 Hi there, I'm Sandy Allknock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm gonna stamp a floral patterned vellum card and I'm gonna use the misty to do it And I want to show you how to kind of make all the little floral pieces meet up with each other So it's a stamp set from W plus 9. It's a sympathy set and who doesn't need a sympathy card When you're not sad so make one of these while you're not sad So that it doesn't break your heart when you're making one because you need it Put it in your stash and be ready to go. I took a piece of scratch paper first I just taped it down in the middle of the misty because I'm gonna use it basically for a template to follow along With the rest of the the piece of vellum that I'm gonna use so I have that one down and I'm just gonna randomly wherever, you know pick a pick a place to start with The stamping and just throw the the stamping on there now. I'm using distress oxide Ink and this is the peacock feathers After doing this, I probably would recommend something that's gonna dry faster than this because You'll see as I go. There's a little bit of issues with it Kind of making a little bit of a mess, but it came out still good enough in the area that the card is gonna be Can I used it anyway? but for each one of these now I can turn this and Kind of figure out exactly where I want it to line up with the next flowers And just start to fill in the places Don't leave yourself little tiny areas to fill in unless you have a little leaf or a little tiny flower That you're gonna use to fill in that spot if you want a full all-over pattern Then try to make these things take up as much of that space as possible and leave yourself decent shapes that you can Find one of the edges of this stamp to tuck into it and I let some of them overlap each other Just a little bit. Some of the outside solid leaves can overlap because they can look like they're in front That'll work just fine But the thing that it has started to happen here that you may be able to see is that when I press it down I'm getting a little bit of pressure. So I'm picking up some ink on the The clear acetate my clear acetate the acrylic. Yes Acrylic and so I had to keep wiping that off and it did make slight smushies on the vellum But it was very slight and with the way that I'm gonna use it. You're not gonna be able to really tell nobody's gonna care So I'm just gonna continue working my way all the way around the card or around the piece Notice that I've made it a really big piece of vellum so I could have lots of areas to choose from so if you smush one area You could still just move it around and choose which section that you want to do this with on your card You could also make one that's a double piece and then just cut it in half and get two cards out of it While you're doing all this stamping But you want to leave yourself room to stamp over the edges outside of it so that you can get that that all over pattern If you're using distress oxide, let it dry. I let it dry actually overnight because I wanted to do this pencil works I took a Prismacolor pencil This is number 992 and I just started putting color in where there were not these white flowers Because these are lilies and I also didn't fill in the leaves You could fill in the leaves in green and have another color in here But I'm doing it on the inked side, which is why I made sure that it was good and dry before it started doing this and It's going to when you look through it on the other side You're not going to be able to see any Scribbly pencil lines or anything so don't stress out about your coloring. Just fill in some colors So you have some difference in it I'm using some B creative tape now across the top and I've trimmed my vellum piece Horizontally so I have a top edge that I was happy with and there's that little corner there that didn't get colored But I'm going to cut that off anyway so don't worry about that and I'm just going to place it on top of here and Don't worry. I'm going to cover up where that B creative tape is now You can barely see it so you might not worry about that for but for people who say oh my goodness I can see the tape through it. I have a solution for you because I have a really cool thing I'm going to do with a piece of ribbon But first I'm going to stamp my sentiment So I'm going to use some embossing powder that was my embossing buddy thing tool De-static-er so that my powder doesn't stick to things and then stamp it with some versam Versamark ink which is a clear ink if you don't know what embossing is That's going to get be sticky and pick up the the powder in just a minute I also have a Versamark pen and I took the edges of that word prayers and Extended it off the edge of the card And now I'll put my hero arts white embossing powder on it flick off the excess and then I'm letting the heat gun Warm up first and you need this to be really hot before you take it to the vellum because it's going to curl vellum doesn't really get thrilled about curling especially if you use Normal weight if you have really heavy stuff maybe but I like to use the lighter stuff because I don't use vellum enough to To buy the really expensive heavyweight stuff But it's works really easy to just put two little pieces in the corners down here, and it'll hold that down Nice and flat. It's also going to dry flatter, but it was still somewhat warm after the the embossing So I've put a piece of half inch be creative tape now across the top And I have a piece of ribbon cut that I wanted to use now you could just make it flat across the top But I'm going to show you how to make a knot that's going to go through the postal service without being a lumpy so Stay tuned here I'm I'm kind of trying to make sure I glue this the sides of it down first And then make them join kind of in the middle because that's where I'm going to put my little knot and I'm going to twist them in such a way and you need to practice which way you're going to To tie it because I had to do like the opposite I had to take that one in my that one on the left hand that I'm tucking underneath and Pull that one through normally I tie my knots the other way But you want that one on the top left to not look like it's kind of flailing Because then you don't need any adhesive to hold this thing down once you have that Adhesive across the whole front It's going to stay just fine and it looks kind of like a knot even though it's not it hasn't been knotted So it's not bulky. It's not thick that way so give that a try and That's about it for today. I hope you enjoyed this video if you did click that like button and go make yourself a beautiful sympathy card today while you're not needing one and then you'll have it later when you do need one I'll talk to you guys later. Thanks for watching. Bye. Bye