- [Tutor] Hello and welcome
back, this is Jennifer McGuire.
Today, I am focusing on some creative ways
to do masking on your cards.
The nicest part about this technique
is it changes the look of your stamps,
but it also can result in
multiple cards at once,
you know me, I'm always
looking for ways to do that.
My first few cards are slimline cards
that show you how to get a
different look out of one image.
And then my last few
cards show how to create
negative and positive masked cards.
All of my cards feature a new stamp set
that Gina K Designs designed
for Simon Says Stamp
for the celebration of STAMPtember.
This is a set that's available now,
but once it's sold out,
they don't bring it back.
So if you're interested in
it, you may want to hurry.
Why I like this large
set is this image here.
When you stamp it, you
can stamp it on the bottom
and then on the top and then
a sentiment in the middle
and it makes it look like an ornament.
I'll be focusing on
that for my first cards
and the other images
later on in this video,
My first cards will be slimline.
So I'm starting with white card stock,
that's about four inches by nine inches,
I can trim it down later, but
that's a good size to start.
On the right, that green
piece will be my mask,
I just thought it'd be easy enough to use
card stock for this that was leftover.
And I have a large circle die
that I want to use to create
the mask over the ornament.
I want my ornament to be towards
the bottom center of the
card, so I'm taping it there.
I'm also drawing a pen line
right across the center,
this will help me figure out
the placement of my sentiment,
the sentiment will go
right across the center
of the ornament.
I'm also drawing lines
above and below that,
which will help me to space our,
to position the sentiment even more.
So here's where my sentiment will go
between that top and bottom line.
Then I'll stamp this
image below that sentiment
and then also above it.
So now we can go ahead
and die cut that circle
so we have a mask with the circle.
I'll do a heart later too.
Okay, so now it's time to
start with our bottom image.
We'll do that first, then the top image
and then the sentiment.
So I'm using my MISTI Stamping Tool
so I can do multiple cards at once.
I'm lining up the top of this image
with the bottom pen lines.
You can see the pen lines
to the left and the right,
and now I have that positioned.
So let's start by making the key,
this is one of the four by nine pieces,
and I'm just stamping this
with some Sea Glass Ink
just as a key so you can
kind of see what I'm doing.
Most of what I'll be doing
is white heat embossing,
which is hard to see
so I wanted you to be able
to see the image there
with stamping.
Now I'm putting in one of
the other four by nine pieces
using my anti static powder tool,
inking up my stamp with VersaMark ink,
which is a clear sticky ink.
Then I'll add white embossing
powder and set it aside.
You could heat set it now
but it's easier to heat
set them all at once.
I will now repeat this
process on a couple more
so that I can make multiple cards.
You can do one at a time if you want.
These that I've done so
far don't involve masking,
so we'll get the ornament shape
as the stamp set intended,
I wanted to be able to share a comparison.
Now let's do the masking.
I have another clean piece of
four by nine white card stock
and I'll put the mask over it.
That way when we stamp on it,
we'll end up with a perfectly
round shaped ornament,
a little bit different.
While you see me stamp this,
you'll notice that I'm using a new tool.
This is an idea that I got
from a person named Chuck.
Now Chuck is in the
Gina K. Facebook group.
If you're not a part of that
group, you need to join,
they are a great community,
lots of great ideas.
Chuck suggested using some sort of handle
to rub over your MISTI
you know, pressure and
get nice transfer of ink.
Well then somebody named
Jane popped in and said,
"you know what would work great for this
"is a Dry Erase Eraser
for a dry erase board."
So I went and I got one,
it's got a felt bottom,
and then you can easily rub
across the top of your MISTI
instead of using your hand
and it works like a charm.
So a big thank you to them,
they said I could share this here
and I will be linking
to the one I use below
and sending them both a gift.
Over in the Facebook group,
they also talk about how
you can make your own.
Okay, so let's do that again,
I have a piece of white
card stock, it's clean,
I put my mask over it,
I stamp on top of it
and that way I'll end up with
an ornament that is round
instead of that unique shape.
It's nice to have both options.
So if you have a large
stamp or a background stamp,
try masking with it to create new shapes.
Often smaller things
like hearts and circles
work great for it.
