Time for Watercoloring with Blender Pens - 102! Blender Pens are a simple tool for adding color to your projects. No experience or art degree required. In the video tutorial, I'll share tips for using a Blender Pen to add color to the images from the Best Birds stamp set, along with step-by-step directions for creating this card for my
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Best Birds: Watercolor Tips for Blender Pens
The Best Birds stamp set is simply perfect for this time of the year! I love the artwork and with a little bit of watercolor, the birds practically come to life.
If you're like a lot of stampers, you probably have a Blender Pen (or 3) in your stamping supplies. And if you're like a lot of those stampers, you don't have a good idea on
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How Do You Pen A Chicken? With Chicken Wire!
One last day! Today is the FINAL day of Sale-A-Bration and your last chance to get the Hey Chick stamp set for free with your $50 order!
And MANY more items - stamp sets, Designer Series Paper, ribbons... be sure to check the list!
While you're at it, be sure to look at the Hexagon embossing folder that I've used here on the Hey Chick
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Hey Chick. I’m Learning to Watercolor with Pencils.
Favorite stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalog? Mine is Hey Chick! I know - it's punny but I can't resist. I even used the stamp set to add a design to a clay mug that I made the other day... no pictures yet on that one, but I promise to share when it's ready!
Did you know that you can get the Hey Chick stamp set for
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NEW Watercolor Pencils: Top Tips for Simple Watercolor
Have you seen this chicken? Seriously - he's got to be the cutest thing in the Sale-A-Bration catalog. Or maybe that award goes to the Tasty Trucks set with the taco truck. We should take a poll! Funny that they're both perfect for Watercolor Pencils - trend alert!
I think my vote for cutest Sale-A-Bration set goes to this guy, since
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We’ll Weather This Together: a Blender Pen Tutorial
Is it ironic that this watercolor tutorial uses an umbrella stamp set? Something about raindrops and water... Anyway, Blender Pens are a great tool for watercoloring - especially for adding subtle shading to your stamped images.
With the Shimmery White Card Stock, the ink sits on top of the card stock a little bit longer, which means
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Use Your Thinlits: Rose Garden Watercolor Templates
My latest favorite from the Occasions Catalog? Definitely, it's the Rose Wonder stamp set and the coordinating Rose Garden Thinlits Dies for the Big Shot. The perfect techniques for this product combo are endless! But since we have to start somewhere, today's technique teaches how to use the die cut rose as a template for watercoloring
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Free Stamps – And Now MORE Free Stamps
Have you heard the news? Now there are FOUR new selections during the last month of Sale-A-Bration! Just when you thought you'd gotten all the choices you needed... it's the happy debut of two new stamp sets, a bundle of buttons & twine and a package of gorgeous designer vellum!
Here are the new choices for Sale-A-Bration
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I Love It When the Light Bulb Goes On
Recently I was cruising around my stamp studio, trying to decide what kind of invitation card to make for my neighbor's private card class. She's having a group of friend over to make cards. They'll pay a fee and make a stack of cards to take home. Many of these potential stampers are new to paper crafting, so we thought it would be
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4 Bonus Months: Christmas Sneak Peek available today!
Are you ready for Christmas in July? Here's a gorgeous stamp set that you can get NOW! And when you order this set now instead of in November, you'll have 4 extra months to get your cards created before the holidays!
Beauty of the Season (135779) will debut in the Holiday Catalog on September 1, but you don't have to wait to get
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Bordering On Romance: only a few days left
Only a few days left for stamp sets and accessories from the retiring Stampin' Up! catalog - here's another set that I've loved: Bordering on Romance (see it online - 125482).
This set makes for a really pretty quick card -- it's perfect for the Faux Watercoloring Technique:
Instead of using a watercolor brush (like Blender Pens or Aqua
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Make Someone Happy… Make A Monster!
Every year I have a favorite stamp set that's going to retire...and this one is it - Make A Monster. I don't care how old you are -- 2 to 99, or whether you're a guy or a gal -- but this stamp set makes for FUN crafting and FUN receiving! (see Make A Monster online - 120606)
This little zig zag card is 3" high and 10" long, and I
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