Hi everyone! Thanks for coming by today for the amazing Waffle Flower August Release Blog Hop! I have been so anxious to share these cool, creative and innovative products with you! I made three projects! That should tell you my excitement level! It's been hard to keep this one under wraps. Waffle Flower is one of my very favorite companies and the ideas that Nina comes up with are always awesome. I'm very honored to be part of this blog hop today introducing everything to you. Did you arrive here from the blog of my super talented friend CHANNIN?? To start at the beginning of the hop CLICK HERE to go to the Waffle Flower Blog!
The new items include cool stamps and dies to create your own color wheels, and paint/marker swatches. Like I said earlier - genius! Perfect for those of us that love to have our supplies organized! Also, a beautiful new Lacy Flower XL die and some cute stamps for coloring. The new products for August are geared towards the artistic side of all of us crafters. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, you will find Waffle Flower’s newest release a great investment for yourself. This is a back to basics release that focuses on the function of stamps and dies and our preferences on coloring mediums. The goal is to help beginners gain confidence with coloring mediums, and to help experienced colorists learn more about their different mediums. There are some cool combos and packages available (CLICK HERE to see everything). A professionally printed guide will be included in the Color Swatches Combo. All combos come in beautiful Cloud Storage Pockets. CLICK HERE to check out the Waffle Flower videos with detailed instructions and background! Nina reviews everything in her professional video.
I have some color swatches to share with you today, and two cards made with the new stamps and dies. I had a really good time creating these projects - truly an artistic endeavor. I feel like taking the time to swatch my colors really made me think about the textures of my watercolor paints, and when I made the color wheel card I learned a lot about mixing my colors together. Like a self taught art lesson! Okay....let's get started!
I used the Swatch Stamp and matching dies to create swatches of my very favorite watercolor paints! These have been my go-to watercolors ever since I got them! I have a small palette swatch of these paints but now I have them on a beautiful ring I can hang on my bulletin board. I die cut the swatch die and the circles to go at the top. I used watercolor paper and black cardstock. After they were die cut I glued the black enforcers on. Then I used Versafine Onyx Black Ink (the only ink I use for watercoloring) to stamp the swatch image. I gave them a quick shot with my heat tool to dry the ink. Then I had FUN coloring in the swatch sections!! Aren't they pretty!!!??
Here is an overview of some of the new products - in the gorgeous rainbow packaging! Swatches, color wheels and shapes OH MY!
Here are my swatches before I added the colors.... This makes my OCD happy.
Masstone is the SOLID version of any color. I used my MIjello Mission Gold watercolors.... For the masstone portion, I used the tiniest amount of water to wet the paint enough to swatch it. For the larger swatch area I wet it first and then added the color, slowly getting lighter as it moves from left to right. This is great practice for coloring!!! I learned how to be more patient and slower to get the right gradation...
I literally cannot get enough of this!!! I used these for watercolors, but you could just as easily swatch your Copics or Colored pencils!!! Use them in whatever way makes it useful for you in your studio!
Next up are the two cards I created for the blog hop and release! I used the fabulous Color Wheels Stamps to make a card perfect for one of my creative friends! I used a couple of other Waffle Flower Stamp sets for the sentiment and paint brush and it all came together in a fun way! I will use the Color Wheel Stamps and Dies later to make color wheels of my Polychromos pencils! Can't wait to do that project.
My card is an A2 card base out of paper from my stash (in my fav color). I cut out a watercolor paper layer and stamped two color wheels in the opposite corners. I made sure to put different colors for each one. Then I stamped a few of the circles around them to balance out the white space.
Here is that cute little paint brush stamp/die from the Little Painters Stamp Set! I watercolored it too. The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder onto black cardstock.
It was really fun to mix and match the colors to get fill in the color wheels. I have never done that before! It made me pay attention to each color and how it works with other colors mixed. I put on some music in the studio and enjoyed this process.
I added some black enamel dots to the centers of the color wheels and then some Pretty Pink Posh Droplets to look like water drops... I also added paint splatters (you know I love that!)
I attached the paint brush on the card and then layered the sentiment banner over it. I like the graphic look of that black and white banner. I tried to think outside the box and come up with a cool way to incorporate the color wheel into something else! A card!
