Two turquoise shimmer cards

These two cards came about from a random piece of the Tahitian Tide sitting on the desk begging to be used!

I decided to heat emboss the image across the panel with a blue embossing powder and then played with the shimmer watercolours to colour them in. Finished off with a splatter over the whole panel. It’s so shimmery!

I remembered that this image looked nice on book print so I stamped it three times on some book print and embossed with the same blue powder.

I then blended blue and green inks over the three images and fussy cut them out (I forgot I owned the die to save me fussy cutting! 😂)

I then decided that it needed something fun as a layer under the leaf image so I grabbed this piece of bandage and pulled at it so it was different weave… funny how out of date medical supplies end up in my crafting stash!

I secured the bandage into place with brads and then decided that I only wanted one leaf image but it needed shine so out came the shimmer watercolours again.

I then chose the sentiment from the Artistically inked set and embossed it as a long strip and then mounted on the Tahitian tide card to go across the whole panel. The helped to adhere the leaf image to the fabric too.

This left me with two book print images left so decided to create a trio with the middle one not being on book print and instead just on white with the shimmer watercolour. I wanted to keep this card simple … a textured background, the three images and a sentiment … oh and three gems to finish.

I did give the white panel a layer of the blue cardstock (I gutted the centre to not waste the cardstock as this is my last bit of this cardstock I think).

The shine on those shimmer paints is fabulous … it really captures the light and changes the shade of the colour as the light moves across it.

I did paint them quite generously so there was a good layer of the shimmer and the embossing helped to keep the sections separated.

Loved how they both came out … really fun playtime was had making them too!

Happy crafting!

Catherine