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hello everyone your response to our first video the seven secrets of successful stamping was just
incredible truly beyond our expectations so i decided it was time to make another video
one that would focus on ways to make your stamping skills go beyond the seven secrets
and into the realm of the amazingly easy and artistic techniques which will add more beauty
and style than you can imagine in this video we're going to demonstrate 20 terrific stamping
techniques which will focus on four distinct areas of artistic expression the first area is
what i call breakthrough backgrounds these backgrounds will set the stage or the mood
for your composition next we'll learn about creating fantastic backgrounds using a simple
technique called a brayer then we'll really add pizzazz with sparkle shine glimmer and glitz one
of my favorite parts you won't believe how stunning and glamorous a job you can do with these
and finally we'll wrap up our program with a stunning array of awesome applications a potpourri
of tantalizing provoking ideas for you to put to use right away now you know this program will
catapult you onto the cutting edge of rubber stamping the concepts and expressions we use
here will delight everyone you know now if you are a beginner you might want to watch the seven
secrets of successful stamping it's my first program it covers all the basics it gets you
started in this wonderful artistic venture 20 terrific techniques shows artistic methods
that anyone can do but you might find the basic practice helpful from seven secrets
for all of you veteran rubber stampers are you ready for fabulous stamping that goes beyond
anything you've imagined let's go i can't think of a better way to kick off our presentation
than to show you a multitude of ways to create amazing breakthrough backgrounds the variations
on the theme here are just endless and we're starting with a simple dot background and you
won't believe it i'm taking the dot stamp and using it with a brush art marker
these brush art markers as you recall are my workhorse when i use solid patterns i'm starting
with the yellow and stamping it down the dot background then without cleaning it i'm going
to a darker color this time 43 yellow just at random now on to orange number seven
all the time i'm building up a visual mixture of dots
so
now on to a wonderful lavender
i keep this up until i'm really satisfied on how many dots that i've built up now i want to
take you back just a step this stamp was designed solely for snow to be used with a clear embossing
pad and white embossing ink now let me show you that effect if you have a dark composition that
has been sponged out strongly then look at the dot pattern as snow over the top
back to our look of plain dots for ease i've pre-stamped some of these dot patterns here's
a combination of browns a combination of greens combination of pinks this is where we have kept
it more monochromatic and then going finally with a combination of green and pinks this is where we
have a combination of pinks now when i take an applique design which i've done on sticker paper
over the top of this my composition changes and has a center of interest that looks extremely dramatic
over here i've added an invitation for a happy anniversary party and over here i've added a thank
you with a whole basket of fruit an added element that softens all of these dot patterns
is when you take a simple sponge you know my absolute passion for sponging backgrounds that
as i showed in the seven secrets i'm now going to pens that are almost ready to be thrown away
these are almost ready for the trash brush art markers they have very little ink left in them
and it allows me to use them directly on the back of the sponge and sponge in this background
now remember this is going to soften the look i'm going to take a little peach with a marker
stamp it out and maybe put some peach in the background here then vary the color maybe a yellow
with 43 and build up now i don't want to take any more time building this up i want to show
you what a finished one looks softened with sponging so we take this image and add a design
element over it with our new hydrangea stamp in the tote and we have a finished composition
that is unbelievable now you're going to see examples of pre-spongy with just dot backgrounds
then you're going to see the soften dot backgrounds
with an applique design over it and i think that you will be quite impressed
so
you can also use other stamps as backgrounds for instance i'm going to show you how to do
several types of backgrounds with creative stamps this first one is called a creative cluster
it almost looks like a blotch it's very very artistic and what we do with the creative cluster
is to create various types of seams by repeating the cluster i get a trellis as on this card
also i can do bush work with it with this bunny scene i've taken the cluster
and created bushes i've done the bushes on sticker paper and overlap them in the scene
i've also taken the cluster to make tree designed with a small background of trees
one of my favorite background stamps is the background brush stroke it is a series or just
a brush stroke actually i can take any color on the back and i'm going to take a blank piece of
paper angle the stamp and just do it in a checkerboard pattern real quickly
no stamp positioner is necessary this is the fastest and easiest thing to do now when i
complete this scene i'm going to go in the other direction with another
color of the brush stroke i'm going to stop right there there's just so much to show you
clean my stamp off and let's get a varying background this time i'm going to take number
nine pink simply turn the card and follow up with a crisscross look
you can see what's happening here now to complete an entire composition and one use is i thought it
would be fun to show you flooring using this crosshatch pattern i put a piece of tracing paper
that i use with the stamp positioner right along here and made only a floor area after completing
that i went in with a secondary color remove my paper so i have a floor now with the cut up
appliques of sticker paper i'm going to take our traveling trunk crack and peel it off and put it
right over the floor like that take the floral basket put it right on top of the card and then
put it right on top of the trunk see how fun and easy this is and let's take our new cat
peel it off and just put that in the front so here we have almost a completed composition
