Christmas in July Masking with Forever Fern

 Another warm and muggy day today here in the Annapolis Valley and we have an air quality watch as well.  The smoke from all of the forest fires that are active right now in the other provinces is drifting east.  I can't imagine how bad it is closer to the actual fires.  Hope everyone is safe and some much needed rain comes your way to help battle the flames.

Today's post is the third of six of my offerings for the Christmas in July stamp a stack from last weekend. This is the masking technique,  I got the original idea from another demo.  Her card had the negative space across the center of the card from side to side, but I changed mine up to allow the use of this huge sentiment stamp from the Holly Jolly Wishes set (available August 3rd).

This was a bit messy to create but I think it's totally worth it.


Supply List:

Cardstock: Merry Merlot 146979-cut at 5 ½”x 8 ½” scored at 4 ¼”

Basic White 159276-2 cut at 4” x 5 1/4”

Scrap of paper approx. 2 ½”

Ink: Mossy Meadow 147111; Merry Merlot 147112; Pear Pizzazz 147104

Stamp Sets: Forever Fern 152559; Holly Jolly Wishes

Dies: Layering Circle Dies 151770

Embellishments: Matte Decorative Dots

Tear & Tape 154031

Paper Trimmer 152392

Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine 149653


Step- By- Step Instructions:

To create the circle for the masking, I used the layering circles die that measures 2 ½” across and ran it through my stampin cut & emboss machine using a piece of scrap paper.  Choose where you want your center to be on your card front and place the circle there.  If you are concerned about your scrap shifting, you can use a tiny bit of adhesive of a glue dot to keep in place, just be very careful when you life it off that you don’t tear your cardstock.

Stamping: Since I am not a “flower” person, I will name the three stamps I used the long leaf, full leaf and berry leaf.  The long leaf was stamped with Mossy Meadow, full leaf was Pear Pizzazz and the berry leaf in Merry Merlot.  Stamp how you would like your arrangement to look, I started with four long leaves reaching the corners of the card front.  Then I added a few full leaves and then filled in with the berry leaf.  I think less is more when it comes to this type of stamping.  Your scrap circle piece will become covered in ink, please be careful not to drag your hand on it and transfer to your card.  Once you have stamped to your satisfaction, carefully remove the scrap piece.  You hopefully have a clean space to place your sentiment.  Using Merry Merlot, you can now add your sentiment to the center of your flowers in the negative space.  

I also like to finish the inside of my cards so I then stamped a small bouquet in the bottom corner, stamping slightly off the paper.

Now let’s assemble our card:

Most of the work is completed now, you just need to adhere the stamped piece to your cardbase with some tear & tape and place a few Matte Decorative Dots around your flowers.

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