AUTHOR: Heather Wright-Porto TITLE: Fresh Cut Stampset/Notes Card (1st Step) DATE: 5/31/2008 07:14:00 PM ----- BODY:

In creating the Fresh Cut sample for a recent Technique Class, the first step was "Masking".

I traced the die cut flower shape on scrap paper.
Cut out the image from the scrap paper but a little larger than the traced image.
I also used a 2nd piece of scrap paper (the tan pieces you see in the image above), because I didn't want the background image to go past a certain area of the card.
I then inked the background image in Sky Blue and stamped on the card front. Notice the ink that gets on the 2 pieces of scrap (that is not, therefore, on the card front due to the "masking").
See the next, later post to see how the sample develops.

For an online tutorial of masking, visit:

For an online tutorial for reverse masking, visit:

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