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1. Colour Layer Christmas Card Class: Hello and welcome to color
layer Christmas card class. I am Cheryl and I'll be
teaching this class. I absolutely love
interactive cards, ones with unique card folds and just different ways
other than the normal half fold card-based. Let's go take a look
at what we're gonna be covering in this class. These are the three
cars that were going to be creating in this class. So the first one
opens like this. Now it opens like a
traditional card, but the inside is definitely not the traditional just piece of card stock folded
in half there. The next one we're going to
create is this one here. Opens up in the center and has a beautiful front cover with
Cardinal endpoints status. And then the last one here is a Z Fold card or double
Z Fold card actually. So all of these stand
up nicely to display. So they're perfect for
giving the holiday time. These all have a
holiday theme to them, but they can easily
be adapted with different dyes are
different stamps. We're gonna be using color
layer stamps in this class. They're just a fun
alternative for people that don't necessarily
love coloring. You get a lot of color,
a lot of detail, and they're really
quite simple to use. Now this class comes with supply list PDF that
you can download. It has pictures of each one of the sample cards as well as the supplies used
to create each one, though supplies or list or linked to where you can
purchase them if you choose. The other thing that the
supply list includes is both the cutting measurements as well as the scoring
measurements for each card. So you can refer to that rather than needing
to take notes. Obviously, if you adjust
anything for the cards, you're going to need
to adjust either cutting measurements or
scoring measurements. But there are good base for starting out if
you're wanting to create the same card bases as
the ones you see here. Now let's go create
some color layer cards.
2. Tree Card: Card Base Assembly: Alright, so this is
the very first card that we're going to create. And before we do any
stamping or anything, we need to create our card base. So that's what we're
gonna do in this video. So the very first
thing that I have here is a piece of card stack, card stock that is eight-and-a-half
by five-and-a-half. And I'm going to score it in half at the four
and a quarter mark. I always put my card stock
rate in the corner of my scoring tool just
to make sure that everything is lined up there. We have that piece there. My next piece here is six and a quarter
by five-and-a-half. So it's the same
height as our card, but it's got two and a
quarter inches cut off. And that's to leave room
for this mechanism here. So this part here, we're going to score
at 2 " and 4 ". Then this one, because of
the way the folds are. I do put it into
the corner to fold, but I also line it up with the top and the
bottom to make sure that that is folded street. There we go. And then I've got two pieces here that are 2 " long and a half an inch wide. I just fold them in half and it doesn't need to be I
don't need to score it. To do that, I can just line up the ends
and fold them in half. That way there are scoring board and I have
a large rectangle here. I'm going to line it
up and center it. There's not gonna be an
even mount all around. Just because this dye isn't proportional to the
size of a card. I'm just making sure to line up the sides and then line up the top and the bottom and try to hit it as centered as possible to the
side for a moment. So our machine does
it go on that there. And I'm going to cut. There. We go. We've got our rectangle
cut out of our occurred. I'm going to put that to
the side for the moment. I'm just taking my tape off of the piece here
because this piece, we're actually going to cut
it down a little bit smaller. And this is going to be the part that we're
going to stamp on. Now, if you wanted to leave
it the same size, you could. I personally like cutting
it smaller because I find that you don't have anything
rubbing when it opens. And I kinda like that
space around it. If you don't like that space
around it and you want it to be the same spot or same size, then just don't cut
your piece down. Leave it this way
because it's going to match or it's going to
fit in there perfectly. It's just a personal preference
is not a right or wrong. There's not one way to do it. You can change up the size
or the shape of this. This is a rectangle in here. You could cut out a square, you could do an oval. You've have fun with
it. There we go. That second one I didn't need to tape in place
because that die is not going to move. I'm going to leave
that my machine and now I've got my
pieces right here. So the very first thing
that I'm going to do, I'm going to make sure
that that is a really nice bold in there. So these two pieces here, this is the 2 " and the 4 ", these are gonna be my center. This part here is
two and a quarter. It's just a tiny
little bit bigger. That's gonna get glued to
rate here on the card. So I'm going to put
my adhesive on there. I'm just going to
put one line rate along that score line and then one line right along the end. This is really good tape, so I don't need to fill in
