- [Jennifer] Hello, and welcome. This is Jennifer, and
I'm glad you're here. Today, I'm sharing with
you a fun way to combine your stamps and your dies
for new layered look. Now, this is often referred
to as the eclipse technique, but today I'm focusing on
using dies in sentiment stamps for really cool, continuous,
but layered look. It's a great way to create
a focal point on a card with layer and dimension. It's also nice for
clean and simple design. I will be demonstrating
three different ways of doing this technique with
three different types of dies. For this first one I'm using a new die set from Simon Say Stamp called
the Layered Birdie set. I love using birds on my cards, and this is a great one. Perfect for this technique. Before we get going, I
also wanted to show you two other bird die sets
from Simon Says Stamp and give you a little tip. First, this is the Layered
Chickadee, isn't acute? And then the other is the Layered Owl. Notice I cut the layers
from white cardstock and glued it together and I'm
putting those in the pockets. Whenever I get new layering die sets I cut them from white cardstock, glue them together and put
them in the pocket with it so that I have it for reference, for size or what it looks like later on. I find this to be really
helpful in knowing what my dies look like. I will also be using the older Etched Eucalyptus Wreath Die on this card and for a sentiment I'm using the new Love Garden Greetings set. This has some great greetings and a nice kind of classic font. I'll be using the
Sending Love on this one. There are coordinating dies available, but I don't use them for this technique. Okay. I've got my MISTI stamping tool here and I also have a piece of cardstock where I have taped my
assembled bird die cut, remember how I do it from white cardstock and then a wreath around it. I just have it taped there
so that I can plan out where I want everything to be. I can later take these pieces apart and put them in the pockets
as my example piece. So I'm positioning that sending love to cross over the bird die
cut, and the wreath die cut. When I'm happy with the
position of the sentiment, I close the door on my MISTI to grab it, and I'm gonna leave that sentiment there in the stamping tool and I
won't move it for quite a while. I put my little guide that
I made from white cardstock off to the side so I
can refer to it again. And now I have a fresh
piece of white cardstock that I'll stamp this on. This is four and a quarter
by five and a half inches. You could use any black ink you want here. And I'll talk a little
bit more about that later. Now this is a pigment ink that I chose. So I'm gonna heat set it. I just want that to be completely dry. Then I'm gonna add some detail
to this whole background. For this I'm using the Concord & 9th Quilted Card Front Die. I love this because it does like this full stitching quilted pattern, but it doesn't cut the outside edge. So you can cut the cardstock
to whatever you want and use that die. So I'm taping my cardstock
with the stamp sentiment on it, right onto this die. And then I will run it
through my die cut machine as I would any die. I'm using my Spellbinders machine. Now you could stop after you do this. After you cut with this,
it'll do that full piercing, but here's a tip. If you want a little more
dimension to your full piercing and actually make it stand out more, after you cut it get
out your embossing mat, put that on your platform, keep the cardstock and
the die taped together, then run that through your machine. That'll give it more, it'll kind of intensify the
look of the full stitching. It's pretty amazing how much it helps. So I always do that. Whenever I use a piercing
or full stitching die, and you can do this with whatever die cut machine you have. So now that I have our
background complete, let's start adding our die cuts. First, I'm adding the light green wreath. So this is cut from Concord
& 9th Sprout Cardstock. Most cardstock I use today is either Concord & 9th or Hero Arts. I'm going to glue this right
onto my stamped greeting piece. So it's gonna get glued
right on top of the greeting. And I'm kind of following that guide. Remember that I taped together
over there on the left. So once I have this in place, I use my pressure tool for my
MISTI to just press it down, to make sure that glue has adhered. And then I put it back
into my MISTI stamping tool and stamp the sentiment again. So this will add the letters
on top of the green die cut. So we still have that continuous sentiment across the die cut. Now I wanted a lot of dimension to this, so I cut a second of the same wreath and the same color and I'm
gluing it right on top. So this was an added thought here. So now I need to stamp on top of this too. I do find it helpful to stamp
on top of each layer we add just to keep everything
looking crisp and continuous. Now I have two darker green wreaths, and I'm just gonna go ahead and start out by gluing these together because I want that added dimension, but you don't have to,
if you don't want to. You could definitely just
do one layer of each. Now I'm putting glue on the
back of that layer die cut and I'm adding that on
