One of the things I love about the new Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue is the techniques pages.
These are perfect for building up your own craft skills and also lend themselves perfectly to classes. I recently held a Masterful Masking class, taking inspiration from pages 124 and 125 of the catalogue.
This was one of the projects we made, using Blending Brushes and Enduring Beauty Decorative Masks.
Enduring Beauty Decorative Masks are numbered stencils which you use to build up colour to create an image. You can also use them with the coordinating Enduring Beauty stamp and/or dies.
For the class, we used them without the stamps or dies, and simply created the image using ink through the stencils.
One of the class ladies made this using Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Garden Green.
It’s important to get the positioning right. You can tape down your cardstock and use the grid paper as a guide, or do what I did and use the retired Stamparatus for perfect positioning. Simply cut a piece of cardstock to the same size as the masks and butt it up into the corner.
This card is made using a first layer of Fresh Freesia for the petal base, followed by Petunia Pop for the petal accents, and Berry Burst for the flower centres. These are masks 1, 3 and 5. You can actually use the masks in any order but to me 1, 3, 5 makes the most sense as you can see the colours building up. Also, if you’re using just one colour of ink for the petals – which is possible – it means you don’t have to keep switching Blending Brushes and ink pads.
The leaves – created using masks 2 and 4 – are coloured here in Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green.
One of the class ladies fussy-cuts her Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape flowers.
There are, as I mentioned, Enduring Beauty dies available, but I don’t have those so we fussy-cut the flowers to layer onto white and black layers on a Fresh Freesia card base.
The greeting is stamped using Simply Said and punched out using the new Labeled With Love punch. This useful punch is also available as a set of three identical dies for the same price as the punch, giving you real choice.
To create the black layer behind the punched label, I punched again in Basic Black then sliced it down the centre, spreading it out behind the white label to give the impression of a border.
Inside the card I stencilled the flowers just in one corner of the cardstock to leave room for a greeting (Simply Said) and to write a message.
I showed the ladies a few different colour combinations, so they could all choose their own. They had a variety of cardstock in their kits so could use the Fresh Freesia base or swap for another base from one of the other projects.
This one uses just two ink pads; Fresh Freesia and Soft Sea Foam. Simply adding more layers of ink gives you darker colours, although I think you get better results with a darker colour for the flower centres.
This uses Bubble Bath as the flower base, with Petunia Pop for the petal accents and Berry Burst for the flower centres.
My daughter created this one, using yellows and oranges – I don’t know which ones, sorry.
And here are some more colourways, created at the class. I love the red one!
Which colourway do you like best?
One of the things I love about the new Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue is the techniques pages.
These are perfect for building up your own craft skills and also lend themselves perfectly to classes. I recently held a Masterful Masking class, taking inspiration from pages 124 and 125 of the catalogue.
This was one of the projects we made, using Blending Brushes and Enduring Beauty Decorative Masks.
Enduring Beauty Decorative Masks are numbered stencils which you use to build up colour to create an image. You can also use them with the coordinating Enduring Beauty stamp and/or dies.
For the class, we used them without the stamps or dies, and simply created the image using ink through the stencils.
One of the class ladies made this using Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Garden Green.
It’s important to get the positioning right. You can tape down your cardstock and use the grid paper as a guide, or do what I did and use the retired Stamparatus for perfect positioning. Simply cut a piece of cardstock to the same size as the masks and butt it up into the corner.
This card is made using a first layer of Fresh Freesia for the petal base, followed by Petunia Pop for the petal accents, and Berry Burst for the flower centres. These are masks 1, 3 and 5. You can actually use the masks in any order but to me 1, 3, 5 makes the most sense as you can see the colours building up. Also, if you’re using just one colour of ink for the petals – which is possible – it means you don’t have to keep switching Blending Brushes and ink pads.
The leaves – created using masks 2 and 4 – are coloured here in Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green.
One of the class ladies fussy-cuts her Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape flowers.
There are, as I mentioned, Enduring Beauty dies available, but I don’t have those so we fussy-cut the flowers to layer onto white and black layers on a Fresh Freesia card base.
The greeting is stamped using Simply Said and punched out using the new Labeled With Love punch. This useful punch is also available as a set of three identical dies for the same price as the punch, giving you real choice.
To create the black layer behind the punched label, I punched again in Basic Black then sliced it down the centre, spreading it out behind the white label to give the impression of a border.
Inside the card I stencilled the flowers just in one corner of the cardstock to leave room for a greeting (Simply Said) and to write a message.
I showed the ladies a few different colour combinations, so they could all choose their own. They had a variety of cardstock in their kits so could use the Fresh Freesia base or swap for another base from one of the other projects.
This one uses just two ink pads; Fresh Freesia and Soft Sea Foam. Simply adding more layers of ink gives you darker colours, although I think you get better results with a darker colour for the flower centres.
This uses Bubble Bath as the flower base, with Petunia Pop for the petal accents and Berry Burst for the flower centres.
My daughter created this one, using yellows and oranges – I don’t know which ones, sorry.
And here are some more colourways, created at the class. I love the red one!
Which colourway do you like best?
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