Happy Easter

Good Morning and Happy Easter everyone.  I hope you all got lots of goodies from the Easter Bunny!!  I am heading out to my parents for dinner shortly and this morning I made them this card and matching envelope. I have a surprising lack of Easter stamps, which I plan on fixing soon, but I did find this set and the work Easter from another.

Have a great Day and thanks for stopping by.

STV April Fools Challenges

The Moderators over at Stamp TV have been posting some April Fools Challenges. I decided to do them today while I play with MISTI.

The first challenge posted by Cat was to use 2 of the same shapes on your card. I used Ovals on mine. I used my MISTI to figure out spacing for my ovals, then stamped them twice to get a nice dark image. The same is true for the sentiment and butterfly. I then cut 2 masks for the ovals and used a dotted border stamp to make my background in Kraft.

The next challenge posted by Karen was a color challenge. Your card had to have Blue and orange. For this challenge I used Post It notes to mask off the top and bottom then sponged on stripes of Powder Blue and Sweet Mango. The image of the chairs and sentiments are from By the Sea 2 andwere stamped in Black Onyx.

The third Challenge was posted by Lee and was a sketch challenge. I flipped the sketch upside down to have the circle at the top. I layered the white, kraft and then white banner together then die cut the circle out. I layered this piece on top of a white cardstock base, without glue. The placed them in MISTI, put the stamp over the card where I wanted it, picked it up with the lid of MISTI, removed my top layers and stamped  the grapes from Better with Age on the card base. I then colored my image and put the top on using foam tape for dimension. The sentiment was lined up and stamped in kraft ink. I am submitting this card for the Mod Squad Tic Tac Toe Challenge. This card used the right verticle line including piercing, coloring, and using rhinestones or pearls, I am sure enamel dots count too.

The fourth Challenge posted by Sean is a 1.. 2.. 3.. Challenge in which the card has to be 1 layer, use 2 ink colors and three different stamp sets. My layer is white, the 2 ink colors are Black Onyx and Ocean Mist. To do this card I mapped it out with my MISTI, using a blank piece of paper. I stamped the oval first, masked off the outside, then stamped the silhouette about four times to get a nice dark evenly colored image. Next, I stamped the sentiment, masked the oval and using a dotted stamp from Lots of Dots I stamped it moving it to make the background.

There you have it 4 challenge cards made in one afternoon!!  Thanks for stopping by!!

Black and White Wedding

I oops and forgot my niece and nephew had wanted a couple of wedding cards, so this was a quick last minute card set.

So I followed the Mod Squad Challenge for this week called Tic Tac Toe. My line goes diagonal from lower left to upper right and reads Pattern Paper bought or handmade ( I made my, the script background), next is Die Cut or Punch (I die cut my tux and gown), and finally Piercing either hand or die (I used pierced fishtails dies)

I used the bride and groom dies from MFT, script background stamp from MFT, pierced fishtails flags from MFT, and the sentiment is from the Together Forever stamp set from MFT. The brides dress was sprayed with MFT's Shimmer Mist.

I made the cards opposites by switching up the background and fishtail flags!!

 I did the insides the same with a black layer to make the sentiment pop out!!

Thank for stopping by and having a look, Hope you have a great day!!

Something Amazing!!

I have to share with you all this amazing new DIY Gel Polish!!  I saw it on Facebook and I had never tried any Gel polish before. I love nail polish but I have never found one that would not chip right off my nails. I have looked at the ones in the drug stores and found it too expensive, plus you needed a base coat, the polish itself  and then a top coat. I admit I was not willing to put that much into doing my nails. Plus, I was not sure I wanted to use a potentially dangerous UV Lamp as I know someone who had melanoma under her thumb nail.  This is exactly why I wanted to try GelMoment. One coat, 60 seconds under an LED Lamp, done. Wow!! Really?? Yes!!  I bought a lamp, polish, cleansers, removers, files and cuticle pusher. I also believe in having all the tools. lol I set up my stuff, pushed back my cuticles, cleansed with a cleanser wipe, applied one coat of polish on my thumb and put it under the light for 60 seconds..Done  I was blown away it was perfectly dry!!! I finished the rest and loved the results!! I also did my toes and change my polish weekly, not because it has chipped or anything, but I want a new color LOL.

I decided to join this company as a distributor, this company is so new I am 1 of only a few people selling this in Nova Scotia. So I wanted to share it with you all. If you want easy quick, durable long lasting Gel polish, feel free to contact me at nurse6b@hotmail.com. If you wan to see more about this product check out my GelMoment website. Thanks for letting me share and I will be back in a while with some more MISTI made cards!!

Have a great Easter Weekend!!

Totally Addicted to MISTI

I love my MISTI!!  Just in case the last two posts had you wondering. lol  I have been making multiples or sets of cards with it.
This first set uses Lots of Dots and Stamp it Big from Gina K Designs. I used various colors of Gina K inks and created the backgrounds which were so easy to line up using my MISTI. The sentiments were stamped multiple times to get a nice dark crisp image!!

This next set of cards was inspired by a video by Catherine Pooler on the offsetting the dye ink and pigment ink to make this amazing chevron border on my card. The happy was die cut from a leftover piece of kraft cardstock, that had previously been stamped with Altenew's Wood Pallet background stamp. The sequins I found in my stash and are from Studio Calico.

For this set of cards I stamped Altenew's Wooden Pallet background, and cut out using a die I got from Mama Elephant. The Rose is a multi-stamp set called Vintage Roses and the congrats banner is also from the Wood Pallet stamp set.

This note card set was made using Altenew's Striped Florals stamp set and the sentiment is Stamp it Big from Gina K. Designs.  The inks are Mama Elephant Pigment Inks.  I stamped each image twice to get a nice solid image which was so easy with MISTI!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a look and I hope you like what you see!!  Susan

MIA with MISTI

I have been MIA for a while!!  I have been playing with my new MISTI and thought it was about time to share some of the fun I have been having with her!!

 With templates shared with the MISTIfied group over on Facebook, you can stamp perfectly spaced works or shapes in a circle!!

Multi-step stamping has become so easy with the Misti. Before I could never get my stamps to match up before.

I have been practicing making clean and simple cards and love how many I can make at a time, and get it perfect anytime!!

 I made a collage for this one!!

 Multi-step Flowers with Altenew's Vintage Flowers stamp set!!

 I could never get my frame stamps to stamp a nice clean perfect image before. But.. thanks to MISTI I can restamp the image perfectly and get a nice clear image!!

 Altenew's striped flowers set is perfect for these clean and simple note cards I made I also used my new Mama Elephant Pigment Inks. I stamped each image twice to get a nice rich color to the images. The sentiments were stamped with Black Onyx Dye Ink a couple of times to make it super dark and perfectly colored.

Ok folks that is all for now If you would like to be enabled, go on over to facebook and check out the group Mistified.

MISTI

Hi Fellow crafters I have to share this amazing product with you!!!  Iliana aka My sweet Petunia invented the Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented aka MISTI. 
You need to RUN not walk over to this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuqVubvpGNg

There is a whole group on Facebook called Mistfied filled with all kinds of informative videos, and templates to use with the MISTI!!
Beware!! You will want one!!  and this group is full of Enablers!!
Happy Stamping!!
Susan