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Pt. 2 Card Tutorial, Watercolor Pencils, + Recap & Blender Pen Refill Recipe

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Channel: Crafting For Almost Everyone · 2016 · Howto & Style

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In the fifth card, I used Versamark ink and black fine detail embossing powder and a variety of older Hero Arts butterfly stamps and a Hero Arts thanks stamp.  I used watercolor pencils from Faber Castell Albrecht Durer on both cards.  The blender pen I used was from Stampin' Up and I had refilled it that morning with the homemade blender pen refill recipe below.

The sixth card used a stamp set from Stampin' Up and I used Ranger archival ink in black to stamp the images and sentiment.  I watercolor penciled with the same pencils as before.  I also distressed it with Memento Lulu Lavender as well.  The lady's name that made the desk top holder and the interactive albums is 
xannero1, if you missed it in the notes on the screen.  She's definitely worth checking out for her artistry alone.

Homemade blender pen solution refill
4 tsp distilled water (must be distilled)
2 tsp glycerin (buy it in the nail product section of most pharmacies or ask the pharmacist where to find it.)
1/4 tsp of 70% rubbing alcohol
Mix the ingredients together and put in a long container that would allow the pens to lay flat, pull out the nibs from the pens and then put the nibs and the pens in the container.  I didn't have enough solution to get anything to go into my pens so I had an old syringe (you don't even need the needle part) and after letting everything sit overnight, I took the syringe and filled it with the solution and then squirted it into each of the pens until solution dripped out the bottom.  Once solution dripped out of the bottom, I assumed it was full and went onto the next one.  I put the nibs back in and I think it worked as well as the original solution (at least it did for me.)  My measurements were a little off as I accidentally poured a little more alcohol and glycerin into my container than I was supposed to.  I'm not sure if it was enough to impact the results but the solution worked great for everything I watercolored today.

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