 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how to make these really nice cards using stencils so some of you may recognize these they are the stamp and stencil freebie that was in the Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine issue 194 this even by the time this goes out because I'm filming this a couple of weeks before it probably will I'm sure it's still available online and I will link those links below because I know that a lot of the online magazine kind of shops they do do back copies and they do a lot of sales on back copies as well so I'll share all this below now I did make a lovely card it was a bridge fold I believe that I made using the stamps and I'll link that one up here okay but today we are going to use the stamps but we're only going to be using the sentiments we're going to be focusing on this stencil here and it's a layered stencil there's quite a few different ways to use it and I'll just show you some of the examples I've got here so this is the first one I've done and I've just used it with my distressed oxide inks so it's got quite a matte finish and I've just done sorry for your loss and I've just done a little group of three of them there and I've used this one this one and this one in fact I've used everything apart from this kind of decorative piece and I use pretty much everything again just by that bit there I'm not really it's not really my style that kind of thing so I don't tend to use that but I love this layered effect so that's that one there then I don't know again but this time I've covered the whole piece with clear embossing powder and it actually gives like a faux laminated look so sometimes what you will find depending on the card that you use and how you use the oxide inks is that they would dry very matte and quite dull so if you just see the comparison there when you add the clear embossing powder over it it just really brings out the vibrant colour whereas when you look at the red there you can see it's very very matte and whereas this one is nice and shiny so I thought what I would do is show you both ways and combine them in this card where I've done this more emboss resist technique so it allows you to be able to create beautiful scenes and also colour the background so if you notice I've got that blue kind of ombre looking background and you do that at the very end now I have done this before using white embossing powder and I've done it on a facebook live tutorial but I haven't actually shared anything on my youtube and I figured since I'm doing this kind of technique fortnight a search where I'm doing colouring and stenciling and embossing and backgrounds and all that kind of thing I thought this would be a good one to show I absolutely love this this is my favourite out of the three I really like the orientation of this one haven't put a sentiment on it because I actually really like it with nothing on it I think it would just be a really nice note card to just write something inside so we will see but it's there for me to add to it if I need to okay so here I have a piece of three and three quarters by eight and a quarter so it's a default A4 length but if your default is eight inches which I know it is in other parts of the world that's completely fine and like I said you don't have to do it this orientation you can do it here you can do it six by six five by five A2 anything you want so I'm just showing you the technique because it is really nice but to get this card size you want a piece of eight by eight and a quarter and then along the eight inch side you're just going to score it four okay so that I give you your four by eight and a quarter and then what I've done is I've this piece is only three and three quarters because I like that white trim you can add ribbon along there if you want to you could put another little piece of pattern paper or something I just like the way it's lifted up I think it really just shows off the blue and just that background a little bit more so I'm going to move all that safely out of the way okay so first of all you want to kind of start to do your arrangement now you could if you want to just have a big cluster of poppies kind of coming down and then slowly kind of cascading off there I'm going to just do the same again because I think it's quite an easy way to do it and then I'll show you the steps to get that kind of resist effect because you don't have to do it but it is very very easy and it is all down to the magic of this pen or will be revealed okay actually what I'm going to do is just bring over that card and keep it there just so because I do I really like it it was a first go and I always often find your first goes are always you end up going back to them or they're always the most favorite I really like it I like that that's a little bit offset there I do make mistakes you can see a little bit there where I've missed a bit with the white but I think all these little bits are white add a highlight to it so I actually think it looks really nice okay so for the colors these are the ones that I thought worked quite nicely together so for this one here I used for all of the green on all of the cards I use these the shabby shutters and then pine needles so I do them all with shabby shutters and then I go over with the pine needles so that's the two greens I think they kind of blend and work quite well together for that orange and yellow look which