- [Jennifer] Hello and
welcome back to another video.
This is Jennifer McGuire.
I'm sorry I haven't
had a video in a while,
we got a new puppy and man,
puppies are a lot of work
for that first week.
So anyways, I'm back
today with a technique
that is one of my favorites.
This is such a fun thing to do.
I call it a split card technique.
Basically, you're going
to create one piece
and then cut it in half, which gives you
two cards with a fun border.
This works really well with
any large stamped image
or large die-cut.
I'm going to start with
showing how to create
a floral die cut border by using stamps
and then also by die cuts.
Then later in the video, I'll show you
how to use this technique
for one layer cards.
Okay, let's get started
with my first set of cards
that have the floral border.
Now I did make a lot of cards again today
but you could definitely
do this for two cards
at a time, if you wanted.
Okay, I'll be using this
new Altenew stamp set.
It has very easy-to-layer
flowers and leaves,
there's two different flowers
and two different leaves
and then also, different
sentiments you can build up
with the word you, such
as just sitting here
thinking of you.
Sending the biggest hugs to you and so on.
Here's the layering guide
that comes with the stamp set,
along with a few different
ideas for using the sets.
You can see how you can do different kind
of floral clusters,
different color combinations
to get different looks.
I'm going to hold up the
different color combinations
that I used in today's video.
You can do a screenshot here,
if you want to write them down.
They are all Altenew Dye inks.
I like their dye inks because they have
a wide variety of colors, from light,
medium, dark and extra dark,
so you can easily figure out
which go together to layer.
I actually even mix and
match different colors
in my combinations
between all of the colors
that they have to offer.
They have a ton of colors,
so it's fun to stretch 'em
and use them creatively.
One of my color combinations
is to create a white flower
and that's the inks that you see here.
I actually didn't use those white flowers
on a card today but I will show
you the results that I get.
And then these are the greens
that I used for the leaves.
While doing the stamping
for the flowers and leaves,
I'm going to share with
you yet another trick
for doing fast,
multiple-stamped, layered images.
This is a huge time saver.
Now for this, you need a stamping tool
and then you also need a
piece of square card stock.
Doesn't matter what size,
I did 4 1/4 by 41/4.
I'm going to put my image
in one of the corners.
In this example, I'm doing the top right.
You could just do this
one piece but I thought
I'd go ahead and do two pieces at once.
So I have another square
piece of card stock
on the top, where I'm
putting a stamped image
in the bottom right corner.
Now I can put both of my
pieces of card stock in at once
and stamp them both at once.
I'm stamping with my lightest color first.
This is the bottom layer of our flowers.
The two different flowers
are gonna be the same colors,
so I might as well stamp them
at the same time, to save time.
After I've stamped them, I
rotate my papers one turn.
So watch, I'm going to
take off the magnet,
rotate each paper one turn and stamp again
and I'll repeat this until I've stamped
on all four corners on the two pieces.
You can see how this is much faster
than doing them individually.
This is very helpful if
you need multiple images
of the same for a card, or
for mass producing cards.
Okay, so now I have a
new piece of white square
at the top and the bottom and
I've switched to my yellows.
So again, I'm doing
these flowers four times
with the lightest color,
since it's the bottom layer
of our stamped, layered flowers.
Okay, I did this with the
other color combinations,
the lightest layer stamping
and now it's time to go back
and do the second layer.
So I'm going to line them up on the bottom
and on the top piece.
These are very easy to line up
'cause you're lining up the outline of it.
Now I'm coming in with
my second darkest color,
so this is just slightly
darker than the last one.
I stamp it, rotate, stamp it and rotate it
until I've all four images
stamped with the layer
and of course, I'll do this
with the other colors too.
Now I do want to show you
the white color combination.
When I do white layered
flowers, I skip the first layer.
So this is fresh, white card stock here.
I didn't stamp the first
layer, I'm skipping ahead
to the second layer and I
do this in a light gray.
This is morning frost, which actually
will lighten as it dries.
So the first layer is non-existent,
so we have white showing through.
Then we have this light
gray, then I'll go on
with a third layer of a
little bit darker gray
and that will form a
beautiful, white flower.
Okay, so now I'm back with my third layer
for each of the flowers
and I'll continue this
with all the layers.
You can see how this trick
of using the square paper
and turning it is really
fast for stamp layering
but it can be done with any stamps.
Say you want to stamp a
balloon a bunch of times,
you could do this technique too.
Okay, so here is that
next darkest layer of gray
and what will turn out
to be a white flower.
Again, these colors will soften
and they'll give a great look of white,
which I'll show you in a bit.
So I continue to do all of
the layers of the flowers
and then it's time to do leaves.
This time, I have another
piece of white card stock
that's 4 1/4 by 4 1/4
and I put down two leaves in a corner,
so I could do two at once.
Look how fast it is to
create all of these leaves.
If you wanted to use a
bigger piece of card stock
that's cut to a square size, that's fine
and it'll even allow you
to stamp more in a corner,
or a bigger image.
Now I'm coming in with the
second layer of the leaves.
So I continued all the
stamping till my leaves
and flowers were done
and then I cut them out.
Now it's time to do the split card trick.
For this, you need a
piece of white card stock
that is 8 1/2 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches
and I drew a line directly
down the center of it.
So if I folded this, I
would have a note card
but I'm not gonna fold it, I
just have a pencil line there.
Now I'm putting glue on
the back of my flowers
and I'm going to arrange
them over that pencil line.
You want the images to kind
of straddle the pencil line.
You want an even amount
kind of on each side,
so don't put 'em all to
the right or to the left.
Try to stay on top of that pencil line.
The more you overlap the better,
because it makes it look more full.
I'm using Altenew
adhesive and putting some
on the back of the flower
and then tucking them
underneath each other.
This adhesive allows you to
lift and change your position
and then it'll dry permanent.
If you want later, you can go and put
more adhesive behind the pieces.
Okay, so once I have
all my flowers in place,
I'm going to go ahead
and cut this in half.
This is the split card trick.
I'm going to take my
trimmer and I'm going to cut
where that pencil line is, which I know
is at 4 and 1/4 inches
and I'm cutting right down
the center of my flowers.
Now I have two card panels
with a floral border.
All I need to do is add
some leaves here and there
to make the border a little bit bigger.
Then, I can trim anything
that's hanging off the edge
and we have two card
panels from that one piece.
This is an excellent way
to make two cards at once
and stretch your large images
to get a different look.
I really like the look of a floral border,
so this was great for me.
Let's do another one, this time
I'm using my purple flowers.
I'm again gluing them
right down a pencil line
that I put halfway through this paper.
Again, it is 8 1/2 inches wide,
5 1/2 inches tall and
I'm cutting it in half
at the 4 1/4 mark.
Now for this one, I decided
to make the card panel
on the right a little more
fold towards the bottom.
So I just went and added some more flowers
and leaves to that, so
it kinda cascades down
towards the other corner.
So you can add to it after
you've cut your borders in half,
or you can leave it as a simple border.
Here's a look at all of
the different card panels
that I got from the
flowers that I created.
For some of them, I mixed
different color flowers together.
For others, I just kept with one color.
You really could do this with
a lot of different images.
I think it would be fun with
different size large stars,
or balloons, or you could do ornaments.
Really, the sky is the limit with this
and it's a great way to use large images
to make two cards at once.
By the way, here are the
white flowers that I did.
I didn't use them on a card
but I'm gonna save them.
I wanted to show you that
using those gray inks
and skipping the first layer of ink
is a great way to get the
look of a white flower.
Next, let's turn these different
card panels into cards.
For some of these, I use
the Altenew Mega Brush Alpha Stamp Set.
This is a new large stamp
set with really large
hand-lettered looking
letters and it is fantastic.
Such a unique look to it.
Now what I what I like about it is,
there's a double T, so if you do a word
such as you matter to me,
you could have a unique
look or double L, for hello.
I like the personalized look of this.
It looks like it's hand-done
and you could make the card
with somebody's name or
personalize a greeting.
I'm using hugs and hello today
because these are going
to essential workers
that I'm making cards for and
I thought that would be good.
So they're great and easy to line up.
I just like to overlap
the end of one letter
with the beginning of the next letter.