top of the other wreath offsetting it just so the
wreath feels a little more full. You'll see some of the light green wreath kind of stick out from the edges and I really love the
look of that layering. But now that we've added more die cutting over our sentiment, we need to stamp that sentiment again. Every time I add a die cut,
I'll just stamp some more on top of it and it'll keep
that sentiment continuous. Now we can assemble our bird. I cut the body from light blue cardstock and I'm sandwiching the legs
between two layers of the body. That just gives me more dimension. Now we can add him onto our card using some strong liquid adhesive, I'm using Gina K Connect. And notice once again, I'm
gluing over my sentiment. I'm actually doing that on purpose just to really make this
technique stand out even more. So once again, I put it
into my MISTI stamping tool stamp that sentiment, and that will add the letters
back on top of the bird. So you can see it still says
sending love very clearly. I finished the bird by
adding the other layer pieces that come with the layering set, and I'm just gluing these
right under the bird and it doesn't overlap any stamping. So we don't need to stamp again. Now, one thing I wanted to note, if you see any little edges of cardstock that are showing through and not black, you can use a black pen to fix that, but I have a tip for that
and I'll share that later on, but first let's finish this card. I have a white note card
that is four and a quarter by five and a half inches, and I covered it with a piece of Altenew's Double-Sided Adhesive. The reason I did that
is there some texture to our background because of the quilted cover plate we used so I really want this to attach well. So I found this to be the best option. I put that in the corner
of my MISTI stamping tool so that I could take the
front panel and line it up. So I just put both in the
corner and that'll line it up and make sure the front
panel is glued directly onto the card nice and straight. So basically that was a white card with this panel glued on front, both were four and a quarter
by five and a half inches. I then use my bone
folder to make sure that textured background really
grabs to the adhesive behind it. For an eye I used Lucy's
Cards Soft Black Pearls. I feel like that's a fun way
to add a little dimension, but you could do a black
pen instead if you prefer. I also added some Trinity Stamps Dewdrops. These are new. They're cool. They're like rounded dewdrop, but color on the back of it. So a little bit of color
shows through that dewdrop. So this is a light blue, and I just think it adds
quite a bit of interest without being too distracting. So here's a look at our completed card. I could have just assembled the die cuts and added maybe a stamp
sentiment strip in that location, but there's something
really cool about having that sentiment go over all of those layered die cuts in the background. It just gives a really
cool continuous look and it definitely looks
much better in real life. I wish I could capture all
the dimension there is. So next time you have some
die cuts or stamped images, and you need to add a sentiment, try this, try having it go continuously across it. It really steps up a simple design. Okay, it's time for our next card. And this time I'll show you another way of doing this technique and you can choose which would work best for you. And I'm taking one single die, but I'm gonna make it look
like it's a layering die. So I have some tips for that. This is the Simon Says
Stamp Wreath of Love, a great single die that you
can change up in many ways. I also will be using the Simon Says Stamp All About You stamp set. This has lots of great
options for this technique because the sentiments are nice and bold. Now, offscreen, I die cut
from several different colors of cardstock that heart wreath, and you can see them over to the left. I'm taking one to kind of plan out where my sentiment will go. I have a piece of white cardstock there that is four and a quarter
by five and a half inches. Once I'm happy with the sentiment, I can close the door on
my MISTI stamping tool and we're gonna leave that
there for all of our stamping. I'll start by stamping it
onto that white cardstock. Now notice I'm double
or triple stamping here. That's because my ink pad is really dry and needs to be ranked. Now this time I'm doing
things a little bit different. I'm gonna stamp all of my die cuts before I glue them together. So bear with me. I'm planning to have my wreath
die cut right about there, and I'm just taping it
over there on the left. So I can slide out my background. Now I'm putting the
negative space around this and I'll tape the negative
space onto the pad of my MISTI. So this negative space
will stay here for a bit. This gives me a place where I can pop in each of my die cuts to stamp on them. So before I stamped each die cut after I glued them down, this time I'm stamping
each die cut before, it really doesn't matter
which method you use, they both give great results. So I'm stamping the
sentiment onto the wreath and you'll see it just stamps
in certain areas there. Then you can take out that
