Autumn Reflections
Posted: September 17, 2010 Filed under: Lovely as a Tree, Stamped Landscapes 20 Comments
A few weeks back I made a one-layer card with a masked and sponged tree scene. Well the next step, in my mind anyway, was to try and create a scene with trees reflecting in water. I had a few issues with this card and want to try again, but I’m still happy with my first attempt.
I didn’t set out to make a square card. I pulled a piece of ivory cardstock out of the box, saw that it was already scored and set to work. First I positioned my post-it note masks at the edges of the coloured sponged area, then I positioned another post-it mask half way down to mark the water’s edge. I then sponged in blue, orange and yellow, with some brown right near the water. Then I repositioned my middle mask and sponged the reflection side. The trees were stamped next in both black and orange, after which I had to create my reflection. This little trick I learnt from Michelle Zindorf, who stamps incredible scenes. I inked the trees in black and stamped them onto the plastic sheet from the Stamp-a-ma-jig, which I then pressed onto the card. After that it was just a matter of fiddling around with a marker to try and make the water’s edge a little more realistic.
After I was happy with all the sponging and stamping I removed the post-it notes to find that the cardbase I had stamped on was an inch shorter at the front than the back! I can’t believe I didn’t notice at the beginning. I didn’t want to matte it and stick it on another cardbase so it became a square card.
Thanks for dropping by.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teensy Tiny Wishes
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Real Rust, Basic Black
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic Ivory
Heather Telford 
This is so…..beautiful.
Wow……what a beautiful card!
Pretty much the perfect card – for Thanksgiving, for sympathy, – just awesome!
HEather – I am telling you – you rock at this “Heather’s technique” – lol. Seriously – excellent sponging!
What a stunningly pretty scene! The blue and orange are perfect together, and you’ve sponged so well…as usual! I agree with Vicki, you really have taken over this technique and made it your own!
You did a beautiful job on this! I love Michelle Zindorf’s work. I’m just now too playing around with her techniques and your card is certainly an inspiration. Best, Curt
This card is just stunningly beautiful! I think the reflection is the most realistic I’ve seen. Just gorgeous!
Absolutely beautiful – I am so in love with this stamp set at the moment, and you’ve inspired me to try to take it to a new level.
Another Beautiful card! Thank you. Having spent the morning on the telephone with a number of difficult calls, I turned to your blog to see if there was anything new. . . . . and behold.
You know how I enjoy capturing scenes of reflections in still water, so it was another special gift.
By the way, I photographed many reflections in the flooded Murray River as we journeyed southy this past week. We will send some when we return home.
ND
This is a work of art. It is absolutely stunning and so effective,
Love Sarita xx
This is oh so perfect- love this beautiful scene with the reflected image of the trees!
Wow Heather, this card is STUNNING! Absolutely gorgeous and definitely makes me want to sit and try it myself. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wonderful Card. Thanks for the tip on doing the reflection!
What a sweetheart to give us the Zindorf-protege tutorial. It makes me think I MIGHT be able to do reflections, if I ever get good at making objects look farther away than they are. Reflections SOUND easy, but I’ll bet they aren’t. You sure did a terrific job on them.
Bahb
Oh my goodness, this is gorgeous! Love the reflection in the water and that stunning sunset.
This is truly so gorgeous!
[…] of first sets I bought, Lovely as a Tree is an old favourite. This card was a CASE of this beautiful card I saw quite some time ago on Heather Telford’s blog and wanted to […]
Hi Heather,
May I suggest you look at this post and use the ” open link in new window ” option when adding a link so that you are not taken away.
I know my tip is in blogger, but surely WordPress would have that option too, as it’s annoying to be taken away from post when clicking on a link.
Great card found it hunting for ideas, TFS!!!
Shaz in Oz.x
http://calligraphycards-shazinoz.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/woyww-open-link-in-new-window-on.html
What is masking ? And how do you do it?
Hi Carla,
Masking is covering an area of paper so ink and colour doesn’t touch it. On this card I placed a post-it note across the bottom of the card and across the top then did all the stamping and inking in the middle. When I had finished I removed the masks to reveal a straight line.