anymore, That's enough. And take my backings off here. Now I'm going to line this up
with the edge of the card. Once it's lined up, just about to press it
down and it slipped on me. Once it's lined up,
you can press it down, get really good contact
with that adhesive there. Now, I'm going to take
my two pieces here. This tape that I'm using
is quarter-inch wide and this these pieces of card
stock here are half inch wide, so I have enough space to do
two strips of the adhesive. And I actually think
this adhesive is just slightly less
than a quarter of an inch because I
have enough space plus just a touch a room aside
from that, which is good. Take my backing off here. One is not. No, I don't
want to speak for me. There we go. Alright. So now I'm going to fold this in half. I'm trying not to touch
it as much as possible. Second, I had it
right the first step, I'm lining up the top edge
with the top of the card and the fold edge with the edge of this card here. There we go. Then I'm gonna do the
same for the other side. Line up the edge of the paper with the top of the
card and the fold with the other edge. There we go. So now I'm going
to fold this in. I'm going to have
those tabs facing out so that the
adhesive exposed. This is how this is going to
lay when the card is folded. So you wanna do it
this way so that you know that it's going
to lay flat properly. You don't want to have
this open and try to figure out where
that goes because chances are you're going to not be exact with your measurements. My tab popped up just
a tiny little bit, so I'm going to snip
that off there, that there is our card base. We're going to set that
aside in the next video, we're going to stamp
on our image piece. And then we're also going
to create this frame here and stamp on
there because we don't want to put that
on there onto the card before we're done our sampling. So I'll see you in that video.
3. Tree Card: Stamping & Finishing Part 1: Alright, now we're
ready to start stamping occurred
and assembling it. So the very first thing
I'm going to do is create this frame on the front. Oh, I left my tape
on my machine. So same as before. I'm going to center it between
the top and the bottom, and then I'm going to center
it between the sides. Now this piece is five
and a quarter by 4 ", so it's a quarter of an inch
smaller than the front of the card and that's so we have that White frame around it. There we go. I can take
that out of there later. So now we have our
frame there and this is the stamp that we're going
to do for our trees. Tree. So it's a color layer stamps. So you layer all the colors
to create this image. So I've got my stamp here, I'm going to put it on my block. I like to use grid
blocks or blocks with lions when I'm doing
sentiments so that I can help, it just helps those lines help to make sure that
things are straight. You can use them to line up
with the edges of the card. And I just find it very
helpful so that there is done. It is a pigment ink, so I am going to heat set it just so that
it doesn't smear. Pigment ink tends to stay
wet for a little while. So I want to make sure that
it's not going to smear. I'm going to heat set it. The other alternative to
this would be to emboss it, but I chose not
to for this card. Usually just a few seconds
is good for heat setting. There's not really
a certain time and there's not really a way
to tell that it's heat set. So I just usually do
it for a few seconds. I want to say maybe ten, 15 s. And then I set
it aside to dry. I'm using a liquid
adhesive to glue that frame onto the
front of the card so that I can move it around and
get it in place properly. When I do that, I try not
to touch that sentiment. I just don't want to
smudge it if it's not completely heats it yet. But I'm going to set
that to the side. I'm going to put an
acrylic block on it to hold it down for me while we're working on
the image part of this, so I can move that
on top of there. So for stamping the image, I am using my stamp positioner. I'm going to just have it
lined up in the corner. The very first stamp
I want to use is the solid Christmas
tree. Here we go. It is going to
stick to the paper, so I'm just going to
write back in the corner. So when I ink a stamp in here, I like to rub the ink on
there first just to make sure that there's
ink over the whole thing and then I tap it. I don't want to leave any
smears, remarks or anything. If you just rub the ink
on it and then stamp it, you tend to get little steer
smears and streaks on it. So it is gonna be blotchy. If that bothers you, you can do a second stamp. It does tend to even out
a little bit as it dries. But because this
is a tree and it's not completely even looking, I kinda like the
blotchy look to it. So the next one
is this one here. Now, when you have
one of these sets, if you ever don't know
exactly which ones next, if you turn the package
over, it shows you. So it's a great way to see
what the which order they go. What I was saying
in a minute there. Alright. So I had this in the
corners. I was lining it up. It's stuck to the card stock
again, but that's okay. This one here is not
going to be a solid tree. It just has a little bit
