Mirror Image Event Joint Blog with My Sweet Petunia, So Suzy Stamps and The Ton

It's day seven of the Mirror Image event, hosted by So Suzy Stamps.  I'm so happy to be sharing my take on mirror stamping, featuring the Rose Bloom, So Suzy Ink Bites and the Thoughts and Prayers sentiment.  Although sympathy cards are not always a cardmakers favorite thing to do, due to sad circumstances, I do make quite a few as a church ministry outreach.  I know you'll be seeing lots of creative ways to use the Mirror Image Stamp, so here's yet another way.

Be sure you are commenting on the featured project every day, (to be entered into the drawing for prizes) which will be added daily to this blog post, here, plus, take a look at the short video at the end of that post that shows you how to use the mirror image stamp, designed specifically to be used with the Misti.   

I've got a short video of my own that shows how I stamped the mirror image of the Rose Bloom.  

Once I stamped my images, I did some watercoloring with several of the So Suzy Ink Bites, including Mellow Mint and Caribbean Coral from the Coastal Breeze Ink Bite collection, and Happy Hunter and Simply Sinful from the Autumn Equinox Ink Bites collection.  Just press your ink pad onto a craft mat and grab the colors with a water brush.  I like to use up my scraps of sticker paper that is leftover from my Xyron machine.  So easy and clean is a breeze by tossing in the trash.  A great alternative if you don't have a craft mat.

I used a white gel pen to soften the edges and add some highlights.

When dried, I decided to amp up the color by adding the Mango Marmalade Ink bite colors from the Autumn Equinox collection and some tiny black dots with a Marvy extra fine black pen.  The cardstock that I'm using is from DCWV and I've also added some polka dot ribbon from American Crafts.

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Celebrate National Craft Month!

March is National Craft Month and I wanted to create something extra special to honor that.  I've been looking forward to getting my hands on this paper collection from Graphic 45 called, "Voyage Beneath the Sea". In addition, I have some really great stamps from So Suzy Stamps that go perfectly with this paper collection.  To begin, I wanted to come up with a way to highlight my mermaid by having her pop up out of the water so it appears as if she's right at the surface, while just below the surface, another scene plays out.

So, to start, I did a ton of fussy cutting on my mermaid's hair.  I also added Stickles glitter glue on her hair and on her scales.  The paper at the top is torn to look like foamy waves, while another strip of "waves" is behind her.

To make the background waves, I simply used a 1" circle punch but only put my paper halfway into the circle.  Voile!

I fussy cut the fish from the G45 papers and added a sentiment from So Suzy Stamps which can be found here.  Those cute sea shells are from the Stamp of the Month Club and if you're interested in that, you can get the details here.  The next quarter which begins in April has already opened up so this is the perfect time to sign up.  I also added some open weave ribbon from The Ribbon Resource/May Arts Ribbon, to look like fish net.

Here, I've added lots of sequins, liquid pearls, more glitter glue and stamped a sea plant, then colored it in with Tombows.  I also stamped it on my G45 paper to give it more dimension.  The sheer ribbon is also from The Ribbon Resource and I "burned" it with my heat tool, to melt it to look a bit like seaweed, as well.  The sequins are from The Ton and the bubble embellishments are from DoubleClick Skittles.  All can be found at So Suzy Stamps.  Suzy also carries several of the Graphic 45 paper collections, although I believe the collection I've used today is not in her online store yet, it is available in her physical store.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I plan on sharing this project in the Graphic 45 March monthly challenge also.

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