Thank You Black Bird – Tutorial

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I put together this tutorial showing how to mask your card stock in order to put a sun in the background. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spring Solitude
Paper: Barely Banana, More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy, scrap piece of Design Paper
Ink: Stampin Up Summer Sun, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Bravo Burgundy, Basic Black
Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, 1 1/4 Circle Punch, Post-It-Note, Brayer, Black Marker, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Sponge

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Start out with Barely Banana card stock and punch a circle from a post it note.  You will want to punch it trying to get as much of the circle out of the sticky portion of the Post it Note.

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Position your circle mask on your card stock and brayer the entire card stock with Summer Sun ink.

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Sponge More Mustard ink on using a circular motion with the sponge with out going all the way to the mask.  Leave some of the Barely Banana ink showing around the sun mask.

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Sponge Pumpkin Pie on in the same manner, only don’t cover all of the More Mustard Ink.

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Sponge Really Rust on in the same manner only don’t cover all of the Pumpkin Pie ink.

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Remove Post it Note mask.

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Stamp branch using Black ink.

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Stamp Bird using Stamp-a-ma-jig for positioning with Black ink.

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Decided I wanted the image to be darker to the right side so I sponged on Bravo Burgundy ink.

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Distressed edge of  with Tim Holtz distressing tool.

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Sponged Really Rust ink on the More Mustard pieces of my layout.

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Stamped weeds at bottom of More Mustard Piece of card stock.

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Assembled card front and stamped additional branches on with black ink using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

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Since I stamped over layers of card stock there were little gaps in my stamped image so I colored them in with a black marker.

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Finished card!

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