Creating a Floating Element For Your Card is Super Easy

[Music] hi everybody i'm lorraine smith from stanford.com welcome to another tutorial today i'm going to show you a really cool technique it's called a floating element technique and it really is very simple it looks complicated it looks really sophisticated but it is really easy and it uses up all your scraps and i'm even going to show you other ways to use the parts that you think are scraps but i'm going to show you how to make cards with those too so we're going to have a floating element in this case a circle and it's going to have a little die cut on there and a sentiment and how easy is that one sheet of cardstock you can add another layer like i did here but i'm going to show you sneak peek at the other one i did so two different color palettes gives you a totally different look and so stay tuned to the very end because i'm going to show you lots of other options to do with this style and to use the excess from these cards as well so hope you enjoy it give me a thumbs up down below if you like the video and if you don't have a stampin up demonstrator already i would love to be yours so head on over to my blog stamp with lorraine.com sign up for my mailing list and find out more information there okay so take two stay tuned and happy stamping this uses up some scraps i've chosen mint macaron blushing bride and polished pink which is one of the newest in colors i wanted some bright um colorful kind of funky looking uh strips so i have my scraps in these little cello bags with the names of them and i keep them right in my packet of full cardstock um package so i keep anything that's less than six inches in here and then they're all right there i could see oh i need something i have it right there i don't have to go to a separate spot so i just took out some of my scraps and i cut some strips that were anywhere from a quarter of an inch to maybe three quarters of an inch or a little less maybe 5 8 of an inch or so and i'm not going to need all of these but i did cut a few just so i have some options now we're going to be actually making a circle we're going to be cutting this um out of a piece of acetate so you want to make sure your acetate is a little bit bigger than your circle because what we're going to do we're going to layer the strips on here and so you want your ships to be a little longer than the acetate we're going to layer these on here leaving a little bit of space in between and they could be different widths as you can see and then we are going to die cut it and it's with the acetate behind there we're going to pop it up with some foam dots foam strips and it's going to look like it's floating on the card so let's get started so here's my acetate i'm going to just leave this little white piece behind it just because it leaves lets me see easier where that is okay so you do want some strong adhesive on here i'm not recommending the liquid glue because it can smear if it does smear a little bit you will see that through the acetate so for this i recommend the stampin seal stampin sale plus is even better or using um the tear tape it comes in a big roll like this um and you can put it across your strips um i'm going to use this for now i'm using my silicone mat so that when i roll over if it gets on my surface it'll rub right off of the silicone mat nothing sticks to this the glue just kind of rolls peels right off and you can just brush it away or run it under water later on so let's get started i want to have a pattern here maybe i'll start with a bigger one on top it is good to start an end with a bigger one and you'll see in a little bit because when your die cut goes on there you don't want to be left with too small of a spot so i am going to start with the bigger one up there so i'm going to go right up to the tippy top there all right i probably won't even need that but it will give me an option okay trying to leave a fairly equal amount of spacing in between um in between the strips and then gives me sort of options as to how i want the colors laid out in my circle there right but first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to trim off the backs of this because i don't want to run this on my clear plates through my die cut machine and have it all sticky so i'm going to take my trimmer and i'm going to cut on just within the border here of the actual acetate because it's less sticky i'm not going to get that on my blade quite so much all right and guess what look at that you can use that on something else couldn't you all right so don't throw anything away i'm going to show you how i did use some of my scraps i hate to throw anything away i ended up saying what a great color combination this was okay so look you put those together on something right i'm just gonna turn it over put it away so i don't get anything else stuck to it okay this one's still a little sticky up here but here's my other trick if you have something sticky you don't want to get that on your blade or your scissors i actually could use scissors on that or you can use your embossing buddy okay this is an old um embossing buddy that stampin up used to sell sometimes if something is sticky i don't want it to be sticky i'll run my embossing buddy over it and that fine powder just um hides that stickiness there or you can just take your big scissors and just cut that across