 Hey stampers! Welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey and today I'm excited to share with you an idea for somebody who maybe hasn't stamped in a while. Now that may not be some of you watching the video but I am gonna guess that you could think of somebody in your life that once upon a time bought a stamp set or something from Stampin' Up and then didn't do anything with it. And maybe it is you, but I want to talk to you because there are a lot of people like that in my life and I want to show you kind of how you can use those things when you've only bought a few things from Stampin' Up. So today I'm going to show you how to do a card using only whisper white paper, a stamp set of your choice. I chose the Humming Along stamp set with this cute hummingbird, one single stamp pad. I'm using balmy blue and a sponge and post-its and scissors. So I want to just show you a really simple card idea you can do so you can get back into using Stampin' Up products and be excited about them. So we're just gonna jump right in here. I have a little piece of paper here and I'm gonna just stamp down. I'm using that hummingbird and I'm gonna just ink up my bird and stamp it down here just like that. And then I also am using the thank you from that set. I love stamp sets that have an image and a saying both in the same stamp set so you can get more than one thing from a stamp set. I think those kind of sets are really easy to work with. So just like that. Now I want to show you how you can add some color to your bird without having to have markers or another stamp set or stamp pad and it's really easy. So you're just gonna take some post-it notes. Any post-it notes will do and you're gonna just stamp your hummingbird again or whatever image you're using. You're just gonna stamp it again down on the post-it just like that. And then you're gonna take scissors, let me pull my post-it off here, and you're just gonna cut out that image. Now I already have done that. So through the magic of television, I'll grab the one I've already done. So I cut out my image and I just have this negative of my image right here. So what you're going to do is you're going to just lay that right over the top of the hummingbird that you stamped on the whisper white paper. Just write directly over it and try and get it as close around it as you can just like that. And the nice thing about using a post-it note is that it kind of sticks your paper down too. So when you use your sponging it doesn't like move on you a ton. So then you're just gonna take your sponge and this is a stampin' up sponge that I'm using and they come in big circles like this. We just cut them into fourths so that we can use them on more than one color and they're easier to hold like this too. So just a tip. So then you're just gonna take your stamp pad. Again I'm using balmy blue and you're just gonna kind of start sponging that color right onto your bird. Now I'm gonna do this little chest area a little bit darker like this and then go lighter as I go out to his wings. You obviously can do this however you want. You could do them all dark or all light or whatever you want to do but that just gives him a little more interest. And I'm gonna kind of avoid his beak because beaks are technically yellow or orange and I don't have that color with me today. So just like that. So easy. And then you're just gonna peel your post it away. This technique has been around for a really long time it's called masking and you can do it with a lot of different things. So just like that you've added a lot more interest to your stamp. Let me show you the full card that I did. There. Just using whisper white paper and balmy blue and your favorite stamp set along with a sponge you can make a very pretty card. Now you can do that with any image that you want but if you were to purchase a few more things you can add a little bit more. Let me show you one stepped up version of this card. Here I stamped my bird in black. I used the memento black ink and then I just did the same thing with my balmy blue and I sponged the bird. And then I added some designer series paper to the back which is just a little piece of it. And then I also added some dazzling diamonds glitter on the bird's wings just to give it a little bit of interest. Now all of these things that I purchased for this card aren't very expensive and they're really easy to use. So you have your very beginning card but then just a little bit stepped up so that it's still simple enough if you aren't used to stamping a lot. There's a lot of ways that you can use stampin' up products in a simple way to get a look that you desire and that's on your level. So I just wanted to make sure that that you see that and that you can do it. I promise you you can do it too. If you are one of those people that have purchased product and you're like, I didn't go to a class. I haven't been to a class in a while and I don't know what to do now. I just challenge you to try. Just sit down and play and you can come up with something simple and cute and so fun to share. So make sure that you share this video with your friends and make sure to give us a thumbs up if you like what you saw and we'll see you next time for another Watch at Weekly Wednesday.