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Can anyone explain to me how to do a reflective or mirror image?
See if I can explain this.....if I print a stamp I want to get that same stamp image below it as being 'reflective'. Like looking at an image of trees reflected in the water on a pond. Without having to turn the paper upside down and stamping again. As that is only going to put the image in the opposite direction.
I've done the reflection with Lovely As A Tree (half-price in March!). Just stamp the main image on whatever cardstock you'd use, then stamp it again on vellum. Turn the vellum over so that the reflection is right.
You can also stamp your image onto a large flat stamp (Like any of The Shape of Things or onto a rubber brayer) then use that stamp or brayer to lay the mirror image wherever you need it to be.
If you didn't want to use vellum because you want the two images to have the same saturation of color (say, you want to have two fish kissing instead of a reflection in a pond) you could use Staz-on on a transparancy. Stamp one image, turn it over and stamp the other. I'd also use a stamp positioner for this!
There's one in my gallery with the Palm Tree from Balmy Breezes - I stamped my image on glossy, then stamped my image on the rectangle shape from Great Shapes, then stamped it under my image - made the perfect reflection.
I would also suggest you stamp your mirrored image first--especially if you use the brayer. It is much easier to line up the stamp of the unmirrored image second.
You can also stamp your image on actate and then turn that around and "stamp" with it on your cardstock. That way you see where you put your mirror image.
OK - I tried this mirror image with the brayer (using black ink) and it won't come off the brayer!!! Is there a trick to getting my image off the brayer? The card itself is perfect - but not my brayer!
Simple Green cleaner my dh had for his hands worked well to take off the black ink from my brayer. It is safe for everything according to the label and a few posts I have seen.
reflection image
