I love the magic of masking and today’s take on the technique is one of many I’m sure. I call it simply Masking with Painter’s Tape. In today’s post, a picture is almost worth 1,000 words.
Tear off 1″ more of painter’s BLUE masking tape than you need and lay it down on a piece of scratch paper or grid paper or computer paper……whatever paper you have handy. Gently remove the tape from the paper. Repeat at least 4 times, removing some of the tackiness from the tape.
Lay the tape on your card stock in the area you want to remain blank/empty.
Stamp your image. In the case of this image from Eden’s Garden, I rotated the image 1/4 turn after each stamping, re-inked and stamped again. Rotate, re-ink, stamp again.
Slowly and gently remove the painter’s tape.
Stamp your image in that empty space. My “Merry Christmas” is from the Evergreen Elegance stamp set.
And here’s my finished card:
On my finished card I used the “Merry Christmas” from the Heartfelt Wishes stamp set found in the Stampin’ Up! July – December 21 Mini Catalog, p. 57.
Please go back to the this post for more information about my finished card above. And please share with other readers a masked card that you’ve made. We all love fresh ideas!