Here I'm quickly stamping
hugs along three of my panels.
Now you'll notice that
my letters will overlap
with the leaves and the
flowers but that's okay.
You can see how there's
that little white outline
where it doesn't stamp
right up to the die cut,
I just went ahead and used
a black pen to fill that in,
so that the sentiment stretches
out over those die cuts.
Another trick that I wanted to show you
is that on some of my card
panels, I put that black,
thin card stock strip along the flowers.
To do this, I use my T-roller to make sure
I had a straight edge, then I ran
my Gina K Connect Liquid Adhesive
right along the edge of the T-roller.
I kept the T-roller there and then I took
my black card stock strip and lined it
right up against the edge
of the T-roller again
and that way, I can be sure
my adhesive is straight
and my card stock strip is straight.
That just gives a nice
finished look to that edge.
Sometimes, little touches like
that make a big difference.
Okay, let's go ahead and
look at all the cards
but first, I wanted to show you
some of the sentiments that I used.
This is the new Altenew
Delicate Bouquet Stamp Set
and I use the sentiment that says,
"thinking of you during this trying time".
There are different sentiments
that you can build up with this set
and it has that beautiful sketch flower.
On several of my cards today, I also used
the Altenew Inked Lotus Stamp Set.
I really like the style
of these sentiments,
so I used them a few times.
Okay, so let's look at
all the completed cards.
So here, you can see how
if you put the two cards
next to each other, you
have a continuous pattern
of those die cuts but I cut 'em in half
to create two cards at once.
The card on the right has the sentiment
from the Delicate Bouquet Stamp Set
that I just showed you
and the card on the left
has the hugs that we
stamped with the letter set
and then also, You are
inspiring underneath it,
from the Altenew Morning Glory Stamp Set.
I like to look through my stamp sets
for small sentiments like that.
Okay, next up are these two cards.
You can see how it was a continuous piece
that I cut in half.
On one of the cards, I put
the border on the bottom
and on the other card, I
put the border on the side.
In both cases, I added a
thin black card stock strip,
which I just feel ties in
with the black sentiment
and adds a little bit of contrast.
And by the way, on all of my card panels,
I used various gems and
pearls from Lucy's Cards,
just for a little accent.
Okay, here are my two blue border pieces,
so you can see how they were connected
and then when I cut 'em apart,
I ended up with the two different cards.
You can see also how the
hugs overlap with the leaves
and the flowers to give
kind of a continuous look.
After doing all of these cards
and changing the design a
little bit between each,
I think the card here is my favorite,
with that little bit of
white that I have on the edge
and the black card stock strip.
Next up, we have our two pink panels.
You can see how they
were once connected there
and we have the border on each card,
along with the script alphabet words.
On this hello one, I stamped,
Just sending a note and
a smile to you today
from this Altenew Dahlia
Blossoms Stamp Set.
Now I will tell you, I just
go through my stamp set
looking for little greetings,
so that's why you see me
use a lot of different ones.
And here is my last example, where I use
some of my leftover flowers.
Okay, next I wanted to
show how you can use
the split card trick with die cuts.
So I was really excited to use
a new layering die from Altenew.
I believe this is a new subscription
where each month, they have a new die set
that creates something layered and fun.
You can also buy it individually.
This is the Altenew
Craft-A-Flower Lily Dies Set.
So it cuts all the different
pieces that you need
to create a layered flower.
Offscreen, I die cut the different dies
from different color of
like a peach card stock
and I glued them together
with liquid adhesive.
Sorry, my computer's in the screen,
I was in a Zoom meeting
and doing a little
crafting at the same time.
So after gluing these together,
I get a really fun, realistic,
layered-looking paper lily.
So I did this three times,
so I had three lilies
of the same color, you can
mix and match if you want.
Also included in the die
set are two different leaves
and I did layering with that too.
I have a piece of white card stock
that is 8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches
and I did a pencil line right
down the center at 4 1/4.
I'm gluing my layered lilies
right along that pencil line.
Once I have them glued in place,
I'll cut them right in half
at the 4 1/4 inch mark.
There we have two panels now
that we can use with lily borders.
All I need to do is tuck
some leaves here and there
and it allows us to fill in that border
and make it look a little more full.
