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Layered Masking
by Jenna Roby
- Rubber stamps
- Ink
- Sticky notes or plain white copy weight paper & 2 way glue
- Scissors
- Standard page protector
1) Stamp images onto your project then onto a sticky note. If the image is too big for your sticky notes you can use the 2 way glue to attach several pages to each other or use a plain sheet of copy paper with a thin layer of dry 2 way glue on the back to make the mask.
2) Use the scissors to cut out the image from the sticky note. You want to cut just inside the outline of the image so you don’t get a “halo” effect when stamping other images or applying coloring around the masked image.
3) After you’ve finished stamping an image, use the mask to protect that image while you continue stamping, color the background, or color other images.
4) Masks can be reused several times before they get saturated with ink and start to fall apart. You can store your masks in a page protector that you’ve cut the bottom seam off. (Don’t cut side seams!) Open the page protector to make a tube & place your masks in what ever order you prefer between the 2 connected pages and store the pages in a binder.
Masking is how many rubber stamp artists create layered images that give the illusion of depth & perspective to their art work.