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Channel: Jennifer McGuire Ink
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good day everyone its Jennifer McGuire
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now today I wanted to talk about adding
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details to your stamped images using ink
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these little details can make such a big
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impact in your final card and it's worth
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the extra few minutes it takes to do so
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they're very easy to do and you only
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need a couple tools and you likely
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already have them on hand so I have
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these two examples for you first and
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then I'll have one more example at the
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end of this video I'm using some stamps
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today from Alton ooh I really like their
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realistic stamps and it's perfect for
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this technique I'm starting out with the
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pretty pansy stamp set I've always loved
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pansies because they're so strong and
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they hold up in the winter here in
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Cincinnati so I'm excited to have a
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pansy stamp set I'm using my Misti
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stamping tool today however you do not
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need it to do the layering with these
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stamp sets because they are so easy to
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line up the only reason I'm using my
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Misti is I'm making several cards at
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once so that's why I decided to use it I
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like to start with the most solid image
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first I find I get by far get best
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results that way and with the lightest
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color ink now I'm using some new alter
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new colors today these this is a new set
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of yellows that goes from light to super
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dark you can either buy them as a set or
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individually or as a set of cubes and
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the cubes are wonderful too so I'm
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starting with the light yellow and then
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this is the set of green ink I'm going
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to use for all of my cards today I
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really like this combination of these
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three colors of green I'm going to go
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ahead and stamp this onto white card
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stock and it stamps beautifully
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especially that yellow man that is a
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great great yellow I will give you a
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closer look at the altar new inks at the
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end of this video so stay tuned for that
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I'll show you all the colors now I'm
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actually making multiple cards today and
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so I'll show you some of the steps along
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the way now I'm going to make some
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pansies in orange also so this is the
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orange combination from alterna these
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came out a while ago but I actually
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never used them and boy is it also a
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beautiful set of orange I'm also using
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purple because I always think of purple
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pansies this is an older set
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purple inks from ulta new and I'm
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starting again with the lightest colors
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first
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so basically I've started some flowers
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and leaves with the lightest color the
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most solid image in Purple's orange and
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yellow okay so now I wanted to figure
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out what to stamp next and this is like
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the backer card that comes with the
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altar new stamps I didn't have it yet so
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they I asked them to email it to me
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that's why it's on my phone but I'm
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looking at that to refer to what I
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should stamp next I'm actually going to
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use that for something else later in
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this video too so I was easily able to
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line up the next image that's the image
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with the second most amount of surface
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area on it and I am stamping that with
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one ink color darker you can see that
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beautiful yellow there and I actually
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did it with all my yellow pansies my
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orange and my purple just didn't show it
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in the video to save some time so here
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we are with the third layer and one of
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the things I wanted to mention to you is
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that when I line up my stamps I get my
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head right over the images so I can
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closely look through them when you line
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it up that way it's very easy to do I
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can't show that in the video because my
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head gets in the way and you'll see all
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my gray hair in my messy bun and all
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that so I usually edit that out but you
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really want to get down and look from
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all angles and you can line it up
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perfect every time so I do edit that out
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so you don't have to see my messy hair
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but it does help okay so here we are
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with the darkest color of yellow look
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how beautiful that is I'm just swooning
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over it I do like that this altar new
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stamp set offers the outline so you can
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leave it as it is now do it just with
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what you see or you can stamp the
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outline like I did here and I really
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like that look but here I'm going to let
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you compare the one on the Left doesn't
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have the outline and the one on the
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right does so it's totally your option
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and I love that they offer that you
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could also use the outline just to do
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like water coloring in it if you wanted
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to okay so there are these little inside
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pieces that I can stamp with yellow in
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the inside and I just quickly went
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through and did that here there you saw
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the purple and here is the orange mane
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that orange is so vibrant so when I'm
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stamping I often like to do a google
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image search
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on the flower and when I was looking at
