Last Friday, we had a blog hop to celebrate the new New Beginnings collection from Simon Says Stamp. If you haven’t had a chance to visit the hop, click here to view the first post. I think you’ll find loads of card making inspiration!

Congratulations to all of the blog hop winners! Thank you for hopping along with us and taking the time to leave feedback for the designers in the form of comments along the way :) I know they really really enjoy hearing from you!

Winners, Congratulations! Please check your inboxes for an email from us asking for your shipping address so we can send you a $25 Gift Card! If for some reason we couldn’t access your email, please email [email protected] letting her know you are one of our Blog Hop winners of the New Beginnings 2017 Blog Hop for the $25 Gift Card. Thank you again for hopping along with us!

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! It’s time to reveal our monthly card kit for April called “Wild and Colorful”.  This kit is just that…Wild and extremely COLORFUL!!!

We have a lot of great items to get you going with some super fun cardmaking!  Included is: “Wild Cuddly Creatures” clear stamps, NEW “Fresh Fruit” 4 pack hybrid ink cube set, Lawn Fawn “Rainbow” 6×6 paper pack, 3-Action Wobble springs, 5- #5 Kraft Tags, 5- #5 White Tags, Simon Says Stamp Island Blue Cardstock, NEW Simon Says Stamp Purple Cardstock, 2 sheets-Neenah 80# White Cardstock.

I have some inspiration to share using this kit which features the papers and stamps plus an Action Wobble spring under my elephant.

Yana Smakula used the giraffe and elephant for her card which are colored with Copic markers. Here elephant is also mounted with an Action Wobbler.

Laura Bassen white embossed a greeting onto the purple cardstock as a backdrop for her Elephant which is complete with googly eyes.

Heather Ruwe used the ink cubes to swipe across her card to create stripes of color, then die cut a heart and set her elephant inside the cutout.

I have filmed a walkthrough of the kit which you can view below or on our YouTube channel HERE.

The Wild Cuddly Creatures stamp set and Fresh Fruit Hybrid Ink cube pack are also available for individual purchase in our store!

Remember, you can SUBSCRIBE to our no obligation kits and receive them monthly for $ 24.95, or purchase them each month for $ 29.95 (while supplies last).

If you are a subscriber who used Paypal to purchase your subscription, please be sure to pay the invoice that we send you within 3 business days. We have a limited number of this card kit in stock and don’t want you to miss out. For easier and quicker monthly processing, please contact us via email or telephone and we will put your credit card on file as a courtesy for you. Card kits bill and ship between the 17th and 27th days of every month.

Be sure to check out our card kit galleries for additional inspiration using our kits. Thanks for reading today!

Hello everyone, welcome back to a new Studio Monday video! Since I have been enjoying working with florals lately, I thought it would be a perfect time to feature Hero Art’s Marianne’s Flowers stamp set! This set has some really gorgeous floral illustrations in it, and I paired this with Hero Arts’ new Thank You Messages set.

No line watercolor is a fun technique that can be done with any medium, including markers and colored pencils. I will be using Zig Clean Color markers today as my medium of choice.

When doing no line watercolor, you need to use a very light ink for your stamping so that the coloring does not show the outlines of the stamped image. The ink I like to use for no line coloring is Simon’s Barely Beige ink. This was designed especially for no line coloring. And because Simon’s inks are both alcohol ink friendly and waterproof, the ink can be used with any medium!

In the video, I will be walking you through how I created the variation in color and shading with my Zig markers. The technique is really easy and creates such beautiful, realistic results. I used just a few colors for each card, which I have listed for you here:

Rose: Geranium Red 029, Pink 025, May Green 047, Olive Green 043

Lily: Yellow 050, Bright Yellow 052, Pink Flamingo 222, Pale Green 045, Emerald Green 048, Brown 060

The sutble patterns on the card bases are created with Hero Arts stencils and dye inks. For the lily I used the Rain Dance stencil with Sunshine ink. The rose has a background created with the Crossing Waves stencil and Cosmic Berry ink. Because I used inks that were close in color to the card bases, it created a pretty tone-on-tone effect. I think it adds just the right amount of interest without being too distracting.

I hope you will be checking out the video to see the techniques used in these cards and that it inspires you to try some no line watercoloring of your own! Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting me today… I will see you again very soon with a brand new Studio Monday video!

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