of the branch detail. And I'm using ink that's just
a little bit darker green. Perfect. Now I can put that one away. And then which one is next? I always have to look at
them to see which is next. The next one here,
we're going to line it up and then it's going to be
just a little bit darker. Green. Stamps are perfect for people
that don't like to color. Because basically you're
stamping your color in. There we go. So our image is stamped. Now there's one last
layer for this tree. What I am going to
do is I am going to stamp it and emboss it and gold. Another option. So for this one, I stamped it in Boston with gold and
other option would be in stamping your boss it
with white and as if it was snow falling down. But I thought it looks kinda
cool as tensile on the tree. And then there's also
a little star here. I'm going to stamp
this at the same time. I'm going to boss
that with gold. The one thing I want to do
though before I emboss it, is I want to heat set the
inks on my paper here. So the inks that are used, they have resins in them. And if I were to just
stamp and emboss, the embossing powder would
stick to the entire image. So I need to heat
set them so that the powder only sticks to the ink that I'm using
when I'm going to emboss. Once again, I usually
only do a few seconds, but just to make sure
I'm going to use an embossing buddy
Just to make sure that if there's any
moisture in those inks, the powder from this is going
to help that not to stick. Now one way to
double-check would be to take your stamped image and do this before you stamp any details that
you want to emboss. If anything sticks, you know that that's
still wet and you still need to heat set it or use your embossing Buddy again, if nothing sticks,
you're good to go. Goes back in the container. Use that again in just a moment and you'll see my paper
is warped and that just happens when I'm
using the heat gun. The paper tends to do that. But once we go and glue it onto our card, not going
to be an issue. So I'm going to stamp and I'm using a verse
of Mark and care, which is a sticky ink so that embossing powder is going
to stick to that ink. Makes sure it has some
really good contact there with the paper. And that powder should just be sticking to the ink
that we're using. To hold the embossing
powder down. We're going to take my heat
tool and I'm going to melt the powder on their mirror. We have our image, they're
completely embossed. This can go back in the package. Back on this and I
did spill someone, I put it back but I will
clean that up in a moment.
4. Tree Card: Stamping & Finishing Part 2: Last but certainly not least, my stamp out of the way. I have two different
stamps here. So one is going to
be the verse on the inside and the
other one is the holly. I'm just going to stamp
that before I glue this in. I'm using my middle shade of
green, inking up the stamp. And once again, because
I'm using a grid block, it does help to line it up and center it
with the rest of the card. Stamp it firmly. And then I'm gonna
do the same thing with this Holly here. The holly for this actually
has opened leaves. If you wanted, you
could color them. I chose to leave them open, but just add some
obstacles to color it. So there we go. Now we can add our
stamped image here. So I'm going to
take my tape again. And I'm going to put some tape on just the edge of
this paper here. Now remember we have that area
around there that's open. So you don't want to put
your tape all the way up to the bottom or to the
top or the bottom. And then I'm going to put tape on the edge of my
card stock here. Now before you put your tape on the edge
of your card stock, makes sure it is on the right edge
because that's the part that we want to stick down. We don't want anything
on this edge here. So take the backing off. And now I'm centering this
with the rectangle that's on the front of
my card because I want that mounted nicely. Push that down, push that down. There we go. We have our card complete
except for stickers. So I put a little bit. I've read articles
and you could do like liquid pearls here or
something like that as well. Or if you wanted,
you could color it. I chose to do the stick
was because I also wanted to do them on
the front of the card. I kinda thought it would
look nice if they were, say, ornaments in the tree. You can do as many or
as few as you want, and you could also do
them in different colors if you like that. Look if you prefer that. Here we go. So that needs to dry completely before we do
anything else with the card. That is what it looks
like once it's dry. We have our fun-filled car that the image goes in the center
and then you can always put your message on
this side or top or bottom of that because
it's hidden when you close your card back. I just realized as I
was cleaning up that I forgot to stamp the
trunk to my tree. Now, I would typically wait until all the
stickers were dry. But in the interest of not well, I'm just being impatient. So I'm just going to
try do it. Perfect. Didn't mess up the
stickers at all. So there's just a
little tiny tree trunk in this stamp set. That is for that. So there we go. Now it's finally done. Now
I'm going to let that dry.
