I love making backgrounds using Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mist.  I like to use crumpled wax paper to apply my Glimmer Glaze to my paper because it gives added random added texture while also resisting the Glimmer Mist. 

For this card, I inked my tattered texture stamps using Versamark, and then embossed the image with white embossing powder. 

I balled up a piece of wax paper, poured a very small amount of Waterfall Glimmer Glaze (be sure to shake it up first) to my misting mat, dabbed the wax paper into the glaze and then pounced the glaze onto my paper.  I applied it around the embossed image as well as the edges.

I sprayed Seafoam Glimmer Mist over the entire project.  Notice how the glimmer mist resists not only the embossed areas but also the glazed areas.  If I had applied the glaze with the brush, I would have brush stroke resist areas, but by using the balled up wax paper, the resist pattern looks more random.

To add a distress look to the edges of the paper, I sprayed a fine mist of Dragonfly Glimmer Mist to my misting mat and dragged all the edges through it, smoothing it out with my fingers. 

I attached the misted paper to a card, added a postage font frame that I randomly pounced the Waterfall glaze on to using the wax paper, and then painted over the entire frame with a paint brush using Chandelier Glimmer Glam.  I added a fairy image from Crafty Secret’s Sew Nice sheet, painted Waterfall Glimmer Glaze on the fairy’s dress, and attached the image behind the frame.  I stamped “birthday wishes” on paper (and misted with Seafoam Glimmer Mist) and trimmed it to a banner and attached it to the bottom of the frame because the image was too short to cover the entire frame. 

Also attached to the postage frame is a glittered wand.  I die cut a star shape from foam core, covered it with German Glass Glitter, and attached a cut paperclip to it for the wand portion.  I wrapped the wand with seam binding that I had sprayed with the Seafoam Glimmer Mist, and then cut the seam binding into narrow strips.  I also attached three heart charms with silver bullion and attached them to the wand as well.  I attached a portion of some Prima Swirls to the card and attached the frame on top.

Here’s a picture of a few other backgrounds I was playing with.  I hope you experiment using wax paper, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Mists for backgrounds too.  Another favorite combination of mine (pictured below) is pouncing Cowboy Glimmer Glaze on your project and spraying with Sugar Maple Glimmer Mist – and a touch of Dragonfly was added to the middle background.  It gives a nice rusty and patina look.  The Tattered Textures stamp set is a must have as well – I especially love them with black or white embossing powder.   And if that weren’t enough, I am loving Glimmer Glaze on metal as well.  They spice up charms quickly, especially ones with holes in them (although those require a little more drying time).  And speaking of metal, I even Glimmer Glazed a fork…yes, a fork.  I bent a fork to use as a stand for my card, but you’re supposed to use a “vintage” fork which I don’t have…yet…so for practice, I bent an old fork and colored it with Cowby Glimmer Glaze.

Now have fun, and go play!

Christine Delgadillo
 

Supplies Used: 
Tattered Textures Stamps (Screen Prints Rockin’ Renaissance)
Postage Stamp Framed Fonts
Glimmer Mists:  Seafoam and Dragonfly
Glimmer Glam:  Chandelier
Glimmer Glaze:  Waterfall and Cowboy (for other background samples)
Fairy Image from Crafty Secrets – Sew Nice
Heart charms from ACharmingPlace.com 

I love when I discover two products that I love work so well together.  In this case, my favorite Glimmer Mist color Vanilla Breeze and my favorite Distress Ink color Vintage photo.  The combination of the two make a wonderful glimmery vintage effect.

For this project, I began with a vintage cabinet card photo, two plain pages out of a vintage book, and one Tattered Angels Bingo Card.  I sprayed each with Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mist.

The photo and the book pages both had a lot of color variance and speckling from age.  I like that the Glimmer Mist does not cover these flaws because to me they add a lot of vintage charm to the project.

I added a few shots of the awesome new fall Sugar Maple to the photo card.  Sugar Maple has a really nice tea dye color so it is perfect for vintage projects.  (It is a limited edition so if you love it like I do, you will want to be sure and stockpile a few!)

Using an ink applicator tool, added Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges.

