Trying Out a Pastel Painting Tutorial With Spotlight On Nature

Have you ever tried the pastel painting tutorial found in the new annual catalog on pages 118 – 119? If you missed this section showing different watercoloring techniques with different mediums make sure to check it out.   There are lots of techniques you can do with the different mediums, but these pages will give you Read More

My Easy Watercoloring Ideas For Beginners

This week’s question was how to color stamped images; where do you put the light and dark shading. Well I’m no expert but I do have some easy watercoloring ideas that might help you out. I’m going to take you step by step through these different Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Techniques: – Stampin’ Up! Ink Refills Read More

Easy Watercoloring Ideas With True Beauty Or Watercoloring With Markers?

Today’s True Beauty card uses a technique that I haven’t done in a long time. When it was completed I thought the image looked a bit like the watercoloring with markers technique. Yet, there was no water involved. So really is this considered a watercoloring technique? If you think so, then consider this as easy Read More

Rare Blessings Soon To Be Retired!

Rare Blessings stamp set is soon to be retired.   Lately, I’ve been getting some beautiful cards in the mail from friends and Stampin’ customer’s.  It is so nice to go to the mailbox and receive a beautiful card just because. I received this beautiful card from my friend Sara Hoogendoorn.   This is one set Read More

Tuesday’s Tips & Techniques – Spritzed Watercolor Background

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Today’s Tuesday’s Tips & Techniques is a fun new technique I call Spritzed Watercolor Backgrounds. It’s fun to stumble upon a new technique and even more fun to share it with my followers. I was playing around with the Stampin’ Up! Spritzers and decided to give them a try with the Read More