Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous (2023)

all right so this is the 2023 Stampers Anonymous everyday release it is uh six CMS stamp sets we'll talk about the stencils everything from regular layering stencils minis elements and then there is an Etc skew and I'll talk the whole thing even about Etc and try to answer your questions so the great thing of course about uh stamps of Stampers Anonymous it is deeply etched rubber so important for a lot of different stamping techniques and to me that is that is really where I where I thrive I love red rubber stamps we do several of the sets in clear stamps for um for the chain store for Joanne's but they're like usually a slightly smaller scale none of these new ones are going to be in Joanne's at this time they don't normally show up until like after a release if you will just because uh how the time works so these are only available in Red Rubber right now all of these images and I just want to take you through I will say that this is my set my set that I've been working with so my sets are let me just I need to ask Mario do you know where some can you grab those stamp sets though right at the end I just want to talk about the weeding thing real quick so while he's doing that let me just preface this whole intro to Stampers Anonymous in the fact that and I say this every time when it comes to design I don't draw I can't I don't know how to draw I mean I understand how to draw but I'm not very good at it so so I license my work much of it is licensed for people from people that actually can draw some of them are licensed from people that sell vintage imagery and some stuff of course is scanned in from our our own personal collection of vintage image so it's a it's a little mix of everything but sometimes people say you know you need this kind of stamp and this kind of stamp and while I appreciate the suggestions uh never really short of ideas and I kind of am inspired by art that I see and curate a set around it so much of this art you might see sometimes even in different formats but that's because that artist that draws is in the business of Licensing their work to all types of uh different I would say Industries everything from stamps to card making to all sorts of things so just I want to preface that this first set this is one of my favorites this is called Tiny Prints and really what this one is this is inspired by actual vintage ephemera we scan these this is something that kind of Paula really pushed me for in the world of ideology we have many papers that have these tiny little prints these are often found in the inside covers of vintage books and they're just beautiful little patterns and they make great backgrounds great texture because they're very small so these are vintage these were scanned in and created these two big background stamps and you'll see what you can do with background stamps it's a lot of kind of cool fill in the blank this next one one of my favorites this one is called floral trims and what's really cool about this and I think I'm just going to put maybe one set in at a time to not confuse things uh the great thing about floral Trends believe it or not is that it's this really large stamp that has so many possibilities and I think sometimes people look at this and go oh it's a flower stamp I already have one first let's talk about the scale of this stamp these stamps are designed in a much larger scale they measure about six inches end to end and really what the design is for and I just kind of did these quick little stamp things just to show you a reference of these floral trims because sometimes you don't get it you look and you're like oh it's just flowers but here's the cool thing about the versatility of this so we'll start with this one top design first of all if you do an A2 card or again up to six inches you can stamp it straight across that card and you can have this design run any which way you want meaning the design could face down it could face up it can also be a vertical card and it just makes a really great midline design the other cool thing is that you can stamp part of it coming into an edge so this could be something coming down from the top of a card or it can come in on the side of a card just by using part of it because it's such a free-flowing image it really bleeds off to the end very well this is the other part this is like where the leaves are so to me you get two completely different looks from the same stamp just by stamping off the other Edge does that make sense so this again could be the top it could even be the bottom so when you look at a stamp like this often we see it as the whole image I always see it as parts and pieces and that's why it's important to me to have very interesting elements the fact that this is really the exact same stamp it's just treating your eye to crop it out correctly and you can have some great variety of those trims you can also take that and you can just use parts and pieces so if you like to create cards that are vertical doesn't mean that because it's a long stamp you always have to create this horizontal card you can stamp at the top and bottom and same thing by just choosing the parts that you want this is really the same midsection you can see here's that large flower and there's that leaf that dipped in but my favorite thing about these that I think a lot of people don't realize is they were designed to go onto a corner a corner Edge and what's really wild about this is that when you take a stamp if you I'll just kind of mimic this one just so you can see on an A2 this stamp is larger than an A2 but if you take it and you turn it to where the edge of the stamp touches this paper and the edge of the stamp touches this you'll create that perfect fade without it looking like it's just been chopped off so you can again treat this any direction on your card doesn't have to be in the top it could be in the bottom but now it gives you a completely different aesthetic to this image instead of this image looking like a stripe you're actually creating this cluster of florals just Again by turning that image so the image is off the edge here and off the edge here so you just kind of find that sweet spot and you can bring this back as far as you want depending on how much Landing space you want for the stamps but it's really cool to see that one design one of these two can achieve all these different looks and the same goes for the second stamp in here right different type of flower a little bit more open great for coloring great for backgrounds and you'll see how the makers did so many cool things but again it can go straight across that card you can go horizontal or vertical has a bit of a tropical vibe to me as well that's what it looks like if you just come in from the top or one Edge this is if you do the other side so you can see on this particular stamp one has more leaves one is more floral heavy so again depending on how you want to treat that there it is if you do top and bottom so you get just different sections and I love that because you can even isolate just one flower and you wouldn't think you can do that on a large stamp like this but it's just about perspective it's always about perspective and then you can see just those two corners completely different looks just depends on how much of the image you want to bring in or not obviously this is more open with the leaves and a little bit more compact on the other side with the smaller leaves so I just wanted to share that because sometimes if you only see an image online and you're like okay you know that's just a big border that's really why I called it floral trims even though you're like gosh that's a huge trim it's just because it's about trimming off the design not necessarily Fringe or a border but it's about how you trim that design and where you feature that particular part of of the image it creates a whole new whole new card a whole new design all right moving on I'm going to put these over here see I'm already running out of room this one is a great one and I'll get set up here this one is bold Botanicals I love this because it has a lot of solid space and what's cool about this is that you can easily do great coloring features by stamping this in Black you get a nice outline Edge the border of this is all faded so you can see that it doesn't stamp just a straight line it actually creates that tapered feathered look so great for colored pencils watercolor all types of different coloring mediums you can do this with alcohol ink distress you name it beautiful design and where do you see the makes I love I love the makes for Stampers anonymous because the variety of style from the same Stamp Set always blows my mind so this one this I have to I have to credit Sharon because Sharon is a maker she's always like you need more verses you need more verses you need more verses and she's right I do I do need more words in the set when I design but sometimes I just kind of get stuck on font choices I love fonts so what's cool about this one this one is called note quotes and what it is it is a bunch of tiny little handwritten quotes uh great cool font that just has a nice I'll say almost like a brush stroke to it it's really Whimsical if you will but then it's got these other designs a couple of solids a little splattery circle and square and then these little splattery frames what's great about note quotes and you'll see in the makes they can be used for a lot of different things but but just the basic I'll just kind of share the basic premise of the set all of these quotes and there's a lot of everyday stuff you know hello there thanks friends you know just some good things you are my happy focus on the good and I did throw in a little bit of seasonal because I thought I wanted to pack everything in this one set so there are a couple of like for Valentine's Day you know you and me love you in my heart there's an Easter one um Fourth of July there's some winter there's some Christmas couple of Halloween so you if you like the idea of this I wanted to already include stuff that you could use in the season uh for different ones but I didn't really go in specifically to you know a happy birthday happy because then I could just go on and on but the idea is is that all of these fit all of these so you can either stamp this little outline so this just shows you distress ink and distress oxide because I know many of you love stamping with distress oxide I'm still a purist and I love stamping with distress ink so essentially I just ink up the stamp spray with water and kind of create that little watercolor outline but you can see that on that Circle frame it fits inside now the Splat is the same thing so you can just ink it with oxide to get that nice really nice Blended background or a little bit of distress ink and some water and create a watercolor Splat and the Splats are already part of the image so you don't have to you know try to Splash it out or create anything it already creates that kind of cool little messy vibe same thing with the square so there we go ink and oxide and then the same idea and the nice thing about that square it is square-ish so you can use it either horizontal or vertical depending on the stamp that you choose because some of these you can see how they stacked up like you got this that's a little bit more vertical this one is a little bit wider so the nice thing about that one it'll fit either way so you have that creative option but just something fun to know about note quotes in that they are designed to fit with each other if you wanted to okay this next one very cool one this one is called creative blocks I love all these little blocks of creativity great artsy sketch I know you can't see the top row but there it's just really good art what's nice about this again they all have that faded Edge perfect for collage perfect for adding that cool little element okay if you wanted to create in there I love that it's got a little bit of an architectural Vibe a little bit of a grungy Vibe but also kind of uh I don't know there's everything from script to arches to buildings just some Line work these really play well in the collage atmosphere the inspiration behind this one was really about creating I guess almost art tiles if you will something where if you wanted to just stamp a collage and you didn't know what images that you wanted to use this is the one that would allow you to kind of create that effect the thing about this that was also really important to me is that you can just stamp them as you if you will when you get them and this is what I wanted to talk about on I think I'll talk about it on these three sets we talk about weeded and unweeded all the time but I I always want to include it in every stamper's Anonymous live so you know what what the reference is we did is where Stampers Anonymous goes in and removes the outer rubber so when I design a set it is designed as a set this is my real estate of rubber that I get to work with when I'm designing stamps so I can fill it with as many images as I can as long as there are specific spaces in between for die cutting and all of that if I include a lot of images I say to Stampers that they don't need to weed it because someone has to physically go in and remove this excess rubber so like on a stamp like this this is done on a big rubber piece like this but then they go in and remove this excess for many reasons one it really helps with weight shipping all of those things but if it's just two images it's somebody that can hold that rip this off rip this off because these are already die-cut these are die cut as well but for someone to go in and peel this off it's just going to take time because they have to hold every single image and that of course increases labor costs so they are all die cut they're perfect so you can easily weed it or not some people choose to put it in they're not really designed to stamp as a background although I know some people don't even take it out of the set and stamp it as a background but you'll see that like the margins in here are really skinny so don't expect to be able to pull it out and pop it back in because you may rip that edge when you weed it and that's because it wasn't designed to peel off and pop back in um I just I don't do that so all of mine see when I get mine I weed them it's the first thing I do because I just like that but you do you okay so the thing about creative blocks is that you could treat it as a background like I mentioned or you can create great art tiles now art tiles for me make really quick cards and you'll see a couple of cards I did from this this template piece coming up but essentially what I like to do is create a background just an Inky background on whatever kind of paper you want this is the the back side of watercolor paper the smooth side so I did all my distress inks then I just take these blocks and just stamp them in the nice areas meaning the areas of color that I like so I'm not trying to line anything up you can see it's incredibly wonky because I choose the color area I like that better that I get to stamp over the color area then these are size two just shy of inch and a half so I asked my friends at Simon so a shout out to Heidi because I know that Simon says they do dies and I said hey do you guys have any dies that are just just that that little square and she's like uh I don't I don't think so but but we can I'm like I just want this one size so this is this is not part of the Tim Holt sign this is this is from Simon Says Stamp but you can buy just a bulk pack of that size die that size Square so I I have two bulk packs because I wanted 10. you could also get an individual but the great thing about these squares is that it allows me to stamp my image and then place these squares over that image die cut them and then you have all of these tiles and it has that perfect little Inked Edge which is what I love about creating these art tiles so these could be used on a card these could be used part of a collage or you could just do this on cardstock first and then you can go in and do pencils or markers or any of that because most of the time when you have a specific size because I know we all have nested dies but you're only going to have like one of that size and I've done tiles with sizzix where you do get multiples I just didn't have any that was that exact size so I was really happy that that she had those and she offers those because to me it's it's important the other thing to note about this particular size if you are in the world of ideology and you've seen all of the collage tiles that we've done or the panels that we do it's the same size it is that size square that fits that 9x9 panel so that's another great thing about the data that's why I like multiples because I can do them all in one pass so it's very cool if you're into creating art tiles all right so that one is created blocks moving on all right uh this next one who knew that this one was going to cause the biggest stir and not in a great way in a funny way I guess um this one is the inspector love him he's great I knew the professor needed a friend and when I saw this art I really loved uh just the detail work of this I love the goggles I love the hat I love the mustache it's just really cool and I wanted to pair it with a lot of cool uh elements some little trims I like this claim for errors must be made on receipt of goods great for any make or card that you do just some random bits so whether it's playing cards or I like the strictly handmade that came from a cigar box I love the dial there this is another thing that I got from a game I love that forfeit move if you do not wish to change that's just a good life quote in my opinion because you have to change to move forward a light bulb now this is this is in the set in actually two other sizes in different stamp sets I think one is maybe the purveyor and I think the other one is the professor but this is kind of an in between size I just really like this light bulb and I like having it in different sizes but this is the stamp that seemed to create all the things it's kind of funny you know you you release your work and you show all the images uh and stencils and all of that and you see the comment on social media and the comment is where's the p and it's like okay well obviously you're not watching many of my videos about if you don't have anything nice to say find something nice to say but nevertheless um if you're ever looking for someone to proofread your work just post it on social media you'll have all these editors coming out of the woodwork in minutes but essentially they're like where's the P I wanted to reply and say well the p is pretty much hanging out with v w x y and z because that's not there either but nevertheless this is all inspired uh this is just this is inspired from vintage uh imagery this was actually a type chart a vintage type chart that had just this great illustration of lettering I don't know what the lines mean but I found it to be very cool this is a piece of backdrops from ideology so we use this art on a backdrops paper just as it is still no p no v w x y z it's just a cool background stamp it's a great typography so this one is really not an alphabet stamp it is just typography to be used as a background there you go someone said Professor stole the P probably so but it's just a really great background so for those thinking that I missed a letter there's actually more than one letter missing but it's still a cool background and that was really the inspiration behind it I loved I don't know the architectural I also just loved how there's just really great styling of this letter it's pretty fascinating we got about the P yeah they weren't very kind of no they weren't they were they were just trying to call me out but that's okay it's it's cool because I I love the whole background all right next we're going to get into stencils real quick I do love uh layering stencils with Stampers anonymous because I like just having a weird little size to add texture that's it it's not about you know creating a big background and there are many companies that do larger stencils so the thing to note about these they are designed to add Dimension now I will say that when I started doing stencils with Stampers Anonymous I call them layering stencils because they were just designed to add a layer in today's world layering stencils is about having like this five or six piece set that you layer One Design so just don't be confused it's it's really designed to kind of work independent what I love also about doing stencils with Stampers is the fact that when they laser cut these because they do Matt goes in so shout out to Matt and Zach at Stampers because they're the ones that you know make all the artwork re really nice you know Zach goes in and actually makes my really bad art manufacturable for stamps and uh and I and Matt goes in and just does this the the beautiful stenciling so figuring out all these little cuts and creating all these little details uh takes a lot of work because he has to clean up some pretty messy art but these are all a brush Series so this is Brush Mark this is brush Arch and brush hex and I like this design because it does have a very messy organic brush stroke if you will okay now the stencils come in regulation size for hook for my collection and minis a set of minis so the large ones are individual The Minis it's just a smaller scale so I always like to Ink them just to kind of show you the difference in in design and scale so here we'll take each one we'll take one by one so here you can see just ink this is just Inked with some distress and a blending brush but the difference in scale between the large and the mini and that's really important because depending on what you're doing you don't always want to have that large stencil it could often take over the background so a mini scale is really important this is where I think that brush stroke really comes in often you don't see it when you look at it as on a stencil because you're like oh I have a hexagon but when you see the inking part what's left the leftovers that's where you get all of that cool design because to me it has much more of an organic Vibe I love how these stencils turned out I didn't know if you'd be able to actually see it where it would look like brush strokes but it's really cool brush Arch this is really great because this could be rainbows it could be clouds but it could also be scales like it could be mermaid it could be ocean it could be a lot of things just from flipping it upside down but there again you're getting all of those weird wonky organic shapes some lines are thick some lines are thin and that's really where Matt will go in because obviously he has to make sure it could be done in a mini before we can scale it to a big but it's really cool and then this Brush Mark this is one that was really inspired by ideology we did this in a transparency of just that Brush Mark and I know many people are very comfortable with a brush and they can just create that little that little flip of a brush and have a nice day I I'm happy with a stencil um I like the fact that I can easily create a cool background just by taking my distress inks and a blending brush and create this gradation of color really fun to do on a background but all of these have again a very organic Brush Mark so it's not like we just took the same row and repeated it we wanted to create all these different organic marks and I think that this lens itself to many things it doesn't have to be a rainbow it doesn't have to be color it can still be used as a resist it could be used with texture paste and you'll see how these stencils are used from the makers throughout the the live but