On the book pages, I used Vanilla Breeze and Vintage photo and added stamping in Walnut Stain.  I used stamps from the Tattered Textures  and Timeless Romance Vintage Seasons sets.

I added assorted pinks to a couple of pieces of vintage lace and Vanilla Breeze to a piece of vintage ribbon.

I made ribbonwork roses out of the ribbon and gathered the lace into rosettes.

I wet a piece of wide vintage ribbon and drug it through the colors on my misting mat.  I let it wick up the color so that it would look like water stain.

I added color to the bingo card by using various colors of Glimmer Mist as watercolors.  Spritz a bit of your desired color onto your misting mat and apply to your card with a damp paint brush.  I finished off the card with some Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and Crushed Olive Distress Stickles.

Vintage done vintage thanks to a perfect pairing of Glimmer Mist and Distress Ink.

Leica here to share with you a fun layout. I Love using glimmer mist to create a layout in the tones and colours i want. For this layout I changed the colour of everything with different colours of glimmer mist. (background, flowers, chipboard letters, tag) sometimes I love the ability to be so matchy matchy, other times I get a little wild.

Thanks for checking it out!

I took the summer off to totally hang with my kids, so my personal blog took a little hiatus. but come Sept. I will be back, hope to see you drop by!

Have a fabulous day!

Leica

Hi all, Cheryl here with some fun resist techniques using Glimmer Glam and Glaze.  I cannot tell you how much happiness these two new mediums bring me.  There are so many ways to use them, they really add a whole new level to your paper crafting.  Today I’m going to show you a couple of ways you can use them to resist glimmer mist(I know, glimmer mist is irresistable, but I think you’ll enjoy this). 

You will need to grab the following supplies:  12×12 white cardstock, two manila tags, paint brush, Coastal Breeze screen print stamps, Beach Comber Glimmer Chips, Postage Stamp Framed Fonts, Seaside Glimmer Glass, Glimmer Glam in Chandelier and Paprika, Glimmer Glaze in Champagne, Glimmer Mist in Lime Twist, Riptide, Autumn Nights, and Sand.

First we will create our background page:

Take your paint brush and paint Chandelier Glimmer Glam along the edges, and in a cross hatch pattern in center of page.  You don’t need to put it on too heavy, you want some areas to be left un-glammed so when you spray over it, it looks distressed.  After the glam is dry, spray over entire page with sand Glimmer Mist.  Wipe off page with a paper towel to reveal the resist areas.

Next you will create your tags.  Brush a small amount of Glimmer Glam in Paprika onto your craft mat.  Stamp into glam using your screen print stamp and then stamp onto tag. 

After the image has dried, spray lime twist and riptide Glimmer Mist onto your craft mat and rub the side of your tag with the image into the glimmer mist(rubbing tags into glimmer mist on your mat gives you a more blended color) blot over the tag with a paper towel then add a spritz or two of autumn nights Glimmer Mist and again blot with paper towel.

Next you will take the glimmer chip shells and crab and paint with Glimmer Glaze in Champagne and let dry.

Again you will paint Paprika Glimmer Glam onto your craft mat ( I used a very thin coat) and rub your glimmer chip into the glam.  This will enhance all of the raised areas of your embossed glimmer chip and add some glitter.

I sprayed the glimmer chip letters with lime twist, riptide, and autumn nights.  I left the postage stamp frames natural to pick up the white from the resist.  I also stamped a couple of palm trees on the background page, painted the seashells on the calling card with champagne glaze, and lightly sprayed the edge of the calling card.  I used a glimmer glass piece under the main photo and I put a picture under it for a little background color.  Another wonderful feature of the glam and glaze is that you can use it as an adhesive as well.  I just brushed some chandelier glam on the underside of my glimmer glass piece and adhered it to my photo.  This is really great when you don’t want adhesive showing through under clear acrylic pieces.  To finish it off, I inked the edges of the layout with walnut ink, and your done!  It sounds like it took a long time, but really only about an hour once I gathered all of my materials.  Here are a few close ups:

Happy Glimmering!

