Simply One of a Kind: MISTI

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Saturday, 14 December 2019

Time to celebrate

The challenge at Perfectly CAS this time is

I guess there are so many reasons for celebration... but at this time of year, I'm thinking about Christmas.

We will be spending it with both of our children and their families, which couldn't be better.. a real reason for celebration. We all love to see the cousins playing together.

For my card I used hammered card stock and masked a thin strip with washi tape before stamping the trees with a couple of colours of Distress Inks, using my MISTI. After removing the tape I again used my MISTI as a positioner before stamping and embossing the sentiment in gold. I think I must have been lucky that the washi didn't leave any tacky residue for the EP to stick to, but the anti static bag must have done its job well!

There's something about the combo of green and gold which really pleases me!

Tomorrow we will be celebrating our 46th Wedding Anniversary, yet another milestone and an excuse for a celebration! Last year we spent our anniversary on a cruise..,. this year it's just going to be a glass or two of fizz!

Cheers!

Monday, 11 November 2019

Pine Cones

Having seen the fab card made by Bobby here I was reminded of a Penny Black stamp I bought some time ago, which I thought would look great for this technique.

Having dug it out, I popped it into my MISTI and reached for every shade of brown Distress Ink in my racks.

The challenge I first had in mind was CAS Watercolour where a Monochrome palette is required.

After numerous stampings, with just about every shade used on different parts of the stamp, I spritzed a little shimmer over it and then stamped some splodges in Antique linen ink over all.

I found the sentiment is a box of previously unused stamps, bought as a Grab Bag from a craft show... I believe they are from Rubbernecker. It had different sized spots either side of the words, which I didn't really care for, so after cutting them off, I embossed it in gold. Having distressed the edges to tie in with the main panel, it was added it to the card.

Penny Black - Christmas

Here is another card containing shades of brown, although not watercolour this time. This was a fairly quick card... or at least it should have been if I hadn't pfaffed around with different tree line dies and trying to decide which tag die to use. Anyway the reindeer is a little digi which I gave up on trying to cut out with my Portrait and hand cut instead. I did an upgrade to my Silhouette as I hadn't used my machine for some time... it was like trying to learn a completely new piece of software!

For some reason yet to be discovered, I couldn't get the machine to read the registration lines, I'll try again some time, but frustration got the better of me this time!

I took my inspiration from Just Add Ink

...although the only ink on this one is from the Versamark for the sentiment!

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Nature

Using a stamping platform such as the MISTI makes using watercolour stamps really easy. It means that you can stamp parts of a large stamp such as this one, in small sections and still get it perfectly in place. I used three colours of markers on each berry and a couple of shades on the branch. I was really pleased with the result.

The stamp is from Penny Black and the die cut sentiment from Creative Dies.

I added a little clear Wisp of Stella over each berry although it doesn't show up too clearly on this photo.

This is my DT card for the Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Where as ever it's an Anything Goes Challenge with the optional twist of including something linked to nature.

Making Christmas cards throughout the year saves so much stress as Christmas approaches so do come and join us, it has worked for me!

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Clockwork

Last month when the One Layer Challenge came around at "Less is More" I merrily went ahead and made a Splatter card... forgetting that it was one layer week... this month ... guess what.. I did exactly the same thing. I was so anxious to use this Kaisercraft stamp that all thought of the one layer element left my mind. Anyway here is take 2!

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches which I think fits the theme beautifully!

Using my MISTI helps enormously to get the stamp square on to the card... always a tricky process!

Here is the version where I forgot about the one layer!

I really must be getting old!

I'm going to link this one to the the challenge at Twofers challenge as their theme is clocks/time

Why not join in the fun!

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