Hello from Paris

My quest to use the cast off scraps from cards gone by... after finding a border punched piece and a few butterflies I quickly made this card in 15 mins!

 Die cutting the Tim Holtz/ Sizzix Eiffel Tower from a piece of plastic to use as a mask, I sponge Soft Suede ink over the mask.

 Finding a paper doilie I sponged that all the way around as I wanted it to match, while I thought to lay it down on a piece of cream writing paper, it helped me to make my inside of the card as well as an accent piece.

 Added a couple butterflies and sentiment and the card quickly came together.

Beauty is God's handwriting

I was inspired by a card on the OWH Stars and Stamp blog. The artist masked off and allowed a circle to show through to ink and construct a sun. You do this by punching a circle from a scrap piece of card stock and then use that to mask off the rest of your card. Add ink into the circle (I used orange and yellow) with a sponge. Then I stamp the butterfly (SU!) on the card very close to the sun. Now I needed to mask off the butterfly so I could double stamp the leaves. What you do is stamp the butterfly on a thin sheet of printer paper. Cut it out very close to the inked image - add removable adhesive to this cut out buttefly and put it on top of your stamp one on the main card. Now take the leave stamp and stamp over it. When done - remove the "fake out" mask and the leaves will be BEHIND the butterfly. This is how you can create a scene. Then I just save the mask to be used at a later time.

Sentiment and leaves and butterfly were all from a retired set I bought off my Stampin' Up demo called "God's Beauty".

On the red base - it's hard to see but I added little gold i-ching (Chinese) coins. Entering this in the OWH blog as well as Anything Goes Challenge.

Merry Christmas - mask stamping technique

At Christmas Stampin' All year Long - we had to create a scene.

So I took to my K&Co stamps and first stamped the center snowman in Pacific Point Stampin' Up ink. I then created a mask of the same image on a post it note. Cut around the image as close as I could and then put it on top of the first image and left it there. Took the same stamp and continued to stamp two more snowman in Purely Pomegranate and Baja Breeze.

Added sentiment, masked it, so I could add snowflakes all around and not disturb the true image.

Added rhinestones to the snowflakes. Pretty neat!

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