showing the floor with a brush stroke
you know another technique that is very attractive is called wallpaper stripes
i love collecting pens as a lot of us do in the stamp industry here i'm going to be using
the micron pigment pens for a very fine look for wallpaper i go to my favorite zig calligraphy pens
for a wider look when i take a zig calligraphy pen i get a very thick line with a ruler across
that gives a very very heavy look when i go to the zig clean color pens that have a double applicator
i can go with a finer look like this and then i can even turn the pen around for a very very fine
look now i easily can repeat this pattern going back to my thick calligraphy pen
and just continue that's need to get the thick side and just repeat the pattern i did such a
pattern in preparation that was a thick a thin a thick and a thin again this is such a sensational
background now creating the foreground for this background what i'm doing is going to start with
with one of our brand new stamps which is the french wire basket sew in i'm going to take the
wire basket and just go around the outside of the basket only that area and stamp it on a card
i've already done that this gives me my outline now i go to my favorite thing in the whole wide
world of stamp flowers and like we showed on the basic video i am doing multi-coloring with
brush art markers take a green right here and color it and i have the outline of my basket
so i know exactly where to stamp the stamp now by breathing on this you know the trick
i can get a second image i can change the color of that design this is a little bit of repeat
that you advance stampers already know but i can get a variation let's do even a
deeper color turquoise for that look right here so we continue to fill the basket
it now the final step after we finish the basket and of course added
filler never do a floral without some floral filler filled in here
then with a stamp positioner we merely get the basket stamp in place
and stamp over the image getting our basket voila that's the way to do it have it all prepared
ahead now in this case i will take scissors and simply cut out around in a general cut
don't worry you know i have a background of doing nothing but cutting and pasting
but you don't have to take a lot of time to get this look we're cutting it out very quickly
and we have our completed look we take our wallpaper background and there
we have a finished composition that has such a quality of design that to me it's absolutely
amazing now it does not have to be that detailed we can take these calligraphy pens such as i've
done here and then brush a brush look across the top and the bottom thinner lines and then
taken another type of an arrangement and set it in a different way but are you beginning to see
the fun you have with these backgrounds you're going to even see more
more
your response to our backgrounds has been overwhelming we've designed more and i want to
show you how we combine and put these together because they're useful with the stamps you might
already have in your collection taking this large visual here with several designs on it and i want
to point out a few things here we've designed river rocks they give you a look of depth in
going back into the background of your scene again you see dots you see the edge of floral
filler to create blossoms on a tree now here's a trick we've taken the tree frame and we've taken
the top of the brand new hydrangeas stamp inked only it to make a full green tree
southwestern again one of our favorites a new southwestern interactive we can take
and build on this scene it's made to interlock with each stamp so it can go in the foreground
in the background this is the new posh path that goes into the background you can see it here with
a western another trick this is the posh evergreen on the tree frame to make a joshua tree
the posh path is used with the beach scene and here we have the new forget me not as blossoms on
a tree with an overlapping background i mean can you see the fun we have unlimited backgrounds
and there's even more for example there are advanced sponging techniques that i want to share
with you you saw the introductory in the last tape now a new trick i do with sponging is to
streak the sponge or blot it very lightly here i've put a post-it note over the center of the card
taken a soft sponge gone around the soft sponge lifted it off and i get a very pronounced area
for my center of interest which is happy birthday now to streak we take the same post-it note
grab it here to give you an idea cover up this and we absolutely pull the sponge i have to show
you this because it's unbelievable i have a stamp here and of course some of our newest stamps are
such fun to show we have a fiesta and a sombrero we're going to take a post-it note
and make sure we cover up that whole area that we've stamped in the center
now again using powerful markers this time not our used up markers this is number 43
i'm just going to go around and just pull i mean what could be easier i want to keep going
you just need to see these results around here
just do it with a flare
don't have to be careful as you notice
okay now we're going to build up with a color let's go orange that goes with that
where's my orange sponge sponge right here we'll just go with 59 sponge now this gives it more
depth on the top not enough depth though we're going to go much stronger in just a second
let's immediately go to number nine it's a stronger color
now look what's happening
so
we have to get a power color to finish everything off so i'm going to go to
number 31 that will be a lot more powerful on here for the biggest accent
i'm going to switch to 20 i always change my mind halfway through but you can always do that if a
color isn't looking exactly the right shade just switch like i did to number 20
okay you ready for the finale
okay upside down but there we go we have a real power background for this fiesta
as you can see i've done it around a card with party the thank you and you'll see even more
the next method i know i say a lot of things are my favorite but this truly is
you ink up a stamp this is called a stamp on a stamp you take a creative stamp now
i'm looking for this cluster stamp since it is one of my favorites i'm going to get a variation
of maybe a little light brown and dark brown brown now remember i've already stamped this
and now i'm going to put a pattern on a pattern i'm going to go with much much darker here and
