"So Much Love" Stampin' Blends Vellum Technique

Hello friends, I am going to demonstrate card number three using the Stampin Blends

vellum

technique

. If you watched my last two videos where I showed this

technique

, I showed you three different ways I've been using this technique, so I know a lot. Many of you are waiting for card number three, so this is card number three and it was funny how it happened. I was using the technique one night and this was a mistake. I'm like, "Oh my God, I messed up, I didn't know that." whether I was going to throw it away or not, but I decided to leave it and the next morning I went in and picked it up and created this card, so sometimes our mistakes turned out quite nice and I ended up loving it.

This is my favorite, so I'm going to show you how I made this card so you can make one at home yourself, so let's get started. This is the third card I created using the

stampin

g and

vellum

blending technique and I really wanted to share it with you. Guys and I are going to get started, so my card base is basic white, it's eight and a half by five and a half and it's marked four and a quarter, so I'm going to set that aside and then I'll just have another piece. of basic white, this is going to be for the front of the card and then I'm going to use two pieces of vellum, so this piece is four by five and a quarter.

This is the piece that will be layered on top. of the card base and then I have another piece of vellum uh also for the

stampin

g and blending technique, but I'm going to use a few different colors and this is going to be for the flowers, so I'm going to start by stamping this. piece this is a stamp set that is being retired is called swirl frames and I think this may have been a bit of a sleeper. I'm not sure if many people notice this stamp set and are retiring. Did I mention I already

love

this stamp set? and that's why this is only available until May 3rd.

Now we have some gorgeous new dies coming out in our new stamping catalog on May 4th. These dies really coordinate in color and outline, so you can get this as a pack, which is why these dies are called scallop. the outline dies and I tell you they work great with this stamp set so that's what I'm using on this card and I already have this on a block so I'm going to stamp with my crumb cake. to stamp that directly onto my basic white and then see these perfect lines. I'm going to cut this on my machine.

I'll be right back, so look at that, guys. That's not the perfect stamp set for these new dies coming. I

love

it so of course there are the circles and the different images here so if you want to use this stamp set with our new dies you really need to get it before they disappear on May 3rd so while I get my cake out of crumbs, I'm going to stamp my sentiment and I'm using another set of retirement stamps, this is called a lot of love and I'm going to stamp so

much

love for you, in fact, before I stamp, I'm going to bring a couple of new colors, these are from our 2021 2023 color collection, pale papaya and burnished pink and I want to add a little bit of color to the background before I stamp my sentiment, so I'm going to take my blending brush and pick up some. pale papaya and I'm just going to add a little bit of color right in the center, okay, maybe a little bit more around here.

I'm going to do the same thing now with some polished pink. I'm going to use the same brush and apply touches. First I remove it onto my scrap paper so I don't have a big splash of color and I just add a little bit of that pink so I still have the white there, but now I also have that beautiful pale papaya and polished pink. So this is the part where you have to determine if your card will be vertical or horizontal, which will determine where you will put your feelings, of course, I'm going to make this card horizontal like the original, so I'm going to bring my crumb cake , stamp my sentiment up there and then I'm going to take my other blending brush into the crumb cake and I'm going to go around the edge of this die.

The cut just makes it look vintage and pretty. Alright guys, that's the stamping made for the front of the card, so I'm going to set this aside. Now it's time for the technique, so I'm using pale papaya and polished pink. Stampin combines um and they're both dark. I am also using our new fresh freesia, which is also part of the new ink color collection. This is light and dark bermuda bay and dark old olive, so if you haven't seen my last two videos. where I do this vellum stamping and blending technique, you're going to love this, it's so cool, so I'm just rubbing, rubbing, scribbling on my color, so that's my pale papaya and let's go in with my fresh freesha, a little bit of polished pink and I'm just going to the little areas that don't have color yet okay I love the hints of blue in this background technique so this is Bermuda Bay and then the last color is my old olive , okay, I think we're fine.

Now you can use our wide water painter and I know some people prefer that, but I really like using my old, scraggly brush. I actually think it has dried glue on it, but I'm so glad I didn't throw it away because I really, really love using this for this technique so I'm bringing my glass dish and I'm using 99 isopropyl alcohol so whatever you know , 91 percent will work, but 70 percent won't work very well, so I just bought this at the drugstore, um and This works super, super well, so I'm going to take some of that isopropyl alcohol and then just dab it on, and the reason I prefer to use this instead of my wide brush is that I don't know personally. for me it just moves the colors together differently, whereas when I can jump like that and let the brush spread out, I don't know, I just like the look I get, so there are all kinds of tutorials out there at the moment.

