Running out of Glimmer Mist!  Isn’t it a scary thought?

Today I have a couple of projects to share with you, one of  ‘witch’ was a display at CHA Summer last year, but I don’t recall posting online.  So hopefully it is new to BOO.  Ok, I’ll stop doing the Halloween schtick now…

First, this Halloween themed mini-album, using the Garden book.  I love the swinging glimmer glass gates and how through the application of color the album can take on any theme. 

And I wanted to show you how you can mix up alphabets, even when you are missing a letter (or two).  The style of the alphabet frames lends itself to really getting the most out of every piece.  In my case, I had two ‘problems’.  I didn’t have a ‘w’.  but I quickly found that I could flip an ‘m’ upside down and get what I wanted.  Also, I didn’t have the insides of an ‘a’.  But look how great the inner frame works as a tombstone in my garden ‘graveyard’!  Lastly, I cut the letters for RIP from the Bingo board calling card set for Halloween that said ‘PUMPKIN CARVING’.  All the letters I needed were there.

I placed a piece of cardstock over the letters to cover half of them.  Then I sprayed Apple Glimmer Mist on the top half.  I let that dry for about 30 seconds and then moved the paper to cover the top portion of the letters.  Then I sprayed Pomegranate Glimmer Mist on the lower half of the letters.  Finally, to give it a spookier look, I added a light overall spray of Black Magic Glimmer Mist over the entire title and rubbed some chalk ink on top of them.

For the tombstone, I rubbed a bit of ink across the embossed design on the alphabet frame and then sprayed it with Granite Glimmer Mist.

The calling card ’sign’ is sprayed with Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist, with the edges dragged through the leftover spray on my misting mat for contrast.

My next project was on display at Summer CHA last year, in Orlando.  I loved the owl from the Graceful Journey stamp set.  It immediately reminded me of Hedwig from the Harry Potter book series.  So I made a hybrid scrapbook page using images I found online as a background. 

The Platform 9 3/4 image is a purchased ’stock image’ that I purchased.  I printed out my background image on an Epson R1800 printer.  I have found this ink to hold up to Glimmer Misting and general inking.  Yes, it does NOT make the ink run.  Don’t have it swimming in ink, mind you – but a typical application doesn’t degrade the image in the slightest.   I have posted about this before on my blog, if you would like to see another hybrid layout.

I added alphabet frames and a stamped owl.  I stamped the owl in brown Brilliance ink on a piece of vellum and sprayed that back liberally with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist to accentuate that white color of the vellum and add a magical sparkle.  I even made some ’spectacles’ on the background image using the pocketwatch alphabet frames.  A handmade broom embellishment was painted with Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist.  I used a calling card from the coordinating Bingo Board set as a journaling spot.

I hope you enjoyed these two projects I have shared with you.  And if you’ve read this far… you are in for a treat!  Besides listing the winner from Wednesday’s post – I will be adding another drawing as well.

The winner from Wednesday’s post is:

Nolwenn Says:
July 28th, 2010 at 3:23 am   edit

Halloween is my favourite holiday too ! The orange/purple/black combination is one of my prefered one

Your hunted house is gorgeous and very inspiring.

I can’t wait to get my hands on the fall and winter new colours of Glimmer Mists.

Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.

Congratulations!  Contact liz@mytatteredangels.com to claim your prize.

And now for a new drawing.  How about we put together a drawing for the Graceful Journey Screen Prints stamp set and a set of the six new FALL 2010 Glimmer Mist colors.

 
I will draw ONE winner on Monday at 12:01am and post it with that day’s post.  Good luck!

And if you like detailed posts like this one, be sure to check out the Educator blog.  Lots of great pictorials, inspiration (and you can ask your store to host a workshop!)

Sally Lynn MacDonald
Tattered Angels Golden Ambassador
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Because I think that I am dreaming as I work with the new Tattered Angels product.  Seriously!  I am actually posting this a little late in the day because I received a box of some new things and there were the lovliest creamy colored chipboard pieces in it so I just had to add them to my album. 

I used the Garden Journal Album and do you see that pretty little rose on the front cover?  Well, that is one of the new chipboard pieces.  They have embossed areas on them that resist the Glimmer Mist, unless you pile it on like I tend to do and quick heat set it with a heat gun.  I am in love……
 The tree on the other side of the front cover is a raised image on the album.  I just swiped over it lightly with a couple of inkpads then with an embossing inkpad and added a clear embossing powder.
All of the pages of my album include the use of Glimmer Screens and Screen Prints Stamps.  I also added rub ons to each of the stamped images.  The rub ons work great with the Tattered Angels designs and if you apply white rub ons before you spray on your Glimmer Mists they add a cool effect just like an embossing would.  They actually resist the mist also, but take on a bit of the glimmer and sparkle that the mists create. 

