You can create beautiful cards using the masking technique. Today’s card uses this technique with the Enjoy the Moment stamp.
Special Moments & Island Vibes Brighten Up My Day
Cards don’t always need to have tons of layers. The Island Vibes & Special Moments Sale-A-bration stamps makes a great clean and simple card.
It’s A Valentine’s Day at the Peekaboo Farms
Make a Valentine’s Day card for your child or grandchild with the Peekaboo Farms animals, Welcoming Windows and the Scalloped Contours Dies
Timeless Tulips – Happy Spring, Happy Easter
Happy Easter! Today’s card features the Timeless Tulips stamp and Tulips Builder Punch. You know it’s springtime when you see tulips everywhere in an array of colors. The Timeless Tulips is a carryover to the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog and is a distinktive stamp. The set has seven greetings and 3 different size tulips along with leaves and stems, and it coordinates with the Tulips Builder …
Treasures of Life – The Joy of Grandchildren
Treasures of Life is a great stamp for all the grandparents out there. Being a grandparent, I see joy and love in these sweet images. You don’t have to be a grandparent to use this set – it can be used for a parent or any other type of relative or close friend. I just spent a wonderful weekend taking care of 3 of my …
Basket of Blooms – Sweet Friendship Refreshes
The Basket of Blooms stamp is the focus of today’s card combined with the Prized Peony stamp for the sweet friendship greeting. Unlike yesterday’s quick card, this card is a bit more detailed. There’s some dry embossing, coloring, die cutting, and masking. The stamp includes 14 photopolymer images that consist of a clay pot, basket, vase, flowers and leaves. Although the stamp doesn’t have any …
Sale-A-Bration Heal Your Heart With Forever Fern
Today’s card features the Heal Your Heart stamp from the Sale-A-Bration catalog and Forever Fern from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog to make this soothing sympathy card. Making sympathy cards is not one you look forward to creating, but it’s nice to know you can make one from your own home when you need one. Since the need of a sympathy card comes unexpectedly, it’s good …
Woodland Wonder, You Are So Loved
Happy Valentine’s Day! Woodland Wonder is an adorable set so I had to use it for my grandkids’ Valentine’s Day card because they are so loved. The Woodland Wonder stamp has 3 different sections of a tree so you can lengthen or shorten the tree. In this card, I did not include the leaves on the tree. The set has several little images like music …
So In Love With Mediterranean Moments
I know Valentine’s Day is over, but I still have some cards I haven’t posted yet so I thought I would share another one with you. I used several stamps to create this card but the main focus was done with Mediterranean Moments and So In Love. There are two techniques I used on this card – the first being that I made an opening of …
Thank You Touches of Texture
Today’s swap card is a thank you card using Touches of Texture as the primary stamp set and One Big Meaning for the greeting. This is one of my favorite cards . . . I love the colors and having all the color focus in the middle with everything else white. Are you wondering how I got the scallops on each of the sides of …
Festival of Trees & White Christmas Money Holder
HAPPY HANUKKAH! MERRY CHRISTMAS! to all my friends out there! Hope you had a wonderful time with family and friends! (a little late . . .I know) As much as I tried to stay ahead in my preparations, something else always popped up. Did you feel this way, too? Anyway, all got done, except being able to edit my pictures and post. So I will …
Bloom With Hope Sympathy
Hi There! Here are a couple of sympathy cards using the Bloom With Hope hostess stamp set. I sponged the one on the left with Wisteria Wonder and So Saffron inks and added rhinestones in the center of the flowers. The one on the right I sponged with Pear Pizzazz and Soft Sky and punched a small circle with Basic Black card stock and added …
The Open Sea Birthday
Here’s a card I made for my husband using The Open Sea stamp, and a couple of other retired stamps in my stash. I know he likes the sea and boats so I decided to make one with a nautical theme. I used the faux layer and masking technique. I also embossed the Off the Grid stamp on the Crumb Cake card stock layer with …
Time To Be By The Seashore
For the next couple of days I will be sharing some cards I made a couple of months ago but didn’t get to post them. Here’s the first card for the seashell lover. I used the masking technique on the shells and added just a touch of the Dazzling Diamonds glitter to give a few of the shells some shine. I stamped the script stamp with VersaMark onto the Pool …
Lovely As A Tree With A Touch of Color
This is the last black & white with a touch of color card I’ll be posting. I like the soft color it adds to this simple card using Soft Sky ink, one of the new colors in the Subtles collection. I masked the bottom and top to sponge the color in the middle. See more black & white cards here and here. So what do YOU think of the …
Congratulations Artistic Etchings
The Artistic Etchings Stamp Set is another set that is retiring next week. I can’t believe the time is almost here to say goodbye to my trusty ole stamps. Wondering how I made this? Stamp your sentiment in the middle and then place a strip of copy paper or cardstock where you don’t want your other images to go (that’s called the Masking Technique). Sponge above …
Inspirational Share & Snow Much Fun Cards Winner
How many times do we see people around us who are hurting or just need a listening ear, and we don’t stop to reach out to those in need because we’re just too busy. This song is a great reminder to me to reach out whenever and wherever I can. That is my desire. Winner My birthday random drawing winner is LINDA! Congratulations!!! Here are …