During 2018 I participated in a swap. Every month we had to design a card and mail 13 of them to the organizer of the swap. It was a great way to get new ideas. Unfortunately it was quite time-consuming. I did love to get the cards though. There were some great ideas!
In December most of the swap cards I received used items that were coming in the new 2019 Occasions Catalog. Today’s card is one of those swaps. This card was designed by Brenda Cardinal, the organizer of the swap.
I love Brenda’s card because it is so clean and bright. From the picture it looks like Brenda stamped the flowers on the large piece of cardstock and then stamped the sentiment on a small piece of white cardstock, layered it on the red and adhered it over the flowers. This is NOT what she did. She used the Masking Technique. (It’s Technique Tuesday….of course I wanted to share a technique!)
Brenda actually masked the large piece of Whisper White cardstock before stamping the flowers. She probably took a strip of computer paper (about 1″) and using removable adhesive adhered it to the Whisper White cardstock. She then stamped the flowers making sure to overlap onto the Whisper White carstock. Once she was done stamping the flowers she removed the computer paper and stamped here sentiment in the open white space. To finish off the card she then cut two 1/8″ strips of the red cardstock and adhered them to the edges of the masked area.
Simply beautiful! I can’t wait to recreate this card sometime! Besides the bright, fun colors Brenda used I think I like the way she finished off the masked area with the skinny strips of cardstock.
Here are the products that Brenda used on the card (to the best of my knowledge…)
Stamp Sets: Boom by Bloom (#148820 $17) Incredible Like You (#148708 $17)
Ink Pads: Lovely Lipstick (#147140 $7.50), Daffodil Delight (#147094 $7.50), Balmy Blue (#147105 $7.50) and Night of Navy (#147110 $7.50)
Cardstock: Whisper White (#100730 $9.75) and Lovely Lipstick (#146970 $8.50)
Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!