we'll get a look now when i turn over this stamp and stamp it breathing on it look at our decorative
base that began plain but now has a decoration you're not going to believe all the variations
on this theme i took the posh ming there's the hydrangea i put the daisy over this one
the swish over this the freeform flower over this the ginkgo over that have you ever seen anything
like that it's all such fun
we've taken a good look at breakthrough backgrounds and now i want to show you how
wonderfully easy it is to make spectacular backgrounds with the help of a brayer
a brayer is a type of a roller stamp that will allow you to create
infinite variations for your background themes in fact we're going to look at several of those
i call them stripes wiggles zigzags and plaids okay stripes i take my roller put it on its back
and i'm just going to spin the roller around as i put on color i mean what could be easier than
this let's do two stripes i have pre done a few colors on this roller now i take the roller and
just roll across the card oh my gosh oh my gosh i love this look at this how can you get a background
faster than this now by your repetitions you get it fuller and fuller and fuller and if you want
it deeper you go more to the left so your darker stripes show but you have a background that is
unbelievable that's just stripes
okay to clean off that stamp i'm taking a lot of windex or watered down windex on a handy wipe
and getting all of the color out of that brayer as you can see it all comes out and then wiping
it dry with a cloth okay now let's explore wiggles okay i call wiggles let's just go zigzag
as i said nothing could be easier wiggle just i mean scribbles doodles great for kids no we
have more fun all right now let's get another accent color going deeper okay let's see what
this is going to look like no two ever look alike that's why it's always fun okay another
card here we go with wiggles oh my gosh this is great
so
now i want to show you a zigzag i discovered this zigzag because i wanted a herringbone pattern
let's go back to our first roller all i do is stripe along here this way with stripes
at an angle get it better that way and i go back the other way let's get a deep color let me see if
i am better at twisting this around got to get the right angle
well this will be sloppy but then you'll see that even sloppy looks okay
looks okay all right now let's go with zigzag stripes oh see the herringbone pattern take place
so
i'm going to do a plaid and the plaid is one of the most fun simple ways we're going to go with
stripes again just by turning it around let's go different colors gosh i hardly ever use brown
but let's do it in this case let's use gray get a very subtle background that'll be very unlike me
and now we'll take a card and go over now you might think that's pretty dull and boring but by
the repetition we get this now we absolutely turn it the opposite way and go across there
so we're getting a kind of a plaid if you want to rejuvenate you don't even have to clean off your
color just go back on because that other color is so used up it doesn't even matter let's get some
black in here for accent and now we'll just go over a portion and you can get a further plaid
unbelievable again these set the stage all right for fun let's take a cutout
take a cutout are clearly a jar stamp and see how fun it is to add it on top of one of these
i think this is the one it should go on but you see by getting a few illustrations and cutouts
ahead you're really in business and when you get out the sprayer you make up dozens of backgrounds
you cannot stop doing backgrounds it's such fun but that's just the beginning
i want you to guess what else we're going to be up to
uh in my experimentation of this i began by taking a simple stamp inking it up i call these my background
stamps
okay we've got a background of trees now this was just an experiment i was so
jazzed when i got this result okay take a clean brayer
nearly go over the stamp easier go over it again maybe get it in another position now are you ready
this is just to me this is absolutely incredible okay let's in the foreground use the larger tree
oh this is just too much fun let me get it gray let me get it great this time
and let's take a new brayer let's be extravagant i have like about a dozen of these
and go over with a larger one yes foreground
all right now for fun now our creative juices are flowing i want kind of a horizon line i'm
going to go back to our method of drawing directly on the mark of the brayer with a marby
going to vary these mountains a little bit i mean that's what i'm going for who knows
i hope they look like mountains and let's just go over here to put oh my gosh we have ground
oh fabulous oh fabulous look and then oh in the front the foreground let's
maybe add some river rocks why not now that we're really into this
to complement my gray i think i'll do a brown in the foreground and again we can go over this same
brayer that has run out of ink without cleaning it and now we have rocks in the foreground
again we have set the stage for a fabulous scene now what i want to show you
is how i began and had fun doing scenes in this case i put water in the foreground i put the
hydrangea stamp that is the flower stamp as trees in the foreground or in the background foreground
here i did sand all the way along and that was fun to do with again the brayer with the background
that i just showed you here is a wonderful winter scene just in greens oh to take the
tall tree and to do this with trees i don't think anything is more elegant
and by leaving this open it looks like snow on the ground what could be easier
all right now here's what i want to show you in its completed state i did a scene very similar
to the one that i showed you but i wanted a jungle look in front so i reversed the fern
and the tropical leaf now on a piece of cut out sticker paper i stamped these elements snakes
butterflies a snail and thinking of you and i put them together and we have an entire scene
with the background of brayer and the applique of the sticker in front now let's do that again one
of our new stamps is the bamboo i just went wild with bamboo and the dot accent which you now know
how to use i sponge lightly from the sides to bring it all together which really helps and then
to complete that i put on toucan and the parrot with happy birthday to you what could be simpler
or more fun