i tend to like to keep certain scissors for my sticky jobs um because this one wasn't quite sticky anymore my big scissors were fine okay so now what we're going to do you can actually leave that square and i'm going to show you one that is square if you don't have die cuts just cut it square and that that will work too i am going to use the circle i kind of think that's a cool look i'm going to arrange it so like i said i don't have such a thin piece up there because we are putting adhesive behind there i'm going to sort of center it a little bit right like that so excuse me one second while i go to the the big shot machine okay so ran through it through forward and back maybe another forward okay like three times and then it's going to cut out nicely just like that all right and you're on the acetate you have the acetate behind so it looks clear all right and if you wanted you can try to do something creative with this if you start off with a bigger piece you will have those extra pieces kind of like this to to work with so while you're at it why not get more out of it right okay so i'm just going to put that aside and so now i have my circle and i'm going to have uh my piece of cardstock i'm using the thick cardstock when i'm doing a white card and not many layers i do like to use the thick um it gives it a little bit more weight obviously it doesn't feel quite so flimsy and one of the things i i like to do um gives a little just a little bit more interest i mean i can put these right on here and make a very simple card but sometimes it gives just a little bit more interest to add another layer even if it's just glued down it does give it an extra little border and it um just looks a little bit more finished that way i'm not going to necessarily pop this one up on the dimensions because my element here is going to be popped up and i'm going to be using the foam strips for this um which are sold in these long lengths of foam you get 40 strips and off plus you can use these little pieces on the ends so there's a lot of foam strips here these are thicker than the dimensional dots so if you um have a project and your ends are using both just keep that in mind they are not going to be the same height okay so because this is kind of flimsy you do want to put your foam on every piece of this because you do don't want it sagging you don't want it catching on anything okay it's going to be a really cool look and it's worth that support so i'm just going to peel this off i'm going to start going across and again i'm using my sticky scissors i'm going to put a little foam strip on each of these strips of color okay there you go kind of looks a little like overkill to me but it really isn't because you need all of that supported and let's face it it's not like you have a whole lot of other product on this card right so it's definitely worth it definitely all right so i'm going to um that's going to get popped up there and you really see the dimension because you see the shadowing on there so it's really going to be kind of cool i'm going to stamp right on here if you wanted to you could run that through in a very subtle embossing folder which also looks nice but i'm going to stamp right on there and because i want to get it really straight and a nice bold look i'm going to use my stamparatus i'm going to stick that in the corner and i want to stamp it nice and boldly with black so get my memento ink pad here and i am using the sentiment from the artistically inked has four nice sentiments on there and the flowers and the little splotches of that alcohol ink look there so i'm going to i've already lined this up tested it out on my grid paper made sure my sentiment was straight and i pick it up it looks good if it didn't look evenly inked i could just ink it up again and bring the flap over and because it hasn't moved my paper is held down with the magnets it's going to ink in the same spot again so i thought that was a nice sort of a modern look for a font for this card because that's kind of what this is a very graphic modern look okay and i'm going to just glue this down as is okay so now before i take my foam dots off i want to add a little something over that and i chose again from the artistically inked bundle i have the artistic dies which are these i put them on my magnetic sheets it's a 6x6 from stampin storage i like to keep those in there so they're easier to pull off and on i'm going to use this wonderful spray of leaves and i was playing around i said you know what might be a little kind of funky but kind of different like a color i wouldn't always go to sometimes i push myself i'm going to add some gold on here and because this is a very delicate filigree i'm going to use my adhesive sheet on the back of that before i run it through the die cut machine so i cut this off of a sheet of 12 by 12 and i'm just going to peel off the label sometimes when i first got these oh how do i know which side to peel off well the one with the letters is the most obvious you'll see that and that's what comes off the easiest also so if you're not sure it's whatever comes off easiest okay once this is adhered to the back of here and die cut the um the backing on the other piece will come off a little more easily so rather instead of pulling this all the way off i um i'm going to pull off just a piece of it i already cut it to to match this size