Cardmaking with Colour Layer Stamps Class

1. Cardmaking with Colour Layer Stamps Class: Hello, I'm sure I'll welcome to card making with color layer stamps. Using color layer stamps or one of my favorite ways of making cards, the color possibilities are absolutely endless and they're a great way to just create an image fairly quickly. They're also fun for people that don't necessarily love to color, but want to create fun, colorful pieces. Let's go take a look at what we're creating in this class. These are the three cards that we're going to be creating in the class. All very beautiful ocean BCCI inspired creations. I'm gonna do three different variations on using color layer stamps and how you can use them. Keep in mind, this isn't the only ways they can be used are just my favorite ways of using them. This class comes with a supplier list that lists all of the supplies used for each of the cards, as well as having a sample picture of each one of the creations. Those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them if you choose. But they're also great for reference as well. Let's go create some cards. 2. Tips for using Clear Stamps & a Stamp Positioner: So before we actually start creating cards, I just wanted to take a moment to talk about clear stamp sets. Now, this same goes for rubber, but in the next class we are using clear stamp sets. And I'll tell you what I was told years and years and years ago when I first started stamping both clear and rubber sets, when they make them, There's a release agent put in the mold. And sometimes that released agent makes it hard for inks to stay on your stamps. That especially works with dye inks, which is what we're using for the most part for this class. So the best way to condition your stamps to get them ready for ink is to use just a white eraser and erase the stamping surface to your stamps. You don't have to do a whole lot of it. I just rub it over the stamp. And what I tend to do is if I'm going to use one stamp in my set, I do all my stamps because that way I know if I've used one, they're all done. I don't need to do that again. This is something you only need to do once when you first get the set and then take a brush and remove any of the residual eraser bits. Because those are going to show when you're stamping if you leave them on there. Another thing you can do is say rub them on a pair of blue jeans, something like that. Other one that I heard is very fine sandpaper, but I've never done that before simply because I am worried about ruining the surface of my stamp and I know this is not gonna do that. So I've had success just using a white eraser. I wouldn't want to ruin some stuff that I have just bought by using sandpaper. So I've never used that one, but I have heard it. And I find the white eraser does it well enough. So I know that that stamp set is fairly good to go. You may have to stamp it a couple of times, especially with dye ink, especially when you're first starting to use them. But that is how you get these stamps ready for ink. And for the most part, that will solve a lot of the issues that you may or may not have. The other thing that I wanted to talk about is in this class because we're using color layer stamps. You need to position them in order to get the right look of the image. And the best way to do that is using a stamp position or this one is a Tim Holtz one years ago where memory keepers had one. There's the misty they all do the same thing. And what you're going to want to do is take your piece of paper when you first when you're first starting your card, put it right into the corner here and have it nice and tight in that corner. I have some media grip in here. It helps to grip the paper. I still use my magnets to hold things in place where I'm not stamping. You obviously wouldn't want to have a magnet where you're stamping just to keep it in position. If by chance something happens to move, if it is stuck in that corner, I know that putting it back in that corner is going to be where it needs to be in order to stamp something. Again, if I've already stamped it and I need to do it again and it's shifted. If I put it back in that corner, I know that that's where I had it and it needs to be something to do there. You don't necessarily need to use media grip. Sometimes you can use some double-sided tape on the back or some removable tape on the back to help grip it in place if you want. I just find with this I don't need to do that. And sometimes when I put tape on the back, you see it when you're blending inks on the front, it just adds a little bit of an unevenness to the surface. So I definitely like having this mat in here. You just want to make sure I check it regularly to make sure that things haven't shifted and then they don't have a wrinkle underneath. So that's something to keep in mind as well. So with all that being said, let's go create some cards. 