I’m still trying to catch up after vacation, but I watched some of the livestreaming recordings from the Stampin’ Up! Convention and saw this neat technique, splattering with Multipurpose Liquid Glue and adhering Gold Glitter. I used the You’ve Got This Stamp Set to stamp and watercolor the beautiful flower and add a little pizzazz with splatters of gold glitter! I can still add a greeting to this card and I forgot to color the center flower parts, so maybe it is not completely finished!
Someone from the Stampin’ Up! Home Office at Convention demonstrated this glittering technique. You need an Aqua Painter (or a small paintbrush) (but you really should own an Aqua Painter! I love mine!) and some Multipurpose LIquid Glue. Squeeze out a little glue, you don’t need much. Then dilute it with some water from your Aqua Painter. You don’t want it too thin and not too thick, but different consistencies will give you different size splatters. Then with the diluted glue on the Aqua Painter, splatter it on the card, however little or much you want. Sprinkle the card with Gold Stampin’ Glitter and dump off the excess. The glitter, of course, will stick to the glue splatters!
In my painting days, I learned to splatter by tapping the splattering brush onto another brush handle or pencil or Aqua Painter held in your other hand over the project. It gives you a little more control.
You could also splatter some color on to your card with a matching ink if you wanted.
I love watercoloring with my Aqua Painter! To color in this flower, stamped with Stazon Ink, I just put a dab of reinker in the lid of the ink pad and picked some of that up, diluted with a little water with my Aqua Painter. If you want a darker shade, either pick up a bit of reinker that hasn’t been diluted OR touch your Aqua Painter to the corner of the ink pad itself to pick up ink.
Experiment with this splattering technique using Multipurpose Liquid Glue, the Aqua Painter, and some glitter!
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