Card by Paula Cannon for Vintage and Fresh featuring milk can image from Country Home stamp set, colored with Blends

Using Stampin’ Blends with Country Home

May 10, 2019|Posted in: Creativity

I’m so glad the Country Home stamp set will carryover to the new Annual Catalog.

This is a card I made last fall using Stampin’ Blends to color. It’s the milk can image paired with the cotton plants that I used for this card. It has the same tall focal image, but this time I used a horizontal band to balance the card design.

First, lets talk about coloring with Stampin’ Blends. These are dual tipped alcohol markers (one is a thin tip and the other a brush tip).

You can color flat images without the lines that you often get with regular markers. But they are called Blends for a reason! Each color comes in a Light shade and a Dark shade. Typically, you’ll color the entire image with the light shade, then layer on shading with the darker color. You can then go back to the light shade or use the color lifter to do more blending. Sometimes I just add a second or third layer of the same light marker to create depth and shading. You can blend with colors that have similar hues, as well. The best ink to use with the Blends is Momento ink.

Here, I used Smoky Slate in light and dark to color the milk can and create the shading. To color something like this, imagine a light shining on the front of the can, then go a bit darker along the sides to give the illusion of depth. The flower colors are Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and the leaves are Old Olive.

The card base is rich razzleberry. Once again I used my favorite Tin Tile embossing folder for some background texture. (Also carrying over!) The horizontal band in the background is actually three layers. To start, I used a piece of the Country Lane Designer Series Paper with a faint pattern in rich razzleberry. The next layer is the Chicken Wire Elements from last fall’s Holiday catalog. Last, I wrapped some Braided Linen trim with a simple knot. (One more carryover item.)