Clearly The Best - Random stamping - S01e17

[upbeat bouncy instrumental introduction] (Kristine) Hi, I am Kristine and thanks for joining us today for Clearly the Best Stamping with Close To My Heart. (Monica) And I’m Monica and today we are talking about random stamping, but it’s really not that random, right? (Kristine) No. There are a couple of tricks to it, because if you’re like me, you might be a little bit of a perfectionist, your random stamping isn’t...perfectly random. I don’t know (Monica) A little bit. (Laughing) (Kristine) what she’s saying! I’m gonna teach you how to make this adorable snowflake card — you stop that right now little missy — I’m gonna teach you how to make this snowflake card (Monica) Very, very pretty. (Kristine) and it is made with — surprise, surprise — a stamp set called “Snowflake.” Yep, sometimes the simplest names are just (Monica) Snowflake. (Kristine) the best. And you can see there is a circle cut from Colonial White cardstock that’s on this card and it’s got some fun snowflakes that have been random stamped on the back. So how do you get a truly random great looking pattern on paper? (Monica) And there is a method this random madness. (Kristine) Yes. And mostly madness, but a little bit of method. (Monica) (chuckles) (Kristine) Um, so two tips. Number one: work in the rule of three. Your eye works in odd numbers so you’ll want to stamp (Monica) Pretty triangles. Right. (Kristine) in a triangle and it shouldn’t be a perfect triangle (Monica) Right, and its okay to go off the page. (Kristine) And that’s, that’s my second tip. So the second tip is go off the edge because nature goes off the edge and it just (Monica) (laughs) (Kristine) does and you’ll be very happy. (Monica) It makes it look more random. (Kristine) It does and so you’ll want to work in a pattern of three. And when you work in threes and then aren’t afraid to stamp off the edges, you’ll create something that really is random and is very pleasing to the eye. Now you’ll also want to resist the urge to just keep on going. (Monica) Right. (Kristine) Oh look! There’s a little space. You know I am (Monica) Because I know that’s what you’d want to do. (Kristine) fighting that, so I am going to put the block down, (Monica) Put the stamp down... (Kristine) and nobody gets hurt because random — just enough — is more than enough. So stop before you do too much, work in rules of three, and always stamp off the edges of your surface and you’re going to get a random look. Yeah. (Monica) Super tips. So let’s look at some of these other pieces you have. (Kristine) Yeah, I’ll show you a few that are very similar in approach. Now, this one I’m working with a straight stamp so it wasn’t something that I could move in threes, but I’ve taken my curly cue background and to make it more random, I’ve spaced them unevenly and I’ve kind of angled them. Some are close together, some are far apart. The reason that (Monica) Right. (Kristine) random stamping is all so great is that you do not have to be perfect. It is deliciously, deliberately, imperfect. (Monica) (Laughs) (Kristine) So if you’re not crazy about what a great stamper you are, you’re gonna love random stamping. (Monica) Right. This is great. (Kristine) Absolutely. And then I’ve got this cute scrapbook page here, too, where I’ve created my own Background & Texture paper through random stamping. So I’ve been able to tie (Monica) That beautiful blue. (Kristine) in the blue of the shirt and my “she” banner (Monica) Yep. (Kristine) by just doing some random stamped circles right there. (Monica) And you filled the whole space. (Kristine) And it brings it right back together. And you’ve got a couple pieces, too, to show us. (Monica) I do. I want to show this piece here, this beautiful (Monica) “hello” card and you can see Kristine’s shown us random stamping throughout, as Background & Texture, but this (Kristine) The whole piece. (Monica) one is done in just the specific area. And so I’ve (Kristine) Right. (Monica) made these cute little dots, dots patterns all around here (Kristine) Kind of a confetti look. (Monica) Yep, and I haven’t filled the whole space and using other (Kristine) Sure. (Monica) colors as well. It’s selective random. Yep, exactly. (Kristine) So really it’s random but it’s selectively random. Cool. (Monica) And so, we used, um, the punctuation from the weren’t thinking of. Who’d go to an alphabet stamp for random? (Monica) Right. Exactly. And this one here you can see these cute alphabet set to make that cute little dot from. (Kristine) Nice. So you can really use a lot of things that you streamers are actually a balloon stream from another stamp set (Kristine) Ah! Good idea. (Monica) and there go my little dots again, all over. And again, you can use other stamps to make the backgrounds (Kristine) Uh, huh. (Monica) and do them randomly. Some are long, some are short. (Kristine) Sure. (Monica) And then this next piece I’ve got right here, you can see I’ve done the same thing with the cute little dots (Kristine) Uh, huh. (Monica) and just have selectively done my random stamping. So. (Kristine) Yeah. Love it. And then you’ve also got this really fun layout, too, that shows some random stamping on it. (Monica) I do. I do. So here I’ve got these beautiful clouds (Kristine) Oh! There it is. (Monica) you can see and I’ve just done this section of, but you can see that the clouds are all done randomly, not all over, and not perfectly lined up. (Kristine) Right. Which is the way that clouds work! (Monica) They should be that way. (Kristine) They should be that way. (Monica) So if you want to learn more about this really simple basic technique of random stamping, make sure to contact your Independent Close To My Heart Consultant or come visit us at closetomyheart.com.