After doing a few of those
with white heat embossing,
let's go back to our key.
I want to now stamp above
where sentiment will go.
So I'm lining up the bottom of that image
with the top pen marks.
You really could eyeball it,
but I tend to be a
perfectionist sometimes,
it's the engineer in me,
so I like to use those
marks to help me out.
So now this is the
image we'll be stamping,
you can see the beautiful
shape of an ornament
that that forms.
So we'll end up with some this way
and some that are round and
then later I'll do hearts too.
So first, I will white
heat emboss this top image
on the same pieces where
I have the bottom image.
These were done without the mask,
then I will go do the stamping
on the versions with the mask.
So I have this one where I
have the half of the circle
already heat embossed,
putting my mask on top,
and then I will ink the stamp and watch,
you can see not all of it stamps
because I have that circle mask.
So I could even make smaller circles,
I could do a card where I
have a big circle like this,
a small and a medium, it'd
be fun to do that too.
You could just die cut a
circle out of your stamp shape.
But this way you can get a one layer card
and it gives a really cool effect
to have that smooth result.
Now I also created a
mask with a heart die.
You could use any shape for this,
so I just wanted to show you that briefly.
This time, I'm just starting
with the top image first
and I'll white heat emboss that.
Then I'll go do the bottom image
and then I'll do the sentiment in between.
So it's nice to be able
to get different shapes
out of your stamps using
a bit of creative masking,
since I'm making many at once,
it was worth it to go through
the steps to create the mask.
After I had the top image heat embossed
and the bottom image heat embossed,
it's time to come back to our key,
lineup our sentiment in the middle
and then we can do the
white heat embossing
on all of our images in that same spot.
That's the advantage of
using a stamping tool
because you can stamp in
the same place each time.
I will then white heat
emboss on all of my examples,
and I don't need to use the mask for that
because it fits within
the size of the ornament.
Okay, so we have all of these
white pieces of card stock
with white heat embossing,
now for some inky fun.
I'll be working on my Waffle
Flower Water Media Mat
because it kind of helps
to hold the paper as I ink.
I'm using blending brushes,
these are from Honey Bee.
I have some that I use
only with oxide inks.
These are the colors of Distress oxide
I will use my first example.
You could use regular distress ink,
you could use any kind
of dye ink that you want.
But I find that distress oxide inks
blend the best and the
easiest because they have dye
and pigment properties.
It allows them to blend
and go on like butter.
So I'm starting on one
end with the darker color
and then I will work my way
too pink at the other end.
Every once in a while I will
stop and wipe off my embossing,
the heat embossing that we did,
so that the ink's not sitting on it
and you'll see that the
white heat embossing
resists that ink we put on top.
It'll disappear as you see here,
but as soon as you take a dry cloth to it,
the white will show again
because it's resisting the ink.
The key to doing blending
with any type of ink
is to overlap the colors as
you go from one to another.
So you'll notice that I'll
take the pink ink and overlap
with the Seedless Preserves,
the purple there in the middle,
that helps to make them
blend kind of seamlessly
from color to color.
Even two very different
colors blend easily that way.
I'll now take my inked
background and put it in a box,
and I will spray it a
few times with tsukineko
Shimmer Spritz.
This will provide a
shimmer to the background
and also some little droplets.
I'll press the button down fully
on the bottle to get a mist
and halfway to get little droplets.
This is a great way to take
a simple background like this
where there's a lot of color
and add something interesting to it,
so this adds a shimmer.
You don't need to do this
if you don't want to,
but I really like the results.
On some of the other
examples, I skipped that part.
So this background is one that was created
how the stamps were intended.
Now let's do one where it ends
up being the round ornament.
So I first covered my entire background
with Cracked Pistachio
and then I came in at
the top and the bottom
with some Peacock Feathers.
Once I was happy with the results,
I took the mask that we created before
and I just taped it on to
the front of our panel.
That way I could ink up
just the ornament part
to help it to stand out more.
I started out by applying Broken China
over the entire opening and
then I'll buff off the extra ink
and see what I think of it.
I decided I wanted a darker
blue around the outside edge
of the ornament to make it look
like it has some dimension.