3. Whale Card: Water Background: Alright, the very first card we're going to make is this one here with the blue whale. So the very first step is we're gonna do the water background. So I've got four different colors here. Then I'm going to be using, I'm going to use my blending brush Starting from the lightest color at the top, this is speckled exits are super light color. If you press harder, that's what you're gonna get. The like I said, the speckled Degas are really light color and we're actually going to embossed that water over top of it. Once we're done our background here, I'm going in circles to get the color on the background. But then I'm also going across because I want to get some kind of streaky lines there for the water. Now I've got some broken China a little bit darker. I want to give the illusion that it's going from, say, up where the sun is to the depths of the ocean. This brush I had used with some oxide inks a few weeks ago. And then wash them out. And I find it just doesn't take ink nearly as well as it did before. So since then I've been using different brushes with my oxides and these ones with my dye inks. Interesting because I never expected to have that sort of reaction. I'm going to use the darker brush for the dark, darkest color. This dark color is the unchartered Mariner. It's a brand new color that has just come out and I love the dark teal color of it. Want to get nice and dark at the bottom there. If you find that there's not, it's not dark enough. In some areas, you can go back and add a little bit more just to darken or darken it. I'm going to leave it like that. Now these inks have resonance in them. So they do need to be heat set before I go and stamp and emboss the water on the top if I were to do that now the embossing powder would stick to the whole thing. I just want to hit it with a heat gun to stop those. Right? Hopefully that was long enough. It's one of those things. Easiest way to tell is to use a embossing buddy out there it is, I was gonna say, but I can't find managers. So you take an embossing buddy, It's got some powder in it and rub it all over your card if there's anything that that embossing powder is going to stick to that card or that embossing buddy will soak it up and you won't have to worry about it anymore. So I've got my blue whale stamping. It's got the little water piece rate on there. I'm going to stamp it with some bursa mark. Make sure you put your stamp on your block the right way. I just put it on wrong accidentally. And if you have anything sticking to your stamp like I just did, makes sure to take it off. Ink your style. And it's going to fit within the edges of the salary is not going to go all the way across. If you want it to go all the way across, you could always stamp it twice. But what I ended up doing, instead of doing that was I took my card piece and I just rubbed it along my embossing pad so that I have some ink there for the powder to stick to. If there's not quite enough. After we've heated up, we can always add some more ink and thicken that up a little bit. If there's anything on there that the powder is sticking to, that you don't want it to stick to. You can use a soft brush to remove that. Right here. There's a bit of a blob. I want to get a little bit more of those lines back in there, so I'm just taking a brush and just lightly brushing it off. You have to do this before you melt it. Once you melt it, it's stuck to the paper and you're not gonna be able to do this. And I'm going to use my same heat gun to melt it. There we go. Now I like the way that is. But if I wanted it to be and we're just gonna do it just because instead of just talking about him as well, show it. If I want that white to be a little bit thicker, I'm just going to wrap the ink on a little bit more and try to get it going down from the top a little bit more than I already had it. I'm just trying to get that white foamy water top. Look, there. We go. And then melt that. Alright, so now we've got the perfect background. I'll see you in the next video and we will do the whale. 4. Whale Card: Whale Image: Alright, so the next step is to stamp the whale. So the best thing to use is a stamp positioner. So I've got this one here. I've got my magnets here that I'm going to use to hold my paper down. You definitely want to be using those magnets because sometimes when you're positioning your stamps, they can stick to the paper and it kind of pulls it up a little bit. So you want to have those magnets there to help. It's not going to completely stop it from pulling up, but it is going to hold it in place a little bit better. So make sure that your stamps or clean if you've used them before, you don't want to have residual ink sitting on there and having it transferred to the back of your paper? I'm just going to position the first one. Close it now. I have mine set to rubber because this particular positioner can do either rubber or clear. So I want to change it to the clear side so that it's the right thickness for clear stamps. I'm going to use oxide ink for this because oxide ink is more opaque and I want it to be I want the whale to be more opaque. You could use regular distressing on there, but I just wanted the