I just thought worked so nice together I use these two here so the mustard seed and the spiced marmalade I will list all of these combinations in my blog I think they work really nice together for the purpley one I use the seedless preserves and chipped sapphire thought again they worked really well for the red one I use the barn door on the fired brick and then for the sky which I will do again on this one I'm using tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon you don't have to use distress oxide you can use any ink pads okay so don't worry if you don't and even if you maybe just have two or three you don't have to have two different colors you could have all yellow all red it's very very easy to adapt to what you've got so for today's I thought I'd do more of a pinky tone I know I've kind of got it it's a little bit pinky with this but it is still more red so yeah I'm going to try and go for a more of a pinky look if it's the same doesn't matter and this one I'm using worn lipstick and abandoned coral now you can use any kind of blending tools but I am using my makeup brushes here these are brilliant I mean hundreds of you literally hundreds I can see on the Amazon store front how many purchases have been made and it's hundreds and hundreds of you have brought these and they are brilliant so the links will be shared below so what I'm going to do is first of all is you've got this one here which is your background so that's your first one you lay down and you want to do that in the lighter color I'll show it there so you can see it this one here and this one we're going to do over the top in a darker shade so I'll be doing first in the worn lipstick and then to get that kind of detail which you can see here that kind of line that is using then the abandoned coral so first of all I'm going to go along I'll do it slightly different get a bit of scrap paper in here as well just for the ones where I go slightly off the edge you may also benefit having another piece of scrap just to cover any other of the stenciled images because this one here I'm using is a bit bigger in fact I have got smaller I've got the whole different like sizes so I might use that one actually because it's a bit smaller so you just don't want to obviously go off into this space here so I'm going to cover that like that and then I'm just going to ink up my brush and then I'm just going to go in and I like to get some of the kind of the swoosh kind of movement like that circular movement I don't want to go right to the edges really dark I want to keep that kind of more pinky color in the center and then when you lift it you kind of get those little highlighted bits on the edge and I want that okay so then I'm going to go along again be careful with the oxide obviously it does stay a little bit wet but because I'm laying things down flat it should be okay so the next one I'm going to pop like this and the good thing about this stencil and with any stencils is you can flip them so you'll see that I've got the leaves going in all directions it's because you just flip the stencil each time so once I'm finished with this I will show you that so I'm just going to go along now and just do five or four more just the same as that okay so I'm really pleased with those and what you would have noticed with the last two is I didn't re-ink them I just used the color that's already on here so I'm going to keep this same brush what I have here is a damp cloth or little kind of foam cloth just to wipe down your mask okay these obviously will wipe off perfectly okay make sure you don't have anything on the other sides because you will be flipping to and throw okay and then what I'm going to do with this piece of scrap is just rub off the lighter color there the next we're going to use this one now show you that this one here with that detailed piece in the middle and we're going to use the abandoned coral I'm hoping this is going to be dark enough I'll do a little test of the color it's going to work against it because these do dry slightly lighter as well I think it's going to be okay I think it's going to give a nice nice subtle um effect so you just line it up they will perfectly line now what I would say is with this stencil and with a lot of stencils when you have a thin piece of detail don't go rubbing it like that because you're likely to kind of stretch and bend the plastic and because this one has such a thin detailed piece in the center there so it's best to just tap okay so I'm just going to tap it down all the way along that line now I do think that this is not going to show enough so I'm going to just try and keep that in place probably not going to use that one I'm going to try festive berries see if that gives me a bit more of a deeper let's lift this one up yes it does perfect so if I just bring that one up there now we'll see that effect and then what we'll do at the end with my black fineliner pen is we just add tiny little kind of dots just to create the center there so again I'm now going to so now I know that that's the better one I'm just going to go along each of these and do the same I'm just bringing in the very very small brush that comes in this set just to blend a little bit so I don't get a harsh line yeah that's really nice okay so you can see how cool they look really nice really subtle you don't need to go crazy so in the end it was the festive berries and worn lipstick so