Did you know that you can make floral cards without colouring? Today I have 3 cards showing VERY different ways to add colour to floral designs….
This post is part of a Hop celebrating a new release from Altenew so you should have arrived here from the ALTENEW Card Blog, and there are lots of new beautiful flowers to play with! Not everyone likes to colour flowers, or maybe you need a card quickly, I had fun creating these 3 cards without ‘colouring’!
My first technique to add colour was Ink Splatters. I embossed my floral design with the Daisies 3D Embossing Folder,
then I added lots of different fun colours of the Ink Sprays. Many of these have a sparkle that can be seen when tilted in the light.
The sentiment I used here today is the wonderful Bold Thanks Die.
My next technique was to die cut Coloured Cardstock… but I made my own colours using Altenew’s Artist Markers and simply scribbled these on scrap cardstock and die cut them out with the Branches and Berries Die Set.
I also added a couple of extra ink blended leaves using the negative space from the die cut along with some Tea Party enamel dots for extra berries.
The sentiment is from the Crystal Frames set and I framed it using one of the Nesting Slim Rectangles Dies.
My final technique is Ink Blending and I used the beautiful new Flower Bunch Simple Layering Stencil Set. I have a video sharing how this card came together and you can find it linked below.
I added lots of texture to the panel by running it through with the Mod Squares 3D Embossing Folder.
And my sentiment is from the Simple Greetings Die Set popped up on an Apothecary Label.
You can see my video or Watch it in HD at YouTube.
Giveaway Prizes
$300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 02/22/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 02/25/2021.
From here you are hopping along to VIRGINIA’s wonderful Blog! I hope you have enjoyed your visit here today and that you will be back real soon to visit. Hugs,
Other Supplies: Artist Markers – R101 / R301 / R302 / R304 / G702 / G715 / C001.
Affiliate links are used Classic Crest Solar White 110lb ALT |
 Foam SSS | EH |
 Cherry Blossom Cardstock ALT | AUZ |
 Red Cosmos Cardstock ALT | AUZ |
 Daisies 3D ALT |
 Bold Thanks ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Branches and Berries die ALT |
 Nesting Slim Rectangles Die ALT |
 Crystal Frames ALT | SSS | EH |
 Flower Bunch Layering Stencil ALT |
 Modern Squares 3D ALT |
 Apothecary Labels ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Apothecary Dies ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Simple Greetings Die ALT | SSS | AUZ |
 Frayed Leaf Media ALT | EH |
 Forest Glades Media ALT | SSS | EH |
 Limeade ALT | SSS |
 Jet Black ALT | SSS |
 Butternut ALT | SSS |
 Yellow Ochre ALT | SSS |
 Cloudy Sky ALT | SSS |
 Dark Night ALT | SSS |
 Pale Mauve ALT | SSS |
 Grape Agate ALT | SSS |
 Plum ALT | SSS |
 Fall Harvest ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Tranquility ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Sugarplums ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Frayed Leaf ALT |
 Frosty Pink ALT |
 Sunkissed Ink Spray ALT |
 Warm Sunshine ALT |
 Coral Berry ALT |
 Artist Markers – Set A ALT | SSS | AUZ |
 Artist Markers – Set B ALT | SSS | AUZ |
 Artist Markers – Set C ALT | SSS | AUZ |
 Ink Blending Tool ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Ink Blending Tool Small ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Tea Party ALT |
 Pinkfresh – Jewels Mix SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Crystal Katana SSS | AUZ |
 Scissors SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Mini Blossom ALT | SSS | AUZ |
 Gemini Junior SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Mini Score Board SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Bone Folder Altenew ALT | SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Acrylic Blocks ALT |
 Paper Trimmer SSS | EH |
 Precision Tip SSS | EH |
 Multi Medium Matte SSS | AUZ | EH |
 Foam Squares small SSS | EH |
 Foam Squares SSS | EH |
 Tape 1/2 SSS | EH |
 Glue Tape ALT | SSS | AUZ |
Another day of wonderful, magical cards, Therese! I see my newest embossing folders, too!
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Love how you made your own colored cardstock. I’ll definitely use that die set over and over. Can’t wait.
Great cards, Therese. The berries and branches are so delicate.
All 3 cards are stunning and so unique. Thanks for sharing
Wow! Your cards are absolutely gorgeous! I love the colors and the texture! The embossed daisies on the Thanks card look fabulous!
Wonderful cards. I saw the splatters and loved how that turned out thinking it would be my next attempt, then the branches and berries and that one quickly became my next have to try. Lovely card and spring like, especially appreciate it as it’s currently minus 9 degrees here. I’m so over winter, now I know how to make spring in my craft space
Beautiful!!! Love this perfect trio! Thanks for the inspiration and video Therese, always much appreciated! Have a wonderful day!