So here I'm applying
some Chipped Sapphire,
I start on the mask and pull
the color on to my project.
That prevents any of
those big blobs of color
from your blending brush.
And check this out, when
you take off the mask,
it's such a beautiful background.
So now we have a round ornament
which I really like a lot.
Instead of spraying the whole background,
I'm spraying some onto my work surface,
some of the shimmer spritz
and I'm taking a
paintbrush, and I'll flick
some of the shimmer spritz
onto the background.
Distress oxide ink reacts
when it comes in contact with water.
And this has shimmer in it,
so it gives what looks like
a snowfall look in the background.
And I did put that circle
mask on top of my ornament
so that it stayed nice and clean.
I wanted the message to be clear
so that the "Wishing You
Joy" really stood out.
Now, here is one of the backgrounds
where I did the heart masking.
So you can see the fun
heart shape that we get,
it looks completely different
than how the stamp set
originally intended.
While I applied the Tumbled Glass to this,
let me show you a trick
that I figured out.
I have my little creative
corner for my MISTI,
that's that little ruler piece there.
And that allows me to
hold down my background
without getting fingerprints on my project
and it really works well.
In combination with the
work surface that I'm using,
that Watercolor Media Mat,
it kind of holds there,
and none of my paper will move
and I won't get any of my fingerprints,
so you can see how I'm just
kind of holding it across there.
I even hold the mask down with it.
So you can always grab a ruler
and see if this trick works for you too.
Okay, so on this one I use
Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch
and here I'm putting some
Chipped Sapphire on the bottom.
So with this example, I
made the ornament lighter
than the background.
I also added some snowflakes
falling from the background
and I stamped them in
the same inks that I used
to do the inking.
That's one of the nice
things about oxide inks,
they have that pigment property,
which means it's a little bit opaque.
So you can stamp a lighter
color on a darker background
and it'll show up a little bit.
I also stamped some of the snowflakes
with a white pigment ink.
I noticed that some of
my white heat embossing
didn't go all the way up
to the edge of the mask,
that's because I used
a piece of card stock,
I should have used masking paper.
I'll do that on my next example.
But you can always fill in some
of that white heat embossing
with a white gel pen and
no one will ever know.
Now this is a one layer
piece, I love that look.
You could always have
just done your stamping
and used a heart die cut and
then glue that on your card
but masking is such a fun technique.
To finish the ornament off on each,
I started by silver heat
embossing the ornament topper,
this is included in the stamp set.
So I lined that up, used
my antistatic powder tool,
stamped it with VersaMark ink
and then add silver embossing powder.
Next, I stamped with
VersaMark ink, the bow
which is in the stamp set,
added white embossing powder.
But notice that the ornament
string isn't long enough.
So here's the trick that
I did, I flipped it over,
use the other end of the same image,
lined it up with the
string that's already done.
It's very easy to line up the ends there.
And then I'll repeat the process.
I'll use my antistatic powder
tool, stamp with VersaMark ink
add white embossing powder
and then our string is longer.
Another idea would have just been to use
a white gel pen to extend
the line of the string
but this worked really well.
Let's look at the completed
card for this ornament.
I did trim the background down
and then added it to a white note card,
it's about four inches
by eight and a half.
The nice thing about slimline
is you can make it any size
under four by nine and
it'll fit in the envelope.
I did add a few pearls to the ornament,
and check out that shimmery background,
thanks to that shimmer spritz.
And those little white droplets
are just the big droplets of
shimmer spritz that dried.
It looks like snow
falling in the background.
So that was a pretty quick and easy card
because there was no masking involved.
But here's a completely different look,
here's the heart one.
On this one, I silver
heat embossed the string
and skip the ornament topper.
Now the sentiments in the
stamp set that I showed you
were too long for the heart.
So I chose a "Peace On Earth"
from the Simon Says Stamp,
Slimline Scene Builder stamp set
that just came out this month.
So you can see all the snowflakes
falling in the background.
So this has a different
look than our last example
but uses the same stamp set.
Now for the round ornament.
I wanted to do a string on
it that had some dimension.
Yes, I'm adding dimension
to my one layer background,
but I liked dimension
so it's okay with me.
