Autumn Leaves Stamping Techniques Card Class

1. Autumn Leaves Stamping techniques Card Class: Hello and welcome to the autumn leaves stamping techniques card class. I'm Cheryl and I'll be teaching this class. Let's go take a look at what we're gonna be covering. So these are all the cars that were going to be creating in this class. There are a lot of different cars that were going on doing. We're going to cover six different techniques, but we're not going to limit it to that. We're also going to do spin-offs of each technique now because I'm doing a bunch of different techniques rather than having all sorts of different dyes and all sorts of different stamps for each and every single technique. I kept it simple that way. I'm using the same stamps for the whole class. No, I haven't cleaned them off, but I'm using some leaf stamps that we'll be doing all the different techniques for. And then I just put things die on the bottom of each card just because it's full Thanksgiving. I just thought it was a good blend. This way we can really concentrate on the different techniques and how they are done without needing all new stamps for each and every one. Now, I've been using leaf stamps that you can absolutely change up the stamps. They'll, this will work for many different images. Some will work better than others. So I encourage you to experiment with what you have, just to play around with the different techniques and see what you come up with. Sometimes things don't necessarily work out, but you come up with something really, really cool that you and you learn something that you didn't know before. So the very first technique that we're gonna be doing is just very simple stamping, but we're gonna be doing it with multiple colors. And then I'm going to show you that in two different ink choices so that we can do a light background and a dark background. From there, we're going to move on to embossing. And Emboss resist and create some cards this way. So I've got some metallic papers and I've mixed up metallic embossing. And I've also got some glaze, which is a clear embossing. Then we're going to work on creating some backgrounds with some color sprays, some color Micah sprays, I should say. Those have some shimmer to them and they're absolutely beautiful. And I'm going to show you how to do it with colored Micah sprays. And then I'm also going to show you a way to do it if you don't happen to have the colored micro sprays because they are limited edition item. But there is a way to get a very similar look. We're going to use some magical is powdered pigment powder that reacts with water and create some beautiful backgrounds. I'm going to show you how to create two different versions of cards with those backgrounds. Now, you can see there they've got some beautiful mica to them and have some lovely shimmer. The next technique we're gonna do has Micah powders. It's a fine mica powder that has a binding agent in them that's activated by water. So I'm going to show you how to use those. We're going to do them with the metallics and the colors, as well as the interference colors, which are a different way of using them. They just react a little bit different than the other powders. And then last but not least, we're going to use some watercolor crayons, and I'm going to show you a few different techniques with those as well. Now, this class comes with a supply list that list the supplies used for each of the cards, as well as showing pictures of each one as well. Those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them if you choose. But you definitely don't need to use just the supplies that are used to create cards with the different techniques that are taught. So definitely have fun and explore and experiment with what you have as well. Now let's curl, create some cards and learn these different stamping techniques. 2. Stamping with Multiple Colours of ink on Dark & Light Surfaces: Alright, so the first cards we're going to make are these ones here. And we're going to use a bunch of different ink colors to create some fall foliage. Now you could do one color at a time and just create a yellow leaf or a green leaf or whatnot. But it just looks more authentic to have the colors mixed up, but there is a right or wrong way to do it. So I've got four colors here. First one we're going to do is on the light background. And we want to start with our light color first and work our way. The darker color. If you were to go dark to light, if you went with a yellow and you've got some of these colors in there. It's pretty hard to get a nice true yellow stamping after that. So by going light to dark, if I get a little bit of yellow in my burgundy pad, it's really not going to affect the pad a whole lot. So you do want to go from light to dark just to make sure that you're not contaminating your pads. So did the orange there. Now, these are distressing. They are dye ink, so they are transparent. This only works on lighter colors of paper. The next one we're gonna be doing will be on a darker card stock. And I'll show you in a minute why we use different inks for that. I've got my stamps all inked. Now, some of that yellow and the green ink may have started drawing by the time I'm ready to stamp. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take my Mr bottle, just a couple of light sprays just to rehydrate any of that ink. And the extra bonus part is that is also going to start blending some of those colors together. I'm holding my stamp firmly in one place and then moving around. Very, very pretty. I love how those colors start to blend. Nice, full background. I'm going to set that aside to dry and then I'm going to clean the excess ink off of my stamp. Now, like I said, you can't use those distress inks on a dark card stock, but you can use distress oxide ink on a dark card stock or any pigment ink. The pigment is going to make it opaque. You can see right away as I'm making my stamp, that this is a lot more, right, a lot more opaque ink. I'm gonna do the same process. I'm going to go from light to dark. I'm just doing little bits on different areas just to get a color blend between the colors. I'm trying not to get lines from the edges of the ink pad. Trying to pay attention to where I've inked to make sure that it gets full coverage. Then the last color is my burgundy color. And this one I really like putting on the edges of the leaves. I just think the leaves look really pretty when they've got the red tips to them. There we go. Now to rehydrate that. Chances are most of this ink is still wet. Pigment ink dries a lot slower than die. I'm just kinda missed it twice. That's going to rehydrate anything that might have started drawing. Once again, it's also going to help blend