Category Archives: Watercoloring

Stamp Review Crew: Happiness Abounds

Welcome to our regularly scheduled Stamp Review Crew blog hop. Are you new here? We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators who want to show you how much you can do with one stamp set. We will feature one … Continue reading

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Hand-Penned Petals: Alcohol coloring with Stampin’ Blends

I thought I was done showing you past camp cards, but as I was tidying up my computer file folders, I discovered this one from May (CASEd from Ann Murray): I hope you can see how beautiful the coloring is … Continue reading

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Water + color

Yesterday was a beautiful day, perfect for catching up on items from my parade of daily adventures. I’m so grateful to be busy, happy with what I do, and planning ahead for life during shutdown, again. Right after lunch, I … Continue reading

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Creating a watercolor swash

Finally — Video Vednesday! After you watch this, make sure you scroll to see how I worked these panels (similar to the ones here) into cards! I’m never sure how these watercolor swash panels will come out, and that’s the … Continue reading

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Watercolor swash: Happy birthday

Want to know what I did with some the Granny Apple Green card fronts I cut in yesterday’s video? Here they are: Isn’t this a riot of color? I created these two watercolor swash samples for an upcoming video. Frankly, … Continue reading

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C.O.D. #7: Use blue and yellow

I finally got to create a card for this challenge this week: As I was cleaning up my stamping things a couple weeks ago, I consolidated all the DSP I have. When I used to hold big Saturday events, participants … Continue reading

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C.O.D. #1: Create a card with water

Oh, the plans! I recorded a YouTube video yesterday morning showing how I create a watercolor wash, but it’s only processed 57% of it. So that will be my project today, to figure out what went wrong. Hopefully you’ll see … Continue reading

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Wonderful Romance with gingham

I’m so excited for tonight’s Love It, Chop It class featuring the Floral Romance Specialty Designer Series Paper. Kylie Bertucci, a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator from Australia, popularized the notion of prepping your DSP so that it is ready to use. … Continue reading

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Tea Together for an anniversary

Last weekend was an anniversary in our family.  Planning ahead, I designed this February camp card for the event: I didn’t realize my photo was so poor, but the card went in the mail days ago so of course it’s … Continue reading

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