Die Masking....

If you follow my Facebook page, you will have seen this teaser over the weekend.  It's a sneak peak at one of the techniques I taught at Sunday's class......Die Masking.

I just love the detail around each component of the image, which helps to create dimension without layers.

Here's a close up of the technique.

Colours: Calypso Coral, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Whisper White

Stamps: Tin of Cards, Flower Patch

Other: Rhinestones, sticky notes, matching dies.

Happy Stamping.....Manda xxx

Cotton Paper Flowers.....

How cool is this flower???  And so simple to make.  We learnt how at technique class on Sunday.  Drop me an email at jatla@bigpond.com if you would like to join us at the next class.

 

 

Here's the full card.....simple so as not to take away from the stunning-ness (is that a word) of the flower.

 

Look at how high it sits......isn't it great?

 

Stamps: Tin of Cards

Colours: Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry, Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White

Other: Cotton Paper, Flower punch, Rhinestones, Chevron Embossing Folder.

 

Happy Stamping....Manda xxx

Time for a technique.....

 

I'm sharing a card today that I taught at my technique class this afternoon....the technique is called Reverse Masking. 

 

Normal Masking is where you stamp your focal image and then cover it over with scrap paper or a sticky note and then stamp behind it, with some of the image 'hiding' behind the focal image...sorry if that doesn't make sense.....I'll have to do a tutorial on it for you.... stay tuned.

 

Reverse masking is where you mask off an area of the card and then cover the unmasked area with ink.  Today we shared how to use a circle punch to create a focal point on a CAS card with colour and image.

 

Stamps: Tin of Cards, World of Dreams, Papillion Potpourri

Colours: Whisper White, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Memento Black

Other: Bermuda Bay sequins and thick bakers twine.

 

Happy Stamping....Manda xx

Pink Petite Petals......

 

I've whipped this one up tonight to enter into the Colour Q #313 challenge.

 

I have used a technique called reverse masking, which I'm going to feature at my technique class on Sunday....Mind you, the technique will be used in a very different way!!

 

Here's my card for the challenge entry.....there are lots of little Pink Pirouette flowers in the background.....it's a little tricky to see them in this photo, but they are a little clearer in the first photo.

 

Stamps: Tin of Cards, Petite Petals

Colours: Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Smokey Slate, Whisper White

Other: Stamp'n'Write Marker, Rhinestones

 

Happy Stamping......Manda xx

Sharing toys....

 

One of my fellow stampers left me with some of her toys to play with... some beautiful Lyra Aquacolour crayons.  I had forgotten how much I enjoyed colouring with crayons since Stampin' Up! retired their watercolour wonder crayons.  I find them so easy to get a beautiful contrast of colour with, as the wax keeps moving around with the water until you are happy with the result.

 

Here's a close up of 3 of the vases that I've coloured to show you the variations of colour that you can achieve with crayons....I've only used 1 red crayon to colour the vases.

 

The colour palette I've chosen comes from Colour Q challenge #310

And here's the card that I've made to enter into the challenge.  I didn't have any Kiwi Kiss cardstock as its been retired for a while, so I substituted Pear Pizzazz for the card base. 

 

Colours: Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Real Red (which I know isn't technically the challenge colour, but RR matched the crayon colour better LOL)

Stamps: Vivid Vases, Tin of Cards

Other: Shimmery White Cardstock, Red Glimmer Paper, Lyra Aquacolour crayons.

 

Happy Stamping...Manda xx