opaque look of the oxides. I'm just making sure to stamp it and get it good impression. It's mostly good, but I'm going to go and ink my stamp up a second time and re stamp it. Now this is the beauty of the positioner because you don't need to worry about whether it's stamped or whether it's going in the exact same spot because you haven't moved anything. It's going to go in the same spot. If you were to use a block and try to place it, It's a little bit harder to make sure that everything is positioned perfectly because there's oxide on there. It's going to take a little bit for it to dry. First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to clean my sandpipers, got a baby wipe here. You can use you can use a wet cloth as well. These, these inks are water-soluble, but I want to make sure that my stamp is completely clean before putting it back in the package because I am going to use it in a little bit with some versa Marque Inc. And I don't want to have any ink left on my stamp there. Now, this is still slightly wet. I'm using my heat tool to dry the ink. You don't want to use the heat gun because it's just too hot. This is just to help drive the inks off a little bit and it's mostly dry. It's just to get that last little bit. Because if I go in with the next color and it's not quite dry, some of that might pull up a little bit. I do have some media grip in my position are here and that's just to help grip the paper, to hold it in place a little bit better. I also find, especially with clear stamps, that that slight cushion, I mean, it's really thin so there's not a lot of Christian just helps give a better impression. But this heat tool isn't going to hurt it at all. Alright, Now, my next stamp here, and if you're ever in doubt when you get these color layering stamps, it shows you rate on the back which one goes next. So there's not a whole lot of guesswork to it. My next one. And this is the beauty of having a positioner, having clean stamps is you can take your time to position it exactly how you want it to be. Then when you've got it, where you want it to go, you just close your position or here. Then you don't need to worry about stamping perfectly in the exact position because you know that it's positioned right. If we've got a little bit of spotting, they're going to stamp again. I actually really quite like that texture on here. Sometimes that happens because your stamps are new and you haven't conditioned them yet. I find it just happens with these oxide ink. But what I'm gonna do is I'm going to dry that ink and then I moved it one more time. It's mostly covered, but especially for this whale. I, personally, I kinda like it. I think it looks a little bit more natural like this. But this is where having a stamp position are totally helps because you can just stamp it as many times as you want. One more time. Got that last little bit in there. I'm just going to clean my stamp off and put it away while that dries a little bit and then. Here we go. And the very last one here is the whale's mouth. Now this one happens to have some ink on it from before. I'm just going to try that a little bit. Damp, but most of it took fine stamping on top of oxides is when I have this issue where not all of it is taking. But that's one of the reasons why I love having physician or that I can just read, position it. That's better. All right. Clean this off. I think one of the times I use this, I used a permanent ink on here, which is y, shows the ink. And then the very last step for the whale is we're gonna put that solid form back on top of it. We're going to stamp it with some versa Marque Inc. And emboss it with clear path or to give away all the clear, shiny look there. Grab the first American ink paper lifted up a little bit. But if you were within that corner, when you push push your paper in, you push it right into that corner. And you knew that if by chance some of it lifts up and it lifts up because this ink is extra sticky. If you have your paper in the corner to start, you just know that pushing it right back into that corner is going to put it right back in place. Take some clear powder here, and melt it with the heat gun. Now, if you wanted that clear layer to be extra thick while this is still hot, you can put some more powder on it and melted again. But I'm just going to leave this like that. I'll see you in the next video and we will add the white foamy stuff, the sentiment and put her card together. 