- [Jennifer] Hi there
and welcome once again. This is Jennifer McGuire. I'm back with another
video that is all about using the products you have and
getting new looks from them. Today is a technique that
I called cut-up stamping. It's nothing fancy but basically, you're creating a stamped panel and you're cutting it up for a new look. I'm gonna show you a bunch
of different ways to do this, ways that I found make it really easy. Now, I know it's kinda scary to cut up some of the things that you've
spent a lot of time stamping but I assure you that this is a great way to get new looks from what you have. Okay, so let's dive in
to my first examples. In the first few cards,
I'll involve this beautiful, Altenew stamp set called Exotic Tulips. Now, I'm a fan of layering stamps which I think you might know if you've seen my videos before. This one is especially beautiful because it creates such realistic looks and because of the shape of
the flowers and the stems, they're very easy to line up. Also keep in mind that Altenew
offers color suggestions and card designs and a layering
guide in their packaging. So it's important to keep that. I'll be following those today. Now, in addition to having
coordinating dyes available for their stamp sets, Altenew
now also has masked stencils available for some of
their floral stamp sets. So you can see here, you
have the negative space and the the positive space of the flowers. And I'll be using those
to do some masking today. So you'll see that in a few minutes. Now, whenever I get a new
stamp that I've never used, I like to really firmly
rub it with a cloth just to kinda work the
surface a little bit so that the inks sticks to it better. You'll see the color of the
surface changes a little bit and that really makes a big difference in getting good results. Now, I'm using my MISTI
stamping tool today because I'm doing multiple stamped images but you could definitely do this with an acrylic block if you prefer. You'll see that I'm doing a
few different color options. I'll end up doing three
different tulip cards with different color combos and I'll share the color combos
once the cards are complete. So I started with the first layer. After I stamp that in all my panels, I'm moving on to the second layer. Once again, I'm using that
cloth just to prep my stamp. It's a dry cloth. Then I can add my ink and
stamp the second layer. You can see already how just
adding that second layer really brings these to life. And I thought, since some
tulips are two-toned, I would try that too so
I did a little yellow and peach-colored tulip also. So I continued on and
added the third layer to all of my tulips. I'm gonna skip through that because I want to focus on the technique of cutting up your images here. But I just wanted to give you a basic idea of how this layering works. Now, for the stems, I
used Altenew Parrot Ink and Altenew Shadow Creak Ink. Those are two different green colors and I think they layer
together beautifully. So you can see how I'm adding
some leaves now to the stems. All of these are included in that set and there's a guide
that makes it real easy to follow along. After I did my three panels, I decided I wanted to have a third leaf that was behind that center flower. So I'm going to position my
stamp right over my panel here and then we're gonna have
to do a bit of masking. Now normally if you want to do masking, you need to stamp on some masking paper, cut it out, and put it over your image but remember how I showed
you that this stamp set has coordinating masks available? Well, I'm just temporarily
adhering those masks over these two floral stamped images, the ones that will overlap and then I can do my stamping, then I can remove the mask and you'll see that we
don't have overlapped. So this doesn't take much time because I have those masks but remember you could also
cut your own if you need to. Masking is an easy way to really
make your card come to life because adding those layers
or levels of dimension makes a big difference. Okay, so I went ahead and
I completed all the layers for all the images and all three panels. I wanted to add some blue
sky behind my flowers so I broke out those masks once again and I'm just temporarily adhering them over my stamped areas. Then I'm coming in with
my Life Changing brushes and adding some Altenew Sea Breeze ink. This is a beautiful sky color. You can put this color
on very soft if you want but I wanted to go for
bold color on this one. You'll see me use a lighter
colored layer later on to show that you can do
that with these brushes. But there you can see how
the mask worked perfect for protecting your floral images so you can add color
over it or even stamp. There were a few places where I didn't line up my mask very well. I just filled those in
with a matching marker but you definitely could
leave them if you wanted to. Okay, now that we've inked
and stamped our three panels, it's time to cut them up
to get different looks. So I did trim all of these
panels down to 3 1/2 by 4 3/4. You can definitely do
whatever size you want. I'm going to draw a line