I put a little strong liquid
adhesive, Gina K Connect
at the top of my ornament
and then I added the
end of a silver cording.
Once that's dry, I can put a another drop
of Connect on top of it and
then I'll add a bow there.
You can put something
heavy on it while it dries,
it only takes a few minutes.
Now I need to glue the
string that go up to the top
of the card, using my
T-ruler, I'll just line it up
with the center of that bow.
And then I'll run some liquid adhesive
right along the edge of it.
Then I can lay my cording right onto it,
and then let that dry and
trim off the excess once dry.
I could have tucked this in
behind our stamped and inked piece,
but I like this look where
it goes right up to the edge
and then I just cut it.
The liquid adhesive will
keep it from fraying.
I'll just hold that on it while it dries.
So here is the completed card,
you can see the cording going
up to the top of the card.
You can see our little sparkly
splatters in the background
that looks like snowfall.
That's thanks to the little droplets
of that shimmer spritz that we added.
And by the way for these cards,
I use a slimline envelope.
And you can get slimline
envelopes now in tons of colors
like the one you see here,
over at Simon Says Stamp
and I'll link to that below.
So now we've had the
traditional ornament shape
that the stamp set offers,
a heart and the round,
I think the round might be my favorite.
Now, here is one of my other heart pieces.
This one I messed up the
actual ornament part,
I accidentally put a big splat
of black ink at the center.
So what I did is I cheated,
I die cut a white heat
embossed image over there
from red card stock into that heart shape.
And I'm just gluing
this on top of our card.
So I hid the mistake,
but I'm keeping the background
and I'm okay with that,
that happens to me sometimes,
I thought I'd just go
ahead and share the result.
So my messed up masking
piece is underneath
this die cut red heart
that you see on the card.
I stacked a few there
so there's dimension.
Now I'm putting some gold
coating on top of that.
This would get sandwiched behind
our white heat embossed heart.
The sentiment on that heart
that says, "Winter Wishes"
is also from that Scene Builder stamp set
that I use for my other heart card.
So I'll put that right on top
and now we have our cording.
I can do the same thing before,
use my T-ruler to do
a little line of glue,
lay the cording into it
and let it dry there.
I use my self closing
tweezers from i-Crafter
to hold the end of that
cord, so I know that it dries
and holds there at the top of the card.
I then created a double
bow from the gold cording
and added that to the top
of the heart using a drop
of the Connect liquid adhesive.
I'll put an acrylic block
on this to let that dry
and make sure it holds there.
So here is a look at the completed card,
I thought it would look
nice inside of a red
slimline envelope.
So this is not a one layer background
because of my little booboo
but I fixed it by adding
some layered heart die cuts
to create a dimensional ornament.
So if you don't like to mask,
you could definitely just do
this to get a different look
from the stamp set.
That stamp set is a much bigger ornament
but here we have a small
heart-shaped ornament instead.
And by the way, that background
was done with Worn Lipstick
and Festive Berries ink,
and I stamped snowflakes in the
same colors and Fired Brick.
Now here's one other that
I did the traditional way,
how the stamps were intended.
But instead of doing a slimline,
I did a regular four and a quarter
by five and a half inch note card.
In case you don't like the slimline look,
you could definitely do the
cards that I just showed you
on the smaller traditional card size.
And by the way, I did add
pearls to the ornament
that keeps it from being a one layer card,
but I couldn't help it,
it just looks great with that sparkle.
Okay, my next set of cards
uses the positive and
negative pieces of a mask
to create these ornaments that you see
that are really just individual snowflakes
where we did some masking.
Now this time I'm using
Masking Magic from Gina K.
This is a great masking
paper because it holds up
for multiple uses, which
is what I'm doing today.
I could have done that
for the earlier cards
but this time I decided to
use it because I'm using
multiple openings on my mask.
So here's a piece of masking magic
that is four and a quarter
by five and a half.
I have some circle dies
that I'm arranging,
these will be my ornaments.
If you want to simplify this,
just do three ornaments coming down,
I decided to do five, which is a bit much,
and I have one overlapping
there on the left,
as you can see, so that's
gonna take an extra step,
you could definitely simplify this
by only having three coming down.
I think that would look nice too.