5. Whale Card: Assembly: Alright, so our last step in the card is to add our little foam here and add our sentiment and then put her car together. So I'm going to the phone part is included with the stamp set. And I'm going to use some picket fence, which is a white distress ink. Now, it is not a bright white. It was never intended to be. It's more of a muted right? White, which is what I like for this. I don't want there to be bright white bubbles Coming up from here. And yes, I've got ink on that stamp. There's not a whole lot left of income that stamp, but I'm not really worried about contaminating it simply because if some of that ink transfers, it's quite light and it's not going to ruin the card in any way. But if this was something that you didn't want to get a possible impression while you're moving it around, you would definitely want to clean it between times. I just want that air bubbles, that foamy or whatever. I just want it to be very light and airy, clean it and put it away. And then last step. And I grabbed the sentiment and I use my stamp position or for this as well, because I wanna make sure that I've got a clean impression of that sentiment is much harder to try to re stamp it with an acrylic block. That didn't stamp barely at all. So press a little bit harder next time. I think part of the problem is this. It's getting in the way a little bit. So I've got most of it but I didn't get the S from sending tons of love. There we go. That's better. It's better, but I wanted to do it. One wasn't sure if it was the stamp or if it was just me, but it was just me. The stamp, stamp, totally fine. Alright. Now my white powder. Once again, if you've got any powder where you don't want it to be, you need to take it off before you melt it. I'm just going to clean that off in a moment, but let's glue or cried together. Super-simple. I've got it already pre-cut to the size that it needs to be. So I'm just going to glue it down. And I'm using distress collage medium. So if any of it happens to squeeze out, it dries completely matte and it dries clear so you'll never see where it was. So the beauty of this card is all in those lettering stamps and layering them altogether. But there you go. I love how the white or the clear powder on top of that wheel makes it nice and shiny. It gets a little bit of a different texture from the rest of the water. 6. Beach Card: Image Piece: The second card that we're going to create is this little B2 wave card here. The very first step, Let's do our water. So for this one, I'm actually going to pull my paper out a little bit because I want to make sure the stamps or the magnets in place. I want to make sure there's a little bevels on the edges of the stamps and I wanna make sure that my water goes within my card stock piece. So I want to allow for that little bevel there. So I'm going to put my stamp where I want it to be. I'm trying to keep the horizon as horizontal across as I can visually. And now I'm going to stamp. So these ones, this one here, I'm using all distress ink because I want there to be a little bit of a translucent quality to it simply because we're doing water. Now, it's a little bit blotchy. I'm going to lift this up a little bit. Sometimes when you've used or created something in here with this media grip, you need to make sure that it doesn't wrinkle. And I find sometimes after using a little bit, it wrinkles and it affects your stamping a bit. So hopefully I've put that in the same spot, pretty close. When I stamp, I'm tapping up and down. If I were to go like this, you'd see streaks and smears when you put your ink down. So that's the reason I tap my ink on it. Sometimes I will swirl it around a little bit to start and then I will go back and tap it. I'm gonna do it one more time to get a little bit more coverage. I'm going to move those magnets. Sometimes these magnets are just a touch thick when you're using clear stamps. I have them wrapped in washi tape because it gives it a little bit more grip. And if I were to let go of them and they would attract to each other, sometimes they can break. So it's a little bit of a safety thing. If by chance one happens to break. It's all wrapped up in washi tape. So now I'm going to grab my second wave or second layer. And I'm just making sure that horizon is in the same spot for my stamp. The bottom part will not match up and it's not intended to. Now let's go to my next darker color. So sometimes I'll do this and then I will wrap it up and down just to get the streaks and smears out of there. Do it one more time, a little bit more ink on there. You could do this as many times as you want or need to to build that ink color up. There we go. And then let's get my last color. Now this one, I'm not cleaning it up as or cleaning each stamp as I go because I'm not going back and using them with a different ink. If I were, I would be cleaning them. What you do want to do is once you're done using your set, then clean it makes sure that it's clean for the next time. You're using it. Love that dark color. Now I actually had my stamp a little bit too low, so I'm going to put it and reposition it, put it up a little bit. I'm gonna move that down there just in case it's interfering with my stamping up there. There we go. Alright. Now before I do the next step, I'm going to take this piece of paper out. And I created a mask for filling in the standard area here. So the way I did that is I took a post-it note and I put it so the sticky side was facing down because I want my edge to be where the sticky side of that post it is. And I'm just going to take my wide silhouette just stamped with a light color. And it really only