I like the idea of using water to help with tearing the paper!
Going to try that after I get this wedding card finished---hopefully over the weekend.
I mentioned on the other masking thread that I use torn paper (and regular, "un-torn" paper) to mask my scene stamps---those stamps, for example, that have a pond with trees around it---I will tear off a paper piece to just cover up the trees while I add more trees behind the other trees or beside the pond.
I have to use the torn paper b/c I ink other
PARTS of the scene stamp to add to the scene, so the torn paper makes it so I don't double stamp a pond somewhere else in the scene.
Using the torn paper to mask makes it where I don't have to buy additional scene stamps….though I did break down this weekend and bought a pine tree stamp to use with the scenes.
Now of course the paper does not have to be torn for covering up the scene …it can though help shape the masking of the trees or area your stamping onto.
Right now I am brainstorming and thinking of ~what if~ I combined torn paper "hills" and then stamped some of my scene trees behind it….hhmm…. This is another thing I am going to try soon…
oh, I am also wondering if using torn edges to mask, softens the edges where the ink appears on the CS below the torn paper mask…