Next up is a card featuring the GORGEOUS new Lacy Flower XL die! OOH LA LA! It's so pretty, especially since I colored it in bright vivid GOLD! YUM. This card is an A2 purple card base. Again I layered with watercolor paper on top. I used lots of water and some shades of blue and violet to create a loose watercolor background. Once it was dry, I splattered gold paint and white paint over the color for more visual interest. (My paints/supplies are listed at the bottom of my post)...
I used clear glue to attach the gold die cut on top of the colored background. Then I trimmed off the edges. Next I stamped the Waffle Flower Hugs and Prayers sentiment onto vellum using Stazon ink. I layered the vellum around the bottom of the card before attaching the card front to the base with foam tape. I added a few purple gems from my stash.
This is what that beautiful die cut looks like! I used these paints for the gold!
PRIZE ALERT! PRIZE ALERT! PRIZE ALERT!
FULL BLOG HOP LIST!
Brilliant! Now I want the individual color swatches and matching die. Always likes a "ring"! Great samples.
Posted by: Mary G | 08/06/2018 at 08:15 AM
I can't get over how useful and versatile these stamps and dies are! Just brilliant! Thanks for all the ideas!
Posted by: Miriam Leech | 08/06/2018 at 07:42 AM
Beautiful and so useful- love it
Posted by: Nancy Hassan | 08/06/2018 at 07:38 AM
Beautiful (and useful) creations ! I love your idea of the brush on the color wheel for the card, it's really awesome. And of course, the card with the lacy flower die is fantastic and very elegant !
Posted by: Isabelle | 08/06/2018 at 07:22 AM
How rainbow pretty is this post ! Gorgeous display of tags, I'm so so excited to see these in a release, Nina got it 1000% right with these. I love that colour wheel card, so cheerful & fun. Thanks for all your information.
Posted by: Andrea Hastilow | 08/06/2018 at 07:17 AM
Great cards. This is such a fun release & you really shared some great inspirational ideas of the endless ways you can use these sets.
Posted by: Tracy B | 08/06/2018 at 06:49 AM
I love the Color My World Card - so clever to use the color wheel that way! Love it!
Posted by: Barbara R | 08/06/2018 at 06:22 AM
Very creative and they thought of everything for those of us who are new to water coloring to us COPIC users and love the 2X2 swatch idea!
Posted by: Susan King | 08/06/2018 at 05:55 AM
Love your colorful cards Wanda!
Posted by: Jane | 08/06/2018 at 05:11 AM
So cute! These new stamps are amazing! Love what you did with them.
Posted by: Marcia | 08/06/2018 at 04:13 AM
Love the cards and thanks for showing the swatches cut out.
Posted by: Megan Francis | 08/06/2018 at 03:52 AM
I love blog hops because I get inspired to create--thank you.
Posted by: isabel z | 08/06/2018 at 03:31 AM
Great release indeed, and I love your colourful cards !
Posted by: Lisa Says | 08/06/2018 at 02:25 AM
Really nice photos on your blog.
Posted by: Diana | 08/05/2018 at 11:04 PM
Love the color wheel. Great inspiration.
Posted by: Ann K | 08/05/2018 at 11:03 PM
I really like this release and your cards are super cool!
Posted by: Kirsty Vittetoe | 08/05/2018 at 10:46 PM
Looks awesome!
Posted by: Luci Manos | 08/05/2018 at 09:19 PM
I totally love your swatches! And anything that helps us slow down and actually learn more about how our supplies work is great in my book!
Posted by: Karen Page | 08/05/2018 at 08:55 PM
Beautiful cards and thoughtful ideas and suggestions, you never fail to delight, Wanda!
Posted by: Stef Perry | 08/05/2018 at 08:51 PM
When I first saw the color swatch and wheel stamps I coudn't figure out how in the world to use them but now I almost feel like I NEED these! Your color wheel card is so pretty!
Posted by: karenladd | 08/05/2018 at 07:52 PM
Such beautiful cards! Love how you've used the colour wheel on the first one!
Posted by: MandaLJ | 08/05/2018 at 07:38 PM
I am a new visitor to your blog because of this Blog Hop and I am happy to be here. I look forward to following your blog by email and on Instagram. The tags you created are awesome, that is what I want to work on first (I am also a new paper crafter so I have a lot of catching up to do LOL).
