MY DESERT INSPIRATION: Hoppin' With MISTI May 26, 2017

Friday, May 26, 2017

Hoppin' With MISTI May 26, 2017

Hi everyone! So excited for this joint HOP with the lovely folks from Sweet Petunia - inventers of that awesome stamping tool, the MISTI!

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Those of you who belong to The Unity Show & Tell Facebook Group (HINT-if you don't, click on the link and ask to join!) you've probably seen some fabulous artists sharing their "no line watercolor" projects. I find I'm using my MISTI (a stamp alignment/stamping tool) more and more every day and it's perfect for this technique.

Here's my card using a former SOTW - Alfie-Heart & Soul Mouse and a sentiment from Walk with Your heart.

The stamping/coloring process is really quite easy. Lay your card stock (or in this case watercolor paper) in the MISTI and position your image on the card stock. Close the MISTI (this picks up the stamp) and check to see if your alignment is correct. You can buy grid paper for the MISTI or use a piece of plain old printer paper cut to size. Once you're confident in your alignment, ink up your stamp with a very light color of ink. For this sample (and since I'm using distress markers to color the image), I used Antique Linen Distress Ink.

After you stamp the image DO NOT REMOVE your stamp YET! Take your panel over to your work area and color as you normally would. I try to "pull" the outline into the image and then add details as I go. Once I'm satisfied with my coloring (is that ever???), I put the panel back on the MISTI platform. The picture below show this process. The first one is simply using a paint brush and water to soften the stamped lines. This entire image was colored with only 2 colors of distress marker...Vintage Photo and Pickled Raspberry.

Now, take a darker marker and be careful to color only the mouse's whiskers, top knot, eyes, and mouth/nose. Stamp exactly on top of your colored image and viola! you have added some detail...THANK YOU MISTI for the perfect stamp positioner! I added a bit of shading and sharpened up the last layer and then put my card together.

I kept my layout simple so as to focus on the image. I stamped the sentiment with VersaMark on black cardstock and embossed it with white embossing powder. I die-cut the sentiment into a speech bubble and mounted it with foam tape. This entire card took me only about 30 minutes. Nothing better than a simple image, sentiment and my fantastic MISTI!

Here's another on I've done using Perfect Day Hummingbird and Too Much, Too Often Daisies. My technique was exactly the same, although the colors I started with seemed a bit dark to create the "no line" technique so I stamped them off first by putting a piece of plain copy paper on top of my watercolor color paper on the MISTI platform, stamping, then stamping on my watercolor paper.

All of the stamps I've used are on sale at Unity this weekend.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget... everyone who leaves a comment on all the blogs in the hop will go into a drawing for 3 prize packs from Unity and 1 from My Sweet Petunia for their choice of an Original or Mini MISTI. Please leave a comment by May 30th at noon central time to be eligible. Winners will be posted on both the Unity and the My Sweet Petunia blogs on May 31st.

Here's the list of all the lovelies that are hopping.