the colors there. So the funky thing about the oxide and because it oxidizes as it dries. So it goes from being these bright colors to these muted tones. We're going to need to let that to dry for a few minutes. So I'll put that aside. Move my ink pads out of the way. Move my stamp out of the way, and I just want to get off of my surface there, make sure I've got a clean area to work on. Then while we're waiting for those to dry, we're going to die cut our sentiment. Now I am using this thing sentiment on all of the cards for this class. Just because it's the only real full sentiment that I have. Obviously, you can put whatever sentiment you want on there. The only stamp I have with false sentiments are really, really tiny and you won't really see them. And I really want the focus of these cards to be the leaves and the technique used to create those leaves. I left the design for this, these cards very simple. I, I kept them all pretty much the same design. Just so the focus would be on Technique. And then what I did for each one of them. Because most of the techniques, I think all of the techniques actually are two different versions of the same technique. 1 s. I need it once again, I need to cut the breast. Will note. What I'm doing for the sentiment is I have two colors of card stock that match both of them are coordinate with both of them. And then you can see this one here is green on top of the bronchi color or coppery color. And this one here is the bronchi, coppery color on top of the green. Once again, just to keep it nice and simple. But you can do whatever colors work with whatever inks you were doing. Because of the oxide is actually change color as they dry it with a little bit more challenging for this particular one. To choose what color. Do the sentiment in. Here we go. Die pick is one of your best friends when taking die cuts out of dyes. They all have those holes in there and it just helps you poke those pieces out a little bit easier. One is out. You want to make sure that all those little bits are out before we glue anything together. I'm going to put that one on top of that one, this one on top of this one. I'm using some distress collage medium. Once again, the reason why I love distress calls medium is it dries completely clear and it dries matte. If anything comes out, you're really not going to see it. Now this one, because the card stock here is metallic and it's got some shine to it. You probably would see the difference in the finished. You'd see a mat area, if you will. But it's gonna be a lot less noticeable than something that is that dries glossy or that dries white. There we go. I'm just going to take the block here and hold that on there. That way I don't have to hold it. You can see I don't put glue on the entire thing. I put it on any piece that sticks out in any long area and that's enough. There we go. Put that under their clothes, my glue up so that it doesn't dry on me. Now, I'm going to put leaf print on the background. This one is dry, that one There's a little wet spot, so I'm just going to let that dry for a few more minutes. I kept my cards in this orientation, but you could absolutely change them and put your sentiment there as well. That would also work really, really well. And every single one of these techniques are really, really simple techniques perfect for people that are just starting out with stamping. You don't have to be an expert to do any of these ones here. It's also fun to do, to learn a bunch of different techniques with the same stamp. Now I'm using fall leaves here. You could do Christmas foliage, you could do pretty much anything. For a lot of these, you just want to have some, some solid space and some open space. Just makes it look a little bit more interesting here. That corner is still or that little area there still wet. So I'm just going to dab the excess off. I'm always fascinated with the oxide inks that how the color changes as they dry. So interesting to me how it does that. And it's also really cool that there is an ink, as in pigment ink that you can use on dark colors and see them. Because if I were to take these inks and stamp them on here, but you won't be able to tell there was anything on there. There you go. Two cards down. We just need to let them completely dry. But very, very simple techniques there. We'll see you in the next one where I show you another one. 3. Embossed Stamping & Emboss Resist Technique Part 1: All right, For our next card, we're going to do some embossing on card stock using the same leaf stamps, but we're gonna do it two different ways. The first way we're going to do it is with opaque metallic embossing powder. So I have my stamp here. I'm using versa Marque Inc. It's a nice sticky ink and that will help the embossing powder stick to the image while we're melting it with a heat gun. I'm making sure that I have this covered really nicely. Once again, I've put it on some white card stock just so I can see where I'm stamping. I'm also going to be pouring the embossing powder over it while it's on this card stock so I can take any excess and put it back in the container. There we go. Now I've got a few different metallics here. I've got a rose, gold or gold. And it's called bronze, but it's also kinda coppery. So what I'm gonna do instead of pouring, typically if I pour, if I embossed with one color, I'll just pour it right on the area, poor whole lot and then dump off the excess. But because I'm trying to mix a few different colors, what I'm gonna do is take a pinch of each one and sprinkle it on. And that way we're gonna get a mix of the different metallics and create an interesting backing background that way. Now because I'm mixing them, obviously you can't put them back in the container. So I do keep a container of all the mixed metallic ones when I've poured them. That way I can reuse like just a mix. If I need to. I'm going to do here. I'm going to tap the excess off now before tilting it, I'm just gonna do this. So it kinda just jumps around and sticks to any exposed ink. Look off the back to get some of the excess off. Now, before putting this back, I'm going to just take my mixture just at the off chance that there's an area that has ink on it that wasn't didn't doesn't have any of the powder on it. Just going to pour the whole mixture over there. That's just going to stick to anything that might not already have powder on it. Just flicks off the excess off of anywhere that doesn't have any ink. For our mixture back in the container. I labeled the top of my little containers just so I know what's in there. Now I'm going to melt it with a heat gun. So this is a heat gun I've used. I've had it for about 30 years. It works really, really well. The thing with using a heat gun is you don't want to go like this. You want to direct it and just slowly move around while the powder is melting. Anything that's not stuck to a stamped image. If you don't flick it off or take a brush and brush it off, It's just going to melt right onto the paper. Just so be aware if there's something you don't want on their brush it off before you start melting. So often when you heat emboss, the paper starts to warp. To even that out. I'll put some heat on the bottom as well. Not going to completely eliminate it, but I do find it takes some of the excess warpage. Oh, but once you glue this down to your card front, that's going to go away. So there we have our mixed metals there. This would also work on any colored card stock. The metallic embossing powder is opaque. So it's going to work on any type of card stock no matter what. Next one we're gonna do is this one here. So this one we're gonna do on a light colored card stock. I know it looks like it's on dark but it's not. We'll show you how you would do that. Now, I'm using embossing glazes. For this embossing glaze is a transparent embossing powder. So if I were to have, say, a printed paper and to stamp and emboss with the glaze over top. You would see that print. Through the embossing powder, it would still be tinted the color of whatever glaze you use. But you'd still see that print underneath there. There's some fun things that you can do with it that way. So my paper is obviously not printed. It's just a solid piece of card stock. We're gonna do a very similar technique to what we just did with the metallic embossing powder. But we're gonna do it with the glazes and then we're going to make our card stock have a dark background once we're done. So it's basically the ink that we're using afterwards is going to be resisted by the embossing that we're creating right now. You don't have to make your background dark after putting your powder on there, you could keep it light if you want it. Alright, so same process, doesn't matter what color you go first. I'm just going to go one at a time. It takes you pinch of each of the colors and sprinkle it as if you're sprinkling sugar or salt and you're cooking, wipe off your fingers between time. We don't want to get different colors within the different jars. I've just chosen some fall colors for this. If you chose like if you had stamps that were say, winter foliage or whatever, you choose, whatever colors are appropriate for the stamps that you have. This would, this would work with basically any stamp, best one, that, ones that have a little bit of solid next to them, they don't need to be completely solid. But if it's just an outline stamp, you're likely not going to see a whole lot of the different colors with it. But play around. I mean, it only takes a little pinch of each of the powders. And those powder or those containers really have a lot of powder in them. There we go. So same as before. What I'm going to do is pour my excess rate on my paper here. Pick up the paper. And I think we can also do it this way here. I'm going to say I think there's an area of my stamp damage there that didn't get any powder on it. I also keep an mixed in Boston glaze. One here. This one has got more than these colors in it. So here we might get a little bit of other stuff in there. But it's just to fill in any areas of exposed ink that don't have any powder. Powder can go read into the container again. Let's move these over here. Melt the powder. Flip the card stock around, make sure that when you're doing, you're in Boston, you're using your heat away from your hands. It does get quite hot. There we go. So just tilted in the light, anything that's not melted will not be shiny and the light. Just going to check this break here because there we go. 4. Embossed Stamping & Emboss Resist Technique Part 2: Alright, now I am turning this black or dark, background dark, but you don't have to. You could do it like this and leave it like this. You could ink it and whatever colors you wanted. But the cool thing is the embossing powder is going to resist the ink. So I can take a paper towel or a napkin or whatnot and I can wipe off the ink off the powder. You can start anywhere on your paper. We're just trying to make this as dark black as possible. So you'll see I'm going into my ink pad often to rethink my brush here. This is a distress blending brush so you can have it so that the end is like this and there's a lot of the brush exposed or you can move it and that's what I'm doing right here. So that's a little bit stiffer and the ink is a little bit more concentrated. When I flip it over, I'm going to use my paper towel to hold where the ink quiz, just so that I don't get any color with my fingers. I do change the direction that I'm brushing, especially around the stamped images just to get it into those nicks and crannies. And once again, this will work with any colors of transparent embossing powder. I wouldn't do this technique with opaque embossing powder simply because opaque, we'll just cover whatever paper you're using any way. So there's no point. Now a paper towel and just wipe this off. If you find that some ink has dried on your embossing, you can take a baby wipe and wipe it off. But because this ink that we're using here is a dye based ink, the baby wipe or re-wet that ink as well. So you just want to be careful because otherwise we'll start taking away some of the dark background there. Alright, let's put that to the side. I'm just going to take a wet baby wipe just to clean that off so that I'm not working on ink when I'm putting this together and trying to get some of the excess off my fingers. If it bothers you to getting ink on your hands, you can absolutely wear gloves. So once again, the card designs are super simple. They're the same as the last one. So we're just going to take our background here and glue it down. I've just chosen orange card backs for these cards, whatever color you want will work. Obviously. I just have an excess of orange and it works with the season. It's not really one of my favorite colors, so I don't use it a lot, so I figured I might as well use it. Use a bunch of it up. There we go. I'm just putting acrylic blocks on here just so that that can hold that down while I'm doing the next step. I've already got my sentiment. Dicots cut here. Just coat, chose a couple of colors that coordinated with both of the cards, with the ink or with the embossing colors as well as the season. Because obviously there's no red on the metallic one there, but it works with the season. Glue those in place. And actually I think I'm going to glue this right down on the card so that the block can hold that as well. And like I said before, I'm doing this at the bottom here, you could obviously change the orientation and have your card go like this. That would absolutely work. It wouldn't change anything. Let's do this guy here. Perfect. And now let's glue that one down to the other card. Dicot shifted. They're a bit well, I was touching it. That's the great part about liquid glue is it's easy to move it back. Alright, to put the acrylic block on there to let it dry. But once they're dry, you've got another couple full cards. They're very, very pretty. Now, if you wanted to use the glaze embossing powders on dark card stock and not go through inking it afterwards. What you could do is use a white pigment inks to stamp and then emboss over top of it. But this is just an easy, easy way to do it as well, but that is an option. We'll see you in the next video. 5. Stamping with Sprays: Alright, these are the next two cards that we're making here. We're gonna do the one on the black background first and then I'm going to show you how to adapt it a little bit to be able to do it on the light background if by chance you don't have the sprays. Now, these ones are colored Micah sprays from Ranger the distress make a stains. Now, they are a seasonal item and that's why I'm showing you how to adapt it if you don't happen to have them or can't get your hands on them anymore. They're doing these every second year. They're doing they had one set last year and then a new set this year. And they're planning on alternating back and forth between the two sets for as long as people love them and keep buying them, basically probably. So. First colors that I'm using here, There's burning, ember, Harvest Moon and wicked elixir. So like I said, these are colored Micah, I'm just shaking them to make sure that the mic is well distributed. If it's still on the bottom of your bottle, there's a good chance you're gonna get it up your sprayer and you're going to clog it. You'll want to make sure that you will have mixed it really, really well. And then I'm going to spray it on my mat here. And we're actually going to stamp with this. So I'm only spraying a thin layer. I'm not putting puddles on there because I want to be able to get some of these colors in there. Now, the thing with using sprays to stamp with is you're not gonna get a crisp, clean image. If you want a crisp clean image, we want to use a stamp pad. So I've got that on my stamp there. And now we're going to stamp it. The nice thing about this is the mica and the color they're fused together. So you can easily do it on a dark surface and have it show up. That pretty. So it does take a few seconds for that to dry. So I'm going to let that dry while that's drying. I am going to clean this up here for the next one. Now because the mica and the color or fuse, like I said, you can get a you can do it on a dark surface. If by chance you don't have access to those sprays, there is a way to do it with other things and get a similar result. You're not gonna get the same result. It's gonna be a similar result. And that's with using mica sprays. These are part of the regular line. They're available all the time. Once again, they have the mica that settles to the bottom. You want to shake them to make sure that gets mixed in there before we do anything with them. So these are Micah sprays. They only have mica. They don't have any color. So you can't really stamp just with them because I tried it. I'm not sure where the piece of paper where I tried it. You didn't oh, here it is. You really didn't see a you've lost a lot of the detail and it just wasn't very exciting to look at what you can do. And I'm doing this on a light surface. I'm using colored spray stains. These are distressed brace deans. They are transparent, which is why I'm working on a light surface. Can't do it on a dark surface because transparent it's not going to show up. You might get a little bit of to show up from the the mica, but not enough to get a nice image like you did with the black on the other ones. If you wanted it to show up on a dark surface, you could use the distress oxide stains or spray stands. The only thing is just like that very first card, where are we where we stamped it onto the black. It's got some over spray on there. Just like the first card where we stamped onto the black. It's going to change a little bit. The sprays are going to oxidize a little bit as they dry. But it is a way to get a similar look. So the MIC is that I'm using here are tarnished brass and antique bronze. I chose them just because they were more full colored micas. The third one in that set is a silver. So I didn't show it. Choose that one. Probably have a little bit too much spray on there. So I might get some pedaling, But that's okay with these particular stamp, but I don't necessarily mind if some of them some of the detail fills in with them. There we go. So we're going to let both of those dries. I'm just going to pause the camera. And when they're both dried, we will put our hearts together, alright, or pieces are dry. So let's assemble our cards once again, I'm keeping it super, super simple. By keeping it nice and simple. Do more techniques and more Kurds. But you absolutely could change the layout. If you so choose. Already got my dyes or my sentiment die cut. So obviously those Micah, Micah sprays the colored ones, could easily go onto a light surface. I chose to do it on a dark surface just to show you that it looks really, really cool on a dark surface. But you can absolutely do that on a light one. It's just so fun how bright and colorful they show up. Once again, work for any season. Best to have some stamps that have some solid next to them. They don't need to be completely solid because these ones aren't. But just ones that have some solid next to them. You wouldn't want just the outlines down because you'd lose some of the detail of that outline stamp, as well as the fact that you may not be able to see the mica quite as well. All right. Let's put this down on here. Well, that's drawing what we put this together. My light background there, it's mostly dry but it's not 100% dry. So the papers just as still a little bit damp, so it's just as touch worse still. There we go. Adhesive on the back of that. It's funny, I totally don't tend to do a whole lot of full cards where there just wasn't a mood this fall. Just to do some nice colorful, colorful fall foliage cards. Alright, there we go. I'm just going to put this on here for that to dry. There we have this one and then I'll show you the one that's a sample that's already dry. So really pretty to be able to see the mica, the shimmer. This one because it's fused to the color, It's more of an all over shimmer, whereas this one, it is in bits and pieces. There are some areas that don't have as much tumor as others. But still really, really pretty and a nice way to elevate a stamped image and just give it a little bit more interest. 6. Leaf Backgrounds with Magicals Part 1: Alright, for our next technique, we're going to do this and we're gonna do it with some magical powders. They are colored powders that are activated with water, and they have a bit of shimmer to them, which is quite fun. So the first one we're gonna do is this one. And then we're gonna be working on this one in-between. I'm first step is to emboss one of the things or one of the backgrounds. And then we will carry on. So I've got my leaf stamp here, piece of scrap paper. And my bosses. I'm just embossing with clear powder. And I'm working on watercolor paper here. So this technique that we're, these techniques that we're doing for this one, we're going to use quite a bit of water. So you need to use paper that can handle that water. And nothing better than watercolor paper. Because it's meant for water. The other thing you could use is mixed media paper. That would work as well. Just because you can use moisture on that as well. But I do like watercolor for this. Watercolor, especially the kinds that I buy have a bit of texture to them and I just like what it adds to the the leaves for this technique. Right now, because I use clear powder a lot, I have it in a container. So I like to just skip the powder and then run it over the paper and it will stick to any of the ink that's there. You probably can't see it a whole lot on camera just because it's clear powder on a light paper. Tap off any excess. I ended up getting a line from when I dropped my ink pad. But this paper is bigger than what I actually need. So we'll just cut that off, I'll leave that on there and emboss. And it will affect the background, you'll see it. But this paper is big enough that I'll just cut it off. Once the paper is dry again. Heat gun to melt that powder. It's tilted in a light. You'll be able to see what the shimmer. If there's spots that have not been embossed. Think that's good. Alright, so now I'm going to do the magical is on both of these pieces of paper at the same time. What I like to do is spray my surface and spray the card stock, watercolor paper. Even though it's meant for water, it starts to move and bend. And I find that spring my surface and kinda suctioning it down kinda helps to control that. Hurling a little bit. I've got my colors here. I'm using a fan brush to drop them on my background. And you can see how it moves when there's an area that's got a pool of water. So this is from an autumn set. And I'm just using, There's another color in here in this set that's blue and I'm just using the red, the orange, the green, and the brown, the fall colors. Basically. If you want to learn more techniques with the magical is I have a class on here that I just posted recently that sum is called fault magical fall cards or fall magical. It's got those two things in the title there. I do want to try get the color all the way to the edge of the paper. And obviously the water has absorbed into my paper, so it's not moving as much anymore. In order to get it to move. Just missed again. Now I'm going to add some of the brown. The brown has a little bit of a copper shimmer in it, which is really, really cool. Now obviously the background with no embossing, you're not going to see the color is going to go over the entire background. The background that's got some embossing here. It's going to resist those magical. So anywhere you see this beating here is because it's resisting. I've got a watercolor brush. I'm just going to break up some of the powder in some of the areas just to move it around. I want that color to go all around the card stock so that I can pick and choose where to cut off. Because like I said before, this is bigger than what I actually need. I'm trying not to mix it up too much because I do want to see individual colors as well. But I also don't want to have basically clumps at the pigment in areas. And I'm just tapping it up and down to move that around there. If you wanted to, you could clean your brush between I just don't have a thing of water here to clean it. By in-between. I mean between. So there's an area that's green here and I would like to tap into there and move that around a little bit, but it's just going to I've got red on here because most of the stuff that I've been breaking up as the red. So if I do that right now, it's going to end up being brown in there and I don't want that. So I'm just going to leave that. I don't mind it. Now, we need to let this completely dry before we move on to the next step. Now, some of those areas where I have the embossing and where it's beating up. I'm just going to pull some of that up just because some of the excess water sometimes likes to soak into the paper and go underneath the embossing. I'm not doing anything to the background. I'm just pulling up some of the excess where the embossed leaves are. I mean, you could do more. You could do the background too if you wanted, but I don't really want to effect that. I want to let that dry naturally. Alright, so this needs to dry completely before we move on. And I'll warn you right now, depending on how much water you use, it's going to take several hours. You could use a heat tool like this to speed up the drying. This is meant for drying paints and stuff like that. I just let it dry naturally and go on about my day, do some to other chores. But if you wanted to speed it up, you could use something like that. A heat gun like we used to emboss it a little bit too intensive heat in order to dry it so I wouldn't use that. Something more gentle is totally fine. We'll see you when it's dry. 8. Leaf Backgrounds with Mica Pearls Part 1: Alright, so this section here is one that I actually had an intended to include in this class. But when I was doing the section with the mica sprays, I was like, Oh, I bet you, I should do one with perfect pearls. To show you that you can get some similar looks to it. It's not gonna be nearly as fluid looking as the pearl sprays or the makerspace, simply because it's not fluid, it's a powder, but you can get some fun shimmery effects with that. So I'm going to do, I'm actually going to do four different samples here. I don't have samples to show you ahead of time, so you're just we're just going to do it altogether. So I have a light surface and a dark surface. I'm going to use these four colors here. We've got perfect cup per perfect gold. This one is forever red and this one is for evergreen. And then I've got a light and a dark surface here. And for this one I'm going to show you interference red and interference green together. Just because those are different