needs to be inked along the edges because that's the part that I'm interested in. And then just stamp it. And then I'm just going to cut it along that edge. And I left a little bit of whitespace out because the white foamy part of the water. But that's how you get that mask and get the shape for it that you're wanting. This can be put aside for the moment. So we'll start with the sand. So I'm going to put that on there. It's not going to match exactly because I left that little space for white. So I'm taking some antique Lenin, which is just a really light hand. I'm going to start on top of the paper and then work my way down. I'm trying to get the ink darkest by the edge of the water and then lighter towards the bottom. Mainly because the sound on the edge of the water is going to be what? It's going to be darker. So there we go. And that, like I said, that whitespace is completely intentional. If you don't want to have that whitespace, you could take your inks or sorry, when you're cutting your when you're cutting your edge there, you can cut it even closer to that to get it an exact match. But like I said, I did that intentionally. I wanted that there. Then for the top part, I'm just going to use a different post-it note, put it on the horizon there and I'm going to ink my little sunset. And I'm just holding my card card stock piece in place. If you're worried about it moving and you're not comfortable with just holding it in place. You could take a piece of tape underneath this part here and hold it in place. But for this particular design, just holding it is good enough, especially since you're holding it right on top of a post-it note, you're not necessarily going to get fingerprints or anything on it. Yes, that blue is blotchy, but I'm just going to keep blending it. To mix it into blend that color with a purple a little bit. And to even though you notice, I didn't have that issue with the other brushes. It's just this one it seems. Which is interesting, But lesson learned. There we go. So there we have our background. I'll see you in the next video and we will finish the rest of the card. 7. Beach Card: Assembly: So for the rest of the card, I'm going to be using this set here. It's a complimentary set to the waves, one that we just used for the background. You could finish the card with the background and just do a saying in the sand. But I really like the chair, this one, I like the birds. I wanted to add that to this here. I'm going to stamp the birds just in that same dark color that I used for the water. I thought for this one, if they were black, it was gonna be too dark. And the one thing I wanted to mention when I make these masks for my stamps, I keep them and I store them with the stamp so I don't make new ones every single time I go to use the stamp, there's no point. Wise will keep reusing the same ones over and over again. This one here, I'm just going to stamp it without the stamp position or the sentiment. Quite confident with that one that I could do that without having the positioner. Let's just clean that off. Then the last thing we're going to stamp the chair. The chair I did stamp and emboss it because I thought that dimension of the embossing would look nice on there. And I also like the bright white behind it. So I'm going to use my embossing ink. And I've already set the back of this and I've already used my embossing buddy to make sure there's nothing that the powder nothing else that the powder is going to stick to. There we go. Back to the side. It's funny how the powder it looks like that, but then it's gonna go nice, bright white. I love watching that color change. Make sure your heat gain is not on when you put it down. Alright, last step is assembling your card. I've already got my card base here ready to go. And all of the measurements of the mats and the image pieces will be on your supply list. There we go. Now this complimentary set also has some color layering clouds that you could also use with it that I think would be really, really pretty. It's got a lot of different additions that you could do with it that don't be super cute. Different color layering clouds. So there's a lot of different ways you can embellish your cards with this one, which is one of the reasons why I love it. And this particular set also has a set of stripes in here. A set of dyes that coordinated if you want, that you can start die cutting and popping some stuff out. I chose to keep it fairly simple for this card and just focus on the background because it was just so pretty this wants to keep popping up here. So I will set it down with something heavy on top while it dries. But there we go. Beautiful beach wave. Guard. 