Team Saturday with Stephanie - Joy Clair

Throughout the month of March, the My Sweet Petunia Design Team will be collaborating with the Joy Clair Design Team to bring you lots of inspiration.



Joy Clair also has a wonderful anything goes Mood Board Challenge ... don't you love these pictures?




When I saw the Joy Clair Stamp Hugs and Smiles Clear Stamp set, my first thought was ... I wondered if I could use that lovely swirly floral image and my MISTI to create a stamped frame.

After a couple of experiments, I determined that a 5 1/2" square was the perfect size to make this idea into reality.



I left my stamp in the same place on my MISTI and rotated my paper to create my frame.



I used two colors of Catherine Pooler ink to ink-up my stamps moving from darker at the corner to the lighter in the center of the square (all of my samples are stamps on Ivory cardstock).


Ta Da ... a lovely floral frame.  I used my MISTI to add my sentiment & then added some paper flowers to accent the larger flowers in the stamp.




Next I tried this lovely Blue Green color combination using the same dual inking process.



This process was seriously addictive and so easy to create.



The stamp set includes so many fun sentiments (this one is for my sister ... she makes me laugh until my belly hurts).

I love the contrast of this color combination.



I love that sweet little jar of hearts.



For my final card, I used a color combination inspired by the Mood Board (and one that Lydia Fiedler had used on this card).  Pink (Flirty Flamingo) & Green (Lemon Lime Twist) don't seem like they should blend ... but they do.



You can see how easy it was to position my smaller stamps inside the stamped frame.



The pink is much brighter photographed in my light box.  I watercolored this Jar of Hearts.



Here are the four panels all together.



I hope this tutorial made you look a bit differently at the stamps in your collection with your MISTI (or even better, makes you want to add this versatile Joy Clair Hugs and Smiles Stamp Set to your stash).

For the month of March, make sure you leave comments on the collaborative posts (that have the Collaborative Graphic) on both the My Sweet Petunia Blog and the Joy Clair Blog (and their design team blogs) for a chance to win.

Stephanie from 

Ingenious Inkling