i call it a sponge brayer now this gives you a far more artistic side or more of a
watercolor look all right i'm going to get this a little wet it seems to help it when you put your
brush art marker on the sponge it's going to act differently i'm again putting just stripes let's
get some other colors here and i'm just going to go over this with colors i am going to pull
instead of a glossy paper this is a matte coat paper it works with water easier and look at
this look it's like watercolor i go back and forth and if i even want it wilder what i do is
get a lot of water or windex and almost clean my brayer off this sponge brayer now it has water
on it and then i get even more of a look let's keep it on more of a wet look in fact i want more
wet so i'm going to shoot it right on the brayer i had more fun experimenting with this look and
i want to show you some of the results that we came up with very soft look we've done
a look with other colors a heavier look i put on drops drip drops and then did the sponge
brayer over that here's another heavier water look and with one here i thought it would really
be fun to put an applique over it i did different a different color scheme here cut out my applique
and in this case i put this right over the top and you see the lovely watercolor background
other illustrations that i've done of this have been with our new blossom branch to give an
oriental look and i'll be getting to the technique of how i used an open image with a brayer in just
a minute this is a lead-in to that if you take your inks and go very strong and do stripes
right next to each other you get a background look like this with these dots just little
it's a different look than the brayer entirely so we have done several background illustrations
with that look so my suggestion is experiment try all types of brairs from the sponge to the soft
rubber brayer and you will be amazed at your looks brairs are just fabulous now wait until you see
how easy they are to work with with a stamp pad now this isn't just any pad this is apricot data's
rainbow pad hand dyed with colors like you wouldn't believe you make sure your roller is the size of
their jumbo pad you go along this happens to be a carnival coloring in a rainbow pad i save a brayer
it sounds like i'm revving up i save a brayer that stays dirty because this ink is a lot stronger
now look at this this is phenomenal excuse my excitement every time i do this i just cannot
believe the result now i didn't have enough over there so i turn this card upside down
and i keep doing this i overlap that color and this is my look
i have a tool that has come out of the stationary industry it's a white correction pen and you
normally think secretaries not so this is not your average correction pen it's a ballpoint
correction pen and it's made by sailor so you want to specify in an art or a stationary store
near you to get this specific pen it writes white opaque ink you can write with it do you know how
exciting this is on dark stationary to write a name
i mean above that i take a ruler now you can probably see the direction in which this is going
i can get accents i can get lines across here for a background
now it would have been smart of me to take this ruler and put it on the other side so i wouldn't
get any carryover but i am making stripes and oh let's go this way oh each one can be so different
i want to take that look of this card back and maybe put this on i like that look better
so my white pen i use as an accent in this case now as an accent i might just add dots
here i've taken the hibiscus and gone over i've used the dark tapestry background with a roller
and done dots around as an accent here i've taken the heart and then loops all the way around and
dots a fabulous way to do it then i've gone on beyond that with the fiesta stamp and added dots
here and you can see the background was the pad and then i added even more marvy stripes are we
getting creative or what here just snow what could be easier than just dots but again these
white show drama now instead of just dots all i'm doing is a cross pattern here to make a snowflake
such as i've done with this santifacts and then here again riding all the way around and i have
used a black pad here with a brayer to get my background okay now we're talking stripes
here's my background and nothing but stripes and stripes and stripes we're wild on stripes
now here's what the composition looks like over those stripes and this is just the beginning i
know i say that a lot but you're going to now see a lot of examples showing
the lines underneath with fabulous appliqued stamp art on top
so
sticker paper can be purchased in a bulk pack this is crack and peel sticker paper
you can get from paper houses it all cracks off and so you can use it as a
a whole sheet in whatever way you want okay i'm going to quickly clean off this brayer
and go over another pad real quickly because i am really eager to show you this look
let's get the jumbo primary no we did jumbo primary let's go tapestry because i want you to see
a whole different array okay we're revving it up now we've got a big stage to work with
back and forth on this sticker paper
now i'm not even minding the way this overlaps because i can just keep getting it
deeper and deeper but having a fabulous color scheme here
now all you do is to take an open stamp such as this fishbowl
that's a stamp that is not solid and stamp it right over the surface then you have now a fishbowl
that is a designer fishbowl that has been done with a fabulous background now here i've taken
now here i've taken our romance pad one of my favorites and stamped the bottom of the jar
on the romance pad and here's my completed composition do you see what i'm getting at
how easy and the fact that you can take now an open image with a great background and fill it
in rather than having it open and white it couldn't be easier and that's not all you go on with your
doodles with your brush art marker i took a head in preparation and did stripes all over and just
went two types of stripes and i did nothing but fishbowl stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp
and what i got was the basis of this composition with this fishbowl and then added
the geranium stamp on top and of course you know what's in the background
wallpaper stripes and we have a finished composition these can be safe for rainy days
so you're doing all of this ahead and then you have fabulous fabulous background backgrounds to