I'll keep those two together pop that one back the band and coral was just a bit too close to the worn lipstick I think for it to really stand out okay so next we're going to now do all of our stems so like I said you can flip this so if you want one of them see the little buds here I've got one facing to the left then I've got it to the right and so on so you get a really nice I think quite a realistic look so I'm kind of conscious that I've got that up there so I think what I'm going to do is start up there and I'm actually going to do this one right at the top and have it just slightly offset sometimes when you have stuff actually coming off the card again it just gives a bit more of a it's just pleasing more pleasing to the eye than having everything perfectly in place so you see it's kind of going off there in there I'm going to have this one just coming off at the top and then I will be able to continue the stem coming down so now I'm going to use another of the little ones I find these really good to do the stems and kind of more little pieces and I'm going to bring in these two colors now first of all I'm just going to go and use the shabby shutters and just do all the plain all of the light color so I'm just inking it up now don't do the bud you can if you want to do it all green as if it's not even opened up at all but I quite liked having them in the same colors so it looked like they just hadn't opened yet but I'm just going to very carefully and then when you get to the actual poppy that's you've got such good control with these you can go right up to it literally and if it goes a little bit over it's not the end of the world you can always go back in with the pink but you can get it so close and again just bring that around there and then I'm just going to carry it on from the bottom here and then now you can see much more detail I can get right up to the very bottom of that poppy and come down with this and all I'm going to do is just join it up again and I'll have more things kind of coming off there anyway okay now I'm going to keep it in place and I'm going to come back in with this small one here and the worn lipstick you can get up a little bit and then I'm just going to come in on that bud and cover the whole thing with the worn lipstick in a similar way that I did the poppy you know the opened poppies I don't want it to be like perfect and because we're going to add fine line of detail to it later if you do find that you've gone over a little bit you can easily correct all of that it really is very forgiving so don't worry if you think oh I don't really like that now you can ink that off but because I'm going into a darker color I'm not too worried and then I'm just going to add just a little again if you kind of dab it you get the speckle effect and it actually looks really quite nice so again keeping your darker color towards that kind of base of the bud because that's where it would be darker and now if I reveal look at that lovely effect it really is so so easy to do but so effective I've been enjoying this so much okay so then moving on again so I'm going to I'll join that I think in a bit once I've added a few more so let's now start to do some of the stems now I would say if you're going to stick with it in on this side and do everything that you want this way and then when you go to flip it just give it a wipe off you don't want to obviously yeah run the risk of ruining your lovely piece of artwork so I'm going to do this one down here again just cover it with that lighter green and lift that one up and get a lovely color there I've just realized what I've done that was the one with the pink and see it's got a slightly kind of more mustard color so yeah try and remember which ones you've used because now I've not contaminated it I can just rub it off on my wet cloth there and see now it's almost clean so I'm not too worried but yeah slightly different color there a little bit of a pink tinge and then I want to do another bud I'm going to do another one facing the same way and then I'm going to do one facing the opposite way down here a little bit so I'm going to bring this one up here and have it about there might have it a little bit wonky in fact yeah I'm going to almost join it up to the bottom of this one that I've just done have a little bit wonky so again I'm going to bring this in here okay so there's that one there so now I think I want to flip this and that's basically now what I'm going to do I'm just going to go along filling it all up when I'm going to do all the stems first and then I'll kind of talk you through when I come to do the leaves but I'm just going to wipe all that off now I think the key is making sure this is so clean because yeah when you do flip it maybe if you're new to stenciling it's the first time you've ever done it is don't flip it for the minute just keep everything on the same side until you're really kind of happy with you know and you enjoy doing it so now I've flipped it that way I can bring this one down here and I'm going to have that one I'm going to have it so that can you see there this piece is just coming over here because you can layer over so I'll quickly show you that one so again I'm coming in with the green make sure you keep it nice you know push down so that nothing goes underneath it now what I would say as well is I'm going to go back over all my stems with the darker green but if you