Posted by: Mindy Drummond | 08/05/2018 at 07:21 PM
Oh this is such a great idea!! So cool!
Posted by: Cheriese H | 08/05/2018 at 06:45 PM
Wanda, what a creative way to use the products in this new release to create such unique cards. tfs
Posted by: Helen | 08/05/2018 at 06:23 PM
dynamic cards ... color wheels are one of my favorite themes and your card 'colored my world'. This release made my OCD happy, too!
Posted by: Carol | 08/05/2018 at 06:00 PM
Your coloring is amazing! So much detail and info in your post. Thanks
Posted by: Meghan Kennihan | 08/05/2018 at 05:45 PM
Love your post, Wanda!
Beautiful projects and great info!
Posted by: Lori Craig | 08/05/2018 at 05:32 PM
I like the die cut---it looks pretty. Nice background....
Posted by: Sharon Gullikson | 08/05/2018 at 05:14 PM
Your cards are beautiful! :)
Posted by: Kelsey Thomas | 08/05/2018 at 05:02 PM
love your colorful cards, Wanda:)
Posted by: Dee Earnshaw | 08/05/2018 at 04:50 PM
hello, I am new here due to the blog hop, love your cards and all that swatching
Posted by: pam | 08/05/2018 at 04:43 PM
I love that you did the swatch cards. Your cards are also so beautiful. The Hugs and Prayers card is magnificent!!!
Posted by: Cynthia Koop | 08/05/2018 at 04:43 PM
Love your cards! Great inspiration!
Posted by: justMarie | 08/05/2018 at 04:19 PM
Great post! Lots of information and inspiration!
Posted by: Karen Walker | 08/05/2018 at 03:43 PM
Such innovative sets!!! Can't wait to play!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
Posted by: Jan Castle | 08/05/2018 at 03:32 PM
Great detail and info in your post. Thanks for taking the time & effort.
Posted by: Mary M | 08/05/2018 at 03:19 PM
I love your swatch cards! This set is the perfect size for using laminating pockets too!
Posted by: Maegan Hendricks | 08/05/2018 at 03:15 PM
Love Waffle Flower's New Release!
Beautiful cards Wanda.
Posted by: Arlene Plastine | 08/05/2018 at 03:14 PM
Color wheel is terrific
Posted by: Candy | 08/05/2018 at 03:13 PM
I love your color wheel card, it's adorable!
Posted by: Marisa K | 08/05/2018 at 02:54 PM
Love this new stamp and die swap set
Posted by: Sheryl | 08/05/2018 at 02:49 PM
Thank you for some more inspiration on ways to use the new waffle flower collection. I absolutely love your swatches.
Posted by: Julie Harden | 08/05/2018 at 02:44 PM
I love your cards, so bright and vivid, especially the color wheel card. This is an awesome release!
Posted by: Victoria Milam | 08/05/2018 at 02:37 PM
Great swatching and cards Wanda--these new products are great, so good to organize and figure out how to use our coloring mediums.
Posted by: Sheri Kempke | 08/05/2018 at 02:35 PM
Wonderful cards! I can't wait to get my hands on the Swatch stamp set.
Posted by: Nancy Wilcox | 08/05/2018 at 02:30 PM
Such a great idea with these new swatches. I am intrigued! Thanks!
Posted by: Peggy Pride | 08/05/2018 at 01:33 PM
tags on a ring are great idea for organizing swatches.
Posted by: Diane Bolton | 08/05/2018 at 01:23 PM
great ideas! and that delicate die! sooo pretty!
Posted by: Linnea Sundstrom | 08/05/2018 at 01:21 PM
amazing creations! I love the ideas for using the swatching stamps for more that swatching. A fun way to stretch an investment.
Posted by: Debbie Daniels | 08/05/2018 at 01:20 PM
Wanda, you're so funny! I've enjoyed reading your post today! LOL I CAN SEE you had a BLAST with these products too!!! SUPER CREATIONS!!! I also have been thinking along the same lines, studying COLOR!!! A PERFECT SET for that! SUCH PERFECT TIMING!!! LOL "GENIUS!" As you've said!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Posted by: Becky Green | 08/05/2018 at 01:09 PM