Once I'm happy with it, I can flip it over
and cut off any of the excess
and we end up with two card panels
that we created from that one arrangement,
right down the center.
It's a fun trick to do with
both stamps and die cuts.
For the sentiment on this one, I used
the Altenew Hello and Hugs Die Set.
I die cut the shadow for the
word from white card stock
and the word hello itself
from black card stock
and glued that onto the panel.
I did trim my panels down a bit
and add them onto soft gray note cards
that end up being 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.
I was really excited by this design
and I wish I had made
more, so I plan to go later
and make more like this using a bunch
of different layered flowers together.
Okay, my next set of cards features
a split card technique that's
a little bit different.
This allows you to create one
layer cards, if you wanted.
Now this is a little more advanced
and it takes a little more thinking
but once you get the hang of
it, it's really fun to do.
This is the new Altenew
Blossom Wreath Stamp Set.
Such a beautiful set that
creates a beautiful wreath.
Well I wanted to stretch that
by using it to create borders.
So that's what the wreath would look like,
if you just stamped as-is
but we're going to do
the split card technique to make borders.
So I have a piece of white card stock
that is 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 and
I'm putting a pencil line
down the middle at 4 1/4.
Then, I'll put a pencil
line down the middle
in the other direction at 2 3/4.
So basically, I just drew a pencil line
at the center in both directions.
Now I'm putting this piece
into my Misti stamping tool
and I'm taking the outline of the wreath
and positioning it in the center,
along that vertical pencil line
and above the horizontal pencil line.
So I'll be able to stamp it
just right there in the top center.
I'm stamping this with
Altenew Obsidian Black Ink,
which is a pigment ink, which
you'll see I was in a hurry
and I got very messy but it
is a great dark black ink.
Now again, I wanna make
a bunch of cards at once,
so I'm going to stamp
this on several pieces
that are all 5 1/2 by 8 1/2.
By the way, I flipped
my panel over before,
so the pencil lines were on the back
and I wouldn't have to erase them.
So there we have the
start to our stamping.
Now you could skip this step if you want
but I'm putting little hash
marks on the back of the wreath.
I did one hash mark on the first one,
two on the second and so on, so I knew
which ones matched up together.
You don't have to do this
but I wasn't really sure
where my design was going at this point,
so I did it in case.
Okay, now I'm cutting each
of those panels in half,
so I'm cutting a the 4 1/4 inch mark
and what we'll end up with is two panels
that are each 5 1/2 by 4 1/4
for each of the larger
panels that we started with.
Now I'm taking one of the pairs
and I'm putting it back
into my Misti Stamping Tool
but I'm rotating the panels.
So the half a wreaths are
at the top and the bottom
and then I'll stamp my wreath again
but this will be on the other side.
So you can see how, by
doing this technique,
by putting both the pieces in at once,
I'm able to stamp these borders faster.
So now I can go to my next pair of panels
and I'll make it so the
wreaths are in the other spot,
the top and the bottom.
Use my magnet to make
sure they don't shift
and then I will ink up the
wreath again and stamp it again.
That image will be split
between the two panels.
I'll continue to do this
with the other panels too.
Once that's done, it's time
to add yet another wreath.
So I'm putting them back in, making sure
that one of the corners
that doesn't have a wreath
is there on the center right.
I hold the magnet in place to make sure
that these pieces don't shift
and then I'm going to
put my wreath down again.
I had removed my wreath, which
I didn't need to have done.
I could have left it there,
I probably should have
so just leave it in the same place
throughout all of the stamping.
So I'll stamp my wreath there
and then I rotate my panels
for that last open corner.
So I'm putting the two open corners
there in the middle right,
then I'll put my magnet
to hold them in place
and stamp the wreath again and now we have
a wreath border on both
of our card panels.
I'll repeat this with the other pairs
of panels that we have.
Okay, now for the fun part.
We're gonna add some color to this,
because this is a layering stamp set.
You could just add color
with markers if you wanted.
So I'm going back to my pairs
and I'm putting right
up against each other
in the bottom corner of the Misti
and I'm coming in with our first layer.
This will do the little flowers
that I plan to do in yellow.