really cool I just wanted to show you that because sometimes again on the packaging you're like but when you see it maybe that changes your mind maybe not then we have elements and so elements was a collection of mini stencils so elements are actually smaller than a mini so there's your there's your size scale for reference we've got the regular layering the mini and then elements these are tiny little tags it's a great value though because in each pack you get 12 stencils these retail for about 15.99 so it's a great deal we've done them often with large numbers because I do love having these massive things for collage and art so I love different number fonts during the holidays we did some words that you can put on things and I just wanted to add to it of course I'd like to add more words and a lot of other things but you know I don't want to overwhelm the people at Stanford's Anonymous so this time I was actually inspired by this die set this is one these abstract elements that I did with sizzix and I love this look and actually Jeanette one of the makers she's like I wish you would do a big die set and I love these pieces and although we it wouldn't be cost effective to do these as a die set big because it would just cost way too much I definitely agreed that there could be a way that we could increase the size of some of these elements so this one this everyday art of element stencils has a whole variety of stuff it's not everything I did use some pieces from this but then I also created some entirely New pieces but here you can see like the dots that's done from there you'll see this I think one of the leaves but then there's some other things like we included hearts and this kind of big explosion if you will what's nice about these I'll just take you through and show you these Inked really quick but when you see the makes with this I think it's I think it's going to blow your mind it did mine so here you can see there's some hearts and I just kind of did just different colors just so you can see the different ones so these are all on each stencil so for example on this one it's all three pieces is it designed to be used like this no you would just mask off whatever you want to use whether it's with a piece of paper or a Post-It or your hand and you ink that element but I wanted to include various elements on each of those element stencils so this is just an arc But there again it could be a rainbow it could be upside down it could be a cloud some cool Stars I love these pieces kind of some Leaf shapes some cutouts there's a large leaf shape just a couple of little dashes that could be good because you can create a great hash mark with that I like these little scallops this tiny little trim that was from the set and then these larger pieces this one kind of a bang kind of retro stars as well some squares and some little notches some little cutouts a flower so yes you can layer this on top of this but these pieces could be used completely independent of each other and then just some wonky Square slash rectangles or cubes and then just some wonky circles and wonky because they're not perfect and I think that that's really great but when you look at you know all of the designs let me let's get set up here I feel like I'm working in a hot mess but you can see all the designs as as we go through it there's really a variety of shapes in one pack that to me is I think what's very cool about having a set like this is because you might just find something that you can use on a card or on a junk journal or any of those things and yeah I saw a comment these would be great for swatches you're absolutely right would be great for swatches so that is the element set and it's just everyday art because it's really art you can use well every day whether you're needing a circle or a square or just wonky pieces so cool stencil set all right and then we have Etc now I'm going to talk more about this particular SKU later in the live I just want to get into uh the makes first but I'll I'll come back to this so we do have these new facades and I want to tell you all about it but I want to make sure I've got everything set up to do so so I'm going to set this aside for now but I will bring it back in later in the live for now we got to get on to the makes we do we do all right how do we do Mario so far so good okay I know I kind of blasted through that but that's what I needed to do thanks any of that we have a lot of inspiration ahead which is and it's good I mean I think that's always what's super interesting when you when you see what people are doing with the designs in the art it's it's incredibly fascinating to me all right I'm going to bring these in what else do you need I got it I'm just I want to have the stamps close by because I like to talk about that okay so a shout out to all the makers if you're new to the lives um the makers there is a maker page on timmoltz.com so you can find out all the makers you can follow their blogs you can check them out on Instagram that's where they post most of their work some some have YouTube channels many of them do tutorials on the mix that they do for live not all of them but a lot of them do that so it is important that you follow them because that's where you're going to get the latest and greatest uh of the inspiration okay so let me I'm going to see if I can I'm just gonna there we go just zoom in a little bit so first up we're just going to talk about some backgrounds and I tried to as I was sorting these last night I just tried to sort them kind of what I saw firsthand so many of these cards use other stamp sets but it's like if I could identify it and that's the most important thing for me for live if I see it I'm like okay that's where I'm gonna pair it with so this was just some really good examples of using Tiny Prints and in different ways and I think that's always the important thing so Keisha created these cards and I love seeing how these background stamps could be used in different ways doing an Inked background and then stamping this one because on these Tiny Prints one has more solid area so that's going to be all that black that was stamped down I also love that it's paired with that bold text stamp you could accent it with a little sizzix die cut and then this one again just stamping but this one is just done in clear so because this one has more open space I love how embossing in those colors really brings out just that background color and then you've got that embossed in white embossing on embossing is always so fascinating to me double embossing and again die cut but great use for the background stamps especially if you have some word stamps or a die cut that you really want to incorporate to me that that makes perfect sense to because see never underestimate the power of a background that's what I think because backgrounds are very very cool Joy created this one I love how this is just done with the background little pinches of embossing glaze and then Inked over it in Black because you can see that all the color that's all done with embossing I love that little that little you know I do like an action wobbler but here's that note quotes inside there so how that's just popped up and then you have some little dimensional accents on there but a great way to even incorporate like a mixed media element or just a lot of color so you can blend a background uh stamp in Black you can emboss in clear you can emboss in different colors there's a lot of ways that you can mix up your backgrounds these cards Anita created these I love just the pairing of kind of the background so here you can see those Tiny Prints there again note quotes and then these floral pieces I'm guessing were created with stencils I can I identify this one I'm not quite sure about this but if not you could use a stencil to create a big background pattern but whether you're inspired by this side or this side or the whole idea it's just a fun way to incorporate just a little print to balance out a card or make so it's fun it needs always up for fun I gotta say that she's always just like just watch this you know I think that's what it is then we take the softer side with Paula ah there we go thanks Anita so this one Paula went and paired that tiny print with those brushstroke stencils so you wouldn't think like the two themes work together but they do depending on how you use it and the palette so here you see that that more solid one where she added a little bit of watercolor and then used the stencil to print with remember stencils are not just about putting ink through it it's also about you could ink up the stencil spray it with water and then literally press print or stamp with the stencil so you're able to create a pattern here you can see that tiny print just in brown and then printing with that brush stroke hex so it's really good for printing as well because you get all of that little jaggedy bit and then you can see the watercolor floral with this but repetition I always say that to the makers I love when you know you come up with an idea for a card and you just create repetition so because once you find your groove you're printing with your stencils your stamping you're doing your little sewing you put it on a little bit of white wood grain a little ideology sticker it's it's a great way that you can do all of this in in a very compartmental way you can do all your monoprinting you can do all your stamping you can do all your sewing and then you have your card assembly but it's nice to see you know when I've whenever I look at makes and this is what I was saying when I was setting up I'm like wow a background stamp used it's so different depending on the maker that's what lives are all about is seeing because sometimes you look at an image you're like not for me but depending on your style it might be and then Stacy created this this is an Etc tag so this is one of the the thick tags and we'll talk about Etc later but just using it truly as a background the the inspiration for those Tiny Prints as I mentioned were background papers that we did in ideology so to just use parts and pieces in a collage so this is a little sizzix die cut you can use the ideology tiny eggs you know very organic make but still stamped on paper there's also just a little bit of printing in the back so whether you're using the stamps or stencils it's a nice way to see the versatility of stamps I know that for live it's often very card focused but we can throw in a you know a little mixed media piece every now and again where stamp being the focal point this is all about seeing that background stamp really shine on that make and I love how vintage that little delicate detail floral is see we need those and that's what I was that's what I was thinking we need more of those kind of detailed designs for for stamps so that one is Tiny Prints let's clear these up cool makes so far so good see we're just warming up that's the whole thing then I just wanted to share a couple of ideas that I saw you're going to see that note quote set throughout the whole live but there were certain makes that I saw like I just really identified that set right out of the gate and that's what I said that's how I kind of decide to to set it up so this card believe it or not I mean I have to say Paula like oh oh she did Mark it um Paula always surprises me because you know I'm so used to seeing Paula's work in ideology but when it comes to stamps she just likes to she likes to mix it up this was just a beautiful and she did right on the back which were there because there's some floral elements so this is one of the this is a it's an older stamp but still current because none of the Stampers Anonymous stamps are retired but just creating a background that's a little bit more loose and Botanical but then using that Circle that ring from note quotes to stamp a pattern over the top and have it all water colored I think is really beautiful and then of course highlighting one of those notes so really great idea for using the element to that stamp and that's how I kind of picked these out it was just a maker makers that used what elements that I didn't anticipate so these cards Nico created take a look at these how cool are these someone mentioned about swatching I thought this was a great stamp for swatches especially after I saw his cards because here he just took the solid Splat both the circle and that square and then just stamped them in different colors paired it with a sizzix alphabet a little ideology sticker do a little sewing but these cards are so cool and so fun and I love the idea because while these obviously warm cool and neutral palettes this idea could be used for any season you can use this idea to create a Halloween background a Christmas background or just any any type of and I even think that these are kind of like cool birthday balloons I like little splatters but that's just me but I love the idea of just having that ring or that particular Splat as the focal point for no quotes Siri didn't even use that little note he used dies instead it's all about the ideas right and then Tammy B she's like well she's inspired and and although Halloween has come and gone this is still a great idea because this could be used for All Seasons but I can see where she went Halloween because she created some really cool resists I love this whole Argyle look by using the solid and the outline and then stamping this on glossy doing an archival resist technique and then pairing it with that particular quote for Halloween that trick or treat so seeing these backgrounds look at that with just using uh the dots and then creating those circles and these little trims these are from the stencils but how fun is that with the little eyeballs boot to you great resist on glossy I always love this technique and then you can see with the circles the solid and the outline but how fun are these and again even if if Halloween is not your jam you can still take this idea you can make for Father's Day it could be an Argyle or it could be Americana or it could be spring or it can just be any kind of cool colorful Vibe but I love how she just like I'm going Halloween and I'm channeling it and I I do I love The Whimsy of it but how great are just these these designs using note quotes that you would kind of already predict would be little tiny notes but in a totally different way see unexpected yeah it's just unexpected ideas that's why when you know because I don't like to go through the makes initially so it's just when it shows up for live I'm like oh that's a good idea I need to just I need to put those together because like I said you'll see these little notes on so many cards throughout but these really highlighted that set in a totally unique way so well done makers very cool all right I know buckets out okay next we're going to talk about um this set floral trim so I'm going to share a lot of different makes using the set but I always want to try to remind you of this set because when you see them well sometimes it's it's a little mind-boggling so we all know the coloring style of Alberto and he did not disappoint in this one but take a look at this well I'll say it's a card but really it could be just kind of this wonderful panel and it's a 36 inch card panel but it's all done with those florals and people have asked like does that floral create a repeat ish I mean you I would say ish like was it designed as a perfect repeat no but is it pretty close yeah ish so if long as you're gonna have a little break in here that's going to work but take a look at that beautiful coloring I mean gosh how he does that all done with distress he did a little sneak on his Instagram story where he was doing some coloring on this but just take a look at how beautiful those florals are just colored and colored and colored no kidding the depth of that is pure magic and the fact that he you know obviously created this whole little panel piece it's like each one is just art if I did that this would turn into like I don't know I'd probably try to get 20 cards out of that and say look what I did 20 cards but yeah absolutely stunning coloring and I love the little sparkles he adds that little white touch with a pen that's magical isn't it glorious glorious coloring great great job you know I had to ask him what's in the shipment yes and he talks in centimeters in the box so I have to Google that to see what he's actually what it is yes and it comes out to 36 inches and I'm like is that right yes how is that going to fit in a in a box but yeah it folds up great great card about I love it very cool then we have a little series of watercolor cards so Stacy created these it's it's always interesting and I'm going to bring I'm going to hold this off to the side because I like to keep everything in camera near the end uh Stacy created these I love the loose watercolor Vibe of this and again taking those trims remember you don't have to use the whole part of that stamp so being able to even if you took a panel stamped it watercolored it chopped it and then got two cards I'm not sure if that's how she did it but it's certainly a way that you could do it that you can create these smaller cards and I love how she paired it with Note quotes told you you see those that whole little note set with the watercolor I love the stitching over mummy cloth with all those threads little button these are just Charming cards Stacy but I love that loose watercolor this is kind of my jam because you don't have to stay in the lines you don't have to color everything you just kind of put some color down and have a little mix of color but I love the background I love the grays it's just really cool and just that messy stitching also is is really cool yeah maybe that is maybe that is a continuation now that I look at it it might be I oh look at that I just I just solved the mystery there you have it look at that it is colored and then cut into two cards wow brilliant very very cool idea uh Stacy I love I love those cards love the The Styling of that because everyone's coloring is is just different and uniquely them Paula created this one I love how beautiful these trims fill a background so you could take that and stamp it twice and now you have a large background with a trim stamp so it's really important to remember about how you utilize the stamps then she took that oval die cut did that little embossing with the Tiny Prints a little heart and that's just stenciled and then just cut out so that's using the element stencil but then just kind of freehand cut but it gives you gives you an idea of where to go and then a little ideology sticker but such a beautiful card P I love the stitching I love the addition of colored card stock I love it when makers really embellish their cards as well and add some some interest and elements to it because you can see how you can combine these pieces that as an individual set you may not think work but they do they come together beautifully so Cassie created this I love a little little grunge style so here you can see that was used on the edge as that trim but then stamped again and then just fussy cut because these are kind of loose scribbly sketches kind of a fun thing to sketch and then layer those on the top so it has a bit of Dimension I love seeing that note quote so you'll see that it really pairs well with a lot of the designs and then just some crackle paste through that Brush Mark so this is what I was talking about that particular stencil even if you're not doing color even if you're not doing Rainbow the idea of those brush marks is that when you put a medium through it it looks like you just kind of went in and painted whether that's with your finger or with a brush to get those pieces organic instead of just dots so just doing that that crackle paste it's a great great card love it I see very cool then we've got an entire series of course Kath never disappoints does she she always like I love you cat there's so many cards in in the design when when she makes so here's an entire series and that's the important thing to remember when you're making sometimes we get caught up in the makeup at all where it's like I've got to sit down and make a card and if that's really your creative process you do you but if you get overwhelmed as far as the whole construction of a card sometimes it's really good to just sit down stamp play color do do several of the same thing then cut it out and assemble cards so I love how these cards are so similar but so distinctly different so you can see here she used that entire trim all the way across but I love how these are colored but then she went in and stamped it again on Vellum and just embossed in white is that cool and then just tore that Vellum right there so you can still see the coloring underneath the vellum but that part is embossed in white this is just stamped and then there's just some little dimensional pen on there but I love how that just goes all the way across and then it's paired with the Tiny Prints so it's a great scale that you can mimic the color and still have that beautiful floral Vibe on that card and then it's that kind of same idea but instead of being overwhelmed by the whole thing remember how I mentioned about taking that stamp and just turning it at different angles and you can get completely different looking cards by what part of the image that you choose to isolate and then you can go in and do your coloring do your background stamping with that Tiny Prints because you wouldn't think oh I can mix those florals but you can because of the scale and the fact that we've got some open and solid solid's going to give you more color open is going to give you more line work but really beautiful and I like how she mimicked that whole little splatter aspect of note quotes just by adding some other little splatters to the background so great cards a whole other bag of cards yeah cards for Ted there's like a dozen more cards out there seriously yeah oh my gosh yeah because these cards go to uh to Stampers Anonymous and they take them to their shows when they go uh Oliver doing shows you can often see these makes in the booth which is really great so this card kuber created this look at that watercolor I love the embossing I love that watercolor so this is just done with a little bit of mica stain so you can see the shimmering talked about this in a demo where you can take those Mica stains and use them for watercolor so you can mix and match with your inks but it just gives a nice little Sheen or a shine I love the the look of this a little Deco Edge taking The Deco trimmer cutting that gives it a really nice handmade and I love how many people paired with with ideology stickers I did as well so I I get it they they work really well for cards in addition to the note quotes So Beautiful coloring Jen created this card so this is kind of a no-line watercolor if you will by doing some watercolor work with that gives it a totally different look doesn't it same stamp but by doing no line colorings really beautiful because it looks to me it definitely looks more illustrative by just doing your own drawing that way but I love how how the coloring just really pops on this background and then there again you can see those brush Strokes so having that stencil doing ink splashing with water dipping that off you can create a very organic watercolor pattern that's what this is about this is really about the makers understanding these designs and totally rocking it for oh my gosh every time right but for live so cool so Kathy created these and there's a a whole a whole variety when it comes oh well look at the camera see look at when I bring it close turns my skin purple because of all that beautiful warm yellow I love the colors of this because again if you're channeling like a