and i'm going to put that down just to get it started so i know it's pretty much in the right spot if it were it gives me a little wiggle room to adjust it and then from here i'm going to just pull the rest off and it will just fall into place okay so now i'm going to go and just run that through my die cut machine and i'll be right back okay so i ran that through a couple times because again it's kind of thick with the foil and i'm going to pull that off very carefully because it is delicate pop that out if you wanted to get creative you can try to use the reverse if you've lined it up nicely it might look rather cool on a um piece of designer paper behind it who knows see what you can do in fact i did that with another design that i'm going to show you soon now this has a lot of these teeny tiny pieces that need to be poked out you can use your take your pick tool and poke them all out like this which is fine when there's so many i like to use my brush and the foam mat just run over and those things will mostly pop right out and okay i'm not going to worry about the pieces down there because i'm going to trim it off right here i'm going to use just this piece so you can decide this is going to be here i could have this like this look how pretty that is um or can be coming down from above that looks really nice too and because this is raised and this is a very fine piece here i'm not going to suggest leaving that hanging over if you want that stem there i would suggest bringing it down a little bit so it's adhered to your floating element and trim this off here because you don't want that catching on anything and then it'll look sloppy if some of the more sturdy parts hang off that is probably okay but i think what i'll do is i'll try to split the difference a little bit because i do like some of that stem rather than this being down here so you have to kind of play around with it whatever your die cut is a butterfly would look really pretty on here or something delicate that you can see the colors through so let's see i kind of like it hanging down so i'm going to put it like this i think and then trim it after i have it laid down on there okay so maybe i'll cut just a little bit of this off and then i'll trim it to fit the contour of the circle okay all right so let's see i can grab a little sticky off the back of here you're going very gently pulling it off starting at the tips of those leaves a little easier to pull off okay all right now this is very sticky so it's not forgiving if you make a mistake then you're kind of stuck with making it work there's usually a way to make it work sometimes it's just starting over again but now usually there's some options that you have all right so i'm going to have this coming down like this and okay committing here we go down it goes all right i'm gonna hold that down so it takes a minute to stick rub it a little bit because there is nice firm support under there with all those foam strips okay now i'm going to trim that now if you had a um let's say i wanted this cut off then you would cut around the contour of the circle so that's why it's good to do this part first so you know exactly where you want to cut it all right i think that looks really pretty clean and simple and it's okay that this has some adhesive on it but i think i might take my embossing buddy and just get that powder on there a little bit so just in case it meets up with the card base you don't want it really sticking down there okay time to release all the stickiness of the foam these foam strips are really good bargain they're good for your shaker cards and whenever you need a lot of support on a thin piece i kind of see this hanging over just a little bit i'm going to try to contour that a little so it's not showing as much okay i think that's better okay look how pretty that is just simple a very neat again that minimalistic look right and you can really see how it's raised because you have the shadowing there okay i hope you like that so let me show you what i did when i was experimenting with the order of the strips i came up with this idea i said oh i kind of liked how i just was laying them on the cardstock and they were in different lengths and i was experimenting with how the gold leaf looked on there i said you know what that alone can be a card so using up those strips gluing them down and i took a little sentiment from the many messages that i had in my bin and then once i cut off all those edges i had a lot of little bits and there we go then we did a little baby card just glued them on there random didn't have to straighten them or anything they look like little blocks in a way right and just glue them as a little border there these i popped into i used the playful alphabet dies oh wrong one that was the artistic playful alphabet guys and i ran that through my die cut machine with the foam sheet so we have the foam strips and we have the foam sheets for your bigger elements so um what i actually did was i don't know if i invented this trick or not i just decided to do it myself i took my little piece of cardstock and when i pulled back the top of this it's obviously sticky on both sides i put my piece of card stock on there and over there you can see i put my letters let me put something back behind it so you can see better covered it back up and ran it through the die cut machine and then the letters