Heffy Doodle/MISTI Blog Hop

Good morning! Super excited today to be part of a fun collaborative blog hop with Heffy Doodle and the My Sweet Petunia team! There is also a giveaway up for grabs - make sure and read to the bottom for more info and that! You should have arrived here from Chris Dayton - if you just happened along feel free to head back to the Heffy Doodle blog to start at the beginning!

I have a card with a simple and sweet little scene that I put together using my Mini MISTI and several Heffy Doodle Stamp sets - as well as a photo tutorial showing how I used my MISTI to help put it together!

The MISTI made it so easy to create my scene with a bit of masking, and get a great impression on my watercolor paper - since the texture of watercolor paper can make it a bit more tricky sometimes.

First of all, I planned out my little scene that I wanted to create using one of the bunnies from Hunny Bunny Boo, the umbrella from Beary Big Heart, and a sentiment from Hello Squeakheart.

At this point I removed the bunny, then I could swing the top of my Mini MISTI over to pick up the umbrella and sentiment images...

...and then stamp them! As you can see here, my first stamp was a bit lighter than I wanted, with some gaps in the lines especially on the sentiment. No problem! I simply inked up my stamps one more time, and stamped again! The MISTI makes sure it is perfectly aligned the second time for a nice dark and crisp image!

Next, I stamped the umbrella on a bit of masking paper. TIP: When masking, only cut out the portion that you are going to be stamping over! In this case the bottom of the handle, and the right edge of the umbrella where the ear is going to hit. This way you don't spend extra time fussy cutting out parts of an image that aren't going to affect your finished card! Arrange the bunny where you want it to be, then swing the MISTI lid over to pick up the stamp...

...and stamp the bunny in place!

Remove the mask - and voila! Your scene is ready to watercolor!

I used my Gansai Tambai watercolors to color my scene, adding some little splatters to it as well.

Finished off by trimming it down a little smaller than my white cardbase, and mounting it with foam adhesive over the top!

Your next stop along the hop is Stephanie Severin - make sure and continue there next!

GIVEAWAY INFO: There will be two lucky winners chosen from those who leave comments along the hop. One will win a $50 shopping spree to My Sweet Petunia, and the other will win a £25 gift certificate to Heffy Doodle! Comments must be left no later than 11:59 Central Time on Sunday, March 4, 2018 and a winner will be announced on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 and announced on the My Sweet Petunia and Heffy Doodle Blogs.

Here is the entire blog hop line-up in case you get lost along the way:

Heffy Doodle

Ilina Crouse

Cassie Tezak

Jeanne Streiff

Jessica McAfee

Kia Gibson-Clapper

Tallie Clewley

Ceal Pritchett

Maria Rudolph

Giovana Smith

Lesley Oman

Chris Dayton
Heather Hoffman (you are HERE)

Stephanie Severin

Crystal Thompson

Kelly Martin

Dennice Watts

Ali Farmer

Lydia Fiedler

My Sweet Petunia

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