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Masking Tape Background

By Becky Lemire
Rubber Roadsters
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer

Masking tape backgrounds offer of a multitude of different background finishes. It can be made to look like leather, wood, cork, marble, or a number of other textures depending on how the tape is applied to your project.

Supplies:
Fern Frond rubber stamp (TAC)
Contemporary Greetings rubber stamp set (TAC)
Cowboy Boots Dye Ink Pad (TAC)
Burnt Umber Palette Hybrid Ink Pad (Stewart Superior)
Guadalupe Chalk Ink Pad (Stewart Superior)
Pearlescent Ivy Brilliance Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Versamark Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
Always Artichoke cardstock; cut to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and 1" x 2 1/2" (Stampin’ Up!)
White cardstock; cut to 3 3/4" x 5"
Very Vanilla cardstock; cut to 3/4" x 2 1/4" (Stampin’ Up!)
Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (Suze Weinberg)
Heat Tool (Marvy)
Scotch Double Stick Tape (3M)
Masking tape (natural color) (3M)
Twine

Instructions:
1. Cut white cardstock to 3 3/4" x 5." Tear masking tape off of roll in small, uneven pieces and start sticking them onto the white cardstock randomly. Repeat this process until the entire piece of cardstock is covered with masking tape bits.

2. Apply the Cowboy Boots ink to the masking tape piece by rubbing and patting the inkpad directly onto the tape. Cover with ink as desired. Rub the Burnt Umber inkpad over this piece very lightly just hitting the edges of some of the tape pieces.

3. Apply Versamark Inkpad over the entire colored tape piece. Sprinkle with Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, shake off excess, and return to container. Melt the embossing powder with a heat tool. Repeat this step one or two more times. Heating from the underside of the cardstock will help to keep the embossing powder from getting blown off.

4. Ink up fern stamp with Pearlescent Ivy Inkpad, set aside for a moment. Using heat tool, re-melt the right side of the piece and immediately press inked up stamp into the melted embossing enamel. Let cool then remove stamp.

5. Stamp saying onto the vanilla cardstock piece using Guadalupe chalk inkpad. Adhere this piece to the small artichoke cardstock piece using double stick tape. Adhere this to the lower left corner of the masking tape background piece.

6. Fold the large Always Artichoke cardstock piece in half so that you have a card that measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Attach the masking tape piece to the front of the card.

7. Tie a piece of twine around the front flap of the card placing towards the bottom of the card.

Here's a little different look:

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