certain palette so maybe you wanted to do something that's more vintage or more bright or pink or any kind of element you can take a floral stamp and you can give it that taste if you will so whether you're really wanting the the warm of spring or even The Vibes of fall I love how these florals are colored very similar but they look completely different to me because of the backgrounds that they're paired with so you can see up here now I can I can hold it closer I just love that intense Vivid coloring this is something that I love but I just I I appreciate how much coloring goes into these cards so Kathy beautiful I I on the other hand can't do that um Susie created this this little tag book so this tag book there are elements to this floral um I I went through so there's there's some stencils here it's just an it's a number eight tag but here you can see how this particular Stamp Set could be stamped and then fussy cut so that stamped and embossed and then just used as a little embellishment so using parts of a flower or in this case just parts of a leaf that can go in this is a stencil with embossing you can see another flower there with the leaf just kind of cut in there and just kind of cut around really and just creates a a cool accent to a junk Journal so you can even use a stamp set even though it's it's really big you can also use it for just elements that you wanted to to add to a piece as much as I really could I love this that this is just not me but I still like flowers and people often say to me like why are you designed flowers well first of all I like to just design whatever I see um but sometimes a design could really surprise you so this is a card I did using the floral floral trims in my way in in Brown in grunge in distress I love this look of kind of The Faded design that runs vertical on this card I paired it with a little sentiment strip little 3D folder and some mummy cloth but I like how just that that trim is a little a little highlighted from the background and if we have time at the end I'll demo how this is done this is super easy this is you want to talk about no fuss coloring that would be exactly what I did another thing that I think is really important to remember when you're doing cards is that when you're creating if you like to do backgrounds like I do you can often use a stamp over a background so I created both of these this is done with the watercolor background and this one is done with alcohol inks so sometimes just playing around with your inks even if you have no agenda for the card you have those backgrounds you can pull that back in and I like the idea of stamping the outline and not everything is filled in I like embracing the space so here's just stamped in Black over watercolor little Deco trim and then some stickers over that just one of the metallic stickers from ideology but that's one way to use it or if you like using alcohol inks same thing create an alcohol ink background and then just add your image over the top because this card could run really any way you want or it could be cut up and it doesn't have to be rainbow but it's a this is a fun way if you don't if you're not comfortable with alcohol ink I'll try to demo this as well just to show how you can make a background and actually care less about how much space it fills but those are just some ideas so you can see here just really a lot of different concepts for a floral stamp you look at those those trims and you think I don't really know but to me this is what I love about it because the style of this that very sketch goes with colorful modern goes with vintage goes with shabby chic goes with bright and and cheerful color all types of different coloring can happen just by having an open floral so to me one of the most important stamps to the release because of the versatility of it really okay so much inspiration my gosh so so much cards everywhere cards for Days cards for days I love it yes I agree Belinda two stamps 101 different ways yeah when you start turning it and all that and that's to me is always the importance of live as well because you see that you know when it comes to the live you understand about you know turning the stamp and seeing that it could be used in different ways and that's absolutely the truth okay next we're going to talk about bold Botanicals it's a very cool design sometimes you might look at this and because you see it on the stamp itself where it's such a contrast of the black with the the gray cushion take a look at these cards because you're going to see a softer side to this design even though it's bold Botanicals it's pretty it's pretty great how the makers Incorporated this design so this first card Emma created this and I love seeing how this uh has a transparency over the top this this could be I don't know if it's a transparency or if it's if it's the the duralar but I love that it's got that shine over the top some color in the back and I love how she used that as a background stamp because it's a background stamp but that's what's great about that typography is it has such a cool aesthetic to it that it works for a perfect background and then of course just doing a print with the brush Strokes I love seeing that that print with the brush stroke hex stencil in the background kind of gives that honeycomb and then strictly handmade that came from the inspector set but a cool combination of images to take elements from the inspector set and then pair it with one of those bold Botanicals beautiful card Emma very cool then these cards Barbara made these I love these because they're just it's a totally different when I picked this up I was like whoa wait a minute it's like it's shiny and I love seeing just different ways that makers incorporate a design so here using these but then doing all of your all of the coloring and then going over this with clear embossing you can do distress embossing glaze there's a lot of different ways that you can incorporate embossing powders especially over Inked backgrounds and then it also creates a beautiful resist so creating these elements gives you the the ability to to add some texture but also add some shine and I love how these they have such a great watercolory look but also that beautiful embossed design absolutely cool and this could be done I'm not sure how she did this but this could be done with resist spray you could take a pen I mean there's a lot of ways that my brain is spinning but I love it when I saw both of these besides that I love the color I love all the mix of it it was just such a different departure from idea to idea wow that's cool I agree stunning this it's neat it's neat to see an idea that that makers have with with a stamp it's wild to me needs no introduction when you see the color but Alberto created this I really love how he took this design that does come you know with a very solid background but utilize that solid background in a color this is what I was saying you see that black and gray contrast but remember if you stamp it in a color that is going to be your background so it doesn't have to be black it's whatever color you ink but then went in and stamped it a second time and then fussy cut that layer and then did all of that shading and then paired it with a little note quote that's embossed and cut that's some serious besides serious coloring Talent serious patience for uh for cutting but a beautiful look and again I would be I would be the cheat and I'd be like three cards cut cut three cards not one because make the most of your time but you can see the idea is really nice and especially understanding that this solid because it's printed in Black can certainly be any color that you stamp it in and then you could add accents and layering on that but really fun it totally changes to me a style like this completely changes the appearance or dynamic of of a stamp design it really does it changes just how I even look at stamps of how people utilize these so Keisha created this series I love the look of this because I love how she took all of the the brush stencils so we've got the brush marks and some of them have a little texture a little shine some are just Inked but it's really again taking that idea and do repetition but I like how these are blocked with just different colors so instead of creating you know dark and then highlighting or coloring each one you're just doing backgrounds taking your inks and just adding different colors maybe you have a custom DIY pad maybe you're just seeing using your ink pads but I love the mix of colors on the cards that that Keisha did they're just fun and totally her style and very playful and then that using The Deco trimmer a little embossing that's a bit on the Vintage side for Keisha I'm pretty impressed when I saw them like look at that little decal edge around there but see it's got that little touch of metallic but a beautiful series of cards and again taking the stamp because sometimes we see we're like I don't really want to color oh I don't want to I don't want to cut it oh I don't like how dark it is see completely different use for that stamp just by how that color is done just by inking the stamp in in different colors beautiful aren't they so beautiful and you can see why these particular stencils I know they seemed Odd as part of the mix but you can also see how well they pair with these stamp designs it's cool and then note quotes very cute then another card series Juliana created this one so here you're just taking a color so if you don't want to mix the colors if you don't want to add the colors maybe you just want to stick to a color of ink stamping that in a color is still Perfection you would think that you would lose it but you don't you actually create a beautiful print of that again the decollete shout out to the makers for loving on The Deco trimmer I've seen it used more in this live than anything and I to me it's an underrated tool I absolutely I know Mario use it all the time I just love it it's very cool but unless it's labels out there you do I love how these cards are just done in the color but then when you look at the background the background is paired with the the little tiny floral prints you see that but then it's also I don't know if if you can see it I got to see if there's one card maybe you see more on the pink but then it's stamped with that strictly handmade from the inspector over the top so again I'll bring it in closer we've got the the Bold Botanicals but then there's that little tiny floral print in the background and then that strictly handmade just stamped on repeat man that is a lot of stamping to fill in that background times four but beautiful cards Juliana just a cool way to use stamps after all this live is about using stamps and stencils that's what it's about and seeing how they really and the makers are challenged to do that you know there's there's so many products in in the Tim Holtz arena with all the brands but to try to kind of hone in and and really showcase the stamps and stencils it it just it makes my Inky Stampy stamping heart happy yeah it does I know I know so it's like series and series and Series so kuber created this series again a totally different take this might be something that you would expect more to see because of that black embossed Stark Area and then just adding a highlight of color so if you really want that Vivid bold look stamping and embossing in Black really is the way to do it then you could pair I think this is from one of the the crazy sets I think but I I do love that but look at the background so this whole series again repetition of ideas that's important that you have to remember as a card maker um but I love the crackle paste through that so just like Cassie did on her card just crackle pace and like leave it be if you're if you're going to use a little lost Shadow because that is a great soft gray color to add just a touch of grunge I'm not sure if that's what she used but it kind of looks uh very lost shadowy to me but there's even a little bit of stamping back there see now that I look closer because I'm looking kind of through my camera it's like a zoom lens I can I can really pick up those elements but I love this card series and you can see how unique each one of these images are and that's just black with a little bit of color you don't have to fill in the blanks you just use a little spot of color and embrace the space because what's really nice about these images some have that full Edge but wherever that flower ends there is no line so it can fade right into that white space so whether you're cutting it close or whether you're leaving that border Edge I just love the fade how you get that beautiful transition going right into that white space I see right right there beautiful right absolutely beautiful and just so different from from one card one idea to the next so totally different but don't think that flowers are just for a color and fun oh no we have vintage makers makers that live in the world that I do the world of brown and grunge and we're happy there so Zoe Hillman created these love just the idea of using those little coin envelopes that's from chapter three of last year and you can see uh this wonderful ink stamping of that solid tiny floor so then you kind of embrace that white space and then just embossed in Black so the the coloring is really done from a background stamp by inking up that the background stamp that's more solid doing a little inking stamping letting that dry and then just stamping emboss the design in Black now you've got pattern and texture and that color underneath the embossing really great on I love this too returned in forward post I I do love that set too I think that special delivery but I love I love the idea of of creating just something vintage from an image that you know sometimes you often look at at pieces and go oh well you know that is just flowers it's not for me nope never underestimate the power of a design then we can even go grungeer if that's possible because Vicki creates cards uh to the to the nth degree of the world of grunge so these are these incredible metallic oxidized patina cards so the paper has so much I don't know it looks like it's stamped on metal but it is paper but she clearly got great use of the texture Hammer as well but I love the backgrounds using a little bit of that stenciling so that's where you're getting the dots some embossing a little steel wool over it to dull down some of the shine but take a look at these just how they look like they're stamped on on sheets of metal just because of that that patina and oxidation so here you're utilizing uh the really the the palette of nature having having all of that to create this effect and how she mimics rust in a little bit of grit and grunge I took a class with Vicki on creating rust and it was the most intense rust class I've ever taken because like she talks about like rust goes in this direction and it's caused from a drip that's coming it's like it's absolutely fascinating and she she follows rust accounts but I mean she does it so authentically well but I love that I love the metallic I also love just uh the idea because it is about ideas that using a background inside an open area it's just that's amazing to see all of this uh idea styling design for this stamp set but look at how cool right there like the Browns the colors I mean it's everything but that's beautiful that's the power of alive that's why it's so important to get these stamps in the hands of makers and that and again a shout out to Stampers for getting it out there and a shout out to the makers for really I mean they're making and they knock it out of the park they just do them they look at a stamp and they're like how would I use it and that's the important thing is how they would use an image because then that's why all the makers bring something totally unique to the party it's it's about how they would use it not necessarily oh I need to do this because it's a flower and I need to use you know bright colors or whatever it's and some makers you know they don't use all the stamps some of them just say you know this one is a little a little too out there but those that challenge themselves I think they end up surprising themselves of how how cool the images are so we're going into creative blocks but we're going to start with kind of created blocks paired with some florals which I think is great so Tammy B created both of these cards so yes it's using the Bold Botanicals but I really loved the background so that's why it was kind of the segue into creative blocks so you can see that that created block you can create all of these tiles cut them out and create a background and it's really nice of how subtle this is you know stamping in in a light color or faded color and I love the idea of just incorporating this as a background element with the floral because sometimes you again you look at that stamp set and you're like that's too grungy it's too it's too abstract whatever you're you're thinking if you don't like it and maybe you still won't like it but I think when you see it paired with another image you're like okay these actually become a little bit more I don't know organic beautiful because now I'm seeing you know the fleur-de-lis and the Swirls and the handwriting I see something different in this art because of what it's paired with so I thought these cards were were really beautiful and I love how people are embracing that strictly handmade stamp from yeah from the inspector just even for that it's a great great stamp so beautiful cards Tammy and Marina created this I absolutely love this Marina it's Blau kitchen so if you're looking for a maker that that is Marina and and I love again the idea is that makers really they often Channel an idea I don't think they I always say this I don't think they have like this Maker's meet um without me they might but they're like what are you doing I'm gonna do that too but it's it's so fascinating how you know you can see an idea and two different makers have a similar idea but deliver it in a completely different way so here I love how all these tiles are stamped I love this paper this paper it's like Stoney almost embossed I gotta we need we gotta talk that's really fascinating it does it looks like Stone um but I love the colors of this and I also love how I mean you want to talk about fussy cutting I break a sweat when there's an island cut I call that an island cut like even navigating around here with scissors kind of freaks me out but when there's an island cut that means a knife is involved and I start to panic but look at that that is some serious detail cutting but I love how these Botanicals are paired with created blocks right so so beautiful how these pieces can be combined as art tiles because that's really what this set is all about it's about looking at it as an art tile just each individual creative block and how you use it I think is what is is most unique because some makers so Cassie used created blocks just to create she picked out three blocks that she liked stamped it in Black over an Inky background cut those and then just layered them this one in the center is a little bit higher you can pair it with some gears that's that little trim stamp from inspector and then right there no forefoot move if you do not wish to change but cool to see how you can just utilize those blocks so as as phenomenal as these are you don't have to think that created blocks has to be used in its entirety it can be but you can also pick and choose your favorites and then just highlight those on a card Zoe scarpelli did the same thing by creating this card using these tiles but then to kind of bring it all together she tied it in with a little and she kind of touched all the brands a little ideology here with the collage paper a little sizzix and then of course inking but then in the back that's all printed with the stencil but I love that you know even though there's all of those other elements going on including this floral it's these created blocks that really draw my eye in because it adds this this sketch interest but it works with all of the other illustration there and of course that black stitching around the edge creates a Cool vibe so a neat way to use the blocks another card that Zoe scarpelli did using this but again in a different way now this this is a sizzix focus but obviously you know some card makers when you do it you really want that sentiment and there may not be the right sentiment uh in Stampers so here just using a sizzix die with a heart but it's very Stampers focused in the background because you can see how those blocks are done on repeat to create a patterned paper and then layered in with the stencils in two different scales so you can see that smaller brush hex down a little red and that bigger one in a little darker color with the little splattering so now it's about you know the idea for this my takeaway and I'm not sure if that was Zoe's intent but my takeaway from this is let's say you're not really a Stamper let's say you're not really stamping and coloring your your jam is more die cuts and sizzix and you think I don't really stamp stamps bring a whole different level to your die Cuts because you can even die cut through Inked paper pairing it over something that you you can kind of curate and create to pair with that that to me is more magical than just having patterned paper so I do like that so sometimes you know if you if you're not into stamps or you're new to stamping start out with some artsy patterns or backgrounds and pair it with what you do because you know even that like uh that that artsy stem I love that over the blocks just some really good ideas for that but of course a creative block is not always a creative block if you're Charon because she'll take a block and this was so clever it's the only person that did that and I think that's brilliant uh so Sharon did the creative block and then used a circle punch so now these are Circle collage circles and I think that's so cool because it totally works as a circle doesn't it so if blocks or squares aren't your thing and you have a circle Punch or circled eyes because yeah yeah now I thought like oh hey Simon we've got those squares you better get on circles now because I didn't think about that so Heidi if you're listening like you see this card we need a bunch of circles now um but no I I loved seeing that because it was it caught me off guard because when you're used to seeing an image that way and then I saw it this way I was like huh I can totally go for that that's really really clever and I like that it's just done in Blueprint sketch sticks to a color and then created with that that note quote that Circle there so clever right cheese so clever then we've got a card from Joy I love the Vintage this is vintage for joy and I'm loving it I love all of that brown there's a little little window in there a little shakety Shake Sparkle back there but I love how she used the creative block stamp and then went in and fussy cut that fleur-de-lis from that stamp that's in the that was the kind of hidden one up there that stamp where she stamped it and then liked that element and chose to highlight that so here you've got that isolated cut out element but then still the creative block stamped in the background there's that wonderful background alphabet see that's what's great about it is that you can just use it as a that's what it's designed for as a background it's cool but we love to have any extra L's but then look at this this was very clever and you know what's I think I think two makers did this because I think Tifa did it as well which is surprising but I love hello cut out of that I know you'd probably be limited uh to the words that you want to use certainly with