Shimmer Paints

Have you heard the buzz about SU's new Shimmer Paints? Oh my word, these things are amazing. Let me share a few things I've learned by playing with the new shimmer paints.

* You can make them into a shimmer spray ... this is just a beautiful effect.
* The shimmer sprays can have reinker added to them so can you make up shimmer sprays for ALL of the Stampin' Up colours!
* You can add reinker to the paint to customize your Frost White shimmer.
* You can add the shimmer paint direct to your stamp.
* You can add the shimmer paint to your already inked stamp.

... the list is endless! Let me show you a few of the things I've managed to do:

Shimmer Spray

You'll need to buy some sort of spray bottle. I've found that the smaller the spray-head, the better the result. Fill your small mister bottle almost to the top with 70% rubbing alcohol (if you use 90% or higher, you may encounter clumping ... ask me how I know!!!!!). Once your RA is in your bottle, add 6-8 drops of Champagne Mist shimmer paint. After 2 spritzes of the bottle, this is the result I got with this recipe:

You can take it one step further and use this recipe PLUS 6-8 drops of reinker. In this photo, I used soft suede reinker. It's sprayed onto Whisper White cardstock. I spritzed 5-6 times so the cardstock was pretty saturated. It actually curled up, but after about 1 minute the alcohol and water evaporated and the cardstock uncurled itself. If you wanted a less intense colour, you would just spritz once or twice. I love how this turned out!

Reinker with Frost White Shimmer Paint

Take an artists mixing tray (or something similar) and add 2 drops of reinker. Then tip 2-3 drops of Frost White Shimmer Paint and mix with a small paint-brush. This is what it'll look like:

Dap a sponge dauber into the mix and tap onto your rubber stamp. Here's the result I got using Ruby Red reinker (hard to photograph, so thanks to Sarah and her wonderful Nikon SLR!)

Shimmer Paint Direct to Stamp

Use a dauber, shake up your shimmer paint and dab the dauber into the lid. This method allows the dauber to pick up just the right amount of paint. Dab it onto your stamp. This time I used Platinumn Shimmer to get this effect:

Shimmer Paint to an Already Inked Stamp

Here's the same Platinum Shimmer, only this time I daubed it onto the stamp after it had been inked up in Old Olive:

Apologies for the photography, it's so hard to get a good picture of a subtle shimmer!!! However, you can rest assured that if you like what you see on the photograph, you'll LOVE what you see when you try it yourself. You can find all 3 in the mini catalogue (page 27) for just $5.95 each! and ordering is easy from my SU website! I hope that's helped give you some ideas about how YOU can use your shimmer paints. If you have any questions just leave a comment!

Supplies
Stamp : Dasher
Accessories : Frost White, Platinum, Champagne Mist SHIMMER PAINTS, daubers, rubbing alcohol, mister bottles, reinkers