I've joined Crafty Collaboration's Technique Tuesday Blog Hop today. The Technique featured for this Hop is Masking, which is a technique that I use often in many different ways.
Since I am using the In the Country stamp set all this week, I decided to see if I could use masking to place the Ancient Building in the beautiful Meadow. I'm reasonably pleased with how it turned out. If I were to do it again, there are a couple of things I might change, but in general I'm happy with my card.
To place the old building in the meadow, I stamped the building first and then masked it so I could stamp the meadow over it to make it look like the building is sitting a short distance from the fence.
I used my Stamparatus for both images to make sure that I could stamp them a couple of times, if needed, to get a good image. As I was doing this for the meadow, I had a bit of a brainstorm and decided that I could add different colors to my stamp each time I stamped. I started by stamping it all with Soft Seafoam. On the next stamping, I used a Shaded Spruce Stampin' Write Marker to add the darker green to the pine trees. The 3rd time I stamped it, I colored the trail (which is mostly covered by my sentiment) with a Crumb Cake Marker. I could have done the same thing for the fence but decided to just color it directly with a Soft Suede Marker.
When using the technique of coloring the stamp with a Stampin' Write Marker, remember to hough on the stamp before stamping. This helps remoisten the ink and you will get a better image.
After I colored the door and the plants on the house, I masked the house again, and also masked the meadow. I used a Blending Brush to add some Balmy Blue color to the sky.
If you would like a tutorial with all the detailed step-by-step directions, you can download a copy at this link.
I didn't really have anything in mind for a sentiment for this card, so I went in search of "something". I found a sentiment in the Happy Labels stamp set that said, "You are MY HAPPY PLACE." I decided to leave off the "You are" portion of that sentiment by masking it with masking tape before I inked it up. That left just "MY HAPPY PLACE". I thought it was very appropriate because this old home in a beautiful meadow looked like it would be someone's "HAPPY PLACE". Masking a portion of a sentiment is a masking technique that I use frequently, and it worked perfectly for this card!
Love the way you have combined both images in this card Patricia x
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