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Butterfly Basics Week – Watercolour

Stampin' Up! UK Butterfly Basics Watercolour Birthday Card

Butterfly Basics is one of my favourite stamp sets from this years Annual catalogue (actually it was in last years Spring/Summer too!) It can be found on Page 124, and is in the Artistic Expression section. Although it was designed for Stamp Layering the flower image is great for a simple watercolour

Stampin' Up! UK Butterfly Basics Watercolour Birthday Card

The big key to watercolouring your stamped images is using the right ink to stamp with. I’ve used Archival Basic Black ink here as it is water-resistant, but you could also use Stazon. Memento is great for using with your alcohol markers but as it is water-based tends to run and bleed when used with watercolouring.

When watercolouring an image like this I smoosh my ink pad onto a large clear block and add some drops of water either from an Aquapainter or spritzer. I’m not great with an aquapainter (yet) so stick with my trusty paint brush. My current fav is a Soft grip number 5 round brush from Royal and Langnickels Crafter’s Choice range, which I only bought because they are purple! When watercolouring a small-ish image like this one I prefer to keep my brush quite dry with more ink that water which is why I prefer a brush rather than an Aquapainter because that way I have more control

Stampin' Up! UK Butterfly Basics Week Birthday cardSo, my colour choices here are Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo for the watercolour and ink splatter, with accent stamping and sentiment in Sahara Sand

Product List

Butterfly Basics Clear Bundle

£46.75
Watercolor Paper

£4.50
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Aqua Painters

£15.50
Stampin' Spritzer

£2.75
Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

£6.50

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Make It Monday | Layering Stamps

Stampin' Up! UK Stamp Layering Birthday Card

Make It Monday with Stampin' Up!

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Make It Monday! I was hoping to have another video for you this week but alas I completely ran out of time. Thinking of making a 3D project for next week though, so I will certainly film that.

This past few weeks have been hella stressful (nothing new there then!) with my hectic new job, unwell relatives, James starting back at university, and the end of Sale-a-bration I haven’t had a whole heap of time to craft. So I was overjoyed when James said he was working on Saturday morning – time to get my backside back in that craft room! You will see what I made in my Saturday morning craft session later on in the week, I had heaps of ideas for cards that I have been sat on for weeks, but trying to come up with an idea for Make It Monday was a struggle. I did however have a glamorous assistant!

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I did what I always do when I’m struggling for inspiration – I grabbed a random stamp set off the shelf and pull out a pile of inks. I knew I wanted to use Watercolour Paper, but that was about as fair as I got in planning! Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Stamp Layering

So, this was my jumping off point. As I have discussed on the blog before I love getting really inky, and adding heaps of ink and water to this piece of Watercolour paper seemed like a good idea, at the end of the day most of my crafting is a bit of an experiment anyway!

I set about creating a background on my piece of Watercolour paper, adding a boarder of that gorgeous foliage stamp from Awesomely Artistic in Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay and Lost lagoon, adding several spritzs’ of water after each stamping and using my Heat Tool to dry everything off. Once the boarder was stamped I grabbed for my Aquapainter and hit the centre of the Watercolour Paper with more ink and water, and finally splattering ink all over the place!
Stampin' Up! UK Make it monday Stamp Layering

Stamp Layering is a super quick and easy technique, we have stamp sets designed just for this technique (ones with lots of smaller images are great, as are floral and foliage type stamps). So once I had my background dry I then added another layer of stamping in Lost Lagoon and Bermuda Bay using the fern stamps and that fabulous little splatter stamp!

At this point I have to admit, I had no idea what the hell this card was going to be used for! But Birthday seemed like a good idea, I am loving the Number of Years stamp set at the moment with those great number dies. These stamps are designed to look watercoloured, but if you add the ink to them with a Sponge Dauber (rather than the normal method of sticking the stamp in the inkpad) you can add multiple colours of ink and create a great blended effect. These numbers are inked in Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay and spritzed with water before stamping.

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Number of Years Birthday Card

It still needed a little something, a little something sparkly – Wink Of Stella in Gold! Lovely

Stampin' Up! UK Stamp Layering Birthday Card

Ok, So, time for a challenge –  I would love to see what you create with either the technique or these colours! Leave a link in the comments below and I will select one winner to receive this card and a Gold Wink of Stella Brush!

Stampin' Up! UK Colour Inspiration Color Combination Stampinbyhannah

Entries will close at 06:30AM BST on 11th April 2016 (Thanks when the next Make It Monday will go live!) and I will select a winner and contact them in due course

Good Luck!

Product List

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00
Number Of Years Photopolymer Bundle

£44.00
Watercolor Paper

£4.50
Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

£6.50
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Aqua Painters

£15.50
Big Shot

£99.00
Gold Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

£7.25
Sponge Daubers

£4.50

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Make it Monday | Reactive Watercolour

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Make It Monday with Stampin' Up!

