 Hey stampers! Welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey part of the Stampin' Jill creative team and today I'm excited to share with you a fun technique called the faux watercolor technique using the Stampin' Blends featuring the circle sayings stamp set and punch. You can see in here all of these round circle sayings and images that coordinate with our new two and three eighths inch circle punch. Super cute, super fun and who doesn't love having a circle punch back. So I want to show you some ideas using this stamp set but then I want to show you a little stepped up idea making it kind of a watercolor blends technique. So here's some samples that we came up with using the stamp set in a more typical way to use blends. You can see how cute it is those cute cupcakes and the waves. So much fun and here's some that are just stamped not using the blends but I have a fun idea using the blends to make a more watercolor-y look. So I'm going to start by stamping with our bubble bath three cupcakes. I'm going to start with my middle cupcake and then I'm going to stamp two more on either side. Whenever I'm stamping a set of three I like to start with the middle and then do the side second so that I can kind of measure where I want those to be and then I'm going to add a cute saying in the starry sky just happy birthday right over my cupcakes just like that. Now this doesn't look like a typical image that you would use stamp and blends on but the cool thing is we're going to use them and kind of cover up the pink that was stamped and it's just going to look like you drew those cupcakes on your own okay. I'm going to start by coloring our frosting with the bubble bath blends. I'm going to use the dark bubble bath and just kind of outline the frosting just like that maybe give a little bit of shading here on this side and then I'm going to fill the rest of that in with the light bubble bath and then I like to just kind of go over that again with the dark just to really re-emphasize those lines just like that okay and then for this cupcake bottom I'm going to use our lemon lolly blends I'm going to do kind of the same thing I'm just going to outline the image with dark lemon lolly and one of the cool things about a watercolor look is that it is not necessarily perfect so you don't have to perfectly outline that then I'm just going to color that in again with the light lemon lolly just like that and then go over it again with the dark just to really re-emphasize those lines okay and then our cake color is going to be light pecan pie and I'm just going to kind of color that in just like that okay and the cool thing is it looks like you just drew and colored this cute cupcake when you actually stamped it so then we're going to do another color we'll choose calypso coral for our cupcake liner this time and just do that same technique I'm going to use the dark and do my liner color it in with my light do my chocolate cake re-line that with the dark just like that and then I'll show you one more time that cute frosting just outline it with that bubble bath and you could use any color of frosting really that you want but pink makes me happy just go over that again and you can see the cool thing about blends is that once it completely dries and kind of sets it gets more of that watercolor look you can see there okay so let me show you the finished card here I added some designer series paper finished off my last one there with some balmy blue cupcake liner and so cute it looks almost like you drew those little cupcakes yourself and really the stamp just helps you along the way so when you typically when you use stamp and blends you color or you stamp it in a memento black ink just like this and then you can color that image in and this is what it'll look like super cute very fun but you can see the difference there you don't have that black outline color like you do by stamping the image in that bubble bath because it gets covered up with using the blends so that's how you get kind of that more watercolor-y look from your blends okay I wanted to show you one using the other image that I love in this stamp set this is this cute little wave image and I'm going to stamp it this time in daffodil delight okay just like that and I'm gonna do kind of the same thing I'm using different colors here I'm going to use starry sky and I'm just going to kind of outline I'm going to use the dark starry sky and I'm going to outline my waves kind of in that same technique just take my starry sky and follow those stamped lines just like that and then I'm going to color the waves in with my balmy blue so I'm just going to kind of follow those same lines and just color my water balmy blue just like that and then I still want my sun to be yellow so I'm going to use daffodil delight blends and I'm going to take the dark daffodil delight and just outline those lines just kind of add a little more lines in there and then with my light I'm going to color in my sun just like that just like that super fun and then you can take us one of these cute round sings around it thinking of you you will do the top and the bottom and using our new punch punch it out and let me show you my finished card there super cute so you get kind of that look that you drew that instead of stamped it you're so talented I've had so much fun doing this faux watercolor technique using the stamp in blends and this circle saying stamp set goes perfectly with this technique if you have any other line art stamp sets on hand you can do this technique using any of them I'd love to see what you come up with if you have any questions or you want to order any of this product they're linked below thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday