Masking and
Omitting
Masking and omitting are great ways of leaving out the parts of an image that you don't want to use on your project, while keeping the parts you do want to keep. Kind of like tossing the squishy, shrivelled grapes out of the bunch and eating the juicy, firm ones.
Sorry for the mental picture there...
You can use this technique a number of different ways. I'll show you two today on this very simple, but very sweet, card.
Tools Needed for this project:
- Simple Card Base & Envelope
- Patterned paper
- Layering cardstock
- White cardstock
- Markers
- Punch
- Black ink pad
- Stamp images (These are from the Stampin' Up! Build a Bear Workshop stamp sets - so cute!)
- Scissors
- Scrap paper
- Adhesive
First I'm going to show you how to use the masking technique to prevent unwanted images, or parts of images, showing up on your cards.
Step 1: Ink up your image with black ink and then stamp it onto white cardstock. Immediately, without re-inking the stamp (because that would be a waste of perfectly good ink) make another stamp image on scrap paper.
Step 2: On your scrap paper, cut out a portion of the stamped image. For this example I cut out his bottom half becuase I wanted to put him on a skateboard.
Because we all know bears love to skateboard.
Step 3: Lay the scrap paper down directly on top of the cardstock image. Ink up your next stamp (in this case, it's a skateboard) and stamp over the images.
You'll see that the scrap paper takes the extra ink marks that would have cut a line through the bear's ankles.
See - no lines through his ankles!
Step 4: Color in the cute little bear and his skateboard.
Now we're going to use another form of masking, called omitting, to make a sentiment.
Grab your marker, sentiment stamp and white cardstock.
Step 5: Turn the sentiment stamp over and use the side of the marker to ink the words on the stamp.
Here, I colored on "Best Wishes" and left the word "Beary" un-inked. In other words, I omitted the word "Beary" hence the reason this is referred to as 'omitting'. We're very technical in the card-making world.
Step 6: Press the stamp down gently on your cardstock.
Note - the marker I used on this project happens to be an alcohol-based marker, which doesn't do quite as nice of a job coloring rubber images as water-based markers. Typically I would use one of my Stampin' Up! markers for this type of project. But I had already snapped the picture of the tools with this orange Copic marker and I didn't feel like reassembling the troops for another take at the shot. I hope you understand.
Step 7: Punch out the sentiment. If you don't have a fun little punch like this one you can just cut out a rectangle with scissors or a handy-dandy paper trimmer.
Step 8: Adhere all of your layers and enjoy!
Repeat as desired.
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