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I was just searching in the gallery for samples using the March 50% sets that I want and in the Lovely as a Tree gallery there were some beautiful cards that had reflections of the trees.
How do you do this ?!? I saw in one of the samples that the person listed some instructions, but mentioned glossy cardstock. I have the brayer, but only u.s. white. Will that work? Are there more instructions out there?
I have used both regular and glossy. The one in my gallery with copper embossing is regular vanilla paper.
I used my brayer and a stamp positioner to line up the image. I did the reverse one first. I inked the stamp and laid it on the wood, rubber side up. Rolled the brayer over the inked rubber. Placed the brayer that now has the image on it, wher I wanted the mirror to start. I rolled the brayer towards me. That let me put the mirror image exactly where I wanted it on the page, horizontally. Then I inked up the stamp and used the stampamajig type tool to place the stamped image exactly in line with the mirror. Hope that helps.
I don't use the brayer for my reflection cards - I use either the large square or rectangle from Great Shapes. I ink up the stamp I want to use, then stamp it onto the Great Shapes stamp, then onto the paper (I've used glossy and non-glossy such as naturals or confetti). After I have stamped the reflection, I stamp the main image. If I want the two images to be the same intensity in color (like two kissing fish, perhaps), I will stamp off once before stamping on the cardstock so one fish isn't darker than the other. If I'm doing a reflection in water, then of course I do want one darker than the other and will not stamp off.
I went to Micheals and got a stamp for just that it is called a mirror stamp.You stamp your image on the mirror stamp and just stampt that onto your paper.
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It's someone who buys stamps they didn't normally like at first,only to see it in Split Coast Stampers gallery in a different perspective.
Lisa62 please let us know how that mirror stamp from Michaels works out. I have thought about buying it a couple times, but I wonder how often I would use it and if it really works. Thanks for any feedback you can give.
How do you make Reflection Cards ?!?
