Something you may have passed up on the Last-Chance retiring list of Stampin’ Up! products is the Just Add Color Paper which is great for “adult coloring”. This paper is heavyweight, perfect for whatever style of coloring you prefer. You get 2 pages each of 6 designs. Color them in or leave them as the outline images for a simplistic card or project. Whatever you like!
Stampin’ Up! offers many coloring options! On these cards I used my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, which, hopefully will be back in stock in time for the new catalog! You could also color with the Aqua Painter and ink refills, like watercoloring, or a watercolor paintbrush. Use the Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens. Use the Stampin’ Write markers – usually the lighter colors work best as the dark would be a bit heavy for this kind of coloring.
On these two cards, I colored a whole section of the paper and then cut into the paper to fit on a card. The underwater card was not as hard it might appear! I didn’t color inside the lines on every bit of the seaweed, just kind of colored most of it green without staying in the lines. Then I usesd my Pool Party marker to kind of fill in empty spaces to look like water, since it is under the water after all! Then I colored kind of all over the area with the Light Pool Party to give it the watery look. Just play and see what you come up with!
If you would like an easier way to make a card with this paper, consider cutting out the exact image(s) you want to use and color those, not the whole area!
Check out THIS BLOG POST to see the card I made with just a teapot that I colored and cut out and mounted on a card!
They say adult coloring is really good therapy for all of us! Did you like to color as a kid? Well, it’s time to stop and enjoy it again with the fun adult coloring techniques! Forget your problems for awhile as you concentrate on your artistic coloring, staying in the lines (or not!), and enjoying the pretty colors!
Grab this fun paper if you are the coloring type before it is gone! Put the Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper on your next Stampin’ Up! order so you can do some adult coloring!