How to replicate a clipping mask on gaussian blur?

[DODM2020]

Hello,

I'm trying to replicate a Japanese logo (first picture) into English, but this (second picture) is the closest I could get. I could get the clipping mask to work on the type itself because it was an object, but not on the gaussian blur stroke. Note: the background is red, not the dots, the dots are transparent. I tried clipping masks, opacity masks, rasterizing the blur and doing masks, and nothing works.

Is this even possible??

Thanks

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You could group the ink splats, select them together with the type and click Make Mask.

[DODM2020]

Hello! Sorry for the late reply but it worked, thank you so much!!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that worked for you.