Hi everybody this is Julia and I'm back with a new video for you where I want to show you how to do precise water coloring using a blender pen. I'm starting out with this rubber stamp by Penny Black. They have some gorgeous floral stamps and they are super easy to color in no matter which medium you use. I used my favorite things black hybrid ink that's the licorice ink on because that works wonderfully with watercolors and I'm using blender pens. I have a dove blender pen and one from stamping up. They both work exactly the same and I'm going to be using real watercolors my Gonsai Tambi watercolors but you can use any watercolors that you have. I added a drop of water into the water color pen there and then I'm just picking up the ink with my blender pen that has a like a blender solution in it and I'm just as you can see that I'm really just picking up a tiny little bit of ink that I'm cleaning off my blender pen to the side on a scratch piece of paper and then I'm blending the color out and I'm even cleaning off my pen twice just to make sure that I get the residual ink of the tip of the blender pen so I can blend from dark to light. You can see just how easy this is and how quick it goes and especially how precise you can be because for me even if I use a very small brush with a very firm tip I always have the problem that I somehow go outside of the lines or you know like I have too much water and then it's a mess or I have to little water and then it's too intense and with the pen it's basically you're using a pen like you know like any pen that you would use and it allows at least for me it allows me to be super precise with what I'm doing. You can see here that I even added the ink into multiple sections at once to some like doing I'm like doing it here you know I'm adding all the not the ink of course the watercolor and then I'm blending this out in one go and you can see I'm always cleaning off my the blender pen off to the side you have to experiment with your watercolor paper and your watercolors for how long they stay wet because obviously it's not super wet you know I didn't want the colors to run out really wanted to have a lot of control. Here I'm picking up some yellow watercolor and I'm just blending this in here because I wanted to have some more warmth to this to these flowers. You can see it's super easy and I can be super I mean I still managed to go out of the lines to be honest because just I was not paying enough attention I always have my iPad running off to the side and you know sometimes the movie gets really interesting and then I just keep coloring but I don't watch what I'm doing yeah I know sometimes I'm a little bit weird and here I'm just coming in with some orange I didn't want to come back in with the red because I felt that would overpower the yellow so I'm just adding in a little bit more orange into the middle and because these are watercolors they blended really nicely and then I'm actually coming in with my polychromos pencils you can use any colored pencils that you've already got and I'm just adding a tiny little bit of detail here like just some strokes basically and I'm doing the same here with the orange and you can see that I'm adding some really fine strokes here the goal was not to intensify the color it was to add a little bit more detail it's very subtle you won't notice it if you don't look too closely though now for putting the card together I just added a strip of pattern paper here I just love this very bold color and there's some double-sided adhesive sticking out to the side where I added this and I'm pouring some glitter on top of this and then I'm just adding a lot of adhesive to my watercolor panel and now I'm adding this to my card base here at least I'm trying to and of course I still need a sentiment using one from paper smooches and Versafine ink because you know that's always that's my favorite info sentiments because it's so nice and rich and black and then I decided to go in with my wink of stellar pen you can see I'm cleaning it off to the side to make sure that I'm not dragging the darker orange into the bright yellow and I'm not going over the Versafining because that would definitely smudge it but I'm just adding a tiny little shimmer of glitter here and then of course I grabbed my white gel pen because I couldn't help myself and added some white dots into the darkest areas of the leaves and I will later do this as well on the flowers I think I'll add this in the bright part of the flowers as you can see here and just that adds a tiny bit more interest actually this is the second card I made this way this is the first card that I made you know you can see very similar style it just varied it a bit when I put it together for a card but you can quickly do a lot of these you can use any color that you want and you can have a lot of success with water colors simply by using one of those blender pens instead of a regular pencil brush that's what I mean regular brush so I hope you got inspired and you liked the video and I'll hope you I hope to catch you again tonight can't talk anymore it's been a while since I've done these boys over here a few for few more videos for you to check out thank you for watching guys and catch you later bye bye