use with your open images you can hardly see the definition here but here we have clearly wrapped
and we have as well the open tote image and what we've gotten here is a composition using
what we got out of the sticker paper so have fun doing all of these doodles on the backs
of your large pieces of paper and you will be off and running i guarantee
you're going to have a lot to do on a rainy day
so
one last thing about brairs it's a great look to take a stamp make sure that stamp is very very
clean stamp it in a top boss by clear snap pad i like the way these pads are designed
because you put it over the image such as i'm doing right here go over the entire image and
stamp it on a piece of paper that is a matte coat finish you stamp it i've done this ahead
because i want to vividly show you what we're going to do here now you take your brayer
one step before you take your brayer you emboss this example so i have put white embossing powder
over the top and heated it and gotten a raised look you won't be able to tell from the camera
very well that there are leaves that i've stamped here on top of this matte finish
now i'm taking my brayer revving it up and going along this background do you see this magically
appear this is what i mean
just have to have the finale of our brayer section a dramatic one and we have
the wonderful look of white leaves on a dark background one last one water let's get our blue
lagoon pad all revved up now i stamped previously and embossed the new wave stamp and here we have
a bottom of the ocean book unbelievable and then for a finale we take the large fish
that are done out of sticker paper and nearly put them on our composition for a finished look
boy what fun we have with brairs
oh boy sparkle shine glimmer and glitz the name of this section says it all
just wait until you see the pizzazz that you can create here i'll be showing you how to use a new
brand new heating element that is a quiet heating tool i'm going to start with
what i call rainbow embossing rainbow embossing i use with tinselettes tinselettes is an extra
fine quality of glitter in with embossing powder it comes in small containers like this but
oh heavens this is not enough for me when i rainbow emboss a posh image i use much larger
containers i get jars and just put two containers worth in a jar and i'm ready to go i have a whole
display right up here always by my desk if i'm going to emboss so i'll put this aside and we're
going to get started i've pre-stamped in rainbow emboss the ginkgo trio on this black card and i
must say for drama i love black for embossing my favorite pad to use with this is made by color box
and they are created for roller stamps now i take the tape off to make this loose and i like
the japanese do they bring the pad to the stamp and i'm going to do that in this fashion i'm going
to get some gold and some silver that's why i love this dual combo pad and if you want closer
silver and gold together and copper there's another new pad out which is fabulous now i stamp very
hard with all my might lift off and i have an opaque showing now i'm going to go up to
my colors now here's the reason i had these wide mouth jars i just put it down in i've done orange
there i'm going to do red here and blend half red in fact making sure i shake off the powder
over the already covered image now from there let's go a fuchsia or a mauve oh i love the mauve
and i this time i'm just going to cover the whole area up little more needs embossing
powder now i take this new tool that is so quiet and wonderful and heat it up and this will raise
the embossing powder you may be able to notice a slight change there
there
i have to show you how you do a large word stamp
and truly rainbow and moss let's let's go with the various sections here
i take the thank you stamp that is going to have many sections
stamp over it with this wonderful ink and press it down trying to avoid
the leaf stamp i think we can fit it in we'll keep our fingers crossed okay and press real hard
now because this is slow drying ink you have a minute or two to do all your rainbow embossing
here's the thank you let's start with another favorite spellbinder this spellbinder embossing powder
is a heat sensitive powder that is going to turn two or three different shades if you have a little
extra powder you just wipe that off or do it with a brush now from that let's go to my green tinselette
shake it off again in the direction
of which i've already used embossing powder from here i'm going to go to peacock
what peacock from the peacock let's go to royal blue
and that will give me a chance to go to another one of my favorites which is purple
let's just skip right to purple these colors are so intense and rich
you'll know all my secrets to embossing after this
because i'm asked as people look at these compositions just how they're done and i'm
going to finish up with fresh rose it's a lovely shade then we're going to heat it you're going to
see the most drama over the spellbinder i'm going to snap this to get all of the excess off
and move my pads out of the way and start our quiet newly designed heat
can you see the way that that first type of embossing powder is changing
to several different shades and here we have something that is quite unbelievable
other illustrations that i've done with this have been with snowflakes you see from mauve to a
wonderful fantasy sparkler color to peacock to using mounts to raise up this party popper
again i've done a section of of elegant gold elegant silver reds with the party stamped out
with the same fashion and again our accent dots oh for a look that i think is quite remarkable
it's the look of the brush stroke now every time i did the brush stroke i would do it on a different
part of a pad so i would start in the brush stroke maybe with silver by going directly to gold i get
like a pewter then on to a copper and then on to a real rich even darker copper now we can continue
the darker copper up here just for fun i'm going to get the spellbinder again and show you how
heat sensitive this powder is it's quite fabulous
now this will change shades
i'm usually not as extravagant with all that extra powder
now you get quite a variation that was the method in which this was used and of course mounts were
used to elevate the butterflies another with a bamboo used with a silver pad underneath
with the spellbinder embossing powder over the top and here is a fabulous example of
rainbow embossing with a vase the terracotta potta with backgrounds of our small filler