right down the center back. I like to draw lines in the back because no one will ever see them and can help me to make sure I get everything centered and straight. Now, don't worry too much
about measuring lines. I'll show you how you can eyeball things as we go along in this video. Next, I'm going to use my trimmer to cut just a little bit to the right of that pencil line and just al ittle bit to the
left of that pencil line. So basically what this will do is cut a little bit out of the center. So I cut a little bit to the right. Now, I'm going to cut a
little bit to the left. I find that this is the easiest way to cut just a sliver out of
the center of your panel. Next, we want to cut a
little bit of a bigger area horizontally across this so that we have room for a sentiment. So I'm holding those two pieces together. This time I'm just eyeballing it and cutting about an inch from the bottom. This time, I'm cutting
a bigger sliver out, about a little bit over
a quarter of an inch. That way I have room
for a sentiment there. So those little slivers that we cut out, we don't need to keep those. We're just going to use the larger pieces. Next, I'm using Gina K Connect Glue which is a great, strong liquid adhesive and I'm gluing craft foam on
the back of each of our pieces. Now, you could definitely
use foam tape or foam square but craft foam is inexpensive and it also gives even dimension. Here's the best part. When you use a liquid adhesive to position these pieces,
you have some wiggle room. You can still move things
around while it's wet so you can make sure
that all of the pieces are lined up nicely onto your cart. So I did a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch
top-folding white note card and now I'm stamping a sentiment
right into that opening with VersaFine Onyx Black ink. I thought that it would be nice just to have a simple sentiment
in that open area and I decide not to do
any other embellishments and instead just add some
shimmer pen to the tulips. They would stand out more. So this is a pretty simple technique but you get a completely different look by adding these little cut-up sections. It's something that I think
is a great thing to try especially with large images like this one or background stamps and I have lots of examples for you today. I do find the results are more impactful if you use some sort
of dimensional adhesive or tape or craft foam behind the pieces so you get that dimensional look. Okay, here is our second tulip example. This one's really quick. I did a diagonal cut across our panel. Now, sometimes I like to cut thin strips of white card stock and
stamp my sentiment on it so I can kinda put it on my card and decide where I want to cut. Sometimes it helps me to
eyeball and position things. So once I was happy, I cut a diagonal line and then I shifted that panel so that it hangs out of the tremor a little more than a quarter
of an inch and I cut again. It really doesn't have to be perfect. I don't think anyone will notice if you don't have it measured just right. I will once again put white craft foam on the back of these two stamped pieces. I just put the liquid adhesive on it, lay the craft foam in
place, trim off the excess, and then I usually put
something heavy on it just for a few seconds so
that it dries nice and flat. Once I have those prepared, I can go ahead and put
liquid adhesive on the back and position them on
a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 card. I just try to make the
outside edge of the card even and that helps me with the spacing. Now, the sentiments on
many of my cards today are from the Altenew
Needlework Motif Stamp Set. You can tell I've used
this one a lot in the past. The sentiments are wonderful, especially this one that
I'm using quite a bit today. A MISTI stamping tool is very helpful here because I don't wanna
mess it up at this point but you definitely could
use a long acrylic block if that's what you have. I really like how this sentiment fits perfectly in that spot. Now, I could've just cut this panel down to fit on the front of the card and then cut a white card stock strip and stamp the sentiment on that and glue that across our stamped panel but there's something fun and unique about having this kind of card design with the cut-up stamped image. I will say you could
also just cut one line across your stamped panel
and separate the pieces, allowing room for a sentiment but then the proportions are off. I find it better to cut
a little section out and put your sentiment in its place. It gives a more complete look. Okay, now this is my
favorite trick from today and I hope this is helpful to you. I again have my card and
my panel trimmed down a bit and I cut a few scrap
pieces of white card stock. I'm just positioning them where I would love them
to be across my card. This sure beats measuring and making sure they're
evenly spaced and all that. Instead, I am totally eyeballing it here. And where you see those white strips, that's where I'm going to cut. So what I'm doing is laying them out, kind of getting the spacing
