 Hey stampers, welcome to another week of watch it weekly Wednesday I'm Beth part of the stamping gel creative team, and I wanted to show you a technique today I have this technique. It's a little bit messy, which most techniques that are fun are messy So prepare yourself to clean up a little bit, but to have some fun. I love making Masculine cards. It's I feel like it's so hard to have Masculine cards on hand for the men in my life that suit them and fit them So I like to make kind of general masculine cards so that I can use them when Anita rises One way I love to make masculine cards that are more all occasion is to focus on the color or the technique that you use more than The occasion or like the time of year or things like that So I thought of this fun idea because I love some of the embossing folders that we have available right now from stamping up We have some fun ones. Absolutely Argyle We have the hammered metal and We have the coastal weave and I thought these three lent themselves really well to this technique I want to show you I am going to take a stamp pad. I'm gonna use soft suede Which is kind of like a light brownish color and I'm gonna ink directly onto The embossing folder. I really like to ink up the top of the folder I like the impression that it gives when it pushes into the creases of your embossing folder Let me show you what I mean So I'm gonna ink up the top of this with this embossing folder I really like to go really inky on the inside of the image There's kind of like this woodgrain look on these little grooves So I want to use a lot of ink for this I'm gonna put my paper down on the bottom part That's not inked and I'm gonna flip this over Just like that Then I'm gonna run it through the big shot. This is what I come up with Do you see what I mean about getting a lot of ink in those little grooves? You get that definition so well on that weave on that really cool texture. I love love love it I did this on crumb cake with a soft suede I played around and tried a bunch of different colors and there wasn't many that I didn't like It kind of just depends on what you like to go with but for a masculine card I'd like to stick with an our neutral family of colors So let me show you the project that I came up with using this technique. So here's my first one I use this technique paired with the well-written dies and the well-said stamp set This is a bundle that we currently carry with stamping up. It is so fun to work with I really like it and when you want to do a masculine card It's great just to keep your cards nice and simple This technique takes up a lot of space in the back here and then I just added the hello friend You mean the world to me with a cute little guitar and some bakers twine Super cute and just simple. I also love this look. I use the hammered metal embossing folder on this one Hooray time for a new adventure. I stuck with my neutral palette just using the soft suede ribbon This is basic gray and I use night of navy for the color on top of the embossing folder So cute and then I did a happy birthday card. This is using the absolutely argyle embossing folder This one is really fun. I love it's a little bit different because this embossing folder is a little more detailed So you get kind of a fadey look when you do this one, but I really like it I think it turned out really fun So this technique has been so much fun to play around with and I'd love to see what you come up with I'd love if you could share your projects on our stamping Jill Facebook page or email them to us directly at su Demonstrator at gmail.com and we'd love to share them So I hope you have fun and feel really creative playing with this technique and we'll see you next week for another watch at weekly Wednesday Done