no p v w x y or Z but you can still create some some chords but I love how clever that was to cut that out and place it on a card but I think two makers did that it's brilliant but cool right with that that brush hex is a resist a great collage card using stamps and stencils from a variety of different sets just to create something something truly unique that to me is is what I love no problem yeah there you go so needs no introduction if it's in if it's an envelope but this is Tifa tifa's work and the amount of work that goes into some of these makes is always mind-boggling but this is it's it's a patchwork of Inky pieces these are stamped on Vellum it is embossed so right now you can see the design but this has some serious bling factor I don't know if the light's going to pick it up probably not as much as it does in real life but this is like this sparkly glittery embossing it has some great bling quality but look at how all of these tiles are not only cut but then fragmented meaning you don't have to keep it in that same size you can just cut those in half parts and pieces and because it's done with Vellum I love how it's just layered and kind of almost woven into each other on this envelope front and back I mean that's what I said the amount of work stop it right now it's crazy when you you kind of see it yeah it's really beautiful oh there you go there you go so you can see yeah that it's like a BL oh there we have it oh it's a black sparkly uh embossing but it really lends well to the whole collage element and then inside look at that embossed with that uh everyday art stencil that that kapow I don't know whether it's like an explosion but also the star and then inside just a great little note just a little note she did a little writing on there and then the creative blocks I love thanks for including something I always you know I always want to open the tifa's envelopes they're often not meant to open but now she did them so I could so thank you Tifa because you knew that I would want to open it and I was pleasantly surprised to see it so hello there friend to you I love that but beautiful stamping of taking creative block in a different approach so there again you might be stamping these blocks on different things and not necessarily care that they're blocks you just want to start cutting up that art and layering as as a collage element oh look at that now you can really see this oh see look at that oh see what I mean you guys have no yeah it's like there we go it's an embossed party see that it's like the electric light parade thousands of sparkling lights okay okay next up these now these are really fascinating and I'm going to be honest I'm 100 stumped so I hope Anita is still watching Anita created these cards I can't figure this out I thought it was alcohol ink Sparkle I thought there was some type of gold and then I just got lost so these cards I love how the creative block is used on the diagonal to create these diamonds there's two different cards and so this one I'll just say is more like Earth Tone neutral beautiful metallic there's some metallic rubs I do identify that I see some alcohol ink but to me it looks like sparkle but then Sparkle Silver Sparkle Silver that's silver yeah so that's a silver Sparkle card stock and then this is embossed but then it must be some type of metallic pen I guess is where my eye is going on those so it's just beautiful I love because I understood the silver Sparkle card stock but I guess it was the that little touch of metallic pen that just it it creates a whole different elegant vibe to these now often take an idea and I think it's important to also talk about that maybe you're not a card maker you know maybe you've been sitting here maybe you're still not even here but you're rolling your eyes going I'm not even making cards it's not about that this can go into a journal this can go into a mixed media piece this can go into a canvas this could be any of that beautiful yes in Boston black I get that what is the gold Anita is that just like a gold ah I've never seen I've that's like old school Krylon gold lead that that is the thing that threw me because I'm like I get that sparkle I get that I get this shine but then it was like ooh but it looks sleep anyway just truly truly stunning and elegant I love the effects that uh the makers have also given these cards from from subtle to a color to layering to Sparkle and now even alcohol ink just gorgeous gorgeous cards beautiful um Sharon created this love this panel of taking these elements stamping them in black and then just going in with pencil adding a little bit of translucent crackle I don't know if I can get the camera to pick it up it's got this really nice subtle layer of translucent crackle so it's got just that great little shattering but I love these tiles I also love that it's paired with I love start somewhere I love that noteworthy Stamp Set from the last from last year's release but very cool to take some pieces again these tiles so you can see that you know majority of the makers I'm not sure of any maker actually just stamped this as a background stamp that they knew just to take the tiles but that's the whole thing you get to mix and match some of your favorites because they all have something different but I like how it was just kind of spot colored and highlighted and still created that rainbow Vibe with the very artsy edgy look to it right very cool but yeah that that crackle texture is also it's good yeah yeah see it's got just some some great heft to it then these are the two cards that I did from that piece that I shared at at the beginning right when I Inked that whole piece I stamped a bunch of them I cut them out and that's what I'm saying you can just choose your favorite parts of a background uh the color area that you like the best maybe there you go it's that way and you'll see that like I don't even stamp them all the same direction I literally choose uh I'm not going to try to match them all but I choose like the part that I like and that's where the stamp goes and then the die Cuts make it super easy but I just wanted to show how you can take the blocks and just by switching your cardstock colors right putting them on white and then a black card or black and a white card easy easy to do so if you have no creative Juju and I know that happens just sit there ink some paper stamp some blocks die cut them and keep them in a bag and then when you need to make a card you can you can do a four up you can do a nine up you can do them down the side there's so many different ways and that's also the other kind of the play on words for a creative block that sometimes I have a creative block where it's like I don't feel like doing anything but I always feel like inking and putting a black stamp onto paper is easy to do and then that's just paired with ideology stickers so again you can see the whole variety of ideas that could be done what with created blocks those little square stamps that you think oh they're just squares now they could be paired with just about anything to create some some beautiful art so I hope you guys are are understanding that I hope that's your take away from this live especially seeing all the makes is the versatility of a set because often I'm sure even the people at Stampers you know they look at that art and they're like what is that yeah I know judging mcjudge Mr Ted is always like what does that stand for I'm like but but I think now he's he's out of like I don't need to know I'm sure he'll I'm sure I'll learn in the live and he's right he will because that's it because sometimes you know you don't know it's a frightening place in my head I tell you that it really is so next we're going to talk about this set the inspector I I just again I saw this design I had to license it I fell in love with it I loved the detail and he was totally different than uh the professor but I'm always looking for vintage Engravings but they have to speak to me they do because I know there's a lot of pictures but they they have to have something all it was the picture of the inspector and then all it said in caps is not new oh yeah that's a that's a great one it might not be because somebody else might have already licensed that artwork in in their world but it's new to me and I'm happy about that because I really I like him and I like where he is with this whole little eclectic assortment of imagery so this first card this is from Juliana and I love how she embraced all of the designs all of the images from the set and did exactly what they were anticipated for which is really stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp and smudge so here you can see the alphabet the the gauge the light bulb I mean all the little text under there the handmade and then even a little create a block thrown in there for a splash of color and then stamped cut out look at that I bet that's a gold pen too look see what's the thing it's like when something happens it happens with more than one maker I'm telling you right now but um yeah I absolutely love that little little glossy accents over the front of the goggles just to give them some Dimension but a cool way because sometimes people think like why do you pair it with all this Randomness well because sometimes I think the image is so I'll say odd some people will say nicely unique it's it's so odd that what do you pair it with the more Oddities you have the better it makes that image look in my opinion so that's really why I just called him uh the inspector because I think he inspects all types of things and I do love that card really cool now this one Barbara created this look at that this look when you just change the colors and how this is created this should cut those out and kind of layered the goggle see I knew the mustache and the goggles would be definitely something makers would play with I love this this I believe is an ideology could be I could be wrong but this looks like an ideology ribbon that maybe she cut off to match the thing on the hat if so well played I think so I'm gonna I'm gonna look I have to look right now to see because I have one look at that it is well played Barbara that's super clever so that's just the ideology prize ribbon that's some serious cutting oh got rid of that if that's what you did but I love uh the colors of this that she used on the background again using that alphabet it really does have such a great openness to it that creates a Cool vibe and then I love the ideology those those large quilt plaques make this journey your own but cool love all the texture and the embossing glaze fun right the inspector is a fun guy Emma decided to make an Emma sized card bigger than my hand I think makes me to be as big as my hand because otherwise then it's just my hand so look at that and I love how she created the whole playing card vibe from just those few little stamps that that inspired her to be like you know what I'm going to make a bunch of mini cards and that's going to be a background and that's going to be the whole thing about the game so if you look at at this guy he's really cool because maybe he's a maybe he's a car dealer could be he deals cards I think so but I love how she created all those cards stitched them all together create a background then created larger cards wanted a little Ace so she used her her little sizzix die yay for fonts that stick around because it's important to have those and then note forfeit move if you do not wish to change so good and then paired with that little border but just the additional elements of you know a little metallic or adding some Fasteners but a total different storyline for the inspector right because I mean it was random I remember when I first showed that to Paul I'm like is this too odd that I had all these little these playing cards and she's like not at all I'm like the card suits aren't weird she's like well they are weird but I think that's what I really like is is how weird well that's you'd be right you would you're totally right I can't dispute that so Kathy created this card I love how dimensional and fun this card is with the inspector so here you can see he is stamped and cut out I also love how she still created a collage but then die cut it see there again circles those are the circles but I love it sharanya circles Kathy circles we gotta get on the circles because I do I love how it isolates those pieces that could be layered on the background and then you have that trim that's one of the little ideology uh mini flares that little star right there these right here I love how you just took some metallic and again there's that sizzix seat what are the chances that two different makers use that same sizzix font that typewriter crazy but I love that how she created the inspector I can't really say it but I tried and there is a little texture Hammer Hammer those out a little ideology tag in circles and dies that's a whole nother thing to remember about just die Cuts in general stamping a bunch of random ideas and just throwing down some shaped eyes you get the most unique art fragments to add to a card or or any type of make it's just it's really cool I'm going to put this one off to the side so yeah I'm trying to keep them all in frame I've learned if I try to build from here it's good okay you better buckle up buttercup because this one Nico Nico oh my gosh remember the time he did the clown and every everyone just loved that crazy clown here he did a whole Mad Hatter approach for the inspector so if you are a a Wonderland fan like take a look at how fun and playful uh Nico created this card isn't that you just you can't unsee it when you see it can you it's so good but I love how he paired it with the bulb again you see the card suits the the circles and then taking some of those dots from the everyday art stencil strictly handmade and again just taking some sizzix dies here at least he did a couple of different fonts in there that's label label maker I think and typewriter but how freaking wild is that so good see like come on Nico he surprised me with the clown and now the Mad Hatter but it works yeah and to me it's the Brows I cannot get over those eyebrows that that's where you had me yeah I mean of course I still love the purple goggles yeah it's I mean just yeah fascinating okay I'll put that right there okay then we then Jen created this one I like the fact that you know when Jen creates cards she creates all different styles of cards she creates cards for a lot of different companies so I love that she Embraces uh these designs I know not all of my designs really kind of fit her style but she she goes for it so I love how she used the inspector creating this background just stamping in the neutral Grays you know using La Shadow hickory smoke any neutral and then just do this rainbow watercolor for the inspector totally makes more of a playful card you know not so much that steampunk seriousness but I I have to really acknowledge the fact that taking a design and creating your look is focus on the good I love how this works it actually works for me which is crazy because I I never pictured him as a rainbow I just I pictured it I didn't picture him like this either so it just goes to show you that the eyes of the makers that's why there's so many different styles of makers that make because they bring it every time they bring it to the table and they do they do their part so Vicky created this this is just another great reminder that maybe you don't even like this guy I remember when the professor came out there people that just didn't even like the professor but the elements in this Stamp Set are very cool the alphabet with the missing pvwxyz the card suits you could use that there's some of the circles I love how she masked off this claim so by masking it it kind of looks like washi tape but that's that claims for errors must be remained on receipt of goods that's the stamp but masking it off makes it look like tape and I also love just the gear and how all of these pieces are layered so when you look at this card you would guess that all these pieces are cut out but they are not this card is completely flat this is all masking masking stamping masking stamping and if you really love masking because masking you can totally Zone into it it's a wild thing because from the from the appearance the first glance this is the only thing added to the top besides the embellishments but you think like oh it's stamped and cut stamped and cut nope it's all stamped and totally flat cool though right the power of ink and masking and creating illusions with imagery I absolutely love that love the stitching love the grunge and Love the clips with the hardware very cool then atifa created this I didn't know what this was at first because this is all I saw and I'm like okay I think I'll put it with stencils but then I felt it and I remembered that she had something the other one so this is like it's so cool the the next few makes are really where makers kind of just went crazy and mixed up a bunch of different things so the Tifa created this envelope starting out with uh the stencil so if you look at those those everyday art elements it's very cool how if you stick to just kind of a neutral tone it creates a beautiful background and I get to open this there we go so now we'll take a look at the inside so the inside is all tiny print so if you like making envelopes it's a great Stamp Set just to do envelope lining but then she has this it's almost like a folio right I haven't gone into detail but I just wanted to make sure I could open it because she uses velcro and I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to tear it but we'll start with the the background so that's just taking the floral trims but doing a watercolor stamping so the color is just done on the outline creates a beautiful pattern then you can see the dial from the inspector and then note quotes telling you it's a huge mix of design then when you open this up more stencil strictly handmade from the inspector then there's the inspector there's hello I told you she she used it also like Joyce what are the chances of two makers doing that word then creating this whole little pocket forefoot move if you don't wish to change and then these these are like little I don't know laminated yummies it's taking that bold Botanical but they're stamped in a color but they're I'm guessing they're laminated I think they're laminated it's it's very cool and then just stamps so creating these uh translucent playing cards if you will but then also using a lot of that tiny text to create all of these words of encouragement because they're three different sides so they kind of cascade in this little pocket but isn't that brilliant just taking you know a paper this is an ideology what's that laminated laminated Vellum it's it's such a cool yeah it's such a cool look beautiful Tifa because it's it's translucent but it's not a transparency does that make sense so that that makes sense because that gave you the substrate to stamp on and then by laminating it it's really clever but the whole piece then is taking a backdrop and just adding colors or or any of your stenciling and then just making your own little folio but see a brilliant way to combine a lot of different stamps and just make art with it that's it you know you don't have to stick just because they're on a set that's just doing stamp sets is my way of compartmentalizing compartmentalizing an idea mix and matching that's where as the maker that's where you just let your creativity just run wild and kind of take you wherever it is that you want to go I'm going to kind of leave him here there we go take that there take that there look I'm gonna I'm still gonna get that shot I can't I'm gonna I'm gonna run out of room okay we have a couple more we have a few more using the inspector but like I said these are makes I'll probably have to clear the deck because I have to show these so beautiful I'm going to clear this up and then I'll bring in a couple other makes because we had some makers again much like nativea that created just what they wanted with the variety of designs and I I love that I celebrate that I'm going to leave that right there because I think that's really cool so here I love you know when when makers just create what inspires them so Marina created this this is an ideology mini clipboard and created this fun Whimsical collage with pieces so here it you just kind of start pulling out all the different elements so we can see the inspector back there then we can see that little heart and it's kind of done on a little pocket watch it hangs there but I just kind of tucked it in so it didn't flop around little key some numbers there you can see the Bold Botanicals in the back then you can see the floral trims that are there then you also see that light bulb that's there that little gauge little register and then pairing it with just that that photo I love the photomatic and then just using the receipt of good with a little label but what a cool make super fun to just incorporate those elements and again you wouldn't think that this goes with this goes with this go but it does when you just let your creativity layer and cut out and just create cool things it it will you'll surprise yourself I think that most of the time you just have to give yourself creative permission and once you do that you'll you'll impress yourself you really will you'll sit back and you're like I I did that because chances are you weren't thinking along the way maybe it got you to the point where you were frustrated so this one Tammy B created again I love the repetition of those tiles in the background they're really beautiful they have that great shine a little grit so this is almost like a mosaic background you can see she used some grip paste I don't know if the the camera will pick it up but it's grit paste back here and then it looks like she used The Deco trimmer around the edges those are glazed so it just looks like tile can you see that yeah you can see the the distinct break between shine and gritty grunge I love this Tammy very cool but again another clipboard see we have no clipboards in them clipboards I love this I think it is I think it's something about makers just channeling each other when they're making and creating but I love the colors of the inspector that's strictly handmade with the little Fasteners but creates great art pieces these from ideology are so much fun because you can easily take this off these unscrew and then it gives you the whole platform to work on and then you could reattach the hardware but what a a whole different look to a stamp set that inspired the maker to just mix and match it with different things within the collection yes really for the last it took 16 days yes to get here but it got here I don't think she slept for the time I I message her day or night yeah she replied in seconds well I don't I don't I don't blame her every day to get that here but it got here so you guys did it and it's beautiful so really cool makes absolutely beautiful very cool all right so this one I had to clear the deck for because this this is kind of uh this is interactive make so Zoe Hillman created this one this will start this is an ideology vignette well you can see why with any of the makers Mario you they want their makes here they put a lot of time into this and I love that I know um but you you guys always worked it out so the cool thing about uh creating with stamps is that sometimes stamps could just take you uh into a storyline and and when this first arrived when I saw just the photo because the maker sent us a photo to make I just assumed that this was a panel I didn't realize this was like well what it's about to be so uh pretty unbelievable to see how interactive