Week 59 - Theme

We were delighted that there were so few posts with Word Verification this last week... thank you everyone who removed it from his/her blog. It makes a huge difference to us. Thank you!

 For our theme this week, we have a technique which was pre-empted by many of you last week, we would like to see some evidence of

MASKING

but we still need to see white space and a clean and simple design.

Chrissie

This card employs three images from Blockhead stamps. The bulrushes were coloured with Promarkers and the heads have had fun flock applied, although it's difficult to tell from this picture. 

The larger of the two butterflies was obviously the one which was masked. 

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up.

This one has a horizontal masked  band, which was inked with Bashful Blue and Almost Amethyst, using duster brushes. It was then simply stamped with the Penny Black tree and the Tim Holtz birds on a line. Easy Peasy lemon squeezy!









Mandi

Boy, I had SUCH a hard time for this week! Despite being a SU demo I don't do that many stamping techniques, I do what I do, if you know what I mean! I rarely mask, hence... struggling!
However, here's what I did.
Les Miserables is my FAV musical, as it is for my friend Chrissie and many of you I guess. I love this stamp set and decided to replicate the Les Mis scene that represents the show. [The make escapes me, I will amend the post once I sort out whose it is]
I firstly stamped the girl, Cosette, onto my 6x6 card blank. I then made a 'stencil' mask for the torn flag behind. To achieve this effect I had to mask the girl using paper. Paper works best as card is thicker and likely to make a line in your design. I hand drew and cut the idea of the torn flag. Very crudely done, but I think you get the overall effect.
So I had 2 forms of masking, one with the girl and the other with the stencil.


We're sure that you'll have lots of innovative ideas and can't wait to see what you produce.