are worried that you're not going to get it to line up then come in with your darker green as I'll show you later on just the same way as really that I'm doing the pinks but because I've got the same pink going over there you can kind of work the boat you know both of them together so I'm just gonna put that one in there a little bit more start to kind of stipple a little bit and then reveal that one okay so I'm going to continue this I'm going to do another stem here here and here I'm going to do a few more coming up there and then I will join you when I start to add the leaves okay so I'm just starting on my leaves and I am joining this particular one here so overlaps this tall one that I added at the beginning and once we go and add all the dark green in again that will just cover can you see now how it's going to start to disguise that piece and then what I can do is bring in this piece here which should join up let's go let's go with this one here actually yeah and then I'm just going to join that one down like so okay so again it's really easy to kind of you know add this wherever now again with the leaves just to give it a bit more of a real look you'll see that I've overlapped some of them so if I bring this one in here you see they've got that leaf overlapping this one here I think that's the only one I've done so I'm going to show you that one again so let's do will that reach yeah that'll go over just a little bit just touching a little bit there so I'm just laying all this down like I said I'm going to be adding my kind of shading with the darker pine needles and also with a fine tip pen later on okay but once we add the darker color that will go over that a little bit more and then I'm going to add I think I need to have one no I think I'm going to flip it now okay so just flip that one over let's go along here and I'm going to have another one coming off of here just below so it overlaps this one here okay I'm really pleased with that one and then I think I'll do that bigger one down here as well I think it'll look quite good coming off of this and kind of coming off the bottom of the card as well okay and then let's bring in a few of these little ones so I'm going to bring one up here the nice thing is you can see through this stencil because I have got I'll show you how I store my stencils in a moment but a lot of them are black and it's quite difficult for you to be able to see things like this to be that exact so I do like it when you have clear ones yep love that one I think we need something up here nearer the top so let's do this one here yeah I like that a lot and then I think we need something down here so let's do this big one again again it's kind of coming off the page because that looks nice you can see how easy it is to kind of you know cover any mistakes you might make like that colour of that stem for example the fact that I got a bit of pink up there you know there's lots of ways for you to kind of yeah rescue it so then this one I'm going to finish I think this would be the last leaf I do yeah I'm really really happy with that do you know what it looks beautiful just as it is you could leave that just like that now and pop it on a card and it would look lovely put a nice little seno sentiment with it beautiful so I'm just going to clean this off and then we will start on the the darker green kind of highlight and I will put that on high speed once you see how I do it and how easy it is then you can just watch me whip through that so let's say I'm going to do concentrate on this one here so I need to bring in this big stem here so I'm just lining up this stem okay it's very easy to line up you just want to obviously make sure you don't see any white and then you know you've got it in place now because I've got all these overlapping in that centre part that's where I want to concentrate on that darker green and also you would generally have a darker colour right coming from the top there of that flower because the flower would be creating a shadow so that's yeah again if you do want to try and get it as close to real and they're little tips so you can see there it's very darker green right there and then I've kind of gone continue that darker colour there not on everything I mean you don't have to worry too much this is using a pen this kind of real dark here on there and this is pen here as well and all of the vine detail or vein detail is pen as well so don't worry about that but yeah so I'm just going to ink up a little bit on there and then I'm just going to start flicking it down from the top so that you get a nice blend and then you can kind of dab a real dark colour right at the top and then in this middle section I'm going to go quite dark and then just kind of flick it out either side so you get a little bit of a highlight if I bring it up there look at that perfect and it really starts to make other things pop but can you see I've got a slight little highlight there where I've just flicked it out from the top flicked it up from that centre and flicked it out from the bottom and it will give you that and that's what you can get that's the beauty of using these you get a lot of control so using that technique I'm going to go along and do all of the stems and the same with the leaves I will pop the same leaf over so let's say this one here line it up on this one there you can do the leaves you know but you can do all this at the same