RBC08 – Masking

Ready for a Challenge? This week’s Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge RBC08 (see rules below) is to make a card using any type of Masking Technique. Post

on Jeanne’s blog post using a Rubbernecker or Stamp Oasis image and you’ll be entered in a monthly drawing. Enter as often as you like throughout the month.Ready for a Challenge? This week’s Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge RBC08 is to make a card using any type of Masking Technique.

The rules are simple for the Rubbernecker Blogger Challenge. Link your finished challenge project

***No Rubbernecker stamps? You can play anyway!!! You won’t be entered in the drawing but we’d love to see your artwork!

***No Blog? That’s OK too! Just link your project from any online gallery!!!

Rules, past challenges and blog button can be found –>HERE

All qualifying entries will be entered into a monthly drawing for

a $25 Rubber Bucks Certificate from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

Check out the Rubbernecker DT’s challenge cards! Sherry , Jeanne, Shelly.  Jeanne has a great tutorial on her blog post today with wonderful step by step details to show masking techniques.

Masking is one of my favorite techniques to use in my scene cards. You can place images in front of each other and create a scene that comes to life. I am going to revisit a few of my projects posted here on my blog in the past to show some good examples of masking. I did a mini tutorial with the card below to show the simple masking technique. It is much easier than you think.

I used several foliage stamps from KK Originals Flowers Collection on Rubbernecker to create a jungle scene around the animals. I did lots of masking and cutting of extra foliage to pop up over the scene.  I have had several people tell me they are intimidated by trying masking and layering so I thought I would add a few steps below to show how easy it really is to accomplish a dimensional scene that makes your images come to life.

I stamped the lion image with Brilliance black and masked so I could stamp the elephant and giraffe on either side of him. You always want to create your mask with a thin paper like post-it or regular printer paper.  Cardstock is too think and will not allow your images to stamp cleanly around the mask. Once you cut your masks just keep them with your stamps so you can use them over and over again. I use Tombo Mono Removable Adhesive on the back of my masks to hold them firmly in place.

Once I had all three of the animals stamped I placed their individual masks over each of them and started stamping foliage all around them. Some we full inked images and some had to be painted. I watercolored all three of the animals with reinker and a brush as well a painting the open foliage.

I stamped many individual leaf images to cut out and pop up over and behind the animals. I also stamped an extra lion mane and head and elephant head and trunk to pop up in the scene The final foliage layer was stamped on a solid piece of cardstock the full length of the scene, painted and cut out along the top to define the foliage. This allowed all the base of all the foliage pieces to be covered and to add more dimension.

One thing that I thought would add to the scene was to clear emboss lots of the foliage to make it shiny like it would be out in the wild. I squished each individual leaf directly into the Versa pad and then covered with clear embossing powder and heated. I used a Versa marker to do a few of the leaves that were stamped directly on the main image layer and embossed them as well. I sponged the sky area around all the base foliage with Adirondack Butterscotch to match the lion and giraffe and to make the scene pop.

I completed my card by adding foliage images as a background for both the olive and mustard cardstock. I added Papertrey twill to the base of the card for my final finishing touch. I am in love with this scene….even if I do have to say so myself.

In the example below I stamped the chicks first, masked them and then stamped the chicken coop and Greta.

In this example I stamped the big bunny masked and stamped the small carrot garden images around him.