Splitcoast Tutorial: Contact Paper Masking

This week's tutorial over on Splitcoast is a fun return to the classic Reverse Masking technique, using contact paper! Turns out the repositionable version of everyone's favorite shelf liner makes a great material for masking - it's diecuttable and reusable!

I picked up these Hero Arts nesting teapot dies a few months ago - this is the largest one and it's amazing! I love card-sized dies. I started by die cutting the contact paper, and then laying it onto a plain sheet of paper and lifting one side to tuck my card panel in... it was much easier to handle that way.

I used a stencil brush and some hybrid inks that were on my desk to lay some color into the shape, then stamped some of my tea-related stamp images in with the same inks.

While the mask was still on, I used a pencil to shade around the edge of the teapot...

...and then brushed in some gesso highlights to add dimension. I masked in a table top and some light stenciled dots for the background. Super simple!

This sentiment is from my stamp line as well - it's here... and those other background stamps are here: Tea Tools, Steam Flourish, Teacup, Treat the World.

Hope you'll try this out!