things can go and I can only say that you know Zoe was inspired by this uh and the name inspector to create kind of this whole uh post style thing so we start with an ideology vignette tray but even the paper is all done with stamps That's The Power of stamps that you can make your own patterned paper just getting out your ink pads you can start with neutral background and just go to town and create your effect create all of your your trim use your die Cuts these are Etc Trims and then we've got the inspector here and the background this is just an ideology backdrop so even if you don't want to create the neutral inking that's the great thing about the new ideology backdrops that we have in those colors there's your foundation and off you go but this has a little hitch fastener I kind of put my finger on there and just pop this open and where do you see what's inside this what look at this so first we've got that great little print now it's not meant to be a repeat but you can see that stamped three times it still has great repetition values but I love how she created this whole little postage thing if it stands up there's a little pin I'm going to try to not have Things fall over but these little tags are hanging off of a loop pin from a little screw eye in there there we go I'll show you in the light um but what's what's unique about this it's so many little great ideology things mixed with stamps so here's a little test tube it's got some pen nibs in there with service you've got little cork vials for ink we've got this whole little stack of envelopes so just making envelopes just for the art of it right it's not it's not an actual stationary set that you could work with I suppose you could create one like that if you wanted to but this is just for the art of it so die cut the envelopes maybe stamp the back of one and the front of that and leave the ones in the middle blank right I don't know if she did or didn't I don't need to find now but it's a great way that you can create an embellishment a little string a little Wax Seal which is also fabulous but using those images and then creating this whole assortment as well these are all done with the chapter three dies that we did last year the little envelopes the coin envelopes but they're again taking these and doing the stamps and coloring so she has a whole little series of uh the inspector all stamped so I don't I'm going to slide this up I won't open them but I just want to show like they are stamped so taking that and just stamping and color stamping color this could be something that somebody actually you know uses to send little notes and I love the details even all the stamps on the back just done and cut and layered it's just a lot of work but absolutely beautiful to take the stamps and let them create the story just let it go where you're like okay I'm gonna use these papers have this from ideology these little dividers in the trade these are all be Etc so we'll talk about Etc a little later in this and you'll understand how these can be used to actually divide this tray or use for Ledges but isn't that just it's a fabulous make but it really stands up so the test tube sits there and all of these little stamped tags are looped on that pin little claims and service is brilliant brilliant brilliant make and all just tucked back in there and then pop clothes and the inspection wow he spent five extra days at the convenience market in Denmark so see Mario's gonna have a story he'll have the story of all the makes of where they actually live but yeah they went to the market but he got here he got here in time which I think that to me is the best yeah to Market to Market okay beautiful make Zoe I love it all right we got a few more makes then we're going to talk about it cetera and then we'll see uh if we're if we're still holding up for some demo time so these this last group was really about makers that I felt focused specifically on stencils it doesn't mean they use stamps but when I saw the make I was like okay that's totally stencil and I loved the idea of it so this first one Paula created this and I have to say she told me about this mix she was so excited when she made it and I was so surprised really Paula doesn't really love card making she is definitely more ideology but this release she's been making and if you've seen all the the extras that her and many other makers have already been posting on Instagram in addition to their makes just making making uh and and Miss Ellie she also made some great tags if you saw those doodle tags on Paula I shared it yesterday so a shout out to Miss Ellie because she is an amazing maker as well so this book Paula created but take a look at this accordion book absolutely Charming how and I'll I'll give you a closer look but again a wonderful cool make so if you want to just get some paper cut it up and just start playing you can make a Charming accordion book so here we start with the background so the background of course of the floral trim stamp you even see some of those tiny floral prints and then taking those everyday art stencils just those elements the dots the leaf here she did the rainbow but then cut it out easy to do because it's wonky you Embrace that anyway and then doing a little die cut and some stitching and then just as you go it's just you kind of carry on the story so there's more of the stamping you've got some clippings in there little Doodle work I love the colors in there I love how she Incorporated photos so it's very much still Paula right the touch of those vintage photos but just a little bit of stitching clipping and again florals so you've got the outlines with the little prints and then all of these stencils so even these cut out pieces these are just stenciled and then hand cut but then really layering the stencils as a stencil because after all there's a stencil and then that little scribbly black line if you have a Stabilo those are great for that because it's a really intense water reactive pencil but you could use distressed watercolor pencils but a Stabila is going to give you I think more smudginess but I also love just how Whimsical some of these elements are right golden gems sat atop her head and I love how she just added a little bling to that photo booth and then added just that little touch from the stencil and then cut out and maybe maybe you don't want to do any of the cutting maybe you have the die set so now you're going to do some stenciling for the for the large elements and then you're going to die cut for some of the smaller elements maybe you know you have a lot of creative options but how fun and vintage and Whimsical is is this so cool I love all the little stitching the hearts yeah as soon as she's like oh my gosh so much fun so much fun oh that's Foundry wax look at that well done on The Foundry wax that's tiny little dots that's a great use for Foundry wax a little metallic I need to try The Foundry wax idea on what Anita did see inspiring so inspiring to just see how a maker takes something and just like this is how I use it and that's what I hope you're inspired to see throughout this live really because to me it's fascinating so cath created this series of cards again cat just card after card after card and now that I know you've been did more cards but take a look at these because the focal point of this is stencils you know sure there's there's some stamps for no quotes but really all of the elements are stencils so you have in in the orange that's going to be your Brush Mark then you've got the squares from those element stencils you have the flower that stenciled and then cut out you've got the leaves but then you you have it over some script whether it's stamped or whether it's backdrop paper some splattering with some embossing and then note quotes but then you just kind of keep going so once you have your inks out will you ink that you flip it over and you make a model print not sure if that's how she did it but you totally could have done that do the monoprint so you get the reverse of that stencil then do some stenciling of the dots then taking those star stenciling but then cutting them out because of that organic design of the stencils I'm I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised of how many makers really cut that out but that just shows that because of the maybe the loose design you don't have to be as as particular but it's really more of an accent over what the stencil is designed to do which is make beautiful prints and I love how that's paired with note quotes and then you've got this you've got that flower put on top that one I totally recognize the flower in that little leaf you've got the dots a little print from the brush hex and there we go the positive and the negative so inking through that and then because you've Inked it if you missed your stencil and then just print it then you get a whole nother use out of it but great great use for stencils on cards right I think that to me is really good when you have all of those then this last one I I still just I'm so impressed by makers and how they do this and I know Sharon is a very busy person but I only hope that this becomes because when I told her when I saw the photo of this I'm like did you make all those I only hope that there is some tutorial and just kind of a breakdown because I figured out most of them but I can't figure out all of them she actually went in and created an entire card series for an entire calendar year of themes using that stencil set and note quotes that's it these are these are the designs so when you see the designs that came from these stencils and the text all came from note quotes because as I mentioned there are some all little notes in there so for winter she created the snowman Let It Snow so I get it that's the circles totally understand that we've got all of the hearts I love how these are all layered and again because you have three different hearts on that stencil inking and layering different colors isn't that just fabulous so good this one this one trip me up I did figure it out but I'm not going to spoil it but I I was determined to be like how did she create a clover but it's absolutely fascinating she went and did the coloring with distressed watercolor pencils but I love how she created clovers out of elements from this set and she's got a little good luck card for St Patrick's Day April Showers you've got focus on the goods so using that drop just kind of like raindrops fabulous tomorrow oh my gosh you're a rock star I just can't I can't wait to it's almost like I I just need to see the map you know what was done with what because I it's just brilliant all the ideas look at this one you are my happy I totally unders I recognize the flower but I love how that flour is done and just that little yellow dot in the middle and then just over that color background the rainbow hello there very cute just taking your pencils through a stencil because distressed watercolor pencils lay your stencil down and just draw through the stencil with the pencils oh that rhymes and then just watercolor there you have it and then this see kapow just bang like fireworks for Fourth of July I didn't think of that I was definitely more in the Batman mode but I love seeing this as fireworks with a little bit of a pace over the top and some glitter totally looks like fireworks so so great I love how this has created a cake so fun to to create with those squares and then use the trim and do a birthday cake out of that make a wish yeah I saw someone say it for kids great for that because you're just using your imagination for shapes is just wonderful and I also like that really like as I go through each card you can see that she just kind of like I'll use oxide for this ink for this pencils for this oh I'll add some embossing glaze I'll do some texture paste and just create all different effects just with the the same idea so you have shine bright with the Stars look at this one so fun to take those circles to make pumpkins the Sparkles that I said were little retro stars for the eyes of the jack-o-lantern the mouth and then it just sits there for a trick or treat I mean come on then taking all these and creating fall fall leaves many thanks I mean can you see what I mean while I was just like I don't even I can't even wrap my head around how just the cleverness thinking and then Christmas would have never thought that that that leaf is Christmasy but now that I see it total could be mistletoe could be Holly and I love how it's just done with the different colors of of green with the splash of red and those that little metallic splattering for Holly Jolly and then making gifts out of two of those squares to do Merry and bright the little stack of gifts and these lines I'm wouldn't surprise me I'm sure they're the stencils that are those just using those as lines so even if you think oh it's pen work now it's going to surprise you maybe the dots are but the shape brilliant but like an entire card series through the year for stencils that really have like a mixed media vibe but the makers say otherwise that's what I think the make or say otherwise just seeing how they could be vintage shabby they could be you know great for artsy monoprints and backgrounds and then can be totally isolated to a specific theme mind-boggling all right so again thank you makers for really just rocking it just did absolutely amazing things right Mario amazing I mean I couldn't I couldn't figure out any of those things that Sharon did you know I was flipping through the stencils trying to I couldn't get it at all it's it's unbelievable it really is all right I've got that's it for uh stamps and stencils we're gonna get into Etc and then uh if you guys stick around we can do a demo but those were the makes for the stamps and stencils in particular but one of the things that is also part of this release is ETC facades and what's interesting is uh when this was announced a lot of people like this is the first time they heard of Etc they're like oh what is this Etc is actually part of a a big line for Stampers Anonymous that I've done with them for several several years so I'm going to take you through a little little stroll down Etc Lane and we'll talk about it and then we'll get into uh what the new facades are so the ETC line actually is composed of tags it also has a bunch of of different Trims and cuts and has even inspired a die set so what Etc is is it is made out of thick board so it's Artful things for curious minds this was about creating a substrate that was cost effective that was made by Stanford's Anonymous so it's done in in Cleveland Ohio but this is a paper board so when I say paper board um this is actually the thickness I don't know if you can see it there that without a reflection that's the thickness of of Etc this is not meant to be die cut it cannot be die cut these are actually laser cut so the tags comes in many sizes so we start with number eights and and depending on the pack you get a different count if you will so the number eights you get five pieces so you actually get the tags and you get the reinforcers also out of a thick board then in the mini tags the mini tags you get four of them so it's bigger than a number eight but still a really small size this is what you see most makers use for makes then we have small so small you get three of those same reinforcer everything is to scale then we have the medium these are pretty big you get two of those and then we have large which you probably haven't even ever seen in a live I'm not sure but this is a big one this is great to like do a quote maybe you want to use your sizzix like boltex and just create something really big like with billboard and create something on the wall but what's nice about this substrate is you can collage on it ink on it stamp on it because it is a paper board but it's very durable but also incredibly affordable so that's the cool thing about Etc so these are what you see as the foundational pieces but then in ETC there's also some different designs so we we launched these at Christmas time where it's this great Cathedral window there's actually two sizes so you get these two smaller windows and this large one a shout out to Matt because Matt's the one that figures all of this out he figures out how it fits and how to laser cut it and these are all done with a laser cut so when you get it you see this little like soot well it's actually soot from the laser so you want to wipe them off it'll smell like a campfire but it'll go away but just know that it is laser cut so they do their best to clean it off but I always recommend if you're going to ink or paint just wipe it off with a dry cloth first I love those windows these we did for Halloween I love the spiderweb trim and the bat these are just great to add to dimensional projects and you get several sheets of these I love the ETC some retailers have enough stock to sell these year round sometimes they sell out for the season then we have these trims so this is what Zoe used in that tray to create that divided thing the ETC trims because you actually get three sizes two different I'll just say thicknesses I guess but a bit different lengths but you also get multiple sheets of this so when you're getting five sheets of of each one and the nice thing is is that you can utilize these trims because can you cut them with your scissor and you can I recommend either using a craft knife or if you have like a mini hacksaw it goes really quick you can cut them that way if it's really small you can get away with your scissor but if it's too big I wouldn't recommend it but what's nice about these is this one is is just the scallop this one is bracket so you can kind of see the design back here it's got that little scooped bracket and this one is a cool little pinked Edge a little ziggity zag so these are nice because they can create Ledges you often see these Ledges done in ideology Emma uses them a lot well actually most makers use a lot of Etc with ideology because it allows you to build shelves the whole idea behind these is that you can stack them and create a shelf or a ledge to build on or in Zoe's case dividers now these three skus these trims actually inspired a die set that I did with sizzix years ago it's been retired sadly but it's a it's a cool set it's just these it's decorative trims but what these are these are the dies to fit these pieces because makers were collaging paper you know using backdrops and then you have to go in and like fussy cut or file this off and it's like so I'm like oh well if I just do a trim die that fits then essentially you can take any of your papers take a look at these I just like to make them in the bulk um you take your papers die cut them glue it on with collage medium and now you have no cutting so now I have all these little printed trims be that rulers ruler Edge or cigar labels this is all ideology a lot of the paper is memoranda all sorts of cool things not to use the rotary trim around this yeah do not use the rotary trimmer on these These are thick board these are laser cut they are laser cut so they're not meant to use with a trimmer a die cut machine or your scissors it's laser at best you can you know cut several layers with a craft knife or a blade but yeah it cannot be cut with the rotary trimmer the rotary trimmer can cut up to as I mentioned .05 chipboard which is not this this is way thicker than that this is well this is probably an eighth of an inch thick yeah yeah they're really strong so it's thick board it's not chipboard at all so it's really important to know that so thanks Mario um but I love these designs so if you have this die and you didn't know what it was for yeah you can cut paper trims but if you have Etc then you cut them and they fit and off you go it's really really cool okay so with that with the whole Etc line going I was like I want to kind of do something new something different so I had this idea to kind of create um a facade really it was inspired by uh the Vintage clocks that I got from uh the junk girls in California they have an amazing shop but they had this display of these old clock fronts on the wall and when I saw it I'm like that's so cool to kind of see this facade so I talked with Paula I'm like you know let's talk about this let's kind of figure out how we can bring this to the ETC line that makes the most sense for all the brands so here's the cool thing about what the facades are the facades and again I will say it probably three or four more times a shout out to Matt because Matt had to do all the math on this and he had to figure it out many many times we went through many versions of this um but it's perfect now and so thank you Matt for all the work of really going back and forth and I mean we're like can you make this a little taller can you make this a little squattier but now they're perfect okay so that what you get in this pack of facades is you get four facades and 24 stacking strips so what that means is you will get four different I'll just call them fronts or facades each one is laser cut out so this piece is extra but because it's being cut there's no reason to throw it away but these were about creating these facade windows but it does give you these cool pieces that you can use for other things these can become their own collage pieces as you will they could be layered on stuff or whatever then you have these These are the stacking strips they're just layered things that just you just push them out they're they're in here they're just kind of held on by just tiny little little pieces at the end you can see a little soot on my finger but you can just pop out these little pieces and they become these stacking strips so what these facades are designed to do they're designed to work on a few things they're designed to work on the ETC tags and the sizes they are designed to fit are the mini and the small now you can go bigger of course but it doesn't fit on the number eight so mini and small and you can use these on top of these to create a facade or frame so that's where these stacking strips really come in handy let's say I wanted to layer up a piece maybe it was this Frame I can take these strips and you just glue them together with collage medium and you can either stack them high like that right really skinny stack them up high so you can create that whole little Shadow Dimension or you can just if you want it kind of in between you can do it wide I wouldn't waste them like that I would only just use the skinny piece so if I only wanted a little bit I would just do one stacking strip and you glue it to the back you glue it on and so you can create your own uh shadow box with this you could go all the way around if you want you can cut them at Angles you can really do whatever you want these they are a little bit thinner so these could be cut with a scissor because it's just a quick little Notch cut versus Chop Chop so I've shortened these with scissors my tonic Snips work great you could also use wire cutters but these will build a lot of different frames in addition though to the ETC tags I wanted them to fit the world of ideology so for ideology in the vignettes we have vignette square boxes and the regular vignette rectangular boxes they will fit the two larger sizes of both and what's nice about that is like this guy so they're all kind of different widths so they can fit each one so this one the small one fits right over that vignette and what I love is that it's going to take a square box but if you created something now you have a shrine so you have a place to decorate you can create an arch with it you can have it upside down if you wanted to have an embellishment there but it takes this shape and gives you a whole new design to work from really cool and you