My friend, Lynette and I had a blast stamping last Thursday, Jan. 27. We explored masking and ink blending with brushes. We followed YouTube tutorials as we worked on our cards and layers. We used my new Gina K Friendly Silhouettes stamp set, except for the musical notes background in the first card.
For this card and the six rectangle card below we followed Jennifer McGuire's YouTube, Masked Background Techniques - Easily Achieve Amazing Results! Since we did not have the Gina K masking magic, we used post it notes plus some old post it tape Lynette found in her stash.
Starting at the bottom using blending brushes we applied Gina K turquoise sea ink then lucky clover ink. We did go back and add fresh asparagus at the top, just as in Jennifer's demo.
We stamped a musical notes stamp (from Lynette's stash) with tranquil teal ink. Then we heat set the ink, just as Jennifer suggested. When that was dry we removed all the masking.
We did place a strip of post its on the bottom of the rectangle before stamping with Versafine onyx black using a Gina K Friendly Silhouettes stamp.
We did not have Gina's four rectangle window die to create our masking rectangles. We improvised by masking the area by hand. We used a piece of cardstock measuring 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. I placed this layer on some scrap paper. Then with a ruler, I drew guidelines on the scrap paper to help with placement of our masking.
As you can see in the photo on the left, my rectangles on the bottom layer are "off". Lynette's card on the right have nicely aligned rectangles because she used a long strip of narrow post it tape so she could easily keep everything in alignment.
We added color with blending brushes using these Gina K inks in the rectangles working left to right--
top layer: passionate pink, sweet mango, wild dandelion
bottom layer: powder blue, turquoise sea, grass green.
Then masking each rectangle carefully, we stamped with various images from the Friendly Silhouettes set using Versafine black onyx ink, just as Jennifer did.
For the card above, we used an oval die to cut out a mask in cardstock. Then starting at the bottom and working our way upward, we blended with wild wisteria, passionate pink and bubblegum pink. We did not add a text stamp background as Jennifer's card.
Stamped one of the Friendly Silhouettes stamps by Gina K with Versafine onxy black ink before removing the mask.
For the trees, I used Gina K's Friendly Silhouettes with Versafine onyx black, just as in all the rest of the silhouette stamping.
Thanks to Jennifer McGuire and Jenny of Jenny Card Designs for their clear and helpful tutorials which made our card making day very fun and productive!
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Peace and all good!
