Have a Delightful Day - compliments of Altenew!

Hi there, friends!  I picked up this gorgeous new Altenew Delightful Day floral from Doodlebugs recently and after receiving it, realized it had been designed to be used with Altenew's Stampwheel.

I found a wonderful way to make it work for me in my MISTI - most of us have a MISTI and I can't imagine ever not needing it!

Here's a closeup of the gorgeous set:

See that 'cross?' It is in the middle of the group of four floral layers that complete one finished bloom. I found a way to stamp those layers by turning a square of cardstock, instead of the stamp!

First:

    Cut a square of copy paper 6x6 inches

Second:

    Fold the paper in half both ways which makes a cross in the center of the paper.  Tuck it into the bottom right corner of your MISTI and align the stamp's cross over top of the folded one on your paper.  [sorry my stamp is stained!]

 

Third: close the door on the MISTI and pick up the stamp.

Fourth: Replace the copy paper with your card stock square.

Now just choose your trio of inks and begin stamping rotating the paper with each layer! I went without the outline stamp this time.  Here's a tip I use for keeping the rotation pattern 

straight in my mind:

Make four blooms the exact same by using one set of inks for each - or mix it up as I did.  Just make sure you clean and dry those stamps with the palm of your hand between each stamping!!

Before removing the stamp, you can even go back and add a little more shading using a finger dauber as I did above with brown ink.

I then aligned the center detail stamp over one image, picked it up with my lid, and stamped it onto each bloom - easy peasy!

Okay!  Are you ready for my cards?? Completely different colors, but so pretty just the same... hope you agree!

The group of leaves in the set is stamped the same way, then I found a few other leaves in my Altenew stash that coordinate beautifully, stamped with their Nature's Wonders inks.

If you made it here to the end, and maybe learned a little something along the way, it would make me so happy!

Thanks so very much for stopping by and spending your weekend-eve with me here at Doodlebugs!

=] Michele

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