Wednesday 7 September 2016

CAS 189 and Paper Players 311

By happy chance I can combine challenges from two of my favourite sites today: CAS Colours and Sketches (it's colour week this week) and The Paper Players.



I've had in mind to try out a technique - Double Masking - that I'd seen on Pinterest. I thought it would look good in the challenge colours and it uses circular elements. The instructions were on Sandi MacIver's blog where she makes a fabulous card with the Love and Affection set. In her stunner of a card, she colours the images with Stamp'n'write markers, which would be much easier than actually stamping the big images in terms of getting a good clean edge - but since I didn't have the markers I had to do it the hard way! 



I do like the way it looks as though the flowers are floating in bubbles although I think you could use any shaped mask if you wanted to. Anyway, it's a great technique and I'm keen to try it out again. I'm thinking it might work with Seaside Shore - I'll let you know!

Ingredients
Card: Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, Whisper White
Stamps: Botanical Blooms, Petite Petals, One Big Meaning
Inks: Real Red, Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, Tuxedo Black
Other: Circle framelits to make the mask, Post-it notes.






10 comments:

  1. This is just gorgeous! I must look the technique up - such an eye-catching result.

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  2. This is beautifully done! Love those masked circles of flowers! Glad you shared it at the Paper Players!

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  3. Just straight out WOW, awesome technique, so love the big red flowers, so striking.Just watched the video so now to give it a go.

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    1. It's a really informative video, so glad you watched it. I'm certainly going to give it another go.

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  4. Amazing card - love the result of the technique; great job with the colors! Thanks for playing along with us at CC&S!

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  5. Very pretty! I will have to check out that technique now! :) Thanks for sharing your card with us at CC&S.

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  6. I have never heard of the double masking technique, but I have to say that it is high impact and fabulous.

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  7. This is a really pretty card and I also like the bubbles that they appear in. Very cleanly coloured.

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  8. This IS a very cool technique and it works so well with those vibrant colors you used! Just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this with us at the Players this week! It's a real stand-out!

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  9. They do indeed look like bubbles. What an eye catching card - I'm off to check out the video right now. Thanks so much for joining us at CAS Colours & Sketches again this week. Liz x

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