Um, you can search on Google or YouTube with a lot of demonstrators and non-demonstrators using this technique and you can see the beautiful ways everyone is creating their projects using this technique, so this is the way I like to do it. and you can spread those colors if you see that there's a white space here, you can bring that color in and then what I like to do is use my heat tool to quickly speed up the drying, so I'm going to put in a little bit of white so you can see how pretty it is when you put it on the white it just pops out absolutely beautiful okay so I'm going to bring this piece in now and for this one I'm just going to use some pale papaya and we're going to use the dark polished pink and you know , maybe I'll use some of that fresh freesia too, so this piece will be what I'm going to stamp and Trim my flowers so it's a little bigger than my four by five and a quarter piece, but that's because I want to get more out of it flowers, while this piece will be glued directly onto my card base.

Let's do the magic. I found that with the scruffy brush as I push down those bristles are spreading out and that also makes a difference in the pattern and you can reapply some of that color like I mentioned, okay, let me keep it up. so put it behind the white and you can see those beautiful colors coming out absolutely beautiful, so let me show you what I'm going to do next. I'm going to take my stamping friend and go over the entire piece. and then I'm going to take my flower image from the

much

loved stamp set and I'm going to ink this with my versamark and I always like to use my piercing mat under my stamps, okay, so there's one, I'm going to stamp another one. and stamp it this way.

I'm going to take the smallest flower too because I can squeeze it out. I think I can squeeze it right there. OK. I'm going to etch the first one with white powder just in case. I'm wondering if this is four and a half by six and a half, so I'm going to sprinkle my white powder on the bottom flower and use gold powder on the other two flowers, rotate it and remove it with the heat tool very nice with the embossing, so now I'm going to turn this around. This is the side where I use the stamping mixes in the alcohol and I'm just going to take my garden or sorry, my old olive stamping mix and me.

I'm just going to color the inside of the leaves. I'm also going to take my pale papaya and use those little buds just because I want them to be solid. Same thing on these and I'm going to take my dark polished pink. and add a little bit of color to the tips of the buds when you cut them they're going to be absolutely stunning and what I'm going to do is just squeeze some liquid glue right on top of that, not tons but enough bring my silicone mat to crafts and I only have a piece of sponge to stamp and I'm just going to apply that glue and then adhere this to my basic white cardstock and I'm going to make the whole piece of vellum that Anyway, any little pieces that I don't cut, like with the flower , I can still use it for little butterflies or anything and then I won't waste anything.

You can also use the sticky sheets, which is what I have shown. in my other videos okay, now I have a piece of my basic white and I'm just going to glue it directly onto that cardstock and now my flowers are ready to cut, so here are the beautiful roses all cut with that beautiful technique. Through the petals that were etched in gold, of course, here's the other one etched in gold and the one that was etched in white, so now I'm going to bring this piece back and what I'm going to do is run. I ran it through my painted texture embossing folder, so now I have the texture here and I did this in the last video and what I did on this piece, on this card, is I took my crumb cake ink pad and I was just playing, not really.

I'm not sure how this would work, but I just lightly ran it over the vellum so it picks up on the embossing folder design and I'm doing it on both sides and when I first did this I thought you know what I think I just ruined. I left it and left it for the night. I was going to throw it away and the next morning I walked in and looked at it and thought, you know what's really beautiful about that? I'm going to use it on a card, so this was a Happy Accident, so this is what it looks like on the card with that beautiful stamping and blending technique and the texture and the crumb cake.

Now what am I going to do before I stick this to my cards. I'm bringing these dies back. in this is the die that I have hanging here this was the die that I used to use to cut this piece, so I'm going to go down a size and I'm going to run this through my machine like this and cut this because this is going to be covered with this piece and to me that's a waste when I have such a beautiful background that I can use on another card, so the thing is I'm running this through the die cutting machine a second time it will flatten out the raised areas that I just got from adding that texture with the embossing folder, but the nice thing is that it will keep the design of that embossing folder on my parchment, so now I have this piece for another project. and then this piece is going to go on the front of my card, so I'm going to bring in my silicone craft mat again and my glue and I'm going to take my sponge and I'm just going to apply glue to those edges now.

I'm going to put this on my card base, I'm going to glue this on too, this is going to go this way and I'm going to put it on and look how absolutely beautiful it is with that crumb cake background and I'm so happy to have another piece. saved that would have been lost under this, so I can absolutely use it for another project. Now I actually went ahead and pre-cut some dies, so this is vellum that I cut with the blooming greenery that corresponds with the everlasting fern. stamp set. I cut these pieces out of vellum and just took my blending brush and added ink to make them old olive.

This one is actually just bermuda bay. I just wanted a little bit of color and I'm going to use those. On the card I also have a piece of ribbon and I went through the pale papaya and the polished pink to dye it and I have a small piece of pale papaya cardstock that I just marked and I'm going to use them on the card as well and then from the stamp set of butterfly gala and the coordinating punch that is being removed. I made a butterfly and only used my stamped writing markers to color it because I embossed it.