time as well and then again that darker colour on the actual base of the leaf and then I'm just kind of coming into the main part I'm flicking it I'm not going to ink it up with any more colour and if I lift it away look at that really lovely kind of ombre effect that you get so I'm going to continue that now over the rest of this card I'll pop it on high speed and I'll be back when it's done okay so there is everything done now in terms of the colour it's I think beautiful I think it's like a little piece of artwork coming together and that is just using a stencil and some inks it's just such a cool thing to do and it's made me appreciate stencils more I used to stencil a lot in the 90s I think we all did I think I've really decorated their house with stencils but it's something that I have many of let me just show you so this is how I store mine so just move that out of the way so when I get them I punch a hole punch and then I just clip them onto a binder ring so this is what I mean with the black ones I love these and I went through a phase of using lots of them and they're great I mean look you've got the moustaches there when they were all on trend you've got some clouds and things like that and lovely leaf ones I think I'm going to start pulling some of these out again just to create some really nice backgrounds but you can't it's harder to see with those ones whereas with these ones here on the top they're obviously lighter in colour that's a beautiful clarity stamp one I love that one really really nice so I think I definitely need to start getting these out again so I will add that one to these because I'm kind of keeping the lighter coloured ones together and then I'll just show you these ones here are stamping up and they are grey so again you can see through these they're really nice there is a difference those black ones are cheaper they are I think craft sensations from the range and it was something like you've got I think I want to say 10 of them for a pound something like that they were really cheap but those again you can see through them these are really nice ones perfect for backgrounds and I've got that very very large geometric one there this one here has a self adhesive back so you can spray them with a low tack this one here has its own kind of tacky back to it and then there's some more of the lighter ones all different ones I think some of these I want to say a Tim Holtz I can't remember but anyway that's how I store them so they just then will hook onto my trolley and it's so much easier to be able to see them they take up no room at all okay so now we want to go back to this and add a little bit of detail so I've just got here these are the Arteza fine liners these are 0.4 and I used I can't remember what colour green one it was actually let me just clear all this away before we have an accident and all that hard work gets ruined in a flash okay make sure I'd say make sure your hands are clean as well go and give them a wash in case you've got anything yeah that you don't realise is on there so I think that colour is going to be okay because again I like to keep things subtle and very easily again let me just zoom in all I'm doing is coming from I'm not coming from the middle of the stem come from like this corner the little piece here and just kind of come out like that and then do some flecks a little flicks like so so again this one here coming down from there like so you don't have to do this completely optional but if I show you this one here I do think it looks really nice again once you put that lovely shine over the top so I'm just going to do that with these okay so that's that one then I'm bringing in the black here and to create the centres all I do is tiny if I bring this in here it's very small little C's letter C and then do it the opposite way so it's back to front and just do lots of little C's you can do dots if you want if you do that you just get a bit more of like a kind of a I don't know just I that's how I do it there's something I was taught in school so for details and things like that so I'm just going in here very tiny little C's and then with the buds I want to come in with a real darker I think that one will work quite well but I want to do a darker kind of color coming up here and then kind of just mind shot that yeah just about I forget I got it zoomed just to create a real kind of shape to them okay so again I'm just going to do that on these two here okay so now we want to start doing a little bit of heat embossing again completely optional this card looks beautiful just as it is I could easily put this now onto a card but I want to show you like I said this fortnight is about showing techniques in the cards and not just doing kind of preparing everything off camera and then showing you I want to show you on camera so I've just got an anti-static they call this the anti-static buddy it's by Woodwear I believe my one I've had this years literally probably about four years and it is um it's marked and everything you can make this yourself if you you know you have a sewing machine or you don't mind stitching and you can put cornflour in there but they're very inexpensive I think this is about $2.99 so for how long it's lasted and literally it will just leave a powder over your surface and the idea is is that it will remove or kind of cover any grease fingerprints anything else that might be sticky it will kind