10 DIY Card Techniques we Often FORGET!

Hello everyone, I'm Justine and welcome to a new video today. I will continue with my April collaboration event. And today I am collaborating with Ingrid. Each of us has 5 different

techniques

that we

often

forget

when making

card

s that are tested. But really beautiful ways to make

card

s that, again, may have been swept under the rug in recent times. In the meantime, be sure to watch Ingrid's video after mine. I have it linked in the video description below and we each show some great

techniques

, so let's get started. The first technique I'm going to show is the double jig.

It's something we

forget

about. Because we never thought about superimposing one template on top of another. Personally, I think the best thing to do is to first choose a template that has a lot of white space. This template is probably the one with the least amount of white space. space it would go Normally, you can use things like solid circles, solid rectangles, or very wide spaces. I did this technique in a previous video that I love, but I no longer have that template so I'll link it below. up in the right corner or below in the video description if you want to check that it is a beautiful card.

So I attached my card panel to the back of my stencil and then I taped the stencil to my mat here, and I'm going to use some fence blending brushes and I'm going to use Catherine Pooler Prom Dress Ink to add a little color to my cardstock. So I'm going to use an extended movement. So I'll start from the inside working outwards and go ahead and add some. Different colors here, the next one I'll add is the tiki torch. What is my favorite Catherine Pooler color? Because it's a really beautiful tropical yellow, kind of a soft orange color.

So now I'm going to match it with the party dress and then the last color I'm going to use is Bellini. I'm going to increase the colors pretty dark, but I don't want to go as dark as possible right now because I'm going to be stamping over it with the exact same colors again. So now what I'm going to do. Am I just going to place a second template on top? This is a beautiful Simon Hurley template that came out and I'm going to leave the old template underneath and you can line up the templates perfectly, especially if they're the same size ones and I'm going to go over exactly with those same colors again.

So, the party dress in the middle, then the tiki torch, and then the Bellini this time. I want to make sure I wear the dress as dark as possible. ink so you can see the contrast. This is a great way to stretch your insoles. Now revelation really is everything with this technique. So I'm going to remove the first template and you'll be able to see some of those detailed lines. Then the second one and you will see all those details. The larger the space on your first template, the more details. You see, I paired it with this semi-cursive tint of my favorite things that says hello just in a deep black and I think that's all this card needed because I want the focus to be on the background.

My next technique is one of my favorites called the acetate smush technique, or you can call it whatever you want. I'm going to go ahead and add some colors to a piece of acetate. This piece of acetate here is actually the backing for one of my clear stamps. adding the colors all that tiny aqua jazz that was meant to be. Then I'll go ahead with my relief sprayer or just any spray bottle and spray it with water until the water starts to form little beads. I'm using a piece of watercolor cardstock, here some cats and watercolor cardstock.

I'm going to place the color on the acetate. I'm going to smooth it out here until I'm happy with the type of background I have. I'll get it, but this is an easy way to add watercolor without having to have brushes, any kind of fancy watercolor paint, or, in my opinion, any kind of talent. I'm not a great watercolor artist. So this is perfect for me. So I go ahead and add and get rid of those drops. I just slid them all the way in to catch all that liquid and then that was it. finalized. I finished it off with a sentiment stamp from scrapbook com.

We will always be best friends because let's face it, you know too much. The next technique is Joseph's coat. This is an actual technique that was introduced to me by Katharine Pooler herself and I'm going to go ahead and start by ink blending a background very quickly. Here, I'm actually going to ink blend a couple of backgrounds here in case I need one for later So I'm going to go in one more time with that tiki torch. Then I went ahead with some Tutti-frutti, which is a beautiful kind of orange II that turns red. Then I continued with a party dress and finally, flirty foods, fuchsia, which is one of my favorite color combinations.

It has a very tropical look. very nice and I will continue. I'm going to let the background dry. I let it sit for a minute or two. Now I'm going to get an altenew stamp. This is called a frosted garden. When choosing a stamp for this technique, you'll want stamps with plenty of solid space. So these flowers here have a lot of solid areas. That's really important. You don't want anything that's going to be very fine details because the techniques are going to show up very well. I'll make sure my ink is completely dry by adding some stamping bag.

