MISTI (Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented)

Hello Friends,

Neha here and I am so excited to be here after a long time. Today, I am showcasing the MISTI (most Incredible Stamping Tool by My Sweet Petunia.) I am sure you all know about it but if you haven't heard of it , it is a stamp alignment tool.  It's been long since they have released it. I never bought it initially as I was skeptical about it. I have been stamping for years and was quite confident that it is not much of a help to me. Meanwhile,  I was watching different videos and started slowly leaning towards it.  Then Shalini brought the upgraded version @ 2499/- ( and i was like...are you kidding me?) .  Finally, I caved in and bought myself this amazing tool.   Oh boy, now I know what I was missing. I am pleasantly surprised at how I am falling in love with it...slowly...steadily...deeply! The more I use it the more I admire it. It is a quite simple tool but it takes the stamping process at a whole new level.  

I have just started using it but there are already many videos and tips out there. I am skipping the introduction part as many of you are familiar with it.

I have four videos to share with you. I am a novice at video making so please bear with me. I was highly inspired by Lydia's (of Understand Blue) videos HERE  . She is super talented artist and  I love to read her posts.

All the stamping on the above card eg. Background, Sentiment and multi colours flowers are done with MISTI. 

Highlights where MISTI magic helped...

1. Perfectly straight script in the background.

2. Happy and day are separate stamps so aligning 'DAY' under happy can be little tricky . But with MISTI , it was so easy.

3. Multi coloured flowers and leaves. This part is impossible without MISTI.

See the following video where I am demonstrating how to do multi colour flowers.

 

Now can you imagine stamping so many times on exactly one spot without MISTI? The best part is it takes away that apprehension   which we always experienced before we lift the stamp. You don't have to fear the stamping process any more because with MISTI, you can always stamp again and have perfect images every time.

The second card is made with cling layered stamps - Zinnia by Taylored Expression. (Gift from a sweet friend) .They are red rubber cling stamps. Superb quality of stamps but being cling stamp it was impossible to see through and align 3 layers for one flower. 

See how MISTI is helpful here.

For the card I repeated same process with all three flowers and branch. And I was blown away by the results. I have never stamped such a perfect layered flowers before. 

Let's see the next one.

1. Those perfectly aligned border of hexagons wouldn't have been possible without MISTI. There are three nesting border stamps to create that 3 coloured hexagon. See how I did it.

2. The orange peony is done with distress inks. As distress inks are primarily not meant for stamping so they never give even coverage when you use them with stamps. But with MISTI it is possible. I also added those dark highlights with painting directly on the stamp with Tombow markers.

3. Have you ever tried to stamp on die cuts? Well, I  do it but for one decent stamping it takes 2-3 failed attempts. Check here how to get that beautiful, uniform white edges around die cuts without wasting a single die cut. 

Above card is done with  Penny Black stamp ,different Memento Markers and MISTI.

I first stamped flowers and then leaves for multiple times using different shades on pink, red and violet to build those beutiful layers. 

Are you with me ? Now I will share some stamping comparison . I love the sentiments and images in some of the stamps like Jillibean, Fiskars and Kaiser Craft. but being acrylic stamps ( not photopolymer which are the highest quality of clear stamps) they never give crisp impression in one go. Thanks to MISTI now I can stamp twice and get the desired results.

Left side is stamping without MISTI and right side with MISTI. (twice). 

See the difference specially in those tiny lines of shadows. 

Now even with photo polymer stamps, I find stamping sentiment difficult specially when they are very thin and small.

See on the left - how 'many' , 'secrets' and ' i enjoy' are thicker than rest of it. This happens when one end of stamp receive more pressure than other while stamping. Your MISTI can prevent this easily giving you perfect crisp images every time. 

I hope you will find this post helpful to overcome your stamping fear and give it a try to MISTI. 

Thank you for being with me so far...:) Please share your feedback on my videos in  comments.

That is all for now. 

HUGS!

Supply Used :

MISTI

Altenew Inks

Distress Inks

Memento Black Ink

Versafine Black Ink

Neenah Card Stock

Penny Black Stamp

Tombow Markers

Memento Markers

3D Foam Tape 

Tombow glue 

  

"BELIEVE"- A Mixed Media canvas with a tutorial.

Hello all!

This is Jaya here today. Hope you all are doing great!
Today I have a canvas tutorial for you all. It on the brighter side and really full of life. Long back I had made something like this and had many questions on how I made the background for it. So I thought in this guest post for Crafters Corner why don't I re- create  the background and add something more to it to give you all a better idea.

I titled this canvas as "Believe". It is something which is such an integral part of my life.

'Believe' that you can and you are halfway there.

Trust yourself, trust what you are doing and don't be afraid to explore and experiment.

"BELIEVE"

Lets get on to the tutorial :)

STEP BY STEP PHOTO TUTORIAL

Step 1-

Prime your canvas with Prima heavy white gesso and Palette knife.

 Step 2 -

Use Faber- Castell Gelatos and colour the canvas as you desire. 

I used the really gorgeous lime green and light blue ones to colour mine

Step 3-

Using you favourite stencils apply some colour/spray as you desire

. I used the Heidi Swapp Lattice stencil and Faber castell gelato in Pink for this step. 

 Step 4-

Apply some white gesso though another stencil using sponge. I wasn't looking for any dimension here so used the sponge.

 I used the newly released Prima Stencil - Poppies and Prima Heavy white gesso.

 Step 5-

Now stamp randomly using  Jet black Archival ink and your favourite stamps. 

Here I used the Prima Finnabair Vintage Vanity collection Doily stamp and Prima Fairy Belle cling stamp.

 Step 6-

Alter your chipboard pieces-

I heat embossed  this piece with the Rangers heat tool and Lindy's stamp gang embossing powder 

Here I used the same colours and blended them well to give a darker green tone.

Step 7-

Now start with arranging the layers onto your canvas, I used some random leftovers from previous projects for this.Arrange all your embellishments as you desire. I haven't photographed this as it is a process of adding and removing and there is actually no hard and fast rule to this.
It is best to use the Prima soft gels to adhere your embellishments to your canvases. You may also use Aleene's tacky glue for this purpose.

Step 8-

Once the arrangement is done run the black gelato stick all around the canvas edge and rub and buff the pigment a little.

Step 9-

Finish off with some Prima mica flakes- Granite, beads, rhinestones, Tim holtz rub- ons and black and white splatters.

Here is the final project-

Supplies used-

Prima heavy gesso white

Palette knife

Faber castell Gelatos- TROPICAL

Heidi swapp stencil- Lattice

Prima stencil- Poppies

Prima embellishments- Typo Bulbs

Prima Mica flakes- Granite

Prima Vintage Vanity clear doily stamp

Prima Fairy Belle stamp

Tim holtz Ideology rub-ons- Botanical

Ranger Jet balck Archival ink

Prima SIIC

Prima shabby chic resin treasure- Birdhouses

Paper doily- from stash

Chipboard pieces- from stash

Hope you all enjoyed my post.
Thank you for stopping by :)