Complimentary Color Combo Ideas

Complimentary color combo peach blue featuring Mixed Media Floral stamp set from Stampin' UP!. Stampin' Blends coloring by Patty Bennett

You might want to try these combos! Online Exclusive Mixed Media Florals Did you know that in addition to all the new products in the Jan-April Mini catalog, Stampin’ UP! also released lots of other new products online!? You can see them in the ONLINE EXCLUSIVE section of the store. Part of this new release …

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Yuletide Village Card Ideas

Yuletide Village card idea featuring Stampin' UP! stamp set and Perennial Postage dies, by Patty Bennett

Here are the 3 bonus Yuletide Village card designs I shared during my live slimline card video on Friday. I’m including the replay at the bottom of this post if you missed the video. The card (above and below) showcases the Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage dies for a cute postage stamp look, over the Snowflake …

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Slimline Yuletide Village Cards

Slimline card featuring Stampin' UP! Yuletide Village stamp set colored with Stampin' Blends markers by Patty Bennett

Yesterday, during my weekly live video I shared 3 ways I used the Stampin’ Up! Yuletide Village stamp set for slimline cards. I’m including the replay at the bottom of this post if you missed the video. Each of these 3 slimline card designs features stamped and colored images from the Yuletide Village set. Stamp …

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Slimline Card Live Video today

Live today: video tutorial with Patty Bennett: how to make 3 different slimline cards with the Stampin' UP! Yuletide Village stamp set

I enjoy creating and sending slimline cards because they are an “unexpected” size and fun to receive! Today I’ll be sharing 3 ways I used the Stampin’ Up! Yuletide Village stamp set for slimline cards. Join me live or watch the replay Live: on my Business Facebook Page at 10am PT Replays available later in …

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Stampin’ Blends Coloring Filled With Cheer

Stampin Up! Filled with Cheer stamp set colored with Stampin' Blends markers. cards by Patty Bennett

  I created lots of cards on our crafting cruise, but other than that, last week was spent playing catch up with my business (customers and team), so I didn’t get to stamp or create any cards.  Over the weekend I looked at the Stampin’ UP! supplies I had not used yet, and this fun …

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Shopping Cart or a Shopping Basket?

Attention Shoppers cart or basket card featuring Stampin' Up! Blends markers and Full of Life patterned paper stack by Patty Bennett

So… question of the day… do you call it a shopping cart? or a shopping basket?  I think I’ve shared this before but I grew up doing to Market Basket in our neighborhood in Pasadena, so we always called the cart a basket, or the shopping basket, because of “Market Basket”.  But I think most …

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Natural Tones Stampin’ Blends Info

Stampin' Up! Natural Tones Stampin' Blends marker collection www.PattyStamps.com

I know I’ve posted this info before, but many of you said it was helpful, and since these Natural Tones Stampin’ Blends markers are kind of “hidden” on page 131 of the current Stampin’ Up! catalog and because they don’t have names, they have numbers which can be confusing, I thought I’d repost: Some images …

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Coloring Black and White Ephemera with Blends

Coloring black and white Fully Flowering Ephemera floral image with Stampin' Blends markers. Card by Patty Bennett

As I was prepping my class and display board for our Summer Stampin’ Soiree last weekend, I think this was one of my faves!!  While you can also do this same idea by stamping a floral image and coloring, I actually used the die cut image shown below (from the Fully Flowering Ephemera pack).  Most …

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Die Cutting & Coloring Tips for Magnolia Mood Flowers

Stampin' Up! Magnolia Mood book binding cards featuring Stampin' Blends markers and Thoughtful Designs designer paper, by Patty Bennett

I don’t often just craft on the fly with you, basically without a final plan in mind.. but that’s what happened yesterday during my weekly live video!! Thank you to everyone who stuck around for the full hour and encouraged me with your suggestions for finishing off the purple card, the poppy card and the …

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Magnolia Die Cut Coloring Tip – Live Video

Coloring Tips with Stampin' Blends for the Magnolia Mood die. Live video with Patty Bennett

  Join me Live Today! On my weekly Friday Live card making video today, I’ll be sharing tips for coloring and for die cutting the Stampin’ Up! Magnolia Mood floral dies! I’ll be live today at 11am PT, or of course as always, feel free to watch the replay on my Business FB page, my …

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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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