MISTI May-nia! Win a MISTI!!!

Iliana at My Sweet Petunia is doing something crazy good all month long… she is giving away a Mini MISTI every single day in May! Holy Cow!

We have a great line up of awesome bloggers participating in this amazing event and today is my day to give one away and I am so excited!

I will be choosing a random Mini MISTI winner from all comments between today and Friday May 13th at Midnight CT. One comment per person please. I will announce the winner on Saturday May 14th.

Today’s project uses stamps and dies from Concord & 9th (Birdie Banners and Friend Like You die), Ken Oliver Crafts Color Burst and my Mini MISTI .

I started out by die cutting watercolor paper (smooth side) with Concord & 9th’s Friend Like You die. Then I played around with placement a bit on my Mini MISTI and then stamped the birds in archival ink.

Next I watercolored with Color Burst and a water brush. After I was done I didn’t like the birds in red… no problem.

I had some watercolor paper left over from another project already painted with Turquoise Color Burst . I positioned my birds onto the painted paper in spots that I liked and stamped in archival ink. This was the rough side of watercolor paper so I was able to go back a couple times a restamp the image with my handy dandy Mini MISTI until I had a perfect image.

I cut out (old school with scissors) and added my pretty blue birds on top of the red birds… ah much better!

To finish off my card I attached the centers of the letters and touched it up with a little paint in those spots. Can you tell I create as I go? I had originally planned to leave the centers open but changed my mind at the end.