Three beautiful cards colored using watercolor paints.

Interested In Learning How To Watercolor?

Watercolor painting is so beautiful! Do you want to learn how? We share hints, tips, and links to help with your water coloring. Don’t put it off, learn now. Inspiration for the cards in this article comes from an advanced watercolor class from Altenew called Botanical Illustration Inspired Watercolor. You can find more on the […]

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Three handmade greeting cards, inspired by tattoo designs, feature floral and butterfly motifs. One reads "thanks," another says "you're amazing," and the third states "I have been thinking of you." Perfect for expressing heartfelt sentiments.

How To Make Cards Using Tattoo for Inspiration

Use different tattoo types for inspiration to make unique, daring, and beautiful cards. You’ll find step-by-step instructions on how here. All of the cards in this article were inspired by Altenew’s Transcending Tattoo Techniques online class. Prior to taking the class, this author thought that using tattoos to inform cardmaking seems like a kind of

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A birthday card featuring an optical illusion and a happy birthday message.

How To Create Optical Illusions With Graphite

Learn how to use graphite on your greeting cards to create optical illusions of depth and dimension. Step-by-step instructions are here. We’ll begin making the card by doing some partial rainbow blending with a stencil. We’ll do this by taping the A2 card panel to Altenew’s Woven stencil from the backside. Then, we’ll begin to

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