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My DD is sick so I had to stay home today - so I grabbed a little daytime stamping time! This is my first attempt at Blocked Collage. I'm not sure whether I did it correctly as I didn't use a background stamp first. I made this card to stick in the front of my first ever scrapbook - a 6x6 album made using the IFB scrapbook kit. It is for my parents and contains pictures of their Golden Wedding Celebration back in August of this year. So I chose colors to match the IFB patterned card stock - sage shadow, barely banana, pale and perfect plum etc.
I'm approved at last! So here's my first attempt at the block technique....thanks Beth! Oh and thanks newinker for the ribbon and clip idea but I think mine are a little big now that I look at here!
Here is my next try...I think I'll try a different shape next time! C'est la vie. Although I did have to laugh...I just got an e-mail from a friend volunteering to babysit my 5 kids when my dh asks me out on a "hot date" after he gets his Love U card. (posted on page one of this thread.)
Thought this week's color challenge was close to coa, creamy caramel and regal rose (but it's old olive)! oh well - I'll just have to make another of these blocked collage cards - they are great fun and I really like the results - thanks Beth fdor another great challenge that I'd have never attempted otherwise ;-)
I did another. I tried to combine today's color challenge with the Blocked Collage. I think it turn a wicked turn somewhere but here it is anyway. Thanks Beth. I loved this technique.
It took all afternoon to get this second one done. We were updating files for Keiki and that's through emails from Hawaii and Michigan...what did we ever do without computers! So in between email rings (cable - so it's up all day) I got a chance to play and...
This is a really fun technique. For this I was inspired to make a Valentine's card with hearts by Julia S and to put a background around the shape by Rox71.
Hooray.......we have another wonderful stamper hooked on challenges.. Great card "suen".
Here is my TLC37/CC33 card. I wish the raffia turned out better, but the block collage was really fun and easy. I can't wait to do another one.
I must have total dyslexia this week...I have read the tutorial a half dozen times, could not make sense of it...then I looked at the examples that people did...still didn't "catch on"...the samples are so pretty, decided to swallow my pride and ask...so here goes...this is how I understand it...
you cut a shape template out of typing or lined paper (why lined paper?)
you tape the cut shape from typing or lined paper to the back of your CS
you turn it back over and stamp your background on the CS (the side without the cut shape)
then you turn the CS back over and stamp images on the cut shape of lined or typing paper???
so the front of the CS has a background stamped on it and the back of the CS has a cut shaped piece of typing or lined paper with images stamped on it?
just so confused and feeling stupid this week.
The cards are so pretty...please help me out....thank you...judy
I must have total dyslexia this week...I have read the tutorial a half dozen times, could not make sense of it...then I looked at the examples that people did...still didn't "catch on"...the samples are so pretty, decided to swallow my pride and ask...so here goes...this is how I understand it...
you cut a shape template out of typing or lined paper (why lined paper?)
you tape the cut shape from typing or lined paper to the back of your CS
you turn it back over and stamp your background on the CS (the side without the cut shape)
then you turn the CS back over and stamp images on the cut shape of lined or typing paper???
so the front of the CS has a background stamped on it and the back of the CS has a cut shaped piece of typing or lined paper with images stamped on it?
just so confused and feeling stupid this week.
The cards are so pretty...please help me out....thank you...judy
Judy, I don't blame you! The instructions looked confusing to me, too, until I tried it. You basically want to end up with your mask on the front of your cardstock. You are going to stamp thru the mask to your cardstock, having your stamps go over onto your mask, so that when you take your mask off, only part of your images are now going to be showing. Make sense?
I couldn't figure out exactly how to tape the paper mask onto my cardstock easily either, so I just used painter's tape (I think masking tape should work, too) and taped around the edges of the front of my cardstock to create a mask. Then stamped my images, making sure some of them went over onto the tape. Then when you take the tape off, you'll have a nice clean line. Make more sense? I hope so!
Here's a link to my card again -- maybe that will help you "see" it? Have fun trying it!
Thanks so much Sharon and I love your card!....but I give up...I ended up with my piece of cardstock with a background stamped on it and on the reverse side is my mask which if lined can't be used with images stamped over the lined mask
so front of cardstock's solidly stamped with background
back of cardstock with the lined paper mask stamped with images which if i used legal paper for the mask no way will look good on the front of the CS printed with backgroundI guess I will just enjoy every body elses cards and quit driving myself nuts...judy
Thanks so much Sharon and I love your card!....but I give up...I ended up with my piece of cardstock with a background stamped on it and on the reverse side is my mask which if lined can't be used with images stamped over the lined mask
so front of cardstock's solidly stamped with background
back of cardstock with the lined paper mask stamped with images which if i used legal paper for the mask no way will look good on the front of the CS printed with backgroundI guess I will just enjoy every body elses cards and quit driving myself nuts...judy
No, Judy... don't give up! I just pm'd you... please try again.. you can do it!!
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Thanks so much Sharon and I love your card!....but I give up...I ended up with my piece of cardstock with a background stamped on it and on the reverse side is my mask which if lined can't be used with images stamped over the lined mask
so front of cardstock's solidly stamped with background
back of cardstock with the lined paper mask stamped with images which if i used legal paper for the mask no way will look good on the front of the CS printed with backgroundI guess I will just enjoy every body elses cards and quit driving myself nuts...judy
Don't give up The pics on the instructions were hard for me to see at first too because it was so white and I was thinking it was one thing when it was another.
Basically, put a piece of cardstock down that you want to stamp on. Place a piece of copypaper over it that has a shape cut out of it. Stamp in and around the hole. When you remove the copypaper your stamps will be "masked" into the shape that you removed from the copypaper. So it's kind of like masking so you don't stamp in a certain area except masking the stamp you are masking the outside shape.
