Team Tuesdays with Susan: Repeat Stamping for Quick Backgrounds

 

Hi, 

This is Susan up on the blog for Team Tuesdays. First things first, some important business. I have the winner of the My Sweet Petunia Gift Certificate from the My Sweet Petunia and Pink Fresh Studios Co-hop. 

Vickie of  msinkspot,   you have won the My Sweet Petunia gift certificate. Please contact MSP at hello@mysweetpetunia.com. Your comment from Ilina Crouse's post was the winner.

vickieAugust 7, 2020 at 8:51 AM

Love all your cards but those florals are fantastic!

Now onto my card, I needed to make some thank you cards for my sister to send out. First thing I did was to get out my new MISTI - so love all the new features - and I repeatedly stamped the larger floral image from the ever classic and elegant Altenew Beautiful Day around the card front. For paper I used Neenah Solar White 80 lb card stock and Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I also stamped the leaves and the smaller cluster of flowers. I had to mask my main images and I used full stick Post-It Notes and my regular sized MISTI for all of this stamping as well. I was going to color these images in with my go-to Copic Sketch Markers. However, I decided to pull out my Prismacolor Colored Pencils. Sadly, I did not write the colors down and I apologize for that. After coloring the main image, I splashed on some Sheer Shimmer Mist in Gold. I then trimmed the panel down to 4"x5.25" and mounted this with 3M Foam Tape onto a side folding notecard.

For the sentiment, I used thank you from WPlus9 Designs The Little Things. I love this set and its smaller sentiments. I used Neenah Solar White 110 lb card stock. I lined up the stamp in my MISTI along with the paper. I stamped this sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Using the accompanying die and my Gemini Junior Die Cutting machine and die the sentiment out. I popped the sentiment up on 3M Foam tape and adhered it to the focal image panel.

I really had a lot of fun and some relaxation using these two classic and timeless stamp sets. Pull out something you haven't used in awhile and create backgrounds. I often stamp these out ahead of time and color them in later. I leave the card black until I know what type of card I need. This keeps me ready for anything that comes my way or anything my dear sister would like. 

Thanks for stopping by;

Susan

Products Used: I am using compensated affiliate links at no further cost to you. My Sweet Petunia provided the new regular sized MISTI for this project.  I purchased the remaining products used. Thank you for your support.

A Little WPlusLOVE + Giveaway

Today, we are celebrating our friend Dawn at Wplus9!

Dawn is such an accomplished artist, and she occupies such a unique place in the stamping industry. So we have a few designers posting projects today to help you get to know Wplus9 a little better!

First up - Lydia watercolored the gorgeous Blue Bird die with Daniel Smith watercolor and then pieced it together on a stenciled background - the video for the background is below - it features this stencil, a white paint pen and Hero Arts reactive ink.

The word die is this one. 

Here's her video for the background, as well as the supplies. Stay tuned below for the other designers' projects! 

Blue Bird Die - WPlus9 Design Studio,... [ WPL ] Miss You Die-namics – MFT Stamps [ MFT ] Leaves and Flowers Stencil – Picket... [ PFS ] AF424 Key Lime Fizz Reactive Ink -... [ HA | SSS | ELH ] White Porous Point Pen [ BLIC ] Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors [ BLIC ] Escoda Versatil Brushes | BLICK Art... [ BLIC | UTR | BLIC | INK ] Lanaquarelle Watercolor Blocks |... [ BLIC ] Fabriano Extra White Cold Press... [ BLIC ] The Ultimate Mixing Palette: a World... [ BLR ] Stillman & Birn Archival Sketchbooks... [ BLIC ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSP | HA | SSS | ELH | MFT | UNT ] Lawn Fawn STAMP SHAMMY Cleaner LF1045 [ SSS | ELH | CST | ART ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Nesting Porcelain Bowls - BLICK art... [ BLIC ] Tombow MONO MULTI Liquid Glue Two... [ SSS | MFT ] LightView 2in1 LED Magnifier for... [ BRG ] Airtable: Organize your stamps & dies [ ART ] New Arrivals - WPlus9 Design Studio, LLC [ WPL ] Cut Align [ MSP | SSS ] *MISTI Turquoise Studio Bag [ MSP ]

Please visit our other designers' blogs today. Leave a comment at each stop for your chance to win a Cut-Align and a MISTI bag! Winner will be announced next Tuesday in our Team Tuesday blog post. And don't forget to join us in doing a little retail therapy at WPlus9 if you're able!

My Sweet Petunia (you are here) 

Ceal Pritchett

Ilina Crouse

Mindy Eggen

Karen Reategui

Lydia Fiedler

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Team Tuesday with Susan: Shifted Emboss Resist with W Plus 9 Designs Tropic Fever

Hi,
Susan here on the blog today showing how to use your MISTI to do some offset stamping! I know the coloring challenge is going on right now but I have really wanted to play with this Tropic Fever stamp set and do some stamping of florals as well.

I offset this stamp because I wanted to achieve a softer look. I first stamped the background from Tropic Fever with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then shifted the card stock over and up 1/4" or one square up and one square over in my original MISTI. I, then, inked the background stamp up again but this time with Simon Says Stamp White Pigment Ink. It might seem strange to emboss and then stamp but essentially this is a shifted embossed resist. I needed to do this because even with heat setting, it takes forever for white pigment ink to dry here in swampy Florida!

I have a video below showing how I did the offset stamping and the rest of the card making process.

Thanks for stopping by;

Susan

Products Used: Some links are compensated affiliate links which means I make a small commission on each sale at no further cost to you. I purchased all of the products used in making this card.