 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you the Retterform technique. I'm actually revisiting this technique because I have already done a tutorial but I'm doing a technique segment in the social papercraft and magazine and I thought I would share this technique. I love it, loads of you guys love it and if you haven't already seen it or know about it I'm sure you will love it as well. So this is what it is, so this is the effect you get and basically it's you can see you've got all these different kind of shapes and different stamped images on them but none of them overlap, none of the colors bleed and it gives you this really fun technique. I will put in the video of the one I done last year here so you can obviously look at that one as well. This one again is using just some different colors so what I've done is I've used the stamping up in colors for, I'm not a stamping up demo so apologies if I get this wrong but I think these are 2018 to 2020 colors anyway. I'm using fresh fig, tranquil tide, powder pink, berry burst and lemon lime twist so that's what I've used on that one, that's all of those colors. Probably looking back now I would have moved that one maybe down here or here because I've got quite you know two really dark colors in the top left there but it still works and it still looks really good. With this I've used the stamp sets here and this is the Tropical Chic stamp set. Now when I done the other Retivorm tutorial I used a stamp set from one of the creative stamping magazines. One thing I would always say that I find easier when I do this technique is using a stamp set set so you know you can use all different stamps by your means you know have a play around but I just find it's much easier when you've got a theme all put together for you so I know that all of these sit well together with the sentiment which I finished off there on top so kind of all that thinking is kind of done for you so if you've got any stamp sets and you've got some with you know patterns and you know different sizes you know I've got shapes I've got quite a lot going on with this one so each kind of section looks you know very different but still all works well together. I wish I had the one from last year with me but that's been now given to somebody but I'll share those pictures in my blog as well just so you can get more inspiration so those are the two main things really so get a stamp set that's maybe already a theme or something that's put together for you my focus is disappearing there there we go it's trying to find itself and then when it comes to colors it's really anything goes but I would say don't go too dark you can see here you know any darker really and you're going to lose it because I always stamp in black on top that's completely optional as well use whatever you want but I just like the the real kind of you know contrast between the lighter colors and then that real deep black that you stamp with so what you need to do is grab yourself a card base now I'm using this is a five by seven card base I like five by seven cards I'm I just I think they're a good size so I've got my mat here which is four and three quarters by six and three quarters um and it's entirely up to you how you want to go now I tend to stick and do six sections but you could do four and just do kind of through the middle like that you could do um you know five you can do odd numbers it's entirely up to you but I'm just going to stick with the six um but once you get to see how you do it um it is very very easy now I have done in the last tutorial used post-it notes um you need something that's sticky that you can lift off easily because you are going to be moving it around however I've searched high and low for these post-it notes I can't find them anywhere so I'm going to show you how you can also do it with washi tape now you can also use like copy paper you want something very very thin that's got no kind of um bulk to it um but the problem with the copy paper is you need to make sure you keep it in place and do not move it from when you've blended your color to then when you've got a stamp over it so it is easy if you've got either post-it notes or washi tape so I'm just I've got my washi tape on a little roll in front of me here so I'm just going to tear some off so this is just standard half inch washi tape if you've got thicker then that's good as well um so what I'm going to do is go a little bit different with this one here so I'm going to literally do my first section there okay so this section here is what I'm now going to color in so I'm going to start off here because I've got these already laid out so um I'm just going to stick with what I've got you can see I'm covered wear some gloves if you if you don't want to get this one um all over you because it is a bit messy so I'm just inking up this one is lemon line twist and I'm just going to start off my paper and then work my way in and just blend all the way around so around the edge bit you want to get that nice dark kind of you know edge showing there just so you can really see it and then when I map this on top of my white card base you'll really see that edge and then again I'm just coming in very carefully now if you're using a post-it note you will have more room to be able to blend start blending off and then come into your area I've only got this little half inch so I'm just carefully coming in there um so just bear that in mind but it does work either way so don't worry if you don't have the post-it notes so there you go I've got a nice blended area there now if you don't want to blend the whole area you can leave it white in the middle it's again entirely up to you so excuse me now I'm going to select some of my stamps so I'm going to use this one here which is this big big leaf and I'm actually just going to do one big stamp of it so I'm just going to ink this up I'm using the VersaFine just because it stays wet for longer so you've got a bit of time to kind of work out where you want it to go now the