Gift Ideas #2 Make a pencil box to hold Stampin Up Watercolour Pencils

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Stampin Up Watercolour pencils and Watercolour Assortment 2 make a great gift for someone for Christmas or for any other time of year.  Make this lovely box which will fit both packs of pencils easily and makes a great gift for everyone from children to adults.  Those hard to find presents for especially men folk will be delighted with this box which you can fill with some fancy pens and pencils,if they are not into watercolouring.

Choose whatever patterned paper or cardstock you like and add embellishments to suit.

Measurements 

Cardstock cut at 11 1/4" x 8"

Score on long side at 1/2" and 2" on both ends

Score on short side at 1/2" and 3" and 4 1/2" and 6" and 7 1/4"

Matts of patterned paper

5 at 1 1/4" x 7"

2 at 1/4" x 7"

2 at 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Magnetic tape or magnetics or Velcro dots for closure.

Buy a great selection of patterned paper HERE

Watch this step by step video tutorial to see how easy it is to make this box.  Thank you to everyone who is a subscriber to my channel and all your lovely comments.  If you haven't already subscribed then please do so you don't miss any of the up coming tutorials.  There will be a series of #12 video on gift ideas perfect for your Christmas crafting.

Video Tutorial How to Achieve Real Vibrancy in your image using Stampin Up Floral Statements.

How to achieve real vibrancy in coloured images using Stampin Up Floral Statements

Sometimes when we colour  stamped image the vibrancy of colour is not always what we want to achieve.  Well in the video tutorial I will show you how to blend Stampin Up Water Colour Pencils and Stampin Write markers to achieve a really bright depth of colour which you cannot achieve with these items alone.

Products Used

Floral Statement Clear Mount £16

Aquapainters (pack of two)

Watercolour Pencils

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Stampin Up Sale a Bration meets Tasty Trucks.

Todays project was so much fun to do. It uses Tasty Trucks which is a free stamp set in the Sale a Bration brochure where for every £45 spent throughout the Stampin Up range (see the catalogues above) you can chose a free item from the Sale a Bration brochure. This is a limited time offer and ends at the end of March, so click on the shop button above and take advantage of free product.

So one of the free Sale a Bration sets is Tasty Trucks. There are 16 stamps in this sets so lots to play with. I used the truck and masked out the inside to create a solid image which I watercoloured using our fab watercolour pencils and the aquapainter. So easy to use and the results are gorgeous.

Another fab products is 141714 sponge brayers  £7.25. You get 2 handles and 4 sponges which is great value for money. This brayer  is simple to use and gives gorgeous tonal backgrounds. The more you brayer  the darker the background. Very impressed with how easy it is to use and unlike other brayers  you don't get horrible streaks as the sponges are so soft they build the colour up slowly and evenly.

I wanted this truck to have a flower power look so I punched petite petals from the exhaust and added little flowers from the Custom Tee stamp set. With a sentiment from the That's the Tag stamp set and some ribbon and few pearls it makes a lovely card.

Hope you enjoyed the project and catch you tomorrow for more fun ideas using Stampin Up fabulous new ranges.💜

Sunrise inspiration

Where do you get inspiration from for crafting? How many of us sit with a blank piece of paper in front of us waiting for some inspiration, or look at a stamp set or a piece of dsp or cardstock and think what do I do with this?  Now I know a lot of us use sources like pintrest, other crafters, or the current catalogues and CASE ( copy and share everything) while thinking how do I find my own style or create something unique. So here is what I do.

Everywhere I go whether shops, stores, people and especially countryside I get inspiration. I live in a beautiful part of the south east of England in Surrey backing onto Farnham Park a 3000 acre deer park. It is high up and the views are spectacular. I walk my dog every day in this wonderful space and at this time of year the sunrises are spectacular. So I take pictures on the phone. Quick, simple snap shots, but they give me inspiration. So here is a photo I took of a sunrise this week and the card I framed and turned into some wall art. The Stampin Up watercolour pencils are lovely to overlay colour on a sponged background to give extra depth.

Stampin Up Beautiful You Art Deco

There is something really rather addictive to this Beautiful You set of stamps as the line drawing images can be played around with and tweaked to create lots of different styles and eras of ladies. Take a look back on my last couple of posts to see some of the images I have created. Our brand new watercolour pencils are just perfect for colouring in these images using either the aquapainter or the blender pen. My personal favourite is the aquapainter and as long as you are careful and use an early dry brush you can use any of our cardstock without pilling occurring.

All of the fantastic products are available from Stampin Up. Just follow the link above to browse their complete ranges in the Spring/Summer catalogue or the annual catalogue and for every £45 spend you can choose a free product from the Sale a Bration brochure, so there has never been a better time to stock up or discover a love for Stampin Up as I have. Stampin Up is not available on the high street and is exclusively available through a Stampin Up demonstrator like myself, so get a pen and write my name Jane Allmark down and shop via me on the Stampin Up website.

So to today's card. I wanted to create and Art Deco lady so by using our black marker I drew a long strappy dress, long gloves and a rather fetching parasol which I think painted black with out watercolour pencils and aquablender. I wanted the dress to be beaded so used some liquid pearls and then some of our pearl basic jewels to decorate the hat and flourishes. The effect is quite stunning and  gives the Art Deco style I was hoping for.

Thanks for following my blog. Happy Sunday and whatever you are doing have fun.

Stampin Up Beautiful You

I'm just loving the Beautiful You stamp set with the gorgeous line drawing images of three different ladies and a fantastic variety of sentiments. The great thing with this set is that you can add a few extra details to change the look of the image completely.  The original image is quite Parisian and I wanted an extravagant  elegant look with feathered headgear and a couple of accessories.

So I used the mirror technique to create two ladies using an acrylic block to stamp and create the mirror ( see yesterdays post for original technique). I then made the free longer and coloured everything using our lovely watercolour pencils and then hand drew a parasol and handbag on each image.

I sponged round the edge of the card in same tonal colours, rich razzleberry and then dapper denim on the outside to give depth.  The finished card was blinded up with a bit of sparkle using our dazzling details, which being waterbased too just blended some of the highlights and added some sparkle.  I love how this card turned out.

To buy this wonderful stamp set and the watercolour pencils click on the link above and use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice. Thanks for watching and there will be another image soon with an Art Deco feel using the same image.

Stampin Up Beautiful You Reflection Technique

For the last few days I have been stuck in bed with the horrible flu virus which has been going around. Like many of us I thought I'd missed it and then it came on with avengeance. So today is the first day I've ventured from my bed and I thought a quiet few hours in the craft room were in order.

I was watching a fabulous video ( by Jane Rappleyea a fellow demonstrator) on the reflection technique using an old rubber blank stamp to create the mirror image. However as I didn't have any of this I thought I would try stamping directly onto our fabulous smooth acrylic blocks and yippee skippee it worked really well. I used our black marker to go over the lines to crisp them up and then coloured them using the yellow and orange from our new watercolour pencils, which are high pigmented and super creamy.

Fancy buying some Stampin Up products or having a good old browse of our fabulous catalogue then click on the link above, grab yourself a pen and write my name down JANE ALLMARK  and use me as your demonstrator of choice.

Have a fab day, stay warm and safe and above all well. See you all soon x