Cool technique with the Wink of Stella pen!

September 8, 2020

There are times I like to color and others that I don't. I came up with this cool technique using the Wink of Stella pen and White Craft ink to highlight my main image.

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I pressed a clear block directly onto my White Craft ink pad and used that to pick up the ink with my Wink of Stella pen. You sure don't have to use a clear block but I didn't want to get Wink of Stella in my ink pad. You could use a paper plate or any other non porous surface.

I used Purple Posy, Pool Party and Seaside Spray on the cards below.

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Technique tips:

Light colored card stock works best here; the White ink can obscure the stamped image on dark card stock.
Squeeze out a bit of the Wink of Stella liquid to make a small puddle to mix with the White ink for easier painting.
Paint the image once and go back and highlight parts of it if you want more 'lightness'.
Black Memento ink works fine to stamp your image
This should work nicely on a heat embossed image!
You can use the White Craft ink refill instead of an ink pad but a little drop goes a long way!

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I also used Versamark to create a background effect on the card base, stamping the main image multiple times. I love how soft a Versamark background is and I don't use it near enough. This repetitive stamping could be very busy if done in black or a darker color.

Here's the video with 3 different coloring techniques!

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Batter Up! Paper Pumpkin is just $5 for new subscribers!! WOW!

May 7, 2021
This month's Paper Pumpkin kit is just $5 for NEW subscribers! Click here and enter promo code HOMERUN0521

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Here's the description of this month's kit:

With the Batter Up! Paper Pumpkin Kit, it’s your turn to go to bat for all the people who’ve gone to bat for you. This month’s timeless kit with a “throwback” theme contains enough grand slam supplies to create nine cards—and coordinating envelopes—featuring classic colors, pinwheel and pinstripe patterns, and vintage-washed paper pieces. There’s no “batter” way to root, root, root for your home team and honor the all-stars in your life!

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Misty Trees Beauty of Friendship card

May 7, 2021
With each new catalog I always join several card swaps so I have lots of samples to share with my customers.

Here's one I created featuring the Beauty of Friendship Bundle.

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The colors are the new In Colors of course; Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. The background stamping is made by stamping the trees several times without reinking. This gives you several hues/generations of ink which creates a misty, grouping of trees. I love this effect with a 'naked' tree! It reminds me of my Father-in-Law who loved naked trees.

Other details:
- The greeting is stamped in Evening Evergreen ink on a 1" strip of our Vellum card stock. I immediately heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Classic (or waterbase) ink does not dry quickly on vellum so you get colored, embossing easily.
- The vellum was cut long enough to wrap around the outside edge and adhere to the back side.
- The dark tree was stamped in Evening Evergreen ink on White CS and die-cut with the Beautiful Trees dies.
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You can see this Beauty of Friendship bundle here. It's just lovely and I think it's going to be super popular!

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See all of our new 2021-23 In Color products here.

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Pansy Petals cards kit to go; pretty & spring-like!

May 6, 2021
The new Pansy Petals designer paper is so pretty it was easy to create beautiful, eye catching cards with it.

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Here are a few reasons why I love this new Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper:
- It has three different sheets of gingham; all in the new In Colors
- There are full sheets filled with life-like pansies and pretty leaves
- The pansy dies coordinate with these flowers and leaves! No fussy cutting if you have them.
- It features each of the 5 beautiful, new In Colors!!
Anyway; this pre-cut kit to go is available through May May 18th. There is also a pdf tutorial available.

This kit includes the following:
- 1/2 pkg of Pansy Petals DSP (6" X 12")
- 2021-23 In Color jewels
- Soft Succulent ribbon
- 10 pre-cut cards; 3 of the 5 designs are fancy folds!
- the PDF tutorial including measurements, photos, supply list & step by step directions
The kit does not include pre-stamped images, adhesive or stamps. I used the Pansy Patch bundle for greetings and the dies to cut out the flowers & leaves from the DSP. You can also fussy cut them if you choose to.

*This kit will likely be mailed in early June due to a back-order on the In Color jewels.

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The PDF tutorial is emailed to you immediately after payment.

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Add on the Pansy Patch bundle at an EXTRA 10% off. Email me for this option at lagreff60@gmail.com
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