Twinklers Backgrounds

Here’s another way to use up those everlasting Twinkling H₂0s. They just don’t seem to ever use up, do they, lol? Especially not if you have the larger sized pots as I have. I’ve never seen anyone else do this and even if they did, I didn’t know that, so I was quite pleased with this technique. It WAS when Twinklers first came out.

This is the ‘by product’ (both very shimmery)

And this is how you do it 🙂

Supplies

Twinkling H₂0s

Water

Spray or Spritzer

Paintbrush

Plain cardstock

Craft mat or newspaper to protect your work surface

Mulberry paper – I use white so I get something to use afterwards but if you have any old coloured stuff lying around that you’re not going to use, by all means use it – it does get tatty. Just make sure it’s water fast and the dyes don’t run. I haven’t checked that 😦

To make

• Firstly choose your H₂0s – not too many and not too many stark contrasts, though by all means experiment 🙂
• Add water to them, either with your paintbrush or the spray and give them time to blend a little. You don’t want the paint to be too thin when you paint it on.
• Lay a piece of mulberry paper over the card and spray with water until it’s pretty wet.
• Paint the H₂0s randomly over the mulberry paper, adding more water to lighten the colour if it starts to get too dark.

If you need to, spray with more water, then leave for a little while.

• When you’ve allowed time for the colour to transfer, peel the mulberry paper from the card and lay them out to dry separately. You can heat set with a heat tool, though the Mulberry paper goes brittle if you do. The card is fine.

Mulberry paper still wet

Wet card

(Anyone any idea why those extra line spaces appear in the middle of a bulleted paragraph, btw – drives me nuts and I’ve tried all ways to get rid of them but to no avail!!!!)

You get a sort of shimmery marble effect, which looks as if it’s veined because of the texture of the mulberry paper and I love it.

If you’ve used a pale colour of mulberry paper, then you can use it for something else. They look great stamped and embossed in gold and make great covers for books, photo frames, boxes, etc. It looks particularly nice behind glass or acetate, so is perfect for Microscope slides or pendants.