Mini MISTI Review and a Caped Cutie - with Clearly Besotted stamps - VIDEO

Hi Everyone, How was your weekend? Glorious weather here, if anything maybe a little too hot for this time of year for me, but I shouldn't be ungracious because sunshine always makes me feel nice and cheery!

So as you saw in my last post, I bought myself a mini MISTI and a few of you over on Instagram asked me what I thought, so I'm sharing a video showing my very first use of it along with a card made with one of the panels. You get to see a bit more of me than I had anticipated as the angle of the camera wasn't quite right. It's also longer than usual because I've kept it mostly in real time.

 
To sum up, I do think it's a worthwhile buy, even if I find the price a little on the rich side. If you can wait and get it using a voucher or in a sale it may be easier to swallow the cost - mine was 20% off, but even 10% makes a difference.

It's definitely great for layering stamps and making sure you get a crisp image, and great for larger stamps. I didn't use my mucky inks, my Ranger Dyes, with it as I'm thinking I'll have to take the stamp off and use with an acrylic block on my stamp scrubber. 

I don't think it will completely replace my acrylic blocks, but all in all I think it's a good purchase and a worthwhile tool.

I said in the video I'd post a link to a blogging friend who made her own stamping tool - Simply By Pink Home Made Stamping Tool.

To finish up, here's the card I made from one of the scenes I created with the MISTI. I did some masking of the moon and super bunny and blended distress inks over them both, before colouring the moon and its halo in with my new moonlight Spectrum Sparkle pen.

 
I added it to the windows of the sky scrapers too. I then coloured the super bunny with some grey Copics to make him look like he was a night shadow - doesn't look too bad given the ink got wet in the video! - and added the sentiment.

I simply adhered it to a blue card base as I wanted to keep it simple.

I'm going to link this up to the Tic Tac Toe Challenge #9, with the third line down - Things That Fly, White Space and Scene.

Below is a list of what I used in the video and in making this card, and where I purchased them. Please note I DO NOT USE affiliate links:
 

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I hope you find this post useful, and thank you for taking the time to visit me today. Here's to the week ahead :)

Magazine Makes #2 - Altenew Roses

Why Hello! How's it going down or up your way? First, the weather in Yorkshire, and then I'll move onto cards ;) - it's been abso-bloomin' gorgeous - summer coats are on and suncream is out! 

Now that that is out of the way, welcome back to another Magazine Make! This time I am using the free Altenew layered roses stamp that came with this month's issue of Simply Cards and Papercraft #149. I actually received it mistakenly with issue 148, thus giving a heads up to a lot of you that it was coming out and I have loved seeing all your creations.

It comes with both a stamp and a die set, so it's definitely worth a punt. I've not had a lot of experience with layering stamps and I did a few test runs doing it by eye, before moving onto using my Letterpress. It definitely benefits from using a stamp positioner. Tragedy has however struck my Letterpress, as after using it to make the elements for this card I overpacked it on another project and it cracked right down the middle. 

I don't want to put anymore stress on it using it as a stamping tool, so I took the plunge and managed to get myself a good deal on a mini MISTI (20% off shop wide at Sprinkle Twinkle!) and will be giving that a go when I get the chance, and hope to get a review of it to those of you who asked over on IG.

Anyway, back to the card.

I stamped the flower and leaves using my blue and green Altenew inks - you do need a good selection of colours for stamp layering and these inks are great for it. I then die cut them out. The back panel was created using the Letterpress and a gorgeous flower plate in a lovely teal blue ink.

I die cut the panel using my SSS stitched rectangle die and then used it to die cut a strip of vellum I had from stash. I then stamped the greeting onto the vellum with Versamark ink and embossed it with WOW! Gold embossing glitter. Sparkly!

I adhered the vellum to the panel with some magic film - it worked quite well as you can't see the glue at all - and then attached the flower and leaves using my ATG.

Below is a list of what I used to make this card and where I purchased them. Please note I DO NOT USE affiliate links.

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I'm rather pleased with how this turned out. Layering stamps are all the rage at the moment, so if you want to try something without paying a lot, you could do worse than buy this magazine and have a play.

Thank you as always for stopping by. Have a great weekend when it arrives!