This homemade glimmer mist...

[Cass2sons]

I just experimented with water, ultra fine glitter and a mini spray bottle, I tried it out on paper and the paper was drenched. How do you keep your creations from being soaked and coming apart with all the water sprayed on?

[purplewinkle]

I've heard of people mixing pearl ex with hair spray. I've never heard of water and glitter.

One thing I've done is to apply pearl ex with a cotton ball and then hit it with hair spray, or dab my versamarker pen on where I want the glitter and then stipple on some pearl ex mon that. It makes a subtle glitter.

Hope that's help.

[Cass2sons]

Ohh ok, thanks Rainy for your tip!

[TexasGrammy]

I make my own homemade 'shimmery' mist with:

• "Perfect Pearls" (by Ranger)
• water in a Ranger mini-mister (about 3/4's full)

It's also possible with 'Pearl Ex', but you'll need to add liquid hairspray to enable the product to bind to the paper.

Tex's Tips:

• Use a sprayer with a very fine 'mist'.
• Keep a bit of distance between the sprayer & C/S. You should not 'saturate' your C/S.

Here's one sample using my gold mist.

Hope this helps!

[gram2boyz]

I buy the travel size hairspray, add a little Pearl Ex, shake and go! It works great and the hairspray dries pretty quickly.

[Cass2sons]

Thank you ladies, both are great tips, I will have to wait until next monthy to get some pearl ex, thank you again for telling me how to do it!

[cat_woman]

If you are going to use this on scrapbook pages I wouldn't suggest using the hairspray recipe. I've made mine with just water, re-inker, and perfect pearls (perfect pearls already has a binder in the powder). If you are using pearlex you need to use a binder - that's why a lot of people use hairspray. You can buy liquid or powder gum arabic (paint binder) and use that, then it will also be safe to use on scrapbooks.

[YorkieMoma]

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Originally Posted by cat_woman

If you are going to use this on scrapbook pages I wouldn't suggest using the hairspray recipe. I've made mine with just water, re-inker, and perfect pearls (perfect pearls already has a binder in the powder). If you are using pearlex you need to use a binder - that's why a lot of people use hairspray. You can buy liquid or powder gum arabic (paint binder) and use that, then it will also be safe to use on scrapbooks.

OK, I had mixed some water and pearl ex previously and if I'm understanding correctly, I should add a little gum arabic??? I just happen to have some of it on hand!

Thanks, Pam

[Jodi LeVesseur]

I mix Stampin' UP! Shimmer Paints in their current holiday mini catalog, i mix approximately 6 drops of paint to 3oz of rubbing alcohol! It makes the best shimmer spray ever, because it's alcohol it dries fast and doesn't run the ink! I have used this same idea with pearl-ex powder also!
Good Luck!

[stctrent]

I have found that using rubbing alcohol works the best. You can buy it in a 90% solution at most drug stores (walgreens/cvs). the most common rubbing alcohol is 75%, so it has a higher water content. The 90% solution with evaporate faster and less warping of your paper.

[ottawagal4]

I tried the technique yesterday using the Mini Mister by Ranger. I kept shaking the bottle before spraying but the paint got stuck at the top and won't spray.

It's up too far to get to. Any ideas on how to loosen it up? Did I use too much shimmer paint?

Thanks!

[DebKNeer]

Thanks for all the tips! Subbin' ...

[ldenhaan]

I'm trying to figure out why people are making their own glimmer mist. Is it cheaper?

[Karla witha K]

I made my own because I wanted to use SU! refills to match the cardstock. See my post on my blog for the recipe:

http://stampinwithk.blogspot.com/2009/11/shimmer.html

Karla c(:

[asuncionshija]

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Originally Posted by ldenhaan

I'm trying to figure out why people are making their own glimmer mist. Is it cheaper?

I *can* be! :rolleyes:
If you already have Perfect Pearls (or Pearl Ex & some fixative) you can make some awesome home made shimmer sprays. If you wanted (and you had some) you can add a little bit of dye reinker to the mix & have colored shimmer sprays.

Now, on the other hand... if you only want pearl shimmer spray, and you don't have any of the other supplies.... Well, lets just say that it might get a little more expensive then!

To the person with a clogged mini mister: run it under warm water for a while and see if that helps. You really don't need very much shimmery stuff to make a great spray, just the tip of a popsicle stick. Wash it really well (even pull the little sprayer top off if you can) and see if that helps!

[biblesistersmom]

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[gram2boyz]

I saw on another thread that you are not to shake the bottle vigorously. It causes air bubbles that make it splatter and forces the glitter up into the tube to clog it. Just swirl the bottle gentlty untill the glitter mixes in.

[lapom]

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[Chucky]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TexasGrammy

I make my own homemade 'shimmery' mist with:

• "Perfect Pearls" (by Ranger)
• water in a Ranger mini-mister (about 3/4's full)

It's also possible with 'Pearl Ex', but you'll need to add liquid hairspray to enable the product to bind to the paper.


Tex's Tips:

• Use a sprayer with a very fine 'mist'.
• Keep a bit of distance between the sprayer & C/S. You should not 'saturate' your C/S.

Here's one sample using my gold mist.

Hope this helps!

Can you make glimmer mist with alcohol and dazzling diamonds? I have the mini misters from Ranger...would the dazzling diamonds be too big and get stuck in the spray head?

Thanks in advance for your help!