DT: Kingston Crafts – rainbow shimmer spray – Scrappin Saturday

I’m back with another project using the Kingston Crafts shimmer spray which was one of my design team projects – but this time I pretty much ignored the spray element and instead did some painting with them.

I wanted to create a fun background for the scrapbook page where I was using a black and white photo of my friends dog Barney.

So I painted five of the colours of the spray across the page. I was quite generous with the painting so you can see there are some spots where the shimmer is quite concentrated. I love this because it adds to the texture too.

Once it was dry I then decided to use the Pet Collection kit to add some fun elements cut out from the paper and some scraps of yellow and orange card to mat the photo.

Apologies that the colour looks a little dull here – no sun for taking the picture!

I decided that the page needed something else to go across so grabbed a die which cuts the bumpy border from Hey Little magpie and cut some brown cardstock. I then used the magnolia spray to add shimmer to all the brown strips so they became shiny too!

I then layered up the page with a few little elements from the Pet Collection kit and added the name and date to the side of the photo.

In the light the shimmer spray does a great job of shimmering fabulously – of course it doesn’t show as well on photos as real life – but I hope you liked this different way to use the sprays – not as sprays!

I was absolutely delighted that my lovely Barney page got shown on tv – and hopefully my friend got to see it too! Here is a pic of Martin explaining about the painting of the spray inks on the show!