 Hey stampers, welcome to another week of watch a weekly Wednesday I'm Beth part of the stamping gel creative team And I have a technique that I want to show you today that we discovered this last week This technique is so fun And I used our in colors the new in colors for this annual catalog But you could use any colors and come up with some beautiful beautiful things So first let me show you the technique and then I'm going to show you some projects I made using the technique I'm going to start with just a piece of basic white cardstock This is cut to three and three quarters by five inches So it's gonna be a card front for me and I am going to go crazy with some of the in colors I love the sweet sorbet parakeet party Well, and I mixed some of the blues with those two on some of my samples But it makes such different colors when they're all mixed together. So let me show you kind of how I did it You're gonna need a blending brush. Now, this one is really colored, but it's not pulling any color You just want to make sure you have no color to start with oops and Then you're gonna take I started with my lightest colors first because then I know where to add in the darker So I'm gonna start with parakeet party And I'm gonna pull some color and when I do blending brushes, I like to start off and roll in I'm just gonna add some color around my cardstock And there's really no rhyme or reason to it Just kind of all over This technique is really fun because it's very creative and artsy. So if you like doing things like that You know, this will be right up your alley. I'm gonna pull into heat shintide I'm gonna make sure that I get most of my parakeet party off that where it's a lighter color It's not gonna ruin the stamp pad or the color Pull some of that and I'm just gonna add it Make a little watercolor type look here Really this tie dye look is so in it's so popular right now. You'll see it in fashion All around this tie dye and these bright colors are so fun for summer So I'll pull that one back out. I'm gonna add some sweet sorbet So same thing grab some of the ink and I'm gonna roll it in Now the colors kind of mix together do different things You get different variations of that same shade. It's really fun. I think I'm gonna add a little bit more blue So I'm gonna use Orchid oasis. It's a little bit more of a purpley blue And just add some on the corners and see what that does Okay, so I have this little mishmash of colors here on my cardstock Now I'm gonna take And use a stamp and pierce mat I really like to use this when I'm working with a photopolymer stamp set and with this technique It's great if you can find a stamp set that has a bold image to it I chose to use the big hooray stamp set today for this I really love how these have a bold image. So when I emboss them, they're gonna pull a lot of that color You're going to see it through. So let me show you I'm going to use the big hooray And then it's got this cute little kind of confetti stamp too. I'm going to use that one So I'm going to first take my sheet. I'm going to put it on my stamp and pierce mat Since this is a photopolymer stamp set I want to get a really solid image and to use the stamp and pierce mat gives you a little bit of give So that's why I have that there I'm going to use my embossing buddy and what this does is cuts down static on the paper By putting a little bit of powder down on there so that I'm going to get a really clean embossed image Just rub that all over my paper That I'm going to pull in my bursa mark And I'm going to put down my sentiment I'm going to use my hooray first so that I can center everything after that Now bursa mark is just a watermark stamp pad It's a pigment ink. So it's a little bit of a thicker ink. It's not water based And it's going to just leave like a clear image here on my cardstock So I'm going to stamp that down It's kind of sticky But you if you can kind of see where you put it that's helpful So adjust with your light and see I'm going to ink up my big And I'm going to fit it right in the crook of that hooray Just like that And then I'm going to quickly add some of these little confettis All around as well Now what I'm essentially going to do is emboss this in clear embossing powder And then I'm going to do another really fun little thing to make it stand out If you have ever done like scratch art. I think is what it's called. This kind of emulates that Okay, so I'm done with my um bursa mark. I'm going to pull in My embossing powder and this is just clear embossed powder Pour it all over the top of my card front Get good coverage since I stamped all over it I'll try to get that powder off as much as I can in the places that I don't want it I want it only to stick to where I had stamped My sentiment and those little confettis I'm going to snap off as much as I can here And then I'm going to emboss So I have a heat tool This is going to activate the embossing powder Okay, once you get it all embossed you'll just I hope you can see that It's just clear so you really can't see it. So for this next part of the technique you need a black stamp pad I'm using a memento tuxedo black And you need a blending brush You could use the same one you used previously But the black gets so dark and stamping up sells them in a package of three So if you have a stamp in that package you should have an extra one I just kept it separate because it was just easier Because the black is very black and I didn't want it to ruin my project previously if I was using a lighter color So same idea. Okay, we're going to take our Uh cardstock that we've worked on and we're I'm going to cover it completely in black So stay with me. Okay, because I know it's kind of crazy. We're going to start at the edges. We want this to still be a pretty um Covered piece, but I'm going to start at the edges because I don't want big blotches Of sponge in the middle of my cardstock So I'm going to go it's going to take a bit of ink and the You're going to start to notice that the ink does not absorb On the embossed image. This is called a Emboss resist is the technique. We've done this in multiple ways But this cute little covering it all with black I I know but it makes such a cool start contrast when you use the bright colors behind it And it's gonna just turn out really really neat So it takes a minute takes lots of ink. Just keep going go all the way around make sure you've got good coverage Now you'll notice I'm back to the start, but some of this has absorbed a bit So I'm going to go over it one more time. I won't have to use as much ink, but I just want a really good black coverage here Okay, so I've got that all covered You're going to get very inky. That's just part of the fun of stamping Take a tissue I like to use just a Kleenex. You could use a paper towel too And you're just going to go over your embossing and wipe it off You don't want that black ink sitting on top of the embossed Um image we want those clean so you can see those bright colors through it And that's kind of the idea. Isn't that so fun? Every project is going to look different because you're going to use different colors The colors are going to blend together and you don't know what it's going to look like until the end when you see the colors come through There is so much possibility with this technique. I can't wait to see what you guys do But let me show you some projects that I made using this technique and this stamp set So here's the card that I made using this same idea with the big hooray I added some perique party and some sweet sorbet right behind it And just added some of these cute little embellishments that are from those newton colors as well So fun and such a fun impact Here's another one. Hey there I thought this one was really cute too. I just only used two colors on this one I used the perique party and I used the orchid oasis So it's a little simpler So for this one, it kind of surprised me after I did it I realized there was a lot of purple here where the colors had mixed And it ended up being close to highland heather So that's the color that I backed it in along with pair of pizzazz Which I wasn't planning on but that's just kind of what it turned into and I thought that turned out really fun And this final one was kind of that same way with rich razzleberry I wasn't planning on that but these blues all together and then they kind of mixed into this Deep purple color. It was so pretty. Thanks you guys so much for watching this week I love this technique and I I literally am so excited to see what you do with it Check out our blog post for some tips and tricks using this technique You can find that at stampinjill.com and if you're interested in any of the products They are linked below in the video notes. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next week for another watching weekly Wednesday