Masking Unleashed

The last level 2 class...YAY!! Looks like I will be able to meet my goal of finishing level 2 by the end of the year.  This is the card I made for the Masking Unleashed class taught by Svitlana Shayevich at Altenew. Svitlana teaches different masking ideas and gives lots of tips on masking.
 

For my card I started out by using Altenew's Masking Paper and stamping my image on the masking paper to create my mask.

TIP 1 - Depending on how you are layering your image you may need more than one mask. Because of the size and layout of my image I only needed one mask.

TIP 2 - when cutting out your mask make sure to cut just inside the image lines so that you do not end up with white spaces between your images when they are stamped.

I started by stamping the flower image from Altenew's Amazing Things stamp set. This was stamped in the lower left corner of my card panel. I placed the mask over the flower image and because I was using the Altenew Stampwheel I was able to rotate the top plate to stamp the image two more times on each side of the first image without moving paper.

Then I proceeded to stamp the second layer using Altenew Rubelite Fresh Dye Ink. The thrid layer was stamped in Versamark ink and heat embossed with Altenew's Antique Gold embossing powder. 

I chose a sentiment from the Amazing Things stamp set and heat embossed it as well. Because I had some minor smudging of my ink in a couple of places I "fixed" the card using black and gold splatters to make the smudges not as noticeable.

The card panel was then layered on black and dark pink cardstock from Taylored Expressions and Concord and 9th.  

SUPPLIES USED

Stamps - Altenew Amazing Things
Paper - Hammermill, Taylored Expression Oreo, Concord and 9th Wildberry
Ink - Altenew Obsidian Black, Altenew Rubelite, Versamark
Misc - Altenew Embossing Powder Antique Gold, Dr PH Martin Black Star Matte India Ink, Yasutomo Japanese Watercolor Sumi-e Pale Gold