Watercolor Technique With Stamparatus! Plus 10 MUST Haves From Stampin’ Up!

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Two things today ~ My Top Ten  List and this fun Stamparatus tutorial.  So make sure you see both!

First – make sure to take note that I used several of my Top Tens on this card and will use more on the final Sale-a-bration series card.

You have a few days left to get free product (the Dahlia stamps today are one of the free choices!)

If you don’t have anything on my list then now is the time to get it!

My Top Ten Essentials For New Stampers

During Sale-a-bration it’s always a nice time to stock up on some of the things on your wish list.  When getting tools it is fun to be able to get a free stamp set, die or papers along with the essentials.

I had a really hard time narrowing it down to just 10 (so check out the honorable mentions!) and I left things off that would have been on but that they are on backorder.

Let’s take a look at my list!

1.  Cut & Emboss Machine.  I could not craft without mine!  Getting it now and you get 2 free Sale-a-bration items!
2. Stamparatus.  Makes lining up images for special techniques, line stamping or stamping multiples of the same a breeze.  Plus you can get away with much fewer blocks.
3. Ink Refills by Color Family.  Refill your pads (a huge difference if you have not done it for a while!) But even better all the fun techniques you can make with them.  Buy them in a whole family and get the discount over single bottle purchases
4. Stamp Pads by the Color Family  – purchase the entire set and get the discount
5. Block Bundle! Stop searching for the right size block or moving a stamp every time you need a different one. The bundle comes with one of each size AND also discounted over getting them each individually.
6. Shammy – my favorite low cost way to keep all your stamps, stamparatus and water painters clean!
7. Water Painters – only 1 of our coloring tools made the top 10 – I chose the painters because there are so many ways to use them.  They take a bit of practice, but once you have it down – they are fabulous!
8. Champagne Rhinestones – I choose one embellishment that will work with nearly all your projects.  The Champagne color is subtle and shines off the other elements on the card.  They are bling, but not too much.
9. Twine Essentials – for my 1 ribbon I chose the twine.  This pack includes 5 neutral colors and like the rhinestones will work on many of your projects.
10. Shimmery White Cardstock – no question if I could just pick ONE cardstock then this is it.  Subtle shimmer makes it pretty and the shimmer coating makes it durable under more coloring techniques that Basic White.

 

I have some honorable mentions as well.  We all start with stamps, inks and papers.  But as your collection grows all of these things will get you even more out of all of your stamps.

Honorable Mentions

1. Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo – you can stamp on the white, a fun twine with silver accents and gingham!  One pack of ribbon will meet lots of needs
2. Silver & Clear Epoxy Gems – lots of shapes and you can color on both the clear AND the silver with your Blends….so any color of Blend you have – you will have that color of rhinestone!
3. Many Marvelous Markers – Get the entire set of colors (less in colors) in one great box.  I have had my markers for DECADES and they still hold up well! 40 colors and the case has extra spots for your In Color markers
4. Blending Brushes – add color with so little effort
5. Blender Pens – use the clear pens to blend ink from your pads, refills and watercolor pencils for an easy watercolor look that uses no water
6. Stitched So Sweetly dies – a great mix of scalloped and stitched rectangles and fun label shapes

 

Product List

 

The Stamparatus is great for this fun watercolor technique.  It’s a riff on the no line watercolors.

 

 

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