ones, they do slightly different things than the other ones. So let's go. So the very first one I'm gonna do is on the light surface here. We're gonna do that same stamp with the verse of Marketing. This is the same ink that we're doing that we use for going to turn that over. I've got some something on there but my dicot will cover it. This is the same sticky ink that we use for embossing. And what we're doing with it with this is we're going to stamp with the first-to-market ink and then we're gonna desk the perfect pearls powder, and it will stick to where the ink is. Now. Perfect pearls powder. It's a mica powder that has a binding agent in it that is activated with water. So you have to mixed it with water to activate that binding agent. And we'll do that at the end. So I've got a very fluffy brush here. I can use the same brush with all of the different colors. Perfect pearls. Once again, you could do these all one color like I could take this perfect copper and do the entire thing, just the one color. And it would work beautifully. I just, for this class, I wanted to do a bunch of different colors together because part of the fun to me, a fall leaves is the mixture of color you get on each one. I just think it looks really pretty. And I just, for this class, I wanted to show you a bunch of different ways you could emulate that effect. In card making. Using one stamps it basically that one there is forever red. Then the last color is for evergreen. Just get a little bit of green on there. You can desk or you can swipe your brush on a paper towel while you're working, if you're wanting to clean a color up off of it between colors. These two, I didn't really matter too much because they're within the same color, family color tones. But I definitely wanted to do that before the green one. So in order to get all of this Micah off of the background of your card. Swiffer duster is your best friend and you can use that same one over and over again. I've been using this one for a very long time. So that is what it looks like before we spray. Now to spray it. I'm just going to take my distress sprayer. I'm just gonna move this out of the way just so I don't miss those. And I'm going to move my paper to the way so I don't miss that. Just a couple of light sprays and then set it aside to dry. If you find that it hasn't sat in the way you would find that I would just after it's completely dry, you would just rub it if you get some on your hand, I tend to get a little bit on my hand, but sometimes missing it a second time and letting that dry or even a third time if that makes you feel comfortable, will just help set those powders a little bit better. Now, as far as I'm aware, perfect pearls are the only Micah powder that has a binding agent in it. There are other Micah powders per Alexis, one of them, it doesn't have a binding agent in it. So in order to do this same technique, you would need to add one. It's called gum Arabic. And it says the instructions read on this side of it as one part gum arabic to four parts of the Micah powder. So if you have those, if you have poor Rolex or Prima also has Micah powders as well. If you have a different brand and it doesn't have a binding agent in it, you could add one to do this technique. So you don't necessarily need to only get these if you already have some makeup powders. So these four here that I'm using are kind of metallic powders. So they show up similarly on the light background as they do on the dark background. And what I mean by that is the metallic in them looks fairly similar. When we get to the interference colors, you're going to see a big difference between the two backgrounds. Which is why I wanted to show both of them and I wanted to show them. Separately so that you could see the difference between them. You probably can't see on the camera, but I can kinda see where my stamped image is. And you can't actually collect any of this excess powder. So anything excesses just gets wiped off with the Swiffer and the Swiffer cloth and tossed. But really the powders go a long, long way. I've had some of my pots of mica powders are these perfect pearls for years. So you don't have to really worry about wasting them because they go a long, long way. The other fun thing because of the binding agent in them is you can actually mix the perfect pearls with water and create shimmery watercolors with them to the side. So there we are on the black background. Show you both of them at close. Both of them absolutely beautiful. And you can see that those make us look very similar on the two backgrounds. So this one again, I'm going to miss it to set the powder. And you want to have a Mr. that makes a nice fine spray. I realize I didn't get too much spray on this side. I'm going to take this and I'm going to set that aside to dry while we're working on the next one's want to make sure to clean my brush off before the next one so that you can see the difference and I don't get residue from that particular one on there. Now because we're we're doing the mica is we have excess. I definitely recommend working on a scrap piece of paper just to catch that excess powder. The interference colors, they only come in a few colors. I think there's also interference. There's violet, might be blue. They don't come in very many colors. There's this fun for something a little bit different. So I'm gonna do the white background first because it's really not very impressive on the white. But it's really, really cool and the black. But you definitely have to try them on both backgrounds to be able to see the difference in person. On a light background. You'll see a tiny little bit of shimmer in the light, but you're really not going to see a whole lot of, whole lot of it. It's gonna look kinda like pastel colors. Exactly the same processes before. I'm going to leave that open just in case I want to grab a little bit more. There we go. I think that's good. I'm going to close this even though I want it for the next one, I want to make sure to have it closed when I'm missing water. I don't want to miss water in my pots. Once again, get the Swiffer cloth. They're sort of the way. So it loops. A very pretty, but a very subtle background with that one there. Let's miss this one and let it sit. 9. Leaf Backgrounds with Mica Pearls Part 2: And now let's do the black background. It's going to take some of the excess powder offers this just because it gets a little bit gritty underneath the paper, it's not going to harm anything. But you can just kinda feel the gritty this underneath. They're moving that stamp to the side. I'm gonna have this one here just so you can see. The difference between the two of them. Doesn't matter which color you start with. See how it