My poor MISTI - Oh what fun you can have!!!

Good morning - bright and sunny here but cold so I thought I would do some crafting - Came into my craft room.............................................

SHOCK!!!!! HORROR!!!!!!

QUICK CALL THE POLICE SOMEONE IS ABOUT TO COMMIT MURDER!!!!!

OK enough of the dramatics

I have a confession to make..................

I LOVE MY MISTI!!!!

I use it every time I stamp, it's always out on my desk and is well taken care of.

If you don't know what a MISTI is it's the Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented and is sold by My Sweet Petunia

It helps with mass stamping as well as helping to re-stamp an image.

We've all done it - Stamped an image and not got even pressure and the stamp is either partially stamped or not dark enough - The MISTI stops all this, after lining it up on your paper, you fix your stamp to the lid by closing it re-open it, ink your stamp, close and apply gentle pressure. It is magnetic so you use magnets to hold your paper in place and when you open it the stamp and ink stay in their position until you remove them. Need to re-stamp? just re-ink your stamp and close the MISTI again and it will stamp in exactly the same place as previously. Need multiple images of the same stamp? Line your stamp up as above and line your card up with the grid - stamp, leave stamp inposition, remove card and place with the next one by lining it up in same place as previous hey presto identical placement of image and you can do this as many times as you wish.

Want to stamp 2 images at once? line them both up on your MISTI, ink and close the lid and both with stamp together.

So As you can imagine my acrylic blocks have been relegated to the back of a cupboard. 

OK so back to the start of  my post - why was their murder being committed??? 

Just take a look

Think my blocks are a bit angry they have been retired!!!! 

They have ganged up on my MISTI - Don't know what the purple devil was planning on doing with the scissors but it didn't look good!

Oh but the MISTI isn't innocent in all this - Take a look at the stamp he was using!

No wonder the Blocks are angry!!!!

OK back to the serious side of the post - If there is one - 

I LOVE MY MISTI!!!!

It is definately the best stamping tool I have ever come across and would highly recommend it to anyone - it's worth it's weight in gold if you are a serious stamper!!!

This post is my entry to win a Mini version of the MISTI over at So Suzy Stamps

Thanks for stopping buy and I would love you to leave some love!

Dreamtime Craft Supplies Mid Challenge Reminder

Good evening - The first ever Dreamtime Craft Supplies Challenge began on the 8th March have you entered yet? 

If not pop over to the blog and submit your entry - The theme is anything goes so no matter what your crafty talent is you can enter and could win these fab Whimsy Stamps:

  

There are just a few simple rules to follow which you can find here.

Dreamtime Craft Supplies have some great products and I have used a few on my inspiration card today:

Meet Pup and me - This card is for a special little girl who celebrated being with her adopted family for 8 years this week - she calls it her Forever Day!

I have used Alcohol markers to color her - this was a challenge as I have never colored dark skin before! The family are also in the process of adopting a puppy so I have tried to color the dog in the similar colors to their new addition. 

I used a pre-made card base and matted this with purple card and some design paper from my stash. Taking the same card and a coordinating paper I die cut 2 heart circles and matted these onto my card. My image was then matted onto card and positioned on my card.

I then used the waste from the die cuts and scattered these around the card.

Ingredients Used:

Pup and Me Saturated Canary Digi-stamp - retired

Spectrum Noir Markers 

Aleenes Tacky Glue

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die- Heart Circles

Purple Card stock 

Dovecrafts Pretty in Pink 8x8 Paper 

Scalloped 8x8 card base

Now it's your turn go add your make to the Mr Linky on the Dreamtime Craft Supplies Challenge post. While you are there why not check out the blog candy that is being offered and if you like what you see why not check out the Design Team call - you could be joining our fab team!!!!

Thanks for stopping by - if you like what you see please let me know in the comments below

Cold hands.........warm heart

Good morning, we've had thunder storms over the last couple of days but luckily no snow!!!

I'm here today to showcase another Scrapoholic Candy Shop cute digistamp - well actually 2! These 2 adorable baby characters together but are separate stamps but because they are digital format they can be grouped together without the need for masking as you would need to do with physical stamps!

Meet Annie and Ollie

Aren't they the cutest babies?

They are part of a collection of Royalty which even includes little princes!

I have cuddled them both together and colored them with my Spectrum Noir Markers:

I then typed the sentiment and printed along side them. I made a 5x7 inch card base with white card and then matted this with purple card. The design papers are from Lili of the Valley and I have again matted these and my image with purple card. before arranging them on my base keeping to my signature design of clean and simple.

Finally I added a few enamel dots just to balance the card. 

The image can be found over at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop and if you want any more inspiration pop across to the Facebook Page - there are regular giveaways and we are holding a challenge there at present!

Thank you for stopping by

Lose Your Heart to the Ocean

Good afternoon! We are still in the throws of Spring and long may it last!!!!

I'm here today with a new release from Faery Ink and what a stunner she is! 

Meet Demera Sea Siren:

Each month with Faery Ink I try and push myself out of my comfort zone. So as I have never tried any other skin color than white I thought I would use Demera to push my boundaries and as she is a sea siren what better way than giving her a skin tone that would reflect this:

So I colored her green and used shades of green and aqua through out my coloring the only other color being the flash of orange of the starfish on her arm. Of course I have used my Spectrum Noir Markers to color her!

I decided to make this a very simple card and chose the quote from the internet, typed it so it fit around Demera and printed it directly onto the image topper. 

I made a white card base, used some design paper which coordinated with my coloring. then matted my image onto dark blue card as a contrast.

I added my favorite embellishments of 3 enamel dots to the bottom right of the card just to balance the design 

If you love her as much as I do you can grab her in the newest digi section of the Faery Ink shop. There is also more inspiration with her over on the Faery Ink Facebook page.

Un-Frog-ettable

Good afternoon, I've had a busy morning but sitting having a cup of tea with Gizzie on my feet so decided to do an extra blog post for Scrapoholic Candy Store.

On leap day they released a cute little frog character - he is still available in the online shop and can be used for any occasion 

Ok so I know leap day has passed but I still wanted to color him up so I printed him without the sentiments

I colored the design with my Spectrum Noir Markers, adding texture to the little frog with the colorless blender.

I then stamped the water splashed from a cute little Clearly Besotted stamps set in an ink slightly darker than the marker I had used for the water.

I used white card for my base and matted this with a blue card which coordinated with the design. to add a pop of color I matched up some card with the water lily flower and matted my image with this. The sentiment is from a personal Impressions stamp set and again I have matted this on the pink card

A few token enamel dots just completed the design

The image can be found over at the Scrapoholic Candy Shop and if you want any more inspiration pop across to the Facebook Page - there are regular giveaways and we are holding a challenge there at present!

Thank you for stopping by x