8. Surfer Card: Colour Layer Water: So this here is the third card that we're going to make. So similar ish to the last one is in its water. But what we're gonna do is we're going to use some embossing glazes for coloring and water. Now in Boston, glazes or embossing powder, but they're not opaque, they're transparent. And I thought it was appropriate for this, for the water to use the embossing glazes to give it a nice transparent look. And I like how they combine when you layer them together. Now, this is just on white card stock and I'm going to address something just before. It might be a question you're thinking, well, I'm demonstrating this. Now. The white is just card stock. And while I was doing this, I was thinking when that'd be cool to have white underneath it so that that white would have some dimension to it. I tried it and it didn't work. It was just too rough. The stamping and embossing over top the ink wouldn't get a clear coverage over the top of the embossing no matter how hard I tried, it worked very well for this, but only on the card stock. Yeah, I tried it. I thought it would look really, really cool and it did not turn out the way I had hoped. So we're going to take our piece of card stock and put it into the stamp position are here. Now, same width as with the last one. I'm going to leave this out just a little bit to account for a little bit of a ridge on the edge of these stamps. Just because I want to make sure that the stamping is all on the card stock. I don't want to have a little white edge there. I mean, if you did end up having a white edge there, you could trim it down. But much easier to eliminate that in the first place than to need to trim it down. So I'm just going to put position my things a little bit closer. So I'm using a clear income using versa mark, which is a clear embossing ink. And I'm going to stamp it two times right away to get a clear impression. Now with the embossing ink, it does end up being shiny so you can see where it is on the card stock. And I need to get my things out of the way here. I like to stamp them a couple times just to make sure that I have good coverage. But like I said, you can see where it's stamps. I also like to press it down to make sure that it is making good contact. It's pretty good. But I'm gonna do it one more time. This layer with it on the card stock, you can definitely see where it stamps once we go for the next layer and we're stamping on top of embossing, you're not gonna be able to see where it is stamping. So that adds a little bit of extra challenge, but that's okay. I'm gonna take my lighter of the two colors. There we go. The accessing back in the container. I always put the excess back in the container and close it because I tend to be a little bit klutzy and the fact that it's something is there to tip over, I probably will. Now, some of those white spots are supposed to be there. Some of those are not. So you can tell by the image on the top, they're not supposed to be white spots in there. So this is how we're going to fix it. I have an embossing pen. So this is an embossing pen. And all I'm gonna do, it's the same ink that's in the embossing pad. I'm just going to color where it's supposed to be filled in. The powder should stick to that. And then we can melt it again. So sometimes things just don't work out perfectly even though they're supposed to. And it's great to know ways to fix it if that happens. Alright. So it does make a little bit of a darker area on there. I'm okay with that. Water is never completely one-color anyways. So what I'm going to do is I'm just putting some on the rest of this just to blend that in a little bit more. So maybe there's gonna be hidden by the next layer anyways. But much easier to do that now. To try to do that later. I do leave my heat gun on it just a few extra seconds just to try to get that embossing as smooth as possible. I'm not cleaning my stamps right now. I will clean them all at the end. Once and once I'm done creating my card. Now for the next layer is always fun, especially with these clear what, these color layering ones, just to find different ways to get extra texture, a different texture in them. So I love using this embossing glaze with it. Now, when you're embossing, often the card stock will work a little bit and it's happened here. You can see this is lifting up. But that's okay. We're going to position this anyways. And then we will ink it and stamp it. Now because we're stamping a shiny ink onto a shiny surface, meaning the embossing powder, we're not going to actually be able to, or the bossing, the finished embossing. We're not actually going to be able to see where it's stamps. So I'm just going to stamp it several times just to give it the best chance at giving as much coverage as possible. Now, because we're doing this on water and water is never even in this stamp isn't even or whatever. If I miss a spot, I'm not too worried about it. I think it's still going to end up looking fairly natural, fairly. I'm a good likeness to water anyways. Let's see what we got. Here. We go. We get a melt that if you wanted to have a little bit more of that dark in there, some of these places are not parts that would be dark on the stamp, but that's okay. If you wanted to add extra, you can absolutely add some extra. And that's where those embossing pens come in really handy. They're great for fixing up areas. We're adding extra embossing. And you can also use them, say, to sign your name or whatever and emboss it or write a handwritten message and then Abbas it. There we go. I'm going to put this to the side and I'll clean that up later. 