just really pops on the dark background. You really see the powder on it. I just love how that interference does that. Alright, Thanks. Sure. Whole background is covered. There we go. And I'm going to close these pots, tuck them to the side, wipe off my excess. Wipe it off the surface there to look at how different those backgrounds look. Both really, really pretty. These colors, I think, would be really, really pretty. You could do say a baby card with them, not necessarily with leaves, possibly with a different I mean, you could do leaves if it was born in the fall. You wanted to recall, incorporate fall cards with it. But just really, really pretty and subtle and pastel with that one. And the colors show up so much more vibrant on the dark background. I got it. I got a couple of blotches there. So these have to dry completely and because I hadn't planned to these out ahead of time, I don't have samples. So while I'm letting them dry, I'm going to pick out some colors and die cut my thanks sentiment and get that already. So I'll see you in a moment and we'll put the cards together. Alright, so I've got my sentiments done here. My paper or by stamped images are dry. Now, one thing I wanted to mention is I said earlier that I hadn't planned this and I thought of it in the middle of the class, but you'll see these at the beginning of the class. Because I actually film my introduction last. That way, if I had intended to do something and I change the plan in between or something didn't work out, or I added something, it will be included in the introduction video. So if anyone was confused by that, That's why it's in there. But also still here and it wasn't planned. The other thing I wanted to mention is I didn't use any regular or any special card stock for for doing these, I just use regular card stock. This is just regular black, that's just regular white, and it's just smooth. I wanted something smooth to work on. We're adding moisture and paper doesn't like moisture, which is why it has curled a little bit. But we're not adding a whole lot. So it's not going to change the paper tremendously. When we go and glue these down onto our basis. All of that warping is gonna go away, especially because I put a block on top of it while it's drying to help flatten it out. I was gonna do all orange card basis for this whole class. Just use up my orange card stock. But these two here, they just really didn't suit it. So I had some sage card stock here that worked lovely or that matched lovely. So we're using that. So this one here. I really liked curling there, but I'm just going to try to position it. I'm going to add this block because I can see through it a little bit better. Sometimes when I position it and put the block on it and then move it, it likes to move on me. So I just need a little extra weight. Little thing with beads like that is perfect for that. And then I also altered my colors for my thinks die cut for this one, just so that they would have colors that matched on here. What's to the app? Put that on there. Alright, now so what you have some orange basis here. Another thing you could do is put your image peace between a few sheets of newsprint. And which one do I want? I'm gonna do this one. And this one. You can put your image piece on a few pieces of newsprint or between a few pieces of newsprint and then Iran to flatten your piece out. If that curled was just fighting you too much when you're trying to glue them together? Typically, I find though, using an acrylic block to hold him down does the trick. Typically it has enough weight to it. We go and I don't have a third block, but this one probably is dry enough by now. Alright, I'm going to let these dry and then I'll be back in a moment once they are, to show you them dry. Alright, our cards are mostly dry, although I think I'll put the weights back on them once we're done this. So this one, these two here are the ones with the interference colors. Very pretty, but also very different between what background you choose. And then these ones here are the regular metallic colors. Once again, both very pretty little bit similar to the mica myths, the colored myths, but you get a little bit more detail. So if one of the things that perhaps was not your cup of tea about the mica missed is that you lost some of that detail. Maybe the perfect pearls might be a better choice for you because you keep all of the detail of any stamp that you're using it with and you can use them with any stamp, whether it's a silhouette one or just a detailed outline one, it will work just as well. We'll see you in the next video. 10. Leaf Backgrounds with Watercolour Crayons Part 1: Alright, so for our last technique, we're going to use some watercolor crayons. So I'll show you how to do it with just the crayons, not putting anything on top of it. And then the spin off, we're going to put some clear embossing powder on it and emboss it and give it a nice, beautiful shine. And then for a second spin off. I'm going to show you what frosted crystal embossing powder looks like. It just gives it a really pretty frosted look, almost as if the leaves got hit by an overnight frost. First one we're gonna do is the one without any embossing. So I have a little dish here with some water and I've got four different crayons, green, brown and orange and red. I'm going to start with the green and this one, he must have broken it some time. So it's quite soft and very bendy. So all I'm doing is I'm dipping my crayon into the water and then coloring it on my stamp. Now, likely could do this with watercolor pencils depending on how soft they are. I had originally wanted to do this. I Tim Holtz just came up with watercolor pencils, and I had originally wanted to do that with that, but my package has been stuck in customs for nearly two weeks now. So I figured I'd do this with product I already had on hand. It's just not nearly as exciting. Sometimes it's playing with something that's new. So I'm just gonna make sure I didn't get any green on this guy here. So a little bit more, I'm just going to make sure that my whole surface of all of the stamps are covered. And you can see that I'm dipping in water frequently. That water just helps that crayon to stay a little bit moist. And that just helps me to be able to spread the color on the stamp. Now obviously the green color is a lot easier to see in the other colors. The other colors are quite similar to the stamp color. Once again, I'm doing fall leaves. This would be really, really pretty especially with the frosted crystal, with some winter greens. And then do the frosted crystal. So it kind of like frosted Pines or something not that would look really pretty last color, red. So you're definitely not limited