Thinking Stamping: Water Colouring

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Sunday, 9 March 2025

Going Dotty for Stampin' Fancy Friday

This month, the theme at Stampin' Fancy Friday is Going Dotty! We were challenged to showcase dots in some way.

The team at Stampin' Fancy Friday don't blog hop but we do a daily inspiration post on Instagram. The team at Stampin' Fancy Friday are all current or past members of Stampin' Up!'s Artisan Design Team, so it really is a great place to pick up ideas or recharge your creative mojo.

Follow @stampinfancyfriday if you don't already. 😀

I started with wetting a sheet of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper then smooshing Shaded Spruce, Blueberry Bushel and Balmy Blue onto it. Once it dried, I cut a series of circles from it using the Stylish Shapes dies.

The card base is Blueberry Bushel and the Basic White card front is embossed with the hybrid Seaside Wishes folder, available as part of the Seaside Wishes bundle.

I stamped the fish and seaweed from Beauty of the Deep with Jet Black Stazon onto Fluid 100 Water Color paper. I water-coloured them using a Water Painter and ink in Blueberry Bushel, Crushed Curry and Shaded Spruce. then die cut them out with Beauty of the Deep dies

The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse and cut with a banner from Stylish Shapes.

The trio of embellishments are Tinsel Gems.

So, quite a mix of products in this one but I really like the bubbles of sea that climb the card front.

Don't forget to follow @stampinfancyfriday on Instagram, or Stampin' Fancy Friday on Facebook, for more daily ideas.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page.

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Sunday, 12 January 2025

Pretty Petals for The Paper Players 720

Welcome to a new year of challenges here at The Paper Players! I hope you are all feeling relaxed and keen to play along with us. Our hostess, Elizabeth, has started the year with a bright colour challenge.

I couldn't help but think floral with this combination. I'd recently purchased the Pretty Petals bundle from the Online Exclusives, so had a play around with it with these colours.

The first job was to choose which pink, orange and green to use. I opted for Garden Green, Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie.

The leaves and flowers are separate stamps. I started by stamping the leaves in Garden Green and adding in flowers in Melon Mambo onto Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper. Then I painted over the images with a Water Painter so that it created a kind of faux no-line watercolour.

While it was wet, I added in some touches of Pumpkin Pie to the flowers, using a drop of ink. As the flowers also have a separate die, I stamped and water-coloured a second set so I could add some popped up flowers for extra dimension.

I diluted the remainder of the Pumpkin Pie ink drop further and splattered it over the image before cutting the flowers out with one of the dies from Spotlight on Nature. I cut a different circle with the same set from Melon Mambo.

I stamped the sentiment in Garden Green from the same piece of splattered water-colour paper using the banner from Stylish Shapes as well as a shadow from Pumpkin Pie. The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse.

I embossed the Garden Green card front with the Starstruck embossing folder, which is one of the free gifts you can earn with a qualifying purchase during Sale-a-bration. Isn't it a pretty folder?

The finishing touch was a trio of Peach Pie Glimmer gems.

We'd all love to see what you do with these colours. You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at The Paper Players page.

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

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Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Painted Lavender for Colour INKspiration 172

Welcome to the 171st challenge at Colour INKspiration. Today's colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Monica Formosa. Isn't it wonderful?

If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the three easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Pumpkin Pie for Peach Pie. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

This challenge is open for two weeks and closes Monday September 9, 7pm AEST.

The thing that struck me most about the challenge graphic was that tumble of flowers against the stark wall behind. That got me thinking about those fabulous die cuts in Painted Lavender, the ones that create stalks of lavender and the one that makes a lovely leafy stem.

I made the die cuts from a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, then coloured them with some Peach Pie re-inker, Garden Green re-inker and a Water Painter, making sure to have a variations of colour.

After embossing the Basic White card front with the Distressed Tile 3D embossing folder (my favourite!), I added in some splatters in Pebbled Path and Peach Pie ink using the small splatter stamp from Spotlight on Nature. Then I created the bouquet and attached it.

The sentiment is from Country Birdhouse. It's stamped in Pebbled Path and die cut using a stitched banner from Stylish Shapes.

To highlight the sentiment, I added in a banner cut from Peach Pie glimmer paper from the In Color Glimmer Paper pack. The twine is a single strand of the Pebbled Path 2023-25 In Color Jute, which makes a nice contrast with the glimmer paper.