5. Cardinal Gatefold Card: Creating the Card Base: This here is our second card. So it is a gatefold card that
meets in the center rather than folding on the side and having the opening just
on the right enzyme. So first step for this
card, once again, we're going to
create the base so that we have something to
glue or elements onto. So to make a gatefold card, this paper is eight-and-a-half
by five-and-a-half. And all of these
measurements are going to be on your supply list. So when this is folded in half or half of this measurement
is four and a quarter. So in order to create
the gatefold card, I need to score at
two and an eighth. Now, my scoreboard doesn't
have eighth inch measurements. So what I'm going to
do is I'm going to put this here at an eighth of
an inch below the 1 " mark. And then I'm going to score
at the three inch line here. So that will be
two and an eight. And then I'm going to flip
it over and I'm going to do the same thing to
the other side. Now when I go to fool this to make sure that
everything is straight, I make sure that my top, my bottom line up
exactly with the edges, if anything is off, I adjust it before
using my bone folder to really set in
that crease there. Then the other side, once again, I'm lining up my front are my
top and my bottom. Then use my bone folder to really set in that place there. And it should match
exactly in the middle. And by setting in the
crease or really rub it, holding it down there, you're just making your
card lie a little bit flatter than if you
didn't do that. So there is our base there. I already have my pieces for the front
of my card cut here. So I'm going to glue
this one, the white one, onto my cranberry colored one. Now this doesn't have
any stamping on it. So I'm good to just
glue it right on there. For the next piece, we're going to do an insert and the inside of our card here. And you'd want to
do the stamping first before gluing that to your card just at the off chance that you have
a miss stamp or whatnot. Easier to replace it when you haven't
glued anything down. The next step here
is we're going to glue just this side to the front of the card so that this side here is free to open. The easiest way to do
that is take some tape. I'm gonna put some
tape on the back of this piece here,
right along the edge. And then I'm going to
put some tape rate along that edge there. Just any good double-sided tape. You could use liquid
glue here as well. You just want to be careful not to go too close to the edge. I'm just taking note of how much space I have in the top and the
bottom because I don't want my tape to go
beyond my element here. We take the backing
paper off of that. And then same with
this one here. I always like to press it down, make sure it's got
really good contact with my piece here before
putting it down. I'm centering it between
the top and the bottom and then between the two
sides of the card here. And you'll feel like with a double-sided tape,
you'll feel it grabbed, but it usually doesn't stick to well until
you press it down. And there we have we've
got our card base. So our center are
inside of our card. I'm going to stamp a
sentiment right in there. Now you could stamp it
right onto your card. This insert is actually, I was debating whether to
add and insert to this card. And then in the end I did. In the end I did
because I stamped it without the insert and I actually had a mistake in there. I got to my paper towel, I've got a little
bit too much income. That's now. When I stamped the
first time I stamped it right into my card and I got a little bit
too much ink there. So that was a little bit blurry, which is why I'm cleaning
my stamp off here because this particular ink pad
is very, very juicy. So I want to make sure
that I have it well inked. But if you have too
much ink on there, you're gonna get some
blurred sentence. I'm pressing down very
gently with clear stamps. Sometimes if you press too hard, you get a little bit
of a smudge there. By pressing down gently. I'm just making sure
I've got good contact between the stamp and the paper, but not really pressing
my stamp into that paper. Glue that onto the mat. The mat is a
personal preference. I think it just looks prettier
if you're going to add an insert to a car to
have it Matt and framed. Just kind of makes it
look a little bit better, makes it look a
little intentional. If you put white on white, sometimes it looks like
you're covering up a mistake, which in this case, like I already said, I am or was in the sample card because of my Miss
misstep of my first step, but just looks a lot prettier when you frame it and have it
completely intentional. So there is our card base
all ready for our next, next section, we're
going to stamp and cut out our cardinals
and points at us.
