In today’s Make It Monday video, Betsy is going to demonstrate a technique she’s used on a few cards recently that combines masking and ink sponging to create gorgeous layered backgrounds!
Supplies:
- STAMPS: Fab Flakes, Floral Fantasy: Christmas
- INK: Spring Rain, Tropical Teal, Royal Velvet, Blueberry Sky
- PAPER: Stamper’s Select White Cardstock
- DIES: Fab Flakes, Snowfall Style 1, Snowfall Style 2, Floral Fantasy: Christmas
- OTHER: Removable vinyl, ink blending sponge, sequins, vellum
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If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.
- A new Make It Monday Challenge will go up on Monday mornings at 9am ET.
- Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and include masking and ink sponging like Betsy shared in the video.
- Please enter NEW projects only.
- Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
- Add your project to our InLinkz list below. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE.
- You will have until 6am ET, Monday, November 26th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.
- One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, <November 26th, after 6am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
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Gorgeous, Betsy! What a fun technique! Glad I have time to think about what dies to use…besides snowflakes.
This is amazing! Thanks for the vinyl tip too!!
So cool – I was admiring that technique this week. I don’t have an Instagram account so couldn’t look at the post you did there on the technique. So glad it became a Make it Monday!
This was a very fun technique. I made one card front yesterday which I will turn into a finished card in the next day or so and if I get a chance, I have more ideas I want to play with! The tip about using vinyl was awesome. In fact I have some Cricut stencil material that worked perfectly. The best part is that I was able to place the used cuts on a sheet of wax paper so I can use them again.
Thanks for a tutorial I enjoyed very much.
I had a few chuckles because at the beginning of the video, I noticed Betsy inadvertently had formed hand shadow puppets that were talking! Now, I do have an overactive imagination that sees shapes in clouds and so forth, but I got a kick out of this! Aside from that, the video and card creation was stunning! What a fabulous technique and I can hardly wait to make one. Thanks Betsy, for brightening my day!
Beautiful and artsy! Thank you Betsy for sharing your tutorial. You always keep us inspired & your techniques are always fresh and fun! Seriously! 🙂