Do you ever finish a card and wish you had done a few things differently? Well, for this card, I envisioned one bird really towering over the other so that the saying would be a bit more obvious. When I finished the card, I thought I should have "gone for it" with the height. Oh well!
One of the things I would like to point out about this card is that all the birds in the Little Birdie Clear set (CL133) face the same direction. However, I wanted my two birds to face each other. I don't own a stamp that will create mirrored images, but I do own some Mastercarve eraser blocks. I normally use these for carving stamps but found that they work well at reversing images. I inked one of the birds with black ink, stamped it onto the Mastercarve, then stamped it onto my paper. I did the same thing with the legs. The legs weren't as long as I wanted them, so I stamped them low and then drew black lines so that the legs would reach up to the bird. To finish the card, I added a saying from the giraffe party set (CL132), colored the images with Prismacolor pencils, added some daffodil pearls, and layered everything onto granny smith and ocean paper.
Wow, great idea for reverse images. I'll keep that in mind. Love your card!
Posted by: Heidi | 06/25/2009 at 03:58 AM