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[upbeat bouncy instrumental introduction]
(Monica) Hi, I’m Monica. Welcome to Clearly the Best Stamping
with Close To My Heart. (Kristine): That’s right and I’m Kristine and today we’re
focusing on Terrific Two Tones. One of my favorite all-time
stamping techniques ever. (Monica): Say that carefully!
(Kristine): Terrific Two Tone, you’re going to show us how to
do base and shade. Yeah, me too! (Monica): Yes, base and shade. One of my very favorite techniques
(Monica): I have got here the Love Blooms stamp set, a really
great stamp set to show this technique. (Kristine): Uh, huh.
(Monica): So I’m going to take this stamp here, and that’s (Kristine): Great!
going to be my base. And I’ve got the Slate ink right in front
of me, so I’m going to ink my, my base up, sorry, twist, twist
tap, tap there. All right, and I’ve got good ink coverage; I’m
going to set that down right there and there you see the base. (Kristine): Beautiful. Looks great!
(Monica): Yep, and now I’m going to take that right off and
I’m gonna grab my shade. And I’m going to use the Buttercup. (Kristine): Rose petals. Okay.
(Monica): And so here again, ink it up really well, and this is
going to be really fun here. So I’m going to kind of, you know,
more or less line that up there... (Kristine): Which, again, you couldn’t do if you were trying to
look through a wood block. That’s what’s so nice about these clear blocks. (Monica): Nope. And then I’m gonna stamp it one more time
and I’m gonna turn it...and second generation stamping, so I (Kristine): Oh, nice!
get a different color of level...within the lines and that shows (Kristine): ...but you’re still kind of in the lines of those,
(Kristine) within the rose— (Monica) you the different ways of doing it. Let me show you
the finished card here. So that’s the image right there, (Kristine): Very pretty. Uh, huh.
(Monica): that I’ve just stamped and I’ve done the same
technique with the small rose as well as the leaves. (Kristine): Very nice. Very nice. It looks like you’ve added
just a little bit of Glitz Gel to kind of dress it up a
little bit. Nice. Well, I’ve got some fun (Monica): Yep, just to give it a little bit something extra.
(Kristine): base and shade projects that I’d like to show you
too, because this is a technique you can use with a lot of
different colors and almost any stamp set. That one was
specifically designed for base and shade but it’s really a (Monica): Yes, specifically.
(Kristine): versatile, um, technique. So on this one, you can
see, that I’ve worked with two different flowers from the same
Hooray Bouquet stamp set and simply by working with the larger
and the smaller and layering them I get a nice base with my
yellow flower and a nice shade image on top with my orange (Monica): Right.
(Kristine): flower. Now, working with the same stamp set that
is designed to be an outline...we’ve got my outline here. (Monica): Yep, a perfect outline in a different color.
(Kristine): Yeah, and I’ve worked with a nice contrasting color
so you can see that high contrast that shows there, and again, (Monica): Love it...in the honey
(Kristine): and again, it’s so easy to line up those images,
zero guess work. Love it! And then lastly I’ve done a couple (Monica): Of course, zero guess work.
(Kristine): of things here. First of all I have mirrored the
same leaf image just in two different colors so we can twist (Monica): Just turned it, yep.
(Kristine): it and kind of line them up so they perfectly
nestle together, but the traditional base and shade is right
here in this argyle pattern. So I’ve stamped the argyle (Monica): In two different colors. Yep.
(Kristine): all along to create a border, just restamped that
and then inside, there’s this fun filigree shape and then
I had to add a little Bitty Sparkle just to make it something, (Monica): Bling!
something. You know it! (Monica): It’s just not done without some bling.
Well, I’ve got this really fun popcorn box here and so this
flower was done with the traditional base and shade but here (Kristine): Sure.
the doily underneath, this is a really fun technique. This one
was done with using the back side of the image. (Kristine): Because any stamp set can be its own base. Just flip it over.
(Monica): I know. It doesn’t have to specifically be base and shade (Kristine): I love it! Awesome.
(Monica): So I’ve flipped it over, stamped it in a darker color,
then went in and then stamped on top of it in White Daisy. (Kristine): Beautiful. Great, great, great idea.
(Monica): So let’s look at this Display Tray. Don’t you just
love this new product from Close To My Heart? (Kristine): I kind of do.
(Monica): I love it. And again, I’ve got all these different
pieces, but these two in particular...I’ve done base and shade. (Kristine): Uh, huh.
(Monica): And I’ve picked up the darker colors, you can see
that the letters were done in ah... exactly, and then I was able (Kristine): Right. All done in your darker brown.
to go on top of that. And then these cute little acorns were
done with the same technique. (Kristine): Right. So there’s really, the sky’s the limit.
You can vary your technique on base and shade, whether you want
to go very traditional or get a little bit experimental and use
wildly different colors to mix and match. It’s all up to you and
its one of the great things you can do with My Acrylix® clear
stamps. So if you’d like to learn more about this technique,
we encourage you to contact your Independent Close To My Heart
Consultant and, of course, if you don’t have one,
please visit us at closetomyheart.com.