Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Multi-Level Stamp Layering
Hello crafters, it’s Nina-Marie here with you! Welcome to my latest Studio Monday video! This week is all about stamp layering and I am featuring Hero Arts’ Water Lilies stamp layering collection.
Stamp layering involves stamping 2 or more images on top of each other to build up a detailed, dimensional-looking design. I love how easy stamp layering creates color, dimension and shading to an image; all without having to use any coloring mediums to achieve the look!
I made use of the MISTI stamping tool today to aid in the stamp layering, but you can definitely achieve the same results without the MISTI. For the ink colors I used Butter Bar, Soft Pink, Bubble Gum and Red Royal for the open water lilies. The closed water lilies are stamped in Butter Bar, Soft Apricot, Thistle, Passion Flower and Orchid. The lily pads are stamped in Lime Green, Green Apple and Pine.
Stamp layering is really awesome, but I wanted to step it up a notch and add even more dimension to these images! When doing all of my stamping, I created four of every image. This is because I wanted to create a more interesting effect by die cutting into the background panel.
I started by die cutting the final layout of my images into my background panel. I then inlaid one set of die cut images into the die cut areas and then popped up the second set on top of those inlaid pieces. The result adds a lot more dimension to the overall look of the card, instead of the images simply being popped up off of the background.
Speaking of the background; I used a Hero Arts wave stencil with some of their inks (Mint Julep, Aegean and Aquatic) and sponged the background to create the effect of water behind the lilies. I love how the blue green tones match so well with the water lilies!
For finishing touches, the sentiments are stamped with both the Water Lilies stamp set as well as the new Hero Arts You Are Loved sentiment set. I really love the encouraging theme of the You Are Loved set; there are so many sentiments in multiple font styles, which pretty much guarantees you’ll find something that works well with whatever kind of card you are making!
To help carry on the theme, I place some Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets along with dots of Glossy Accents in the “water” of my card. And finally added some sparkle on the flowers and lily pads with a Wink of Stella glitter pen.
I hope you will be checking out the video to see the multi-level stamp layering technique in action! Thanks so much for visiting me today… I’ll be back again next week with a new video to share with you!
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Really Pretty card!!!
Love that background
pretty technique
So pretty and elegant!
Love your choice of colours. I have this set and I can’t wait to try it with your colour palette.
Great technique Nina. Love the card too.
Wow! I love all of this gorgeous card!!! <3 <3 <3
Congrats ladies!!!
Great colors and stamps/stencil. Love the technique.
Love the 3D effect when the flower is actually on the card base and then popped up above. I’ve never seen that done before. Will have to try it.
What a lovely card! The flowers and leaves are gorgeous :)
Gorgeous…love the technique!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the video with your great tips and tricks. Love that background!!
Very pretty card. Great tips on layering.
Love this!!! What a great tutorial!
I love your card,the colours are so nice and bright. Thank you for sharing your technique with us .
Sweet card!
FUN!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the BRIGHT Colors and the Design!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Love that background stencil from Hero.
Beautiful Card!!
Lovely layering on
the card, so fresh
looking.
Carla from Utah
I really like the idea of die cutting the lilies out of the background…definitely going to try it! Thanks.
i’m enjoying the new two step stamping with the clear stamps versus the old wood stamps
Tat wave stencil looks like a lot of fun to play with. Cute card!
Love the colors and dimension!
Love the soft color of your cards – thanks for sharing.
Beautiful card. I love the multi-level stamping technique. Thanks for the video.
Love all the bright colors. The blue green background really makes the waterlilies pop.
Pretty card! Thanks for sharing!
wonderful depth to this card. . .
WOW your cards are wonderful!!!
Lovely card. You’ve got me itching to put my Misti to use!
Love that stenciled background
Another great technique and card.
Such a beautiful card – love the colours!
Beautiful. I like the colors and the dimension.
Your two-toned water background is beautiful!
So beautiful!
Such gorgeous cards Nina, I love the 2 toned wavy water background and the water lilies are beautiful! I think your multi-level stamp layering technique is fantastic, it adds so much interest to the cards, thank you for sharing it and your great video tutorial.
What a great technique–love your card!
I love this card. The colors are fantastic and it is so cool all the layers you made.
What a beautiful background!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
That’s really lovely, and the colours are so vibrant!
What a great project from Nina Marie! Love the inlaid and dimension techniques used together. Such cheerful and uplifting cards!
bright and pretty card. like the layers.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Very nice card! thanks for another great video.
I love all the video tutorials you do!! I have gotten so much inspirations from the design team!! Love this one too!
Nice
Very cool–I need to try some stamp layering!
I love how you did the inlayed looked for the bottom images so you don’t see the see the stencil work below, instead you see another petal just as in life. Very pretty cards. I love that stamp set, it and several other “Color Layering” sets are on my “Wish List” LOL!!! Thanks for sharing another great card .
so pretty, looks like the waterlilies from Monet ;-)