Hi everybody. I'm Shannon, and I'm here today with my Stampin' Blends and a
couple of stamp sets from the occasions (spring/summer) catalog. So let's have some fun blending!
I'm starting off with a strip of Shimmery White Cardstock, and what I'm
going to do is a wash. Now normally I would call this a watercolor wash, but
it's not watercolor, so let's call it a blends wash. And when doing a wash with
Stampin' Blends, I like to start by doing the lightest color on the whole
background. I actually do this with almost any image that I'm coloring with
Stampin' Blends, it just gives you a basic color. It gives all the same color to the
entire image. So this is Daffodil Delight-- you probably guessed that. Okay, now we're
going to add Daffodil Delight dark to the top, and then I'll do some Old Olive
to the other side. So we're blending these colors, and going to wash across
the whole piece of cardstock.
The more we go over them, the more alcohol we're adding to the cardstock
and the more blending that happens. So we can go back with the light Daffodil
Delight again to blend it together, like that. And as we work, we have to continue
to watch this and say, okay maybe you wanted a little darker down here again.
Because if I go back over that with a lighter color, it'll lighten it a little
bit and blend it. So it's an experiment every time. You're kind of watching it to
see how it goes. Let's say you want to blend that harsh line a little bit more.
If you continue to do that more and more, you'll see those merge together until it
looks more like this. So now once we get to this point, we could use it as a nice
background accent on a card or we could emboss on top of it like this card right
here. This is one of the samples in the occasions (spring/summer) catalog using the You're
Inspiring Stamp Set. I've got that one right here. So this image right here is stamped a
couple of times. Just beautiful how it sets the background for those daffodils
there. It's like the sky is all different colors of yellow and then maybe merging
into the ground where the green is. So that's one thing you can do with Stampin' Blends.
Let's look at this image now and color that one in. This is a sample that
you will see in the catalog colored with Daffodil Delight again, and
then the darker color used to focus on all of the accents. That is beautiful
there with all the lightness and darkness there. So you can do that, or you could
add a little bit of Pumpkin Pie. So with this one, I just did Pumpkin Pie right
around the edge there. I'm going to show you that, but I'm going to use a
different color palette. But I like how you can use yellow and orange together;
if you continue to blend, you'll have good results. I'm going to use this color palette: Cherry Cobbler and Pink Pirouette.
Like I said, when I did the wash, I'm going to start with covering the whole
image with the same color, so even in the places where I'm going to do Cherry
Cobbler I still go over those with Pink Pirouette. Then I like to just do
the darkest color next. So where I want the darkest color, I'll lay down a little
bit of that color, the cherry color, right around the edges. It looks pretty
stark right now, but don't worry we're going to blend it. Then we can go
back with the Pink Pirouette dark and just add kind of some different shading
in there. I'm going over the top of the Cherry
Cobbler, and it will lighten it up a little bit, but not totally. Then I've
got the light Cherry Cobbler to blend that together, just a tad. We'll
go back.
As you keep going, you can continue to blend and get the colors and the look
that you're going for. Now we need to color in the stems. I'll do that with Old
Olive, the light Old Olive, and we only have green in Old Olive, so we need to be
a little creative with that and how we want to shade the Old Olive.
Don't forget you can use the opposite side of your Stampin' Blends for the more
detailed areas. So we've added the first layer of
Old Olive light and now you can go back with some Old Olive dark, which I like to
do definitely on the undersides of the leaves when they're flipped over. So you see,
that's a fun way to add some color there. Down the stem is a good
highlight as well, like that. But one thing to try is to use a little bit of
Crumb Cake or Smoky Slate where you want it to look a little darker. You might not
think of that as an obvious color to use because it's a completely different
color, but it really looks nice. Let me show you that. Just add it down here, even
two colors that are quite different, they blend well together. So when you're
playing around with Stampin' Blends, try all different kinds of color
combinations and see what happens. Then we can go back over the top of it
to restore the green color, the Old Olive color, and the dark is maintained. If
you look at that from further away you can see in general it's a little darker
down here and light up towards where the flowers are. Now look at these two
examples, one more time with the Daffodil Delight.
I used Smoky Slate to add a little bit of darkness down here, and with this one
I did the Crumb Cake. They both work and give a little bit of a different
look there, so you can try them both and see which which works best for the color
scheme that you are using. And finally I'm going to show you blending with a
different stamp set with a beautiful butterfly. This butterfly is actually on
the cover of the catalog and from a stamp set called Beautiful Day. I'm
going to color in this butterfly using this color palette right here: Bermuda
Bay, Pool Party, and Daffodil Delight.
So same with this one, I'm going to start off by filling in the entire area with
Daffodil Delight just to give a basic
place to start. Then I'll go right to the darkest Bermuda Bay and do
the edges. Now you can either do straight like that, or sometimes it helps to do a
little circular coloring in like this-- makes it a little easier to blend. Now
we've got our lightest and our darkest and we just need to fill in, meet in the
middle with all of the colors. I'm going to add the darker Daffodil Delight, and
this one is going to be a little bit more of an accent so I'll just kind of
do a little bit here to just what I think would look good. You want some
of that darker yellow, but you don't want it to be following the same pattern of
the other ones, the same circular pattern around the edges. And then the final step
is to go back with the lighter Daffodil Delight and blend.
I love how two colors like turquoise and yellow can blend perfectly together.
Don't limit yourself with certain color palettes; try all of them and see
what you like. Absolutely gorgeous! I love the way that looks, kind of like a
stained glass window with the beautiful colors behind. I did the same image
with one other--with, actually, two other-- color palettes. I started out by wanting
to use Rich Razzleberry because I love purple, but I couldn't decide whether to
use Night of Navy or Calypso Coral with it. So look at how nice they look
together. I thought I'll just have to try them both on the same butterfly and see
how that goes. And here is how this butterfly turned out. I probably wouldn't put this on one project, but I was practicing and so I could see that I
would love both color schemes. They both look beautiful together.
This time what I did different from the last butterfly was to fill in this
centerpiece with all Rich Razzleberry, but then my last step was to go back
with the Color Lifter and color in this area right here to kind of lighten it up
a little bit. So that it gave it a little bit of a highlight there. So we'll use
your Color Lifter to add highlights wherever it makes sense to brighten
things up. And it is also great for blending, as well, keep that in mind.
Enjoy using your Stampin' Blends and expressing your creativity through
blending all of the colors together. Don't limit yourself with the color
schemes--try them all and see what you like! Now if you don't have Stampin' Blends
yet, order them today through your local demonstrator or through stampinup.com.
You'll be blending before you know it! Thanks so much. Have fun!
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