Yippee For Yana Series! Repeat Background + Dimensional Pattern Stamping with Breakfast Buddies

Welcome back for another episode from my by-monthly Yippee For Yana video series for Simon Says Stamp Blog! In today’s episode I’m creating a fun stamped, colored and die-cut background for a card using Breakfast Buddies stamps. You can easily apply this technique to other small images from your stash. Blogged: http://www.yanasmakula.com/?p=61550 This stamp set features a bunch of images of food that one would usually have for breakfast plus there are fun sentiments that go along with each type of food. I love to have eggs for breakfast and of course bacon so I decided to go with the egg image for my card. There are 3 different egg images and I used all 3 of them. If you’ve been following me for some time you also know that I am all about creating my own unique backgrounds with the help of small images so this is what I am doing in this video today. I mounted all 3 egg images on my clear block (to save time as it didn’t really matter in which order I stamped them) and stamped a bunch of eggs at once in Simon’s Intense Black Ink onto white cardstock. For my coloring I picked Copic markers and the reason I went with Copics is because of the ease of use. I can quickly color a bunch of images, do some easy shading and be done in 5 to 10 minutes. If I were to color one or two images I could have picked colored pencils and or watercolor and really took my time to do some awesome and detailed coloring, but since I was doing a lot of coloring I didn’t want to focus much on it, besides the coloring is not the start of the show on this project, its the pattern itself. I used Y19, Y15 and Y11 to color the yolk and C1 marker to add a bit of sharing to the egg whites. I don’t think that was necessary, but I felt like I wanted to add just a bit of gray here. Once my coloring was done I used coordinating dies to cut these images out in my Platinum die cutting machine. There is a die for every image in this stamp set, so if you have these coordinating dies it makes cutting these a much easier task. Next, I cut a piece of black cardstock to 4 x 5 ¼” and started working on my pattern. Lets rewind a little bit and talk about the different kinds of patterns or background I like to make. There’s one kind of background where I do a lot of stamping and I stamp everything directly onto a card front or onto a panel that goes on the front of my card. There’s no die cutting involved in that kind of background. There’s also a kind of background, and I like to call that dimensional pattern stamping, is where I stamp my images but I also cut them out with coordinating dies and form a pattern or a background on my card. In this case I also like to use foam adhesive to pop things up. I like to do that when I form clusters of images, for example I have florals and leaves and I don’t wanted to do masking, so I would cut the images out and foam mount onto the card, or like I am showing in this case I want to have a dark background, but I don’t want to spend the time coloring that background. It would have been harder to stamp the eggs onto a white cardstock piece, color the eggs and also color the background black. It’s much easier, if you have coording dies, to stamp and color the eggs, cut them out and just foam mount them onto a black background. ▬▬▬▬▬ ● S U P P L I E S ● ▬▬▬▬▬ Disclosure: Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support! • Simon Says Clear Stamps Breakfast Buddies - http://shrsl.com/rlu6 • Simon Says Stamp Breakfast Buddies Wafer Dies - http://shrsl.com/rlu7 • Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine - https://goo.gl/Z6uRWJ • Spellbinders Magnetic Handy Mat - https://goo.gl/u1V2FT • Spellbinders Tool 'n One - http://goo.gl/cnGpD1 • Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink - http://goo.gl/ybEVLU • Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock - http://goo.gl/MlrWcI • Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock - https://goo.gl/0fgBnz • Copic Sketch Marker Y11 Pale Yellow - http://shrsl.com/?~cnnl • Copic Sketch Marker Y15 Cadmium Yellow - https://goo.gl/tvlyp6 • Copic Sketch Marker Y19 Napoli Yellow - http://shrsl.com/?hz1x • Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray - http://shrsl.com/?hlrp • Ranger Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive - http://goo.gl/rjIPjW • Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors - http://shrsl.com/phnp • Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer - http://shrsl.com/jme9 • Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool - http://goo.gl/cQiEUj • Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape - http://shrsl.com/?iefv • White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 - http://goo.gl/ZwcoCZ • Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares - http://goo.gl/fxU7wx ▬▬▬▬▬ ● F I N D - Y A N A - O N L I N E ● ▬▬▬▬▬ Blog: yanasmakula.com Facebook: facebook.com/yana.smakula Instagram: instagram.com/yana.smakula/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/letrodectus