good just by eyeballing it. Once I'm happy with the spacing, there's no adhesive on
the back of those strips. I'm just putting some
temporary tape over it to pick all of the pieces up together. Then I flip it over and
I'm going to use a pencil. The pencil is going to be to make marks on both sides of those
little white strips. So you see how I'm doing
a little pencil mark to the left and the right
of each strips on one side and then I'll do the
same on the other side. This will tell me where to
cut to get diagonal lines like I positioned with those white strips. Okay, so once I have
those pencil marks done, I can remove the strips
and the temporary tape and I can reuse that tape and
the strips a few more times. Now, I can take my trimmer and I'm going to cut from
one side to the other, connecting those little pencil marks. So I'm just gonna go
through and keep cutting along those pencil marks. So each time I'm cutting out a little strip of the stamped paper and they match up with those strips that we had positioned
on the front temporarily. All of the areas I'm cutting out are small except for the one that's
a little bit bigger so there'll be room for a stamp sentiment. So this trick that I just showed you is a great way to do this technique without having to make any measurements. Okay, so once I have cut
off all those little pieces, I can go ahead and put craft foam on the back of each of them. Just using the liquid adhesive
as I showed you before. Then I can start to
position them on the front of a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 white note card. I will say when I have a
lot of pieces like this, I like to put the top piece
down then the bottom piece and then fill in the areas between. Remember, you don't have to
glue them all down perfectly. You wanna eyeball it and just try to leave equal amount of space
between each section. Now the sentiment I used on this card and also the first card that I showed you is from this Altenew Wonderland Stamp Set. This is another one that
I've used in videos before but I think the sentiments are beautiful and they're perfect for this technique just as is the Motif Stamp
Set that I showed you earlier. So here's the final card and
I personally love the look of these multiple diagonal lines cut out of our stamped panel. I know that you might panic a little bit cutting up a stamped panel
that you spent time on but if you're looking
for a fresh, new design and something that's
still clean and simple, this is definitely worth trying. And by the way, if you
ever get a fingerprint on a stamped panel and you wanna give up
on the piece, try this. Maybe you could cut that section out and put a sentiment there instead. Okay, let's do another example. This time, completely different look and I just wanted to
share it with you quickly because this is a simple design that can be used with
many different stamps. This new Altenew stamp
set would be beautiful for subtle tone on tone backgrounds or I think it's gorgeous to use with a metallic embossing powder. So I'm stamping on to a dark
pool-colored card stock here with VersaMark ink. Now instead of using a
metallic embossing powder, I'm using a pearl embossing powder. Pearl embossing powder picks
up whatever color is behind it and gives it a metallic look. So you have almost this dark
teal color silvery look. Now, I could leave it as is but here's a trick that I like to do. Once it's cool, I repeat
that process right on top of the embossing I already did. This gives more dimension
to your embossing and makes it stand up even more. Since this card is very simple, I thought this would
really make a big impact on the final results. So I repeated this process three times. I did three layers of that
pearl embossing powder and look at the beautiful
dimension that you get. Now, you get more detail
if you only do one layer but I love the dimension
that you get with the three. Okay, so I repeated that
until I covered my panel. By the way, this panel is 3
1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. So next, I'm going to flip it over and I'll draw two marker lines: one down the center horizontally and one down the center vertically. You can eyeball this if you want to but it's pretty easy to
do if you have a T-ruler or if you have a grid work
surface like I have here. Now, I'm going to do what
I did on my first card. I'm going to cut a little
bit to the right of my line and then I'm gonna cut again
a little left of my line. This will result in a thin strip
being cut out of the center of our piece. Okay, so now, I'm going to
hold those two pieces together, rotate it and do the same thing again. I'm gonna cut a little bit
to the right of that line and a little bit to the left. You could instead just cut
down the center vertically, cut down the center horizontally, and spread those pieces out a little bit when you glue them to your card. But by cutting those sections out, you're not messing with the proportions of your stamped images and it really gives better results. As I've done with all of my examples, I'm gluing craft foam on the back of each of these pieces for dimension. Now, before I glue these on to my card, I'm going to take a marker that's a little bit
