Hi there, Stamping Friends!  It's time for another Stamping with Friends Blog Hop.  As you know, Stamping with Friends is a group of Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrators who enjoy paper crafting, creating cards, and other projects to share with each other and with you. If you've arrived from Karen's blog, welcome!  This time, the theme is to create a card or project based on a favorite technique.  There are sooooo many techniques that I love but with this project, I'm going to focus mainly on two.  Can you guess what one of them is? Yup, you guessed it...masking!  There're so many things you can do with this technique from: simple masking to creating seamless backgrounds and adding depth...hmmm, I think I've decided to do a blog series focusing on the different things you can do with masking. For this post, I chose to start with a simple spotlight masking technique. Let me show you how I created this card. Now I incorporated several other techniques (dry e

 Hey, stampers!  Thanks for joining me for another edition of Ink to Stamp.  I didn't go so far back this time.  I'm in a card swap group on Facebook called The Card Shack, and one of the swaps for this month was Sweet Treats.  I just knew I had this stamp set AND that I had to use it and the coordinating Designer Series paper.  On the 3 1/2" square piece of basic white, stamp and heat emboss the sentiment and then embossed the entire panel, including the sentiment, using the Timeworn Embossing Folder. Set it aside for now. Stamp and die cut the images on the scrap piece of basic white. I then stamped and colored the candy images in one of the jars... On the other, I used red, white and blue Nuvo drops to get a bubble gum look.  I then added a product called 3D Glaze to make both jars look like glass. Lastly, tied a couple of bows and added them to the jar.  Don't forget to stamp the "Treat" sentiment for the jar. Cut the DSP in half on the 4" side. (Not