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Petals & More Alternative Floating Frame Technique (No Press & Seal)
Welcome to Mitosu Crafts and thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay here and today I have an alternative card idea to the Floating Frame Technique to share with you using Petals & More Thinlits Dies and the coordinating stamp set, Petal Palette. The Floating Frame Technique has been very popular recently and I first saw this technique used by Artisan Jackie Aitken on her Instagram feed a couple of months ago. Jackie used a household product called Press & Seal which we do not have. A couple of weeks ago, I had an idea of using a different product which we did have. I wasn’t sure whether it would work…
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Happy Mother’s Day
Hello Welcome to today’sย special blog post. A big Happy Mother’s Day to all you mums and that includes all mums who have furrย children as well, lol So today we wanted to share with you the Mother’s Day card made for our wonderful Mum. I’ve wantedย to try the eclipse technique for a while and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to give it a go. I’veย also used the Lovely Latticeย Stamp Set which is only available until 11pm tonight as this is when Sale-A-Bration 2019 is coming to an end, (Sad Face) and the Strong & Beautiful Stamp Set. If you would like to recreate this amazing card with this stamp set,…
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Oxidised Metal Technique for Creating Kindness
Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts, thanks for stopping by. It’s the 1st Thursday of the month, which means it’s time for the Creating Kindness Design Team blog hop! I am sharing the Oxidised Metal Technique with our theme ofย ‘Touch of Metal’ I’m excited to be hopping today with our Special Guest Designer Sylwia Schreck! I am a fan of Sylwia’s creations and I’m sure you are too. If you’re following already from With A Bow On Top by Lou Kitzelman, you can continue along the hop from the list at the end of this post for more inspirations for your cardmaking & papercrafts Touch of Metal Project Sneak Peek…
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Rooted in Nature Sunset
Hello crafters Barry here once again with another project to share with you using the Rooted in Nature & the Sale-a-bration Home to Roost Stamp sets. Normally my Sunday video is based on #simplestamping. But this week it doesn’t quite fit into that category as it’s got a few techniques, as well as several stamp sets & tools, are used. Recently we’ve rediscovered sponging and are totally loving using the technique again. It’s probably one of the first techniques we’d seen at craft shows which got us into this style of crafting in the first place. Below you will find finished pictures of the project as well as being able…
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By The Bay FREE Sale-A-Bration Stamp Set – Quick Card Idea
Hello and welcome to Mitosu Crafts. It’s Jay here with a quick and easy card idea using the FREE Sale-A-Bration Cling Mount stamp set By The Bay I wanted to add colour to the design quickly without being too precise so I decided to use the sponging and masking technique Creating a night scene with this beautiful design makes it forgiving if you make a mistake. You can go straight onto your project with the inked sponge for added texture and still create something wonderful For the mask, I stamped on a sticky note and fussy cut with the snips. Ensure you cut off the lines so your project image…
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Card Idea with 3 Shimmer Paint Techniques for Paper Craft Crew Challenges #PCC305
Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here with my card idea for the Paper Card Crew Card Sketch Challenge #PCC305 I used the upcoming Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint in 3 ways to create my card for this sketch with the Hexagons DTIEF, Daisy Punch and Bee die from Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits I applied the Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint on the Hexagons DTIEF with sponges before running through the Big Shot To create more contrast and cover more areas, I also sponged the gold around the edges ~ use a non porous surface to sponge the shimmer paint like a window sheet I punched…
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Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Technique
Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping for the Creating Kindness blog hop. The design team and our special Guest Designer Carolina Evans, are sharing all kinds of different techniques to inspire you One of my favourite technique at the moment is creating an ombre effect with sponge brayers. I teamed this technique with the exclusive early release of the Share What You Love Bundle and this is what I came up with Products used on this simple card idea can be found on the Gotta Have It All Bundle until the end of May, then will be available individually in June when the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue…
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Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Inspire
Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts in the UK. It’s Jay Soriano here for the Creating Kindness Design Team Blog Hop with Special Guest Brian King of Stamp with Brian We all have created projects for you to enjoy with the theme of INSPIRE. For me, nature and Stampin’ Up! products inspires my creativity and for my project today I decided to use Sheltering Tree with Brusho Crystal Colours I love working with the watercolour pigments that is the Brusho Crystal Colours from the 2018 Spring/Summer Occasions Catalogue. They are available as a pack of 5 pots with the following colours: Brilliant Red, Gamboge (Orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue &…