darker than my card stock and let it ride along the edge. I just thought adding that nice dark edge would make each of these
squares stand out more and give it a nice finished look. You could totally skip this if you want but I was really happy with
the results when I did it. This is a trick that works great for a lot of different techniques. Thought it was perfect here. So once I've done that, I can start to arrange these and I put them towards the top of a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch note card using that liquid adhesive to
allow me to move the pieces and wiggle them to
position them just right. I then stamped a sentiment
right underneath it and we have our completed card. It's a pretty simple design. You could definitely use any
stamps you want for this. You could do any kind of
technique you want for this. Think of all those times
you've tried a new technique and you were just experimenting. Grab those pieces of paper, those inked or water
colored pieces of paper, throw some stamping on them, cut them up, and try this design. I bet you'll be happy with the results. Okay, next I have three examples using the same floral image but I changed them up a little bit just to show you the different
looks that you can get. This is a new Altenew Build A Flower set. Now, this is a stamp set
and the coordinating dyes that come together. Of course, there's a
little booklet in there with the card examples, color suggestions, and a stamping guide. This is another one that's
pretty easy to line up since the distinct shape of the images and it is so realistic. The reason I really like
layering stamp sets like this one that give realistic results is I've always wanted to be an artist and I've wanted to color or draw or paint these kind of things but I can't so I get to totally
fake it with the stamps. So I have these three panels. I just used Altenew purple and green inks and stamped on white card stock. Now, I'm going to use some
Gina K Masking Magic here. This is a nice masking paper
that you can reuse many times. Since I have three panels, I thought this was a great option. I cut it using the coordinating
dye for the same flower. Going to position this over
one of my stamped pieces. In each three of the three panels, I'm going to do something
different over the stamping. So for this example, I'm going to stamp with my favorite ever Altenew stamp, the one that I reach for the most. This is the Pinstripe Stamp. It creates beautiful
pinstripe diagonal lines that are a great, subtle addition to just about any card. So I'm stamping right over my mask with a light purple ink
then I can remove the mask and you can see how my
stamping is left perfectly fine and I have the stripes surrounded. Now for the second panel, I took the mask off the first
and move it onto this one since I can reuse it a few times. I'm using my Life Changing brush to apply some of the
Sea Breeze Altenew ink which is that same blue I used before but this time I'm doing
it very light-handed. So I end up with just this soft blue halo around our flower and it is just gorgeous. And for the third panel, I stamped with the same
pinstriped background but I used a yellow ink this time. Okay, now we can cut each
of our panels down a bit. I cut it to about 2 1/4 inches wide. I actually determined that width by the width of the sentiment so that it would fit perfectly. I then trim the height down to five inches so that you could see
some of the note card above and below it. Okay, now, for this one, I'm showing that you can totally eyeball with this if you want to. I'm going to have cut a
few sections out of this. This first time, I cut off the bottom and then I thought, oh, I
should've cut a little bit lower so I'm going in and
cutting a little bit off then I'm going back to the other piece and cutting a little more of. It doesn't matter. You can always put these back together how they need to be, just leaving different mounts
between the cut sections. I did make that first section wider so I could stamp a sentiment and as you can see, these pieces
that I'm doing at the top, I'm just cutting out a smaller section. If you don't feel comfortable
just eyeballing it like I'm doing here, you can always draw pencil
lines on the back of the panel and follow those when you're cutting. But this time, I just went for it. So each section's gonna be a
little bit a different size and it actually turns out to
work out great in the end. Now, I cut this piece up quite a bit. So you can see how it was
good that I used a large image so that it was clearly
continuous from piece to piece. Okay, so now, I'm gluing these down onto the edge of a cream-colored note card that's 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. And I do put a straight edge up against it to make sure that I keep them
all straight and lined up and I stamped my sentiment
right into that bottom opening. So you can see how the
