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Friday, 30 May 2025

How to do block stamping with acrylic stamping blocks

handmade card showing the block stamping technique

Happy Friday all, even though it is almost over for many. You probably wouldn't think of using the blocks you pop your stamps onto as stamps themselves, but you'll learn below that they too can be used to create fun, inked colour to your card making and possibly scrapbook pages.

You can learn different ways to use your acrylic blocks by touring our blog hop where several international demonstrators are sharing their take on this quick and easy technique.

You will love the individuality of each custom made piece using this technique and by varying colours, spritzing and just stamping style you can make lots of original backgrounds and projects.

I find this a very quick technique, apart from possibly a little drying time and whether you use a little, a lot or no water. You will also want to revisit my previous post about creating water colour washes using markers and blocks and perhaps you'll combine these two techniques. It is certainly a bunch of products that allow you to experiment and adapt to suit your own needs without needing to be a rocket scientist!

Have fun with it and enjoy my short video to show you how.

The best thing about this is you can use any colours you want to and can create male, female, kids cards using all sorts of stamp images to suit the occasion. What will you choose?

block stamping handmade card using ink stamps and stamping acrylic blocks

My supply list is at the bottom of the post if you need anything to get you going and you can visit the rest of the ideas by clicking on the icons below to visit all my lovely friends and their ideas on this tutorial theme.

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Keep stamping

Zoe x

Supply List

acrylic blocks

Happy Hibiscus Hybrid Embossing Folder

Stylish Shapes dies

Eyelet 3D embossing folder

Ink pads

Summer Splash

printed laser cut sentiments for scrapbooking and cardmaking

Greetings for All - Mix and Match Ephemera sentiment pack

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Friday, 27 December 2024

How to create a watercolour wash for papercraft

watercolour wash technique for card making and diy handmade cards

Hello there and welcome to the final Totally Techniques Blog Hop for 2024. Our blog hop is here for you to visit several blogs sharing a similar technique to give you lots of tips and ideas for your card making. This technique will also serve you well as a memory keeper journalling events in your life or scrapbooking. You don't need many supplies for my version just waterbased markers, card, a stamp block and a water spritzer. You can find the items and colours I used detailed in the video and below on my supply list.

I love how simply you can start with this technique and how you can adapt it with layers or embellishiments and stamping to suit your personal design. It's quick to create although sometimes you may want to allow time for your watercolour wash to dry before using it. You can use a heat tool to speed up this process also if you can't wait.

If you love the Stampin' Write Markers you might want to look at a speical offer coming on 7 January 2025 where you can take up option one to earn 2 free sets of 10 marker pens. Please contact me for more details using the subscribe button above for more information.

Here is a short video tutorial of how to do the simple technique I have used on the background on the circle on this card.

I hope the festive season if you celebrate has been happy and full of fun and I wish everyone who reads this a happy, healthy and successful 2025. See you again soon.

Thanks for visiting

Hugs Zoe x

Supply List

Kiss of Texture Stamp Set 164759 available from 7 January 2025

Sweetly Scripted

Stampin' Write Markers

Different colour packs available

ink pads

Stylish Shape Dies

Purple Fine Shimmer Gems

Ink/Water Spritzer bottles

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Watercolour Wash Technique with Stampin' Up! Re Inkers

water colour wash technique with picture this dies stampin up uk

Welcome, how are you today?

If you are visiting my blog for the first time, I hope it won't be the last and that you enjoy seeing my various makes including this super cute card using the Awesome Otters stamp set. Cute isn't everyone's thing, but I really think that even the most non cutesy person could cope with this set in their stash when you can make a simple card like this and you don't even need to colour them. Colouring also is a put off for some with open images like these. I used to call myself a non colourer inner, I did really, but I think I'm improving not only in having a go, but also in getting better results. The trick as with anything is practice. That said all I've coloured today is the party hats and they really didn't take any skill.

The colour in this card is in the watercolour wash which I created on watercolour paper using water painters, ink and water.

I started with the watercolour paper roughly taped to my worktop with painters masking tape. I intentionally used a piece of paper bigger than I needed so that if the ink spread under the tape it didn't matter as I would cut the piece to the required size once coloured and dry. Once taped down I squeezed the water to the brush head and painted across a section of the paper horizontally. I added ink by picking it up from drops from re-inker bottles on a stamp block. I had three colours and as I worked up the paper with the different colours they created the extra colours as the water and ink blended. My starting colours were Coastal Cabana, Mango Melody and Polished Pink. Once I'd watercolour washed the whole sheet I carefully removed the tape so as not to tear beyond the white border into my coloured section and allowed it to dry completely before using the Picture This dies to create the windows for the stamped images you see. Don't discard the die cut circles as I'll soon show you another technique using them.

I used a very soft pencil to lightly mark the circles with the colour paper placed on the card base where I intended to stick it. I then stamped the images taking care not to stamp beyond the borders of the coloured layer and also not to enter another circle. Again I made sure my ink was dry before using an eraser to remove the pencil circles.

With left over ink on the stamping block I used a blender pen to lift the ink to colour the party hat spots.

This would make a fun card for children or adults. It will also bring a smile to your face as the stamp set could be your free gift with a purchase of £45 before P&P from my online shop.

Don't forget to come back to find out what I did with the die cut circles.

Keep safe and keep stamping

Hugs Zoe x