Spring is less than one week away! Although as I’m typing this it’s snowing outside my window. I’m definitely looking forward to the warmer temperatures and brighter colours. I think that’s where the inkspiration for this card came from. While I love how pretty everything looks covered in snow, it’s time to for a change. And what better way to do that than with the Timeless Tulips stamp set. This is such a great stamp set and such a good one to use with the masking technique.
If you’re not sure what that is, here’s a brief explanation. The masking technique is when you create the illusion of overlapped images without actually stamping on top of the images. And how to do that is by making a mask. This is super easy to do! All you need is a sticky note, or a small piece of printer paper, the image(s) you want, ink and scissors. I don’t recommend using anything thicker than this because it often creates an extra outline around the stamped images that you want to keep as small as possible. Once you’ve stamped and cut out your mask you’re ready to get stamping!
For my card I wanted to use a variety of colours to keep it nice and bright. I also wanted to have a number of tulips on my card so using a mask definitely helped. To start I stamped the medium tulip where I wanted them and then I placed the mask on top when I stamped the large tulips. Then to add some extra layers I punched a few large tulips and popped these up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The phrase comes from the Timeless Tulips stamp set as well. This is one of the reasons why I love this stamp set… the variety of sentiments is great! I punched out the phrase and the border using the Double Oval Punch from the Annual catalogue. In the first card I just used some Pear Pizzazz cardstock for the border, pulling from the ink colour of the stems and leaves. For the second card which I shared last night live on my Facebook page, I used some of the 2021-2023 In Colour Designer Series Paper because I used Soft Succulent as my green for that one.
The masking technique is a great one if you’re just starting out. And I hope you found my simple explanation helpful. If you have any other questions just send me an email at inkspirationwithteresa@gmail.com. If you’d like to check out another card I created using the Timeless Tulips bundle you can check that out here!