You Rock Birthday Card
Hello! Today I’d like to share how to make a cool, fractured background look, using Glimmer Mists and plastic cling wrap.
Step 1: Spray Glimmer Mists
To make the background, I started with a piece of 140# cold-pressed watercolor paper. Then I misted a combination of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists to completely cover the piece: Dragonfly (blue), Sugar Maple (copper), and Graphite (charcoal gray).
Step 2: Crumple cling wrap on top & let dry
Next, I cut a piece of plastic cling wrap to be slightly larger than my misted piece. I crumpled up the cling wrap, and then uncrumpled it a bit. Then, I placed it on top of the misted background and let it dry overnight.
Completed background
I really like the effect that is created. In this particular piece, wherever the cling wrap was in contact with the watercolor paper, it is the Graphite color. Wherever there was a bubble in the cling wrap, the Dragonfly or Sugar Maple color is seen. And, the “glimmer” gets arranged along the edges or creases in the cling wrap – giving it a fractured look.
Step 3: Use the background in a project
With a background this pretty, I prefer to use a minimum amount of other elements, to let the background shine.
While the background was drying, I stamped Hero Arts G5475 You Rock (the girl) using black ink onto white cardstock. I colored her using a combination of Prismacolor Premier colored pencils and Derwent watercolour pencils (which you can use without water, t00). The stars on her jacket and areas on her iPod and headphones were accented with a Sakura clear glitter gel pen.
Close-up of You Rock Birthday Card
The birthday sentiment (and frame) is from Hero Arts CL139 Birthday Messages. A Fiskars Scallop Sentiment border punch was used to edge the background. Finally, metallic blue elastic cord was added to draw visual attention to the girl – and to repeat the linear element from the background.
Thanks for looking! :-)
{ 2 appreciated comments }
Very unusual Anne – but rather stunning. I only have a clear shimmer mist but do make my own, so will have to try this one. Great card.
Anne, this is such a cool effect. I don’t own any Glimmer mists, but it might work the same with perfect pearls & inks in water. Might try it later today :) xoxoxo