For this card, I used a Hobby Art stamp, which funnily enough is called "time for tea"
The brown card measured 21cm x 14.8cm and was scored along the long edge at 2cm 4cm 17cm and 19cm. The first score line (each side)was valley folded and the second mountain folded to form the shop front. I cut an aperture into the front of the card, (see picture) then I took a piece of acetate and applied peel-off strips to it to create the windows. (TIP - it's best to make up the windows before sticking the acetate onto the card so that the panes don't end up too small...use your cutting mat as a guide for placing the strips)
I stuck the acetate into the back of the brown card. Then I stamped up my time for tea sign and stuck it above the window. I also made strips for each side and a sill for the bottom. I marked the base of the card with faux bricks. I then used one of the stamps to make some bunting and stuck it inside the window to look like a fancy blind.
Next, I cut my white card to 14.8cm x 17cm. I drew a box onto the centre of it, so that my stamping pattern would fit nicely. (some of it will overlap the edges so that there would be no gaps showing when you look through the window of the card.) I stamped each image separately, using the masking technique and then coloured the design with pro-markers. I like anything I make to be standing on a surface so I drew lines in pencil either side of each item, except where they overlapped.
I applied double sided tape to one short side of the brown card between the edge and the first score line. I stuck this to the short edge of the white card with the stamped design. (check its the right way up first!) I put double sided tape on the opposite short side of the brown card as before. Fold this strip at score line and flatten the card as you stick it to the opposite side of the white piece.
NOTE: - If the marker pens you have used have "bled" through the white card (at the back) add a further piece, cut to the same size and stick one on top of the other.
Hope this hasn't left you feeling totally confused, and that you will try a bit of masking for yourself.
Until next time,
Happy crafting x