of stop when we go to add our embossing powder it will stop it sticking to anything else apart from where we add the Versamine the Versafine which is the sticky kind of I guess the agent to grip the embossing powder okay so this is when this comes in handy now if you don't have this you can do this with the Versamark itself and your stencil again but you would have to go over everything and then stamp it with this so it's a little bit time consuming you can do it like that whereas this is so much better so this is the Versamarker so it's the pen form you do have a brush nib and then you've got your bullet nib okay so it's perfect for writing if you've got lovely handwriting you like to write your own sentiments you could do that and then heat set them and you'd have a lovely you know tailor-made sentiment but this is what I'm using to do this next step so what you want to do now is color over all of those poppies so everything apart from the white or everything that you want you might just want to highlight the poppy heads and just have them with clear embossing powder you might just want to do the buds you might just want to do the leaves but I went and done everything and you can see here now don't worry if you go over the edge because you'll see here where I went over the edges and then where I went to stick the clear embossing powder and where it's set obviously like I said it will stick to everywhere where you add this you can see where I went over but I think it just adds a highlight I don't you know I don't think nothing of it here is maybe a bit more than I would have wanted but again I'm not worried I would still give this card to somebody and if you do get any specs of powder it all adds I think to the overall look so don't be worried if you do get some that doesn't you know that sticks elsewhere than the flower so basically I'm just going to go over it and you can see it will go like a darker color so you will be able to see where you've colored okay so I think I've done everything if you forget something it doesn't matter because you'll notice when you go to add your glue add your embossing powder also what you can do so I've just been thinking as I color this other ways if you do have maybe like it's hard really but if you've got any plain maybe even like a blender marker or something you might be able to just you know make your own if you've got the pad because I can add this and it will pick up see any other pigment this is this is pretty new this one here and then I can go in again and kind of you know if you're worried that it is drying up or something so but I think my pen's okay so once we've done that I've got here clear embossing powder okay I can't remember who this brand was I've got a feeling it's wow because again I remember a while ago I went through a phase so what you're going to do now because we've prepared it we've when you tip this over it will stick to all of this kind of embossed sticky substance and then the idea is is that it won't stick to the white now if we do get any which I will show you in a moment you can brush it off okay because what we're going to be doing you can see already where it's stuck can you see and I can see areas where I've missed so for example see how dark that is just there so I can go back into that after looks like I've missed a little bit there but everything else is covered and it hasn't covered anywhere else on the paper but you do want to go over it kind of with a fine tooth comb because if you have got any embossing powder on the white and when you heat set it it's stuck there and obviously what we're going to be doing afterwards is going over this in blue and if there is white there then you're going to see it but because it's a sky it might just look like the clouds so yeah don't worry okay so I've got a brush here and I'm just catching it in the light and I just want to check like here I think I've got a bit too much going over into the white so I'm just going to tidy it up and just blow any excess away and again I can see here but some of it will be highlights it's good to keep some of it over go you know if it overlaps don't remove it all and you can always go back over this again okay I'm happy with that don't be tempted to add more of this before you heat set it heat set it then go over it okay but that I'm fine with I'm just going to pop this all back into my tub okay so I've got my heat gun here I'm going to let this get nice and hot I will turn the volume off but I'm going to let you see hopefully this transform and go really nice and shiny so look at that amazing finish now you can go over in colour again because I have got some spots that I want to go over I know around there and there's a couple of bits on the leaves there's a little bit there can you just see you can you will be able to notice it because it will be more matte than everything else and you could go over the whole thing again if you want to have more of a smooth image first kind of application of embossing powder you get a bit of a mottled like hammered metal look you can see there as it catches the light but if you add another layer then you'll get more of a smoother finish so yeah it's entirely up to you how you want to go with it but don't be tempted to touch it when it's still hot let it cool down okay embossing powder is plastic it's just very very fine powder so once it sets it just sets back into its plastic form again