Thought I'd share the card I made for Julie's birthday which was Wednesday. The A Muse Addicts group got together and sent her cards that say inside "SHUT UP... it's your birthday... THUD!" When I saw this sneaky little plan, I just had to participate and I knew right away I wanted to use the "a little bird told me" sentiment.
This card was so fun to make! I used the Girl & Frog Elzybells stamp and masked off the frog. Now the A Muse tiny bird normally faces to the right, so I reversed him by first stamping him on the big bl stamp and then stamping that image facing Elzy. Tricky eh? The quality of the stamping on a reverse image isn't quite as good, but it still worked well enough. Then I also thought it'd be perfect to have Elzy holding the balloon to which I added a little Crystal Effects to make it shiny and 3D. Happy Birthday Julie - sounds like you had a great day!
ETA: To reverse the bird, I used the reflection technique (or mirror technique). You can find instructions on Splitcoast here. Instead of stamping on acetate, I stamed on the big block - which is basically a solid rectangle.
ETA on 3/17/08: Tracy created a great tutorial (here) on how to create the mirror image!
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Images by ElzybellsNA and A Muse. A Muse notecards and twinkle sticker. Brilliance graphite black ink (heat-set), Prismacolor markers, crystal effects, Spica clear glitter pen.
9 comments:
This is awesome!!! I love it!!! Or should I say "shut up....Thud!"? Like Julie would say? LOL! I bet that was her first reaction as soon as she saw it. I was gonna email you to ask how you did it. So glad you posted to let us in on your secret. Thanks!
VERY NICE EMILY.
Too cute! I never get good results with mirror image stamping, either. Yours turned out awesome, though!
CUTE! I love Elzybells but I don't have any. I need to get some. Love your cards!
Nancy Panko
So cute! I love the change up from the frog to bird and the balloon is great! I bet Julie loved it!
You are tricky ~ Here I thought there was a new stamp I missed. Very cute!!!
So cute!!!
Ok, I don't know how I missed this. The bird IS facing the opposite way. I still don't understand 'HOW' you did it though? What do you mean you stamped it first on the big bl first?
Tracy - it is like this reflection technique - except I used a solid stamp instead of acetate.
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ee/index.php/resources/tutorials/reflection_technique/
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