for the flowers and our new partial peony stamp with leaves now you have tools like
embossing pens there's several different types and i'd like to illustrate those right now
if you have something small to do like a name tag and you want it in bright lights you can take the
very fine embossing pen the next pen up is the calligraphy pen now there are precautions for
the calligraphy embossing pen you must go slowly i'm going to fill in just a portion of this
invitation let's put the date as uh march
31st
now over that march 31st i think i want silver to bring out that color i'm going to shake on
the silver mossing powder shake it off and heat it
oh does it ever come to life
people will know the date of that party now my favorite in the pens is more of a thicker writer
i have a card here and i'm going to just write thanks at the top of this card
this gives me a lot more room to design these words i'm starting with elegant gold
that is a gold embossing powder that has holographic glitter in it i just love it
it's like glitter on top of glitter this is elegant silver that has the same and i'm very
careful not to do the whole image because i want to finish with say a gold a straight gold because
straight metallic gold is very legible on words and if you use some of the elegant gold and elegant
silver that has more glitter in it you might want to add that uh the power of that metallic gold
oh this truly comes alive
oh all i can say is wow
another use that i have for these wonderful pads is as a background you know and we have addressed
a lot of backgrounds but i can take a stamp
uh in fact not a stamp i mean i've stamped this previously but i'm going to take a sponge
a clean sponge and dip it right into one of these paths let's go the gold pad
i'm going to go around the outside and sponge
and take another corner and sponge
and another corner i'm just only using the gold so just for fun variation i'll dip into silver
without even cleaning my sponge so i've softened the edges with sponging with a pigment pad
there's another trick before i heat that let me shape my spell binder on it i want to show
let me shape my spell binder on it i want to show you another trick with a stencil
i might want to back up paper because i'm going right to the edge in this case
okay we'll set this aside and we're going to heat that up in just a second
but here i'm going to take a stencil of a cloud
and smooth that right away put this down and get some cloud formations
and i think i'm going to choose gold let's do it even a dark copper and go along this time
stenciling some cloud formations with the pigment ink okay there's one wow
wow now i'm going to go to silver do another
and then a lighter one down here another one over here can't stop can't stop
let's do one more dramatic one up high
okay we're ready to put our spell binder look on top
now for the finale
you'll probably get to love this kind of powder like i do the heat sensitive type that
will give you so many different variations
oh and you have a fabulous clouded sky now here we're just going to have the edge
softened by pigment ink on a sponge
okay i've done that same effect around the fiesta i've done it around the candy jar
i've done it around the jukebox and boy is this sky ready for halloween you even can go on white
with the same effect one other type of powder that i am very very eager to show you is brand
new on the market it it imitates the look of antiquity the powders are called the verdigris
the terracotta and it's a look that is so different to embossing it's a flat matte finish
and you just need to see i almost want to show you on the french wire basket the verdigris
because when you look at these in nature they have a wonderful weathered look
okay we're stamp stamping it with a gold pigment pad pressing hard and getting our new ink
the verdigris over the top
up
fabulous powder
and we're going to emboss it
oh my goodness unbelievable don't forget you can rainbow these colors even if they are the matte
finish for instance we have our terracotta that i'm putting in several colors
and stamping it out
let's even do it on the other side
this just calls for this new terracotta color let's do terracotta over the middle
shake it off toward the middle that frees us to put different effects above and below
let's go to a tinselette like an orange because it blends with a terracotta and down here let's go
with this new matte finish gold oh my gosh
this will lead me right into double embossing
after we heat this we're going to do the trick of double embossing there's a new tool out
that is a brush embossing pen after i've heated this and raised it once
and if i want those shells to come out stronger when this is cooled off
just a second i'm going to go over the shells only
and maybe that line in between
this wet ink will collect the powder let's go to the vertical over the top here shake it off
oh my goodness
goodness
and you see our fabulous look of embossing on embossing so it's a raised on a raised surface
i cannot stop experimentation i want to show you all of the different things that i have done
copper gold silver pearlized experiments on this terracotta potta and that isn't all the
wonderful posh pedestal lends itself to these lovely antique embossing powders
even more examples of how we have used these fabulous fabulous powders
now one other aspect to the embossing is using the fine line pens as a wallpaper background
yet again but this time embossing it so we get more drama than ever
you can just imagine the way that i use the pen with the ruler and emboss but here are the effects
but here are the effects that you get
look at this background how it has double lines and it has been embossed it's another background
now this is a kind of a combination where i've used that broad pen to write
and the fine line to create and break up my background another grid pattern
here is one of my favorites where i have taken the pen and gone over in stripes over the open
vase and then done the multi-color tinselettes this is a pattern where i have done a combination
of the fine line pen and the brush art marker not the brush art barbie marker but the brush art
marker with the embossing powder in it the variations are infinite do you like glimmer
then the art of glitter writing is for you watch this i have searched the world over for the best
type of adhesive and i found it in the art glittering system done by the art institute this is the
