Snow Day Page--Masking Technique

Here's a page we created at a workshop late last fall. It was a lot of fun to make. You an also easily turn it into a 2-page spread as well.




Supplies
Snowflake Stampin’ Around Wheel
It’s Snow Time Stamp Set
Short Order Alphabet
Bashful Blue Card Stock 12 x 12
Whisper White 12 x 12 Card Stock
Mellow Moss 12 x 12 Card Stock
Bashful Blue Stampin’ Around Cartridge
Bashful Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad
Basic Black Classic Stampin’ Pad
Assortment of Stampin’ Write Markers
Stampin’ Pastels
Blender Pens
VersaMarker
Sponge Daubers
Stampin’ Dimensionals
SNAIL Adhesive
Anywhere Glue Stick
Tearing Edge
Moss Gingham Ribbon
1 3/8 inch circle punch
1 ¼ inch circle punch
¼ inch circle punch
Double Rectangle Punch
Stampin’ Around Wheel Guide
Mulberry Paper or used Dryer Sheets
Post-it notes




Directions
1. Using the Bashful Blue Stampin’ Around Cartridge, the Snowflake Wheel, and the Stampin’ Around Wheel Guide, stamp the snowflake background on the Bashful Blue 12 x 12 Card Stock.


2. Using the Tearing Edge, tear off one corner of the Whisper White Card 12 x 12 Card Stock.


3. Using the Basic Black Classic Stamp Pad and the snowmen from It’s Snow Time, stamp desired snowmen onto post it notes making sure to get at least part of the snowman on the sticky part. Cut out as close as possible. We will be using this when we stamp the trees on to mask the snowmen so the trees don’t stamp through the snowmen.


4. Using the Basic Black Classic Stamp Pad and the desired snowmen, stamp snowmen along the bottom of your white triangle as desired. Ensure that the corner is at the bottom right.


5. Place the cut out snowman post-it “masks” over the snowmen you stamped. Then, ink the tree stamp in Basic Black and stamp trees as desired.


6. Color and shade in as desired using Stampin’ Write Markers and/or Stampin’ Pastels with either blender pens or using the Versamarker and the daubers or Q-tips.


7. Using the ¼ inch circle punch, punch out the desired number of circles that will become snowballs. Color and shade as desired.


8. Glue them on to your scene as desired with Anywhere Glue or SNAIL Adhesive.


9. Using SNAIL Adhesive or Anywhere Glue, adhere your Stamped White Corner with your snowmen in to the lower right corner.


10. Cut a 5.5 x 7.5 piece and a 5.5 x 3 piece of Mellow Moss Card Stock.


11. Cut a 5.25 x 7.25 piece of Bashful Blue Card Stock. Distress and die edges if desired.


12. Cut a 5.25 x 2.75 piece of Whisper White Card Stock. Distress and Die Edges if desired.


13. With SNAIL Adhesive, adhere Mulberry Paper or used dryer sheet to the back of the Bashful Blue 5.25 x 7.25 then trim close to the paper, leave no more than ¼ inch. Using the double rectangle punch, punch holes in the top center.


14. Repeat with the 5.25 x 2.75 piece of Whisper White.


15. Line your Mulberry Paper backed piece of Bashful Blue Card Stock up with its Mellow Moss mat and punch holes in the same spot with the double rectangle punch. You may have to punch again just the mellow moss to get it to go through all the way.


16. Repeat with the Mulberry Paper backed Whisper White and its Mellow Moss mat.


17. Loop the Moss Grosgrain ribbon through the rectangles, one end in each whole through the front. Then cross and loop the ends back through their opposite holes.


18. Adhere your photo mat (blue) and your Journaling box (white) to the page side by side centered.


19. Using Bashful Blue Classic Stamp Pad and the Short Order Alphabet and spell out Snow Day. Be sure to leave enough room to punch out.


20. Punch out each letter with the 1 ¼ inch circle punch with the letters centered.


21. Using the 1 3/8 inch circle punch, punch out 7 Mellow Moss circles.


22. Using SNAIL or Anywhere Glue, Mat the letters with the moss circle.


23. Using Stampin’ Dimensionals, adhere matted letters to the page.


24. Crop and adhere desired photo to blue photo mat.


25. Write a brief description of the photo and or the day it was taken in the journaling mat.