge colors which are below, yellow, black and blue and had fun using my distress inks to watercolor on both cards.

For my first card, I created a mask of the largest daisy and stamped three of the outlined daisies onto watercolor paper.  I used mustard seed, wild honey, crushed olive and tumbled glass distress inks to do my watercoloring.  I used a banner of black cardstock to stamp and heat emboss my sentiment with white embossing powder and to finish off my card, I added black rhinestones and black & white bakers twine.

For my second card, I used the Bamboo Rose set and stamped the roses and sentiment onto watercolor paper.  I used most of the same colored distress inks as my first card except I added the color broken china for some of the leaves and small buds.  The butterfly was stamped onto a piece of scrap watercolor paper, watercolored and cut out and then adhered to my card front, popping up the wings.  To finish off my card, I added silver sequins and used some Wink of Stella glitter on the small buds and butterfly.

Below is the list of the Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop participants.

Altenew

Virginia’s View Challenge

CASology Challenge

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

Ellen Hutson Pin Sight Challenge

CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge

Tag You're It Challenge

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Less is More Challenge

Muse Challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

Color Q Challenge

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge

Seize the Birthday Challenge

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Time Out Challenge

Color Throwdown Challenge

CAS Mix Up Challenge 

Pretty Pink Posh 10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge

Enjoy the hop and don't forget to enter your Altenew project in the link below and comment for your chance to win!

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