Hopefully you had the opportunity to enter our big stamp set giveaway last week. I am pleased to announce the winner on my blog...drum roll please...Jo McClain will receive the Big Birthday clear stamp set and some Silver Baker's Twine courtesy of Stampin' Up! As per contest rules, you just need to contact me before next Monday and let me know your mailing address so that SU can get these out to you right away. This is the fifth week of the month, so we didn't really have to create a project this week, but I couldn't resist giving you a sneek peak at one of the incredible new products that Stampin' Up! is carrying in the new 2014-15 Catalog.
You may have heard by now that SU is releasing a line of alcohol markers called Blendabilites.
One of the perks of being on the design team, is that sometimes we get to play with new product before it is released. I love alcohol markers and I have even taken a few classes on how to use them, so this is a dream come true for me. You will be seeing a lot more projects using these new markers in the near future, but today I wanted to share a sneak peak and the amazing things you can do with them. Best of all, they work perfectly with our Stampin' Up! color palette. They are also calibrated to work great with our Whisper White Card Stock. I'm am in serious love with these markers.
Notice that the flowers appear to have shading. Our new Blendabilites are designed in sets of three shades of the same color that work perfectly together. There are several methods of coloring, but for this particular card I worked dark-medium-light. In other words I started in the shadows with the darkest color, then blended in the medium shade, and then finished off the areas that I wanted to be the lights with the lightest marker. They really give the flowers a more realistic look that is difficult to attain with our regular markers. To create this card front I used the masking technique and stamped several of the images from the Peaceful Petals stamp set (only available thru May 31, 2014). You will need to use a Memento ink pad so that the colors don't bleed and you need to give the stamped image time to dry completely before you start to color. I used a heat tool on mine to make sure that it was ready to color.
There is a little bit of a learning curve with our new markers, but I am confident that with a little practice, you will be creating beautiful projects in no time. The trick is to just jump in and play. I started with some individual flowers on some scrap cardstock and then once I was confident I jumped right in and made this card.
Thanks for checking out our hop this week. Don't forget to see if you are a WINNER! Now be sure to hop on over to see what Erica Cerwin and the rest of the design team have created.