The finishing touch was the addition of a trio of Peach Pie Shimmer Gems from the In Color Shimmer Gems pack.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with these colours in the Crew Inspiration Album on the Colour INKspiration Challenge Facebook page.

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Wednesday, 25 October 2023

Gorgeously Made for Stampin' Fancy Friday

This month, the theme at Stampin' Fancy Friday is 'Gratitude'. We don't blog hop as such but the team at Stampin' Fancy Friday do a daily inspiration post on Instagram. The team at Stampin' Fancy Friday are all current or past members of Stampin' Up!'s Artisan Design Team, so it really is a great place to pick up ideas or recharge your creative mojo. Follow @stampinfancyfriday if you don't already. 😀

Today, I'm sharing my project which appeared on Instagram a few days ago. Regular readers will know that I have a real soft spot for the Gorgeously Made bundle, so I just couldn't help myself but to get it out again!

I enjoyed making this card so much that I made a video tutorial to share it with you. I hope you give it a go - it's much easier than it looks!

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Orders placed with me can earn free tutorials.

Any order of $90 will receive the Creativity Abounds Tutorial Bundle, with 13 projects, as a thank you gift.

And if you purchase the Joy of Noel bundle, you'll also receive a project bundle from 'Join in with Joanne and Jan' which will give you two project tutorials from me and two from my buddy Joanne James, aka The Crafty Owl.

Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Dainty Delight for Colour INKspiration 151

Welcome to the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration. This bright and pretty palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Cathy Pinchbeck. Thank you to everyone who pulled out the stops and joined in with our 150th challenge - we hope you find this pretty combination as inspirational. 😀

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. We welcome Heather Noble as Guest Designer for this challenge.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Misty Moonlight for Boho Blue. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

These colours were slow to speak to me, despite the pretty graphic, but in the end they seemed to whisper 'floral' to me. So I got out the Dainty Delight bundle to play around with.

I added a sentiment from Timeless Arrangements and also had a play with the new Deckled Circle dies too.

I used a spot of water colouring to help create my mini-garden scene. You can see how I did it in the tutorial below.

We'd love to have you join in the challenge with us. Visit the Colour INKspiration page to check out the album of Crew Cards for inspiration. You can also add your entry there. We all enjoy seeing what you do with our colour palettes, so join in!

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page.

You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking here, or on any of the products below.

Product List

Dainty Delight Cling Stamp Set (English)

[161078]

$53.00

Dainty Delight Dies

[160674]

$76.00

Timeless Arrangements Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[161521]

$53.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$63.00

Deckled Circles Dies

[162286]

$78.00

Boho Blue A4 Cardstock

[161733]

$21.00

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$22.25

Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock

[161726]

$21.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$19.00

2023–2025 In Color 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[161646]

$26.25

Boho Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[161650]

$19.00

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$19.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[147108]

$19.00

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

$19.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$28.00

Brushed Brass Butterflies

[158136]

$21.00

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$28.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$9.00

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

It's A Science for Colour INKspiration 146

Welcome to the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration! This bright confection of a palette was chosen for us by Crew Member Nicole Wilson. Very lush and elegant, isn't it?

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. We welcome our guest designer this challenge, Jolanda Johnstone.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Parakeet Party for Granny Apple Green. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

Life has been pretty hectic for me lately and hasn't left a lot of time for crafting, which is a shame since I have a big box of new things I'm itching to get to play with. So this time, I decided I was going to try out a new set no matter what! And it would just have to fit the challenge.😁

That set was It's A Science and I loved the nerdiness and punniness of it, so bought it as a bit of fun.

I started out by stamping the beakers in Stazon ink on Fluid100 Watercolor paper, then painting them with diluted inks using a Water Painter. I added in some bubbles over one of the beakers too - although it was hard to resist not letting them all brew up something!

Then I cut it out using one of the Deckled Rectangle dies and mounted it onto a piece of Pretty Peacock.

The card base is Blackberry Bliss and the very striking DSP is from the Stargazing DSP pack.

I masked and split the sentiment onto two different colours then die cut them using the parallelogram die from Something Fancy.

Then I couldn't resist adding some the Tinsel Gems in Berry Burst, Pretty Peacock and Lemon-Lime Twist because they look so much like escaping bubbles!