Vintage Stamped Card Tutorial

hi everyone it's Lou Collins firstly I'd like to introduce you to my brand new textures collection Wings and Things um there is an overview on the craft Dash channel so you'll be able to see all the items there there's stamps and there's dyes as well um but I want to show you how I've created this particular card it's kind of a vintage style using a couple of the items from the collection now you can browse the entire collection by looking in the description below I've got a link there to both the UK and the US stores and if you do like this video I'd love it you give me a quick Thumbs Up And subscribe of course to my channel if you haven't done already okay let's jump straight in so first things first I'm going to create a background and this is going to be slightly textured to start with um so that the insects really show up not too deep I might add some a little bit more later on I need to add a little bit of color to this first a base color so I've put my messy mat underneath just to protect my desk and I'm going to go in with a mix of two different distress oxide sprays so I'm going in with speckled egg and with Walnut stain because they're oxides they're actually quite muted tones so they look really nice with a boulder stamp over the top so I'm just shaking these to get all the mic from the bottom and I'm going to just Spritz these over the top just to give that sort of speckled look as you can see I don't want anything too smooth and then over with the blue as well in patches a little bit darker and I'm going to go with some water and then start to mix these just like so the water will also create that oxidization that oxides have and that will make it all lighten up too now I'm just going to give that a few seconds to sit on my card stock and then I'm going to actually lift a lot of that off with some kitchen towel I've actually got the print of the kitchen towel in there so I will just dab that some more don't really want the print in there but you can see we're left with this really lovely quite pale background nice loose patterns in there a bit of distressing going on so I'm just going to dry that off now for the most part that is dry I'm going to stamp a little bit of texture in the background as well and I'm going to bring in for this so I like this brick wall stamp but I'm going to bring this in from the uh grungy dragonfly and brick wall Stamp Set this comes from the same collection the wings and things but I'm just going to use this and I'm only going to use it with my hand and just press into this ink pad now this ink pad is black and oh do I want to I think I might actually go with a brown and see don't want it too dark and by using my fingers I'm not going to be putting too much down at a time there you go you see just a little bit of texture there I'm going to turn this around use another part of it so I tend to sort of use a couple of f and almost roll it on so you get a really light touch perfect there we go that's probably I'm always going to say this that's enough and then carry on stamping I think that is actually enough now let's go into our stamp platform and to add the first layer of our insect species chart just popping that on there this is a large stamp you don't have to use all of it there's some great cards out there where people have masked this off um particular Monica masked a few off and just did like a bookmark Style with them so I know this is only just going to fit on my paper here not worried about that though so just making sure that the magnets are not interfering so I might pop that one there although I've got my sticky grid under there okay so the first time I stamped this I'm actually going to be stamping this in a brown I'm going to go with the brown that's water reactive and you'll see why in a moment and I'm going to press this really quite firmly over all of the bugs now this is a distress oxide and a distress oxide is water reactive not as much as the dyes so I might actually go and reach for my um distress oxide sorry not D the inks the Dy based inks so let's just put these this on first first like so so you can see the background there and then I'm going to take my water again and do a light Spritz and just press any remaining ink into there as well and what I'm hoping is that the inks kind of bleed a little bit and run let's see yeah so we have got a little bit of that happening there that's great again I'm just going to dry that off now although we've got a small amount of of bleeding on there I want to see if I can get just a little bit more so I have gone with the distress ink in the same color vintage photo believe it or not they are the same color and I'm going to go back over these with that stamp just wipe the where I've caught the edge of the stamp there you don't need to be too precise with this either at the moment we we like that kind of loose look going to dampen here again doesn't matter if you're using the right card stock you can keep wetting and rewetting the paper and it will perform absolutely fine and now I'm holding that ink in hopefully this will spread and bleed a little bit more oh you can see that happening already that's brilliant okay so I'm going to give that a few seconds I probably actually might leave this one to air dry this time while I get some things together ready for the next layer okay so I haven't moved my card stock and I haven't moved my stamp at all now I'm going to come in with a solid black and really get the smaller details of these bugs showing through on the card stock now as long as your paper your card stock is fully dry this layer will not bleed and you'll get the nice clear detail you might need to do a couple of Impressions particularly if you are using a watercolor paper so let's just press these down really firmly over each of the bugs and the text making sure again that none of