 Hey stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey, part of the Stamp and Jill Creative team, and today I'm excited to share with you a tip for using one of our products in the annual catalog, the Blender Pens. These are something that I've been around for a very long time, but often we get questions on what can you do with that and what do you use it for. So I wanted to just give some quick tips on ways that we use them or things that they're good to use for. So I wanted to just give a little tutorial about them. The Blender Pens come in a pack of three and they're really great for starting out if you don't have a lot of markers or a lot of stamp pads. They're just a really great supplement to have to be able to transfer color in a lot of different ways. So I want to show you a few of those different ways. We are going to start by coloring with different inks. So if you have a few different ink pads but you don't have markers to go along with them in the same color, you can use a Blender Pen. So you would take your real red ink pad and squish some color right onto the lid. I just kind of push push push. If it's kind of hard for you to push push push, you can use your elbow and get a little more strength and then open it up and you can see this ink that you get on the inside on the top of the stamp pad. Another way you can do it is just to use the reinker and put a few drops in there if you would rather do it that way. Either way works. So then you'll take your Blender Pen and it has two sides so you can use either side. This side you can see I've used already so it's stained but it doesn't currently have any color on it. The Blender Pen is just a watermark type pen so the ink in it it's not really ink it's just kind of a water-based pen so it when you use it without any color or ink it's just clear. So what we're going to do is we're going to color our ladybugs here in three different colors. We're going to start with real red which I have here and you just pick up the ink with the marker and color like you would with any marker and you can see as the ink runs out of the marker it will the color will get lighter and lighter so if you want more color go back grab some more color and keep coloring just like that okay but then say you want to make a card that has three different color ladybugs on it and you want to and you don't have the markers to do it so you just get all of that red out. Man I picked up a lot of red ink in there. You get all of that red out of there and then you choose your next color so we're going to do Blushing Bright. Now I know in this stamp set this is the Hello Ladybug stamp set you always could stamp the the image but this is just to give you an idea of how to use these so pretend that's not there just for this video so we're going to do the same we're going to pick up that Blushing Bright color and just color our ladybug and you can do it all with that same blender pen it makes it really nice oops still had some red in there so we're going to have a little reddish pinkish ladybug here I must have picked up a lot of red anyway you get the idea the next color we're going to do is Mango Melody so I'm going to try and get all of that color out again or I could always go to my other side and use my clean side so again I'm going to squish my stamp pad get my color on the top pick up that color and color my ladybug so it's nice when you are just starting out and you aren't like some of us super avid crafters that have all of the different marker colors this is a great way to get all of the marker colors at once okay okay the next way I want to show you how it's nice to use the blender pens is when you need to fix a little boo-boo that you make when you stamp so sometimes we stamp with really bold images like this ladybug here and when sometimes when you stamp with a really bold image it's hard to get the entire image to ink perfectly the first time and sometimes you can just re-stamp it and that's fine but sometimes you don't want to so I'm gonna try and get a boo-boo here see how I didn't get all the ink on there one of the things you can do with a blender pen that is easier than a marker is just pick up that color again from your lid top and just come and color in the boo-boo areas just like that you can use a marker but I have found that the marker just has a different tone than using the same ink from the re-inker so let me show you if I came in with the marker here's the real red marker do you see how when I color on there it gives that darker tone so it still kind of looks like a boo-boo but with the blender pen it matches a whole lot better so I like to use the blender pen for if I make a boo-boo on a card okay the next way that I found that you can use a blender pen this one's really cool so sometimes you want to do a saying and you want to do two different colors on that saying the first color blushing bright and the next color real red so we're gonna stamp this whole saying in blushing bright but I want that wish to be real red you can take your blender pen and you can just go and pick up all of that color on the wish now these two colors they're the same tone so it wouldn't be a huge deal if you just colored the red over it but say you're doing a Christmas card and you have red and green you can't just color over the green with red because you'll get brown and it won't be pretty so just take that color off and then come in with your marker or if you wanted you could use your blender pen again if you didn't have the red marker use your blender pen and the ink on the pad and just color in that wish huff on it and stamp it down and you have your two tones saying super fun okay the next way I want to show you is when you stamp an image usually I like to think of like stamping a flower but I didn't have a line art flower so we're just going to do use our ladybug again because that's what I have out right now you can stamp your ladybug or your flower and then you can come in with your blender pen and just use the ink from the stamped image to color that in okay and it just gives it just a little more color than the white just like that so you have kind of like a pink and red ladybug that's one other option okay my last option is with the watercolor pencils so we have these watercolor pencils that stamp it up carries you can color with water pencils and then you can blend it all together so we're going to stamp in stays on our ladybug just like that and then we're going to color that ladybug in with our red watercolor pencil just like that and you can see it gives it a much lighter look than with ink it all depends on what what kind of style you're going for and then you can come in with your blender pen and just kind of smooth all of it out so this was with the real red watercolor pencil just gives a much lighter look for a very different idea on a card so stamping up blender pens are a great way to try your hand at watercoloring techniques especially if you're just starting out and you're a little more nervous than using a full aqua painter july is world water coloring month so it's a perfect time to grab some of these and try your hand if you have any questions make sure you put them in the comments below or you can always email us at sudemonstrator at gmail.com thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next week for another watch at weekly Wednesday