Today I’ve got an easy trick to show you how to mask a word stamp to change what you want to say!

Many people don’t know that you can even DO this kind of thing so when I changed my greeting today I thought I would share my tips for how to mask a word stamp so you can get more sayings out of your stash!  I wanted to make this a firetruck card for a boy’s birthday and I didn’t have a birthday sentiment appropriate for a juvenile  card. 

The Frame and Card Base

• Create the brick background on a piece of 5.00″ x 3.75″ cream cardstock using the Repeating Bricks Stencil, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo inks and blender brushes.
• Use ATG adhesive to attach the brick layer to the red card front.
• Cut the Rectangle Combo OPC #4 using red and yellow cardstock.  Pro Tip:  Don’t want to waste cardstock by covering the whole combo frame die? You can cut the size of cardstock to cover the die, use a rectangle die to cut the center out of the cardstock and set it aside and then line up the large frame piece of cardstock over the combo die and cut to get the outer frames that you want to use.
• Turn the red and yellow frame sections face down, line them up inside each other and attach them together using double stick tape. Set the frame section aside.

The Sentiment

• Cut a 5.00″ x .75″ strip of white cardstock and a 5.00″ x 1.00″ strip of red cardstock.  
• Stamp the birthday word from the Build a Phrase #1 set on the white strip using Nocturne ink.
• Place the Bomb word stamp on an acrylic block and cover the M and B with tape.

• Apply ink to the B and O.  

• Remove the tape, line the letters up and stamp them on the strip right beside the birthday word. 
• Place the Birthday word back on the acrylic block and cover all the letters of the word excluding the Y.
• Apply ink to the Y.

• Remove the tape, line the Y up by the BO and stamp to complete the word boy.

• Apply ATG adhesive to the back of the white sentiment strip and attach it to the red strip.  Note: I trimmed off a little of the red strip on each side after I attached it to the sentiment strip.  I just liked it better than having a full 1/8″ on each side.
• Attach the sentiment layer to the back of the frame using double stick tape.
• Apply mounting tape all the way around the back of the frame and attach it over the brick background.

The Fire Truck

• Cut the Old Fire Truck and hydrant using red, yellow, black and gray cardstock.
• Assemble all the pieces together and attach them using glossy accents and rolled up double stick tape.
• Apply mounting tape to the back of the fire truck and hydrant and attach them to the card base.

I used the red and yellow cardstock to make the frames so the colors would  match the firetruck and to bring additional brightness to the Birthday Boy’s card.  Check out my Birthday Category to see other birthday card examples.  

5312-02D Old Fire Truck Die [ RBB ] 5217D Rectangle Combo OPC #4 Die Cut [ RBB ] 4102 Repeating Bricks Stencil [ RBB ] 3412 Build a Phrase #1 [ RBB ] Versafine Clair Nocturne Pad [ RBB ] Scor-Tape .25″X27yd [ RBB ] Glossy Accents .5oz [ RBB ] Scotch Advanced Tape Glider & Tape [ RBB ] Crossover II Fabric & Paper Cutting… [ RBB ]

Make Art Stay-tion, Ranger Wendy Vecchi [ ELH ] Picket Fence Studios – Tools – 4-Pack… [ SBC ] Vintage Photo, Ranger Distress Ink Pad [ ELH ] Antique Linen, Ranger Distress Ink Pad [ ELH ] Scrapbook.com – Perfect Clear Acrylic… [ SBC ] Amazon.com: Scotch 1/2-Inch by… [ AMZUS ] New & Improved Mini MISTI Laser… [ ELH ] Fiskars 01-005452 Recycled Bypass… [ AMZUS ] Teflon Bone Folder, Essentials by Ellen [ ELH ] Scor-Pal Measuring & Scoring Board 12×12 [ ELH ]

Now that you know how to mask a word stamp – even that you COULD do that – aren’t you now looking at all your word stamps differently? I know, right? Let me know what you think about this idea and tell me how you’ve changed up YOUR stash!