Mini DIY Watercolor Books + Giveaway!

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My friend Nina at Waffle Flower is such a genius. Once again, she's created something I didn't know I needed and now can't live without - her incredible Color Combos bundle!

Now the idea for this bundle is that it's a great way to organize ink swatches, cardstock, embossing powder and ink blending combos!

There are square stamps and dies, tag dies, geometric shapes that fill up the squares and a ton more. It's really amazing.

When I was in Phoenix and got to go to her office, I saw this bundle and INSTANTLY knew what I was going to do with it, because at the same time I saw the bundle, I saw these amazing binding disks and binding dies! I could not wait to get home and start working on the idea in my head.

In between then and now, of course the world has gone a little sideways, and it turns out that this idea came in super handy for basically being on house arrest!

I used the color combo stamp on watercolor paper, and then cut it with one of the smaller disc binding dies from this set - there are two sizes of dies - the other ones are here. I did twenty of these to make myself a little daily painting book! IS THIS NOT THE CUTEST THING EVERRRR? I loved it so much I dropped one off at my sister's house for her to use. The little binders are genius - so easy to get the pages on and off with. SO many possibilities! FYI I took advantage of a Blick sale on watercolor paper and got this 12x18 pad. I cut 8 2.25 x 12 strips and then stamped the frame on those and cut them with the smaller die in the A7 set so that gave me 32 pages. I cut 8 more and made a 20 page book for me and a 20 page book for my sister.

AND - this is all 15% off for today only here.

Now let's contemplate my little fox! A few years ago I started painting daily in a desk calendar, but I couldn't keep up. I love this new format with no date pressure. Just flip to the next day's page and paint! I just quickly did a happy fox enjoying the sun - you'll see it in the video below.

Here's the video!

Now - to help Nina celebrate her 6th anniversary, I have MY Top 6 Picks of Waffle Flower!

1) The Color Combos Full Bundle! PS - if you want color combo inspiration there are hundreds HERE and HERE
2) Discs + Disc Bound Dies
3) This adorable set and everything else by Kamo.
4) These stunning florals by Karla Jodoin.
5) This oversized Hello combo - ESPECIALLY the "sassy pants" that I used here.
6) The water media mat + the watercolor swatches bundle + palette paper - or as I call it, the LYDIA bundle - I thought this was one of the top crafty product groupings to come out in the last ten years! Did you know the media mat comes in a mini version now? SO perfect for cardmaking. And the palette paper will keep it bright white forever!

Here are the other two cards I made with my picks!!!

This is JUST THE CUTEST set and I combined it with the gorgeous oversized hello. You can see my blog post with details on this card here.

And the gorgeous tulips! I LOVE these, and they were a joy to no-line watercolor with Fadeout Ink and Daniel Smith watercolor. They do come with matching dies.

Here are all the products I used today, and then stay tuned below for BIG giveaways below and some coupon codes!

A7 Disc Bound Die [ WFF ] A2 Disc Bound Die [ WFF ] Color Combos Bundle [ WFF ] Waffle Flower 201911 Disc Bound Bundle [ WFF ] Binding Discs - Mint [ WFF ] Color Swatches Bundle [ WFF ] Waffle Flower Mini Water Media Mat [ WFF ] Waffle Flower Water Media Mat [ WFF ] Premium Palette Paper [ WFF ] Oversized Hello Combo [ WFF ] Yippee Combo [ WFF ] Tulips Combo [ WFF ] Fabriano Artistico Extra White... [ BLIC ] The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World... [ BLR ] Fadeout No Line coloring Detail Ink [ INK ] VersaFine Clair Ink Pad, Nocturne -... [ ELH | SSS ] Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors [ BLIC ] Escoda Versatil Brushes, Travel Round... [ UTR | BLIC | INK ] Da Vinci Cosmotop Sable Mix F Brushes... [ BLIC | ELH ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSP | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | UNT ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | ELH | CST | ART ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] My Favorite Watercolor Sketchbook [ UTR ] Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two... [ SSS | MFT ] LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for... [ BRG ] Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies [ ART ] Waffle Flower 6 Year Anniversary [ WFF ] Last Chance – 25% off with code... [ WFF ]

Now to celebrate this momentous anniversary, they are giving away THREE $100 shopping sprees to three lucky commenters. You can comment here, on the Waffle Flower Blog, or on any of the blogs on the inspiration hop. Be sure and leave me your comment by the end of the day on April 8th - 11:59 PM and the winner will be announced on their blog on April 10th!

AND you can get 25% off anything on this page with code LASTCHANCE25.

Loveyameanitbye.

CURRENT COUPON CODES
25% off everything on THIS PAGE with code LASTCHANCE25
15% off anything at Marker Universe or any of their other sites - Understandblue15.
10% off the whole store at A Colorful Life Designs - LydiaFan10
 Arkon stand link  - click the banner below!

Eclipse Technique on a Gel Press Print

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Howdy friends! I created a card on one of my daily pandemic Facebook live sessions last week, and I thought I would share it with you!

I started with piece of cardstock that I used as a brayer cleaner during a Gel Press session - those often turn into really pretty backgrounds. 

I stamped this gorgeous background stamp on it, and added highlights with a white Luminance pencil and a white gel pen. Then I die cut the "celebrate" out of it. In my usual style, I die cut it CROOKED. But it was easy to fix that with the card design itself! I just trimmed the background down a bit and then tilted it on the card front! I cut four or five extra sentiments and stacked them for an eclipse technique and then added these sequins.

You can see the raised portion better here.

Want to see something fun for the kiddos? I saw this at Creativation and the people demoing were so fun. It's a DIY Iron on system - so you use these special markers to create your design, and then you can transfer it to T-shirts, bags, even stuff like coffee cups. Super fun. AND, they gave me a coupon code for you and free shipping - FRIENDS10 will get you 10% off everything except the heat press if you shop here, with free shipping on orders over $75. I made a tumbler in their booth and it was really fun.

Hope you're not too stir crazy! Here are all the supplies I used today and ALL my coupon codes are below! Loveyameanitbye.

Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp PRETTY... [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp CELEBRATE Wafer Die... [ SSS ] Luminance White Pencil [ SSS ] Sakura CLASSIC WHITE Fine Line 05... [ SSS ] Little Things From Lucy's Cards IGLOO... [ SSS ] Art Anthology BIG CRAFT MAT 24x36 311473 [ SSS ] Heavy Base Weight Card Stock- White [ GNK ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSP | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | UNT ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Crafter's Companion GEMINI... [ SSS ] Gel Press 5 x 7 REUSABLE GEL PRINTING... [ SSS | BLIC ] Inovart Pro-Roller Brayer [ BLIC | BLIC ] LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for... [ BRG ] Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding... [ AMZUS ] Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675 [ SSS | ART | AMZUS ] Teflon Bone Folder - Ellen Hutson LLC [ ELH | SSS ] Scor-Pal MINI SCOR-BUDDY Scoring... [ SSS ] Essentials by Ellen Storage... [ ELH ] Die Storage - Clear Storage Pockets... [ CHC ] XL Stamp Storage Pockets [ ELH ] Mermaid tidy towel case and glue... [ ETS ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | CST ] Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies [ ART ] Amazon.com : Hammermill 102467 Copy... [ AMZUS ]

CURRENT COUPON CODES
10% off IrononINK HERE with code FRIENDS10
15% off anything at Marker Universe or any of their other sites - Understandblue15.
10% off the whole store at A Colorful Life Designs - LydiaFan10 Arkon stand link below!