Judikins Eclipse Art Masking Tape Roll 6X30

Reported by Sara McKenzie

Eclipse Strips are a low-tack masking record fabricated past Judikins especially for use in rubber stamping. Darlene Domel of Stampland is a huge fan, and has practically fabricated their utilise her signature technique. I've seen Darlene'due south demonstrations at rubber stamp festivals, and she also has tutorials on her website. I decided to follow her approach and come across how Eclipse Strips worked for me.

Using the 24 mm wide strip, I tore off a piece big plenty to cross over a quarter sheet of cardstock. And so, I dusted color onto the corner of the cardstock with a Stampin' Upward! stipple brush and Actually Rust dye ink.

I inked upwardly an oakleaf postage stamp from Stampland and Bones Black dye ink from Stampin' Upwardly!, and stamped a portion of the oak foliage onto the colored corner.

When the black ink was dry, I moved the first piece of Eclipse onto the meridian of the prototype that I stamped. As long as everything is dry, it won't hurt your stamped epitome.

I tore a 2nd piece of eclipse strip, and created another section of cardstock, which I stippled with Kiwi Kiss ink from Stampin' Upwards!.

Again, I inked up the oak leaf with Bones Blackness, stamped it onto the greenish section, and when the ink was dry moved the slice of Eclipse over the green section.

I continued in this style, creating different sized sections at dissimilar angles, stippling and stamping, until the whole menu was covered with Eclipse Strips, with the exception of one square. In this square I stamped the epitome of a woman'due south face. (I don't call back where I got this postage stamp- but I do know that I've seen it in multiple catalogs, so information technology's not that hard to find. It might even exist one of Stampland'due south stamp images.)

Next, I created a mask for the woman'due south face up by stamping the image on a piece of the 6" wide Eclipse, and cutting it out effectually the image. I lined this mask upwards over the existing stamped image of the face, and so stamped the edges of the oak leaf around her face to frame it.

And when all of the Eclipse masking strips are pulled off, hither is the final result!

(The word stamp is also from Stampland.)

Eclipse Strips come up in rolls in diverse widths from 6 mm to vi inches, in sheets, and in diverse packaging configurations. You can purchase a set of three rolls (33 anxiety long) that includes 6 mm, 12 mm, and 24 mm wide Eclipse Strips, or a set up of two rolls of 24 mm wide, or the 6 inch wide curlicue (also 33 feet long). Information technology is also available in packages of 24 sheets, 8-i/2" X 11", if y'all have a lot of really BIG masks that you want to make! The smaller packages run from $five.25-$five.95, the 6 inch wide roll is $15.00, and the sheets are $13.75.

PROS:

• The low tack agglutinative is just right: sticky enough, merely non so sticky that it pulls upward an epitome that you take covered with it.
• Price is quite reasonable, considering you can use the same strips over, and over, and over again. Basically, until the adhesive has lost its ooomph. But store them adhered to a slice of paper until you lot demand them again. (I go on my paper in i of those plastic folio protectors.).
• I like the diverseness of offerings. The skinny strips can exist used to create a grid pattern, the larger strips tin be used as I did, and the big gyre (or sheets) can be used to create masks for large images.

CONS

• Honestly, this is a stretch, because I do like the product.... BUT, the Eclipse newspaper does have some "memory", then it tends to accept a bit of a coil to it when you have if off the large gyre. I had to sometimes smooth down the larger mask multiple times to get in stick in one case and for all. Information technology did not seem to be as much of an result with the strips.
• Y'all do have to remember to trim your mask slightly SMALLER than the image itself. Considering the Eclipse paper has a small amount of thickness to it, a modest (1/eight") gap is left in the image, every bit the safety stamp transitions from the Eclipse Strip to your cardstock. Y'all can see this in the starting time photo of the oak leaf on the Really Rust, above. It'due south not a huge deal- but something you have to go used to.

I really like this product and look forward to playing with it again! I'd give it an 8 out of x stars.

So, are yous ready to play? Buy some Eclipse strips, exit your stipple brushes, and let u.s. run into what y'all create!

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