Apple Blossoms are blooming!

Hello, friends! Michele here to wish you all a happy weekend eve again!  I have another fun MISTI playtime to share with you today - and the most darling of all mini stamp and die sets around: Altenew's Mini Delight: Apple Blossoms! This wee little set has one bloom with SIX layers! I found a way to set up to stamp four blooms and four leaves with a simple turn of a square of cardstock!

Are you with me so far?  Maybe I'll show you the finished project first... you can see the stamp set along the left...

Here is how it all started:

1. mount a 5x5" piece of cardstock into the lower corner of your Original MISTI; choose four shades of ink for the bloom, and two shades for their centers, and leaves.

2. Place stamp A1 into the lower left corner and pick it up with the MISTI lid - apply lightest ink, and stamp.

3. Turn your cardstock clockwise once and stamp A1 again, and again two more times - until you have stamped four images.

4. Line up image A2 over the upper left bloom - pick it up with the lid and stamp the second shade of ink.  Turn and stamp the second layer on all four images.

5. Line up image A3 over the top right image - pick it up with the lid and stamp all four images with the third shade.

6. Line up image A4 over the bottom right image - pick it up with the lid and... you get the picture, right?

Now push that square up to the top of your MISTI and follow the same steps for the two images A5 & A6 that layer the center of the bloom.

There was just the right amount of space in the center of my

square for four leaves - here is how to position stamp B1 & B2:

When all the layers are stamped this is what you'll have for 

your efforts:

Just add another 5-inch square of cardstock and stamp 

another four in a flash!

After cutting them with the coordinating dies, you will

have the perfect 'jig' for aligning the stamps the next time - just add die-cut blooms and leaves into the spaces and use them to line up the images! 

Two weeks in a row I've talked your legs off - hope you don't mind!  BTW it will work for ALL layering sets!  Just start with a square!

Ready for my projects? Both cards use snippets for their backgrounds - I often position my dies so that I can use the remaining for another card!  See what I did here...

 Have a wonderful and hopefully crafty weekend!

=] Michele

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