Did you see? Hero Arts is making the Misti now

I have the Hampton Arts one too, from Michaels. I remember grabbing it while I had a coupon, and then being glad I did so because they were pulled pretty quickly!

I've been noticing that in the cardmaker success summit (free Christmas card classes this weekend, but I got a pass to watch early) every single video that's used a stamp positioner has used a misti. And it's not a few - I haven't counted but I'd say I've watched a dozen videos with it so far. I was curious if they were a sponsor, but they don't seem to be. I wonder if there's some exclusivity deals going on behind the scenes though.

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Same. It really chaps me that she got a patent on what Gutenburg invented in the 15th century. Lazy ass patent clerk indeed. She should have her patent rescinded imo.



Same. GO SU!

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Yes I remember that too, they were told that they get sued if they are using other stamping platforms in their videos, in a weeks span everyone was using the M.

This conversation has been enlightening (in a really infuriating kind of way).
I’m glad this discussion popped up bc as I said earlier, I was considering getting a M after viewing the stamp day live class with LW.

I still want a platform. I’ll need to investigate the SU, a TH (from overseas or eBay, I guess), or one of the Amazon ones posted. I am not a fancy stamper - all my stamps are basic SC, KP, etc. I’ll never do layered images for card making or anything. I just seem to be unusually clumsy with basic stamping and struggle with placement too often!

I picked up a tiny ($10) WRMK stamp platform and it does not help. Too small and there are no magnets to keep paper/photo still. Or maybe I’m just a special type of stamping dunce. 🤪

You’re not a dunce - you just don’t have the right tool. You just want a corner to nestle the paper into. IOW, the paper has a ridge to butt against on one side and the top - or bottom.

That way if you need to re-stamp, as long as the paper is placed tight against that corner, you can get a good re-stamp. Half the time I forget to put a magnet down. I had a WRMK several others, being a tool junky, plus tried a couple others had, and my go-tos are still the Tim - and yes, the small misti I got for $5.00 when an LSS was going out of business. 

I think a LOT Of us feel/felt that way. That's why we were so glad to see stamp platforms being manufactured (again, NOT a new idea, 15th century).

But also why some of us so vehemently detest the tactics of stinky petunia so well laid out by @scrapingnana and others.

Before I bought my TH mini platform, I made one out of an old CD case.

I swear to you, it's pretty amazing. I kept it and still have it in case my TH dies.

Here is an example:

awww.....well you are one of our favourites too!!

I will tell you I do love this stamp press  too - the magnets are so smartly wrapped in plastic so much easier to move!

I care about both.

MARIBETHR, I doubt the MISTI will do much better with the large background stamps. 

I have’t tried the MISTI, but I do have large background stamps that never worked well, even on their original wood blocks. Those same stamps also refuse to work well with a stamp platform.

I unmounted all of my wood mounted stamps prior to moving, and I hoped the large background stamps would work better. I assumed that the wood block or foam was defective. No matter what, the large backgrounds (unmounted rubber OR clear) never gave a good stamped image until someone told me to use a different technique.

Put your large stamp on an even larger larger acrylic block. With the large stamp facing UP, carefully place your card stock on it. Gently hold the card stock in place with one hand in one area, and with the other hand, roll a brayer over it, carefully moving your hand that is holding the paper down as needed, so that you can brayer it every possible way.

It’s the only way that I can get a cleanly stamped image and avoid bare spots when stamping the large backgrounds.  My acrylic block wasn’t cheap (although it was cheaper than a MISTI). It’s about 7”x8.25” and almost half an inch thick, and it works amazing for the large background stamps (with the brayer technique).

I hope that helps with your stamping issue, whether you buy a MISTI or not.

Have you tried fun foam? I cut a piece to fit my Tim Holtz one and stamps much better.

I think it’s the nature of the beast to have to work at stamping large background stamps. I sometimes stamp them using a platform - either a misti look-alike or Tim’s - but often just put the stamp flat on my glass mat, ink it, put cardstock on it and carefully press with my hands and a brayer. Before I had the glass mat it worked as well on a self-healing cutting mat that a Ranger teflon sheet was taped to in the back.

In a stamping platform I stamp more than once, paying attention to where the light areas are. The misti-like platform is a little better than the Tim, possibly because the Tim platform is so sturdy there’s less flex. So I try to find the sweet spot in the platform, and sometimes add some cardstock or thin piece of foam underneath the stamp. 

BTW, I don’t think personality is the point with MSP. It’s her threats against stampers who showed hand-made stamping devices, suing companies for her idea although a similar letterpress platform was available before the misti - I have a link to the old blog that shows how to use it just the way the misti is used. The shop owner in the UK I spoke to by phone was livid that her employee was threatened, and that if mistis arrived broken she was not compensated. 

But it’s a good tool - and has corners which are a must for me. I’d just suggest buying from a retailer rather than directly from MSP if you decide to get one.

Enjoy whichever way you go - and it would be neat to know how background or very large stamps work for you down the road.

I don’t think there are two sides for someone who threatens to take legal action against a hobby stamper who makes a little tool out of a CD case or similar, with the WRMK Letterpress or other tool or Misti as inspiration but quite different. This was done publicly and privately but shared. Just my take.

Btw, if anyone hasn’t seen the ten-year-old letterpress article about using it for stamping and is curious:

nallystudios.com/blog/2011/10/12/letterpress-l-letterpress-from-lifestyle-crafts/ 

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