Stampin' Blends 101

I am so excited that Stampin' Up! has just released its new line of Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers and are available to purchase!  I have been having so much fun with these new markers, especially, with the help of my daughter Shayla, who has been using alcohol markers in her artwork for the last several years!  At first I was kind of bored with just coloring with markers until my daughter opened my eyes to some basic art principles and ideas and applying them to my stamped images to give them a more real and life like appearance!  After that I was hooked!  Here are some pictures of flowers that I have stamped with Momento Ink and colored in with the markers to show off all the new Stampin' blend colors.

The two small flowers show case the difference between the Light and Dark Shades of the Marker color. The pansy showcases a blend of the Light and Dark Markers and the largest flower showcases the blends and the addition of other Stampin' Blend colors and how you can use them to make your artwork more vibrant and life-like. The swipes of color with letters like DOO and LCC  represent the initials of other Stampin' Blends like Dark Old Olive and Light Calypso Coral.  For example, with the Daffodil Delight  large flower, we shadowed using Light Rich Razzle berry(which gave the flower an exotic flare), Light Pumpkin Pie, Dark Crumb Cake and Dark Pink Pirouette.  I thought it would be fun to have my daughter do a series of Stampin' Blend videos teaching some art fundamentals and techniques along with how you can also use the Stampin Up Watercolor Pencils for some fun effects.  

Here are the rest of the Stampin Blend color cards I made with the help of my daughter Shayla.

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Happy Halloween Twinkies

Here's a quick and EZPZ idea to dress up the Halloween Twinkies. I volunteered to bring individually  wrapped cakes for the Kindergarteners cake walk at school tomorrow. So here is how I dressed them up a bit.

I just cut a 2x6 strip of Spooky Night dsp and wrapped it around the Twinkies and adhere with fast fuse. Next I wrapped basic black bakers twins around the dsp and tie a bow. Then stamp and punch the label from the scaredy cat stamp set.

Sunflowers and Vintage Leaves

I just love fall!  I really miss fall in Utah but I am slowly adapting to life in Arizona!  I was so excited when my cousin asked me to create a class with a Fall theme and Thanks for her church group.  I created the following cards and had 5 cards in each box.

I just love the look that the dynamic leaves embossing folder made on the Clear acetate boxes that are in SU! holiday catalog. I even got asked to do this same class for my church group in November.

Carols of Christmas Peace Card

I had fun creating this Christmas card for my weSTAMP group swap!  It is such a beautiful set and I just love that little deer!

I thought the Marbled background stamp gave a nice snow swirling effect on the inside of the card.

Stamp sets used: Carols of Christmas, Marbled and Star of Light
Stamp ink:Crumb Cake  and Dapper Denim
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, and Night of Navy
Accessories: Big Shot, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Card Front Builder Framelits, Stitched Framelits, Silver Thread and Silver Metallic Edge ribbon.

Daisy Delight Mini-Bouquet and Cards

I just love Stampin'Up! Daisy Delight bundle.  I always loved seeing those flower pens and thought it would be fun to make them with this bundle.

I made these for my sons Kindergarten teacher. I am so excited for my youngest, Matthew, to attend all day Kindergarten! It was so cute seeing him give his teacher Ms. Costa the bouquet and cards!

The trick with these pens was to figure out how to attach the flower punch to the pen.  Here's how I did it!

First I cut a 1.25"x1.25"square and then wrapped it around the pen top.

Next I used the tombow glue and glued the wrapped shaped square to the back of the punched flower. Then I let dry for awhile.  Then I added a couple of glue dots to the pen top and pushed it in the dry wrapped square.

Then I added some tear n tape around the wrapped square.

Next I added the green floral tape and wrapped from top to bottom.

Then I used tear n tape on some leaves and placed on pen. The leaves are from the May Flower frame-lits set.  Then I wrapped more floral tape on.

You Move Me Thanks

I have a fabulous Aunt who sends my kids and I fun birthday cards, Halloween cards and Valentine's Day cards. I decided that the new You Move Me bundle would make the perfect card to Thank her for her kindness.

I used the colors Night of Navy and Dapper Denim. The hummingbird wings look so cute as they flutter when you slowly pull out the card. The Island Indigo ombre ribbon coordinates well too! I love all of Stamp in' Up's new ombre ribbons!

Floral Thanks

I absolutely love Stampin' Up's new Floral Statements stamp set! It is so fun to color with watercolor pencils and makes a beautiful card!

Aren't these just gorgeous! I used the new Sheet Music background stamp too. I used sponge daubers with versamark ink and dabbed  the ink on around the leaf edges and embossed with gold embossing powder.