so I'm going to go over this again with my pen in those areas get that heat set and then we can finish it with that lovely blue background now before we add the blue you do need to be 100% that you have covered every part of your flower so you can see there as I catch mine in the light there isn't a part at all that's not covered in that clear embossing powder because when we add the blue over any part of whatever it is that you've added the clear embossing powder to if it isn't covered you're going to get the color on it so it's best to go a little bit over the edges like I said just to get that white kind of highlight then not okay so first of all I'm going in with the tumbled glass and I'm going to in cut this one here and I'm going to start from the bottom and you're just going to go right over now don't worry if I hear the color well it will you know that's the whole point because we will buff it off afterwards and this is why it's called emboss resist or resist emboss technique because your color will resist against that plastic coating so do not worry it's just why you'll now understand why you need to be 100% that you have covered you know as much as possible so I'm very very lightly now I'm not really pushing down as heavy as I was just to get that kind of nice kind of ombre effect towards the top I'm going to come back in along the bottom a bit darker and I can already see where I've got the white kind of highlight pieces so it didn't quite hit it but again I don't mind that okay so that's enough with that color then I'm going to come in with the darker mermaid lagoon again I'm not brushing I'm not going to clean off if you are holding the top make sure you've got clean fingers because the last thing you'd want to get into this point is get any ink on there and then I'm going to start just kissing the sides with the darker blue bring it up a little bit there okay and then I came in with a very very small amount of this chipped sapphire literally right at the very bottom it's almost just to add a bit of a frame really and help everything else stand out so I'm just I'm more on the paper underneath than I am on the actual card I just want it to just very slightly probably run a bit too much but I will blend that out again I will list the colors that I've used in my blog for all the blues and stuff but now that is everything colored okay so clear everything away wash your hands and get some dry tissue okay so now I've got some kitchen towel kitchen towels better than toilet tissue because it's a little bit more I'd say rougher so it will take off the color I'm also just going to get some paper underneath and you're literally now going to buff it off so as if you're polishing your house I'm going to scrunch it up a little bit like that and you're wiping that color off so in my case the blue and can you see a difference between where I've wiped it off at the end there than this side here now if you want to you can add a little bit of water over these areas to wipe any off but you have to remember that if the water touches the oxide ink it will react not in a bad way but you will get a reaction so you you know which is another great technique on its own but that's all it is you're buffing off now this color now you can this is where you'll see so where I went maybe too far over the edge but I think it just adds a highlight it frames those pictures there might be the odd maybe blue area or areas where I've still I think I could still go over because now you can go back over with the clear embossing powder again because the blues already set in the background so you can go right over that again but I'm really really pleased with that I think it's lovely so I'm just going to carry on I don't have to do it for too long but just be a hundred percent sure that you've wiped all of that ink off okay so I'm happy with that I am going to add a little bit more embossing clear embossing powder to a few parts of it now if you want to cover everything which is how I got this effect here see the whole thing is covered I literally just got this and went like that all the way over and then just sprinkled that all over it and then heat set the whole thing okay okay so I finished it I'm really really pleased with that I've popped it onto my card there and I'm not sure about a sentiment I just really love just these being just completely plain so if I do change my mind you'll see in the pictures I might add a little one there maybe like a little happy birthday or to my friend or something but yeah so that's the resist technique it's also just a nice tutorial I think to just show you how to use your stencils if you've got lots and you think do you know what I never use them maybe this will now inspire you to go and get them out and have a go with them and also there's those two so that is using stencils in just their their kind of raw form just as they come lay them on the paper and use your inks and you know that's the effect that you get and then you've got that complete coverage which I think looks nice and then you've got this partial clear embossed resist technique card so there you go so I hope you've enjoyed it I hope those of you that have this stamp and stencil set this again does inspire you to use it I will link like I said that bridge fold card which use the stamps that will be up there and yeah just have fun with it so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye