CardMaker Blog day and Layering Images

If you haven't been to the CardMaker blog today, be sure to check it out. I am blogging there with a quick tip for making the inside of your cards clean and neat. 

Here is a peek of the card I created for that post:

Gnome One Like You, So Groovy and All Occasion Tags stamp sets from Gina K. Designs; Touch Twin markers from Shinhan Art Materials; ink from Clearsnap Inc.; twine from The Twinery; brads from Creative Impressions; die templates from Spellbinders™ Paper Arts.

I used three of my stamp sets for this card. I used the mower, greeting and shrubs from Gnome One Like You set to create the fun scene and then accented it with a heart from So Groovy. The tag design comes from All Occasion Tags.

You'll notice that the mower and shrubs are two separate pieces. 

Here's how I created the scene using the masking technique.

When creating a scene using masking begin with the image that is going to be closest to you. In this case it is the mower.  Stamp that image on a piece of scrap paper then cut it out.

Next stamp the image on your card stock that you will be building the scene on. I used Simply Smooth White (Bazzill) since I will be using my Touch Twin alcohol markers to color the image.

Next take a temporary adhesive and adhere the cut out image over the stamped image.

Follow that by stamping the image you want to appear behind the focal image, which would be the shrubs on this card. I stamped them twice because I wanted them to appear behind the mower at both ends.

Peel away the cut out image and this is what you get

Now it's simply a matter of color and create!!

This really is a fun and easy technique for building scenes and adding interest to designs. You can easily add multiple layers by masking off each layer of the image. The main thing to keep in mind is to begin stamping with the closest image and then stamp images in the  order they appear as the move further away.