Easy Zindorf

This is the cheat's way to do a Michelle Zindorf inspired card  i.e. no brayer - just sponges & was the 2nd card made at my Reflection Cards class the other night - it was very easy to do (especially after the 1st one)

Stamp set: Bird on a Branch (this is such a great set & only $39.95 for 5 stamps)
Ink: Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Regal Rose, Pink Passion, Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue
Paper: Whisper White, Brilliant Blue
Other: Stamp-a-ma jig (SAMJ), Signo white gel pen, acetate

I like the effect of popping the sponged mat out with another mat of whisper white.Otherwise it's just a matter of sponging with Tempting Turquoise - leave a bit of "white space" then sponge around the edges with Brilliant Blue. I also use a piece of shiny acetate (I've found this gives a better impression than the SAMJ smooth mat) to transfer the "reflection".

1. After sponging with the blue inks as described above stamp the branch onto the acetate using Sahara Sand ink & transfer by rubbing with base of your hand to base of card
2. Repeat above with the bird being stamped onto the acetate using Sahara Sand ink & transfer on top of the branch to be hanging upside down
3. Repeat using the flower spray & Regal Rose ink
4. Now stamp the branch using Basic Black ink & a stamp-a-ma-jig to “line up with the reflection)
5. Then stamp the bird onto the branch – also using Basic Black Ink
6. Use the stamp –a-ma jig again to stamp the spray of flowers to the branch using Pink Passion ink
7. Fill in some of the top flowers with a white Signo gel pen

Happy Birthday Neville & more reflection

It's Judy's hubby's 70th birthday party today so I made the reflection card again & inked up a stamp set that I hadn't used before (as that's my team's cyber challenge for this month).

I bought Uncharted Territory from our last spring mini as I'm aware that I don't really have much masculine stuff - so this will be perfect for Neville as he's really into his model boats (making them & racing them). The stamp set has a really cool saying with it as well :  Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time - Leo F. Buscaglia I'm sure after 70 years on this planet Neville will have charted a few things by now but I do sincerely wish him more to come.

Stamp set: Uncharted Territory
Ink: Bordering Blue, Going Grey, Basic Black, Night of Navy
Paper: Bordering Blue, Basic Black, Whisper White

PS I hope he likes the cloud in the sky ;-)  don't you hate that when your card falls into  wet ink or an ink pad

A reflective card

This is the very cool card my upline Jacque Pedersen taught us at team training in the weekend - it's based on a Michele Zindorf card but Jacque's way is all sponged, no brayering. I'm really rapt as this was my first go at this technique & even if I say so myself this looks amazing.

Not surprisingly my downline now want me to teach them this too at our next training plus I'll be running this as a class in May.

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