hi it's Therese from Lostinpaper and today I'm going to be using the Gina K
wreath builder template.
So today I've got the Gina K original Wreath builder template and this is for
the 3 and 3/4 or the 4 inch sized card stock and you do need to use the Misti
tool or something similar, a stamp positioning tool, to be able to use these
templates I've cut a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock to the 3 and 3/4 inch
square and I've put my template in place and placed my cardstock within that
The floral images that I'm using today come from reverse confetti and it's from a
set called build a bunch and I've just positioned it on my cardstock where I
think I might want it and picked it up with the lid of my Misti to create a
circle of an image and you can use any any image that you have or they want all
you need to do is stamp the image rotate the cardstock on every turn and this is
going to repeatedly stamp the same image in that perfect circle and because it's
in the Misti if it doesn't stamp perfectly you can always restamp it
it's a brilliant tool and a brilliant template I really like the concept of
this it's it doesn't just limit you to wreaths and that's what I was kind of
learning as I was playing with it with this template because I'm thinking I
actually don't create a lot of wreath cards but I do like to have a focal
point and by being able to stamp all around the edges of a piece of cardstock
like this that gives me a Center where I can
actually stamp a sentiment or put an image or do whatever I want. so this
is where I wanted to come in with some critters and I didn't want the critter
to be at every flower so they're from a set called like the Love Bug set from
flora & fauna and I only wanted to stamp at four times so what I'm doing
instead of actually rotating the piece of cardstock every
corner I'm rotating it twice I'm missing a corner if it makes sense I found the
easiest way for me to remember it, was to keep the cardstock facing the same way.
So that meant if the cardstock here was facing like a diamond I knew I was in
the right place. now this is going to affect any stamping that I do
right around the edges now because half the edge is done in one thing and
half is done in another I did come in and stamp a full circle of leaves that
was easy enough because that was in the center but these other images that I'm
now out adding I can only do them on every second turn so this time I'm
keeping my cardstock facing like a square and that way I know I'm not going
to stamp over any of the other images that I've already stamped this was
really easy to do and so instead of actually building a wreath what I'm
doing is building a focal point in the center of a card panel it was really
easy and fun and the template itself it's like a stencil kind of material so
it just wiped clean so I did do my stamping with the onyx black ink today
because I wanted to do some water coloring and I thought it's about time I
got my Zigs out it's been an age because uh I've been using the altenew water
brush markers and I'm loving them I love the vividness of the color and they are
actually really easy to use I think they're probably a little bit easier to
use than the Zigs, but I'm out to lunch on that one, I do like the colors
of the Zig's I think I'm sitting here impatiently waiting for some new
colors from Altenew may be I need to give him a nudge... so these colors will be
listed at my blog I'm doing just some really
simple water coloring here laying down my colors then adding water to blend the
one thing I do like about water brush markers is they dry so quickly it makes
it easy it's not like when you're doing a proper watercolor and you've got to
wait for things to really really dry this I find I use less water with them
and it works well for my own patience you might notice that I tend to actually
add my colors so I'll have the lighter color and then come in with a little bit
of a darker color before I blend them and I definitely work in really small
areas I don't let my I don't like I can't do a large area with any of the
water brush markers at a time I find that they just dry too quickly and
they're too hard to move and one other big tip is if you're not having any luck
with water brush markers change your card stock try something else because
some card stocks especially like watercolor card stock the color doesn't
move at all it's it's just hard work and coloring is not meant to be hard work
it's meant to be fun and someone needs to tell me is this the squirrel? a possum?
could be a possum because I was thinking maybe it's a fox no I'm thinking it's
a possum someone smarter than me will know! so like I said this is no longer
a wreath the images aren't all coordinating perfectly around the edges
well they are coordinating, there is a pattern but you don't sort of look at it
and see exactly the same pattern and I think that by adding the wash of color
in the background that kind of gets rid of some of that wreathiness, wreathy look
as well it makes it really focus on that focal point I'm using some peacock
feathers it's a distress ink and I find that any of these distress inks are a
really easy way to add quick wash for a background-color and
they dry fairly quickly although I did actually use quite a bit more water on
this portion of the watercolour I wasn't sure what color to do those flowers
until the end that's why I left them I couldn't make up my mind do you ever do
that? alright so for my sentiment I'm using my Misti tool again because after all
this work I don't want to muck it up and I'm glad I did so I'd pre-stamped my
sentiment it's a couple of sets from altenew one was the inked rose and one
was the flower vine and i cut them out of a piece of scrap paper and then set
them in the center, that way I knew exactly where I wanted them to sit on my
panel and then I just lined up my stamp and then picked it up how easy was that
and I'm glad I use my misti as I did need to stamp it twice the second
portion of the sentiment is too long what's that mean? yes I want to
selectively stamp it so I used my acetate to protect my card panel picked
it up with the lid and then I'm going to mask off the piece that I don't want to
stamp out which actually says hugs I don't want to say sending you hugs hugs
I just want to say sending you hugs. so after I've added ink I did remove my post-it note
mask and then I can just stamp it out now I did want to add another filler
flower from the stamp sets and the reason I didn't add this before is it
because I wanted to stamp it with the skylight ink from Catherine Pooler and
it's a water-based ink and that would have interfered with my water coloring
now my panel didn't warp very much but I did find I had this palpitations if I
didn't use my magnet to hold it in place
while I stamped and then I added a piece of fun foam to the back of the panel and
popped it up on the front of a top fold card no! on a side fold card so this
was a top fold card that I cut down so this will actually still fit in a
regular envelope or I could actually use a square envelope if I prefer and I
haven't used twine in a little while and I like a bit of a twine bow and this is
a really nice fine one and I haven't linked this twine to anywhere so if
anyone can find it and let me know that would be great
I haven't been able to locate it but some Darice natural twine it's very
pretty so if you liked this video please like it and if you haven't already I
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for my next video till then happy papercrafting bye
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