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Happy October everyone! I’m so happy you’ve come to look at this month’s challenge. This year has really passed quickly and I’m kind of scratching my head, wondering where the last 3 months went.
Let’s get to it, shall we?
This month’s challenge is really fun. I recently acquired some new blending brushes from a friend and I was anxious to try them out. I wasn’t much of an ink blender because, no matter how hard I tried or practiced, my blending was choppy and I could never get a smooth transition of color. These brushes are INCREDIBLE. I felt like my ink blending was a work of art before I ever stamped on it!
My card this month used Gina K’s New Fruit of the Season kit, which is perfect for fall and winter. I first used my ‘L’ ruler from my Creative Corners to create my rectangle blending area (I used the width of the ruler and just came in from the sides that width and made my pencil marks. I ran my purple tape down along my pencil lines to mask this area.
After the area was blended, I just used various stamps from the kit to create a layered collage look. I used two inks: Gina K’s Prickly Pear and Sweet Corn. The Sweet Corn is the lightest layer of stamps. The Prickly pear was used for the darker stamped images (I used my MISTI to stamp the images more than once for a darker color) and for my ink blended background. I thought it would be neat to let some of the images go out of bounds to add interest. Lastly I embossed the snowflakes and sentiment in gold.
A great one-layer card, with depth and dimension, that really didn’t take too long to make. I used both MISTI and Creative Corners and the card went together so smoothly.
Your challenge this month is to create a layered collage look on your card front. You do not have to do any ink blending, but I’d like to see others’ take on the design layout. My card was for Christmas, but you could really use this technique for any occasion. Let’s see what you can come up with!
Thank you all for joining me in October and I wish you the best of luck winning the $50.00 gift card to My Sweet Petunia!
MISTI Monday
UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. All MISTI Monday Challenge Entries must be uploaded to your member gallery, with the specific challenge keyword, no later than Friday, October 26th, 2018 at 12:00 Noon Central Time to be eligible to win a $50 gift certificate to My Sweet Petunia! The winner will be announced Sunday, November 4th, by Midnight EST.
2. You may combine this challenge with other challenges, and also have multiple entries. Please use a full description on either how you used your MISTI or, if you don't own a MISTI, how you would have loved to incorporate its help!
3. Please remember to put in the correct keyword when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos.
Last edited by MISTI Monday; 10-01-2018 at 06:30 PM..
quick question, purple tape? You mean you can use this tape to mask and it won't damage the cardstock when you take it off?! ( can you tell I have done this before with many kinds of tape and it has not worked! LOLOLOL) ohhhhhhhh tell me more! LOL
__________________ SueEllen
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature
may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.
Keep close to nature's heart ...
and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
God never made an ugly landscape. John Muir
Psalm 73:26
My flesh and heart may fail, God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
__________________ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
I CASEd this card example pretty heavily. ( Thank You very much). I had not done this technique before and really like how it turned out. I don�t often stick to a monochromatic idea, but I will certainly use this again!
I honestly still do not understand how you made your sample. I decided to make what I think you wanted for a look. I enjoyed making this card, actually made 2 of them! Didn't have an orange oxide ink so had to use a pink color.
I honestly still do not understand how you made your sample. I decided to make what I think you wanted for a look. I enjoyed making this card, actually made 2 of them! Didn't have an orange oxide ink so had to use a pink color.
I was able to use my mini MISTI to get the stamps in the right position for the bg and then to over stamp with a darker color!! The MISTI worked great to get the darker color I needed for the foreground stamping as I had to stamp the flowers a few times.
Good evening everyone! I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend! Mine went by very fast! What a nice thing to do, while winding down the weekend, looking at everyone's cards. Every month you guys hit it out of the park. I appreciate you joining in on the fun!
Congratulations to Shirleysgirl! You are our October winner! There's a $50.00 gift card for you at My Sweet Petunia!
Thanks, everyone, for all the beautiful cards this month. November's challenge will be posted tomorrow evening. I hope to see you for another month's fun!
Have a great night and Happy November!
MISTI Monday
__________________ A monthly MISTI challenge - with prizes!
Congrats to Shirleysgirl (Amy) on your awesome win! Your cards for this challenge are beautiful!
__________________ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
OH MY OH MY OH MY... Thank you so very much! I am so super excited about this win! Christmas early for me! Yippee! I may just get the Memory MISTI I’ve been craving! Oh soooooo excited!
This is how I built my collage layered card: I started with a brushed, ink-blended background, followed by white heat embossing, black-line stamping, and Copic coloring. Then I added a popped and double layered sentiment panel.