Altenew Academy – Masking Unleashed

Hello!  Well, I am still camping out while work continues on my house, but it left me plenty of time to finish my next Altenew class called Masking Unleashed. I did have to run home to get my inks and blending brushes.  Svitlana Shayevich taught us loads of useful tips and techniques.

 For this card, I chose to work on negative masking.  In the past, I’ve done positive masking where you cover the image you are working on.  With negative masking, you cover the area surrounding an image.  In lesson 4, Svitlana also taught us how to ink blend with  Negative Masking.

 I decided Altenew’s Mega Alphaget “T” die would work well and started planning a thank you card.

My Process:

• I trimmed a piece of masking paper to 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”,  taped the die in the center and then ran it through my die cutting machine. I then carefully adhered it to a Bristol Cardstock panel.  
• Next, I lightly blended four shades of Distress Ink from the bottom to the top.
• I taped the stencil at an angle over the “T” and blended 5 shades over the stencil using a much heavier hand.  I carefully peeled back the masking paper, trimmed the panel down, attached some craft foam to the back and added it to a top folding A2 panel.
• I die cut a sentiment from navy Cardstock and glued it to the panel.  I also added three enamel dots in coordinating colors.

Featured Supplies:

Altenew Mega Alphabet “T” die

Altenew Watercolor Stripes stencil

Altenew Thanks die

Altenew New Day Enamel Dots

Just Add Ink “T” Challenge. My card is T for thanks.

I am so pleased that you stopped by!

Karen