don't need risers for this because you're putting it on the box the risers the stacking strips are really for something flat not the same you can't but you really don't need to then if you take this other rectangular box now we can take I think it's this one yes we'll stack that up so now you can put that right over there and now you've created like a little house so with these two vignettes you've created uh two distinct different facades or looks think of like Main Street USA right where the fronts of the buildings are all this but the back is just it's a building right that's the whole idea the other inspiration so there's always something inspiring about going to Disneyland as well then we've got these and I love these because I wanted to create stuff with the squares that really kind of threw you through a loop so this one is taking a square cutting a circle but also creating an arch top so this totally changes the look or the appearance of a square vignette so all three of these are designed that if you create that facade you can stand them up you can utilize them just as a sitting piece this one I wanted to do something totally dimensional because I wanted to see if the idea would work because if it worked then maybe we do it for Seasons or whatever but I love this Shield shape because the shield you can see like right from the tip to that little Edge that's how Matt just dialed it in So Perfect fits that square box but now I have a shield shape and that Shield is so cool because you can hang it on a wall or you could mount it to something else so you could still do a box if you really wanted it this tall you could still put a facade on a box on a tag and really create a whole piece of art cool right neat neat neat so that's really what the facades are designed to do of course they could be used any which way you could just glue it down on something and and be done with it but that was the inspiration behind the passages they fit uh the two larger boxes of the vignettes and they also fit a couple of the ETC tags so getting these dialed in right at the at the end was super important so we're able to rush them out to a couple of makers four makers uh to just make a sample of of each for live so shout out to really to Stacy Paula Emmy and Emma and Tammy b m n Tammy B for creating these so quick so let's take you through and talk about uh the facades I know I do so Stacy created this one so here again we now you can kind of recognize how it works yes a vignette box and then creating that design but this is what's so fun about the facade because now you have something that will sit up and gives it a totally different look isn't that fun adding some stamps some stitching a little ideology ephemera some paper dolls there's a metallic impresslet a little seal in there but isn't that just a great way to make a quick shadow box but something that's just not Square that's the nice thing about a facade it changes the the dynamic or the appearance of it then Paula created this one so you can see that you know does this fit on a vignette yes you've seen it but it doesn't have to be you can use those stacking sticks and just create a nice dimensional frame on something else so you can start with the ETC tag here you can see the ideology collage strips in the background I love the the use of the photomatic little quote chip some little adornment Keys some some string and some little trim I love those new adornments but a beautiful make but now because you have that facade it's a nice foundational piece to go over the top of it and these pieces I mean they're simple enough because I'm sure someone's going to say are you going to do a die for these I'm going to do a die for these one because the die would be way too big and too expensive but also these shapes are simple enough that if you glued it onto the paper you could just you know lay it face down and then go with your craft knife and Trace around it so I mean Paula did cover this in paper so you could just go in and do all of your your trimming that way so beautiful then Tammy B created this one so this is taking uh like I mentioned a facade on a box on a tag and creating this whole little uh garden shed and I love just the the stamping of the papers the little elements so you can see the ETC trims in there creating little shelves there's our Savage rabbit I love the crackle on there look at these little topiaries out of the Thimbles those little balls just a fun little make and I love how she utilized the strips to create a little crate just really clever a clever way to again incorporate the elements but now instead of just having a rectangular vignette adding that facade now you've made a little garden shed or it could be a birdhouse it could be well it could be anything you imagine it can and then we have this Shield that Emma did so here we have the I just love this design The Shield I love how she layered it that's going to be the ideology the transparencies where we've got the printed transparency I love that that Compass wheel I love how it fits I would like to say I did it intentionally but that'd be lucky here you can see again the ETC trims just stacked so they don't always have to be alleged they don't always have to be a shelf they could just simply be and I like the idea of just adding that stitched elements always cool to see sewn paper so this isn't sewn to this by the way you just sew the paper first and then glue it down because you cannot sew through Etc either even if you see these little edges she sews the paper first and glues it down and then those ideology adornments just beautiful and that paper doll portrait but really fun I mean I I love just just the variety of the ideas from these makes try to get it in camera frame I can try to zoom out a little bit but uh very cool and I think that's what's really nice about the facades is whether you're creating shadow boxes or whether you just want a little Dimension or lift on your make just really cool I do I love them I love them so that's the ETC okay let me move these off to the side take a look that's not bad at all is my watch right has that only been two hours two hours wow we have time we have time for a demo time all right um I've been trying to watch the chat but most of you guys are just throwing out compliments and so I appreciate that yeah you're throwing out the compliments to the makers I think it's really important all right cool let me got my mat I think I'm okay um yeah pretty good okay um I just want to talk about some stuff I don't I mean I have to say I don't have like an official demo demo planned I just have some step two demo and hopefully continue on with the ideas uh to share so okay I've got some I've got some stuff so first thing I'll talk about really is just some some backgrounds because one of the things that it's so important to understand if you're even if you're a seasoned Stamper or if you're new to stamping the importance of backgrounds because I often feel that when it comes to budgets or people buying they often Overlook background stamps because they just think like oh it's just a background stamp the thing about these is when you have a big background stamp it does allow you to introduce texture and design to many things you've seen in the makes backgrounds on cards on tags in books and you can utilize backgrounds not just the entire stamp right so you could put this on a block and you can stamp but you can also see like in certain areas like how Stacy uses it I often go with the background and literally hold the stamp in my hand and just kind of fill in with different areas it's very easy to do you often would think that you know if you if you stamp like this you don't really get great results but you do and it depends also on what you're creating so I'll just take a little bit of just distress ink real quick just throw this on here and I could spray this with water if I wanted more of a watercolor look but just taking an ink stamp and holding it in your hand and actually forming forming the stamp so you're creating a bend and just pressing and kind of rolling in just different areas you can create just a pattern into an area so you can create an organic Edge in this the nice thing about any kind of background is the ability to do that you can re-ink areas I'll do this next one with a little bit of water just to show you probably won't be the greatest on Craft but I'll still give it a whirl so let me unlock this there we go come on get going there we go a little bit of water I'm just spraying that stamp so I don't spray my paper and I'm trying to spray it off camera so I've got a little bit of water there but same thing you could just go in and you can just add some great stamping and often I'll just kind of Trail it I'll do you know a few stampings and then we can dry it just so you get the idea for any kind of background it's a fill in the blanker okay whether it's polka dots or flowers or whatever that is sometimes people see background stamps and assume that you have to stamp that rectangle every time and the truth is you don't so whether you stamp it kind of detail even if you overlap it it's okay or you create kind of a watercolor by not having it on a block it it will give you more of an organic Edge that may not be your jam you might be comfortable tearing and masking paper you can do it that way too if you want an edge maybe you want to tear a piece of card stock so you get your organic Edge and then just stamp with purpose that's fine too but it's just to kind of remind you about how you can utilize background stamps just totally totally different okay so I'm just going to wipe this off place this back and we'll talk about another cool thing that you can do with background stamps one of the things that I was inspired and I was inspired by Stacy doing this gosh this was I don't even know now it's been a couple years maybe a couple years I think I've shown it for the holidays and I've shown this many many times so here's the thing that I'm just going to say because while I'm unfiltered and I know right now Mario is probably grabbing onto the table when I do uh demos I do demos according to my agenda and not someone else's so if you've watched a live and you've seen me Demo something in a previous live and you've seen it again that's okay um I don't need to be reminded of that because I'm I'm aware that I like to repeat demos because I believe this I believe that seeing something time and time again will help engrave it engrave it into your mind I think a couple other things is sometimes people see an idea but they're not ready to embrace that idea they see it but it's not relevant to them at that time and they see it again they're like that's really cool so it's very important to see stuff again and again and again and if you've already seen it you can just maybe watch replay and kind of skip over that versus live but I'm I'm not going to apologize for doing things in repetition because I've been doing this for 20 years and I still am fascinated every time I see embossing powder melt I can see someone's stencil and still pick up an idea or technique so the cool thing about an idea is sometimes a new image or in this case a new stamp will come along and make you go I totally remember that idea so these stamps are anything bold it doesn't have to be let me get rid of these little guys it's really about these bold ones anything bold or solid are great foundational stamps to add a background pattern too okay it doesn't have to be a word it could be a solid Circle or oval or Square it could be any kind of stamp but if it's got a solid design it will allow you to print a pattern over the top of it it's kind of a double stamping thing and this is something that I saw Stacy do one year for Christmas and I was absolutely hooked on the idea and ever since then if there's a new stamp I'm like oh I wonder how it would look for that technique and it's been done many different ways some people call it stamp kissing some people call it double stamping or layering but the idea is taking a solid stamp and I'll demo this and you ink it with an oxide and then you stamp over this stamp with a background stamp so in this case it is a plaid a perfect plaid so it's this stamp and this stamp and it stamps a plaid and again I'll demo this but I just want to show you some options for this technique because this technique is incredibly cool so taking a stamp and maybe maybe you have a wood grain now not every background stamp is going to be good for the technique you want something that's going to have distinct lines versus a full pattern so for example on this Floral it's in my opinion it's going to look better with these distinct lines than all of this little detail because this busy work is going to get complicated or fools the eye so for a wood grain I love the wood grain I love stamping in wood grain and again it doesn't have to be text it could be maybe you have just a a cool solid rectangle or a Splat but you want that Splat to have a pattern so now you've just stamped wood grain letters really it's very cool to see you can also take like for Halloween you know for Halloween I went all crazy on Halloween with a couple of things um I love this stamp so this one this is called tapestry so again for this one I think that the fine detail is better than this one this one's got too much going on in my opinion for this technique but this has got distinct lines so take a look at boo boo with a little tapestry it's like a little wallpaper it's like and this will freak people's freak man you do this and you're like what how did you I don't it mask a stencil and you just go yep but when you see how it's really easy or maybe you're going to see it for the tenth time and you'll smile the whole time now okay bubbles you know when bubbles came out last year we've seen bubbles everything from backgrounds to to Surf to all sorts of things but as I mentioned it is great for Halloween because it creates almost like a spiderweb look so this is just done with orange and black and this is just done with green and black but it also creates kind of a cool crackle but play around with your stamps even if you don't have these play around with mixing a solid with a background because yeah it creates a cool effect so of course with this new one I had to try it out I had to see like because I do Christmas I have and I have to say I need to do more bold sayings because I have three Christmas sets one Halloween and only one every day and when I was doing this I'm like I need some more of these so take a look at how great this tiny floral print is to a word so like Best Day Ever I love the softness so this one I did like speckled egg did a little blue and then I stamped in brown I didn't want to do black but I love that look I did the same thing here so this is a little salt water taffy with some brown now if you look at this little skippity bit that's part of the design of this stamp so you also need to be aware that these stamps were designed with some worn out areas it's not for everybody I happen to like that because it takes the pressure off of stamping perfect so it's a so when you see that you don't try to stamp it like seven times thinking I need to fill that in I just like the imperfections it to me it's more noticeable and like the O's and the D's it's not an it's not in all of them but I just just happen to like it and take a look at this one I do love this I wasn't sure I would because it's a big busy stamp and when I did it Mario goes that's really cool I'm like okay I was going to throw it away but uh there you go I I love that but see how nice those little flowers are they just show it perfect in some of those words and when they don't they you still get enough to make it cool yeah it is it's like there's an agreement with you more bold so yeah I didn't realize how few I had until yeah until I did it so anyway um but that's just a nice thing so just don't forget about background stamps and and playing around with it even if they're not words again it's about that so here's how it works it's actually you know pretty pretty simple so let's do let's do hello my friend we can do that okay so the idea is and we'll do the flower because I want to do that we'll do this little tiny print the idea is really simple you're going to have a solid and when I say solid it means it's going to have a lot of rubber and then you're going to have a detail pattern I prefer to do this with a block versus a stamping tool I dislike the flexibility of it but if you are only comfortable doing a stamping tool you do you but I'm just going to use blocks the ingredients are also very simple you need an oxide so any color distress oxide for your solid that's going to be the foundational color and I think for this one I think I want to do a little Savage patina I could yeah I'll do Savage patina that's fine then your ink your texture your pattern needs to be distress ink so you want something that's going to show up Will Last Shadow show up on this not really roll tone on tone like the ink version of that not really you need to go contrast whether that's going to be brown or whether that's going to be black or if you wanted to do tone on tone you could do like a light purple say shaded lilac and then you could use your distress ink say a villainous potion so you could do dark over light if you want to stick with tone on tone but it is important that your oxide color your solid color is lighter than your pattern color for me that's just my preference somebody else might have a totally different preference to it paper I find that working on white heavy stock or a smooth paper it gives me a better image than watercolor paper but mixed media also works well but I haven't had really much luck on Craft with this technique or watercolor again this is just distressed white heavy stock which is smooth so here we go all you're going to do is you're going to Ink this up tap tap tap now if you swipe it I'll show you that you would create those striations so those little swipes you would see that in your stamping so I would suggest that you just do your tapping and you really want to tap tap tap that up now I work on grid blocks grid blocks it's a lover hate guys and I won't take offense to it I love grid blocks I hated them when I first did it but I like knowing that I've made contact I think a heavier block to me is just it's too much in my hand but some people think this is too little in their hand they find these hard to hold I just like how lightweight they are and I know that I'm making really good contact with this that I don't have to do CPR pressure but that's just me so I have ink on here that's oxide then I'm going to take my distress ink or whatever uh pattern color you want I'm using Walnut stain for this and I'm going to take my ink stamp and stamp it onto the Inked stamp so wherever you want it to be you're just going to press down just make contact lift it off and then you'll take your stamp place it down just press with your fingertips you don't again you don't need to go in CPR because I know I've made contact with it that's the that's the best part and then you're just going to lift it off and this is what you have there we go you have just a really fun great stamp design and you can you can manipulate this in a bit and I'll show you what I mean for this technique because could you stamp this again yes if you stamp it again you're going to get a second generation or a light fade of everything you just did there would be enough ink on here but it's going to be really subtle but it still works there we go so if you ever just want a light color don't give up the second generation so when I stamp words like this I do just work on a piece of paper and I stamp several of them and then I'll cut it out for a card I don't often stamp a sentiment Direct on a card because I'm going to screw it up and then it'll tick me off so for the most part so I'll always get a second generation because that's going to work for one card and that's going to work for something else why not but if you don't want to do that I'm just going to clean this off with water just spray it with a little bit of water My Ink here I don't know if you can see it but it does have a little oxide transfer I just prefer to wipe it off and start over some people will go right into that so whatever is going to work for you but here's another thing that you can do with this technique you can also control the intensity of that color both by ink but also by how you apply it so it kind of goes back to what I was saying with the oxide so I'm going to do my tap tap tap just because I want to have a nice coverage of Ink on there just to I don't want to over ink it but I want to make sure that I have enough ink to to stamp into so far so good okay now on this one instead of tapping like I did this one I am going to just lightly swipe and I'll go in different directions because I want to make sure that I get ink on here you might get some of the threads from the ink pad that's just it so make sure they're out of your way but now I'll just stamp into this I'll go this direction I like this spot again I'm going to stamp I'm going to lift go on my paper and stamp what this is going to do is it's still going to give me the intensity of the color but it's going to make the brown a little bit lighter and it's just going to have a different fade it's not going to be as intense as this one it's just going to be more subtle not a significant amount but enough that it's just going to because sometimes see up here you get it's really kind of thick it just creates a lighter more detailed look so you kind of have to play around it also depends on how juicy your ink pad is too right I just re-inked mine before this demo because of the next technique I'm going to do so if you have a dry ink pad that's actually going to be pretty good for this technique because you'll get a little bit more detail but pretty fun this one I'm just going to breathe on that so I've been talking a bit yeah I like that one too nice easy great technique but again I just wanted to touch on that because sometimes you know when you see that take technique or maybe you only saw it during the Christmas demo you just think of it as plaid like oh I'm going to do that plaid stamping and you don't realize how cool it is with flowers and wood grain and all the other great things that you can do and for that the stamp I just normally just stick it onto the glass mat or sometimes I'll even leave it on the set okay so far so good let's pack that up get those out of the way okay another thing that I just wanted to talk about because I'm going to I'm going to demo this one next is let me put this back I'm a I'm a tidy maker so I am I just that's what I like to do um some things that that I really like is is just trying things out trying things out different and this is one of the things that I just had an idea and I'm like I wonder if it would work wouldn't it be cool you know all those things that run through my random hat but I found that when I was working on cards one of the things that I find really convenient are stickers and you saw those in a lot of makes so I'm going to grab these out ideology we do a lot of different stickers everything from Small Talk stickers which are just that little type great thing about small talk they come in black and white white and black same verses in there then we have the metallics so these are same thing black with gold metallic and white with gold metac these are kind of a foiled sticker so you saw those on the mix you also get some labels like that but these are so these are already foiled but they make really I mean they're they're quick for cards sure you can do this with stamps and foil but it's really nice to have the