If you have read my blog for any length of time at all, you know that I advocate having a white gel pen in your basic stamping stash.

I use Sakura’s Gelly Roll in white which can be purchased here.

There are certainly other options out there and some are quite good, and others, not so much.

You really need a good, high quality gel pen with white pigment ink for this to work.

Another favorite of mine is Uni-ball’s Signo broad white pen.

If you are really talented and work better with a paint brush, Copic has white pigment ink in a jar.

Today, I’m going to show you a little accident I had when coloring this very cute Touch of Depp image from Pixie Dust Studios.

I was ready to add dots to the pants when I had a blender pen accident.

My Copic blender was too juicy and dropped right into the red which immediately spread to his blue sash.

I was MAD!!!! Fitting for a mad hatter image, huh?

So, I decided it was a good time to show you what can be done when you mess up an image you’ve spent a long time on and don’t want to throw away.

I dropped two more spots on his legs to show you even more error.

You gotta be tough in this business… lol

I never try to correct red color with a blender. It just never works for me.

Another day, I will discuss color correction with a blender a little more.

1. To fix the messing red spots, I simply added another coat of red to blend in the edges.

2. Note how the color pools around the circle edges. Blender pens PUSH color. That’s why you see the color recede to a darker ring.

    3. Enter white gel pen.

I colored the areas outside the image where the red ran out of the lines.

I dot my ink on over red areas. I do one layer and let it dry completely.

If needed, add another dotted coat.

The blue area is the only area left to be fixed.

Next, I started over with my blender. I made sure it wasn’t too juicy and dotted on random areas to create the pants.

If the dots aren’t obvious enough, I redo it over the same dot, a small amount at a time.

I decided that the best way to fix the blue in this small of an area was to simply use another coat of blue.

The area is so small, it really isn’t obvious on the finished project.

I hope this helps!