The large central ribbon in the center of the sketch wasn't my thing, so I decided to use a spray of daffodils instead. The only problem was that I only had a single stamp with daffodils. I recalled you could mirror a stamp by stamping on the back of another stamp or on a silicone mat. I chose the mat method. First I stamped the image in black twice onto the 6"x6" silicone mat using my Stampin' Up! (SU) Stamparatus, then flipped the mat over onto a piece of white cardstock and pressed firmly to transfer the reverse image. Then I used the stamp positioner again to exactly line up the stems of the stamp image with the reverse image I had already stamped and stamped again. Here is a tutorial on how to do this: plitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/mirrorimagestamping/
Then I colored the flowers with Copic Markers, and cut them out with paper snips (a VERY tedious process).
Next I cut panels of SU pattern paper in soft yellow, green and lavender and glued them to a 4"x 5-1/4" dark purple mat per the sketch layout. The spray of daffodils were then wrapped with a short piece of dark purple ribbon and attached to the card front using glue dots.
The sentiment is from a 2003 Serendipity stamp set that has beautiful scripts for each of the four seasons. I stamped this onto a piece of white cardstock with dark purple ink, then trimmed it to 3/4" wide and about 1/2" longer than the sentiment on each side. I then punched the two ends out with a fancy scroll label punch. I cut a second strip from dark purple cardstock that was 1" wide and about 1/2" longer than the white punched label.
I am rating the difficulty level at "2" because of the need to mirror the daffodils.
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 GMT Views: 280
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