die cut and let's check. Let's make sure it lines up
nicely, and look at that. You could even get away
with just doing this and adding a few pearls,
simple, clean design, but I'm gonna add all those layers because that's what I really like, especially with a simple design. So I am stamping the same sentiment onto each of these hearts. Each time just taking the heart die cut, popping it into that negative
space and then stamping. This way I can be sure
that the stamping is done in the exact same spot
on each of the hearts. The nice thing about this method is all your stamping is done and you can kind of forget about it as you move on to the assembly. Okay, but first I want to add
some detail to the background. I'd love using those
piercing background dies. This is the Simon Says
Stamp Detail Pedal Die. This cuts the outside edge, but only does a piercing
panel in the center area. Perfect for this technique. Once again, I'll run it through my machine as I would with any die,
but before I take it apart, I'm going to use the embossing mat also. So I'll take the Tan Embossing Mat, put my die with the
cardstock right on top of it, then the embossing plate
which comes with the machine and run that through. This just kind of adds
a little more dimension to those little holes that we've pierced and all die cut machines should
come with an embossing mat. So there you can see that
detailed pattern in the background and our sentiment is still nice and crisp is always better to stamp
your sentiment before doing that background detail die. Now we can start our heart wreath. I'm starting with a white heart die cut that has the stamping on it. And I'm gluing that right
on top of our background. And you'll see it's easy
to line up the sentiment. Now, when you do this, sometimes
if you look from the side, you'll see like the side
of the die cut is white, so it doesn't look continuous black. If that bothers you,
you can use a black pen to add the black color to
the side of the die cut. But honestly, I don't
think it's necessary. One thing you could do is
instead use a black die ink that absorbs more into the paper and it would keep the edges
from being so crisp white. I used a pigment ink which sits on top. So try it with the die ink. But honestly, my die ink was being used by somebody who's helping me
put teacher gifts together so I had to go with what I had. But now we can keep building these on. So the first layer I want is the green. I could have skipped that
white layer underneath, but I wanted it under
there for added dimension, but I'm starting with
the solid light green. So the entire die cut
as is, is glued down. Now I've got a darker green and I'm going to cut
away some of the leaves, what I'm cutting away is anything that I want to be light green. This will get glued on top. So anything I cut away, we'll show the light
green die cut below it. So you can change this
up however you want. What I did is I just cut
off some of the leaves. Then I can put glue on the back of this and add it right on top of
the light green die cut. What I'm doing here is building up layers in each of the layers from
now on will be changed a bit. And it gives you the look
of a layered die set, but really it was just one die. So see how some light green
leaves are peeking out. Well, now let's go onto another color. This time I'm using the bright peach and I'm cutting away everything except for the three big flowers. That way I'll have a heart
with three big peach flowers. We'll glue that on top
of our dark green die cut and the green leaves will peek through. So this can be done in so many ways. So many different ways to do this. I'll show you another
way you can add color in my next example. But this is fun for me
because you're changing what the die was intended to be used for and giving it a different
look, kind of stepping it up. Layer die sets are more expensive. This is a less expensive single die. And with a little bit of work, you can make it look like a layer die set. Okay, so now I have my heart with just the three big flowers. I'll put glue on that,
glue on top of the green, and look at that. You have your two different
colors of green leaves and your bright peach flowers. Next, I have a lighter
peach and I'm cutting off absolutely everything from it so that I just have the heart outline. Now I can put glue on top
of our dark peach heart and add the light peach
heart on top of it. So look at that fun layered piece. I did cut a few of the tiny little flowers off of a yellow die cut and
added onto the green die cut so that we had that pop of yellow too. I think there are three little flowers that I'm cutting off and
adding in the yellow. And I'm sorry, my head
keeps getting in the way, but the best way to make sure
you have everything lined up and layered nicely is to
look straight from above. Okay. I have a four and a
quarter by five and a half inch top folding white note card. I covered that with double-sided
adhesive from Altenew, and then I'll put our panel on the front. Again, the reason I'm using
a sheet of adhesive here is remember how I used the
piercing die on that background, I wanted to make sure that
we held on to that texture and the best way to do that