6. Cardinal Gatefold Card: Stamping & Assembly Part 1: Alright, so now we
are ready to create our images and I'm using
another color layer stamp set. This one is a cardinal. The cool thing about the
Cardinal is you can change the color to blue
tones and you can make it into a blue jay, which is something
that I love about. Really anything that's
cardinal themed is super easy to turn
it into a blue jay. So the very first
color that I am stamping with is worn lipstick. It's a light pink, which is kind of an odd color to stamp with something
that's so read. But it's really only
these little tiny bits that are going to be this color. So once I am done stamping, I'm just taking a little baby
wipe just to quickly clean my stamps so that I put
it back in my package. Clean. Next one, I love. Again, I love these color
layer stamps that are perfect for people that
don't necessarily love coloring and images. And these clear stamps make
it very easy to match without a way to match the
image of the stamp. So I have my paper in my position are but
I just have it stuck to the bottom left corner. I don't need to
actually hold it with magnets simply because
when it's in that corner, if it lifts up when I stamp, I could just put it right
back in that corner. That one is done once again, cleaning off the
stamps in between. I typically go back and I clean them off a
little bit better. But this way I'm not getting ink on my hands or at the minimum, I'm not getting as
much ink on my hands. The nice thing too about these images is they're
very easy to cut out. When they first came out,
there was dice for them. So I do have dice for some
of my color layers stamps. But if you don't have dies, the shapes of them are really
easy to cut out and I do, we do need to cut them out for this card because
we're going to layer all these different pieces to create the image
on our card front. So that last one there
was age mahogany, the red is festive various
these will be listed on your supply list so you
don't have to remember them. Then the last stamp for
this particular image is face of the carbonyl. Let's get our paper
positioned properly. There we go. I'm going to stamp all my images first and
then I will cut them out. All at one time. There we go, our
cardinal there is done. Put that back there. Took that to the
side for a moment. Next one I'm going to do is
the leaves for this car. I'm going to do these
two colors here. And I'm going to use this
same piece of paper because all of this is being
cut down as we use up as much of the
paper as possible. The leaves are arranged
in the point set, a set. The point set is
we're gonna do next, but we've got lots of
space here to do the LEA, the points that is on a
different piece of paper. And I'm gonna do both leaves. Make sure you put your
stamps correct way. They have a little bit
of a bevel in them. And the wider part is
the part that goes on your stamp platform
or your acrylic block. The smaller part is
the part that stamps. All right, so I'm
tapping my ink on there. This particular color. Well, this particular stamps, stamps a little bit blotchy, but it's only for
the base color. And it often will even
out as it's drying. So you'll see I'm just
turning a quarter turn. So I'm getting these stamps and each of
the corners because I want multiple sets of
this particular one. There we go. Now these leaves only actually
have two layers to them. That's why I only
have two colors. So I'm grabbing the next layer. If I match them with one, they will match with
all of the other ones. There we go. In the corner so that
it's in the right spot. Now I'm going to use
my darker green. Turn it a quarter turn. The type of person
that I actually do really love coloring. I love watercolor
and I love coloring. But I still love this
color layer stamps just for something a
little bit different. And they're super easy to
use to clean that one off. I don't think I cleaned
those guys off. With that back in the
package now we're going to tuck this to the side, let that dry while we're
doing our point set is grab another piece of
paper and I'm doing two points that is here. So I've got plenty of room on this one piece of
paper here for those, Let's grab the two
colors were needing. There's three layers
to the point set up, but we're only using
two of the colors. And you'll see why
in just a moment. Go. For the first color
we're going to put down is the festive berries,
which is our red color. And it's the same red color
I used for the cardinal. But we're going to
create a bit of a different texture
with this one. And I'll show you
how in a moment. So this one, instead of just
turning it a quarter turn, I turned it a full term so it's stamping on the
opposite side of the paper. Go clean, stamp off it
back in the package. Now my next one, I'm
going to match the stamp, but I'm not going to
go stamp quite yet. I need to heat set the
ink that I have here. Alright, so that is matched. So in order to create a different texture or a different look for the points that is then the cardinal. I thought if it was all
stamped in the same colors, it would look like
a big blob of red. Basically, we're going to
add some perfect pearls. So before we add perfect girls, we need to heat set
the ink that is there. Because if I go to stamp this
one and add perfect prose, they're just going to
stick to everything. I'm using a heat
tool to do this. If you had the time,
you could just just let it completely
dry naturally, but this is just a
quicker way of doing it. So I've got my stamp
already there. I'm going to use some
versa Marque Inc, which is a nice
sticky ink stamp. Both of the paints that is makes sure that papers in that
corner so it's matched up. Anyway, go then repeat on
this other point setter. Let me go. So now I've got
some scrap paper here. I've got just some
perfect pearls. Just a pearl color. Now, if you wanted, you could use a different color. There's different reds
and stuff like that. You could use those for
this, that would work. I wanted this point,
set it to be just a little bit lighter, a little bit different
texture from the cargo. Just kinda set it apart. Once you've got your
completed stamp surface with the perfect pearls. Your best friend
with perfect pearls is a Swiffer cloth,
just the refill clock. You don't need the
handle for it. What this does is it takes off the excess powder that is
around the stamped image. No perfect pearls if you
haven't used them before, they have a binding agent in them that is
activated with water. So I've got a spray
bottle here with water. What I'm going to do is I'm
going to lightly miss this. And then I need to let
it dry completely. We don't want to make it really, really wet because
the ink underneath is going to start to run. So we're just
lightly missing it. Then I like to wave
at sometimes just to start drying that ink. If you get a little bit
of running, that is okay. I'm going to set this
aside to dry for a few minutes until
it's completely dry and I'll be back
to the last damping.
7. Cardinal Gatefold Card: Stamping & Assembly Part 2: Alright, it's my
perfect pearls is dry. Now I can match up
the last layer here. And yes, my paper curled
while it was wet. For this particular one, I don't I'm not using
really, really good paper. I'm using some inexpensive
white card stock just because I'm stamping it
and I am die cutting it. It's an element on a card. It doesn't need to hold the
weight of a card or anything. So my paper did curl a little bit while
it was wet with water. But you won't see that once we put it on the front
of the card at all. Alright, stamping
the last one and I'm using that age mahogany, the darker red there. And it stamps
beautifully right on top of the perfect curls. Now the one thing I
wanted to mention, I didn't use them for this, but the cardinal does have some feed on it
if you wanted to. Cardinal with legs and feet for this particular
card because I have it stuck in the point
set is nested in there. It wasn't necessary. So there's no point in even stamping them if you're
not going to see them. Alright, so that is done. Now while I was waiting for
my point set is too dry. I actually went and die cut the leaves and the birds are
the leaves and the cardinal. But if by chance you have
dicots for some of your stamps. Just figured I'd show
you how to do that. So you can see rate in
rate within the die there. You can see the
outlines of the stamps, so it's super easy
to match it up. And then I always tape it in place so that it
doesn't shift when I'm die cutting it, run it through. And like I said,
if you don't have dicots for your stamps, if you happen at the same stamps and
don't have the dye cuts, these are super easy
shapes to cut out. Repeat the same process
with the second one. And these particular ones, when you cut them out, they have a bit of a
white halo around them, which I like some stamps have diastolic map to
them and that don't have that they believe is
usually rate along the edge of the die to prevent that. But there we go. I'm going to tuck this all aside because I don't
need it for the moment. And grab my card base. I've got all my elements
here ready to go. So the very first
thing I'm going to do, I'm going to glue down one
of the points that is now, I want to make sure
that I'm not having anything glue down
to this part here. I only want it glued down on this side of the
card is totally fine. And the image piece, image piece, I mean
the white square in the center. I'm gluing. My first point is that it down. I'm trying to stay within
the within the frame of the card simply because
if I'm going to mail it, this will fit into
an A2 envelope. If by chance I make my elements go farther past the
outsides of the card, probably would need
a bigger envelope. Next, I'm going to
do my cardinal here. Put this a little bit
over more. Here we go. Then I want this point
set up to kind of go up to these leaves, just get tucked in. Behind the point set is just to add a little bit of green to it. Without them, it was
just a lot of red. And you kinda need
them to help break up everything a little bit, a little bit more glue. And then I always like it
when there are odd numbers. So you'll notice when I did
the stamping of the leaves, there was six
because there was a small and large have each one. I'm only using five of them, so I have an extra
leaf leftover, but I'm not gonna put it on
the card just because I don't want I just like odd numbers. A little design
thing as a rule of odd numbers and that's where
we're going with that. So in the center of the card, just to accent the little, whatever those things are
in the center of points at is this using a little bit of, this is platinum *********. Kinda got a bit, a bit
of a gold tone to it, but it's not really yellow. So adding those there and
let them dry completely. And then for the eye
of the card now, I have some black
enamel accents. And what that does, I'm going to let that one dry.