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the pansies online I noticed that there
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are a lot of lines in the flower you can
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see like those lines coming out from the
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center I decided I wanted to add some
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details to these beautiful stamped
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images using tools that I have by the
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way there are some beautiful color
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combinations that you can use with pansy
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stamps I just went with basic colors
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okay so to do some lines kind of coming
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out from the center of the flower I'm
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actually using the straight end of my
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bone folder there's just like a little
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straight end on there and I'm pressing
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it onto my ink pad and then tapping it
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on to my stamped image and you'll see
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there these little lines of ink coming
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out from the center now keep in mind dye
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inks are usually a little bit darker and
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they lighten a little bit as they soak
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into the paper and kind of settle in so
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this will soften a bit but it's amazing
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the difference it makes so I'm just
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using that little straight edge of my
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bone folder to ink up and press down
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onto the paper you could also use maybe
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an edge of a credit card and just ink up
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a tiny little bit of the edge and then
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tap that onto your paper now look at you
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can see the difference between the two
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and this will build up as I add more you
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can see those kind of lines coming out
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from the center and I'm going to do this
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on the other pansy too now you'll notice
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there's probably more in maybe the
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purple flower that we're going to do in
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a moment but boy I love the added
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details now when I'm tapping that little
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straight edge of my bone folder onto the
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ink pad I don't actually tap the whole
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part of the edge just like a little bit
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like a quarter inch of it so I can add
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that to my project I'm going to do the
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same with the leaves and I'm just
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following the pattern of the leaves so
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you can kind of see those veins or
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whatever they're called in the leaves
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I'm following that pattern and just
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adding a little more ink and I choose an
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ink color that kind of is medium shade
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so it's not too noticeable but isn't too
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subtle either so here's a quick
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comparison the top card has no details
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added the bottom card does have details
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added it really adds a lot to these
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realistic looking images and it's
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especially effective on the purple and
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orange flowers I'm going to show you a
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photo of those with the
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added details and it really makes a big
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difference so here you can see on the
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purple those lines that are kind of
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coming out from the center really adds a
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lot to it and the same with the orange
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and I also find that this is good for
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other stamp sets where there isn't as
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much layering as these so you can really
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add more realistic touches to your
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images now I cut these all out by hand
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there are coordinating dies available
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but I like to cut out by hand I don't
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know I find it therapeutic and when I do
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so I always like to ink the edges this
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is another little detail that makes a
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big difference
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in the final project so here you can see
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a leaf that didn't have the edges inked
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and one that does
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and I just inked with whatever ink I
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stamped with now a lot of these details
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don't seem like much individually but
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when you pull them together on a card
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they make great impact okay so now I
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wanted to show you how I put these into
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cards and then I'll show you another
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example for the background I'm using
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this new large stamp set from altenew
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now I'm just using that large outline
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image but I wanted to show you that they
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include images that allow you to stamp
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the color into the pattern which i think
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is so cool so it saves a lot of time
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over coloring individually and it gives
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you many ways to use the stamp set now I
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am just using this for a background on
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my cards so I have a four and a quarter
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by five and a half inch white note card
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and I'm stamping that background with
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Versamark ink and I'm one card I'll add
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white embossing powder and on the other
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I'll add gold embossing powder and I'll
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heat set that so to make two cards using
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those pansies one with the gold
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background and one with the white the
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gold is a little more outspoken and the
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white is a little more subtle okay so
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what I did for this background is I use
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a rectangle die from hero arts and just
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die cut a window from the center you
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could also use a craft knife and ruler
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if you wanted to now I'm going to put
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some foam tape around the outside edge
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only and I'm going to put that on to a
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top folding note card the reason I put
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the craft foam only on the outside edge
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is I'm going to tuck some of my flowers
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in behind that window so they look like
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they're peeking out and that leaves me
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some room to tuck them in
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now I wasn't really sure how to arrange