is with a lot of adhesive. And the best way to get a lot of adhesive is with an adhesive
double-sided sheet like this. I then use my bone folder
to really press that down so I can be sure it's adhered. And I'm using little yellow
dewdrops from Trinity Stamps to add little accents around the heart. Okay. So here is the completed card. You can see how the sentiment
is continuous across it because I stamped each die cut before I glued the layers together. You can see those little yellow dewdrops. I did glue some of those
on top of my sentiment because they look like little
dots above the flowers, but you could skip that if you wanted to. So there I was able to take a single die and make it look like a layering die set and also get that continuous
look of the sentiment across the background
and all of the layers. You can see how this works really well with large, bold sentiments, but last example had a smaller
one and it worked great too. Okay. Now we're onto my third example. This is the most elaborate, I guess, of the three techniques
I'm using an outline die and I'll add the pieces into the inside. Took a bit of time, but
definitely worth it. For this, I'm using the Concord
& 9th Big On You stamp set. I love this set. I also feel these large, bold sentiments are great for this technique. I'm also using this new
die from Simon Says Stamp called the Peony and Leaves Die. It's an outline die. So it cuts the outline. It's great for die cut inlay. I cut that from white cardstock
and I'm just positioning it where I want it onto a
white piece of cardstock. That is four and a quarter
by five and a half inches. I'm just planning out where
I want my sentiment to be. So I'm kind of centering
this on the cardstock making sure I'm overlapping
with the die cut quite a bit, just to make the technique
really stand out even more. Once I'm happy to close the
door on my stamping tool, and now we can stamp this
onto the white background once again with black ink. At this time I'm using the Memory Box Pinpoint Leaf Plate
Die to add some texture to our background. I am again, running it
through my die cut machine as I would with any die, then
I will run it through again, using the embossing
mat and this just makes the piercing a little deeper
and adds more texture. You can totally skip these
background dies if you want. I just think it adds a lot, especially since there's
a lot of white space. Okay, now we need to do some die cutting. But for this, I want all the pieces, those little pieces to
stay inside the die cut. Sometimes when you die
cut with a die like this, all the pieces stay in
the cardstock die cut, which is what I want, but sometimes they stay
stuck in the die itself. Especially if you used a die a lot they tend to want to stay in the die and you have to pop them out individually. Here's a trick you can do
if you don't want the pieces to stay in the die, which I don't want. So I'm taking the release paper from that all to new adhesive sheet that I had leftover from before, that piece you peel away, I'm using that to help
with my die cutting. So what I do is I put that
between my cardstock and my die. And that way, when I
cut that release paper kind of forces the die cut
pieces to pop out of the die. So when I run it through
my die cut machine, see how all the little die cut pieces are staying in that outline die. I think one big one popped out, but other than that,
they all stay in there. Now there are release paper
die cuts stuck on top, but you can easily just scratch
those away and remove those. They just pop right off. Now I have my outline die cut with all the little pieces still inside. I'm putting glue all over the back of this and I'll glue this right
on top of our miss you, kind of positioned where
I planned it earlier. Now you can see those
release paper die cuts are still up there, that's okay. I can take them off once this is dry. A few of the pieces popped out so I just glued those back in. Once this is all pressed down, I can just remove the
release paper off the top. It comes right off. It's not glued there. It's just kind of stuck
there from being squished in the die cut machine. And there we have our outline die cut with all the little pieces on the inside. Now we can put that back into our MISTI and stamp on top of it again. Always stamping on each layer. Now I have another white die cut here that I cut with the release paper. This is another way to
remove the release paper. Just use a piece of
sticky tape along the top, and it'll pull off those
little pieces of release paper. So after I have those
release paper pieces removed this time I'm gonna add
color to this die cut before we add it to our card. So I'm putting color
over all of the leaves with a green Copic marker. I think this is WG 25. And then I grab some pink Copic markers and went over the flower with that. So I'm coloring the outline
and the pieces on the inside. And because I use release paper, all the pieces came out together except I lost two little ones, which I can add back in later. No big deal. So now I'm putting glue
all over the back of this and then I'll glue this on
top of the white die cut. That's on our background. So I'm just gonna pick