convenience of stickers then we also have of course clippings which are just you know the little words we also have a chit chat big chat went away but these are individual words if you want to create quotes uh my favorite snarky I would like to just I would like to do an entire video where I just kind of read uh snarky but they're just really they're just fun and I see a lot of people pairing these with photos so stickers are a great option believe it or not because you can still take a sticker stick it onto cardstock and then just still use your foam tape so it doesn't have to go flat but it can okay but the other option is finding little verses because sometimes a sticker is not going to be the aesthetic that I want and so I want something that's just going to have a bit more uh I don't know of like a handmade Vibe so the other stamps are these tiny techs now these are great for backgrounds but they all come cut so each one is cut in between now they're not cut perfect because in this case I wanted you to be able to leave it on as a sheet and stamp a bunch of words in the background but there is Tiny text there's an everyday one a Halloween one and a Christmas one but these contain just some different fonts so just the block font and the type font but a lot of great sentiments that aren't your everyday you know happy birthday kind of thing so if you are looking for something tiny that can make strips this is another great set and you have them for For All Seasons so that's what I did for the text here but what I did for The Coloring was just a really it's one of those duh things that you might roll your eyes when you see it but to me I've told you time and time again I'm not comfortable with coloring I just don't find that much enjoyment in it I wish I did but it kind of freaks me out though but you try a lot I do try I like it but I'm not good at it so here is a very simple way to color or watercolor these floral trims just using an ink pad one ink pad that's it well as your color the idea behind it let me let me grab the stamp set uh well here we go there we go here we go because I'll demo this entirely is taking a stamp and what we're going to use as our foundation piece our piece that goes right down the middle these strips right here is ideology craft stock now I've talked about craft stock we've had ideology craft stock in the line for years but just I think it was last year maybe the year before we change it to a hundred pound craft so this is brown craft paper flooded in color craft stock used to come textured I used to come with that linen print but I found that if you do that you can't stamp on it and that's really what I wanted to do what's really cool about this paper you can see that it has a natural bow to it so when you get out of the package it's going to do that that's just the nature of this because of the flood of color this is really meant to work on and then glue down to something it's really not an ideal card base unless you like your cards to have a pocket aesthetic to it but this is designed to to die cut or stamp and stick down but it comes in a variety of colors and they mimic the distress line but they all have a craft base and here's the great thing about this paper that maybe people don't realize where you think well it's just like colored card stock no colored card stock is colored through and through it's the it's the pulp of the paper that's the color this is actually craft paper printed in a color and that printing allows me to play or manipulate it and create a cool effect so let's take see that one was a green one maybe I want to do I can do a blue one I can do a lot of different colors I think I think blue is pretty wow doesn't really matter it doesn't necessarily or maybe I'll try a bright green it doesn't work with all the colors as well I'll show you what I mean so the idea is stamping an image because I want to show you what we're doing before I demo it you stamp your image in a waterproof ink so we start by stamping the floral in black archival and I will I'll demo this whole thing start to finish so our outline is waterproof any waterproof ink I'm using archival but it could be any waterproof ink that you stamp with could you emboss it sure you do whatever I just like the the idea that it's not embossed because to me it just looks more bleached I guess by not embossing once you stamp and this dries it has you have a lot of options one you could go in in color okay that would be the normal way to use it I would stamp on this paper and you've seen me do that Stampin archival and going with pencils and color so I was thinking what if I did it backwards what if I started with color then stamped and then took it away then I'm not really worrying about coloring so that's really what we did here these samples show that it can be done in brown which is my happy place but I know better than to do a demo and only live in the world of brown it could also be done with the coordinating color meaning the paper color is this light pink but we Inked in dark pink light orange we Inked in a darker orange yellow and you can see that depending on your color like blue is really beautiful just picking a different color I love this like Salvage patina this is like a Mermaid Lagoon by picking a contrasting color of ink that's going to determine how much your flower contrasts with its background I love the subtlety of this because your eye sees it as two different Blues but it doesn't look like it's done in a white pen or watercolor okay so here's how it works and why does my brain work like this I don't know why because it does it just does so I start with paper and then I'm going to take my background ink color and in this case I'm going to demo Brown it only works with distress ink not necessarily Walnut saying but distress ink oxide it won't do this it won't do what you want it to do I did try it and it did not work so what I want to do is I'm going to take ink and a blending tool and create a foundation of a brown ink okay so I just start direct to paper there's no reason to to be ceremonial about this because already you can see how it Blends and you're like what you just put all that this is printed in color so it's not like regular card stock that if you just did that you're going to see it and it's never going to blend this allows me because of that color coding I can blend My Ink on there and I'm going to blend it till you know you could go back and add another layer if you want could you just do a blending tool if literally going direct to paper freaks or freak yes you can but there's a foundation of brown on there you can see enough Brown for me then what we're going to do is we need to make sure this is dry because if you touch it right now and I'll just touch it with my thumb it's going to start lifting the ink because the ink is sitting on this ink surface so we want to avoid the touch right now until we have a chance to dry this ink a little bit so I'm just going to take a heat tool and I'm just going to dry now how long does it have to dry just long enough a few seconds really doesn't have to be super long but I just want to give the resins of this ink a chance to just kind of set in the paper that's going to be fine then we're going to take our stamp so I'm going to start stamping actually let me find um my stamp platform which I had here it is I'm like I put it in a convenient spot that's my problem it needed to just be in the pile so now I'm going to take a stamping tool because I prefer on this particular one I prefer to give it a couple of a couple of hits of black that's just me I like to do a double stamp so but if you want to just do it one time you can okay we're going to take our paper I got magnets everywhere um I think I'm going to create I think I'm going to create a partial so I'll be okay so I think what I'll do on this one because I'm going to go partial is I'll start with one magnet and then I'm going to take this stamp in position like where I want this to be oh not bad I've positioned that magnet pretty darn close okay I think right there that's good enough now you could tape this down I have a piece of media grip on there so my paper is is going to stay it's going to behave pretty well I hope and maybe I'll go over here a lot of times I'll start with a piece of paper larger than what I want because I can go back and trim it in fact I think I'm going to lift this up just a little bit there we go so I want my stamp just to kind of fade off to that edge that makes sense so next I'm going to pick that up and I'll ink up my stamp archival so I would still want to stamp in something waterproof there we go tap tap tap so if you wanted to create a tone on tone you could just stamp with our cable so if you didn't want your image to be black you could stamp with a darker color of archival but you're going to want it to be waterproof because if you try to stamp distress on top of distress your image will start to bleed because those inks will want to get together and party so distress archival it's the color of distress but it's an archival formulation so you could say take peeled paint distress archival and stamp your flower if you didn't want to be black so again if you have the platform I'm pushing down into the hinge to make sure it's seated consistently and then I'm just going to stamp with purpose again I just like to use my fingerprint my fingers some people you know want to push down or use some type of tool you do whatever works for you I'm going to open it up so far so good I like that image but just to be on the safe side I'm going to stamp it again again just tap tap tap this time I'm not going to go as crazy with the archival but same thing I'm going to push into that hinge place I hope this didn't move we'll see in a second I'm like that looks a little further away maybe not ah there we go okay we got a second impression so now I'm going to slide these off there's our image on Inked craft take this off a little bit of water you could use any kind of cleaner you want I just use water unless I need my stamp totally clean for Lift ink same thing here water will take it off of the grip here we go and that just provides like some clings so I I can get away with those kind of crazy magnets right okay so done with that for right now set that off to the side I'll put that down here that's good okay so now we have archival so same thing this archival ink although it dries fairly quick it wants to sit on this paper as well so I just want to go in and dry this as well now if you have a different type of ink maybe a stazon you might need to skip this step because it's already dry it's not going to hurt if you dry it but you want to make sure that if you're going to do this technique that I'm sharing don't do assembly line like don't put these through some heat tunnel or whatever like you need to do each one at a time because essentially what's happening is we have the ink on the paper and the ink is still sitting on that and while it's it's not really wanting to absorb right now over time that brown and black and everything will absorb into this card stock so we want to just kind of work fairly quickly okay meaning just do one at a time I'm going to see if I can zoom in look at that I can okay so here's what we're going to do you're going to take a paper towel a water brush or paint brush totally up to you I just like to use a water brush because it's going to keep a continuous flow of color and I love the detailer this is my distress water brush because it's super tiny okay so here's what we're going to do we're going to go in and remove color from the flower hey Mario can you grab me a Post-It note real quick sure that's my little tip I learned from Christina Werner which was super smart because I have really pudgy fingers that like to I don't I don't think my fingers are sweaty but obviously the moisture if you take a Post-It note and you I just stick my fingers to it then I can use the Post-it note to hold my paper and then it never leaves fingerprints okay so what I did for this because it was a little trouble seeing it was making a template meaning I just stamped it on a piece of white paper and I colored in Black the areas that I want to leave alone so sometimes in the middle of this I'm like what what part is that it doesn't really matter but because we wanted to create several of them having a template was way easier because you need to know in truth be told Mario did all of these because he was like how do I know where to lift I'm like here's your template but it was good I think it's a great idea because now you can just look and see like okay that this the white area is what we want to lift and that's just what we're doing so what you're going to do with a wet brush is we're just going to take this we're going to go right over that area one piece at a time take a paper towel and dab it down and you can see already it just lifts it's like magic okay it took that brown ink off now I have brown ink on my water brush so I prefer to clean my brush on a on a pallet versus a paper towel because if you always wipe it off on a paper towel you're essentially taking the water out so that's really all I'm doing I'm just just going in and removing color and I like the fact that depending on how much water you you add or lift that's just going to determine the intensity you can always go back and lift it a second time that's fine but it's just water and to me it creates such a beautiful just almost an organic bleached color could you splatter the background yes could you stamp on the background yes you could do all of those other things the technique is merely adding a color of ink first and then removing it and so like here I'll just hold this up like I can leave that little bit of brown there if I dab it it'll take it off I can always go back and take it off again but I like the fact that I'm just going to leave it really simple so again a little water brush but this is why I prefer besides that this is such a tiny tip the flow control of this is Magic I know that you know so I know right here see that little that little parking space is black so I know to leave that there so I'm going to just jump right over to that other part um yeah sometimes people buy water brushes and I get it you know they're like oh but you can get three for a dollar sometimes you can get a good one but most of the time they just pour water out and you want something that's gonna and then occasionally I'll just wipe this up yeah because it is really hot it's really hard with a brush just a regular brush yeah I tried it I couldn't control it it was just so much water that it went outside the lines and I like that this always remains a point you can you can focus there we go see no matter what I mean this brush is old but it maintains a point so you get the idea here I don't have to do the whole thing but that's essentially what you do you just pick that off and don't forget to wipe off the brush because if you don't take the ink off when you go back you're essentially painting the next part with brown ink does that make sense so that's why you just want a clean brush because we're really lifting it with water but what you get really is a beautiful faux bleach it's very subtle and some people would be like well this is just dumb I'll go in with my pencil and yes you could achieve a technique many ways you could take cardstock and you could color and watercolor a darker color on top I get that this was just the idea that if you like the Vintage Vibe and as it dries to me it does create more of a faux bleach look and it doesn't necessarily have a painted look because it's just going down to the base color I also like the fact that you could create kind of this different Blended background depending on what inks you use but yellow like I don't know it just it didn't seem to want to lift as much I But there again is it because I Inked it darker than I should have is it because I use ground espresso instead of Walnut stain there could be a lot of variables here I don't I don't know necessarily know but I'm not I'm not bothered with it it's just not as clean as the other ones and for whatever reason yellow and purple but both of those had ground espresso so but Bill and his potion I already knew was probably not going to play nice and it didn't villainous potion has so much dye but pretty cool it's just a fun way to to create that look because when I said to her I'm like I just need help like I'll I'll show you this I'll do one but I want to do it in Many Colors just to show how cool it looks and he goes I I can't color him like but you're uncoloring think about that you're not coloring you're just taking it away but yeah the cheat sheets were helpful but really cool and then that's that's why I wanted just to show you like well how would you use that on a card could you use the a bigger thing yes but having strips of paper I don't know it felt a little bit more forgiving and I really love the idea of pairing it with other things embossing folders other organic things and it gave a vintage appeal to this floral stamp but that's what it is it's again we start with ideology craft stock now we know why one of the benefits of it being smooth any color we take distress ink whatever color we want ink the paper but blend it in like don't have a ton of ink because it's just that much more you have to take off the paper will only take so much color dry that for a few seconds stamp with something waterproof dry that for a few seconds and then just go in and and lift you can always go back and lift more that's that's the thing that's super important to to remember you can always lift more so don't don't sit there in my opinion I'm not telling you how to how to make but in my opinion don't bother going over the same pedal three or four times because as it dries it does change a little bit and you might actually like having it a bit more modeled than clean may not so like here if I wanted to go over this because this one I did earlier maybe I just go in the middle section just to see if I can take anything off I took off a little bit not much so it creates a little bit lighter not much that I really noticed but there you go really really simple but you definitely want to work with a paper towel for this something that's going to be super absorbent to take the color and again don't forget to clean your brush okay that's a simple one but cool you can uncolor yeah but fun so I hope you like that idea for and it doesn't have to be the stamp anything that's going to have an open space just think of like back in the day we used to actually paint with bleach those Stampers that have been stamping for years you know what I mean we used to literally take Clorox and paint it on in the fumes and it would bleach the paper and then your card would smell just as lovely but it was cool okay then let's see should that okay let's just let's do one more we can do one more I got time to do one more I'm just gonna do one quick background just to show you I can well we'll see we're hitting the three hour mark so okay I'm gonna do alcohol ink real quick so I'm going to remove the mat for this because I think that that's that's something I want to take away okay I'm going to zoom out now oh wrong way okay yeah did I do all right am I a little one cup there we go ah thank you okay um let's yeah let's go in take that to take that okay so for this one I'll show you a couple of different ways we'll actually do we'll do two I'll do one I'll show you distress and I'll show you I'll call them because both of them are super quick and you don't have to overthink it it doesn't necessarily have to pertain to the stamp although it could but it's just about creating some backgrounds so first thing if you want to create a quick background you can just use your inks and I'll just again no judgment on the color so I'm going to use the palette part of the mat I'm just going to take an ink Cube and just squish it down if you want to get color you got to squish your ink pad you can't just tap your ink pad because again ink is a suspended medium so it is important that you squish it okay so like if I just do that that's not going to give me enough ink but if I push down give it a little twist look at that so I do like the fact that this white area will still reveal the color that I'm putting down on here oh yeah I used to I used to use so many different art mediums I used to mix things in my embossing powder I mixed cocoa in embossing powder in brown and then it would smell like chocolate I used to mix Kool-Aid Kool-Aid without the sugar I don't know if they still do that but like you used to get the little packs of Kool-Aid like orange and grape and just a little bit of that powder not a lot but I used to mix a little bit of that in my embossing powder and shake it up and then when you emboss in like your orange embossing powder would smell like orange and gosh we should do so much stuff if you ever stamp with condensed milk that is amazing it's messy but man it's so good but yeah you just take condensed milk and put it on a makeup sponge dab it onto a stamp stamp with condensed milk and then when you heat emboss it it caramelizes so it turns it brown but it smells so good but it also looks cool yeah we you know this was this was I remember yeah this was days when you didn't have product you really didn't you just you had what you had and you were reading in magazines and you know somebody shared this tip and you're like couldn't wait to try it and yeah that's what it was remember magazines that's a that was our only source of inspiration you waited every month for you know your Somerset or art expressions or gosh I remember them okay I'm good I don't even need all these colors I'm just talking okay so those were distress ink uh we're just going to take a piece of watercolor card stock now you can use either side if you're going to stamp on it my advice is going to be the smooth side but you can also if you have a stamping tool you can get away with the textured side totally up to you okay so next I need can you grab my little jar I think I just I set it right over there by my ink spinner just an empty jar thanks thanks I just threw it there okay I'm just going to take a little bit of water just want to start with this now you can do this a couple of different ways I'm just going to use a jar of water for this just because it's quicker get yourself a brush and you're going to flood the brush with water and I'll just start by uh are those grid lines under the white film on the glass these yes so this is all this printing is under the glass so it can't clean up so these grid lines come on there when you remove the mat you have this white space I'll zoom out someone just asked about the medium mouth there you go that's really the full palette I'm only using this part but yes this is that's what acts as your light source I everyone has their their own preference I get that I prefer to work on a black surface because it my eye rests better on my make on Black but I prefer to color or use color on a white surface but I know some people are they just like a white background so I'm going to start with just a wet brush so I'm really flooding my brush with water and then just going down the middle of my card stock I'm just making a crazy haphazard blob so I'm kind of going out and each time I'm loading up my brush again I'm just kind of just moving it all the way across and you can you know you can take it different areas I often try to look and see you know if I was random enough I'm I'm no Dena wakeley Dina wakeley totally Embraces her Randomness and I wish I could I know she says like use your non-dominant hand but my dominant brain won't let won't allow that okay so I have a wet brush but now I just took off most