to just fall cards with this. Have fun with it. It's always fun to have different ways to use the products you already have. And just same as before, I like to do the red on the leaf tips. There's no rhyme or reason. If you go out and look at the fall leaves, they're not all on, just the tips. So before I stamp it just at the off chance that my green is dry, I'm just going to do a couple of light myths with my sprayer and then stamp it. There we go. I'm going to set that aside to dry. And then we're going to work on another one right away. So next one we're gonna do is the one with the clear glossy powder over top. So I'm repeating the exact same process with coloring my stamp. Should it be slightly easier after the first time, just because your crayons are already wet. And I'm trying to color in the same areas with the same colors that I did before. But there's no big deal if you happen to go over or do it in a different area, you're not going to ruin your crayons in any way. If you happen to get a different color on them, they can easily just be rinsed dry or rinsed off. Again with my orange. I'm trying to do any open space. And then I just go with my read and do some of the tips. Didn't do any yellow in here, but you can certainly add yellow to this. That would be really, really pretty. Then last one is the red. Alright, once again, I'm going to light messed with the water just to make sure that everything is wet. There we go. Very cute. And then I've got my container of clear powder here. Now the one thing when you're embossing this, because there's some moisture under it. Those places that have some extra moisture to take a little bit longer to emboss. If it doesn't work quite as quick as irregular embossing, just don't panic. It'll happen. Here we go. Tap off the excess this aside to dry or not drive this aside to emboss. There we are just tilted in the sunlight just to make sure that everything is embossed or the few spots that I missed. There we go, That's better. I think I said tilted in the sunlight. I meant tilted in the light. So I'm just doing this on regular smooth card stock. So it does work a little bit with the technique because there is some water, but it is going to get dried fairly quickly. And once we glue it down on our card, you never even going to notice that. But if you feel more comfortable, you could use mixed media paper. 11. Leaf Backgrounds with Watercolour Crayons Part 2: Now for the third one, process is exactly the same. Now, there might be some residue. Residual. English is hard today. Crayon from before and I bet you if I just sprayed it and stamped it, I probably could get somewhat decent color out of it. But I don't really want to rate now, experiment with that. But if you've got an extra piece of scrap paper, just try it and see if you've got enough color on there for a second. Stamping and embossing. And you can see between these, I don't bother cleaning my stamp up. I will do that at the end when everything is done. But that's not to say that you couldn't if you wanted to, you absolutely could clean your stamp between there's some stamps like this one here. Every single time I do it. It kinda pools with water, but it's also a more solid stamp. So there's more surface. Some of these the water goes into the areas. But because of the type of stamp that we're using, I'm not really minding it if it loses some of its open detail. I think it looks really pretty no matter what. Then last one, the red. And you can tell that I'm not being super, super careful with my coloring. I'm just making sure that there's color over the whole thing. Missed lightly and then stamp where we are. You got to put some paper down for this one because I don't have container to pour back in. Well, I have a container to pour back into you, but I don't have a container like my clear one. So I'm just going to this is a really big container to, so I'm just going to pour a ton of the powder out. Tap the excess off. Now because this one is frosted crystal appearance is more of a frosty look. So when you emboss it, it's going to look different than embossing powder. We're not looking for that clear shine that we get from embossing powder. It's going to have a frosty look, but while you're embossing, it does kinda bubble so you can tell that it's happening. There is a change but you just have to notice or HF to watch it and notice it while it's working. You can see right here is what's embossed. The color stays the same. It just gets a little bit more clear. Rounds are embossing away from my hand. Alright, there we are. This one is embossed. So my first one is still barely has got some fairly big wet spots. So I'm just going to pause, let this dry completely and then I'll be back to assemble. The first one is dry so we can continue. And you can actually use your heat tool to speed it up if you want as well. There's nothing wrong with that. It is going to make the paperwork a little bit more. But that's okay. Like we've said before, once we glue it down to our curves, we're never going to know that the paper was worth. I'm going to leave the lid off of that for a moment. All right. I've got it on there. I'm just going to put the acrylic block on there to hold it in place. I've got my sentiments already die cut and glued together. Exactly the same way as every single previous card here. So there's no surprise there. I'm actually going to take my little tin. Let that dry for a moment and hidden back. The end of that sentence was silence my dog. If I forget to close the curtain upstairs, she likes to bark at anything that moves. So hopefully we've got it fixed. Alright, once again, just gluing the thanks die cut at the bottom. And again, you could change your sentiment to whatever you want it to be, as well as your stamped image for the technique. This would even be really, really pretty much just like some flour silhouettes, I think. Or as I said before, some winter greenery. I think it'd be really nice as well. Last one. Here we are. Put this back over top of that to let that dry. And then once they are dry, very simple but very, very pretty. And I love how the colors all combined together. And that every single one is different from the other. 12. Autumn Leaves Stamping Techniques Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the autumn leaves stamping techniques card class. I hope you enjoyed learning the different techniques and then it's inspired to use for some future projects. Please take a moment to review the class and let me know what you thought. When you do have a chance to do some of these techniques, I'd love to see pictures of them, so please upload them to the gallery and share them with everyone that takes this class. Thank you so much. Have a great day.