for the best type of adhesive and i found it in the art glittering system done by the art institute
this is an unbelievable adhesive that comes out it controls your writing what i'm going to do
is write the word party above this jute box
you see how easy this is to write now first thing i do is to wipe off any excess up here so
that it's ready to go again and it doesn't dry now i go over to the finest presenting all my
glitter trays i have ultra ultra fine glitter and i'm going to rainbow glitter this i take a
spoon with a nice point on it and i vary i shake it off i'm going to go to magenta then from magenta
oh let's go to this fabulous gold and then from the fabulous goal let's finish off with oh a green
i don't think any look compares to this let me give you another
look this is a large name tag let's write ashley
see how free you can be with the writing and it doesn't take good handwriting i know i've
taught first grade before this and i've had lots of practice but it doesn't take a good hand let's
do a different style of rainbow glittering let's do the deep green here all the time i'm thinking
about imitating those other colors so i have blue i'm going to go to blue next from that blue let's
go to a light blue then on to a summer blue summer greenish blue and then i want to finish
up with this dramatic oh my gosh this is just unbelievable this stays dimensional and it raises
up and the glitter will never ever come off i use it as an accent as well if i'm stamping a bulb
then i might take and do a bow
and then shake my embossing colors over that bow on the bulb
with this heart wreath i might just add more hearts
and add glitter to those it's just a wonderful wonderful system
now your presentation of all your glitzy glimmer and glitz pieces is so important and that's where
posh came up and brought vinyls glitzy vinyls to the rubber stamp industry now you can get them in
a lot of places but we've put together packages of the most wonderful sticky back glitz now i will
map illustrations using these glitters
one of them that i did combining the glitter writing with the presentation is with this
illustration another one with the writing is this with a deep blue do you see how this finishes off
a composition here's one that doesn't need finishing off
with all of the color that we have we could add silver or gold to the background
but it stands out so much with the word halloween but here's a presentation with our glitter writing
around the side plus the vinyl in the background what i want to do is give you more of an array
of these combinations of things that we use looking right here i have double lined this
gone over the wreath i've done background strokes with our glitters with a fish look
or a wave look written happy easter here here i've done a matte finish with wiggles and stripes
with this composition even a photograph inside and over here happy halloween
this kind of summarizes how i put all of this look together
now on to a few more presentations stripes letting more of this glitter show here's the bright
silver and the snowflake background one more trick with glitzy vinyl is to take a product
that is called drafting film use it through your regular copier your black and white copier
my best method of utilizing every bit of this film is to take my favorite images put them up
on a piece of paper getting every inch utilized i put this through the drafting film
put it through the copier with this underneath it and this transposes to my drafting film
now i cut up each section
peel off the edge in fact i have one ready to go here let's take the sombrero
peel off the backing and merely put it over your glitzy vinyl now when you cut this out do you see
how your sombrero has these glitzy looks behind it this is too fun let me take
this other application that we just did and put it on another piece
here see how the jar has gone over this and can be cut out applications for this are like this
we even have multicolored vinyls so now we take these and put them into other compositions
here i've taken the open tote and added more embossing to it using the vinyl overlay
these sunflowers i've done a double bit where the inside has been done separately out of one color
vinyl and the outside another color the leaves the same way we might want to turn this right
side up to see it then a finale in this section is where i've taken all of the different dogwood
stamps that are more of a see-through stamp done the glitters around it then the embossed writing
and putting on a very decorative mat it's all such fun but i do have a final touch
it's the last technique that shows glitter and glitz and it's with a new product called the be
jeweler i can add jewels so easily to any of my compositions and i want to give you a quick look
a be jeweler looks just like this it's a small instrument it even has a rest to sit on it's
quite hot it'll just sit right here i put my jewels out and this is the instrument to pick
up a jewel it picks up that easily and i'm putting it right on the area that i want and
it's glued on nothing could be easier not so easy i had this fun a couple of days ago
be jeweling things here we have jewels inside the case in the eyes of the koi
we've done them at random in this background we've added jewels to the center of this flower
we've also added it to this invitation you just know with this fiesta jeweled invitation that
everybody will be there all of these tools and all of this glitter and glitz will keep you
busy for a long time
and now the finale awesome applications you are now going to see a whole array of ways to use
your stamp art to create unbelievable lasting impressions nothing says that stamp art has to
remain on a greeting card i'll show you over a dozen ways to integrate stamp art into fancy
cards gifts decorator items even furniture also clothing and accessories with all of these
fabulous ideas there's no end of what we can do i'm beginning with our posh pocket calendar
nothing says the month of the year than a stamped calendar beginning with january
and february on to our koi in march april may
june i can't stop i have to show you all the months of the year july august september
october november and december with a dot pattern as an accent also album art
you can take your stamps and add them to your albums
you can see the many ways we have done that here besides albums i love to stamp envelopes
posh has designed a whole line of postage stamp borders these truly are a wonderful frame around