I use the layering guide to
get the positioning just right.
I'll close the door on my Misti
and now we can start stamping.
I used the warm sunshine, which is like
a orange-ish yellow from Altenew.
One of the colors that
I reach for the most.
I stamp that and now I'm rotating
to the other corners
and I'll stamp it again.
And I'll keep rotating until I have all
of the corners stamped
with that yellow ink.
I will then do the same thing
with the other pair of panels.
So think about it, you're
gonna save a lot of time
creating all of these wreath borders
on all the different panels
by doing the split card trick.
To save time, I'm going
to just kind of skip
through the rest of this,
because we're repeating the process
with the different layering.
So here, this one I lined up the leaves
and I'm stamping that with the Parrot ink,
which is a nice green color.
Then I can rotate the corners
and stamp the Parrot ink again.
You just continue to do the layers,
stamping each, rotating until
all the wreaths are covered.
Here, I'm coming in with Coral Berry
for the last bit of color.
I like the Coral Berry ink color so much,
especially with this Parrot ink
and the Sunshine ink, it's
a nice cheerful color.
You may have noticed, I got
quite a few fingerprints
on these different panels.
To remove those fingerprints,
I either use one of two tools.
For light fingerprints, I
use the Creative Detailer
Tool, which you see here.
Or the Mono Sand Eraser for heavier
fingerprint inks or marks.
So both will save the day and keep you
from having to start over.
While doing this, I
decided I wanna little bit
at the top and the bottom of this panel.
So I stopped what I was doing and decided
to stamp the wreath towards
the top and the bottom,
just to fill in that area.
You could skip this if you wanted
but I felt like it
helped to frame the card,
as opposed to just having the two borders.
So I stamp it on the top,
then I rotate it and
stamp it on the bottom.
I first do the black ink
and then I added the layers
for the green, yellow and red.
After doing this, I
decided I wanted to add
a little more color to the background.
So I went in with my copic markers.
Any markers would work for this
and I just added quick
marks of orange color
to the yellow flowers and then I added
a bunch of little red dots to
the base of the red flowers.
So see how I'm just
doing this very quickly.
With a sketchy image
like this, that's great
because you can do this quickly
and it doesn't have to
be colored in the lines,
it can be imperfect.
So after doing that to all of the panels,
I trim the panels a bit and added them
to black note cards
that are 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.
I did put a white card
stock insert on the inside,
so I could write a personal message there.
For this particular card,
I added a hello die cut,
the same one I used before
and a few yellow gem
stones, here and there.
Now you could also keep
this a one-layer card.
I decided to put it on a black note card
but this technique works
great for one layer.
For these two, I have once
again, black note cards
and I did the sentiment
with black in the center.
On these, I skipped the gem stones
and instead did little dots
of red, here and there,
with my copic marker.
By the way, those sentiments
are from the Inked Lotus
Stamp Set that I showed you earlier.
Now for this particular example,
I used the new Stamping Village
Thinking of You stamp set.
This stamp set has images
from many different companies,
such as Altenew and
it's meant to make cards
for encouragement and
thanks during this time
and I stamped one of
them there in the center.
The card that says, we appreciate you.
By the way, $5 from
each of those stamp sets
goes to the Save the Children Foundation.
Another nice thing about
making a bunch of cards
with this split card design
is that you can change up
the sentiment in the center
and get a different look.
Here I used a greeting from
this new Altenew stamp set.
I like that this stamp set
has a floral border frame
that you can quickly make a card
and then add the different
sentiments on the inside
but I decided to make my own border
with that wreath stamp set
and then add the greeting in the center.
And then finally, this example I use
the Altenew Shine Like
a Diamond Stamp Set.
You can build up different greetings
that have the word shine
and I thought it fit nicely
in the center of our card.
So there you have it, three different ways
to use the split card trick
to create multiple cards at once.
It's another way to stretch
those large images you have
to get different looks.
If you are interested in a
particular products that I use,
I do link them below in
my YouTube description
and also here in the middle,
I have a couple other
similar technique videos that
you might wanna check out.
Thanks so much for
spending this time with me.
I hope you're all staying safe and healthy
and I'll see you again
soon for another video.