The smaller die here on the
left, I'll have to do it later
because we can't die cut overlapping dies.
So I'll create a different mask for that.
But let's do these four.
I ran that through my die
cut machine and I'm keeping
both the negative space
which looks like Swiss cheese
and the circle mask themselves.
We'll use both to create
two different looking cards.
Now I have another smaller
piece of Masking Magic,
and I will die cut from
that this extra circle die
that will end up overlapping
with the circle opening
right behind it.
So I'll run that through to.
Again you could save this step
by not having overlapping
ornaments, totally up to you.
Now I have white card stock
that is four and a quarter
by five and a half,
I'm putting it in the corner of my MISTI,
I then take the release paper off the back
of my Masking Magic, put
that in the corner too
and press it down.
And that way I can be
sure they line up nicely.
Both pieces are four and a
quarter by five and a half.
Now I'm taking some of those
snowflake individual stamps
from that Gina K stamp set,
I showed you at the
beginning of the video,
and I'll put a snowflake in the center
of each of the openings.
It's hard to see there
but the mask is there
and there'll be a snowflake
at the center of each
of the hole openings that we die cut.
Now that we have these
snowflakes positioned,
we can heat emboss them
on a bunch of backgrounds
to make multiples at once, this
technique is great for that.
So now I'll use my antistatic powder tool,
stamp the snowflakes with VersaMark ink
and add my white embossing powder.
I then will set that aside
and repeat the same process
on another piece of white card stock,
no need to move the mask.
I know that these
snowflakes are positioned
just where they need to
be to make multiple cards.
So I'll stamp with
VersaMark ink on this one,
white heat embossed once again,
I'll do that on a few panels
and then I'll heat set them all at once.
While I have these stamps in place
to create those ornaments,
I'll do a few panels with silver
embossing instead of white.
So once again, I use my
antistatic powder tool,
stamp with VersaMark ink,
and then I'll put on
silver embossing powder.
I'll repeat this with a few
more panels and heat set them
so I'll have some panels with
white heat embossed snowflakes
and some with silver
heat embossed snowflakes.
Let's start with the ones with white
heat embossed snowflakes first.
We're going to create these
colorful looking ornaments
with a white background using
the negative space of our mask.
So here I have one of our
white heat embossed panels
and I have the negative
space mask lined up,
so it's still there from
the first one we created.
Over the openings, I'm applying ink.
I'm using Gina K ink here
with the I-Crafter are
small blending brushes
so I can get into the small areas.
Once I've applied a color,
I can use a dry cloth to
buff off the excess ink
from the heat embossing.
When we take off the Swiss
cheese mask, what we'll have
is four ornaments with
beautiful color in each.
So it'll have a snowflake at
the center, a white snowflake
and color around it.
For my other ornament examples,
I did use distress oxide inks,
but I wanted to show you that
you could use regular dye inks
like Gina K's Dye Inks for this.
There's beautiful colors
in the collection,
so it's totally up to you.
Okay, so after I have filled
in all four ornaments,
I can remove my mask and check that out.
Those single snowflakes
now look like ornaments,
especially when we add the string on top.
Now I can move that Swiss cheese mask
on to another one of our panels
with white heat embossed snowflakes.
This masking magic paper
holds up for multiple uses.
It's much better than any of the paper,
masking paper I've used in the past.
Since I'm using this so many
times, it was important to use
the Masking Magic,
the ink also won't seep
through it onto my card.
So this time I use some
Distress oxide inks
and a blending brush,
and I added some of that purple tape there
just to mask off the other holes
so that I don't accidentally ink one color
into another ornament.
I wanted to keep all
my ornaments one color.
It would have been cool to do
multi-color on each ornament,
but I'll try that next time.
So I continued this process
with the white heat embossed panels.
And here are the different
color combinations
I came up with, they
look like dots right now
but when we add the string on top,
they'll definitely look like ornaments.
Now you could leave these as is
but I was really wanting
to make that fifth ornament
that kind of tucks behind
that one on the left.
So I put the mask that I die cut over here
on top of that ornament,
then we have that second Swiss cheese mask
that I created, it only
has one hole in it though,
and I'll position that wherever I want
that fifth ornament to be.
