Create With Stamping Friends Creatively Simple 199

Prairie Grass & A Masks Theme!

Welcome to Create With Stamping Friends Creatively Simple! Connie and I create simple cards with a theme each week and for this month, this is our theme:

It’s the last Tuesday of June so that means the last week featuring Masks as our June theme for Creatively Simple! I opted to create a stencil this week and used both pieces as masks. See my card first and then I’ll show you how!

I love, love, love the large stamped image I used from the Prairie Grass stamp set. It looks so pretty against the masked background I created:

Stampin’ Up! Products Used:

• Stamps: Prairie Grass
• Inks: Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Early Espresso
• Cardstock: Early Espresso, Basic White, Lemon Lolly
• Tools & Accessories: 2-3/8″ Circle Punch, Blending Brushes, Labeled With Love Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Adhesive-Backed Dragonflies & Birds

Follow these steps to create the masked layers:

• Basic White Cardstock 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 for the stamped layer.
• Basic White Cardstock 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 for the stencil. Cut a hole using the 2-3/8″ Circle Punch. Save both pieces.
• Position the punched circle (mask) over the white cardstock layer and use a Blending Brush to add ink around the circle with Peach Pie Ink. I always started in the center of the circle to remove excess ink and avoid splotched areas of ink.
• Remove the circle and add the white cardstock with the hole (mask) over the white area.
• Use Lemon Lolly Ink with a Blending Brush to fill in the round area.
• That’s it!

Card Recipe:

• Card Base: Early Espresso Cardstock 11 x 4-1/4. Score and fold at 5-1/2.
• Layer 2: Basic White Cardstock 5-1/4 x 4. Glue to card base.
• Layer 3: Follow the stencil/mask instructions above to complete the ink steps. Stamp the large grassy image with Early Espresso Ink to the left. Glue layer to card front with dimensionals.
• Sentiment: Stamp the sentiment with Early Espresso Ink on Lemon Lolly Cardstock. Cut with the Labeled With Love Punch. Glue to the bottom right on the inked layer with dimensionals.
• Bling: Add Adhesive-Backed Dragonflies & Birds to the sunshine!

Make sure you visit Create With Stamping Friends to see what Connie created for our team this week and visit our tutorial page to see our newest Collection: