Sun Ray Ink Blending with Laura Bassen
Hi readers! Happy Tuesday! Please give our special guest Laura Bassen a big Simon welcome back to our store blog today! The Queen of ink blending has done it again! I think I’m especially partial to this card as it contains some of my very favorite colors! Laura worked her way from Spring Rain to Lucky to Scuba to High Dive to Blue Jay to the emphasis HOT MAMA! (<- hopefully you sang along with me there). The focal point is the gorgeous Mosaic Heart die from our newest collection, Among the Stars! Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Shimmering Watercolors + Vellum Shaker
Hi everyone, welcome back to another Studio Monday feature! Today I will be sharing some beautiful watercolor cards using Neat & Tangled stamps and dies, as well as the Starry Colors Gansai Tambi paints from Kuretake!
Neat & Tangled has some beautiful geometric/gem inspired stamp and dies sets, including their Faceted stamp set and Heart of Gold die that I will be using in today’s post. One of the things I love most about these stamps and dies are the many ways you can use them!
Today I’ve heat embossed the Faceted background onto watercolor paper and colored it in with the Starry Colors watercolor set; this background would also look fabulous by coloring each faceted area in different colors, or even as a rainbow! For those of you unfamiliar with the Starry Colors watercolors, they are a pearl-tinted palette that has a collection of six different gold, water-based pigments. They can be used on their own like I have done here in this video, or applied over top (or mixed into) other watercolors to create pearlized effects.
These are SUPER fun paints that I definitely encourage you to try out! While I do not have the original Gansai Tambi watercolor pan set, I am told the Starry Colors pans are the exact same size as the originals and fit perfectly in the Gansai Tambi palette.
In the video, I’ll be sharing how I created this shaker card, as well as talk a bit about how I used the leftover die cut pieces to create a second card! I love being able to use my leftovers to create another card… it saves them from either a trash bin or a use-that-later-box (where they never see the light of day again)!
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A Sweet Colored Treat!
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I hope you’re having a great weekend so far! It’s my pleasure to welcome back special guest Kelly Latevola to our blog as a guest. Ready to chill? Kelly took a super fun and creative approach to her designs with bright and cheery Copic coloring and the popsicle from our Summertime Animals as her muse! She found perfectly fitting sentiments in other perhaps unexpected places like the Dexter & Simon set, Love labels, and Ice Cream Dream! Please be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
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