The Northwoods Sneak Peek and Tutorial

Hello! This week Gina is showing sneak peeks of all the new stamp sets being release from Gina K Designs on Thursday. Today she is showing snippets from my new set, The Northwoods and Becky's new set, Poster Board Sentiments.  Becky and I each have a project to show you today, using our new sets. Mine is a simple one layer card using the grove of trees from my new set.

The release party is at 7pm over at StampTV and all the new release stamp sets will be live in the online store at that time. I hope to see you there. But in the mean time, keep an eye on Gina's blog for all the latest news and don't forget to pop on over to Becky's blog to check out her fabulous projects for today.

 To make my card, I cut Pure Luxury Ivory card stock to form a 5 ½ by 4 ¼ inch card base. I scored the fold line, but didn't actually fold the card base yet. I find it easier to stamp on a single layer card if it can still lie flat, but having the score line in place helps me line up the stamped image where I want it. I stamped the trees, from The Northwoods, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

You know those acetate sheets the clear stamps come on when you first buy them? Well, I always move my stamps over to the binder sheet that comes with all of Gina's full size stamp sets, but I like to keep some of those acetate sheets around to use for odds and ends. One fantastic use for the sheets is to make mirror images. I wanted a reflection of the trees I had already stamped. So I stamped the trees again, this time on that acetate sheet.

Then I turned the acetate sheet over and upside-down and centered it below the stamped trees on my card base. I rubbed over the back of the acetate sheet, then lifted it away and I was left with a mirror image of the trees, only just a tad lighter, since some of the ink stayed behind on the acetate sheet. Since  the acetate is not porous, the ink stays wet and makes a lovely image. I find I like using the acetate sheet even better than the Reverse Image Stamp that I have, since that is rubber and I can't see to line it up well.

Next, I masked off the bottom image using sticky notes and sponged Memento Rich Cocoa Ink above.

I cut a curved line in the sticky notes, positioned them a little higher and sponged again.

Moved one more time and a little more sponging.

I removed the sticky notes and sponged a bit more Rich Cocoa below.

I used the same sticky notes, lining up the curves to the ones above and sponged the reflection, the same way, only lighter.

For a little more contrast, I used a E25 Copic marker to add some shading.

Stamped the sentiment using Memento Tuxedo Black.

To finish the card, I added some score lines around the sentiment. I like raised score lines on the front of my card, so I held the card up to some light and made fain pencil marks on the inside, to show myself where the sentiment was. Then I put the card in my Score-Buddy, upside down and scored. The pencil marks helped me see where to start and stop scoring, so I wouldn't accidentally score right through the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!