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Stampin’ Scrap.  Over on the forum we have started a Christmas Tag Swap and the Secret Santa 08.  Christmas isn’t that far away (scray thought) lol!!! so why not sign up and get into the christmas spirit.  The Christmas tag Swap, you make tags for your Christmas gifts and then we will swap them so you get different ones back.  These can be used for what they are intended for or just a swap to keep. Secret Santa is where everyone gets an elf to buy for and sends it off. Check it out here.

Be sure to check back for the 12 days of Christmas….coming soon! Tell your friends as there will be giveaways again this year. 

I just love Markers!!! They were one of my first purchases as a newbie stamper many years ago and  they are still very well used in my crafting.

I came up with a list of all the things that you can use Brush Markers for: -

- Colouring

- Inking rubber stamps

- Thumping technique

- Colouring Ribbon

- Doodling

- Hightlighting/Shadowing an image

- Watercolouring with blender pens or aqua painters or water spritzing

- Colour Spritzing

- Edging Cardstock

- Journalling

I know I will have missed some.

I have used some of the techniques above in the tutorial today and will happily answer questions on any of the others.

This is the card we are going to make: -

Take a piece of watercolour paper cut bigger than your chosen image. I have chosen the solid flower from Stampin’ Up!’s Bodacious Bouquet Set.

Choose markers from your collection with colours that blend together nicely.
The Stampin’ Write Markers have a brush at one end and a journalling tip at the other. Using the side of the brush tip colour in the stamp. I used Summer Sun for the centre spots then More Mustard, Really Rust and Ruby Red outwards from the centre of the flower petals.

Hold the coloured stamp about an arms length away from a fine mist spray bottle and gently spray the stamp with water. The trick is not to drench the coloured stamp. Then stamp onto your watercolour paper. The wetter the rubber the more the colours will run together. Experiment to see what works best for the look you are trying to achieve.

Stamp your flower image on a piece of scrap paper. I used a second stamped image. Cut around the flower just inside the edge of the image. I only cut around the petals where I knew I wanted the leaves to show. Place the mask over your stamped image on the watercolour paper.

With my Garden Green Stampin’ Write Marker I coloured in the Bodacious Bouquer small leaf stamp. When you ink a stamp with a marker you need to breath over the image before you stamp it to keep the ink wet.

Stamp the leaf image over the mask and watercolour paper in the desired position. Re ink with the marker and stamp again. Remove the mask from the flower.The leaves look to be sitting behind the flower.Take the journalling end of the markers and use the matching colour to run around the outside of the image to define it.
Lining up the outside of the image against the inside of the Fiskars Cutter’s blue bar trim the image.

Using the side of a marker brush tip edge your watercolour paper with colour. I used Really Rust. Not necessary but is a nice finishing touch.

 
Mat the flower image onto contrasting cardstock and trim using the Fiskars trimmer.

Adhere your flower image to a card blank. I used a 10cmx10cm square of Really Rust cardstock.

Choose a salutation for the base of your card. I want Get Well Wishes, but the perfect word stamp has an image as well.

Use the side of the brush tip on your chosen marker to ink only the part of the image that you want to use. It is important to make sure that the whole image is super clean and dry before you start to avoid transferring unwanted residue to your card.

Breathe on the inked stamp to rewet the ink, postion and stamp. You’re all done.

I would love to see the papercraft projects that you make using Markers. Please post them to the forum Gallery.

Thank You!

Starting November the Girls night in challenges are changing to Girls night in monthly sketch challenge so here is the sketch for November….

Every month a different sketch will be added to here and the forum and you have till the end of the month to have it loaded into the gallery to be into win a $20 voucher from the shoppe. 

Happy scraplifting!

Sweet Cakes

Bind-it-all and DreamKuts

Is coming to Stampin’ Scrap. Starting 1st December the designers and myself have some very cool ideas for you again this year with give aways and more.  Be sure to check back soon. 

This month we started our monthly sketch designer and Beverley Cunningham was our sketch designer for this month.  She has done two sketches and two layouts around her sketches using product Stampin’ Scrap sent her and her own products. This is what she has come up with…..

Sketch #1

Sketch #2

If you want to become our Monthly Sketch Designer check out the forum for all the details.

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Tis the Season Range!

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