Hi everyone! I don’t have a project to share with you today, instead I share a process video of setting up color swatches chart for coloring mediums. I like to color with several mediums and the more I get to know each of them the better and the more confident my coloring gets. I have the courage try something new, I am not afraid to step outside the box and I am eager to experiment.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
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DETAILS
My friend Nina from Waffle Flower has been getting more and more into watercolors and she’s been trying to explore the different watercolor paints that she has. This prompted her to design several different stamp sets to help a beginner or advanced colored to swatch and explore their coloring medium further.
big thanks to May Park for this photo collage!
Last year I was at a crafty retreat with Nina and she was so excited to learn watercolor and explore all the different properties of her watercolor paints. We sat together, my friend May Park was there too and we painted some watercolor galaxies, splattered some paint around and just chatted. And I’m so glad to see that Nina has decided to continue with her watercolor passion and that she designed these really genius stamp stamps and coordinating dies for people like you and me who are dabbing in watercolor or other coloring mediums to help us learn more about the paints that we have, or the markers that we like to use.
Nina reached out to me and asked if I would like to join the blog hop celebrating this release and I immediately said yes. Because I honestly think that these new stamps sets are a genius invention and I can’t believe we didn’t have them before. So far I’ve set up a color swatches chart for my Polychromos pencils. But I cannot wait to use this and the charts from other stamp sets from this release for my other coloring mediums. Basically I want to swatch everything I have, every coloring medium I have using these stamps so that all of my charts and all of my swatches have the same uniformed format to them.
Be sure to watch videos filmed by Nina and her team explaining how to use these stamps.
For my chart for Polychromos pencils I stamped the Swatch Grid 3 times and I used my other chart where I have every color listed to come with 3 color blends to try in this new stamped chart. What is awesome about this chart is that is has 1/3 & 2/3 indicators that help you see how far you need to color.
I’m already seeing some great color combos that I am excited to try in my future coloring, yes there are some failed combos that I probably won’t ever use for my projects, but because I tried that I now know that that didn’t work and I will know not to use it in the future and not to waste paper and paper trying to make that color blend work.
I’ve already already swatched my Daniel Smith watercolors – I sort of refreshed my chart and I love the way it looks now, I still need to add the paint names onto it, but I love this uniformed and clean look it, it definitely looks much better than my previous chart.
RELEASE DETAILS
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 focuses on the function of stamps and dies. Our goal is to help beginners gaining confidence over a coloring medium and to help experienced colorers warming up and learning more about their media.
Color Swatches (stamp, die, combo) is a great all-around swatching set while Color Wheels (stamp, die, combo) helps you create the most accurate color-mixing references with the supplies you have on hand. The 2”x3” Swatch Stamp Set is adapted from Color Swatches stamp set for quick-n-easy applications and storage. Swatch Tag Die contains a standard ATC size tag (2-1/2” x 3-1/2”) with piercing details and hole re-enforcers. Also in this release is a 5”x7” stamp set called Adventures to let you practice landscape painting techniques right away and the Lacy Flower XL Die to add a soft, feminine touch to any project.
A professionally printed guide will be included in the Color Swatches Combo. All combos come in our Cloud Storage Pockets.
SWATCHING KITS
BLOG HOP!
Join the blog hop and see how other cardmakers & artists are using these charts!
If you arrived from amazing Emily Midgett, the next stop on this hop is talented Lydia Fiedler. You can also start over at Waffle Flower blog.
GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 8/12/18 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 8/15/2018.
PROMOTION
To celebrate the new release, all orders placed by 11:59pm ET on 8/15/18 will receive an Adhesive Eraser from our friends at Xyron! No code required; Limited 1 per customer; While Supplies last.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support.
 Waffle Flower Stamp Set – 5×7 – Color Swatches Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Color Swatches Die Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Stamp Set – 5×7 – Color Wheels Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Stamp Set – 2×3 – Swatch Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Color Wheels Die Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Swatch Tag Die Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Color Swatches Combo Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Color Wheels Combo Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Swatch Tag Shop at: SSS | WF |
 Waffle Flower Cardmaker Swatching Kit Shop at: WF |
 Waffle Flower Swatch Stamping Kit Shop at: WF |
 Fiskars Stamp Blocks Shop at: SSS | AZ | WF |
 Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ | WF |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 24 Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 60 Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
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This is so clever. Great idea!
