Peaceful Place stamp set.

A Peaceful Place is a new set from S.U. this year.  Look s nice and peaceful, but I can't help thinking what it will be like in a storm. lol.

I coloured  the image with Copic markers. 

The sentiment on this one is from the new accented blooms set. I bought the accented blooms set in clear  along with the  

Stamparatus . I had no intention of buying the Stamparatus  as I usually buy the wod set. But when it comes to  predominantly solid stamps   I usually get  a less than perfect image.  It's virtually impossible to over stamp to fill in the misses.....until now,  with the Stamparatus you can over stamp and fill in the misses perfectly. 

I stamped  over this sentiment to fill in the missed areas without losing the very fine line wording. Here is a link to a video on the Stamparatus. There are a lot of benefits to owning one of these toys, over stamping is just one and it's explained at   5:10 point in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3teCr7Xo4G8I

Accented Blooms

I've been playing with the Accented Blooms set from S.U. a lot  as I needed a bunch of  Thank you cards to send out to thank family for my birthday presents.

Hubby did a wonderful job in  organizing  and ordering almost all my pressies this year, just to be sure I got,  just what I wanted.  YAY!! More refills.
Thank you Hubby.xx

I have  well over  two  hundred Copic Markers, which I use for all my colouring projects.  
Copics are not cheap but they are

Lovely to work with and they are refillable.  So Hubby  got most people to buy inks refills for my birthday.                                             I hate throwing away markers with perfectly good tips just because they have run out of ink and  in  turn adding to the  plastic  waste problem we have caused this planet.I realized  that the refills also come in plastic bottles, but to my mind the buying the refills reduces the amount of plastic I  personally throw away.

One refill will refill my pen approximately  10 -15  times.

So that's a lot of plastic  pens I am not adding to the plastic waste problem.  

I tend to do all my colouring at night and there is very little that is more frustrating than colouring a project and having the pen run out of ink. 

Especially if you don't have a refill to hand and  have to wait days for the postman to deliver a  new pens or  refill so I can complete my project. (We don't have a Copic stockist anywhere near us.)

Oh dear,  I am starting to sound like an Eco warrior.  I can assure you I am not as good as I could and should be at recycling, but I do try.

If saving the planet is not your concern   (which it should be) 

here is another reason for buying the refills.... it saves you  money and we all like to save money.

Ciao pens retail price is about £3  per pen,  a refill is about £6.50  but you will get at least 10 refills from one bottle.  It makes sense to to buy the refills. 

Personally I think all markers companies should offer refills, but then,  they wouldn't make so much money out of us.