Reflective Stamping (by Julie)

Hello, thanks for stopping by. Today I have a couple of cards to show you and for the first one I used a reflecting technique, which once you know the trick, is very easy.

For this design it is easier to start with the reflective image so ink up your solid Palace stamp from Indian Textile with Onyx Black Versafine and then take a brayer and roll over the image, width ways so the inky image has been transferred to the brayer. 

Decide where you want the reflection placed and then roll your Brayer onto the stamping card. You can then re-ink your palace stamp and stamp above your reflection.

If you do not have a brayer you can stamp your image onto acetate, place the design where you want the reflection and then push down on the back of the acetate to transfer the design.

I then stamped the leafy design around the edge using a decorative stamp from Natures Paisley. I then followed this by creating a circle stencil from copy paper with a circle die, so that I could apply Distress ink through to create the moon, both in the sky and the reflection. The background is created with Seedless Preserve and Hickory Smoke Distress inks and white paint pen was added to the water area.

The design was then mounted onto black card-stock before attaching to the front of the card.

My second card has been stamped with Paisley Elephant. The decorative fan was inked up with Red Versafine and stamped four times onto white card-stock before being cut out and arranged in an overlapping, four petal flower shape. 3D glue gel was used to adhere the petals to the card. 

The background was coloured with Distress inks and stamped with the little decorative paisley stamp.

 The sentiment was stamped to the top-right hand side of the design and the card was finished off with a red flat back gem in the centre of the flower.

Thank you for reading and please call back soon for daily Design Team inspiration.

Julie xx