Whew!  Try saying that three times fast!  While I love every color of Glimmer Glam, Golden Goddess is quickly becoming a favorite!  I find myself reaching for it again and again to add bits of gold to all sorts of projects.

For this project, I began with a Chip Tile that I had colored with a base coat of Banana Pudding Chalkboard Mist and then topped it with a coat of Meadow Green.  After the mists were dry, I sanded the raised surfaces for a distressed effect.  I stamped the wonderful key stamp from the Timeless Romance stamp set in Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink.  I embossed the design with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powders in Vintage Photo.

To give the key a touch of color, I used a paint brush to brush on Glimmer Glam Golden Goddess over the embossed design.

The two blended perfectly to create a very aged looking gold key.

After embossing and painting the key design, I decided I wanted a bit more intensity in the green background.  I didn’t want to spray over my work and change it so I created a mask for the stamped design.  I stamped the image onto a piece of Masking Magic and cut it out.

I stuck the mask in place (it has a sticky back) and then added another layer of color (English Ivy).

I found glitter stickers in my stash that were the perfect size and texture for my project.  Unfortunately, they were silver.  Not a problem, I brushed on Golden Goddess Glimmer Glam and ended up with letter stickers that were a perfect match to my stamped image!

I rounded out the Glimmer Glam touches by painting a pearl stick pin and Tim Holtz Idea-ology Token to match.  Glimmer Glam adheres nicely to the metal and stays very sheer so that variations in the metal color and texture still show through.  I finished out the piece with Distress ink around the edges as well as a bit of ribbon scrap that was “aged” with a few quick mists of Vanilla Breeze Glimmer Mists.

The combination of Glimmer Mists, Glimmer Glam, and Distress products come together for a delightful vintage result.

Sometimes you just need simple, cute cards.  Here’s one I made the other day:

To make it I took some Sticky Back Canvas and had my Cricut cut out three 1 1/2″ circles.  I then sprayed them with “Key Lime Pie” and “Pieces of Heart” Glimmer Mist so that the colors blended together in places.

After I dried them with a heat gun I stamped on them using the “Regal Classic” Screen Prints and black StazOn ink.

Then I used a punch to punch out some scalloped ovals out of dictionary paper which I then sprayed with “Crushed Shells” Glimmer Mist.

To fold the ovals into a flower-ish shape I first creased it across the center vertically.

Then I creased it again across the center horizontally.

Then apply adhesive to the back side of it and adhere it to the Sticky Back Canvas circle.

Then, I threaded a button and adhered it to the flower.

Lastly I applied them to the front of my card that I had previously sewn with my sewing machine and stamped with one of my favorite stamps.  Since the back of the Sticky Back Canvas has adhesive on it you can just remove the protective backing and stick it right on the card.

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I am sure by now you have had an opportunity to play with some of the incredible Stamps that Tattered Angels offers.  I absolutely love them. Today i wanted to share with you one of my techniques that i came up with to create your own background.

WARNING: this technique may cause severe purchasing of  Tattered Angels stamps and glimmer mists… :)

 haha!! dont say i didnt warn you

so first you will need:

cardstock in vanilla…. versa mark pad, heidi swapp tattered textures stamp set, Regal Classic Accents Stamp Set, brown ink pad( i used memento) glimmer mist in Apple, clear embossing powder, heat tool and scrapbook papers to complete your project.

begin by stamping your entire background using the tattered textured stamp set, allow to dry.

using your versa mark and the  Regal Classic Accents Stamp Set, stamp onto the background and apply a coat of clear embossing powder, heat with heat tool. You can see the embossed accent on the paper, but you may have to look closely

Apply a coat of glimmer mist and wipe away the excess with paper towel,

watch the magic before your very eyes….isnt that cool, the clear embossed image, has resisted the glimmer mist and you have this amazing background, don’t you love how the embossed image has also taken on the tiny textured stamp in its image, its like a mask on mask..

you can use this  technique for any card, layout, mini album, or altered project.  This technique was so highly welcomed by the stores in which i design for, that I have turned this into stamping technique classes.

 I would love to see your creative works using this technique..I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

thank you for dropping by !