the the kind of point of the retter form is to overlap things you want them to have that so you can see here where the leaf is gone off that side you know you've got it stamped there but it's not going on to that side so you want to make sure like I could just stamp that there so it doesn't actually go over this washi tape but that isn't really the the effect you're going for so I'm going to come down over my washi tape and stamp just make sure you get it just wiggle it a little bit over the washi tape if it doesn't take you can use a black pen which I'll show you in a minute because there's always a little bit that doesn't quite grab on so there we go so if I bring this one up I'll just peel that off here I'll just bring it up there you see there's just tiny little bits there where it's gone over that washi tape those bits there you can just use a little black marker pen with or leave them it doesn't really matter especially if you're covering them with sentiments now I said I was only going to do one but actually now I'm going to do some more because I changed my mind so I'm going to then come in from the corner here like so and then I'm going to do another one coming up there so you can see I've gone over that washi tape again like so and then what you can do is peel that washi back and you get that nice corner on your card so that's that piece done there then you want to now start your next section so I'm finished with that one I'm just going to pop that one to that side there just so I know where I am with everything so now you just want to grab another piece of washi tape or a fresh um every time you want a fresh piece so either it's a fresh piece of um uh post-it note or washi tape and you don't have to but I always find I want to start from the corner you could come in up there if you wanted to um I think I did do it differently last year on the other card but now I'm going to go from the very tip here this very corner and then down like so okay so now I'm going to do this corner here so I am going to choose let's take this one off and I'm going to go for fresh fig so just going to ink that one up and then again just come in from the outside and just work your way and that's covered pretty quickly I'm not going to spend too much time on that I don't want to go too deep with these darker colors because I do want you to really be able to see the black so now I'm going to go in with this one here so I'm using that's this one on the the pat on the box so again just ink that one up and I'm going to do my first one coming in from the corner again like so and then I'm going to do another bit there and then this one I'm going to come right up into the whole area and then that's probably it so there we go and then again get your washi tape and just take that off so you can see now I've got that section okay so it's really starting to look good I like I said I love this and I always get nice results with it so next you want to now I'm going to section off I'm going to join these corners and have this as a whole section so this is when you now need to kind of seal the three sides so at the moment we just had to do one bit of washi tape because we've gone in on those sides but now we need to seal it all off so you're going to stick on the image you want to get right up to the edge and maybe just have a tiny tiniest bit that isn't covered just so that it all kind of blends in together and you don't run the risk of getting a white line now you can have a white line in between each one so if you want to do it that way you can but personally I like it when it's literally all butted up together and they all meet so I'm just doing it like so and then the last piece is going to go from corner to corner that's so okay so now I'm going to use the what's this one powder pink so I'm going to go for something quite light in the middle so I'm just inking that up and then again I'm just going to go all the way around the edges first okay so now that's that one and then the middle I want to do this lovely hibiscus flower so I'm going to ink that up and because I want to get a really nice full image I'm going to do one right in the middle first and then work my way out and then you don't really run the risk of having any any gaps sometimes if you start your way around all the edges and then you've got a bit in the middle and it's not quite big enough for the stamp you're using you end up with that kind of space whereas this way I kind of stop that happening and then I'm going to do one there I'm going to keep these quite close together it's such a nice stamp this one I really really like it let's bring this one quite far in because it's going to be quite a full one as well and then I'll do a tiny bit down there and again there and then one more we'll pop that one there I should have a nice yeah okay and then it's the reveal this is the bit I love I love you do it and then you you know you get to see what it's really like when you're peeing each one off actually before I do that I'm just going to grab like I said with the marker if you've got any parts and you think oh I want that to be a bit more deeper or joined better just with my pen there I'm just going along just the edges it's not too bad really just a little bit it just gives you that sharper finish so that's why it's also good to use black because it's easy to match up a marker pen whereas if you're using colors the likelihood unless you are using all stamping out products you won't have that exactly you know matching pen okay let's just do those ones I think that's about right that bit there there we go so now we can just pull that across and that one there so now can you see I just bring that one up how cool is that effect really really like it okay so now we've done so I've used those three now I've got to be careful I'm getting black I've got a little bit there so I need to cover that with the next stamp I use so um grab another bit another bit of washi tape and we're kind of going to mirror that image really now I've seen