Shimmery Pastel Paint Stampin’ Up! Card

What a busy March break we’ve been having (i.e. spring break in the USA)!  All 5 kids are home, and we had Soph and her family (she has 3 kids) here for a few days so things were VERY LOUD – but a lot of fun.  My daughter Julia and Soph’s daughter Naomie spent a good portion of their time creating a beauty salon and a cafe.  They were giving manicures and pedicures and back massages, then we could order a “specialty drink” off of their “menu”. It was so cute!  Although Soph and her family went home yesterday, the fun has been continuing, because my husband took the whole week off.  Yesterday we took the four older kids to a “toonie matinee” at the theater and saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and today we took them bowling.  So it’s been a lot of fun and a wonderful opportunity to spend time with my family. 

Of course with everyone home, getting any work done is pretty challenging.

Today I wanted to share with you a Stampin’ Up! card that features the same Shimmery Pastel Paint technique I used on this card HERE. This particular technique – stamping with the shimmery pastel paint – works with any solid image stamp.  Unfortunately the picture is not the greatest – you just can’t see the beautiful shimmer on the flowers very well.

Tomorrow in the Paper Crafter’s Library we’ll be releasing a video showing you how to make the shimmery pastel paint, as well as three separate videos showing you different applications of the Shimmery Pastel Paint – how to stamp with it (as in the card here and on the Paper Crafter’s World blog), how to color in an outline image with it, and how to paint with it to create shimmery die cuts.

The card featured today uses my LEAST favourite collection of Stampin’ Up! DP – the Blueberry Crisp collection.  Honestly, I’m not sure why I bought it – at the time I was buying all of Stampin’ Up!’s other patterns of designer paper. I think my reasoning at the time was that I wanted a “complete collection” – of course, it’s been sitting on my shelf since then, because it just never seemed to work with anything I wanted to make.  I actually had to force myself to use it with this card.  It was the starting point for today’s project. I pulled it off my shelf and decided that THAT was what I was going to use.

Stamps: For All You Do (Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Stampin’ Pastels, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Early Espresso Classic ink (Stampin’ Up!)
Paper: Sahara Sand CS, Very Vanilla CS, Pacific Point CS, Blueberry Crisp DP, Neutrals Stack DP (Stampin’ Up!)
Accessories: Stampin’ Dimensionals, Basic Pearls, Square Lattice embossing folder, Big Shot, Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack