Tuesday's with The Spot Creative Challenge #145- getting messy with splatter and splotches!

Hey Y'all!!

It's Tuesday with The Spot Creative Challenge. This week the team is tackling splotches, splashes, and smooches. 

This is the card that came out of this challenge. I have got to be totally honest.... this challenge was something else. I'm one who has struggled with splatter and splotches and drips. I don't have a dedicated space where mess isn't an issue. Like so many others I craft in a borrowed corner of my bedroom. It's such a small space that I have to use the bed and house many of my supplies in another room. 

Let me back up and tell you a little about the inspiration for this card. I love glimmer and shimmer papers but dang they are not budget friendly. This challenge allowed me a reason to play with our Shimmer Paint and paper to see if I could create my own glimmer or shimmer paper. This card uses a piece of what I created. 

To start I gathered up 3 things: Frosty White Shimmer Paint, Rubbing Alcohol, and a Stampin' Spritzer. I knew I needed to thin out the paint so that it would spray and coat the paper. I decided to use Rubbing Alcohol because it drys faster. I created a spray in my Stampin' Spritzer bottle. The recipe that I came up with was to add about a pinky width of rubbing alcohol to the bottom of the Stampin' Spritzer bottle. This keeps the Shimmer Paint from "sticking" on the bottom of the bottle. The paint needs a really good hard shake before you add it to the mix. Since this paint has more of a thick cream like consistency, I was able to create drops to count while loading it into my spritzer. I put 10 drops to start with. I then filled the spritzer with more alcohol- you need to leave room for the spritzing mechanism. You will need to shake the spritzer before you use it each time. 

 I think you can see in the image (either above or the close up below) that this is not the even application you would find on a pice of produced glimmer or shimmer paper. This is splotchy and heavy in places while light in others. For this project I really like how that works with this embossing folder.  

Details for today's card

Let's dive in to the card. I started with a card base of Thick Basic White folded on the side. I then added the blue wash paper from the Sand and Sea Suite. The paper in this project is cut at 1/8" smaller than the layer above it or below it. So the top layer is Basic White that has been sprayed with my shimmer mix and is cut to 4" x 5 1/4". This is the layer that I ran through the stunning embossing folder from the Sand and Sea suite. 

Because I wanted to shimmer embossed panel to be the focus of my card, I choose the simplicity of two of the shell shapes stamped on Basic White. I added the opals from the Sand and Sea suite for the perfect finish for this card!

This was such a fun challenge. Hop over to The Spot and join us! All of the directions and more inspiration are listed there. Click on the image below.

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