Tag Archive for ‘masking’
Reflections: Swans on the lake
Finished size card: 4.25″ x 5.50″ Supplies: Stamps: Swans (I Love Rubber Stamps) Papers: White scrap for swans (Unknown) Iridescent white paper 4” x 5.25” (Unknown) Blue glossy cardstock 4.25” x 11” (Unknown) Inks: Graphite Black (Brilliance) Ice Blue (Colorbox) Yellow pen (Sailor) Copic Pens: (.too) Cool Blue Cool Grey Buttercup Yellow [...]
The Creative Journey Continues for the Adventurer
It is Not the Destination By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 6.5″ x 5″ Supplies: Stamps: Travel stamps (Clear Art Stamps) Quote (Inkadinkado) Flourishes (Autumn Leaves) Papers: White cardstock cut to 4.25″ x 5.5″ Black cardstock cut to 4.5″ x 5.75″ White pre-folded card 6.5″ x 5″ Inks: Adirondack dye inks: (Ranger) [...]
Dusting Can Be Fun?
Darlene Domel, in her 2008 DVD Color Conversations, shows how any stamper can become an expert at dusting and taping. Of course, the DVD (from StampLand Chicago) is all about stamping and not housework. Darlene herself says, “I am so not a domestic goddess.” The dusting in the DVD is all about color dusting, a [...]
Sketch, Paint and Sponge a Scene
Farm Friends By: Kittie Caracciolo, Artistic Guide Finished card size: 5.25″ x 5.25″ I love to create scenes around stamped images. Sketching in a few lines with an artist pen and adding color with sponges and brushes takes a simple stamped image and adds a scene full of life and color. If you can write, [...]
African Dress Birthday Card for the Inventor
African Dress Birthday Card for the Inventor By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 9″ x 4.25″ This month I made three cards in different styles using variations of the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps. See my other designs for the Discoverer and the Adventurer. This card uses a template [...]
Faux Ripped Wallpaper for the Adventurer
Faux Ripped Wallpaper for the Adventurer By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide This month I made three cards in different styles using the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps. See my other designs for the Discoverer and Inventor. The basis of this technique is to mask off sections with a paper mask in [...]
Distressed Flourish Card for the Adventurer
Distressed Flourish Card for the Adventurer By: Jennifer Willis, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 5″ x 5.5″ Supplies: Stamps: Artsy Victorian Stamp Set (Innovative Stamp Creations) Perfume Label from Christmas Past Set (Time to Stamp) Papers: Cardstock: White (Paper Goods) Cardstock: Cream (Unknown) Textured Cardstock – Ochre (Paper Goods) Inks: Pigment Cat’s Eye Queue: Rich [...]
Shattered Glass Card for the Adventurer
Shattered Glass for the Adventurer By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide Finished card size: A2 (5″ x 7″) Supplies: Stamps: Music #J13 (Great Impressions) Gift of Music #60034 (Stamps Happen) Inks: VersaMagic ink pads: (Tsukineko) Night Sky Turquoise Gem Aegean Blue Pixie Dust Thatched Straw VersaFine -Onyx Black (Tsukineko) Papers: 5″ x 7″ [...]
Layered Collage Card for the Adventurer
Layered Collage Card for the Adventurer By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 5″ x 6.5″ I wanted to create a layered collage-type card, but didn’t want all the bulk of multiple layers of papers and embellishments, so I thought I would try to create something that looked multi-layered by using the masking technique. Note that [...]
Solitary Lion Card for the Discoverer
Solitary Lion Card for the Discoverer By: Melanie Smith, Artistic Guide This month I made three cards in different styles using the same basic technique (masking) and the same four stamps. See my other designs for the Adventurer and the Inventor. This card uses some simple masking of the horizon, with lots of ink-sponging, and blending for [...]
Shattered Glass Masking Technique for the Discoverer
Shattered Glass for the Discoverer By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide Finished card size: A2 (5.5″ x 4.25″) Supplies: Stamps: Rollagraph wheel- Ignudo Border Beethoven set (Artful Illusions) Paper: Kromekote white glossy cardstock cut to 5.5″ x 4.25″ (Marco’s Paper) A2 note card (I make my own by cutting an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of Georgia-Pacific [...]
Shattered Glass Tank Top for the Inventor
Shattered Glass Tank Top for the Inventor By: Stephanie Loomis, Artistic Guide Supplies: Stamps: Abstract Flowers (The Stamping Studio) Ink: Fabrico Black ink (Tsukineko) Reinkers: Brilliance (Tsukineko) Moonlight White Pearlescent Yellow Sky Blue VersaMagic (Tsukineko) Aloe Vera Pixie Dust Other: Blue painter’s tape (home improvement store) Fabric Medium (Liquitex) Palette [...]
Happy New Year!
Fireworks over Sydney Harbor, the Watch-Night bell in Tokyo, and the dropping of the New Year’s Eve Ball in New York City: all over the world, people celebrate the entrance of 2009 with noisemakers, cheers, and Auld Lang Syne. Here at Stamper’s Quest we celebrate the New Year with the first monthly edition of Stamper’s Quest [...]
Our New Address Card for the Discoverer
Our New Address By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide Finished Card Size: 6.5″ x 5″ Supplies: Stamps: Home Sweet Home stamp set (Dream Impressions) Sentiment, “Our New Address” (The Angel Company) Papers: Prefolded White Card (6.5″ x 5″) (unknown) Ultra-smooth 100 pound White cardstock, cut in half to 8.5″ x 5.5.” Keep one half and set [...]
Creating Masked Backgrounds for the Inventor
Creating Masked Backgrounds for the Inventor By: Bea Rosenleaf, Artistic Guide Supplies: Stamps: Butterfly and Definitions (The Angel Company) Sentiment (Inkadinkado) Real High Country Wildflowers (Hero Arts) Solidago Sprig (Rubber Stampede) Papers: 90 pound Watercolor Paper (Cranston) Scrap piece of text-weight paper Inks: Palette ink pads: (Stewart Superior) Noir Sunflower French Lilac [...]
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