what I'm going for so I'm going to do that one there like so so now I just need to do that whole area and then I'll do the next one from that corner down to there and then I know I've got that triangle left in the middle so with this one I'm going to use tranquil side and really should have put gloves on um I have got other um what you call it blending tools and I've got one for every color but not for these ones so never mind right so again kind of start from the outside and then work your way in and again I don't want to go too dark in the middle so I'm just going to keep it like so and then for this one um what do I want to use I'm going to use this pattern here so it's just this kind of I don't know what it is but it looks good so I'm going to ink that one up and just go over this one's quite easy really you can just kind of put it wherever you want okay so that one's done there's a few bits there I'm not completely happy with or where my pad's kind of like hit the surface so I can just go in with this and just kind of add in more again it's a really easy pattern so it's quite easy to add in extras and you wouldn't actually think I'd done it myself so um let's do one there there we go and then again just peel that piece off so again just take it away from that white it's just so you can see it a bit better there um and then the next one again another bit of washi tape so it's going to be that corner to that corner so now I'm going to fill in this area here and I think I'm going to mirror this color here I do really like the lemon line twist so let's pop that one down and I'm going to again stuff in the outside and just work my way to take this off there we go okay and then I'm going to use the same stamp again so you can repeat again there's no rule you could do every single one with the same same stamp if you wanted to so I'm going to do this one here um there we go and again if there's any bits just kind of we'll enter in with your pen you can see there but I'm going to cover it now with my ink but see you've got to be careful if you um if you've got too much ink on your fingers you can just see the little dots there so I'm just going to wash my hands quickly okay so now we're down to this last section so you now need to seal off all three sides so you're going to stick on the patterned side not the white side so again just leaving a tiny the tiniest amount it's not even a millimeter so that's that one but also the good thing about using the washie is it will stretch sometimes with post-it notes they're only that size so you'd have to double them up so I guess with the washi tape you can just do it all in one go okay I'm going to use a berry burst so I'm just going to ink that one up and again I'm going to try not to go too dark in the middle so just start from the edge and work your way in okay like so and then the last one I've got is this really nice big thick leaf to go in the middle so again just get that inked up nice and I'm going to start down the corner here okay and just finish off do that one there see now I want to do that there but can you see if I stamp it it's going to cover that bit so that's when a post-it notes handy because it gives you that you know that kind of more of a surface area to stamp on um but the easiest way to do that is just add two more strips of washi so across two both of my videos I think I'm showing you you know ways to do it um you know with either both so if you don't have one or the other then you can still do this but I just wanted that little bit there so that's that done and again just because this is a thicker image I can just see just a few bits there I just want to make it more crisp on that join okay so that's that one and then now you just need to take off all three of those sides okay so let's just flip over this paper just so you can see this better and what I can notice so what I did notice even is there where I took the washi off it's kind of taken a little bit off of my um ink color so I'm just going to just there was a slightly in fact it wasn't a lemon line twist it was a fresh fig just going to carefully work back over that and you wouldn't even know it happened there we go so that is that all done okay so now what I need to do is add my sentiment and pop this onto my card base okay I've just stamped the um with much love and thanks because I am going to be giving these all as thank you cards so I'm going to pop this one and just die cut this one out okay I'm just going to pop this on some foam squares just to give it some dimension because obviously at the minute it's quite flat and you can now add sequins to this you could add nuvo drops any of your pearl drops any other kind of bits and pieces to it but I'm going to sit this I'm doing it in the middle of the card not the middle of the that kind of diamond shape so let's see about there I think make sure it's nice and straight there we go and I'll just get that stuck on my card okay just get that lined up you should have a nice little border and you can see that just bring up and there's my card all finished so I've done one two three and you can just see the different that one I still need to pop on a card base I think that was just another mat there yeah so that is the retiform technique so I have just focused on these colors um you will see the other ones I done in that tutorial that I shared earlier but yeah there are endless results with this like I said you can do I've just stuck to the six kind of sections you can do eight 10 20 you could have so many tiny ones so really do go and have a play around with it because it's just really really fun and I think it makes really beautiful cards so that is today's tutorial that's today's technique um like I said this will all be in our social papercraft and magazine all the links and everything for that will be out and will be down below in the video description it's out every other month and um yeah I hope you enjoy reading it so as always if you enjoyed 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