"How To" Wednesday~ Spray Painting!!

Hi Everyone,

I’ve got a great little technique I came up with last week that I want to share with you.


Isn’t it pretty? I hope you like it.
Here is how I did it….and these are some of the supplies you will need. Alcohol, Re-inkers (I’ve used Calypso Coral and So Saffron). Black Emobssing
Powder, Powder Pal, Embossing Buddy, Versamark, Black Embossing Powder, Heat Tool,Champagne Shimmer Paint and Mister Bottles. You might want to add lots of Paper Towels as this gets messy.
Here are your supplies
Rub over Whisper White Cardstock with your Embossing Buddy to prevent specks of Embossing Powder from Sticking to where you don’t want it.
Stamp Images with Versamark
Pour Embossing Powder over your Powder Pal and gently shake excess off.
You know what…do a lot at one time and have extras on hand to create fast and beautiful cards later.
Heat set with your Stampin’ Up! Heat Tool
Now comes the fun!!! Take your Alcohol and your Re-inkers, Shimmer Paint and Misters and get ready to get messy and have fun!
Fill your bottle about 3/4 full with alcohol.
Then add Re-inker Drops. I think I did about 12 and it wasn’t dark enough so I did a few more. You can adjust to your liking.
Next add a little Shimmer Paint simply by taking the wand from the Mister and dipping into the shimmer paint about three times or to your liking. Put top back on Mister and gently shake…..
I sprayed onto my grid paper and then thought….Duh!! Where are my paper towels. I did see the beginning of something beautiful though! hehe!
Take your sheet of embossed flowers and start lightly spraying to where you’d like the different colors. I started with the saffron Spray Paint.
Then the Calypso Coral….you can go back and make it more intense or do a little of each on every flower.
Then I took it one step further and wanted to create some background paper with this technique. So I lightly sprayed some of both colors on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and let dry. Oh yes even though it alcohol you do wet the paper and have to let it dry for a few.
While that was drying I started to cut some flowers out.
….these are what is left for another card later!!
I decided to do a little crimping to enhance the beauty of the paper and flowers and will cover that next time.
…and here is the assembled card using So Saffron for the base and always a Mat of Black to make the whole thing POP!!
I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial!! Back to the Drawing Board for more fun things to share!! See you next time!!
Lee