I have loved stamping with
Shimmer Paint since
Stampin' Up! first offered it two years ago. My favorite way to use it is the
Shimmer Paint Spray, but I love using it in so many different ways and I hope you've gotten some inspiration this past week with a few
Shimmer Paint techniques. Someone shared the following technique and I have had a lot of fun creating different cards with it and using different colors of ink to finish it. Certainly your interpretation of
Mother of Pearl will be different than mine and I hope you play with this
Faux Mother of Pearl technique to find the right color combination for yours!
First stamp your image and color it or add whatever detail you'd like. For this card, I used the roses image from
Elements of Style stamp set stamped in
StazOn Jet Black ink and colored with a variety of
Stampin' Markers. Then use a wedge of
Sponge, or crumpled up Saran Wrap (both have great blotchy texture) to add a bit of
Shimmer Paint over your image. Add as much or as little
Shimmer Paint as you'd like, but keep it uneven and splotchy. Set it aside to dry for a few minutes and when it's no longer tacky to your touch, add some color over the top with a
Sponge Dauber or with a
Brayer. Finally, use a tissue to wipe over the stamped, shimmered and inked image to wipe the extra ink off the
Shimmer Paint areas.
For this card, I added
Early Espresso ink with a
Sponge Dauber. The
Early Espresso gives it a nice dark, aged look. If it's too dark for your liking, try a softer color, such as
Soft Suede or
Crumb Cake. At
Technique Club this month, a few of my stampers chose to leave off the added color step, leaving their image whiter and crisper looking, but still with that
Mother of Pearl look to them - so beautiful!
Recipe:
Stamps: Elements of Style, Occasional Quotes
Cardstock: Blushing Bride, Concord Crush, Very Vanilla
Ink: Concord Crush, Frost White Shimmer Paint
Accessories: Vintage Wallpaper Texture Impressions Folder, Oval Die, Modern Label Punch, Basic Jewels Pearls
Here is another example of the
Mother of Pearl Technique, using
Pretty in Pink ink applied with a
Brayer to give a little different look to it. I stamped the line of trees image from that classic
Stampin' Up! stamp set
Lovely As A Tree. Then I added
Frost White Shimmer Paint with crumpled up Saran Wrap and let it dry. Finally, I used my
Brayer to add a layer of
Pretty in Pink ink over the top. This is really a resist technique, using
Shimmer Paint, instead of
VersaMark or
Embossing Powder, but it gives such a unique look!
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Recipe:
Stamps: Tiny Tags, Lovely As A Tree
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Frost White Shimmer Paint
Accessories: Jewelery Tag Punch, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon
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This is one of the cards we made at March Technique Club showcasing a Spotlighting Technique. I used Elements of Style stamp set from Stampin' Up! for this technique and we colored a few squares of roses to 'spotlight'. The En Francais stamp set has been getting a lot of use lately, too - it always adds such a beautiful, elegant touch to the backgrounds. I also love the addition of the Glitter Brads from the Occasions Mini Catalog here!
We also added a touch of Frost White Shimmer Paint over our colored pieces to give it a bit of shine and shimmer, but I know you can't see that in this photo. The first spotlighted square is matted and then adhered directly onto the stamped image. The second spotlighted square is punched at a bit of a twisted angle to the first and then matted and popped up over the image with Stampin' Dimensionals.
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