Swaps For Onstage - Reverse Masking Technique

As this blog goes live, I will be very excited heading into the first stamping event for Melbourne Onstage 2024! If I don't already, very shortly I will have a new stamp set from the soon-to-be-released Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue 2024-2025 - I chose Country Flowers bundle, so stamps and dies for this one. I'll share some cards soon.

One thing we do at Onstage is swap with other demonstrators, and you may be one who is visiting my blog to find out a little more about how I made my swap.

I mounted the Coffee With Friends ladies on the bench and the sentiment on the one block so they were lined up perfectly. These first few were stamped in Tuxedo Black Momento before I decided that I preferred Early Espresso. It stamps just as dark as black, and the ink seemed more even.

After the images are stamped, it is time to stamp and cut masks. You can use the mask 2-4 times before it gets too wet with ink and tears, but it was a lot of fiddly fussy cutting for those masks, ha ha!

The top stamp in Oceanfront is the one I used for the sky with Boho Blue. The grass was the middle stamp, inked up in Granny Apple Green and stamped twice in opposite directions for good coverage.

After the first tries, I featured the sky more prominently, and full strength instead of stamped off as above. The masks do need to be peeled of carefully both to be able to re-use them and to not damage the image they masked.

 

The stamped piece was die cut with Countryside Corners dies and I lost some of the stamped grass I had added from the Oceanfront stamp, but it was worth it. The Boho Blue layer was cut with another Countryside Corners die. It has been embossed with the Splatters 3D embossing folder from the duo Stripes & Splatters TIEF. These smaller folders fit the mini Cut n Emboss machine.

Another rectangle layer was added in Misty Moonlight and for a finished card I would glue it straight to a Boho Blue card base. My card bases are cut at 14.5cm across the middle of an A4 piece of card because it ties in better with the American measurements the dies come in.

Happy crafting,

 

A Little Latte Love

Tomorrow (5th March) there will be HUGE additions to the Stampin' Up! Online Exclusives.

If you only wanted to invest in some designer series paper, here is a sample of what you can do with A Little Latte DSP and card, an embossing folder from your stash and a sentiment stamp. This greeting from Rustic Crate seemed appropriate to me, what do you think?

A Little Latte DSP 163453 $21.75

It was quite easy to fussy-cut around the coffee cup image although the dies do have an outline image for this included.

Strictly speaking, I have cheated a little by stamping some splatters from the Latte Love stamp set, I had momentarily forgotten that I added the stamping. However, a number of retired stamp sets have a splatter stamp if you weren't planning to buy the stamp set.

You may already have a number of these supplies in your stash, such as the Stripes & Splatters TIEF, Pool Party and Petal Pink A4 card or you can head online and add some new bits to your shopping basket! Happy crafting!

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All products used to make these cards are Stampin' Up! and are available in my online store or contact me to find out more details.

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Colour Creations - Real Red

The participants in Colour Creations are all Stampin' Up! demonstrators and members of Art With Heart. This is week 39 of Colour Creations Blog Hop, and as we use the colours alphabetically, we are up to Real Red. 

With all the black & white DSP around, it seemed a fun idea to punch some with the Regular Postage Stamp Punch. I'd noticed this idea on page 26 of the Jan to June mini, and CASEd it.

These cards will be my customer 'thank you' cards for March, it's quite easy to make multiples and bonus is, it's an easy card for the customer to CASE too.

Two recent-release embossing folders were featured on the red card too. Gingham EF is the full postage stamp, the half is Splatters. Stripes & Splatters is a pair of small EF, suitable for the mini SU Cut and Emboss machine.

The sentiment is from Boughs & Blossoms and a couple of branches were punched with the Bough Punch.

Next we head to the lovely, talented Kathryn Mangelsdorf and her piano card.

If at any time you find a broken link, please head to the blog of this week’s host of the AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop, CathyProctor, and she will have the list of all participants.