Now I'll take this over to my MISTI,
add a snowflake into that opening,
and I'll remove that top mask.
We don't need that for right now,
but we do need that other mask there
covering the other ornament.
Use my anti-static powder tool,
stamp the ornament with VersaMark ink.
Then I can add my white
embossing powder and heat set it
and I can repeat this
with the other panels
just each time putting the mask
over that ornament there on the left edge.
Another option would have been
to ink up all your ornaments first,
then white heat emboss on top of it,
but I find I get cleaner results
if I do the embossing first
because the embossing
powder likes to stick
on an inked background.
Okay, now I'm covering up
that ornament on the left
and putting our mask, our
Swiss cheese mask on top of it.
And then I can ink with
whatever color I want,
this one happens to be shaded lilac.
Then I removed both
masks and check it out.
We have that overlapped
ornament look over there on the left
and now we have five
ornaments and I'm very happy.
So again, you could have
skipped it and just done three
if you wanted to, usually
an odd number is best.
So I repeated this process
for all of my backgrounds
with white heat embossing,
and you can see the
different color combinations
that I ended up with.
Before we finished those into cards,
let's do our reverse cards.
So this has a silver
heat embossed snowflake
with a white ornament
and the color around it.
So last time we put the
color inside of the ornament,
this time the colors outside of it
and this is the one that I like the best.
I'll be using the panels
that we silver heat
embossed snowflakes earlier.
On to this, I will put
our Swiss cheese mask.
This is just so we can line
up where the circle masks go.
So this is just there temporarily.
Again, I'm glad I use the Masking Magic
because it's held up through all this.
So I'm taking the circle mask
and popping them in place.
By putting the negative mask down first,
I can make sure the snowflake
is somewhat centered
in the center of our circle.
When I have all my circles in place,
I can remove that negative
space Swiss cheese piece,
and I have my background with circles.
Then we have that fifth circle,
remember the fifth ornament,
and I'll put that mask on to.
Before I do the inking,
I thought it'd be best
to first white heat emboss
my sentiment on the bottom.
I could do my heat embossing
after we do the inking
but as I mentioned,
sometimes when you
create an ink background,
it wants to hold on to the
powder that you add on top.
So I think it's best to do
the heat embossing first.
And then the inking
and the heat embossing will
resist the ink we put on top,
but it's totally up to you
which way you want to do it.
So I'll white heat
emboss "Merry Christmas"
in the bottom of each of these panels.
Now for the fun part, we
can add all the ink we want
on the background.
Now I'm going with a heavy
hand using a blending brush.
I really like using blending brushes
for doing backgrounds like this,
but you can use an ink
blending tool if you prefer.
Whatever you're most comfortable with.
I have blending brushes that
I only use with oxide ink
because I don't want to
contaminate my dye inks
with any of the ink
that may be on my brush.
Here I used Tumbled Glass, Broken China,
and I also use Blueprint
Sketch and Chipped Sapphire.
Notice I'm still using that
ruler to hold it in place
so I don't get fingerprints,
that's really working well for me.
And then I came and added a little bit
of Cracked Pistachio at the top.
Next, I put this into my box, once again,
and I sprayed it with that shimmer spritz
and did some half spray so I would end up
with some splatter too.
I feel like that looks like
sparkly snow in the background.
And here's the best part, I
used tweezers to remove our mask
and look at that white ornament there
with the snowflake in the center.
I love all that color around it.
I could have silver heat
embossed on die cut white circles
and glued them on an inked background.
But there's something really neat-looking
about a one layer panel done with ink.
Now I can move on to one
of my other white panels
with the silver heat embossed snowflakes.
I use the negative space to
help me line up the circle mask,
pop the circle mask in place,
remove the negative space
and there we can ink another background.
Notice these maps have been inked a lot
and moved around a lot and
they're still working well.
So I recommend getting Masking Magic
when you're doing projects
where you have a lot of inking,
I'm telling you, it
makes a huge difference.
Here I'm adding different
colors of broken China,
Blueprint Sketch, Peacock Feathers.
And this time, I didn't blend
from one color to the next
but did a background
like the mix of colors.
This time while the masks are still on,
I decided to stamp on the background.
