Tuesday, July 31, 2012

I Look Like Smurfette!

I worked on our Christmas cards in the camper today while I was "taking it easy".  This is just one step of the gorgeous card we will be sending out this year.  I always send 175 cards and I never seem to make it easy.  This year is no different.

My new Artisan Finalist friend Mindy made the most elegant snowflake card for the Artisan Finalist Swap.  I fell in love with it! You'll have to wait a few days to see the entire card when I post the cards I received in that swap.

The picture doesn't show it, but this subtle snowflake is so shimmery.
To make it, I mixed rubbing alcohol, Marina Mist reinker, and shimmer paint in one of our new spritzers (I could do 10-12 snowflakes with each mix - so I mixed it about 16-17 times).
Then I sprayed through the mask I created with snowflake die in the new Holiday Mini Catalog.  
And look what my hand looked like after spraying 175 of those beautiful snowflakes!

3 comments:

  1. 175!! Wowza!! That's commitment for you :) Look forward to seeing the end product!

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  2. Hi Amy,
    I'd LOVE to try the spritzer method you talked about in your post. Do you mind sharing how much rubbing alcohol, re-inker, and shimmer you used to mix it all up??
    Thanks for your help,
    Kendra Richardson (SU! demo)
    email: skjj4richardson@msn.com

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  3. I filled the spritzer about 3/4 full with rubbing alcohol then added about 5 drops reinker and 5 drops shimmer paint - you could use less reinker if you wanted it to be more subtle. I shook really well before spraying. The amazing thing was that it didn't clog up on me at all!!!

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