I'm sure none of that embossing powder is going to stick and I'm going to go ahead and stamp these stamps using some embossing ink. Now that they're all stamped and ready to go, I'm going to go ahead and grab a piece of computer paper to catch my stamping powder and act as a filter and I'm going to go ahead and add some clear stamping powder on top of all of these flowers. Be very careful not to touch the card panel with your fingers as oils from My Fingers can rub onto the cardstock and embossing powder will stick.

That's why I tend to pick them up with tweezers and then very carefully grab the side. You can see all those flowers. They are all ready and you can see how solid they are with the embossing powder on them. I'm going to go ahead and grab my heat tool now and melt the embossing powder. Clear embossing powder is one of the easiest to use because it goes from white to very light when it's ready. This way you will always know when you have stamped. Now I'm going to go ahead and grab my blending tool again and some black soot ink and I'm going to trace all over the background.

You can make this as dark or as light as you like. It depends on the type of look you are going for. I decided to use a medium tone here because I didn't want to spend all day inking my background. So this gray ink will now be resisted by the embossed areas and later I'll just take a paper towel and wipe the areas that are embossed in case some ink gets stuck on top. So, will you notice that the clear embossing powder? I resisted and kept the bottom color that is in that mix. But the background, the rest, is a kind of blackish color with some of that color visible.

And I love this technique. I think it's absolutely stunning. I paired it with a hello tint of my favorite things because I thought this powerful white spot of glitter would brighten my card nicely. Did you like that description because I think it was pretty awesome? Next is a watercolor print with another faux watercolor look. I love that because, again, I'm not that good at water coloring and I'm not a big fan of spending a lot of time water coloring. I'm going to use the same stamps I used before. These are altenew's frosted garden stamps. I have them all placed in my Misti and ready to go.

I have a piece of watercolor cardstock and I'm going to go ahead and ink the background of all of these stamps that I'm going to use. I think I used a pop of orange from Katherine Pooler. You can use any coloring ink you like. That it reacts with water is completely fine. I'm going to make sure I have really good coverage on these stamps and I don't really have to worry too much about it because I'm using a proper ink here and then I'm going to grab my spray bottle once again. This is a super easy technique and I'm going to spray the stamps a couple of times with a little water.

You can see I did it about three times. and I'm going to stamp the watercolor cardstock. I'm going to lose some of the details of the stamps. But it's going to give me a kind of watercolor look and that's what I was going for. So when I hold up my Misti, you can see here that I have a nice wet background that has a faux watercolor look to it. I combined it with gratitude. Dye of my favorite things. It is written in a beautiful script. And I cut it out of black cardstock. I love the way it turned out.

My last technique here is to mark accents. Now this is much easier to do when you have a scoring buddy or scoring tool. I only have my paper cutter, but my paper cutter has a scoring tool. You can really make any type of pattern you want. I decided to make a diagonal pattern on my cardstock and actually skipped 1/2 inch between each area. I could have turned it around and done another criss-cross pattern to make a sort of X and then I could have embellished it with things like Nouveau and Yanis. McCool is very famous for making backgrounds like that, but you can really add any kind of punctuation lines, whether it's adding a frame around a sentiment, adding a couple of focus lines in a certain area or making your own pattern, it turns out really great with all this. texture and it's a really inexpensive technique that you can use with very few tools for beginners.

I paired it with this beautiful large one. Thanks Concord and Ninth dye, as well as some Nouveau drops for accents. Here's a final look at all the cards created in this video featuring the five techniques we

often

forget about. Don't forget to check out Ingrid's channel for five additional techniques you may have forgotten - she makes amazing landscape cards and a really impressive YouTube channel. I also have some suggested videos as well as a subscribe button if you're interested. And I'll see you on Friday to watch another video. Thanks for watching. Goodbye for now