Instead of using a background stamp,
I'm using the snowflake border
that's included in that Gina
K., Simon Says Stamp stamp set
that I showed you at the beginning.
I'm stamping that with
Blueprint Sketch oxide ink
because it matches the inks
I used in the background.
Oxide ink stamp very well, so
it's great to be able to stamp
and create a background
with the same colors,
because you'll notice they
will go together nicely.
I stamped once down the center
and then decided to repeat
it on the left and the right
to cover the entire background.
Now we can use our
tweezers to remove the mask
and this is where it just feels magical.
I really love
the effect of masking especially
with bold colors like that.
Okay, let's finish off these cards.
Next we need to add the
string so that our little dots
look like ornaments.
I like that this image
is included in the set.
This time I didn't use the
topper of the ornament,
I just did the string.
I stamped it with black
ink and the nice thing is,
because we made multiples
with the same mask,
I can stamp in the same
spot on all of them
and quickly stamp the
string on each ornament
on every one of the backgrounds.
I just simply stamp it
and switch to the next.
After doing all of the ornaments,
there was one that needed to be longer.
You see that ornament
that hung the lowest,
I flipped it over and did that
trick that I did last time
where I rotated the string around,
so I'm making the string longer,
but we need to place this mask here.
So I'm just popping that one in place.
And now here I have the
string, I'll ink that up
and my string as longer.
I could have used a
T-ruler and a black marker
if I wanted to, but this
seemed just as easy.
On our panels with the white background,
I stamped "Wishing You Joy
"in the bottom with black ink.
I also wanted to add snowfall
or little dots to the background
for a bit of interest,
which you could totally
skip if you wanted to.
I use the Simon Says Stamp,
Lots of Dots stamp set.
I love this set.
I took some of the smaller dots
and I stamp them repeatedly
on the background of our white cards
with Simon Says Stamp Fog Ink,
which is a light gray ink.
You can stamp at once for super light,
and then stamp it again
a second and third time
if you want to, to make it
darker, it's totally up to you.
By the way, those large
dots in that stamp set,
you could have stamped those large dots.
I didn't think about this at the time
instead of doing masking
to create those large color circles,
and then white heat embossed
your snowflake at the center,
it would give the same look.
One just involves masking, one
involves stamping large dots,
so that's another option for you again,
I also added little sparkly
dots to the background
using my Stardust Glitter Pen.
I did this on the white card backgrounds
and the bold colored backgrounds.
This just gives a little sparkle
when you tilt it in the light
and it looks like snow
falling in the background.
So for the white panel
cards, I trimmed them down
to four by five and a quarter
and added them to a
note card that I created
from Simon Says Stamp Fog Card stock
that is four and a quarter
by five and a half.
I added a little Iridescent Gemstone
to the center of each of
the ornament snowflakes.
You can see the subtle gray stamping
and the little sparkly dots that I created
just to add a bit of interest.
If I would have skipped those gems
in the center of the snowflakes,
these would have been
great one layer cards.
Again, you could make these cards faster
by skipping the masking and
instead stamping the circles
or you could die cut them
and have a layered card.
Now, here are the other ones
that have the color around the ornaments
and I just really liked this result.
So I put a silver gemstone at the center
of each silver snowflake,
and you can see all the
sparkle in the background.
I really like the bold background color
and that it's smooth.
I could have white die cut circles,
but that smooth inked look is
just beautiful in real life.
Now on this one,
I have some small
snowflakes in the background
that I stamped with white pigment ink
and also with oxide inks
that match the colors
that I use to blend the background,
so like Seedless Preserves
and Chipped Sapphire.
I also added little silver gems
to the center of the snowflake,
so it has a bit of sparkle.
And last but not least, my
favorite of the backgrounds,
the one where we stamped
over the circle mask.
So I hope today I shared
with you some ideas
for using masking creatively.
It allows you to change the shape
of stamped images you have,
create one layer cards
and also make multiple cards
using the positive and
negatives of your mask.
If you're interested in the
supplies I talked about,
they are linked below in my
YouTube description as always,
in the middle here, I have
some other masking videos
that may be helpful to you also.
Thanks for spending this time with me,
we'll see you again soon
and have a wonderful day.