Beautifully done. I would never have thought to emboss over the floral image. It looks lovely. Thank you for the inspiration.
Love the way the embossing folder looks with your stenciled flowers.
Beautiful and imaginative cards. I love them all, however my favorite is the daisies. That’s my mom’s favorite flower so thank you for the wonderful inspiration.
PS: and thank you for your delightful videos, always enjoyable.
From frozen Dallas Texas
Oh my gosh!!! These are all amazing. I am going to refer back to this blog post when I am crafting because they are amazing!!!
Love your technique for the embossing folders.
Great ideas! Beautiful!
Fantastic cards Therese. Especially love the last one with the Mod Squares embossing over the pretty floral images. Thanks for the inspirations!
The ink splatter is so simple but I love this card! The pastel, painted egg colors on a field of white is like a reminder that spring is just around the corner. Thank you for sharing your lovely cards with us.
Love these cards, Therese! The daisy one is just so simple, but so pretty! And, the other two are just as beautiful. You are such an inspiration.
Love the splatters and the subtle embossed flowers ! I want to take a walk in that “Awesome “garden and the texture from the embossing folder in the third card is really beautiful.
Pretty sensational card with your color selections for the stenciled image, the embossing and the elegant die-cut sentiment.
Oh my gosh friend, these are so amazing! Your projects always inspire me so much with ideas and these are no exception! You rock!
love your cards! The stencil one is my favorite!
Loved the idea of combining 3D embossing folders with ink splatters… simple yet elegant!🙂
Fabulous cards as always
These are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks so much Therese!
I like all three cards! But, my favorite is the one with the embossing folder used over the stenciled flowers! That was a great idea, and it looks fabulous!
Hello from Illinois. Love how you used non traditional colors for the leaves. This card is beautiful
Absolutely love your cards, Therese! Since coloring is not one of my skills, your cards are the perfect inspiration for me! I never would have thought to do the splatters with an embossing folder–brilliant!
Just lovely and your video was excellent. Thanks
OMG! Your cards are spectacular! Pinterest here they come… Thanks for what you do.
I love the vintage colors of the third example and die-cutting the leaves out of colored cardstock. I love using tools in unexpectedly expected ways!
Wonderful cards! I especially love the hugs card – it reminds me of fabric. Can’t wait to try this technique once I receive my order! Thank you for sharing your talent.
Lovely techniques you have here. My favorite is the ink blending. Love the texture the embossing folder added to the ink blended floral.
Great ideas! And can’t wait to try them. 😊
I am always glad to see the next release from Altenew and to see what beautiful cards you create with them. You never disappoint!
I love all of these cards and really appreciate the techniques you shared. What a beautiful release!
Beautiful cards, but wow to your last card done with stencil! Love the EF and stencil.
These are all beautiful!! I especially love your third card…I have already ordered that stencil set!!
Gorgeous cards! Especially liked the 3rd card, adding the embossing folder dimension have it that extra something special.
Love how simple and fresh all of these cards look. Just beautiful.
Three terrific cards but I particularly like the branches and berries and the Flower bunch. Your video was very helpful with the stenciling and the offset bouquet and over embossing added to the appeal! Thanks for the inspiration (and making me add things to my wish list!)
Beautiful work! I love the Mod Squares embossing folder!
Three really beautiful cards Therese, love them. I have to say, everything you’ve used today is on my shopping list, well to be honest, practically everything from the release is on it. It’s just another fabulous release. Love how you used the embossing folder on the third card, so inspirational ❤️
All your cards are so gorgeous! Loving the new line!
Really beautiful colors!
Absolutely beautiful cards! I especially love the colors on that second card! So fresh and beautiful!
I admire altenews creative product designers and the teams for card and scrapbook design. Top-notch all. You Therese, make design look so effortless. Love love your style
I adore that Modern Squares embossing folder, I never would have thought to run the entire inked panel in there, it really gave a unique look. Thanks for the inspiration!
Fabulous cards, love the video
Beautiful cards! Fabulous release!
Great inspiration options! I want to try them all
What great ideas. I so love the navy and yellow in that last one plus all the texture!
All your cards are lovely, as usual, but I absolutely love the last card. This stencil set is my favorite part of the release!
I love everything about this card! The colors are perfect. The layout is great. Love, love the texture over the whole image/card, and the message tag adds so much. This is just my style. I can’t stop looking at it. Seriously.
Love the cards. Choosing the blues for the flower is great. I get tired of the green leaves all the time.