came out already with the cardstock on the foam and was able to be raised up there so i just thought you know keeping it white nice and clean you know you think of you know the whiteness of sanitary stuff for the baby and i thought that was like an awesome baby card from the scraps from this and this stemmed from my starting to design of that so three cards with the same color palette and then of course if you wanted to kick it up a little bit you can always add either well this was retired the 2022 in color enamel dots they're retired but we do have squares in those colors right now in the current catalog and then these are the 20 20 21 23 in color jewels they could work on there too because we have the polished pink and you know the green is a little darker than this but it could work if you want even though this is jade it's kind of close to the mint macaron so if you wanted to add a couple on there that could work as well so let me just show you a couple others that i did first this is the first one i made i went with the fall colors and i used the harvest dies these are mishmash because i put them on my magnetic sheets the harvest dies that pair with nature's harvest so like again i was going for that fall look it kind of reminds me of fall or even a sunset so just a simple thank you and i did this on vanilla simple and very clean looking and artistic looking right all right so same concept as this just totally different colors what i cut this out of i made it into another card so i put that over the bumble bee this was espresso by the way and i used some of the beauty of the earth dsp and i used the thank you from the nature's harvest and i stamped a little bit of this flower here just to make part of the the tag tied on some linen thread and then double thickness of thread to make the little bow there and i'm going to confess there's a little smudge of embossing powder down there so i said okay that's a perfect place for that little bow to be so like i said you can hide your mistakes you have a little mistake you can hide it so there we go and of course inside a little piece of that flower as well so kind of positive and negative look there and i wanted to try to do instead of just a circle i wanted another option of doing another shape so i was looking at um i wanted to use perhaps the leaf shape because again thinking fog but there was a little problem this is why i suggest maybe not trying it with your stitched dies i ran it through and through my machine and it was not cutting through a couple little places it might have started to but i ran it through five six seven eight times and it just wasn't going through i guess it's just not strong enough with those extra stitched dots on there on a regular clean edge i can even feel it it feels like a sharper edge there okay so you have more pressure going on that particular edge rather than the edge and the stitching part so that didn't work so i'm thinking hmm okay kind of looks nice as it is but how can i fix that so i started with my vanilla and this time oh see here's where i cut the circle out i'm going to cut this into strips and use that because it's already on the acetate so stay tuned and you can see what that's going to look like when i'm done with it okay so i did this one on the vanilla so i embossed that with a tasteful textile it's the most subtle embossing folder we have right now we used to have one called subtles that i loved as well but this is the one that's most current so then i decided to do a leaf in espresso so i put this on my espresso i used the detail die so i wasn't going to get just the outline i was going to get the detail in there too ran that through the machine and came up with this so i have all that detail in there and then i decided you know what i'm gonna put that on there and we're gonna cover it okay so it's not all not all wasted so i'm gonna glue that on there and pop that up okay now let's see if i get this straight remember on your grid paper you do have your ruler down here and off the left side but don't forget about the ruler up at the top this is one that starts with zero in the middle and then it has the numbers radiating out left and right i often use this to try to get some things centered in my card so i will since this is for four and a quarter i'm going to line it up so that it looks like uh two and an eighth on each side at least that can help get me centered left and right and then i can decide how high up i want it okay so now that's raised up and i have a sentiment here already with some dimensional dots on it now you can see the difference this is the dimensional dot see how it slides underneath there okay they are not as high as the foam strip so just kind of keep that in mind when you're using them you can't really use them together on the same element i'm going to pop that here and then we have another card so here we have our fall colors all kind of stemming from one project to another to another and then here we have the minty and the pink colors so i hope you like those and i hope you try some yourself i can't wait to see what you do with this technique so post them on my facebook page let me know how you make out and i'd love to see what you have also created [Music] you

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Length: 27min 52sec (1672 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 18 2021