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Wildflower Sunset Fairy Reflection Card - the finished project — The finished project

Create a magical wildflower sunset card featuring a fairy silhouette stamped in black ink against a scenic mountain landscape. The design showcases a beautiful paint-by-numbers style background with rolling green meadows, purple mountains, and fluffy clouds, with the fairy figure standing amongst wildflowers in the foreground. Use layering techniques and white gel pen highlights to add dimension and sparkle to this enchanting handmade card.

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Select a piece of patterned paper from the Wildflower Sunset collection to use as your card base. The paper should feature the mountain landscape design.
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Ink up the fairy reflection stamp with black ink. Condition the stamp first by making several practice stamps on scrap paper before stamping onto your card.
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Stamp the fairy silhouette in black ink onto the lower portion of your mountain landscape card, positioning it so it appears to sit amongst the wildflowers in the foreground.
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Re-ink only the top portion of the fairy stamp with black ink to create a darker gradient effect on the upper part of the image. ▶ watch 24:00
Stamp the image again over the previous stamped impression on the top half of the artwork to deepen and darken the colour, creating dimension and depth in the sky and mountain area.
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Apply glitter glue over the flower heads in the foreground surrounding the fairy silhouette to add sparkle and dimension to the wildflower meadow scene.
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Apply a line of glitter glue down the centre of the reflection panel to create a water reflection effect. Work from top to bottom in a straight vertical line.
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Use a white gel pen to add fine lines to the fairy's wings, enhancing the wing details. Add a line down the centre of each wing section for definition.
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Position the masking stencil around the fairy's head. Apply white ink around the stencil to create a halo effect.
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Carefully peel away the fairy mask from the card to reveal the white halo effect around the fairy silhouette. This creates depth and brings the fairy forward from the mountain and wildflower background.
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When stamping, condition a new stamp by stamping it several times before your final image to ensure full ink coverage.
Glitter glue dries back lighter than it appears when wet, so apply with confidence.
You can use the mask system to add a white halo around the focal point to make it pop forward from the background.

Wildflower Sunset Fairy Reflection Card

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