Hello! Welcome to another week of Make it Monday! I hope you are enjoying this series of posts as much as I am. Last week I made a card an photographed each stage, but this week I thought I would make a video. I haven’t made any video tutorials for a while so I am a little rusty, so please forgive any mistakes or issues. I had so much fun making this card, using some of those great Sale-a-bration products for the last time!

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Sale-a-bration ends on March 31st (that’s Thursday!), but until then you get to choose from 11 gifts when you spend £45 (and you get to pick extras each time you hit that £45, so you get 2 free things if you order comes to £90!) or you could get the best deal ever and join my team of Stampin’ Friends for just £99 and choose £160 worth of great Stampin’ goodies! Awesome!

Reactive Watercolour is a great technique, and its super simple too! Just stamp your image in Stampin’ Up! ink and spritz with a little water – then sit back and watch the ink move and bleed. The more water you add the more the ink moves.

On this card, once the ink had dried I over stamped the images again as I may have gone a little over board with the water the first time around!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration flowering fields Perfect Pairings

Finished with a stripe of the Metallic Glitter Tape in Silver and this card is done!

I hope you enjoyed this weeks Make It Monday, and I’ll see you here again next week for another great project! Don’t forget to place those last Sale-a-bration orders soon, or your favourite items may already have sold out!

Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration

Product List

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Perfect Pairings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Metallics Glitter Tape

£0.00
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Garden Green A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Watercolor Paper

£4.50
Stampin' Spritzer

£2.75
Stampin' Dimensionals

£3.75

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Happiest of Birthday to you….

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class Watercolour

Over the next couple of weeks I will be sharing some of the cards I designed for my March Card Class. Registration is now open for my April Card Class – just drop me an email for more info!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class Watercolour

I loved making this card. You all know how many times I have watercoloured this flower from Birthday Blooms, but this was the first time I coloured it in blue, so soft and pretty. I took inspiration for this colour palette directly from the Designer Series Paper, where the flowers are Pool Party and Mint Macaron. I’m a sucker for colour, one of the many reasons I love Stampin’ Up!®. All the colours are gorgeous and work so well together, even when you might look at them and think ‘hmmm, maybe not’. So, here I’ve used Mint Macaron and Pool Party for the flower, Mint Macaron and Mossy Meadow the the leaves (it doesn’t look so odd in person!), with So Saffron for the centres and Blushing Bride for the halo around the image. I did colour some of the leaves with a light shade of Tip Top Taupe but its hard to see it in this photo

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class

The card is finished with a strip of the Desigher Series Paper, a bow of Pool Party Glitter ribbon and one of the cute bow paper clips!

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Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

£10.00

Aqua Painters

£15.50

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pool Party 3/8" (1 Cm) Glitter Ribbon

£5.00

Bow Paper Clips Embellishments

£5.00

Watercolor Paper

£4.50

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Rose Wonder Watercolour

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Shimmer wink of stella

Once again I’ve gone mad with the shimmer on this one!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Shimmer wink of stella

The Rose Wonder stamp set is one of my favourites from this years Spring Summer catalogue. I’ve stamped the rose in Basic Black on Watercolour paper, and watercoloured it in Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive. I have to admit I did make a mistake on this one, because the outline wasn’t black enough, and so I went over the lines with my Basic Black marker pen – which was fine, until I decided to add a layer of Wink of Stella (rookie error!) and of course because both Wink of Stella and the Stampin’ Write marker are water based, the black ran! Oops!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Watercolour

In crafting there are no mistakes, just opportunities. And so I’ve added a button tied with a bow of Whisper White bakers twine. I know that you can still see some of the ‘opportunity’, but it looks better than it did before!

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The Love Between Us Knows No Distance

Stampin' Up! UK Going Global Valentines card

Seeing as now February is now here, it is definitely time for some Valentines projects! Regular readers of my blog will know that I got married last year, and so this year is my first Valentines day as a married woman, saying that I’m sure its not going to be any different from any other year where we do absolutely nothing or are both working 12 hour shifts!

Stampin' Up! UK Going Global Valentines card

Still, I do need a card right?! well, I think this is the third Valentines card I have posted on the blog this year, so I might save this one for our dating anniversary in April (yes, we celebrate two anniversaries!)

I made this card in about 10 minutes, messing around with ink at the end of my most recent group stamping event. I host a stamping event for my group of Stampin’ Friends each month where we get together, stamp and natter about all things Stampin’ Up! This month we made a heap of cards using our Sale-a-bration goodies (some of which I’ll share later in the week) but I was waffling about watercolouring, and how you really don’t need to buy Watercolour paper (although ours is an awesome addition to your card making), I really enjoying watercolouring on ‘flat’ card stock like our Shimmery White card stock, or this which is our Whisper White Thick card stock (the Thick is important, as the standard weight is a bit thin and tends to warp a little too much for my liking)

Stampin' Up! UK Going Global WatercolourAnyway, I watercoloured this patch of Tempting Turquiose just to demonstrate that Whisper White Thick card stock is a great medium for water colour, and then this card happened!

