VIDEO: Caring Hands Eclipse Cards with Channin

Hello friends! It's Channin here and today I have a pair of colorful cards and video to share featuring the Caring Hands stamps and dies from Waffle Flower Crafts. Today’s card uses the MISTI and the eclipse technique to add a cool dimensional effect to my sentiment!

To create these cards I first stamped a sentiment from Caring Hands Sentiment Stamp set onto an A2 panel of rainbow patterned paper in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink using my MISTI. I left my stamp inside my MISTI and then adhered the rainbow panel onto the front of an A2 top-folding card base.

Next, I stamped the praying hands from the Caring Hands Stamp Set in Antique Linen Distress Ink onto Neenah Solar White cardstock. I then copic (E30 & E31 or E35 & E37) colored the hands and then die cut them with the matching die. 

Next, I grabbed a scrap A2 panel of cardstock, popped it into my MISTI and stamped the same sentiment I stamped on the rainbow panel. I then centered the praying hands die over the stamped sentiment and then ran them through my die cutting machine. I then discarded the die cut hands and placed the scrap panel back into my MISTI to use as a jig. With my jig in place, I then popped my copic colored hands into the jig and stamped my sentiment once more. 

Lastly, I finished the card by adhering my hands to the card front with foam adhesive, making sure to line up the letters on the hands with the letters on the card front.

I hope you enjoyed my cards and video! Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Channin

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Video: Faux Watercoloring with a MISTI

Hello friends! It's Channin here with a new card and video to share!! In this video I share how to create a colorful bunch of flowers and leaves with a faux watercolor technique using a MISTI. This easy technique gives your florals that watercolor look with very little actual painting.

Faux Watercoloring with a MISTI

Watch below on my YouTube channel.

To create this card I first stamped several leaves from the Peony Bouquet Stamp Set onto a panel of watercolor paper. I partially inked the top portion of the leaves in Peeled Paint distress ink and then stamp. Next, I inked up the bottom portion of the leaves in Pine Needles distress ink and then stamped. I then inked up the top of the leaves again in Peeled Paint, then spritzed with water and then stamped. I then inked up the bottom of the leaves with Pine Needles, spritzed with water, and then stamped. 

Next, with a brush I quickly colored in the open areas of the leaves with the water downed ink. Then I used my heat gun to dry the ink and then stamped the leaves one last time with two inks to enhances the details in the images.


Next, I basically repeated this process for flowers from the Peony Bouquet and the Zinnia Stamp Sets with different distress ink colors. After I had finished stamping my flowers I then die cut them and the leaves out with the matching dies. I then created my sentiment by stamping "hello" from the Simply Said 1 Stamp Set in VersaFine Onyx Black and then heated embossed it in clear. Next, I die cut the sentiment and two unstamped "hellos" out and then adhered them all together to create a dimensional sentiment. 

I then splattered white watercolor paint over the front of a Kraft A2 card base. Once the paint had completely dried I then adhered the flowers with foam squares and then the sentiment with liquid glue. 

I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Channin

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Watch below or on my YouTube channel.

Video

Team Tuesday with Chris - Winter Girl

Happy Tuesday!  

It's Chris here with you today, and I am sharing a tutorial video demonstrating my process using the Original MISTI to create this single layer card, using the Winter Girl rubber cling stamp kit from Unity Stamp Company.

Using Gina K. Designs' heavyweight white cardstock, I first did a bit of selective inking with Versamark ink and clear embossing powder to first create an emboss resist on just the snowflakes. I used Memento Dew Drop inks to also selectively stamp the hair and the rest of the girl so I could do a bit of no-line Copic coloring.   I left my girl stamp in place on the lid for later.  I then masked the girl, and using the negative from a rectangle die cut to act as a mask, did a bit of ink blending to create the focal area.  I then removed the mask and did my no-line coloring with Copic markers.

I finished my image by re-stamping the whole girl image with Versamark ink and using clear embossing powder to add all the details back in.  Lastly, I added my greeting using a see-through plastic grid to help me align and choose the location of the greeting. 

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Thanks for joining me today!  Have a great day!

Team Tuesday with Stephanie

I'm excited to share my first Team Tuesday post with you.  Recently, I had a blast using my MISTI to stamp with a 5" x 7" Gel Press Plate to create lots of interesting backgrounds.

But before I share my technique ... drum roll ... I wanted to announce the winner of the My Sweet Petunia & Right at Home Stamps Blog Hop.

Teresa - Go to the My Sweet Petunia Website and set-up an account ... then e-mail hello@mysweetpetunia.com your account e-mail address and whether you would like the original or mini MISTI as your prize.

Now on with the show ...

I started with 4 1/2" x 6" pieces of watercolor paper.  I used Yellow Inks to stamp a mostly solid background.

Next step was to cover my inked base with three widths of Eyelet Outlet Glitter Washi Tape and then ink again using blue ink ... combining the blue and yellow made a fabulous green.

After I was done inking my first background, I used the remaining ink on my Gel Press Plate to create a ghost print ... since there was more ink left on the plate where it had resisted the washi tape, the design is almost in reverse.

Next I used my MISTI to add stamping to my backgrounds.  It made it super-easy to position my sentiments in the un-inked space.

I added some Eyelet Outlet brads to complete my fun masked design with a sentiment from Essentials by Ellen's Crafty Ladies.

For my ghost print, I used a larger bolder sentiment from the same Crafty Ladies set.  I added some Eyelet Outlet glitter washi to accent the washi tape lines.

Here are a few more cards I made using the same technique.  For this one I used my MISTI to do some shadow stamping with my sentiment from Joy Clair Hello Sentiments.

Here is another pair of prints ... the original masked & the ghost print from the same Gel Press inking.

With black ink & my MISTI, it was quick and easy to make two more cards.

This one uses new Happy Hour stamps from Simon Says Stamp! with a green enamel dot olive.

For the next one, I thought the card was finished (I even had it mounted on the black card base), but then I decided it needed one more hashtag stamp at the bottom (stamps are Simon Says Stamp! Yay).  

In the past, I would have just let it be (or perhaps tried to stamp the hashtag and ended-up messing-up and throwing the card in the trash).  With my MISTI, it's a super-easy fix ... #nailedit.

I love how strong and bold the text gets with multiple MISTI stampings.

Now go break out your Gel Press & your MISTI and have some fun.