this up and line it up. I could have skipped the white underneath, but again, I put that under there. So I would have some added dimension. I really want this to stand up to really intensify the
technique that we're doing. I did have those two pieces that fell out. So I'm just adding those back in and then we can add the color on here. I could have colored after, but I didn't want to accidentally get any of the marker on our background. I wanted to keep that nice and white. Okay. So we added a die cut so it's time to stamp on top of it again. Since we're stamping on top of a die cut or little die cut pieces
are puzzled together, you'll see there are those little cracks or nooks and crannies
between the die cut pieces where the ink isn't reaching. A die ink pad would work
better for this as I mentioned, but I just went in and filled in those little nooks and
crannies with a black pen and it only took a few minutes. Now this is the part where
I'm stepping this up. I love doing die cut inlay. What I'm actually doing here is gluing the inside pieces on top. So the inside pieces will
actually stand up taller. Bear with me you'll see
in the end what I'm doing. I'm just adding some
light green die cut pieces onto the leaves. So this is kind of like a
die cut inlay technique, except we're not in layering them, we're adding them on top. Just gives a really cool, layered look. You could definitely do a
basic die cut inlay here if you want. I love to put pieces together like this. I enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, you could definitely do the
other techniques I showed you or check out this video on the
top right that I'm linking, which gives tips on making die cut inlay a little bit easier. But in this case, I'm
just doing piece by piece, adding some light green pieces and some dark green die
cut pieces right on top of the color die cut we have on our card. Now let's do the flower. You'll see it better here. I have three different colors
of pink cardstock up there that I cut from that background die. And I'm taking out pieces from that, popping them out and
adding them onto our card. So I'm just lining it up with the die cut that's on our card. Very easy to see in real life. I just put glue down, then take one of the die
cut pieces and add it on. You'll be able to see that
original colored die cut in the outline. So we're just adding the inside pieces, not the outline. Now, some people love to
color and spend a lot of time doing coloring with markers
or watercolor or whatever. This is what I love to do. I love assembling die cuts. So I wanted to share this for
those of you who are like me. So notice how we're having, it almost looks like a mosaic
with these little pieces kind of standing up off of
the outline of the rose. So I continue to fill in
all those little pieces. It took me about 10 minutes to do that. And then what do we do? We stamp on top of it once again. Now knowing me, I want layers, right? So I did an additional layer
of those little inside pieces. You could totally skip this, but I really wanted to make those layers stand out even more. So I glued another layer of
each of the inside pieces on it. And once I had those all glued in place, I stamped yet again on top. So this card took me a little
over an hour to put together, but for me that's pretty quick because there's not much else to it. It's just that focal point. So here I'm stamping on
that top of that last layer. And then I used a black pen just to get into those nooks and crannies, where I felt like I wanted
that black to be more intense. But again, use a die ink
shouldn't be a problem since some of the leaves
are hanging off the side, I am trimming this down so that the width, including the leaves is four
and a quarter inches wide. So it'll still fit into
a regular envelope. I cut my note card to the same size so I think it is three
and three quarter inches by five and a half inches covering the front with
double-sided adhesive and then gluing our panel
right on top of that. I finished it off by adding
some of the pink dewdrops here and there around the flower. So here when you get a close look, look at all of that layering. Notice how the inside pieces
stand up more than the outline. It's just a fun way to
use a die differently. You definitely could have just
done a basic die cut inlay using this technique
of stamping across it. Notice also the piercing in the background adds a lot of interest and you've got that continuous sentiment
across all of it. So I hope you'll give this a try. You can do any kind of stamped
image for this technique, but I really think it's most impressive when you use a sentiment stamp because that's really the
focal point of your card. All right. If you're interested
in the supplies that I use, I linked them below in
my YouTube description. Also a lot of the things I use today are from new Simon Says Stamp release. That's fantastic. I've got that linked below too. And then at the end I have a
couple other related videos. One where I show a variation
of this eclipse technique. Hope that's helpful to you also. Thanks for spending this time with me. And I'll be back soon with another video.
