Meadow Reflections

 Meadow Reflections

Unfortunately we need sympathy cards, so I decided to make a few to have on hand.

stamps used:  Altenew Meadow reflections stamp set, MFP stamp co. saying

Instructions:

1.  Make a reverse circle mask. 

2. Place post it notes over half of the circle mask.  Lay down cloud stencil and add color.  Remove post it notes and replace on other half of mask.  Now blend (in this sample) green ink, then put strips of masking paper over green ink.  Blend same green ink but darker over strips.  Remove strips and see the results.

3.  Remove circle mask to reveal.

4.  Stamp image in black ink over the inked circle.  Add sentiment.

5.  Layer stamped piece on black layer and green A2 card.

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Googly eyes!

Googly eyes!

This is my September card swap card for my local creative card crew group.  The theme was googly eyes!  so I decided to go Halloween with googly eye bats.

stamps used:  Stampin' Up

basic instructions:

1.   Reverse mask a circle to create a bright moon which was colored with yellow and orange inks.

2.  blend gray and black ink around the edges of the card to give it that gloomy Halloween effect.

3.  stamp two bats over the moon.

4.  punch out third bat and adhere to card and glue googly eyes.

5.  stamp cloudy texture image a couple of times with gray ink.

6.  stamp saying in black and add more googly eyes.

7.  layer stamped card to black layer then to yellow card.

If you would like to see more reverse masked, or masking techniques I have done, just type masking techniques in the search bar on the side of my blog.

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seahorses

Seahorses look graceful ... don't know if they are or not but they are unique creatures of the sea.  for this card ... no you're not see double there are two cards but both the same ... I did a reverse mask ... sponge in some colors.  you are asking why those colors ... well ... these colors came to me while I was having dental work done.  at the dentist she gives me "shades" to wear so the over head light isn't so bright ... during the procedure my eyes teared a little and when I looked at the light these are the colors I saw ... purple, orange and yellow so I thought why not make a card so I did a couple of days later.  now back to the card, after sponging the colors I did a little stamping with the same color inks inside the circle.  also stamped the seahorse with black ink inside the circle with the mask in place then removed the mask and stamped more seahorses.  stamped the sea kelp ... added a few crystals for bubbles ... layered stamped piece on lavender note card.
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