Watercolor Pencils with Stampin’ Blends Coloring Tips

Stampin' Up! Simply Zinnia bundle cards. Stampin' Blends marker coloring tips and free video tutorial with Patty Bennett

I had so much fun coloring the Simply Zinnia stamp from Stampin’ Up! with BOTH my Stampin’ Blends markers and Watercolor Pencils! Yes, you can combine them on one image!!  The watercolor pencils tend to give a lovely deep shading or shadow effect that sometimes I can’t get with just the markers.   I’m including …

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Live Today: Stampin’ Blends Coloring Tips

Coloring tips with Stampin' Blends markers and Watercolor Pencils featuring Stampin' Up! Zinnia stamp set by Patty Bennett

  Join me Live Today for Coloring Tips! I recently polled my Luv 2 Stamp Group (Stampin’ UP! downline / team) to see what coloring mediums they would most want to learn more about, and the top 2 answers were Stampin’ Blends markers and Watercolor Pencils, so I thought I’d do a quick card making …

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Learn How to Use Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers

Patty's favorite Stampin' Blends marker coloring Stampin' Up! cards

  It is NO secret, my favorite coloring medium is Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers from Stampin’ Up!  I love to create cards by coloring with my markers!  While I’m not an expert, I’ve truly enjoyed creating projects and videos with lots of tips I’ve learned along the way. Today I invite you to learn more …

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Coffee with a Friend and Garden Walk Paper

Stampin UP! Coffee with Friends set card idea featuring Stampin' Blends marker coloring and Garden Walk designer paper, by Patty Bennett

Coloring with Stampin’ Blends markers is my “happy place”.  I loved coloring this fun image from my Stampin’ Up! Coffee with Friends set, and then using the new Garden Walk designer paper in the background and for the tiny flowers on this card!   Tip: since this stamp set does not have matching dies, I …

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Having Coffee with a Friend!

Coffee with a Friend Stampin 'UP! card colored with Stampin' Blends markers, by Patty Bennett

Coloring with Stampin’ Blends markers can be really quick and simple, or you can get pretty detailed and add lots of shading, blending, colors, depth and dimension with them. Either way, they are my favorite coloring medium!!  I’ve colored the Stampin’ Up! Coffee with Friends set images for my card today, while taking an online …

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Whimsical Cards with Stampin’ Blends Coloring

Hey Chuck whimsical cards colored with Stampin' Blends markers. By Patty Bennett

  Learning tips for coloring these cute images from my Stampin’ Up! Hey Chuck stamp set was an amazing experience! I took an online coloring class from Barry & Jay (info here) and we used this stamp set and Stampin’ Blends markers to color our images.   During class we color the images on Basic …

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Sketched Plaid Background Stamp from Stampin’ UP!

Stampin' Up! Sketched Plaid background stamp with Azure Afternoon: great for handmade Hey Chuck card by Patty Bennett

    Sometimes I just forget about my background stamps.  But I pulled the Sketched Plaid background stamp off my shelf and used it in Azure Afternoon ink on Azure Afternoon cardstock for the background of my Hey Chuck card! I just love that pretty background, and of course once you own the stamp, you …

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Let’s Make 5 Cards with Fond of Autumn – Live!

Facebook Live cardmaking video with Patty Bennett featuring Stampin' Up! Fond of Autumn bundle.

  Live: 5 cards from Fond of Autumn! Please join me live (and be sure to comment so I know you are there!).  Lives are each Friday at 11am PT, on my Business Facebook Page.  Can’t catch the Live? No worries, please watch the replay here on my blog tomorrow, or on my YouTube  Channel. …

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Father’s Day Cards – Luv 2 Stamp Group Blog Hop

Father's Day card idea featuring Stampin' Up! He's the Man suite and Home & Garden Bundle by Patty Bennett

I’m excited to bring you a very fun Father’s Day Card today, featuring Stampin’ UP! He’s All That Suite (new in the Annual Catalog) and the Home & Garden bundle from the Jan-June mini catalog – retiring soon!   Welcome to the Luv 2 Stamp Group’s 2022 Blog Hop! We are excited to share projects …

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Sit Stay Relax Slimline Chair Card

Sit Stay Relax Stampin' Up! host reward set colored with Stampin' Blends markers. Slimline cards by Patty Bennett

    Hi friends!! Do you ever have one of those days that you just need to do something fun like coloring!!!??  I wish I could just color every day!!   Well a couple weeks ago I just had one of those days.. It needed to be a coloring day, so I grabbed my Sit, Stay, …

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Stampin’ Blends Coloring Video with Words of Cheer set

Stampin' Up! Christmas Card idea: Use Stampin' Blends with the Words of Cheer set and Festive Foliage background stamp to make Christmas Cards, by Patty Bennett. www.PattyStamps.com

  Thank you for joining me yesterday as we created these Christmas Cards on my live Stampin’ Blends coloring video!   You know I love to color and I wanted to try 2 different color combos for the Words of Cheer set.   Which one to you like better?       Coloring Option #1:  For Stampin’ Blends …

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