Thursday, April 16, 2020

Technique - Mirror Image Stamping

On Tuesday we had our first 'Crafternoon In Isolation' get-together via Zoom. While I am not able to hold our fortnightly classes in person, I will be holding them every other week via Zoom and in the weeks in between we will be having a catch-up where we can show what we have been making and I will be demonstrating a technique.

This week's technique was Mirror Image Stamping


The Happy Tails stamp set has an image of a dog looking to the left but what if you want a dog looking to the right? Here are the steps used to create the brown dog on the card which was inspired by Frenchie Stamps.

Step 1
Stamp a dog on a piece of cardstock and punch out with the Dog Punch

Step 2
Place the negative image onto the Stamparatus on top of a silicone mat

Step 3
Line up the dog stamp in the punch-out and pick up with the Stamparatus

Step 4
Ink up the stamp and stamp onto the silicone mat

Step 5
Placed the punched-out dog onto the silicone mat and press firmly on the punched out dog. This will transfer the inked image from the silicone mat to the reverse side of the dog punch-out

And there you have a stamped mirror image of the dog. If the image is not dark enough, just repeat steps 4 and 5.

If you want to just stamp a mirror image onto a card without punching out, simply stamp the image onto the silicone mat, and then use the mat as a 'Stamp' to transfer the image to your card.
This technique can also be used with dies instead of a punch.

Product details for the items used can be displayed by clicking on the icon.

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