Well,it's been a while...

,,,and I've been doing a lot but not stamping.

Vacations, sewing, knitting, reading, gardening, planning more vacations and Spring cleaning (yuck)!

Now I'm hoping to get a bunch of posts up before I head back to the sewing machine to make Christmas presents.

I was also watching a bunch of you tube videos for new inspiration in my card making.

Retro Rubber Challenge #64...Anything Goes

I found the following YouTube video for ...

Mirror Stamping

...and then I did exactly what I wanted.

I started with a piece of white card stock for the base card and added layers of black, aqua and green.

For the main piece I used the lady in the boat image from Stampin' Up's "Summer By the Sea" (2006) on white card stock with StazOn Jet Black ink.

I found a piece of acetate from a card set and stamped the image on it using the StazOn and very quickly laid it under the first image.

I gently smoothed it to make the "mirror".

using my Prisma color pencils I colored the main image a little darker than the "mirror" image.

I colored the entire front of the card, missing the main image but coloring over the "mirror" image.

Next I took my eraser and smoothed out the entire card except for the main image.

I trimmed everything, ripped the one edge of the main piece and taped everything to the base card.

To finish I stamped the verse from a My Favorite Things set, from at least three years ago, to the front of the card using the StazOn.