of the water wet paper I'm just going to pick up some of that color oh and I'm just going to start let's approve and I'm just going to start picking up some color I agree I approve that too and then I'm just gonna dab it in with in with the inks now if I'm going to go into another color you had no idea was under your mat yeah it there that's the best part so I'm just picking another color just kind of going into Orange and you can do this with watercolors you can do this with other inks your spray inks this is just really about picking up some some color and just letting it kind of float into that water that you created and you kind of you get what you get and you don't throw a fit I'm going to put down a little bit more pink because I don't think I have enough pink in there all right I'm going to clean that up yeah I'm just gonna I know I heard that that's how we know that's all right yep pick that up a little bit more a little prize ribbon there and if you see that your color is not moving enough just get your brush a little wetter and just go in and add some color okay again I'm just dabbing this and you just you'll start kind of letting it do its thing if you will especially as long as your brushed the second time isn't soaking wet you'll be okay I like the fact that like when I when I start to just let these things go you can see how they'll flow into those extra areas so then like down here where I don't have a lot of color that's where I'll just go back and add some as long as your paper stays wet it's pretty easy to go back and introduce more so I can just take that go right into the water water won't hurt distress ink so even though there's water there this is a water-based ink so don't think that you have to dry it off don't okay just going to pick that up and then I'll just add some more of that color right there and that'll just kind of blend right in there pretty easy and you can just pick this up I mean if you have a watercolor set or really if you had more ink down I'm I just wanted to demo this idea quick you can start kind of tapping and filling in the blanks but the point of this technique is you just you kind of let it do its thing and depending on how much color you added so here you can see I was really generous with my water stripe I just kind of went really wide because I knew I wanted to do the stamp but that's all that that happened that was just serendipitous that it fell right in that dark area but you just kind of let it do its thing I prefer to let it dry and I also prefer that like when you're when you're going in with your color that you know you just you just kind of dab it on you just want to make sure that what you're putting down is fairly wet and you can move your paper if you want to create drips just don't get too crazy going side to side because you could end up mudding the color but a simple way that you can create a watercolor background I've seen this done in much larger areas and I like that where you essentially Mist your entire sheet of paper and then go for it but by adding that water background then the inks will travel to the edge of that water and they won't go past that edge even when they're blooming and wicking they won't ever go past that edge that you establish with water so even down here I would add more color but you get the gist of it that's the whole point of the demo you get the gist of it okay so that's one way to create color another easy way is alcohol ink and I wanted to just show how to use alcohol inks because I am no alcohol ink artist although designed it it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm the best with it there's so many different ways that you can use alcohol inks and for me I love the fact that they're very forgiving and I think sometimes people are intimidated by alcohol ink and I can understand why you know when I see the talent out there of what alcohol ink artists do I'm intimidated I look at that and I'm like that I can't do that but I can do what I do and I'm happy with that and what I love about alcohol inks is you can really create beautiful colorful backgrounds and then you can stamp on it whether it's this or whether you did creative blocks and you die cut this because you can die cut yupo that this is done on yupo you can die cut it but creating a blend is is easier than you think so I'll attempt to do it live I might regret it later but hey that's going to be the best part so I'm going to start with a piece of yupo and I want it to be white it could be regular yupo or it could be yupo Heavy stock but I definitely want something synthetic because that's going to give me the most play time if you try to do this with glossy cardstock or photo paper it is not going to give you the play time that we that we need or want for alcohol ink yupo comes in bigger sheets it comes in eight by ten sheets as well that's what this one was done it was just sliced down you can also cut this to whatever size I'm just going to start with a piece of it that's fine then what I'm going to do off camera is I'm just going to mist one side of the yupo with water just one little Mist so it's not soaking it has just a couple of little splashes on it and lay it on the mat by adding some water it's going to keep my paper from moving okay so it's just surface tension I don't want my craft mat here because alcohol ink will stain that fabric it doesn't ruin it but it will make it look like a bag of Skittles blew up on your on your mat and if you're good with that then don't remove it but that's why I always remove it then I'm going to take a whole rainbow of alcohol ink so I kind of have them in Rainbow order red orange yellow they're rolling everywhere some greens I'm going to open these up in a second greens blue is purple so those are my rainbow colors and all I'm going to do is open them up and put the cap like right behind it on the other side it's just I'm trying to zoom in but you can see that I'm not really great with the camera all right when I go to open the inks I never want to open the inks over my paper the alcohol inks because they have a resin they kind of dry with a little crust around the nib I'll just try to show you there's like a little dried ink a little crusty and if that crusty falls on your paper that's a color so I don't really want that to be there so that's why I just kind of open them off camera that's all I'm I'm doing alcohol ink bottles these alcohol ink bottles are designed to be left open I just opened the screen can you see that little dot of green creeping up the nib that's by Design these bottles are designed to be left open while you're working with them so even though this is a fast drying solvent ink alcohol inks are for glossy surfaces metal glass plastic all sorts of things that's the thanks Mario non-porous surfaces that's their specialty so sometimes the fast drying thing people get confused and they think oh I got to put the cap on really quick not really that little bead of ink will stay there the whole time okay so you can leave them open and then cap them when you're done then I'm going to work with some isopropyl alcohol this is 91 alcohol or higher you could use blending solution for this but you'll see that I'm going to flood this with a lot and blending solution contains resin and it's great for a lot of Blends but for this I find that it makes it too sticky so I prefer isopropyl alcohol for this technique so I'm just going to start by creating however many colors I have I'm going to create that many drops of isopropyl base for the colors so I'll start with a little drip of isopropyl and then we'll do a drop of pink and then I'll do more isopropyl and a drop of red and I don't care if they touch I don't care if it's more than a drop you know I just want the ink to sit in the isopropyl and not just directly on the paper to start and just dripping we can always add more it just really depends so I'm just kind of speeding up the process here it's kind of hard to my my phone is in my eye line but I got it little drip little drip a little drip little drip so it looks like I'm not even going to get to the end of this paper but who cares and if you get little splashes don't matter you're going to see this is going to go through a lot of ugly before it's good okay there's my isopropyl next I'm going to take a blower and I'm just going to start moving this ink around and I'm going to try to kind of keep it somewhat contained in its lines meaning I'm not not doing that to where you hear it I'm not taking blood pressure I'm just using the blower and changing the angle to actually blow so it's almost like little soft little Puffs and you'll see that if you move that at the same time you can you'll have a little bit more control of Direction Let's just say okay and don't freak your freak at this point really don't don't panic as where the color is going or how much color I don't have enough pink like it doesn't really matter now that's just an easy blend so to me that's just easy and some people you can do that and you're totally fine with that that's okay the other thing to note though is the isopropyl it works a little different depending on your climate as well if you live in a high humid area we live in Arizona so it's there's not a lot of humidity but if you have a lot of humidity sometimes your inks will sweat around the edge that's perfectly normal for that type of area it'll create a different texture or pattern but it's going to be okay so don't worry about how it how it sits or Goes On The Edge but this is essentially where I start and this is not where I ultimately want to end up I don't really like it so what I do is just decide what I want to change or what I want more of so first off I know I want some more pink so I'm going to put some pink down there just pink in that area because alcohol ink replaces itself so you can see that that pink just kind of pushed that red out of the way I just wanted to introduce that first okay now I'm just doing little tiny Puffs just to kind of break down I'll just say the the flow of it meaning it's not totally dry but it's also not I don't see the inks moving anymore do you see the inks moving no and I would pick this up but then you know water tension and that's why I do the water as well because if you don't and use the blower your paper kind of blows around so now it's just about having fun with isopropyl this is about literally just putting drops of isopropyl all the way down what you just did and now you're going to go in and just do the same thing this one is a little bit more pressure not too much not creating spin art but now we can take that color and just get a little bit more movement a little bit more play anytime I want to see more color I can add more color I can add a couple of drops of isopropyl and bring in that color so in that case you saw I wanted a little bit more turquoise and there it is I like how my purples even though I used one you see how the isopropyl kind of gave it a different shade because that mixed with the blue that I had next to it this one's a little bit cleaner any little bit of movement just isopropyl at a time and just using that blower to move is what's going to create that playfulness and you can do this as many times as you want I love adding like wherever I want that color to go is where I'll put the isopropyl that's just going to give it a little bit more movement and that's what's really really cool I think that that creates the effect and yeah I just saw Taylor said water is a cool trick it is it's the most important thing because otherwise you're chasing your paper the whole time because you're using that blower and then it's blowing the paper around so even if I'm just stamping with the alcohol ink tool I'll often go in now down here I think they have like quite a bit of color I'm just going to try to move this not necessarily off but I will move a little bit off the edge but just kind of create just more of a of a bloom if you will put some more pink in there you can add more so you can see that by doing this the whole point of this demo is to remind you that alcohol ink is not a one-time Wonder it's about as long as you just keep things moving and going you can always go back and change it out you really can and you can change it to the point of you liking it so at this point I'm adding color back in because I want to add some color but I'm going to go back and blend it again so I'll add some purple here but it's not creating these giant like explosions okay it isn't so then I can go back and I'll add kind of drips all the way down the center and you see that that's just going to allow a little bit more movement of that ink or that color and you can create smaller drips so I just to me I find it incredibly this is the kind of coloring that I can kind of zone out on because I like the fact that it each time I do it it's going to like you're only as good as your next layer on this one so if you hate it you just need to keep working with it if you want to you know change some of the lines isopropyl is just gonna it's gonna break down those lines so we're actually kind of filling that paper pretty well and you just get that softness if I want to get a little softness along that edge I'll just put ISO right along there and you'll see that it's this the blow the blower is really easy to use if you just remember like just those kind of slow steady little Puffs actually like that soft Edge so I'm just going to go along that whole thing and soften that edge as well because as it dries it will create just more of a see a little wispiness right there I like that totally different than the other one but see how it's just it makes for a super cool organic background especially for something that you want to stamp over the top of or die cut or any of that now once you're happy with it I tend to just go in with the the blower and just make sure that I don't have any puddles but I'm going to kind of let this thing do its thing if you will let it air dry is going to give you the best the best option but I want to hold it up to the camera so I'm just going to lift it up just so you can see the great depth that these inks do so you can see down here it's still a little wet I'm going to let it do its thing but see I'm getting these ripples on the edge I'm getting these cool little Stone like looks so by putting that isopropyl and you could keep going if there's anything about a background that you don't like just add some more alcohol and just go in and move it around to me the blower gives me a little bit more fluid movement than stamping it but it's a beautiful background and each one will be different this is just one that I just kept working even more so this was this was probably doing this maybe two or three more times uh filling it and I loved it so it there's no way that I mean it's it is the one medium that you can't screw up and I know that that that's a hard thing to wrap your head around because you just think oh no you know I'm gonna just get there I'm gonna hate it even if you hate something so like I'm gonna go back into this just to prove my point um even if you hate something about it you can still go back and change it again so like right there I didn't like how concentrated that pink and red so I just opened it up and to me it just made it lighter if you want something off the edge you can use the blower to like edit you know you can push some of that color off but it's only going to be beneficial on the edges if you get there so like on this purple although I do like the intensity of it I'm still just going to take that and just help feather that off so even those little drops so you can just get right in there with that blower tool and just break up the party pretty fascinating actually yeah it's a lot of fun but I just wanted to share that simple demo because it makes for a great background especially for this because this could be embossed in white you could do lifting there's a million things you can do but I think sometimes people are very intimidated with alcohol ink because you think like you know maybe you're just not even good at Watercolor and you're like oh blending well watercolor you kind of get what you get and you don't throw a fit that's how this is drying which I love I told you it's going to create a beautiful wispiness that's watercolor it does it alcohol ink because it can replace itself and you can add to it it's totally different but having isopropyl is what's allowing me to keep adding if you did all that with blending solution this thing would be like a fruit roll-up it would be so sticky because blending solution is for blending it has a resin but it's not for it's not for flowing the color that's where ISO comes in the downside to isopropyl is that it it does dilute the color so you can see that's why we're kind of getting that fade but I'm I'm here for that I I like the idea so that's it I mean that's that's kind of the cool thing to to just work with with your products different I absolutely love it it's really fun um one last thing I'm just going to share and then we'll wrap this up it's not really a demo it's just an idea just to show you a cool way to use a stencil so I'm going to set this down I'm just going to put you can clean your craft sheet I I don't have my hands on normally I would clean with hand sanitizer uh it's the easiest way to clean alcohol ink because it stays wet longer but isopropyl also takes it off it's this one remember when I blew all that pink off the edge clean that off and then I just use glass cleaner so um so these will cap up later doesn't matter but I just wanted to show you something really cool with a stencil let me take this I think I'm going to actually trim this up Mario I'm gonna just got my trimmer off camera so I did this one oh I don't know literally how many minutes three minutes three minutes before live because that's how I like to work yeah yeah as soon as you said you have like six minutes I'm like oh I can do this I can do that okay and it was really about showing how to use these stencils so I I absolutely love this Brush Mark stencil but when I showed you the swatches of the stencil and I don't even know where those are now they're here this was just done with distress ink through the stencil so all I did was put a Post-It note down took my blending brush and just went in with pinks and I didn't clean the brush in between so when I'm inking this I just work with a set of brushes I have red orange yellow green blue purple that goes there and brown you get the idea so I wipe off the brush and I go from light to dark on on all the colors so I was going to ask about your circles oh I just use Sharpies to mark my to Mark the rings of that if you wonder how how I know what that is when I open these I just take a sharpie and draw around that then I know the color and it will wear off eventually that's why they kind of keep them handy but it's a good reference so you know what what brushes what brushes it does it lasts that's really good so I just go in and again I would mask that off of my stencil Post-It note take the brush start in pink dip and pick raspberry go here dip in barn door go here dip in Lumberjack plaid okay then I just move this down dip in you know orange whatever spice marmalade Rusty hinge so you get the idea you can make whatever palette you want this was easier because I just kind of kept it to row once it's done wipe off your stencil but if you want it to go from an Inky brush stroke to what actually looks like paint the easiest way to do that in my opinion is translucent texture paste okay so this stuff is kind of like Mayo it's like mayonnaise okay it's not like regular texture paste it's not a fluffy marshmallow it's more like mayo or yogurt but what's cool about this stuff is it's translucent and it creates a gloss finish so after I've Inked it and I've cleaned off the stencil you just take your stencil you place it right back over your Inked areas so it's lined up you take texture paste you take a palette knife and this one's already done so I won't do it but I can I can do this one I probably shouldn't but I will because I don't even have any tape but I'm here to show you I would normally tape this down or I'd use oh I have a piece of media grip I'm set I got it gonna say I need something to stick it down there we go have my media grip handy oh no not if I have media grip I don't need tape okay so I got media grip so now that's going to hold my paper and that's also going to hold my stencil right because it's just going to grip right there so you could still tape it if you wanted to but this is going to be this is going to work for me so you're going to just take a palette knife you're going to take some gloss paste the idea here is you want to create like brush stroke okay so yeah I'm not a fan of mayo but oh yeah but I love yogurt so yogurt works for me um so you're just going to take this and you're just going to start spreading this through but and I'll show you I'll try to hold this up uh instead of like creating almost a squeegee effect texture paste is texture so I'm going in different directions so I can leave that striation of color or Texture in the color is what I'm trying to say meaning I want to see lines I want to see different build or different layers of the paste and that's what I love about this viscosity it's weird to work with that first if you're used to working with like fluffy pastes fluffy so I'm just going right down and you'll see where that is because it goes on wet you don't need enough it should still look translucent to you but change your direction I think having a smaller palette knife is is much easier for this because you can see that I'm I'm able to go in directions and kind of create a Dismount a different surface tension when I'm spreading this around there we go excellent that's what's there cap this up this will rinse off your stencil so you're just going to clean your stencil with water while it's wet so I'll pick this up it's all about the Dismount I'll put it in my where is that little tray ah perfect so off camera just so you know how I clean stencils I just throw them in a little container of water that's it I don't even wipe it off because the water will dissolve all that medium and then all you have to do is take it out and dry it off you might need to wipe it a little bit but you don't have to scrub your stencils because that's not that's not a good deal so this is what it looks like when you first apply it so you can see what I mean about the texture that you want to give it if you're going for brush marks right let this dry this is probably going to take at least 30 minutes or so to dry it takes a little bit longer I don't like to speed it up because it creates these little weird wrinkles if you have excess and you don't want it you can wipe it off think of this as like dimensional textured like glossy accents because when it dries it will it will settle a little bit it won't be as as heavy as this but you still get all that texture so you see how it's not as it's not as raised as it is right now because it does settle as it dries but you still get all of those great brush marks and what I love about this is that it really does look like you went in with a different type of paint on there and now this because it's already done with uh with the paste this will resist as well so I if I ink over this with Brown These colors will stay true because they're sealed in texture paste so could you do this with clear embossing powder yes could you do this with resist spray yes there's a many ways that you can create or resist but in order to create that brush texture that's why I wanted to show the idea with texture of paste so there you have

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Published: Sat Apr 15 2023