image is still continuous. You can see the image clearly. You just have a fresh new look to it because we did this cut-up technique. Now, my favorite of these three cards is definitely this one. I think it's so unique. I rarely put a sentiment
vertical like that but it really works. It's like this contemporary style. So this time, I started
with the trimmed panel like I did before but I'm cutting an area for my sentiment vertically. I did it off to the
side so I didn't cut out too much of my flower or the stem. And then I stamped the
sentiment into that open area and that is on a 4 1/4 by
5 1/2 inch white note card. It's such a clean and simple design. All I did was add shimmer to the flower. You could add gems and
sequins to this if you want to but sometimes I think less is more, especially with a beautiful
image like this one and that beautiful sentiment. I've planned to make a set
of cards like this one, just changing up the colors
to give as a teacher gift. Now, here's the third one. I just drew pencil lines on the back just to kinda eyeball where to cut and then I cut three larger sections out so that I had room for three sentiments. I thought that would be a unique change and I did it all in the stem so I didn't cover up any
of the floral on the top. This is a great way to
add something interesting to any tall image you have like this one. So these three cards show you that you can really get different looks out of the same panel, depending on how you cut them up. Okay, now my next example
is completely different. This is a good idea for when
you want to just experiment and cover up a mistake. For this one, I'm using the Altenew Beautiful Peony Stamp Set. This has some gorgeous outline images. I decided to white heat emboss
these on watercolor paper. That way I could play with the new Altenew
Watercolor Brush Markers. These are super fun. They have the watercolor in the pen so all you have to do is open them and go. You can color right on to your paper. Then I also put a little puddle of water on my work surface over to the right that I could pick up with
the tip of my brush marker if I want the color to be lighter. If I want the color to be darker, I just give a little squeeze
to the barrel of the pen. So I can quickly add beautiful
color to these images. It's hard to see all the images on there but I did cover the entire panel with white heat-embossed images. Okay, so I continue to color this all, covered it completely, and I even did blue vivid
color in the background. But you'll see that spot there where the purple ran into the blue because I was too impatient to let it dry. Well, I want to cover that up so I'm going to cut a section out there. First, I'm just gonna do
one cut and I wanna show you how if you just do one cut and then glue these on to
your cards separated a bit, see how the proportions are
messed up with the flowers? They aren't continuous. It just kinda isn't pleasing to the eye but when we go back and cut
out a little strip or a section then line them up how
they're supposed to be, it's much more pleasing to the eye because the images are then continuous. This is really important
if you do maybe this with a background image where
there is a distinct pattern. Okay, so I put craft foam
on the back of those pieces, added them on to 4 1/4 by 4 1/4 note card and I stamped a sentiment
in the open area. That way, I kinda hid my
little mistake that I made, nobody will ever know, and I was able to play with a new product. So as I mentioned, this technique is great if you just want to experiment or if you want to hide a mistake. Okay, my next example here
has lots of stamp layering and a bit of masking and I have a trick that I
wish I would've figured out at the beginning of the video, but now I'll share it with you. Okay, this is the new
Frilled Petals Stamp Set. So there are the layering
images and the outline so you can use them together or separate which is always a great option to have. And keep in mind there
are coordinating dyes and there are coordinating masked stencils available for the set. Okay, now I'm gonna skip through
the stamping of this panel. It's very basic. I did do a bit of masking using the coordinating mask
stencil as you see here. But I ended up doing three flowers. One in pinks, one in
oranges, and one in yellows. Now, I just did the layering
images themselves at first because I wanted to show
you what that looked like before I stamped the outline. So let's skip ahead here. I have all of my layering stamping done. So I can leave it like this. I think it's got such a
beautiful realistic look but I decided to make this bold by stamping the outlined image over it. So remember how the set
had the layering images and the outlined images? You can use them together or separate. Okay, so now we're gonna
stamp this one with black ink and look at how that just gives
a beautiful finished look. Okay, so I finished up that stamping and now I have a trick for you. I should've thought of this earlier. This time I'm going to glue the craft foam on the back of our stamped
panel first before we cut it up. So I put some liquid adhesive on here. I'm gonna rub it around really well so that we have good adhesion
on to our craft foam. I'll add that craft foam
