OLW 43 Shimmer

Susan’s challenge on Simplicity this week was to add a little shimmer.  Once again this was indeed a challenge to me.  I rarely add shimmer and could only think of one product  I had which would provide any shimmer: some pearl ex powders from SU.  I have hardly used them and have forgotten the techniques I once tried.

To make the top card I flicked around a bit of masking fluid first then rolled the dragonflies with versamark  before brayering celery and bordering blue over the top of that.  I shook pearl ex powder onto the coloured panel and it stuck to the versamark but also lightly to the rest of the area.  You can see a bit of shimmer at either edge of the card but the string of shimmery dragonflies actually goes right across the card.

The card below was done in a similar order but I embossed a string of dragonflies first.  After that I added a string in versamark and pearl ex and a few coming off onto the ivory cardbase.

All in all it was a fairly experimental exercise which is half the fun of challenges.  As others have said in their posts there is a lot more shimmer to be seen in real life but there are glimpses in the photos.

Supplies:

Stamps: Dragonfly roller, Paint Prings,  Simple Sayings 2 (all SU)
Inks: Versamark, Certainly Celery, Bordering Blue
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic Ivory
Also: clear e.p., Pearl Ex powder