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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Stencils in grid

A twist on an old technique. Years ago at a convention, I saw a demonstration of a person using small Marvy square ink pads ... doing DTP (direct to paper) on a card that was sectioned off with post it notes. Then without removing the post it notes she stamped inside the grids. When you remove the post its you are left with a fun grid background. Check out these posts grid technique, 2014 post, another post from 2014 on grid technique. I learned this technique way back in 1999 or 2000 before all the fancy picture taking phones.

Today's cards

stencils used: various companies

Some of these cards are for an upcoming card swap I do with local friends.

Basic instructions:

Masked off a section at a time with post it notes. Lay down stencil and add color through it then with same blending brush add a light layer of the same color over the stenciled section. Remove the post its to reveal the first grid section. Continue on doing the same thing to fill the card. When done with all the stenciling you can die cut the card or just cut it out and layer onto folded card. If you look at the card with the hello die cut ..... that is actually a 5" x 7" card but all the others are 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" cards. For this technique you can use any of your inks you have in your stash. I used CP inks because at the time they were on my table.

Hope you give this grid technique a try and show off your cards. Thank you for stopping by and come back again soon.

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

July/August Moon swap

July and August Moon swap

July is Buck Moon

basic instructions:

1. masked off a circle to create a moon. blended some gray inks to color the moon.

2. around the moon I blended blues.

3. stamped the buck/deer over the moon with black ink.

4. stamped leaves around the edge with blue and white ink.

For more masking ideas look here, a different style of masking, ripping paper masking, yet, another masking idea. there are lots of way to masking ... you can type masking in my search bar to see them all ... remember to click next post at the bottom of the post to see more.

stamps used: Hot Potatoes, Rubber Moon and Stampin' Up

August Sturgeon Moon

basic instructions:

Grid technique

1. masked off sections with post it notes. stippled some color off the edge of the post it note.

2. after done stippling color I masked off one section at a time and stamped an image inside the section.

For grid ideas look here for faux grid technique with a video, basic grid technique with video. You can type grid technique in search bar to find more.

stamps used: Stampin' Up and Rubber moon

Above are the Sturgeon grid card before I made them into full cards. As you can see I did them in all different colors.

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Monday, February 9, 2026

Grid cards

This week Jen Rzasa #altenewchallengelive with the theme divide and design.

stamps used all by Altenew stamp co.

I did a technique that was popular years ago called grid technique. It's a fun and easy way to divide, or create sections on your cards, and tags. You can look back in this post to see grid technique, but if you type grid in search box a lot of posts will come up. Here's a post showing the grid technique that I did way back in 2009!

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Friday, April 24, 2026

Grid cards

Gird cards

I've been making grid cards since 2009 ... yes, that far back ... 17 years! There are different names, and ways to do the grid technique.

This most recent technique I saw Gina K do on one of her weekly LIVE event. This one uses masking paper to create the grid sections, but back in the day before maksing paper we used post it notes. If you go here where I used post it notes. You can type grid in the search bar, and a lot of post will show up for you to check out.

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Monday, May 11, 2020

tic tac toe!

stamps used: Stampin' Up and Unity stamp co.

I called these cards tic tac toe because they were made from a tic tac toe style game.

For my Hello card I used rhinestones, spring, butterflies. For the so glad card I used ribbon, spring and flowers.

The technique I did for my cards is something I like to call "faux layer." Very easy to do .... basically you mask off a section, then blend in some colors. Next, stamp the images over the faux layer. I've been doing this for years ... it easy and fun. Look here for faux layers and grid technique, check out this post with faux layer and bingo, this post is way back in 2012, yet, another post from 2012 guess this must of been the year I learned this technique. But as you can see in this post from 2019 I'm still doing this technique which brings us up to the present. There are a few more posts with the faux layers technique ... if you type faux layers in search box it will bring up all the posts.

Did this with my local card swapping group. We usually meet in person but right now we are doing it through the computer so we all can be healthy and safe in these trying times.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

MFP Buddha blog hop - day 5

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

March Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Featured March 9

Hoppy Easter

Featured March 10

Easter

Featured March 11

Fabulous Pets

Featured March 12

Friends

Featured March 13

Buddha

Featured March 14

Bundle of Joy

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!) All six winners will be announced on

March 15, 2014 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!)

The deadline for

commenting is 10 PM EST on Friday March 14, 2014

Now we're onto the second half of the blog hop week and I'm on the list along with the rest of my sister design teammates. Continuing with my grid cards I'll be featuring faux grid and retriform grid cards. Now retriform is just another way of describing grid and faux grid is another type of the grid technique. Faux grid is coloring with Pebble chalks (can use any artist chalks) then stamping images. Next you take an ordinary eraser to form the grids...fun, huh? I think so. Don't forget to leave a comment to be included in the drawing to win one of the new stamp sets. Also if you stop by Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. blog you can click on the samples there to see lots more inspiration.