Evergreen Forest Embossing Folder Watercolor Tutorial

Watercoloring on the Stampin' UP! Evergreen Forest embossing folder with ink and water painters. Christmas Card Idea from Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

  These beautiful watercolored pine trees are super easy to make! I hope you will enjoy the quick  5 minute Evergreen Forest Embossing Folder Watercolor tutorial video at the bottom of this blog post!!  You can make your own Christmas cards using all the supplies at the bottom of this post, and the instructions in …

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Poinsettia Petals card with Wink of Stella

Stampin' UP! Poinsettia Petals Christmas Card Idea painted with Wink of Stella and Cherry Cobbler reinker by Patty Bennett

  As a part of my Poinsettia Place Suite presentation for my team of demonstrators this month, I showed a few “bonus card” ideas.  This Poinsettia Petals card painted with Wink of Stella was one of the bonus ideas I shared!! Poinsettia Petals set available HERE online.  For all other Stampin’ UP! supplies online, scroll …

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Watercolor Tips for the Hibiscus stamp

Timeless Tropical bundle from the Stampin Up Tropical Oasis suite hibiscus flower stamped with Brown StazOn ink pad and colored with watercolor pencils. www.PattyStamps.com

I made these Tropical Oasis Memories & More cards MONTHS ago, when the Brown StazOn ink pad was first introduced in the Stampin’ Up! Jan-June 2020 catalog.  I wanted to share my Watercolor Tips for the Hibiscus stamp in the Timeless Tropical bundle.   THEN, the ink pad was so popular it sold out super quickly …

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Grace’s Garden Card inspired by Watercolor Painting

Grace's Garden stamp set from Stampin' Up! - watercolor card by Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

Many of you know that my dad, Jim Burns, is a watercolor artist… wait.. I mean an AMAZING watercolor artist, and I recently used one of his paintings as inspiration for my card featuring the Grace’s Garden stamp set.  This painting happens to be hanging in my stamp loft, so I used it for inspiration …

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Wild Rose card with Pigment Sprinkles

Floral Card created with Stampin' UP! Pigment Sprinkles featuring the To a Wild Rose stamp set and dies. By Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

Have you played with Stampin’ UP! Pigment Sprinkles?  They create the most vibrant, gorgeous colors for your papercrafting projects!     I combined the “To a Wild Rose” stamp set with Pigment Sprinkles and was thrilled with the results!!   When creating a background with Pigment Sprinkles, my preference is to get the watercolor paper …

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Wild Rose Pigment Sprinkles Card Ideas

Floral Card created with Stampin' UP! Pigment Sprinkles featuring the To a Wild Rose stamp set and dies. By Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

Thank you for your kind comments about my Pigment Sprinkles video tutorial yesterday!!  Today we are using Pigment Sprinkles on the Wild Rose stamp set and dies to make this pretty card!   I was inspired to create this card with the Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Mango Melody Pigment Sprinkles after making the Gorgeous …

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How to Make Flowers with Pigment Sprinkles – Video Tutorial

Floral Card created with Stampin' UP! Pigment Sprinkles featuring the medium Daisy Punch and the Birch Background stamp. By Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

I LOVE color.. that is such a huge reason that I craft!  The new Stampin’ UP! Pigment Sprinkles produce AMAZINGLY beautiful, vibrant color when you use them with Watercolor Paper and a spritz of water!  Today I have a Video Tutorial for you showing you how to make these colorful flowers with the Medium Daisy …

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Watercolored Hibiscus Beach Happy Card

Stampin' UP! Humming Along bundle and Beach Happy stamp set card with Seaside embossing folder background. Watercolored card idea by Patty Bennett www.PattyStamps.com

I hope you enjoy my Watercolored hibiscus card today.  If you are in a snowy part of the world, I hope it brings happy, sunny thoughts… and I hope it inspires you to create something pretty today!   My handstamped card was inspired by a card on Pinterest by “Scraps by Sissy” featuring the Seaside …

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Beautiful Day Butterfly & Flower Brusho Cards

 Create bold and colorful images using Brusho Crystal Colour pigments!!  I used the Stampin' UP! Beautiful Day stamp set, with its big, bold images, to highlight the Brusho coloring on these handmade cards today!     I sprinkled Brilliant Red, Prussian Blue and Yellow Brusho onto a scrap of watercolor paper, spritzed it with water, …

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Winner of Week 3 Give Away – Countdown to $1.5 million

 WHohooo!  Week #3 prize Winner! As you know, I am counting down to my next milestone of achieving $1.5 million in personal sales! It should happen this month and I'm very excited, and very grateful to you, my amazing customers! I'm sharing prizes all month long (each Wednesday) along with 3 shopping sprees!     …

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Fall Watercolor Card Idea

 You are in for a treat today!  Look at this gorgeous fall pumpkin card featuring a watercolor background and the Pick a Pumpkin bundle from pg 51 of the 2017 Holiday catalog from Stampin' Up!     I created this card while stamping one day with Cindee.. she had the design all worked out and …

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Eastern Medallion Gold Metallic Sticker Cards

 I have collected and used stickers of all kinds for about 4 decades, and these Gold Vinyl Eastern Palace Suite stickers are gorgeous and a welcome addition to any sticker collection!   I used them to dress up some watercolor backgrounds I created a  month or so ago (see this post) to create these crafty multi-media …

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