Diamond Dust & Glimmer Misst "Virginia Scrapbook Retreats"

Diamond Dust and Glimmer Mist Altered Art by Nicole Petersen

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Play is a wonderful method of relieving stress and anxiety. For me, swirling paint into gel medium or sprinkling glitter on top of glue is a great escape route. On one stressful day, I came home, dropped my daily stack of ungraded test papers, and ran to my studio. I pulled paint, blank canvases, Diamond Dust, stencils, and Glimmer Mist. The spraying, swirling, and creating began. Here is the result of my “escaping” on a very stressful day: Beauty can come from tension.

Supplies Bling: Prima Marketing, Inc. Canvas: Prima Marketing, Inc. Diamond Dust: Twinklets (FloraCraft) Die-cut: Slice Basics II (Making Memories) Grunge Paper: Tim Holtz Hanger Ink: Distress (Ranger Industries), StazOn (Tsukineko) Jewels: Maya Road Medium: Iridescent Liquitex Mist: Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels) Paint: Sky Blue and Teal acrylic (Making Memories) Patterned paper: Nook and Pantry, Lime Rickey (BasicGrey) Ribbon: American Craft Sand Resin: Liquitex Stamps: Tim Holtz, Unity, and Technique Tuesday Stencil: Tattered Angels Transparency: butterfly (Hambly Screen Prints) Instructions Part I: Canvas Page 1. Paint Grunge Paper. Set aside to dry. 2. Lay stencil over desired area of canvas page. 3. Brush sand resin and paint mixture in the empty places of stencil. (DO NOT LIFT STENCIL! Stencil does not get removed until after spraying of mist.) 4. Spray desired Glimmer Mist colors over the stencil and a bit to the top, bottom, and left. (In the following order: Key Lime, Lemon Zest, Olive Vine, Caramel Apple, Turquoise Blue, and Marshmallow) 5. Use flourish stencil to add designs to the top center and upper left. 6. Immediately, sprinkle diamond dust all over the three designs. Gently shake excess. 7. Outside, spray canvas page lightly with spray adhesive. 8. Allow to dry for several hours. Part II: Picture 1. Distress picture with distresser. 2. Add Ranger Distress Ink – any shade of brown. 3. Stamp picture. 4. Stamp dried Grunge Paper with large background stamp. 5. Distress all paper edges. 6. Layer the grunge paper and patterned papers to match attached picture. 7. Add more ink – if needed. 8. Tie tulle around edge of picture. (Be sure it lays FLAT in the back) 9. Sew on top of tulle. – zig zag is cute. 10. Sew butterfly to picture. 11. Add bling. Part IV: Flower 1. Have wet adhesive, small circle from cardstock, and stapler near. 2. Tie one end of ribbon in a knot – not too tight. 3. Begin wrapping the ribbon around the knot. 4. It will begin to form a circle flower. 5. Staple the edges of the flower – only once or twice. This will begin to “flatten” the flower. 6. Continue until all of ribbon is wrapped. 7. Glue flower to the circle. 8. Push on the top of the flower and spread the ribbon a bit. 9. Glue dried flower on circle to picture.   Part V: Jewels 1. Fold the wire in half. 2. Thread the large jewel through and twist above it – about six times. 3. Add other jewels. 4. Twist wire to keep jewels still. 5. Poke hole under the flower. 6. Thread through and glue with red line tape to back. 7. Tie small bow/knot at the base of where the flower and jewel meet with spare tulle. Part VI: Final Touches 1. After the sand resin has completely dried, thread tulle through holes. 2. Tape ends to the back of canvas – be sure it lays flat. 3. Tape or sew the picture to the canvas page. 4. Add hanger. 5. Enjoy!!!   Note: All of the images on scrapbooking.com can be clicked on and one of two things will happen. Either a detailed page about the layout will be displayed or a more detailed version of the picture will appear