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I have to admit that I had seen the Fascination Folders and had NO idea what to do with them. So i did a google search hoping to find something. Nope, nada, zip!  Ok, now i have to really get inventive and see what i can do.  WOW…i had a ton of fun and truly LOVE what i made.

I used the Fascination Folders and the Fascination Folders Add on Pages, some Candy Apple Red, Tattered Leather and Walnut Gold Glimmer mist, Destination unknown Glimmer Chips, Framed Fonts – Postage, Tattered Traveler bingo boards and the Travel Stamps.

Look how wonderful all these goodies look! The fascination folders have a resist built into them. So right out of the package they are beautimus!

and of course the add-on pages

I started adding my colors of mist. Red is my favorite color, especially a really deep dark red. I let the colors set for a little bit so they would soak in to the cover.

I then took the most fabulous bottle of Chandelier Glimmer Glam (coming soon to a store near you!) and coated over the entire cover.  It gave the colors an incredible boost and added so much pretty sparkle.

I tried to capture the glitter with my camera but it didn’t work out so well. Sorry.

I added my embellishments and did a few pages on the inside and voila….my new Travel journal for my upcoming vacation.

Here are a few of the inside pages:

I hope that now you won’t wonder like i did and just jump right in.

This is also now going to be a class that i will be teaching. Its funny how that works out

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Peace homies!!

Stayce

Here’s a heritage layout I did that features my Great Grandparents way back in 1929…my Great Grandma was 27 in this photo!  Both my Great Grandparents have passed on, but this layout will be a great way to remember them.

To make this layout I started off by laying down some screens and spraying the background paper with Crush Shells and Patina Glimmer Mist.

I then sprayed the Irresistible tag  and Irresistible chipboard piece with Strawberry Shortcake Chalkboard Mist.   I cut the tag in half and then inked the edges.

Next I sprayed the back side of two pieces of ribbon with Crushed Shells and Pinecone Glimmer Mist.  I love how the Glimmer Mist completely covered the back of the ribbon, but only soaked into the thinner parts of it so that when I flipped it back to the front side it looked really cool!  I wrinkled it up into a ball before letting it dry to give it an old antiqued look.

For the flowers I sprayed some of Prima’s  white paper flowers with some of the new Glimmer Mist colors: Pomegrante, Dragonfly, and Sugar Maple.  Once they were dry I stamped on them using clear embossing ink and the Tattered Textures clear stamps and then sprinkled gold embossing powder over them.  I love how it looks once the embossing powder is heated up with a heat gun!!

Once all my pieces were ready I assembled the page and used foam adhesive to raise up some of the elements to give it a bit more dimension.  I also hand stamped my journaling and added a few other embellishments.  Here’s a close up:

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Have a glimmery day!!

The new fall colors are hot,hot,hot!  I know, it’s barely summer, but these colors can be used for anything.  I created a layout with black as my background because it really makes the colors pop.  I mean, just look at them!  Gorgeous.  There is Granite, Sugar Maple, Apple, Pomegranate, Dragonfly, and Autumn Nights.  Photos really don’t do these colors justice, and the shimmer!  You must see them in person.  They should be hitting your local LSS any day now.  So here is my layout:

Supplies used:  Black 12×12 cardstock, white cardstock for photo mats, index card, cheesecloth, Tattered Angels Screen Print stamp – classic accents swirl, dragonfly and leaf from Graceful Journey set, Glimmer Mist in Apple, Dragonfly, Pomegranite, Sugar Maple, and Autumn Nights.  I also used copper embossing powder. 

I randomly sprayed Apple and Dragonfly glimmer mist onto white cardstock and stamped the dragonfly image.  I then cut out the image.

I used the same technique for the leaf images using Apple and Sugar Maple.  I then ran the cheesecloth through the overspray on my mat to color it.  I stamped the swirl image onto the cardstock with Versamark ink and then used copper embossing powder on it.  For the mats behind the photos I simply sprayed each piece of white cardstock with the glimmer mist then turned it over and rubbed it into my mat to give it full saturated color.  Arrange your elements on your layout, add your title and journaling and your done!  Here are a few close up shots so you can see that gorgeous color.

Have a glimmery day!

Cheryl