Lucky Duck

Hey there, crafty friends!

It's Kelly Martin here again, sharing another masked card for you today!

In case you missed it, check out my last post on the blog here, where I talk about some helpful tips on incorporating masking in your cards to achieve those one-layer wonders!

So for today's card, I used all those tips from that post to create this little water-ey scene! I stamped my duck and Cattail images from the Lucky Duck stamp set on to my post-it notes (to use as masks), stamped my ducks on to my cut and scored card panel, and then applied my masks. 

After the masks were applied, I could finish stamping the rest of the Cattail and lily pad images!

After all the stamping was done, I colored all the images with copic makers, created the water and sky using copic markers, and then stamped the sentiment to finish off the card!

One fun tip that I use almost every time I'm coloring (especially when making a scene card), is to use a white gel pen to add little highlights on to the images I am coloring. This small detail makes the images pop in a big way!

Thanks again for stopping by today and hope you have a crafty week!

Kelly

Go Wild!

Hey there, friends!




It’s Kelly Martin here, and I’m so honored to be a guest here on the Gerda Steiner blog today. I’m so grateful for their kind invitation and I had so much fun creating with these adorable “Go Wild” critter stamps!

These cards were pretty easy to pull together--and they are all one-layer! So let’s get right down to it, shall we?
I started out by cutting and scoring two 4.25 x 5.5 inch card bases and then got to work on creating the scenes.

For one layer cards, it’s all about masking. It helps to do a little bit of pre-planning, but it doesn’t have to take long! Just stamp out your images on to a piece of scratch paper and that will help you figure out what order you need to stamp your images and apply your masks on the real card.

And you know what I love about these stamps? They’re really easy to create masks for. Just stamp out the images on to some masking material (I used these full adhesive post-it notes) and then stamp your front image first, then apply your masks and stamp the rest of your images (following your scratch paper plan) accordingly!

I colored these critter images from the Go Wild stamp set with copic markers and then stamped the sentiments (again using some masking with painter’s tape!) to finish off the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today, and be sure to check back in a few weeks for some more cards that are just ducky!!

Hugs,

Kelly