My Favorite Things - Funky Flowers + Quick Stamping With The MISTI

Hey folks!

I'm back today to share a surprisingly easy card with you all! For real, easy. It's a little time consuming, but easy.

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Before I get started, I wanted to say that even though I used the MISTI Stamping Tool for this, you DON'T have to. It helps a bunch and certainly speeds up the process, but you can totally do this without it. Think: lots to color, not lots of work.

Okey dokey. The first thing I did was make mask of all of the images in the My Favorite Things Funky Flowers Stamp Set with Post-It Tape. I use the 2" wide tape, because of things like this. I've found this is the best tape for masking if you need to reposition them a lot. Plus it's pretty wide so it can accommodate lots of different sized stamps.

Next, I stamped my first flower in some Neenah White Cardstock with My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink. Again, I used the MISTI Stamping Tool  The MISTI is a rockstar for making sure you get a clear, crisp image, buuuut this card is the best example for why I love it so much.

Once, I had my first flower stamped, I masked it off and then started placing my images around it. Since I was using the MISTI, I could stamp more than one image at a time. This folks, is why I love it. It goes super fast. You just need to remember that the image you want "on top" gets stamped first (or second, or third). Capeesh?

After I had all of my images stamped, I colored everything in with Copic's. My color choices are in the thumbnails links below. This would also be fab done in watercolor by the way!

I gotta be honest. I had a really, really hard time deciding what colors I wanted to do these in. The flowers are soo fantastic and I really wanted them to pop. What I ended up doing was deciding what greens I wanted for the leaves first. Leaves are (usually) green so that's easy peasy. Then, I got out my very old, but handy dandy color wheel and starting with yellow-green as my main color, used colors that worked with that.

You definitely don't need a color wheel folks, but they can be nice to have. I'd like to note however, I've linked to the color wheel that I use, but ONLY for reference. I don't remember how much I paid for mine. It was like 14 years ago when I got it, but I certainly didn't pay that much for it. I feel like $2 was a thing....If you really want it and you really want to pay $6 for it go for it, otherwise I suggest you do some looking around for one that's less expensive.

When I had everything colored in I trimmed down the panel, then I added a unicorn level dose of Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen in Clear to the highlights of the images and added some Uni-Ball Signo White Gel Pen to the flowers as well.

I stamped a piece of Neenah White Cardstock with the Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe Background Stamp using more My Favorite Things Black Licorice Hybrid Ink and trimmed that down to a strip. I also used a very thin strip of My Favorite Things Brushed Gold Cardstock.

You could totally skip the embellies because this card has oodles of sparkle already, but I decided to add a couple of Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins because they were sitting right in front of me and sometimes I don't know when to quit.

That's it! Easy peasy.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see me and as always I hope you enjoyed my card today!

Until next time!

Avery Elle Peonies and Copic Coloring
Clearly Besotted and Copic Coloring
Simon Says Stamp June 2016 Card Kit - Look For The Miracles

Avery Elle Peonies and Copic Coloring	Clearly Besotted and Copic Coloring	Simon Says Stamp June 2016 Card Kit - Look For The Miracles	Neenah Exact Index, 110 lb, 8.5 x 11 Inches, 250 Sheets, White, 94 Brightness
My Favorite Things Black Licorice Prestige Card Stock	My Favorite Things Brushed Gold Card Stock	Post-it® Labeling and Cover-Up Tape	Funky Flowers Stamp Set
Die-namics Funky Flowers	Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp DIAGONAL STRIPES	My Favorite Things BLACK LICORICE Hybrid Ink Pad MFT	Copic Sketch Marker RV63 BEGONIA Pink Red
Copic Sketch Marker RV66 RASPBERRY Red Violet Pink	Copic Sketch Marker RV69 PEONY Dark Plum	Copic Marker Copic Sketch Markers, Light Prawn	R24-S Copic Sketch Marker Prawn
Copic Sketch MARKER R27 CADMIUM RED	Copic Sketch Marker YR12 LOQUAT Pale Orange	Copic Sketch MARKER YR14 CARAMEL	Copic Sketch Marker YR18 SANGUINE Orange Red
Copic Sketch Marker YG03	Copic Sketch Marker YG06 YELLOWISH GREEN	Copic Sketch Marker YG09 LETTUCE GREEN	Copic Sketch Marker YG61 PALE MOSS Light Green
Copic Sketch Marker YG63 PEA GREEN Dark Bold	Copic Sketch Marker YG67 MOSS Dark Green	Copic Sketch Marker BV11 SOFT VIOLET	Copic Sketch Marker BV13 HYDRANGEA BLUE
Copic Sketch Marker BV17 DEEP REDDISH BLU	Copic Sketch Marker N0 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 0	Copic Sketch Marker N2 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 2	Copic Sketch Marker N4 NEUTRAL GRAY NO. 4
Copic Sketch Marker E19 REDWOOD Red Brown	Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen - Clear Overlay	Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins	Pretty Pink Posh 6MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins
Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel WHITE	Ranger Multi Medium Bottle, Matte	iCraft Adhesive Tape - 1/4 in	Scotch 085 ATG Acid Free Advanced Tape Glider
Simon Says Stamp SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER Tool	Foam Sheet 12"X18" 2mm-White 10 per pack	MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool	The Color Wheel 3501 Pocket Color Wheel
Hero Arts Clear Design Scrubber Pad	Hero Arts Ultra Clean Spray	Simon Says Stamp LARGE GRID PAPER Pack Pad	Fiskars 12 Inch SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer
Kirkland Baby Wipes - Unscented - 900 ct

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