Celebrate Your Unique Self Blog Hop

Did you know that November 24th is officially Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day?  And the My Sweet Petunia MISTI Design Team is celebrating a lady with lots of Unique Talents ... including the skills, tanacity and ability to invent and patent a tool that completely changed the stamping industry ... Iliana Myska, the inventor of the MISTI.  She is positive ... an encourager ... and truly a bright light in the industry.

We each made a card to celebrate Iliana's creativity and ingenuity ... click through and visit them all and leave her some creative love.

Also, My Sweet Petunia is having a sale - 20% off the whole store - no coupon needed through the 26th. The bar magnets are a must-have and of course you need a studio bag if you don't have one (it holds so much stuff).

For my card, I used the November Sketch for You To Try together with Reverse Confetti One Day at a Time Stamps.

To get the gradient effect on the sentiment I used my MISTI and new Catherine Pooler Inks.  Is started by stamping the entire sentiment with Mint to Be.

Then I inked the bottom word of the sentiment (and a bit of the middle word) with Aquatini.  I used my finger to smudge the ink a bit before stamping, so there wasn't a hard line between the two colors.

I finished by only using Aquatini on the bottom sentiment.  The final touch was some layered sequin and pearl flowers.

Make sure you hop through and see all of the other cards by the Design Team ... and then go celebrate your own Unique Talent today (and every day).

And to make it even more of a celebration, we will be drawing the name of one lucky participant who comments on every blog (before noon CST on Monday) to win an original or mini MISTI of their very own.

• Ilina
• Ceal
• Kia
• Chris
• Jeanne
• Steph <<------- You Are Here
• Giovana 
• Lydia
• Marci

Comments

[Joyce]

Love the monochromatic look!

[Debra]

I really like your take on this sketch.

[Sandy]

The color grading is nice

[JUdy Jackson]

Very nice card!

[Sharon C.]

So pretty. Love the grading of inks.

[Nora]

Oh I LOVE how you did the color gradient on this card!! Makes me think differently of my inks and now I will have to try!!! Fun card!!

[Denise Bryant]

Pretty card! Love the layering and textures! Love the ombre effect on the sentiments!

[Janis Ford]

Love the variegated look!

[Judy Rozema]

Your ombre effect is super cool. Beautiful card, Stef!

[Gail Tucker]

What a neat technique. Love the color choices.

[Judy Inukai]

Lovely card. I really like the colors.

[Katherine Cosimano]

I adore your card, Steph! The color gradient is really fun, and something that would be nearly impossible to do without a Misti. Thanks for honoring Iliana today!

[Holly AKA KopyKat]

Oh this is so cute, thank you for demonstrating the ombre effect with your MISTI, I love seeing all the things I can do with this tool.

[Lee Murphy]

Oh those are gorgeous colors! Love the ombre design! And hoooray for the MISTI!! I so love mine!!

[Dawn Skene]

What a great card! I like the embossing and the ombré sentiment.

[Lindar C]

Beautiful card, love those hues. I just tried the CP Inks, LOVE them!!!

[Fran W.]

Love your card! Great idea to achieve the ombré look, and great inspirational sentiment.

[Stampinfranni]

Your card is soooooo pretty!!! Thank you for sharing it.

[Ruth G]

Love your background!

[Teresa Doyle]

A beautiful card Steph and the sentiments are perfect to describe Iliana.

[Janetb]

Your card is just right for celebrating Iliana.

[Avra]

Love it! I need to remember to try this technique!

[Susan E Guzy]

Love the gradient on this card, very pretty!

[KATHERINE Schmitt]

Love the card. Catharine Pooler inks are wonderful.

[Kathi]

Beautiful card.

I love your take on the sketch and really love that sentiment set.