My upline, Jen, does Technique Tuesdays every now and then. I decided to adopt the idea for my blog. So here’s the first technique – using painters’ tape to make a slightly different background. I know that I saw this somewhere on line but can’t remember where. My apologies for that although I’m sure that it wasn’t the original creator.
Base: Night of navy 8.5″ by 5.5″
Top layer: Very vanilla 4″ by 5.25″
Stamp Sets: Lovely as a Tree, Four You
Inks: Pistachio Pudding, Night of Navy
First I stamped the tree image on the very vanilla cardstock in the night of navy ink. Of course I used my stamp-a-ma-jig. I then took some of the 2 inch wide blue painter’s tape and put the sticky side directly onto the pistachio pudding ink pad, pressing down with my finger. I carefully put the tape over my stamped trees and pressed down again (carefully cleaning the ink off my fingers first). For some reason the trees came out best if they were stamped before the background. I added the sentiment from the Four You stamp set in Night of navy and lined the envelope using the regals backgrounds DSP. The liner was cut out using the envelope liners framelits and the big shot. Nice and easy.
See you tomorrow,
Liz
LOL, I love the honesty of your comment about wiping ink off your fingers! Great effect, Liz.
The painter’s tape really does rock the hell out of that ink, doesn’t it? Such a great effect.