Mirror Image Stamping

I've been cleaning out my craft studio in anticipations of having to move EVERYTHING out. Yep...changing out the carpet for hardwood.  Kinda scared about that considering I drop an ink pad weekly.

 

So when cleaning out some drawers I came across this mirror image stamp by Rubber Stampede. 

Now I've tried this stamp pad before without much success.  I think I used the wrong ink and I reinked the stamp after stamping the pad. So I practiced and practiced to see what worked. I found that Club Scrap hybrid ink works best without reinking the stamp. Here's what I did to achieve the heart image with the swirl stamps from Club Scrap.

• Apply ink to stamp.
• Stamp on mirror image stamp pad.

•  Stamp mirror image onto paper.

• Stamp original stamp without reinking next to 1st stamped image.

Now, I had problems with the swirl stamps lining up since there is a little bit of an angle with the swirls. I ended up having quite a few swirl heart mats because only ONCE did I actually stamp it correctly.

So what did I do with all those heart images?  Here's a sample for a Valentine's day card that I made many duplicates of for the Can You Case It challenge.

 

 

 

 

Club Scrap papers, flourish stamp, tag, ribbon and jewels. 7Gypsies cardstock sticker. Rubber Stampede mirror stamp pad.