piece on the back of it. I usually make the craft foam piece to be slightly smaller than our panel. After giving it a few minutes to dry, I can now cut my section out
of this for the sentiment and the craft foam is already in place. My trimmer was able to
cut through it no problem. Most trimmers should be able to. Craft foam is very easy to cut. And now, I have my two pieces ready to go and that saved me a lot of time. I glued these on to 4 1/4
by 5 1/2 pink note card and I actually stamped the pinstripes with pink ink on it first. Now, I feel like on this design,
it's got so much going on. There's a lot of bold color but since we cut a section
out for the sentiment, allows that sentiment to stand out more. So that's another case when
this design is very helpful. Okay, I have one more example for you. Now on this one, we did
some cut up of our stamping but I didn't add a sentiment
into those cut areas. Instead, I added a word die cut on top. This card features the new
Altenew Dotted Blooms Stamp Set. It's got a beautiful image on here and the sentiments are lovely. In fact, one of the sentiments I used on the watercolor example I did earlier. So I have a pink card stock panel here and I'm stamping my image with black ink and then I'm going to
rotate my paper 180 degrees, so I'm just gonna rotate it around, and I'm going to stamp it again. This is a great way to fill
up more space on your card with an image and save time when you're using a stamping tool. Okay, so now there are
a couple layering images or three layering images to go with this and I'm stamping those with
a slightly darker pink ink and then I'll rotate it
and stamp them again. It's very easy to line
up, very easy to use. Now this time, since I started
with a pink card stock, I'm going and adding some
white into my flowers here. I'm using the Luminance White Pencil. This is an incredible white pencil that colors very bright white, even on darker colored card stocks. These pencils are quite expensive but you can buy the white
individually if you want to and I highly recommend it. After I added the white,
I noticed I had covered up some of my black lines with that pencil so all I'm doing is stamping
it again right on top. So that adds that vivid
black back in place. And in fact, I decided to go ahead and clear heat emboss these two. I'm using VersaFine Onyx Black ink which is a quick-drying pigment ink but it's perfect if you want to do some clear embossing on top. So after I've stamped this,
made sure I got good coverage, I'll add my clear embossing
powder and heat set and then we have the beautiful results of those light pink and white flowers against the light pink background. Next, I'm stamping that
same pinstripe background with light pink ink right on top. What's cool is the white
pencil almost resits that ink that we put on top then kinda sits on top of it so I can dab it away and you won't see the
stripes on our flowers which is super cool. Now I'm rotating it 90
degrees and stamping again and this will give us
a crosshatch pattern. It's always fun when you
can get more than one look from a stamp and this one
definitely offers that. So I wanted to cut this one up. So it kind of looked like a window pane. So I'm flipping it over
and using my T-ruler and I'm going to do three lines vertically and three lines horizontally. You could totally measure
this if you want to but honestly, I'm just
kind of eyeballing it, whatever works best for you. Everybody's a little bit different but you can measure them if you want to. But it is handy to have
a T-ruler to make sure that your lines are straight
when you do make them. Okay, now it's time to
cut those sections out. So I cut a little bit
to the right of the line and a little bit to the left and that allows me to take
thin little sections out. Now, hold those pieces together
and do the same vertically. If these pieces kind of
move as you're doing this, you could always temporarily
tape them together but I find it's pretty easy
just to kinda hold them in place as I do the cutting. Okay, so I went ahead and
added white craft foam to the back of each of those pieces. I should've put the craft foam on first like I did on the last
card but again, I forgot. And then I arranged those
on to a white note card. You can see that we
cut little sections out so our stamped images have
a very continuous look. You can also see that fun
crosshatch pattern that we got from the pinstriped background. I added some pearls and then a layered
white die cut sentiment. You could do a stamp sentiment here but I felt like this kind of filled in that little space nicely. All right, so there you
have lots of examples of getting new looks from your stamping by cutting up your images. I know it's scary to do at first but it's definitely worth a try. I hope you'll give it a try. If you're interested in these supplies, I always have them linked in
my YouTube description below. In the middle are a couple other videos that you might be interested in. I thank you for sticking
around for this long episode. I hope you have a great
day and we'll be back soon.
