Color Therapy featuring Cottage Garden Alcohol Markers

Hello. Altenew is working a little color therapy in your life with some alcohol marker art on Instagram today.  I used the newer Cottage Garden set to create my "flame stitch" background. If you are not familiar with the term "flame stitch" I have included a photo below to show the stitch. The Cottage Garden markers also fell right in line with the Altenew Inspiration color palette.

I used a white panel of cardstock to create my flames with the markers. Then covered the panel with two-sided adhesive and sprinkled glitter over the panel, pressing it into the adhesive. I then ran the panel through my die cut machine with the Crossstitch Canvas die to give it a stitched look. Adding foam tape to the back of the panel I mounted it to a dark green card.

Using the Stencil Art: Natures Splashes add-on die set I cut- out four white leaf clusters, glued and stacked them together for dimension. Then using the Craft-Your-Life: Wings & Petals kit, I die-cut the larger butterfly from white cardstock and the base butterfly from velum coloring it with the Y301 alcohol marker. The greeting is from the Scripty Sentiments die set. The shadow layer was white cardstock that I colored with the G965 alcohol marker.

It was fun to think of different ways to use alcohol markers other than coloring Altenew's beautiful images traditionally.

One more with a different feel but still sporting a butterfly from the Hope Butterfly set.

 

I started with a Bristol Smooth top folding card for smooth ink blending. I die cut the leaf from the Nature's Splashes add-on die set, making a mask with tape. Then taped off the area I wanted to blend and chose three soft ink colors that matched the Cottage Garden marker set.

After removing the tape, I placed dots of C030 marker on the leaf edges to help define the leaf silhouette. I then stamped, heat embossed and colored the Hope Butterfly with the alcohol markers from the Cottage Garden set.

Using a rectangle die I cut the center of the card out and Heat Embossed the greetings from the Sulfur Cosmos set. Then popped the panel up with foam tape. So head on over the my Instagram @SentSue and hop along with us for some fun prizes. These cards also fit the gorgeous inspiration photo for the Altenew January Inspiration Challenge.