Magnolia Ballerina

As soon as I saw the Altenew “Magnolia Ballerina” I knew I would find a home for it. When Ellen Hutson had a sale a week or so ago on all Altenew products, I put the embossing folder (and the accompanying stamp set) in the cart. I’m not disappointed. Altenew’s 3-D embossing folders are just gorgeous. I ran this one through my die cutter with watercolor paper, and with the March Altenew Challenge in mind. Here’s the inspiration photo. It’s definitely a CASE of Therese at Lost in Paper with a change in orientation, size, and sentiment.

Watercoloring a white flower on white paper is, needless to say, a bit of a challenge. Looking at the light purple in the color triad, I used the lavender in my Daniel Smith palette. The palette is not one I use too often, but it included all three of the colors in the challenge, and required no mixing. It’s hard to see the watercolor on the petals, but I think that’s the point.

The embossing folder is larger than a standard card, so this was cut down considerably to make a square card. You can see the folder here.

The sentiment is from The Ton’s “Easy Expressions: Birthday.” I keep a collection of these sentiments ready to go in a small basket, and it’s amazing how often they work.

After cutting the image down, I cut a very narrow mat from Gina K Asparagus cardstock, and added it to a card made with Simon Says “Ivory” cardstock. Some time ago I read that Ivory almost always is a good match for watercolor paper, which I’ve found to be true.

In addition to the March Altenew Challenge I’m entering this in the new Paper Players Challenge for CAS Blooms. Despite the large image, this fits my definition of CAS since the majority of the image is white.