Less is More 59 - Masking

This weeks Less is more is masking.

Today's challenge uses one of my favourite techniques - masking of top and bottom of the card - this seems especially suited to masculine cards, don't you think?  I have used a Unity stamp of a car.  In our family we love cars, and it was so hard to find a nice stamp of a car - this one came in a set with other masculine images.  I used a post-it pad to mask the car and sponged a background.  I used a marker to add a thin line just above and below the masked area to add a bit of definition. The sentiment is SU Curly Cute. The colours are SU: Night of Navy, Bashfull Blue and Lucky Limeade.

A second card (I said this was a favourite technique!)  In this one I used a post-it pad to mask of a square and blended some distress inks to make a neutral colour border.  I then stamped a variety of leaves from SU French foliage   The sentiment is from Penny Black - and I've only inked part of the stamp.  The leaves are in Sahara sand, Always artichoke and the yellow/red is from a big and Juicy inkpad - Mountain meadow.

My daughter is attending university interviews at the moment - last week was Edinburgh, so no time to play with crafts.  This Monday its Falmouth, a bit nearer home - but still 3 or 4 hours drive!