Whoa, come here, little one! I embossed it in gold and the embossing mixes don't work very well when you color something that's embossed so I use the stamp and write markers to color that little butterfly so I'm going to use a gold one on this card actually that one It is the largest and the smallest. I only want to use one, use the big one. I'm going to put it there, so I have one of our square mats here and I also want to put this on the card just to add a little bit of something and I'm going to the right. top this with my first mark and I'm going to etch this with white, so I'm going to give it a moment to cool and I missed a little bit in the middle, but that's okay because usually that part is going to be covered anyway I took out a couple of those bits there, so this is going to stand out on my card more than it would have stood out if I had kept it on plain vellum, so what I'm going to do is just cut it out a little bit randomly and just put it on, I think like this, let's see, yeah, look, that just adds a little bit behind it, I'm going to take a little bit of my glue, a little bit will do for you and actually, Before I put that on, I'm going to go ahead and add a little bit of this greenery. , so I'll just put a couple little touches here and there andplace it so that it doesn't hide my feelings but this long part can go under my flowers I'm just going to hold that in place for a moment and this piece and then I'll stick a little more of these dies underneath once I have my flower in place with the vellum, you have to hold it down for a few minutes, not even a few minutes, just a few seconds, okay, let's put this now and let's put that like this.

Let me zoom in for you, what else do we have more greenery? I may not need it all, so I only have a little bit. I'm going to put it in. Wow, they want to make sure it doesn't go over the edge of their card too. Otherwise, it won't fit very well in the envelope. I don't want to hide all that mat I put together, it's almost done, so grab my little butterfly and some glue. I believe i do it. put my butterfly here I love these little butterflies I love our beautiful butterfly collection, sorry butterfly brilliance, but we don't have tiny little butterflies like this, so that's why I brought out my butterfly and punch gala stamp set, and again that's I'm retiring so the butterfly gala stamp sets are retiring so much love is retiring and this really frames so you want to grab those things before they're gone.

May 3 is the last day you can order them. What am I missing? my pearls, so I'm going to bring my pearls and my pale papaya, so I'm going to take my dark papaya. Now I've been coloring my pearls with the polished pink, but let's see what this looks like. It may be too late, I'll try. I'm coloring five pearls. No, I think this will look pretty. These will look pretty. Oh, you know what we forgot, we forgot the tape, oh look, and now like I want that. underneath, for the love of God, look, that was going to be like this and this was going to be like this, but I was going to put some greenery on top, but you know what, okay, I can save them for the next card.

There it is all finished and it looks beautiful. I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to bring so much love and these little dots that create really fun backgrounds. I'll take my cake crumbs and then I'll just rub a little bit here and a little bit there, but I don't do that. I don't want it to be too dark, so I'm going to stamp the first one twice and stamp maybe a little bit over here. See, that just fills it out so well. What do you think didn't turn out pretty? Happy with that, I forgot my rhinestones and rhinestones.

I think these rhinestones really brighten this card up even more, I just lifted it up so my finished card is and I'm really pleased with the result and then here was the first one. I made the sentiment from Grace's garden and I also retreat. You can see where I added that little piece of tape and that little piece of pale papaya just adds something, but I don't think it's a big deal that I didn't put in. it's on this card, but I quite like it, plus it adds a bit of texture. The flower, as you can see, is darker and that's because I used it.

I think I used pumpkin pie and rococo rose, maybe a little. royal red and I also engraved the mat in silver instead of white and the flower of course is engraved in white instead of gold. Today I filmed this entire video only to find out that it didn't save, so this video is complete. Redo here's the one I did today and exactly the same way I did it in portrait, so it's a beautiful, fun card and you can see all that beautiful background with the embossing mixes and that really cool rubbing alcohol technique that I am so satisfied. how these cards have turned out so I've been having a lot of fun with this technique uh yesterday I actually went through and made four full sheets of eight and a half by 11 film with this isopropyl alcohol mixing technique so now all I have What What I have to do is just cut them out and put them on my cards so you can see how pretty they look and if I want to run them through my embossing folders, I can do it like I did with card number two if I want to add the gold leaf.

I can, so I'm having the best time with this technique. um you need to use alcohol ink markers for this technique, it has to be alcohol ink, that's how alcohol reacts and makes everything move, so our stamped writing markers won't work. I know someone asked about Sharpie markers. Don't know. I have not tried it. I don't have different Sharpie markers to try. I only have the stamping ones, but I know the ones that work wonderfully with this technique. I missed my previous videos using this technique. This was card number one and I used the beautiful tree dies on that and then card number two and this is where I use the embossing folder and the gold leaves on top of the technique and also behind it. the seal here and then of course card number three, so if you haven't tried this technique, what are you waiting for?

It's incredible, you'll love it and you'll have a great time creating. Thank you so much for I appreciate you so much, I know I say that all the time, but it's so true and if you haven't already, hit that subscribe button and the little thumbs up if you enjoyed this video, take care, stay safe and happy.