Masking - Easy Tutorial

As promised... here's a little bit of crafty goodness....

Sorry there's no video, but hopefully the pictures explain what's going on.. and this is dead easy to make :)

The materials I used are as follows:

Clear stamps (that I got free with different various card making magazines) - Wildflowers border stamp, Fairy stamp (which I cut apart from some swirly leaves) and a sentiment stamp. If you don't have anything like this in your stash... I'm sure someone on Ebay will have something similar :)

Acrylic or stamping block - I use a M.I.S.T.I.   here's a link to see what it can do... you'll want one, I promise!! Click here to see the MISTI in action

Black Stazon ink pad.


Square white card blank.

Coloured chalk or ink cubes.

Sponge blender, or one of those round cone shaped makeup sponges from the pound shop will work :)

Circle punch (or draw round a small glass or a roll or sellotape - or be inventive LOL)

And a glitter pen.


I started with my white card blank and stamped on the wildflowers border in black, then positioned my little fairy on top of the flowers and stamped her in black as well.  Across from that, I placed my sentiment and stamped in black too.

Using my circle punch, I cut out a circle from some paper and applied some temporary glue to the back (a post-it note will work too).  And placed the circle over part of my fairy.....

Here's the fun bit.... take some blue ink or chalk on your sponge... and start in a circle motion from the top, apply it to the edge of your card and moving in to the middle to half way down.  I used a purple for the next part, and a pink for the bottom section...

Remove the circle of paper to reveal a nice bright white sun/moon depending how dark you use your inks/chalks.  You can always change the colours to reds and oranges to represent the sunset.

Or.... from the paper that you cut your circle from... place that over the fairy stamp (or whatever stamp you use) and with orange and yellow inks, sponge the inside of the circle and create a sun....

Using a glitter pen, go over some of the details in your stamps and hey presto, you're done.

Here are some of my finished samples with a few variations :

Hope you enjoyed this one...

Til next time :)

Glenda