Watch It Wednesday + Win!
Hi everyone! Thanks for joining us for another day of festivities and one layer cards!
Crisp white card bases are the foundation for today’s cards which feature reverse masking. First, we have a card from Web Artist Laura Griffin that’s a breath of fresh spring air — so pretty!
Card by Laura Griffin
Laura says, “We all love to see how many layers we can get on one card, right? 
Sometimes, we forget that single-layer cards can have dimension too! In this example I trimmed around the wings of a butterfly image and bent them back to make the butterfly look like it is flying (no glue dots required). For a finished look, you can also emboss a border around your image with nothing more than a stylus and a piece of scrap cardstock.”
Laura created a video to accompany her card since it’s Watch It Wednesday — check it out for step-by-step instructions!
Supplies:
- Clear Design Designer Butterflies
- Clear Design All Occasion Messages
- White Notecards
- Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
- Small Mixed Gemstones
- Other: sponge, stylus, rectangular scrap of cardstock, lightbox (optional)
Tip from Laura: You can create your own custom-inked background in a flash. Just trim a rectangle out of scrap cardstock, center the window on top of your card, and use a sponge to ink around the edges. Try circles and punched shapes too!
Next, Barbara Hache has come up with a charming one layer card that also uses the reverse masking technique. What a fabulous and versatile design — think of all the different images you could stamp in those circles! Barbara says, “When making a one layer card the details become very important. I wanted the colors of the chalk to show through so I stamped the images in a single color of ink. While I don’t always use a lot of layers in my cards, I found going back to the very basics to be a bit more challenging!”
Card by Barbara Hache
Supplies:
- Clear Design Sending Happy Thoughts
- Black Memories Ink
- White Notecards
- Other: circle die (Accucut - convertable insert circles), colored chalk
Tip from Barbara: When making a card that requires evenly spaced elements, I find it easier to make a template first. I used a circle die for my mask. This would be very helpful when making more than one card.
Thanks for the inspiration Laura and Barbara! Love your clean and simple designs!
Now…in honor of Watch It Wednesday and all of the videos we’ve had on the blog in the past year… let’s have a giveaway of some great goodies! To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post about the videos! We want to hear what you like about them, what you want in the future, what your favorites are — anything! We’ll pick three random winners tomorrow morning. Did you know that we have 75 videos in the archive? Yep, it’s true — just look for the video camera over there in the sidebar and follow the link to see them!
Ready, set, action!
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Karen from Ontario
I love your site and all the videos. I think what I like most about them is that you keep it simple enough for the beginner or add some comments or examples to make it a bit more detailed for the seasoned stampers.
Thanks for inspiring.
Arlene
The videos are such a good training tool for me. I’m a visual person and I usually need at least one time through to see how something is done.
I really enjoyed learning about color and would like something on design. What works and what doesn’t. In a photo, odd numbers usually provide better photos, what designs work and why, what doesn’t.
Thank you for making this a must see place for me.
Jennifer L
I love the fact that you are all here, doing what you do, sharing your creativity with us so that if I need a little inspiration I can just stop by and pick some up… and the videos are the best - seeing it in action, you can’t beat that! Thank you!
Stephanie Roberts
I loved the videos Lisa made for her book week - which was my favourite blog week, though there have been other fabulous ones! I usually check the blog when I’m at work (shhhhh) on a break, so I watch the videos on mute… I really appreciate how the visuals are usually enough for me to pick up on how to do a certain technique. If ever it’s unclear, I’ll watch it again at home, but I don’t usually need to do that.
I have learned SO much from this blog. And the videos teach more complicated techniques, so I go to them when I want a challenge
Amy Zwierz
The videos are so helpful. They are very detailed and easy to follow. This is just another way to help me be creativve in my card marking. Thanks for all the tips.
Angela S
I checked out the “littlethings” challenge. Goodness, so many great ideas. And I am so, so, very inspired by Kathy’s bear card … I want to start stampin’ right now!
Keisha in MN
Love all the videos. I would love to see some creative uses of VersaMark in future videos! I also find it tough to make masculine cards, so more of those would be wonderful!
Sarah ketchum
I love the videos I learn alot with them .I come by for the videos alot .Keep it up Ive learned alot from them.Sarah
Lydia
I love the videos. cuando estoy mirando los videos me inspiro mucho mas y mi creatividad crece y vuela y vuela
Conniecrafter
I love the effect this gives without too much dimension, great for mailing!