Bee Colourful Inside The Lines - Sale-A-Bration Sneak Peek!

I just love this Designer Series Paper!  Not just because it's FREE (during Sale-A-Bration with a product order of $90), not just because it's so pretty - it's just so much fun!  Colouring in is sooo therapeutic!  There are three 12' square sheets each of four designs in the pack and they're black and white - it's up to us to add the colour - if we wish .... it looks great just black and white too!

The Stampin' Up Watercolour Pencils are so easy to use!  I'd coloured an entire 12" square sheet in no time!

I roughly coloured this sheet with the new Stampin' Up Watercolour Pencils and blended with an Aqua Painter.  Click here to see the colouring process.

I used Foam Adhesive Strips to pop up the top layers on this card for dimension and also to pop up the bee

The Dragonfly Deams bundle goes with this paper perfectly!  It will be available from 4 January in the new Occasions Catalogue.  If you were to purchase that bundle plus a pack of Foam Adhesive Strip, the Inside the Lines paper could be yours for FREE (or any other product of your choice from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue)!

Not colours I normally use, especially together, but they've created a lovely cheerful, multi-purpose card!

I've included a photo below of the process I used for the gorgeous bumble bee.

• I stamped the bee once onto Window Sheet using Stazon ink and then cut it out by hand - carefully around the wings and fairly roughly around the body.  
• Then I stamped again onto Whisper White cardstock using Basic Black ink.  
• After colouring in the yellow bits (I used a Watercolour Pencil but any form of colouring is fine), I cut around the body and glued it on top of the wings.  
• I curled up the wings a little by wrapping them around something thin.  I happen to have a quilling tool that I used but I would think something like a wooden skewer would work just as well. 
• I stuck the bee to the card with some adhesive foam for some depth.

The bee has lovely shiny, transparent wings thanks to the Window Sheet

Creating a bumble bee with transparent wings.

The bee at the top of the image is ready for assembly.

Sale-A-Bration runs from 4 January to 31 March - during which time for every $90 of product ordered, you can select one FREE item from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue!

To learn how to make the most of Sale-A-Bration visit my Sale-A-Bration page or contact me.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - To visit my online store, click on one of the product images below (Australian Residents only)

Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock

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Pacific Point A4 Card Stock

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Whisper White A4 Card Stock

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Window Sheets

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Old Olive A4 Card Stock

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Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

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Aqua Painters

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Foam Adhesive Strips

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Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

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Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

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Inside the Lines with Copper Wing Dragonfly

I just love this new pack of black and white paper perfect for colouring!  Colouring in is just so therapeutic!   I had fun colouring with the new Watercolour Pencils and an Aqua Painter but anything would work: watercolours, inks, markers, acrylics ...  What could be better than that?  It's FREE with a $90 purchase!!!  Contact me for more information about Sale-A-Bration.

I coloured an entire sheet.  On one half I left the background white and on the other half, I coloured the background blue.  

At the end of this post I've included photos of the watercolour pencils blended with Clear Wink of Stella and the Blender Pen

I also experimented with blending the watercolour pencils with a Blender Pen and with a Clear Wink of Stella.  The Blender Pen worked like magic.  It moved the colour around so smoothly and easily.  The Wink of Stella didn't work out so well for me but I think it would have been better if I'd filled the area with watercolour pencil rather than trying to blend it out.

The bee is part of the printing on this beautiful paper, the dragonfly has been cut out and added.

This is the first card I made with my freshly coloured paper.  I added a dragon fly with copper embossed vellum wings.This paper goes perfectly with the Dragonfly Dreams Bundle!

The coloured card front is applied to the white base card with dimensionals for added interest.

I propped the wings up on little pieces of  Dimensionals for added pop.

Graphic illustration of just how easy it is to use the Stampin' Up! Watercolour Pencils!

The photo above gives an idea of how simple it is to colour in this paper - no special knowledge or technique is required to get a nice effect.  I coloured in very roughly with the watercolour pencils and the Aqua Painter smoothed it all out!

On Wednesday (28 December) I'll be sharing the card I made with the area with the blue background.

This flower was coloured in with the Watercolour Pencils and smoothed over with a Blender Pen

This flower was coloured with the Watercolour Pencils in exactly the same way then blended with Clear Wink of Stella

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - To visit my online store, click on one of the product images below (Australian Residents only)

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

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Old Olive A4 Card Stock

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Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

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Aqua Painters

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Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Versamark Pad

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White Vellum A4 Card Stock

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Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

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Stampin' Dimensionals

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