Hi Stampers! Jackie Bolhuis here with a stamping
made simple card. This is kind of a new video series I'm starting. I'm going to
try to at least once a week share a video that I'm calling stamping
made simple; it's all about making quick and easy cards so I'm gonna go ahead and
flip the camera around so you can see what I have to share with you today this
is the card that I want to share with you today
it's monochromatic so you can actually make it in any color but I've chosen to
make three of them all basically the same using some of the new in colors
We've got blueberry bushel, lovely lipstick
, and call me clover. I think I
have those right it's I'm having a hard time remembering all these new colors
but we're using the Accented blooms which is my featured set this month for
my stamps in the mail so make sure that you have subscribed to my YouTube Channel and also
to my newsletter so that you get all of those details about my stamps in the
mail program where when you make a purchase you can get a free card kit
along with an online class but that's not what today is about. It's all about
showing you this card and what I'm calling stamping made simple so let's
just go ahead and get started. I have a piece of three and a quarter square
shimmery white cardstock now I'm using the shimmery white because I'm gonna use
a blender pen that you'll see in a second and the whisper white just
doesn't do real good when you use anything with moisture so I like the
shimmery white for that and we're gonna use the blueberry bushel ink pad like
you saw this was one of the brand new style pads so it opens a little
different than we're used to but I'm getting used to it
and we're gonna just ink up our stamp. Since that's a pretty big stamp I like
to ink upside down to make sure that I have it inked really good
and then we'll flip that over cause a little booboo on the other side and then
we'll just try to Center this in here the best that I can. Give it some good
pressure and there's our image. Now the key here is to go right away with your
blender pen I don't want to let this sit for very long and I'm going to actually
just smear this ink around that I just stamped. I'm not
using any additional ink and I'm doing the leaves first because I wanted those
to be more solid and then I'm gonna come on here in the flowers and I'm going to
just do the center and then come out from the center to get a little color in
there. There's really no no magic here as long as you do it quick enough
you'll have enough ink there that'll spread around like this. But that's
the key -don't don't let it dry before you start coloring. Then up here in these
I'm gonna kind of go around in a circle a little bit and that's it! That is all
the coloring I'm gonna do. If you're not familiar with the blender pen it's
essentially a clear marker. Once I've used it I'll scribble on my scrap paper
to make sure I have that blue off of it and now it's good to go and use on any
color so there's other ways to use it as well but I like it for just moving
the color around. There's the blueberry one and you can see how I
did the exact same thing here with the Call Me Clover and the Lovely
lipstick. So to finish off our card I use the solid image here for either thank
you or for hello like I said these are in the accented blooms and with this I
use my stamparatus. I tell you I'm pretty addicted to stamping with the
stamparatus especially when I have a really bold image like this that I want
to make sure I have super crisp and a really good image
Stamperatus makes it perfect! Now I just have a scrap of whisper white here
so what I like to do is just stick my scrap in there set my stamp down where I
want it I just kind of want it over on the edge here because I'm going to punch
it out close the plate to pick it up and now we're ready to ink it so we'll just
use our pad, ink this up good and then we can just flip it closed and give it some
good pressure. Now remember, the advantage of using the stamparatus is
if it doesn't stamp really good (which it stamped great) I could go ahead and I
could just make sure it's up and there in the corner and I could restamp it but
it doesn't look like I need to so we'll go ahead and take that and punch it out
with the Taylor tag punch. This punch I think is gonna be a
standard in my collection I'm gonna use it a lot. To finish off the card
I just use some of the brand new designer series paper. This is actually
available in all of the color groups, the in-colors as well as our normal color
groups. There are two different sheets and they're double-sided so two sides have
stripes and two sides have polka dots. Isn't that fabulous? I can't wait to get
my hands on all of the colors and then you'll notice the card is square. This is
actually 4 1/4 by 4 1/4. Now I love square cards but
when you get bigger than a normal four and a quarter inch width you're gonna
end up paying additional postage but by making it 4 1/4 square it'll
still fit in the regular envelope, you know it just doesn't fill it completely,
but that's okay! And you pay regular postage on it so I
like to do this size a lot it's just kind of a fun size! My designer series
paper is 4 inches by 4 inches and then I put a little layer of black pop that up
with dimensionals and there's our stamping made simple card for today. What
do you think was that simple enough? I hope you enjoyed these cards and
remember since this monochromatic you could make it in any color!! Part of me
with all these beautiful new colors wants to just make, you know, like 48 of
these one in every color because they show the colors off so well. Anyhow, come
back again for another stamping made simple video. Like I said I'm gonna try
to do a video like this every week to show you how simple stamping truly is
and make some quick and easy cards . Quick and easy doesn't mean it's boring so
make sure you subscribe to my youtube channel and also hop on over to my blog
I'll have pictures of these cards along with the list of all of the supplies and
dimensions that you need. Make sure you subscribe to the blog and my newsletter
as well because I send out lots of stamping ideas and inspiration and it's
all geared around making something simple. If you have any questions make
sure to get a hold of me. I'd love to help you, I'd love to answer questions
and if you're looking for a Stampin Up demonstrator I would be honored to be
that person. If you need a catalog I'll send you one and help you in any way I can so
until I come back on camera here, have a stamp happy day!
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