I'll show you the sample. What that does is it
gifts that the eye of the cardinal some shine
and some dimension. Hopefully you can
see it on there. Just a little
different texture from the actual Cardinal.
There we have it. Our second card with
a point set isn't cardinals with the
image on the inside.
8. Deer Z Fold Card: Card Base Assembly: Alright, this here is our
third card or this class, and it says Z Fold card. There's two little Zs in there. So once again, we're
going to do the card base before we work on
the stamped image. So I have a piece of card stock here that is eight-and-a-half
by five-and-a-half. These measurements are all
gonna be in your supply list. Now this is the size that if
you were to fold it in half, it would be just a quarter
fold card or an A2 card. But we're going
to do is default. So I'm going to score it at two and an eighth and
four and a quarter. And I know my last
card, the gatefold one, I said my my scoreboard didn't have a two and
an eighth inch mark. It actually does. And I realized that while I was seeing that, but I wanted to
double-check before. I actually said that
that's what it was or scored the wrong mark. So I do have a Q&A finish Merck. There's a lot of scoreboards
now that have the channels at all of the benchmarks
going all along. Mine was created before
that and I just can't justify getting a new
board just for that. My card base is done
and I'm going to do those same folds on this piece. This piece is 8.5 " long, one and a quarter inches wide. So I'm going to score it the two and an eighth, four-and-a-half. And I'm going to
fold it in half. And then folded at that too. And an eighth inch
mark, I'd like to do it in the corner
of my scoreboard so that I know that those
edges are all lining up. Now before I glue these two pieces together
to create the card, I'm going to glue in the mats. Now I chose to do
double mounting on this panel and on this panel I chose
not to do it on here. If you want to do it on here, Can it would just be this
same pieces for this one? Again, just a personal choice that I've
decided not to do. So to put in our first met. And I chose these browns after
I stamped my dear image. So they're chosen to coordinate with the color of the deer. So I would choose yours based on if you chose to do different
inks than I am using, choose your colors based on the colors of ink
that you're using. You could even do
something completely different and not do browns. I chose to do it this way
because I kinda thought this card could also
be just a masculine. You could do a
masculine birthday card or something with it instead of creating a
holiday card with it. This panel here.
So this one here, I have an even amount
all the way around. This one here I don't. I chose to make
this mat 2 " wide. This panel is two and an eighth inches wide and
I didn't want to have too many eighth inch marks on the supply list
for cutting simply because some people
have a hard time with the eighth
inch measurement. So I tried to make it
a little bit simpler. If you prefer to have an even
amount all the way around, then just a gesture
measurements for that. But likely you didn't even know it until I pointed it out. Now that those back
panels are done, we can put our next piece on. I chose to do it about a half
an inch from the bottom. So you see that the matting, you could do it until the
bottom if you preferred. And now I'm going to put glue on here and I'm making sure that this amount of glue is
not wider than that. I'm doing it
deliberately a little bit less than that because I don't want
to get any glue here. If I get glue here and
glue that together, then it's not going
to fold properly. So now that that is glued, we want to make sure that it
lies completely flat when we're when we've got
the card like this, as well as when we
have it open that way, you know it, you have
it completely right. That is done. And then the last thing I'm going
to do at this step, before I get to that,
I'm jumping ahead. For these, for this
little strip here, I only chose to do a single
mat out of the dark color. If you prefer to have
it double matted, you can absolutely do that. I just didn't really
think it needed it. Again, one of those things, personal preference,
no right or wrong. I've seen cards like this that have it
double mad and it's absolutely beautiful
and I've seen him singable and Matt it and
it's also beautiful. Then I'm using solid
card stock here. You could absolutely
use a prince. The only thing I would suggest when choosing a print
is makes sure that it's not too much
that it conflicts with your deer or whatever image you choose to
put for your focal point. We want to have something that
doesn't compete with that. So next I'm going to, I've
got my tree die cut already. Cut. I just thought the tree was
appropriate with the deer. We have Dear that go through our yard quite regularly
in bed down at night, especially in the
winter, in the fall. And they regularly go in bed down beside the trees
for protection. And it also adds just a little
bit of color to the card. I kept it fairly neutral so that you could choose what
you wanted to put there. If you wanted to add
extra color. There we go. I'm going to let
that dry completely. But while that's drying, I'll see you in the
next video and we will stamp our dear.
