A {You're A Hoot} Card...
Monday, January 30, 2012
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Hello there! I hope you are off to a good start this week. I worked as a sub on Thursday and Friday and it totally wore me out. I another card I made for the Clear & Simple Stamps January release. This card uses a technique that I had totally forgotten about. Not masking, but masking using die cuts.
Here's what I did. I totally meant to take pics of the process, that would be so much easier to explain.
First I masked off the outside of the card leaving an open rectangle in the center. Then I die cut the owl shape and the branch and punched a circle using plain copier paper. I arranged the die cuts where I wanted them and held them into place using repositional adhesive. Then I sponged the background blue (my sponge had green on it already (whoops!) so that's my by blue looks greenish blue). I removed all the masks, which left an open area for my sentiment, owl, and leaf images. I stamped all those images and then colored them in using watercolor pencils. Such a cool technique!
If you've been following my blog lately, you'll see that I've been loving to mask things lately. I love anything where I can get more mileage out of a stamp set.
Have a great day!
Here's what I did. I totally meant to take pics of the process, that would be so much easier to explain.
First I masked off the outside of the card leaving an open rectangle in the center. Then I die cut the owl shape and the branch and punched a circle using plain copier paper. I arranged the die cuts where I wanted them and held them into place using repositional adhesive. Then I sponged the background blue (my sponge had green on it already (whoops!) so that's my by blue looks greenish blue). I removed all the masks, which left an open area for my sentiment, owl, and leaf images. I stamped all those images and then colored them in using watercolor pencils. Such a cool technique!
If you've been following my blog lately, you'll see that I've been loving to mask things lately. I love anything where I can get more mileage out of a stamp set.
Have a great day!
{You're A Hoot}
Stamps: Little Critters, Critter Sentiments (Clear & Simple Stamps)
Card Stock: A Blanc Check (CSS)
Ink: Perfect Little Black Dress, Glamazon Green, Trendsetter Blue (CSS)
Accessories: Little Critter Die Cuts, Stamping Sponge, Circle Punch, Watercolor Pencils, Aqua Painter
2 comments:
cute card!
This is a really cute card! Makes me want the die cuts and stamps if I had extra money floating around.
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