Christmas Joy - Diffusing and Masking
Close To My Heart has a new product in their Annual Inspirations that you may have overlooked. It is the new embossing diffusers on page 122. These nifty clear plastic plates are perfect for using with our embossing folders when you want to emboss a selected area of your project. On the card below I used the Square Diffuser with the Dot Embossing folder. When I ran it through my cuttlebug it left a square with no embossing. This makes a great place to stamp! Don't you love the stamp? It was one of my immediate favorites in the Holiday Inspirations book. Spray of Joy A1174 You may be wondering how I stamped this image with the Fern and Cranberry Inks. Here is a short visual tutorial on the masking technique that I used. First, stamp the image on a post it note - make sure that part of the image is on the sticky part of the note! This helps to temporarily adhere in place while you are stamping. Next I cut away the p...