So clever to stencil the flowers on to the card and then embosse the image. Something new for today
These are my kind of florals – love those blue leaves, the spatters and all the fabulous texture. I like the negative diecut inked leaves too – clever idea which I should try.
Just watched your YouTube video from the email link – fantastic. Glad I visited your blog to see the two beautiful additional cards. So in love with the daisy and splatters!
Great cards! Thanks for doing the video of your last card. It is a show stopper for sure. I would never have thought of stamping an image and then embossing with an embossing folder. Spectacular result for sure!
Beautiful cards. Thank you. Great release.
I love that layering stencil floral card!
Beautiful cards, love th layering stencils and the daisy 3D embossing folder with splatter is my favorite card, loving the bold and bright Thanks.
I love the way that the enamel dots were used on the YOU ARE AWESOME card!
I like the hugs card. The embossing folder addition is really neat!
I keep saying to myself I am not going to buy any more stamps and dies, and then I see your cards and change my mind. I always love the cards you create.
Absolutely beautiful cards! My favorite is the “Hugs” card. This looks like it came out of a print shop! Just gorgeous!!
These are awesome cards and it’s always a joy and inspiring to watch your creative process and see what develops! love embossing folders and that they are trending back!
Wow, Therese! Girl, you never disappoint! Absolutely gorgeous cards! Stunning! 💜 Warm hugs from San Antonio, Texas, where we are presently freezing our booty off! haha haha 😂😂😂 We don’t “do” Winter, Therese, so this has been painful. We even got snow, which has not happened since 1985! We were 80*F the day before Winter came back! It’s okay. We’ll be 70*F by Sunday! Yee-haw, Texas weather! 😀 Be safe!
Gorgeous cards. Love the new embossing folders
Altenew has really upped the Embossing Folder Game!!
Gorgeous, especially the last one.
I Love the embossing and gorgeous flowers!
Great ideas , thank you!
You make the most simple cards look sensational Therese. Both beautiful. Off to check out your other stunning card on video.
I especially love the second card with the colorful die cuts.
How great to have 3 cards and no colouring or black inking!! 🙂 🙂 They look amazing, Therese! I must give them a try!! 🙂
Love, love the Hugs card. It adds so much to emboss after stamping. Beautiful, thank you!
Awesome cards! The Daisies 3D embossing folder is the first on my wish list! I just love it! Branches and Berries die set too…. I think my list will be long!
Therese, I am so lucky to have another chance to be inspired by your gorgeous cards! Love these fresh, fun ideas!
Hey there T! Just Gorgeous! Thanks, Denise
Absolutely delightful card projects, Therese! Am loving this release but I say that with every release!! LOL
I can always count on you having unique and creative cards, Therese. Delightful creations!
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR FILM & DEMONSTRATION IS EXCEPTONAL.
You make the most amazingly beautiful cards. Love your videos.
Really great cards!
Love the berries and branches card!
Therese, outstanding presentation of the new release. Loved that video, well done!!!
Therese, I love all three of these cards. This new release is filled with so much creative inspiration. Thank you for sharing your creativity!
I love seeing all your beautiful inspirations showcasing this awesome release!
Gorgeous cards!
So beautiful, from first to last! I never thought of scribbling on the paper before cutting the die cuts! I usually struggle with inking the fine structure after die cutting!! I love the idea of embossing after making the card front. I LOVE THAT EMBOSSING FOLDER!!!
Loving that 3D daisy embossing folder as well as a few other items! Lovely cards, as always and a great release from Altenew.
Gorgeous cards!
Your cards are always so beautiful and inspiring, Therese! I love how you used those berries and branches, especially ink blending through the negative space. I never would have thought of that! The last card is my fave. Love that layering stencil and how easy it is to create such a beautiful card in a short time. The embossing folder is the perfect ending! Thanks for keeping it fresh!
Your cards are wonderful. I love that you created your own colored card. The texture from the Daisy embossing folder is so deep I almost thought it was die cut and layered on top. That’s amazing for a folder. The beautiful texture on the last card is wonderful, as well.
Love your color choices! Beautiful cards. Thank you for sharing!
Nicely done! I enjoyed seeing your cards very much as sometimes I’m not in the mood (or have time) to color flowers. Thanks for your inspiration! Loving all the new Altenew things!!!!
Great ideas for new ways to create cards. Love the examples. they are beautiful
love all three of your cards. I especially like your use of the sentiments.
Wow what a gorgeous card!! Fun stencils and that folder is awesome!!!
I absolutely love your cards…the designs are stunning and the techniques used are so creative (especially the ink splatter)!!!
Such gorgeous cards! Love the release…
Thanks for sharing.
