Your card is just gorgeous Jan, And Nora did a wonderful job on her masking too, but as I said I am not very good at writing out what I was going for , that is why I don't know if I would be good on a design team, getting to that point of having to write out the description would hurt me.
I was going for the effect that you used pattern paper and dies on your card to give it a layered look, but everything being one layer, which is why you would have to mask off an are. My challenge was so close to what Heidi had us doing, except she wanted us to use a stencil and small stamps inside the area and we could use patterned papers with hers. I think Heidi got what I was saying when she asked about it earlier in the post.
But since I wasn't very clear in my description, I will certainly put you both in the drawing for my little package and thanks so much for sharing such beautiful cards using masking technique