Over the course of the next ten weeks we’ll be starting the week by bringing you even more fabulous inspiration from our design team. Each week one of us will be sharing the tips and tricks of our current favourite new products now that we have just about all the releases from CHA Winter in store.
We start with me (Suz!) and I have made no secret of how much I love the amazing rainbow range of colours that are the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist sprays.
Tattered Angels are expanding their range with all clever things Glimmer Mist and beautiful. They have had Glimmer Screens like the ones above out for some time in a range of beautiful designs like flourishes and butterflies, but now they’ve taken the use of screens like this, literally to the next level.
First you use the screen on your project and spray Glimmer Mist in colours of your choice to customise and personalise your page.
And then… you take these amazing all new stamps that co-ordinate with the Glimmer Screens and stamp all the detail missing from the design to create a whole new look. These stamps are clear acrylic and fantastic quality – the level of detail in the designs will take your breath away.
Frankly, I think this product range is a stroke of genius by Tattered Angels. Designed to be used with their core product - the Glimmer Mist sprays - these products are versatile enough to be used over and over in so many different ways and colour palettes.
The Glimmer Screens contain designs for both the clock, compass and fob watch, and the stamps are packaged so that you can choose between the clock detail complete with separate hands (so you can make it any time you want) and the beautiful posts that you can choose to hang the clock on, or the compass with arrows hands. They also come with a plastic stamp mount so that everything you need is in the package.
There is also a divine tree which has two co-ordinating stamps designed to be used with it – a stylised flourish-y tree and another with more natural detail. Both are simply gorgeous.
My first project uses the clock Glimmer Screen and Stamp. I love the way the screen allows the white of the cardstock to show through and stand out and though it’s beautiful even on its own the stamp adds another level of detail and refinement.
Here I have stamped the design straight onto my cardstock but also stamped the clock onto separate cardstock, which i have Glimmer Misted and given an aged look which was one of those happy accidents that started out a mistake. After stamping and Glimmer Misting the clock i covered it in Dimensional Magic, and too impatient to wait for it to dry on its own, I turned the heat gun on it. It started to bubble and warp and crack and, interested to see how it would end up, I kept going. I love the range of texture that resulted.
Though the stamps come with clock hands, I chose to use a Tim Holtz game spinner instead, a subtle, subliminal reminder of the message of the page, to take more time to play. The quote itself is backed and stitched onto patches of paper that have also been Glimmer Misted in various shades – in fact, no patterned paper has been harmed in the making of this layout!
The stunning compass stamp has been used on its own on this page, to both add to the slightly nautical nature of the photo as well as the ‘direction’ theme of the page. The beauty (and slight scariness!) of stamps is that you can use them directly on a practically finished layout, tying lots of elements in together just by stamping on all of them. I have used the same brown chalk ink to stamp the image as i have to edge the Marrakesh patterned paper, SEI Lace paper (which has also been Glimmer Misted to a divine metallic finish) and chipboard elements which also helps to tie it all together.
I have repeated the circle theme several times in a cluster which always pleases the eye – and note also the detail of the Heidi Swapp mirror circle which also received a portion of the compass stamp with Stazon ink.
Finally, I share this mini album which was created to celebrate my mother’s side of the family emigrating from South Africa to Australia in the 1950’s, after the values of apartheid made it impossible for people with conscience to remain in their home country.
Obviously both the compass and the clock themes suit the nautical and historical nature of this album, and I had a fabulous time making puddles of Glimmer Mist on the pages of the sturdy Tattered Angels album to create glorious aged and distressed looks. If you mask the centre of the Compass stamp it would make a fabulous accent in which to journal inside the frame. You can turn the Glimmer Screen over after you’ve used it - when it’s covered in Glimmer Mist – and use it as a stamp. I added salt to the last couple of pages shown in these images whilst the Glimmer Mist was drying to create another fabulous texture. There are so many fabulous ways you can use these products I reckon I could make a book about them, but apparently, for now, I have to stop here!