I saw you demonstrate the Flower Bunch stencil. I couldn’t get over how real it looked, and how simple it looked to use! Well, you made it look simple, not sure if I will! Just love it, and the mod squares embossing folder is awesome.
Beautiful cards!
Oh no, I should not do this blog hop. I already have 3 items in my cart and just made an order 2 days ago, but I can’t stop looking.
I like how you used the flower stencils over the 4D embossing. I would not have believed that could work.
Beautiful cards, colors and techniques!!!
Beautiful cards, especially love the “you are awesome” card. TFS
Great ideas. I really like the first card with the ink splatters. The other cards are wonderful and very pretty.
I haven’t thought of using my embossing folders with the splatters of paint. That is awesome!
I have not thought of using paint splatter on my embossing images!
Very cool layering stencil!
Gorgeous cards Therese! I love the new 3D embossing folders! 🥰
Three very different however all gorgeous cards.
Of course you coloured your own cardstock! I’d just reach for the nearest colour pack hehehe!
Beautiful cards. I love this release from Altenew.
Gorgeous cards!
stunning work – love all your cards
Such gorgeous cards, as usual!
Beautiful cards, especially the third one.
Absolutely love the daisy card.so simple, yet so beautiful! Would have never thought to use it that way!❤️
Thank you kindly, Theres, I really enjoyed your creative color combinations. Helps me think outside of my own box
Beautiful! I had to go immediately place an order! You made me do it! 😂
You’re so creative, love the ink blending on embossed background. Plus I need practice splatters. Looks great
Great ‘non-coloring’ cards.
All three of your cards are wonderful–the texture of the third one is so unique, the die cuts on the 2nd one are so pretty, and the speckles on the 1st one are just fun!
Love what you did with the Branches and Berries die set!
Stunning cards as always!
Stunning cards as always!
Wow, those cards are amazing.
Your cards have so much texture. Love the color palette too! 👏 Bravo.
Your cards are lovely! Especially liked what you did with the Branches and Leaves die set. Simple and elegant layering. So pretty.
Love the cards, especially the thanks card. Like the colors of the ink splatters. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely! ♥ I just adore you card making style.
All of the cards are beautiful! But the third card with the stencils and 3D embossing folder, WOW!
These are stunning!
Beautiful cards. I see the branches and berries die in my future.
Gorgeous cards Theresa!
I’d love to Replicate these.
Brilliant ideas and so gorgeous!
Thank you so much!
Spellchecker changed your name, im 😞 sorry Theresa!
So cute, love the berries
A definite must try. The stencil is easy to work with and the final embossing tops it all off. Thanks for the helpful video.
Love you color palettes!! So soothing!!
Beautiful cards! You are very inspiring! Thank you for sharing your ideas with all of us!
Great cards with these new folders!
Loved the cards, so beautiful ❣️ I just love the new embossing folders the daisies are glorious, but the squares enthralled me….so mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing your talents.
I watched the video. You make the stencil technique look easy!!
The flower builder stencil is so beautiful! 🙆♀️ Thank you for all of these card examples. I’ve never thought of doing splatter on an emboss image for a simple card. Brilliant simplicity. 💜
Love the berries
Love all of your cards. I especially like the idea of splattering on color.
I love the embossing over the colored images. It looks amazing.
I do love all three cards that you made. The floral card with the stencil is gorgeous and cannot wait to purchase and try. You made it look so simple. Thank you for your inspiration
Your cards are beautiful! I am in love with the branches and berries die set!!!
You do beautiful cards, Teresa! Thank you for sharing!
Gorgeous cards!
Thanks for sharing your talent.
Amazing card ideas!! The release is fabulous!!
Like all the cards but the last one really speaks to me with the blue and touch of grey with texture from the embossing folder!
Love those colourful berries and twigs and how they wreath that sentiment!
Fantastic cards! I especially like the last one. I would have been leery of using an embossing folder with those lovely flowers but love the look you achieved. Guess I will have to be a bit more adventurous. 🙂 Thank for sharing and for the helpful video!
Beautiful techniques! I am in love!!!
Each of your cards are so unique, and gorgeous in design! You have given me so many ideas for how to even approach the art of card making!
love your color combo
Beautiful cards! I love the effect the embossing folders have! They really are 3D!
Gorgeous how you used the emboss folder after you stenciled the flowers. Soooo beautiful!
I LOVE that embossing folder. Inleterally never considered embossing an image after it has been stamped. Can’t wait to try it. This card is inspirational. Gorgeous.
That Thanks die has just leapt to the top of my wish list and i love the quilted look of the last card!
Thanks so much. Beautiful cards. I love doing these blog hops!!