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Creating Custom Shades of Glimmer Paste

29 Apr

Good evening!  I’ve been experimenting more with stencils and thought I’d share a quick card I created a few weeks ago!  And make sure to check out the bottom of my post for the winner of the Altenew Celebrating Parents Blog Hop! 😉

I Believe in Love by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

Honestly the background was intended to just be a practice run but I loved the way it turned out and decided to use it as a base for a card!  I started by blending a little cracked pistachio and broken china distress oxides onto the corner of a piece of white cardstock.  Then I placed the Hero Arts waves stencil over the cardstock and taped it in place.  I smooshed chipped sapphire and wilted violet distress ink onto my craft mat and mixed a little Nuvo moonstone glimmer paste into each color.  Then I carefully spread the blue glimmer paste onto the top corner of my card and then blended in the purple paste.  I cleaned off my spatula and then applied the natural moonstone glimmer paste from the opposite corner and blended it into the colored paste.

I Believe in Love by Jessica Frost-Ballas for Simon Says Stamp

While the background dried I worked on the rest of my card.  I stamped the sentiment from Hey Love onto white cardstock and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.  Then I stamped the large sentiment onto vellum, heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder, and then die-cut it with the coordinating die.  Once the background was totally dry I adhered the sentiment to the card with liquid adhesive and then added a sprinkling of sparkling clear and silver sequins.

It’s totally not a look I was going for but I really like how it turned out!  I’ll definitely have to do some more experimenting with creating custom glimmer paste colors!  Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Earlier this month I was a stop in the hop for the Altenew Celebrating Parents Card Drive and Blog Hop.  I have a $30 gift card to award to one lucky commenter and the winner is: Carla Hundley!  Carla please send me an email via the contact page at the top of my blog and we’ll get that prize out to you ASAP! 🙂 Congrats! 😉

Interested in the products I used?  To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!!

Simon Says Stamps And Dies KRISTINA’S LOVE Set287KW Hey Love
Simon Says Clear Stamps LOVE SSS101698 Hey Love
Simon Says Stamp LOVE Wafer Die SSSD111692 Hey Love
Hero Arts Stencil WAVES SA075
Tonic MOONSTONE Nuvo Glimmer Paste 953N
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad BROKEN CHINA Ranger TDO55846
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad CRACKED PISTACHIO Ranger TDO55891
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET Ranger TDP47360
Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad CHIPPED SAPPHIRE Ranger TDP39907
Pretty Pink Posh 4MM METALLIC SILVER Cupped Sequins
Pretty Pink Posh SPARKLING CLEAR MIX Cupped Sequins PPP120
Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets
Simon Says Stamp VELLUM SSSVEL12 STAMPtember
Plus VELLUM ADHESIVE Double Sided Glue Tape 38234
3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 0.25 Inch Adhesive Glue Gun
3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent 4016
EK Success POWDER TOOL Applicator 54-04002
Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER SILVER Fine Detail SilverEP3
Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner
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Categories:
card-making, crafting
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distress ink, distress oxides, hero arts, simon says stamp, stencil

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Comments

  1. Meghan P. says

    April 29, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    This is absolutely stunning!! I love the look you got – what a great for tip on making our colors with white glimmer paste! Will definitely have to try that! Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply
  2. Carla Hundley says

    April 30, 2017 at 12:14 am

    Oh my so gorgeous!
    Love the colors and
    shimmer.
    Carla from Utah

    Reply
  3. Michele F says

    April 30, 2017 at 9:42 am

    I, too, believe in LOVE, Jessica … and am loving every creative, fabulous thing about your gorgeous, glimmering card! xx
    =]

    Reply
  4. conil says

    April 30, 2017 at 11:38 am

    Wowzers…a Jessica masterpiece. All that shimmer and sparkle does my heart good.

    Reply
  5. Tami Babcock says

    April 30, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    Absolutely beautiful!! I love it when you’re just playing around and something turns out so fabulously! TFS

    Reply
  6. MaryAnn Samuelson says

    April 30, 2017 at 1:48 pm

    Seriously scraplifting this technique!!

    Reply
  7. Joleen says

    April 30, 2017 at 4:37 pm

    This is gorgeous! Ditto to the scraplifting comment, I am going to scraplift this myself!! Love all of your beautiful work!!

    Reply
  8. Tara Prince says

    May 3, 2017 at 4:18 pm

    Stunning background!

    Reply
  9. Carla Hundley says

    May 28, 2021 at 11:16 pm

    Saw that I am your winner!
    So fun and I sent you a message
    on your contact page. Thank
    you.
    Carla Hundley

    Reply

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