Twinkling Lights Santa and MISTI Magic!

 🎄Twinkling Lights Santa – Two Festive Looks (and MISTI Magic!)

Hello, creative friends!

Today I’m sharing two festive cards featuring the absolutely adorable Twinkling Lights Santa stamp set from SweetMissDaisy Designs. These cards may look different, but they share the same joyful base—The Twinkling Lights Santa, cheerful gingham paper, and lots of sparkle! And behind the scenes, I used one of my favorite tools to make it all come together: the Original Teal MISTI!

From crisp stamping to perfect sentiment placement, the MISTI made these cards a total joy to create. Let me walk you through the details!

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🎅 Card 1: Twinkling in Red 

For this cheerful card, I placed the Twinkling Lights Santa stamp into my Original Teal MISTI and used it to get a perfectly clean impression. I love how the MISTI lets me stamp multiple times for a deeper color without ever losing alignment!

This delightful Santa is accented with light twinkle hash line stamps—there are four of them in the set, which made it easy to position them on the MISTI lid and stamp four at one time!  Using my Sticky Mat, I kept the card panel secure while stamping those extra details right where I wanted them.

To create a polished top edge, I used the 0 Center Cut Align Ruler from the MISTI Accessories to perfectly place a scalloped red gingham border from the Holiday Mini Gingham Paper Pack. The alignment grids helped me add the sentiment with flawless placement!

💙 Card 2: Santa Goes Red, White & Blue

My second card features the same Santa, but this time with a fresh twist: a red, white, and blue Christmas theme! Once again, I turned to my Original Teal MISTI to stamp a crisp image of Santa holding his twinkling light strand. I colored all blue lights on this one to coordinate with a scalloped blue gingham border along the bottom.

The “Ho Ho Hello” sentiment was stamped directly onto the card base using the MISTI’s alignment grids, getting it straight and centered in one easy step. I love how this layout flips the composition while keeping all the charm.

✨ A Little Help from My MISTI

Here’s how the MISTI tools made this project smooth and stress-free:

• 🩵 Original Teal MISTI: for perfectly clean stamping on both cards

• 🔲 Sticky Mats: held my panels securely for all the layered stamping

• 📏 0 Center Cut Align Ruler: made adding those gingham borders a breeze

• 🧭 MISTI Grids: helped align the sentiments with total precision

These tools don’t just save time—they boost confidence. I knew each element would land just where I wanted it, and that left me free to enjoy the creative process.

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Thanks so much for visiting today! I hope these cards bring a little sparkle to your day—and show how tools like the MISTI can elevate your stamping game with every press

Ho ho hello!

 Hello everyone! Anna here, with greetings from a cheerful, sunny day in the pacific northwest! 

The card I’m sharing today was made using the recently released Twinkling Lighta Santa clear stamp set from SweetMissDaisy Designs. A cheerful set with an adorable Santa, and fun sentiments! I stamped the image and sentiment on watercolor paper, and paired the image with a festive red paper from the designer Mini Gingham patterned paper also from SweetMissDaisy Designs. 

I used the Mini Misti to stamp the image and sentiment several times to ensure a great impression on textured watercolor paper.

I love how the Mini Misti allows me to stamp perfectly, every time! On card panels or on smaller sentiment banners, I can stamp with precision every time, giving me the perfect placement and impression for every project.  Sentiments are stamped perfectly placed, and stamped images on watercolor paper (or other textured papers) are a breeze to create! 

Thanks for joining me on the blog today!

Starlight & Sticky Mats: Cardmaking with Precision

The newest SweetMissDaisy Designs release is brimming with sweet holiday cheer, and since I adore making Christmas cards, I’m diving headfirst into Christmas in July! 🎄✨

For this festive card, I decided to go a little off the beaten path and embrace a warm, honey-yellow color palette. Using Distress Inks and stencils, I created a glowing background and added some shimmer by heat-embossing over the top. Once the background was dry, I popped it into my Original MISTI with a Sticky Mat to hold everything perfectly in place.

I stamped the star and gingerbread border three times across the background, setting the stage for my star of the show—this absolutely adorable angel! I stamped her on a separate layer and colored her in a soft Sunflower Yellow and Blue Gray combo that makes her really shine. Isn’t she darling with her little gingerbread buddy and starry attire?

The sentiment banner is quite small, so I returned to my Sticky Mat to make sure nothing shifted during stamping. To ensure perfect alignment, I used my Alignment Grids—crooked sentiments are unacceptable!

This charming angel was a joy to color thanks to the MISTI and My Sweet Petunia tools; she magically enhances holiday cardmaking!

Tools I love and use often:

Cut-Align Ruler

Mini MISTI

Precision Glue Press

The stamp set is Angel Wishes by SweetMissDaisy Designs.

 

Team Tuesday with Concord & 9th

 

Hey everybody! 

It.s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a card using some products by Kristina Werner for Concord & 9th.

To make this card, I started with a white top folding A2 crd base, a Pebble panel and a white panel. Starting with the white panel, I laid it on a Sticky Mat inside the Original MISTI  then stamped the floral image. I used stencils to color it, thus the reason I need a Sticky Mat. The colors I used for the flower are Wildberry, Plumberry and Fig. I love this color combo for a floral. For the leaves I used Avocado and Pistachio.  Next I cut out the image using coordinating dies and used some dies from Pinkfresh Studio to create the frame.

I ran the Pebble panel through the die cutting machine using the Basket Weave card front plate. To finish the card I stamped the sentiment, cut it out with the coordinating die and added it to the front. 

UnFROGettable!

Hello, friends!

I’m hopping by with this Unfrogettable birthday card—see what I did there? 😉 This adorable frog and his tiny fly friends make for such a happy scene; I couldn’t resist the punny stamp set name!

As always, I reached for my MISTI and other trusty tools from My Sweet Petunia. I use them on every card I make, regardless of how simple or detailed. Even with something as small as the little flies on this card. Before owning a MISTI, I used an acrylic block for all the details, but it frequently resulted in incomplete images or messy smudges. The MISTI is revolutionary.

Thanks to the MISTI, I no longer have those annoying stamping fails!

 Everything lines up beautifully, and I get a crisp impression every time—even with the tiniest stamps!

It was such fun to position this happy frog so that he is peeking around the background layer to say hi! And of course, I added the whimsical flies—because frogs love flies, right?

To finish things off, I added the sentiment:

“Wishing you a Ribbiting and Unfrogettable Birthday!” 🐸🎉

One of my favorite things about using the MISTI is how easy it is to make multiples. I positioned the “Handmade especially for you” sentiment on the MISTI and quickly stamped the backs of several cards. On this card, I even added a few of those same whimsical flies for a little front-and-back coordination!

Other My Sweet Petunia tools that help me make (almost) every card include the Sticky Mats, Mini MISTI, Cut Align Ruler, and Alignment Grids. They take the guesswork out of crafting and make it easier to enjoy the process!

Thanks so much for stopping by—I hope you have a truly Unfrogettable day! 💚  

Angie

Stamps and papers by SweetMissDaisy.  

 

Hello, chicken

 

Hello everyone! Anna here, with greetings from a cheerful, sunny day in the pacific northwest! 

The card I’m sharing today was made using the recently released Roo clear stamp set from SweetMissDaisy Designs. A cheerful set with an adorable chicken, and fun sentiments! I stamped the image and sentiment on watercolor paper, and paired with the images with fun paper prints from the designer Chicken Wire patterned paper also from SweetMissDaisy Designs. 

I used the Mini Misti to stamp the image and sentiment several times to ensure a great impression on textured watercolor paper.

I love how the Mini Misti allows me to stamp perfectly, every time! On card panels or on smaller sentiment banners, I can stamp with precision every time, giving me the perfect placement and impression for every project.  Sentiments are stamped perfectly placed, and stamped images on watercolor paper (or other textured papers) are a breeze to create! 

Thanks for joining me on the blog today!

Team Tuesday With Taylored Expressions

 

Hello crafty friends!

It's Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a card using some Taylored Expressions products and of course the MISTI. I don't know about you, but I use the Misti and the Glue Press on every single card I make. 

For this card, I started with a white top folding card base, a panel of Pebble cardstock and a panel of the Perforated paper by Taylored Expressions. This paper is made to look like cross stitch cloth and it certainly does. I created a faux cross stitch panel but I tell ya this paper is super thick and if you wanted you could actually use floss. 

If you decide to do a faux stitching, you will need a Misti to stamp on it.

I stamped the floral image and used the coordinating stencils to color it. 

I had originally stamped the greeting directly on the paper but didn't care for that look so I restamped it on regular cardstock and placed it over the one I stamped.