9. Surfer Card: Sky, Accents & Assembly: Now I created a mask for my water exactly the same way as I created the mask for the last one. The only difference is because this edge is so much different. If you can't possibly put it all on the sticky side of the post-it note. I have added some Tombow Malte to the back and let it dry completely. Now toma multi when you're putting two pieces of paper together as a permanent glue. But if you put some onto some pieces of, a piece of paper and let it dry, It's like a post-it note. So it works awesome for creating masks like this. I'm going to position it how I want it and same as before. I'm positioning it out a little bit. I want a little bit of that white to me that makes it look a little bit more like water. I'm also going to mask off the top because I don't want to get that sand in my sky. And then I'm going to ink it starting where the edge of my mask is because same reason as last time. I want the darker part of the ink closer to the water. And I want it going a little bit lighter as we go out. There we go. Again, I keep this mask with my stamp set, reuse over and over again. Alright, let's put a pretty BCCI sky on there. I always love doing sunsets with these simply because what's prettier than a beach at sunset? You absolutely don't have to. You could just do a blue sky if you wanted. Then this particular one doesn't have, this set, doesn't have any clouds with it. You could always use clouds from the other set if you wanted to add a cloudy sky to it or whatnot. But this set does have some fun additions to it. Like there's some surfers parasitically, there's a bunch of different things that you could do. The one thing with the way we've done this card though, with the embossing powder. If you wanted to stamp on top of that embossing powder, you'd need to use a permanent ink. So I would use some stays on ink to to stamp on top of the embossing powder. And then if you do use permanent ink, you definitely need to use permanent ink cleaner. So STs on cleaner to get that ink off of your stamp, you don't want to leave that permanent ink on your stamp. Even though I did with that we'll card. Um, it's just a good habit to get into cleaning your stamps completely. Once again, my problem, blue brush. And for this I'm using like it's called salt water, water taffy shaded lilac and broken China. You can use whatever colors you want to do, your sunset sky. Alright, there we go. Now let's add some fun bits. So the background, so I'm going to add the surfer. I'm gonna do the surfer standing on the sand. So then I don't need to use some permanent ink with them. Like I said, you could put them over top, some of the other ones over top of the Apologies, My cameras stopped recording and I actually didn't notice. I left off where I was stamping the surfer. I stamped it with some black suit. And what I was saying is, I'm stamping it on, I stamped it on the sand. You could stamp it into the water a little bit more. You need to use some permanent ink though. And then same with the, I just turn this one into a birthday card, so it's his birthday greetings. I used a darker colored tan than the sand because I wanted it to show up a little bit more. And then the birds, I use the same blue. It's uncharted Marriner. That was the same as the embossing glaze and I stamped it. So for my sample card, where did it go? I only stamped at once. But what you could do is you can ink your stamp and then stamp at a couple of times and have a flock of birds if you wanted it to. And then I'm not sure if it cut that out, this part out, but there's all sorts of other little things in this stamp set that you could, you could have a surfer in the water there. You could do a paracellular in the sky or whatever. So you can have some fun with this. And you could also embellish with dicots if you wanted. Now, the embossing part warped my card stock a little bit. So what you have to do if that happens, you're going to put glue onto your piece of paper, but like an acrylic block on it and then put a weight on it and let it dry that way. And that will help flatten it out and it'll help it glue nice and flat. But once it's done, you've got a beautiful beach seen birthday card. And then once again, I keep my masks and I put them right with my stamp sets. And that way I can reuse them over and over again until they stop sticking. Fun way to use color layer stamps. 10. Cardmaking with Colour Layer Stamps Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for card making with color layer stamps, like I've said before, they're one of my favorite ways of making cards and I hope you had fun learning how to use them and creating with them. If you have a moment, please take time to review the class. Let me know how valuable you found it as well as other people. Considering taking this class. I hope to see you soon in another class.