Hi Friends
Well this will be my last post for this week, as I am going away for the weekend so remember to pop back next week to see what I have to show you, or subscribe via email to my blog then you will never miss another post again.
I CASEd this card from Jan Tink, you can find her card here.
One of the very few guys at work has invited us all out to lunch yesterday to help him celebrate his birthday. I really like Cliffy he has always been very kind and generous to the payroll team and shows his appreciation for all we do. Which, to be honest, is a really nice change, as most of our customers never show their appreciation for all we do for them week from week.
Anyway, as I have said in the past masculine cards are always a difficult thing, I think I may not be alone in this thinking. I found this card by Jan Tink on Pinterest and decided it was soooo good I just had to case it. The only thing that is different between my card and Jan’s is that I think I added a couple of extra mats of Basic Black card stock.
The card base and the first mat is Basic Black card stock, I then stamped the now retired World Map background stamp onto Whisper White card stock with Black StazOn ink. I think wrapped some retired ribbon around this mat. Again Basic Black and Whisper White card stock were used for the two smaller mats and the boat from another retired (sorry :() stampe set called Traveller was stamped in Basic Black Classic ink. The technique used to make this image is called the Reflection Technique and although it can be a bit fiddly it really is effective. All you do is stamp your image onto your card stock, then stamp the image again onto a piece of acetate, turn it over and line up the image on the acetate with the stamped image and press firmly to transfer the ink from the acetate onto the card stock. Hint** Make sure your inkpad is really well inked up so when doing the reflection image you get a good transfer. It took me several attempts before I was happy with it.
I then used my Blender Pen to “smudge” the black ink to make it look like water and then used my white Gel Pen to make the wake. It looks really effective once it’s done and dries a bit.
I kept the inside nice and clean so there is lots of room for everyone to write their birthday greeting. The stamped greeting inside is the Guy Greetings stamp set.
If you would like to learn how to make a card using the Reflection Technique, contact me today and we can arrange an in-house workshop where I can teach you and a 2-3 friends how to do it. All products that aren’t retired can be purchased from my Stampin’ Up! shop by either clicking on the links within this post or the shopping trolley to the left hand side.
Happy stamping!!
Tina xo
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