Hi, everybody! Suzanne here with a tutorial on masking with your YNS stamps to create a scene! The newly released “Howdy Farmer” and “Barnyard Love” sets are perfect for this technique! You can carry it over to other sets where you want more than one item to come together and look like it’s all one image.
Here’s a card that I made for YNS’s July Fun Friday challenge with the “Howdy Farmer” set. I’ll show you the steps I took to put the main image together. (There’s still time to play along!)
Depending on how much temporary adhesive is on the back of the paper, you may have to add more. If the image is small enough, I run it through a sticker machine (like a Xyron) with a repositionable adhesive. That way, I can be sure that my mask will not move when I stamp over it later.
As you can see, I got close to the edge and went over in a few places. Some parts I didn’t get as close as I would have liked to. You’ll see later why you’ll want to trim as close as you can to the edges.
Depending on the type of ink and paper that you’re using, you may need to wait for the image to fully dry before applying the mask. Try to line up the mask as much as you can with the image underneath.
Don’t worry about stamping on top of the mask. This will help you line up the background image.
You can see the little gaps near her pigtails and the bucket of corn where the mask placement is off a bit. You can add shading in those parts to make it less noticeable, or draw a line to connect the missing parts, but when the difference is that small, you can leave it just as it is!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will be trying the masking technique on a project very soon!
Hugs,
terrific tutorial Suzanne!
Fabulous! TFS! I need to remember to use this technique more often!
I have tried masking but never thought of using repositionable Xyron or spray to add extra stickiness to my mask. A great tutorial.