Krafty Tips and Tuts - Combining Stamp sets with four techniques

Happy Monday krafty friends!

Krafty Girl Danielle here with your

Krafty Tips and Tuts for the week.

We love Monday's at Kraftin' Kimmie 

because it's our chance for the DT to show you

something a little different in hopes that we might 

inspire you to try something new!  

Kraftin' Kimmie's stamp sets are not only AWESOME

on their own but they are also great to mix and match

on your creations!  Today I'm going to show you how 

to use four different stamp sets with four different 

stamping techniques.  Are ya' ready?? Great! Let's go! 

The techniques I'm going to show you are:

Triple-Time stamping

Masking

Heat Embossing

Spotlighting

To start I die cut 3 panels with stitched rectangle dies

(sizes are 2 3/4" x 4", 3 1/4" x 4 1/2" and 3 3/4" x 5")

Then I used a temporary adhesive to stack them.

It's important that you make sure they are pretty stuck

to each other so they don't shift when you are stamping

across the panels (trust me I've done that and it's a bummer!) 

You can use a permanent glue to do this - but I like 

to add layers in between after I've stamped so I use

a temporary glue (just enough to keep the pieces together).

This is the panel that will be used for the 

Triple-Time Stamping technique

Now you start stamping - you'll want to make sure that  

some of the parts of your images cross over each panel.

I used the adorable Fairy Loved, Buds and Blooms and

part of a sentiment from  Let Your Light Shine for this step.

Notice how the flowers and leaves overlap each other?

This is the second technique - Masking.

 I first stamped each flower on a piece of stick note and 

and then fussy cut each one. The flowers from 

Buds and Blooms are really easy to fussy cut around.  

After layering the flowers I then applied my masks

and stamped some leaves around them.

Next I added the rest of the sentiment by first stamping it 

with Versamark ink and then heat embossing it (technique #3).

This is another sentiment from Let Your Light Shine - 

the fabulous NEWEST stamp set that was just released

earlier this month (such a great versatile set).

This is kind of fun just as it is with the pops of 

color but.... I still have a fourth technique for you

called Spotlighting.  Keep reading to see it :o)

Spotlighting is adding color to just a part or parts of the images.

In this case I kept all my color on the top layer panel only. 

I colored this using my copic  markers and Wink of Stella pen.  

And now this is what we have...

I also added some dots from the Buds and Blooms set and

some pretty little orange butterflies from Butterfly Dreams.

Then I re-heated my embossed sentiment and added some 

dazzling diamonds to the Sparkle sentiment.  After that was

set I finished coloring my little fairy and added a little shading.

When you are finished with all your panels you can gently

take them apart and add a colored cardstock mat to get

more depth and dimension to your layers (now you know

why I said to use temporary adhesive :o).  

Then add your finished panel to a card base (I used

 the largest die for the last panel (size 4 1/4" x 5 1/2").

Here's the finished card - ta da!! 

Here's an angled view of the layers and 

shimmer on the sentiment and wings (wink of Stella).

As a recap...the four stamp sets I used are:

Fairy Loved

Buds and Blooms

Butterfly Dreams

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and Let Your Light Shine

BRAND SPANKIN' NEW - June 2016

 What do you think? Wanna give it a try?  

I hope you enjoyed my Tips and Tuts today

and that maybe I've inspired you just a little!