the postage stamp you're giving the postman something to look at we have the postman
something to look at we have a cape frame a spring border one for the commemorative stamps
our most popular is the window dressing and what fun to show western with the new western bandana
gift wrap is one of our specialties and with everything changing to be in the recycle look
we're having lots of fun taking packages out of craft paper and doing wonderful
stamping it's very very simply here is the traveling trunk black embossed on craft paper
now a little fancier we've taken a gold embossed pad to make the gold stand out stronger
we've put a white black marvy around the inside or any of the open image of course the water
base marvy rejects any of the embossed portion so you have a wonderful effect
now rubber stampede has brought out a fabulous tote to stamp this is a fabulous surface to directly
stamp on now i go a step further as i do in almost everything and that is to stamp
tissue now i made a great discovery when i was stamping tissue in preparation for this video
i started noticing as i went through the stamp that i was getting a residue underneath the stamp
i put a blank card underneath and kept stamping and stamping and stamping my border and just
look at the texture so i encourage you whenever you're stamping your tissue paper or napkins
speaking of napkins let me show you how easy this is
we call these posh decorator napkins all you do is open out the napkin making sure you only
have one surface and stamp directly on the napkin getting looks like this such fun to
end your party with that kind of an accent speaking of invitations another specialty of ours
i want to introduce to you something that i had the wonderful pleasure of working with mary and
heath designs with this is the first time posh stationary has appeared on the market available
in all stationary stores it's actually been designed totally with rubber stamps
you'll recognize some of them now i go a step further with these plain imprintable designs
used on laser printers or any other type of printer you can go and with your stamps add to it
here are place cards the envelopes have a flap that i've designed and you can stamp the insides
here's a shower invitation here's an imprinted invitation here another pattern that really has
been fun is the zinnia burst you can take and mount extra zinnias there you can take a tag
on the end to close your envelope with the zinion sticker paper
you can add a fiesta look to it the possibilities or should i say the posh abilities are absolutely
endless the golf oh adding extra of the golf ball around your invitation even printing a map
or taking your stamps and just using party we go further with invitations with a raspberry
label also have our wonderful art system of glittering a new concept in easy to do card art
is the window card you simply take one of your compositions cut it in quarters push out those
quarters on a larger card here we have a floral window card a southwestern window card a c a
a c window card and then a close-in gardening window card onto one of my favorites and that is
trifolds i brought you trifolds before i want to show you our development in trifolds here's a bold
wonderful look trifolds say you care enough to stamp for like five hours not really not not that
long here is a wonderful example of using both sides of roses the background has been done with
a ruler to put in the trellis for happy mother's day card then a wonderful new trifold concept
with a jar where we've used the stamp positioner to extend the jar up higher so as the card rises
so does the size of the jar explosion cards are a specialty as well
a new stamp was designed for the explosion card that says just wanted to say but in this first
one here is a thank you had a great time introduces the explosion card and then you open up
with an explosion of thanks
with the other thank you thanks had a wonderful time we open up with another type of thank you
note the photo card a wonderful way to take a photo thank you have it reproduced at any copy
center and enlarged and put in the same format just wanted to say
merry christmas just wanted to say every type of greeting for christmas from happy hanukkah
to rejoice to we wish you a merry christmas and a final photo card for holiday christmas giving
we've done twists to our trifolds here is a fun representation that goes on you see through two
windows to a card we have done fancy cutting here this opens you see where it's been die cut
with an exacto knife and closes our open door where we've done reversals on the other side
for all bouquets to our fish example the fish interlocked here on the front and it opens out
one easy way i'd like to share with you is i call it a little bit of cheating
and that is taking nothing but the bamboo stamp filling an entire forest had a great time is
inside and then we have used the wonderful popular mrs grossman stickers to finish off
the card it is kind of cheating a bit now on to an example of what you can do with jewelry this is
pin art the posh style we've taken stamped images put them in a large machine that does
stiff lamination and hooked pins where we have one for a teacher for travel for golf
for the rubber stamper it's lots of fun with pin art you can go further with a color copy
and enlarging designs such as we've done here it makes a big presentation to do a cowboy large
card this began small and it finishes tall as we say with your inscription on the back
a card was given to me by a staff member and i enlarged it to show you what an appearance it
gives with mountings on a card and then you see the inscription in here so you can see it was
truly a card started in small and then went large on your wall why not adorn it with stamp art
it's a wonderful way to extend your stamping hobby to walls
i want to get close to our ending with showing you an enlarged explosion card happy birthday
may all of your dreams come true i hope all of your stamped dreams come true
and as a finale i want to show you wearable art and even furniture
our art has been transferred with a heat press from an enlarged copy this couldn't be more fun
to take your card designs enlarge them and make your wearable art and here we have one for the
holiday and what i am just so excited to show you as is as if i have not been excited before this
is i even designed my kitchen furniture each one with a different design i began by stamping a
small card such as this and it ended up in a kitchen chair and here's the chair
so