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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Simplicity OLW#8

Susan of the Simplicity blog has been having one layer card challenges every Wednesday.  This week the challenge is to use masking.  I love this technique.  Here are 3 cards that I have made recently with this technique:
In each case I used a negative punch shape as my mask and sponged in the color of the backgrounds.  For the butterfly card I kept the mask on and stamped the dragonfly and bullrushes so the images were contained within the butterfly shape.  For the other two I wanted the images to go out of the shape so I stamped the images without the mask.
Thanks for coming by!

28 comments:

  1. WOW! You've been busy this morning! Love that butterfly card, such a thinking outside the box masked background!

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  2. Those cards ROCK Harriet!! I just jumped over here to check out your blog....gonna keep on looking - but these 3 cards are AWESOME!!

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  3. I remember seeing the butterfly one awhile ago, and the others you made today are equally stunning!

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  4. Simply stunning! i really love all three of them..but the first one takes the prize..as it is I loooove butterflies..

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  5. Beautiful! I am the recipient of the sympathy card.

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  6. The results are simply beautiful.

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  7. All of your cards are stunning. Thanks for sharing them!

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  8. these are nice! i like the sympathy one the best. I agree...this is a geat technique (no floating images if you ground them!) I'll have to give it a try this week.

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  9. Oh these are wonderful! Love all the different shaped masks...my favorite is the first one! Absolutely stunning!!

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  10. All three are gorgeous! Love the little nature scenes you created in each one!

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  11. Wow! Absolutely beautiful cards! I love each and all of them.

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  12. While I like all three cards, I LOVE that first one! What a fabulous idea!

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  13. I hate you. These are beautiful.

    And, I really don't hate you :) I just love your cards!!

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  14. Harriet,

    Your cards ALWAYS knock my socks off, and these are no exceptions! All so beautiful! Thanks so much for playing!

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  15. I love all three! Each so very different, but so pretty. Your masking is awesome, too!

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  16. Wow! I love all three of your cards! The color combo's are fantastic! =)

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  17. Hi Harriet. I did not know you had a blog. I love these cards. Gorgeous with your scenes.

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  18. Lovely, lovely. So inspirational, I'll have to rise beyond the plain rectangle mask I keep doing because I couldn't get past it.

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  19. Oh my! All of these are really, REALLY wonderful.

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  20. Great cards-I love them all so clean and pretty. tfs

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  21. Gorgeous. I love the butterfly, a really classy card. Thank you for inspiring me. Hev:)

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  22. OMW, look at all these comments and I can see why----just a beautiful set of cards you've made here. I am in love with this technique!

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  23. WOW - these rock! Especially that first one! WOW!!
    Maria

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  24. Beautiful CAS cards! I love the sympathy card--perfection!

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  25. what a great batch of masked cards!! I particulaly love the butterfly mask, but then those cattails are one of my favorite stamps so I love them too!!

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  26. LOVE your cards!! I have not seen masking like this. It opens a whole new world for me to explore!!
    Thanks!

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  27. Gorgeous! I love the simplistic look, so clean and fresh.

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