9. Deer Z Fold Card: Stamping & Final Assembly: Alright, now let's stamp
our dear for our card. And once again, I have dye cuts for this
particular stamp. But the shape is easy enough that if you didn't have the tickets where you
could easily cut it out? I would do it with a little
bit of a white halo. I think the white halo kind
of matches the matting on the card and it's why I chose the colors
the way I did. 1 s. My stamp here does not
want to stick to my block. I think it might have might need to be
cleaned. There we go. Alright, so once again, I have just a scrap
piece of paper here. I've got it stuck
into the corner. So if I need to re
stamp something, I know exactly where
to place my paper. There's a magnet there,
but with the clear stamps, I find that the magnet
kinda gets in the way. Sometimes there's a
little bit too wide. And the stamping for this
is a little bit blotchy, but you'll, it will even out. And for this particular color, you only actually see
very little of it. So it's only the darker
colors that you tend to see. But I do find that the ink tends to kind of even out as it's drying a little bit. Once again, the nice
part about clear stamps, as you can Take your time, you can see through the image
and you can match it up. For this next color. I'm
doing the antlers as well. Lifted up, but then
adjust the paper, makes sure that it's
in the right spot. I'm doing a stamped image. You could also use a dicot and I think that would be really
cool for this card as well. And then just anchor die cut up to give it a little
bit of shading to it. And I'm not cleaning
my stamps because of that first one not wanting to stick to not wanting to stick
to my stamp platform here. My stamps really need
to be washed well, so what I'm gonna do after this, I'm just going to wash them in some warm soapy water
and then let them dry that'll take any residue that's making it not stick to my stamp platform off there. There we go. Then last one is the black. We're gonna do the legs, the detail for the legs, and then the detail
for the face. There we go. Our image is done. I am going to cut these off camera and
I'll be right back. Alright, the deer pieces are cut and the antlers are
actually two separate pieces. I'm just going to put a
dotted blue at the bottom of them and glue them to the
top of my dears head. And wait for that a moment. And then while I'm waiting, I'm going to stamp the sentiment 1 s. I want to make sure to stamp up this orange ink up
the stamp. Great. Well, then I'm not sure if
it's visible on camera, but I have my sentiment
on a grid block. And when I put it
on the grid block, I just lined up one of the lines of the text with
one of the grids. So that when I go to put it on my stamp or put it on my card, if I line up the sides of
the block with the card, I know that it's
going to be straight. And all the sentiments other
than the ones that are in with the color layer stamps, they're all from
this set here that bigger sentiments that I put
on the inside of the card. Now that that is
probably not dry, but it's tacky enough that I don't think those
antlers are going to move. I'm going to put some
glue on here now I'm only putting it in a reverse L-shaped because I don't want any glue on this part here. I want it on the
bottom of the deer and the side of the deer
so that it sticks to the front panel and the
little z part there. I'm also making sure
that my antlers don't cover any of the texts
from the sentiment. There we go still
needs to totally dry. But there we have our dear
Z volt z folded card.
10. Colour Layer Christmas Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the color layer card class. I hope you enjoyed learning these unique folded card bases and have fun adapting them in your future projects
with different stamps, different dyes,
different occasions, and just let those
creative juices flow. I'll see you soon
in another class.
Artsy. Island Girl, Teacher