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my pansies but I noticed on that
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packaging from the Alta new stamp set
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I loved how they had theirs arranged so
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I'm totally copying it and that is a
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great way to find inspiration and all I
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did was glue those into the frame using
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foam tape and regular adhesive so they
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look like they're peeking out so after I
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put this all on the front of a white
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note card I had some white peeking out
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the top and the bottom and I thought it
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was kind of boring I wanted to make it
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gold instead so here's the trick that I
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did since it was all glued together I
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press some Versamark ink onto a piece of
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white cardstock and I put on some gold
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embossing powder after I heat set this I
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have some gold embossed paper now from
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this I'm going to trim two thin strips
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of cardstock one to glue at the top of
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my card and want to glue at the bottom
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and then I'm also going to use this as a
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mat for my heat embossed sentiment I
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stamped in gold heat embossed a
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sentiment from an altar new stamp set
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I'll show it to you in a few minutes I'm
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gluing that on to that gold paper and
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then I'm just going to trim that down so
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I have a thin gold matte around the
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sentiment this is a great way to make
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the sentiment stand out and kind of tie
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in with the rest of the card
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adding these pieces to my completed card
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was actually easy now for the gold on
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the top and the bottom
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I just put adhesive on the back and I
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kind of tucked it in there on to the
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card then once I have both the top and
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the bottom added on I can just go ahead
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and flip my card over and trim anything
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that's hanging off so now it looks like
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my card was assembled on a gold embossed
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card but really it's just a little strip
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glued there now to add my sentiment
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strip I'm using these new thin foam
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strips and I am crazy about these I got
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them in assignment so stamp card kit and
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I had to go back and buy more of them
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I'll link to them so you can check them
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out I like that there since I can put
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them on to tiny areas like this and it
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tears easy so you can make smaller
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pieces if you want to I'm crazy about
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them okay so I added that sentiment this
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is the stamp set its called sketchy
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florals from Alta new that's where I got
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that love and hugs message that I like
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so much
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now here's another great detail idea for
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adding to your cards and that is to use
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your
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quickie glue pen to add embossing powder
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so I put a little quickie glue pen in
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the center of my flowers put on some
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gold embossing powder and heat set that
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gives a nice gold touch to those flowers
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and using the quickie glue pen makes it
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very easy to do okay before we move on I
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wanted to show you what I did on the
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inside of these cards now altar knew
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just came out with a great stamp set for
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the inside of cards it's called
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beautiful inside
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I get asked about the inside of cards
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all the time I often leave them blank
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and write my own message but this this
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is so awesome
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so you can see it has bold sentiments
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for the front of the card but then it
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has a variety of longer sentiments for
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the inside and they cover pretty much
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every occasion you could want so this is
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great for stamping on the inside it
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cards and I'm really excited about it
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you'll be seeing me use it a lot in
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future videos okay so for final look at
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these two cards this one has the gold
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heat embossed background and is a little
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more outspoken and here's the subtle
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white heat embossed version I did stamp
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that same background on the flap of a
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matching envelope for each of the cards
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it really kind of ties everything
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together with all the details on the
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front the sentiment on the inside and
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the matching envelope we're good to go
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okay before we take a closer look at the
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altar new inks I wanted to show you one
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more example of adding details to your
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stamped images and I did that on the
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flower that you see here this beautiful
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flower and leaves is from the new altar
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new totally tropical stamp set here it
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is here you can see there's lots of
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flowers leaves and sentiments I just did
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one of the flowers and a couple leaves
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now I did the flower with four new
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shades of pink ink from alternative
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these are beautiful pink colors and I
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went ahead and did the stamping
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off-screen just to save some time I did
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the leaves also with the same green inks
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I used before and here is another
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example of adding details to your
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project now here I have a stylist that
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just has a rounded tip many people have
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this tool for dry embossing and I'm just
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tapping it onto my ink pad and then
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making little dots with the ink onto my
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project this is very easy it takes a few
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minutes but really in the grand scheme