You’re right these stamps are genius! Enjoyed your video and gave me inspiration!
Order placed because this idea is genius!!
I love the idea of switching my colored pencils and different markers. This is perfect!
What a great idea! I struggle finding the right color combo all the time so I can’t wait to try this.
Yana thank you for sharing your excellent tutorial using this wonderful set! I agree with you that they help make swatches so clean and uniform. I love it!
Wow a great idea for us crafters, I just always made a swatch the best I could on a single piece of paper for 1 color. I always had to look for a color and so I did not always look, this is a better idea and I love it.
Love the pencil swatching
This is a great idea. I am just learning to use watercolors and this will help a lot.
The pencil colors definitely pop on the gray paper! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I’m inspired!! 🙂
Great idea!!! Now I want to just swatch everything, too!
this is absolutely brilliant!!!!!
So happy to see a pencil swatch! Thank you!
I am a swatcher but I never thought of swatching color combinations! What a great idea. Thanks girls.
Very exciting release! I’m ordering for sure!
LOVE LOVE this !
What a great idea!
The colored pencil swatches are helpful. It would be fun to do two sets… one with and one without the use of gamsol when swatching Prismacolors.
Crazy creative person that I am, I want all of the stamps and dies to use…for making cards! My wheels are already turning & I can see some possibilities for cards. I will probably use them for swatching, too, but that wouldn’t be my main purpose ’cause I crazy that way.
Love the swatch stamp set. Great idea
Fantastic idea. It’s amazing that nobody has thought
of this idea before. Glad Waffle Flower did it.
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There’ll be a whole lotta swatching goin on. I can’t wait to do this. I have only done swatching using a light weight watercolor paper that could go through my printer….now I will be able to use the paper I actually use for my projects. Great new tools. Thank you Waffle Flower.
Fantastic, I do wish there was a “Hybrid” stamp as well as “Dye” and “Pigment”
This Waffle Flower release is absolutely amazing! Thanks for your video tutorial with your tips & ideas.
such a brilliant concept with both practical and fun applications. thanks as always for sharing.
I have already ordered and LOVE that you had a video on colored pencils! I cannot wait to get these!!! Love that you used grey tone paper. Thanks so much!!!!
This definitely helps with organizing and swatching for sure. I have the Premier colored pencils and they lay down nicely. But i really want to try the polys! Thanks for sharing.
Swatch-ya been doin’? Now we know! : ) Thanks for sharing a bit of the back-story, too! I can see I’m going to be swatching for ages!!
Beautiful swatching! Thank you for sharing it with us. Very useful
Thanks for all the great information and tips! All of the new color swatch stamps are fantastic and so versatile! Thanks for the inspiration!
This is Great!
Wow! Can’t wait to get these! Thank you for posting about these stamps and dies! Love all your videos
What a great idea having swatches for stamping! You can make them with white and black card stalk to see the reaction from colored pencils or paints. Love your creations. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful week.
I am so inspired! I have been trying to swatch my colors and this is such a better way!
This release is geneous!
Such a great idea for reference! And so pretty to look at!
I love this release and can’t wait to use it because I have so many things that need to be swatched and this will make it so much easier to do!
Thanks for the great tips for using these swatch stamps! I love the idea of organizing the various color combos I try instead of my current method, which is to try them on some scratch paper that then gets thrown away.
That’s an awesome idea and great swatches! 🙂
Love the swatches on the tone grey. Will have to investigate on my fave neutral although searching both my prisma and ploys multiple times in different colors is somewhat daunting! TFS!
Awesome product idea and I loved seeing how you personalize it for how you color!
Great idea, and thanks for showing how you made yours. I LOVE watching your videos, Yana!
These are so useful, and pretty besides! Love all the swatching ideas!
I am a long time admirer of your cards and videos. Thank you for all of the new ways to use these sets.
Although I’ve swatched all my alcohol markers and inks, I need to swatch my watercolor markers and pencils. Trying out blends looks interesting, too.
Amazing! Now I need to get started swatching – no more excuses!
What a great idea ! Thanks for the video and tips.
This is such a great idea! I love to see how you’ve made it work so well with colored pencils too! Looks great!
I am so loving the ideas on how to fully take advantage of these great sets! Thanks!
I think you’re RIGHT, Yana! GENIUS!!!! 😉 A SUPER SET from Waffle Flower for ALL OF US!!! 😉