The stamp set is Going Global, wonderful for a Valentines card for the man in your life (no flowers!) stamped in Basic Black Archival ink (watercolour safe!). I watercolored the banner in Real Red, and added a spatter of Wink of Stella in Gold before calling my master piece complete!

What are you making for your love this Valentines?

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class

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Watercolour Birthday Blooms

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour birthday blooms

I have mentioned before how much I love playing with inks and water, but doing actual watercolouring is usually a bit beyond me …. or so I thought! Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour birthday blooms

I’ve been loving Rose Red over the past few weeks, and the colour totally inspired this card. I love how you can change the intensity of Stampin’ Up!® inks by adding water, and so when you’re using the inks to watercolour you get all sorts of variations in colour. The flower is coloured using only Rose Red ink, but you can see how many shades of pink there are in that one flower, with just one ink! Awesome!

The flower is stamped in the Archival Basic Black ink, which is great for watercolouring, although it will stain you stamps more than the traditional Classic ink. This is now my go to black, its beautiful, crisp and a true black.

Stampin' Up! Uk Birthday Blooms Watercolour

The leaves are watercoloured with Pear Pizzazz ink, and a halo of blue added around the flower with Pool Party

The Happy Birthday, taken from Butterfly Basics, is stamped onto Vellum, and added to the card by wrapping the vellum around the card stock.

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Watercolour Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom

As I’m sure you are aware, I love playing with watercolour, and this week has been no different. I’ve actually watercoloured so many cards this week that I’m having to hold onto them or you guys are going to get really sick of seeing watercolour cards!

Stampin' Up! UK Garden in Bloom

I’ve been working really hard over the past week to regain my crafty mojo. Does this happen to anyone else? where you are suddenly just not creative. at. all?! Where do you turn, I have to admit Pinterest it my fall back. I can spend hours (if I let myself) scrolling down pages and pages of card designs. I actually can’t remember what inspired this card, other than something similar on Pinterest (which I forgot to Pin and so cannot find!)

Stampin' Up! UK Watercolour with stamping

The flowers are taken from Garden in Bloom, stamped and heat embossed onto Watercolour Paper. The watercolour here is super simple, I grabbed two small paint brushes and a dish of water. One of the brushes is water only, and I use this to ‘paint’ the water onto the image. Then using the other brush to drop the ink into the water, magic happens as it dries I promise. The colours here are Pacific Point, Mossy Meadow and Crushed Curry.

I wanted a birthday card, and although Garden in Bloom is lovely, it doesn’t come with a birthday sentiment, so I reached back into my stamp collection and found this sentiment from Birthday Blossoms.

So pretty

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Festival of Watercolour

Stampin' Up! UK Festival of Trees Watercolour

I’m a little bit in love with this card! I was sat brainstorming card designs last week and this card called out to me, check the video to see exactly how this card came together!

Stampin' Up! Uk Video Tutorial festival of trees

I’m still loving getting inky, and messy with my ink, water and stamps! and this card is no exception, using one of my favourite stamp sets of all time, with Stampin’ Write markers and my water spritzer

I realised when I went to do the voice over for this card that I had forgotten about the solid image stamp in this set. I had actually selected the stamp with spaces to add your baubles, which of course just filled in with ink and water once I had used my water spritzer! I did add some baubles to the trees though, using the dotty stamp with Versamark ink and Irredescent Ice embossing powder.

Stampin' Up! UK Festival of Trees Watercolour

The photos of course do not do this gorgeous embossing powder justice, I’m blaming the horrible storm and rain we were having when I was attempting to take these photos!

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There’s Snow Place Like Home….

Stampin' Up! UK Snow friends Penguin Watercolour

It’s no secret that I love watercolour techniques, and I’ve been at it again on this card. Actually the first time I made this card I managed to get the paper too wet, by adding far too many layers of watercolour and had to start again!

Stampin' Up! UK Snow friends Penguin Watercolour

Mr. Penguin was stamped in Archival Basic Black Ink onto Watercolour Paper. The new Archival inks are great for watercolour as they don’t react with water, meaning that the ink stays where you put it and doesn’t bleed. His feet and beak are coloured using a Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Write Marker.

I have mentioned before about how much I love Stampin’ Up!® for coordination; and this set is no exception as it comes bundled with matching framelits, making cutting out Mr. Penguin’s ear muffs, ice cream and bow tie a breeze!

My favourite bits of this card is the background. After I had Mr. Penguin stamped (but before he got dressed!) I masked him off with a piece of Post-it tape to protect him and created this watercolour background using Soft Sky ink. I put several layers of watercolour here, to create a textured effect. The floor is Tip Top Taupe. For extra texture I added some Wisteria Wonder splatters using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.

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