Don’t know why (other than the fact it is gorgeous) but I am addicted to painting with shimmer water colours at the moment. This time I grabbed a digital stamp that was already printed (Alex Siberia one I used a few weeks ago) and painted it using the shimmer watercolours.
I then let it dry before fussy cutting it out.
I then chose a piece of mop up paper and added more inks to it in the colours that went with the flowers.
I also went to town with splattering the shimmer watercolours too.
Once that was dry I ran it through the embossing folder and again added a bit of ink to it to make sure it highlighted a little of the embossing.
I decided to use a scrap of vellum to emboss the sentiment on in gold rather than my usual go to of a sentiment strip. I pierced holes in the vellum to look like it has been stitched. I adhered it too right and then I added a couple of eyelets so I could thread through the cord and adhere it at the bottom. The top left is held in place by the floral element.
I didn’t have quite the right colour of cardstock to mat the panel and I felt it needed more pink so I took petal pink cardstock but inked it heavily with picked raspberry. This gave it the right kind of tone to match with the other colours.
I then added three gold flower embellishments to finish off. Shimmer is not the easiest thing to photograph so this is it under the spotlight to show some of the shine and reflection.
Wonder how many more shimmery cards will get made … or should I pack away my pack of watercolours to make something less shiny?
What I need to do is watch less YouTube videos with people using distress mica sprays … I think this is what is making me go grab shimmer paints and go ultra shiny! 😂
Right that’s that for today. Love this. Love the final effect and really enjoyed having another go with that digital stamp image, it’s probably been one of my favourites I’ve ever been given as part of a design team.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
Another beauty!