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of a card it doesn't take long at all if
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you
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don't have a stylist you could also use
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the pointed end of your bone folder or
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look around for another tool that has a
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small rounded tip so here on the pink
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flower I added some darker pink dots
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towards the center and then some medium
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pink dots kind of coming out from the
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center and joining in with the edge of
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the flower I think it's fun to add these
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details and by the way you could also
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use it a marker a fine tip marker to do
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this but sometimes I struggle finding a
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marker to match my inks nicely so using
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the inks is a great match okay so now I
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have a background for this that's white
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heat embossed using that medallion stamp
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that I used earlier kind of did it
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off-center it's kind of down in the
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corner and I wanted to add a little bit
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of ink to the background to kind of
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highlight the area where the flower will
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be so I'm using the lightest yellow ink
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it's a citrus yellow I believe and I'm
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using an ink blending tool to very
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lightly add a little bit of yellow in
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that bottom corner once I'm done with
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what I want I go ahead and use a dry
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cloth to buff it off and you have a
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little subtle color to kind of make a
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focal point for your flowers so I pulled
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this together into a card with some gold
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heat embossing on the right edge and a
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gold heat emboss sentiment from the
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totally tropical stamp set and then I
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added two shades of pink pearls just for
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some accents and also some gold
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embossing detail to the center of the
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flower I again use the beautiful inside
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stamp set a different one of the
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messages and stamp that with matching
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pink ink on the inside I did use that
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medallion to stamp on to the flap of my
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envelope and now all of the details of
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the card go together nicely
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okay so I have used a few new colors of
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alternating today there are four new
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sets of colors so that 16 new colors and
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I thought I'd show you all the alter new
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inks together first let's look at the
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new color combinations up here you see
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the four new yellow inks and below that
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are the yellow ink set they had come out
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within the past so I wanted to show you
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how they compare those yellows across
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the top are very bright and I am head
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over heels always looking for good
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yellow and this definitely does the job
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then they also came out with a new set
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of pink
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that's what you see across the top there
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on the bottom is the set of Pink's that
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they came out with previously you can
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see the color names on there so the ones
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on the top are more of a true pink
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whereas the ones on the bottom kind of
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have a purple tone to it so the newer
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ones are more of a true pink that's what
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I used on that card that I just did
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and those Pink's are gorgeous they also
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came out with a beautiful set of blues
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and they are the set that you see across
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the top there and below that are the
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Blues that they had come out with in the
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past you can see there is a pretty good
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difference between all of them the top
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seems to be more of a true kind of
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turquoise II blue in the middle you have
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a basic like denim blue set and on the
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bottom is like a purplish blue that
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Parisian blue right there a whole I'm so
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crazy about that haven't used it yet I
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need to use that but again the new ones
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are across the top I also thought I'd
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show you a closer look at my ink swatch
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pages for the complete alter new ink
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collection now I'm just going to slowly
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show you all the colors if you want to
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take a closer look at a color or a name
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of a color you can just hit pause so you
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will notice here that most of the
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alternate inks come in four together so
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there is a light a medium a dark and a
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super dark you can buy them separately
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or together and you can buy them in sets
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of cubes I really like this because it
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takes the guesswork out of what colors
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go together and this is a great dye ink
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they call it a crisp dye ink so it
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really does stamp and dry beautifully
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now this ink I find doesn't really stain
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my stamps much and I know that people
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find that to be a great quality you can
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see there are many colors here pretty
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much any color you need including black
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now if you want an ink swatch download
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to create your own ink swatch pages you
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can just head to my blog where I'll have
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a free download for this ink and I will
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link to a video showing you how I do the
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inks and where you can find ink swatch
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downloads for many inks out there so if
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you're interested in any of these
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products linked below in the YouTube
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description as always but go to my blog
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for much more information including that
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free download thanks for watching hope
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to see you again soon
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