This album is a reminder of all of the spring rituals that we follow each year when the weather finally gets warm after winter.

See that bird?  That’s another one of those awesome chipboard pieces.  Another thing that you’ll notice about my album is that I misted patterned papers.  Don’t be afraid to incorporate the pattern into the design of your page like I did with the berry sprigs on this paper.

The Glimmer Mist colors that I used in this album were; Lemon Zest, Coral Reef, Tuttie Frutti, Sunshine, Hula Hoop, and Electric Blue.

I also used brown acrylic paint mixed with a little glaze to stamp my images on some of the pages.  Then I immediately sprinkles on some fine clear glitter.  It adds sparkle to the stamped images and makes them stand out.

The heart is another one of those yummy new creamy embossed chipboard pieces.  Don’t you want some?

Okay, I don’t even know at this point if I shared all of my images, but I’m sure that you’ve seen enough to want some of the new Glimmer Mist colors and products.  Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

Hi everyone,

Today I’m going to show you a mini album, with a Garden Journal Glimmer Glass Album.

I loved playing with the different sized and folded pages within.

I started by coloring the center of the cover with the Turquoise Blue Glimmer Mist. Then I used a tree Glimmer Screen, and the Sunflower and Key Lime Pie Mists. The I added some stamps and embellishments.

I used colorfull printed papers and played with the same colors of Glimmer Mists. Here I colored the page with the Sunflower, then I used the branch Glimmer Screen, and the Red Velvet Mist.

For this page, I colored the area with the Sunflower Glimmer Mist, then I used the bird Glimmer Screen, and the Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist.

There, I colored the full area with the Turquoise Blue.

On the left page, I colored with the Key Lime Pie and Turquoise Blue.

And there I colored the right page with the Red Velvet Glimmer Mist.

I really love combining the Glimmer Mists with the colors of the papers, and embellishments. Handwriting all the journaling  gives a cool personnal style.

I just filled a few pages but there is a lot more in this album.

I hope that this will inspire you,

Take care,

Gaëlle.

Happy New Year everyone!

All this month, the designers will be showing off what you can create with the Tattered Angels albums. I got to play with the Garden Journal Album, which is so pretty with the embossed image of a tree on the cover and glimmer glass gate.

For the cover, I decided to create an image of a sunrise in the park, inspired by a photograph I saw of a sunrise.

I inked the tree in different shades of green, then misted the entire cover in shades of Sunflower and Peach Delight for the sunrise, and shades of Juneberry Wine and Fully Purple for the dawn sky. I love how the glimmer mists shimmer in the sunlight, giving off glints of gold wherever they catch the light.

This mini album is about our recent holiday to New York and the cover reminds me of Central Park, aptly.

The cover opens up to reveal a gatefold.

I carefully misted the butterfly screen onto the two gatefold pages, taking care so that when the two pages were closed, the butterfly image would line up perfectly. I used Cranberry Zing and English Ivy on these pages. My title sits on a Framed Font chipboard lightly inked in lilac and adorned with matching hyacinths.

If you open up the gatefolds, you will see that I continued the butterfly screen misting across the right and left pages too. Here you see what the right page looks like when it’s opened up:

And this is how the album looks with the gatefold open and the centre page showing through. 

On this page, I misted the page with the same shades as the gatefold pages so that all three pages flowed right across. I continued the butterfly theme with punched out butterflies flitting across my mini layout, complemented by patterned paper in the same green and purple hues and a touch of pretty lace.

For the next page, I played with the compass glimmer screen and misted the page in Peach Delight and Pashmina, picking up the hues from the photograph of us in Times Square. And it being Times Square, I stamped an image of a clockface right onto the compass. The stamp and the glimmer screen lined up perfectly, as all coordinated glimmer screens and stamps will.

This next photo has a Christmas-sy feel about it so I selected glimmer mists in red (Peppermint Stick) and green (Forest Green) to give it that festive feel. I carelessly misted the red mist here, there and everywhere, then filled in the rest of the page with green. To add to the holiday cheer, I outlined the glimmer screen image with stickles in a cheery Christmas red. I kept the page simple, with just a little embellishment in the corner.

So those were some pages from my Garden Journal Album. I hope you liked the album because I had a lot of fun creating it.

Have a great week ahead!

Sue