The WT today is to use humor on a card. To me this girly girl frog w/ all her makeup, umbrella & purse surely stand on the side of humorous. And I think my title says it all...the weather we've had here the last few days, only a frog could love. Torrential downpours, thunderstorms & howling winds. At least it stopped raining before we washed away..now we're just gone with the wind, lol.
For my frog under the weather card, I did a little variation on the reflection technique. I've done this technique quite a few times, but this was the first time I used the Misti to help out & the first time I used an odd shaped area for the reflection. Lydia's card
started me thinking. So I watched her video & gave it a try. I followed her directions except I had to use the back of a large stamp for the piece of rubber she used. Having the image in the Misti & stamping it more than once onto the rubber really helped the process. Since the reflection is supposed to be lighter than the original, I used gray flannel ink for the reflection & black for the original & I used the lighter colors of Copics to color the reflection.
First of all, I used a pair of little scissors to cut the odd shaped puddle in the middle of a piece of copy paper...placed it over the white card stock, & sponged the tumbled glass ink inside the opening...not too evenly. Then I placed the piece I cut out on top of the blue puddle & sponged some of the weathered wood & tumbled glass around for the ground. I made sure to have a straight edge for the horizon. Then I put the original mask w/ cut out puddle back on & did the reflection part. Removed the mask, positioned the original image & stamped it above the reflection. Colored it all then stamped some raindrops after masking the original image & the ground around the puddle. I only used part of the greeting & I used a Micron pen to add the question mark at the end.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016 GMT Views: 1384
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44907
Thu, Feb 25, 2016 @ 6:27 PM
Julie, this is fantastic! Thank you for explaining how you created the reflection. Love your card!
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Thu, Feb 25, 2016 @ 7:02 PM
You've done a great job with your shadowing. I love that vibrant frog along with your stellar design, Julie. Just as sweet as can be and its definitely meets the humorous qualifications.
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Thu, Feb 25, 2016 @ 8:04 PM
Your very sweet, and amusing, frog card has gone straight into my favs, Julie, what a terrific job you have done on the reflection! Wonderful colouring, too!
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Registered: January 9, 2008 Location: SS Utah Posts: 7689
Thu, Feb 25, 2016 @ 8:38 PM
Awww I absolutely LOVE your card and your sweet image! she sure is cute, and love the technique you used as well! Beautiful job on todays challenge!
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