Now that I finished with the Sale-a-Bration Swap, I'll be posting the swaps I received at our Spring Fling event for the Occasion Catalog. I'm really enjoying this catalog and Stampin' Up! has made it really difficult to choose what to get! I signed up for the Dragonfly Dreams set. There are so many samples out there and trying to decide what to do wasn't easy. After playing around with the bundle (there are thinlits that coordinate with the stamp set) I decided I wanted the dragonfly wings to shimmer and also wanted to use our vellum cardstock. So my predicament was getting the image in black and to shimmer. Being we don't sell black embossing powder any longer, that was out. I first inked the image in VersaMark then in black Memento and stamped on the vellum and used clear embossing powder. After using markers to color in the back of the image I used the clear Wink of Stella to color the front and couldn't really see the sparkle. I decided to mix the clear embossing powder with Dazzzling Diamonds Glitter. After playing around a bit I came up with a good mix and just the right amount of sparkle.
It's hard to see the shimmer/glitter in this picture.
Here is a close up so you can see the sparkle.
Here is a picture of the dragonflies as I was working on them. The top one is the one I used on my card. The middle one is the first one I did and the last one was after I mixed the clear embossing powder and Dazzling Diamonds. That was a 50/50 mix and thought is was just too glittery.
I'll post a few more of my other swaps in a day or so. I hope you enjoyed this and has given you some inspiration to play around with your stamps as well! If you need to order any of these products or anything else, you can go to my store
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