Hello! Um, not sure where Monday went...but here it is Tuesday already! I meant to post yesterday but the day really just got away from me. But, here I am again! I have a card to share today using some pretty Memory Box stamps and a cool technique recently shared by HRR Julie E.
I wanted to take a minute to say a big THANK YOU to May Flaum for writing some very nice things about me on her blog on Sunday! I was so flattered that she likes my blog since I am a big fan of hers. I originally came to know May's work when she was on Tim Holtz's Design Team = awesome! Please take some time to go and check out her blog. And to all the new subscribers who came over - so nice to have you here!
A couple of weeks ago I read THIS great blog post from Julie Ebersole and watched her equally wonderful technique video about reverse masking. It stuck in my head and I kept trying to think of the perfect stamps to use. Then it came to me! Memory box + butterfly + leaves! Yay! Julie always reminds me to get back to stamping and how clean and beautiful that is. Mwah.
The technique is reverse masking. I cut a shape out of the center of a piece of vellum with one of my Nestabilities. I taped it down over my cream cardstock and sponged the brown ink only on the edges. Then, I left the vellum in place and stamped my branches/leaves in Crushed Olive Distress Ink. LOVE that color.
Voila! Here's what you get when you take the vellum off!
I got out the pretty Cocoa Butterfly stamp (and matching die) from my stash, and colored it in with some pretty shades of orange and gold and yellow.
I popped the butterfly up on foam tape for some dimension. I roughed up the edges to give it some more texture and then mounted the whole thing on a pretty burnt orange card base.
I resisted the urge to bling, glitter, or ribbonize it... I'm happy with the result and would like to think of some more pretty ideas to use with this technique.
Thank you so much for coming by today! I hope you have a fantastic week!
Hola! I've been reading your site for a long time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from New Caney Texas! Just wanted to say keep up the great work!
Posted by: staples | 02/27/2012 at 10:17 AM
P.S. I love the font of your banner title. What is it called? Wish I could train my hand to write that way! *smile*
Posted by: Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr) | 08/25/2011 at 12:48 PM
So cool... that butterfly looks like its going to fly away..... and the reverse masking has jumped to the front of the idea line in my head.... Lol.
*smile*
Posted by: Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr) | 08/25/2011 at 12:47 PM
A wonderful technique to share....I will give it a whirl soon! Gorgeous card!
Posted by: Kelly Klapstein | 08/25/2011 at 10:49 AM
Love this idea, I am thinking this would be great for a Thanksgiving card.
Posted by: Katrina | 08/24/2011 at 04:48 PM
This is beautiful! I might have to give the reverse masking technique a try sometime :). Thanks for the tutorial!
Posted by: Silke | 08/24/2011 at 04:33 PM
Love the card, all of it!!
Posted by: Fonda Jo | 08/24/2011 at 09:12 AM
Wow! You are seriously my new favorite blogger — loving your work. It's gorgeous, innovative and inspiring! So happy to have found you!
Posted by: Jesslarsen | 08/24/2011 at 09:10 AM
Great card Wanda!!! Love the color choices, the butterfly, the sentiment ALL of it. XO
Posted by: Julene | 08/24/2011 at 09:09 AM
I've been wanting to try this technique too! Thanks for the reminder. You did a great job! Love it!
Posted by: Gia | 08/24/2011 at 08:16 AM
Love this technique! I've had some Tim Holtz masking sheets for such a long time with the thought of using them with my Cricut, still haven't but using the Nestabilities would be so much easier!! Thanks for the step-by-step!! I'm inspired again by your beautiful card!!
Posted by: Natalie | 08/24/2011 at 08:05 AM
Love this card! Thanks for sharing your technique. Definitely a keeper!
Posted by: Rose C. | 08/24/2011 at 07:15 AM
Oh, thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten about this technique. Off to try this out!
Posted by: Belinda Basson | 08/24/2011 at 05:42 AM
What a cool technique, Wanda! And such beautiful stamp choices! I so love that YOU inspire me to break out my stamps more. I started as a stamper, but have really gotten away from a lot of that, so I thank you. Now I wanna go play in my scraproom. This is absolutely gorgeous, my friend. :)
Posted by: Audrey Pettit | 08/23/2011 at 07:56 PM
Pretty great technique to produce such lovely masking. I've tried masking technique just in photoshop, and this sure is interesting to try. I wanted to get down with my hands and make such too, thanks for the idea.
Posted by: pocket folders | 08/23/2011 at 05:26 PM
Beautiful card!
Posted by: Tona | 08/23/2011 at 03:09 PM
I LOVE how this turned out, Wanda - want to drop everything and go try it myself - just gorgeous!!
Posted by: Lin | 08/23/2011 at 02:22 PM
Hi Wanda
Gorgeous card love the idea!
So happy for you..you indeed have a FAB. blog..and are a VERY sweet and kind person..and I am so Happy too I am your blog reader!!!Thanks for all the great ideas and time you give me/us!
Hugs Holly.
Posted by: Holly Saveur | 08/23/2011 at 11:46 AM