those magnets are in the way perfect there we go look at that you've got that darker image almost like they've kind of the bugs have sat on Old Paper for a while and it started to discolor I really like that so what I'm going to do now is leave the stamp where it is I'm going to remove this sheet for now just take that out I'm going to put another clean piece of card stock in here and I'm just going to do another impression of the insects there again in Black perfect how cool is that even just black on white I really really love this image okay now to tidy this all away since my card stock is damp anyway I'm going to just add a little bit more of the speckled egg I kind of lost it a little bit in a few places so I'm just going to do some Splats of the speckled egg in a few places just really one bottom corner and top Corner in the opposite really mostly I might even do my big Splats and that's where I take the lid off I just press down on the pump there with the tube out so just in the liquid there a gentle and then ready there nice big SP it actually went directly over one of the bugs so let's try again there that's perfect that's what I wanted a few bigger ones now this will all become clear in a little while I'm just going to lift off of this bug a little bit more um but that should be fine okay so set that aside to dry and now I'm going to use my fussy cutting scissors and I'm going to cut out the main part from each of these now I'm not worried about legs and I'm not worried about antenna because they are going to be black anyway but certainly the wings and the bodies for each of the bugs I'm or insects I'm going to be cutting out now now all the pieces are out I'm going to lay them over their relevant bugs and put them on so we've now got sort of the white background and it just makes each of the bugs stand out a little bit more sort of Pop from the background so they're not as faded in so just lay that over there you can see we've got the black legs and the black antenna eyes still but like I said it just lifts them up and makes them look they stand out a little more so just gluing these on completely flat with a wet paper glue you see we've got this nice dark area around each of the bugs as well how cool is that okay next I'm going to create a semicircle here I used to have a piece of metal and embellishment that was like a metal frame I might see if I can find that if not I'll D cut myself a circle and then I'm going to add to that this dragonfly here it's a much larger image of this one and it's going to be really cool cuz it's to look like it's magnifying that image so I'm just going to do that first so just having that Circle off there um I'm going to then just capture a part of this dragonfly so we've got the head and the tail so probably um just something like this so you can sort of still see what it is but it's definitely enlarged I'm going to stamp this onto white cut it out I am going to do a little bit of card stock to a similar sort of color to this um not EX L it doesn't matter as long as it's kind of similar um and then place that together so now I've got my little sort of magnifying glass I'm just going to place that I think just over there that looks pretty cool just kind of um just magnifying that area um yeah I think that looks quite quite smart and I'm going to add a sentiment to this so my next stage is again something that I'm not going to be able to film but I'm just going to take my sewing machine and I'm going to do a stitched Edge uh probably a zigzag Stitch all the way around the edge in a black thread so it really shows up and then I'll put this onto a card base and decide if I need much more with it now on this card I'd like the background to be the feature as much as anything in the foreground so I'm not going to put too much else in the way of embellishments on top of this I really want that Stamp Those insects to show through so just putting this onto a cardo base just ensuring that the card base is the right way round I'm going to leave the threads loose I often do that as well um and I've also got my magnifying glass as well so place this down two around about there yeah that looks great now for the sentiment I'd like to keep uh any embellishment in one place usually I'd try and balance things out um I really like this those small things make a big difference I think that works perfectly with the background that I've created here so I'm going to cut this out and I'm actually going to probably try to have if it will fit small things and then it continues down here make a big difference so the sentiment is running that way or vice versa we'll see how it fits best I think the word small things is going to fit perfectly absolutely perfectly there so I'm going to snip that if I just snip it I want to really snip it to the shape if I can might have to tuck it under in fact instead so we'll just go Central so small things oh look at that perfect absolutely perfect there and then there make a big difference yeah love that I'm really pleased with how that looks the fact we've got the sentiment coming down past the magnifying glass as well I'm just going to glue that down again wet glue uh and then just add any finishing touches I think Finishing Touches for this is just going to be a few black pearls or gems here just splattered about near the Black sentiment so they kind of look a bit like ink Splats and I think that will be enough and there we have a really fun vintage card perfect for all genres all different ages as well um I'm really pleased with that one so if you like the look of the textures Wings and Things collection there's lots more in the collection that you'll be able to see at craft stash I'll link that down below so you can go and browse all the products and specifically find this stamp set as well thank you for watching Everybody take care and I'll see you again very soon