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Watercoloring With Stampin' Up! Blender Pens 101 Free Download

06/25/2025

Hello. And welcome to Creative Card Closet. My name is Lisa Brown and I am an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Today I am taking you back to an easy technique of watercoloring with our Blender Pens. You can create some really beautiful projects that look like it took you hours to create. And you don't need a hundred different products to do it.

Do you love to watercolor? Have you tried? I do and I have... but sometimes you have to watch the paper you are using, how much water, are the colors bleeding or running together. Well, a fantastic alternative to achieving the watercolor look by using Stampin' Up! Blender Pens.

Easy Peasy...

stamp an image with an outline in choice of color
then grab a color you want to fill your image with; can be the same as your outline color and something totally different
just squeeze your Classic Stampin' Pad to pool ink in the lid. Open ink pad and grab the color from the lid using your Blender Pen and color your image

The special solution inside the pen gives you a soft, smooth watercolor effect—and you don’t even need water! Magic!

I told you, easy peasy! I hope you try this technique with the Blender Pens.

For stopping by, I have a FREE PDF tutuorial and supply list on how to make the two cards shown in above picture. Download Watercoloring with Blends PDF #stampwithlisabrown

Product List

Blender Pens

[102845]

$14.00

Extraordinary Flora Bundle (English)

[165245]

$43.00

Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

[161678]

$9.00

Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[161665]

$9.00

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[147094]

$9.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

$9.00

Very Vanilla 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166784]

$14.00

Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[133679]

$14.00

Basic Beige 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[164511]

$14.00

Lemon Lolly 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[161720]

$14.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$30.00

Antique Pearls

[164679]

$8.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.25

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We BEE Stamping TEAM Blog Hop Highlighting SU! New Catalog

06/01/2025

Welcome to this months team blog hop featuring the new 2025-2026 Annual Catalog! So many great new colors and products.

I am sharing projects made with the Beautiful Gallery Suite Collection. The collection has two stamp and die bundles, 6x6 Designer Paper, ribbon, embossing folder and embellishments.

I created three (3) cards using one (1) sheet of the Beautiful Gallery 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper, which is gorgeous! Here is the pattern I used:

I cut into three pieces watching to cut in between the florals:

Cut across bottom at 1-1/4" x 6" (then trimmed to 1-1/4 x 5-1/4) capturing the small cluster of flowers at the bottom
2 pieces cut to 3" x 4-3/4"
- I left one at the above size
- The other I ended up cutting into three strips: 1" x 4-3/4

Above picture I used Petal Pink Blends to color the florals and a Blending Bush to color the stems with Mossy Meadow. This is the one with the three 1" strips of DSP. I cut the frame in Basic Beige card stock and popped with Stampin' Dimensionals. I also used Secret Sea Ink to lightly stamp some florals around the frame.

The above card has a layer of Crumb Cake Two-Tone 12" x 12" cardstock that I ran through with the Damask Designs Embossing Folder. I then took some sandpaper and sanded over the damask details to make then stand out. The floral is colored with Blends in Petal Pink and Mossy Meadow.

The Basic Beige CS layer is embossed with the Damask Designs embossing folder. I cut a triangle piece of Mossy Meadow CS (measured up 3" on each side of 1/4 sheet of CS) and then die cut with a die in the suite. I think this is my favorite out of the three cards. How about you, which is your favorite?

Well, that is my share. Let's buzzz on over to Karen Burke and see what she is sharing: