Here’s a tip I’d like to share. Playing and experimenting with glimmer mist, I go through quite a few paper towels cleaning up after myself. I know you can make flowers and backgrounds with your paper towels, but I can only do that so many times. So instead of using so many paper towels, I purchased a few washcloths for use in my craft room, and that works well. But I still felt like I was wasting – not paper towels, but my glimmer mist! All that excess, beautiful, glimmer mist that pools around the edges of my projects on my nonstick craft sheet was being sopped up on my paper towels and thrown out or rinsed out of my washcloths.
So now, in addition to my washcloth and paper towels, I keep a stack of tags in my area. You can use purchased tags, or make your own using file folders. Now, all glimmer mist over spray is sopped up with my tags in a variety of ways. Sometimes I have quite a bit of mist on my mat, and it’s enough to nearly cover an entire tag. Sometimes it’s not very much mist, so I add a little water to my mat and then drag the tag through the mist –resulting in more of a pastel color. I also like leaving “white” space on the tags so additional colors and inks can be added.
What do I do with all those tags? I keep some of them in a little box, along with neutral colored embellishments like pearls, string, lace, buttons, flowers and bottle caps to create pretty tags to use on a gift bags, cards, or embellishments on layouts and mixed media projects. It makes a great “to go” kit to take with me to a friend’s house, crops or even to create while watching TV. Here are a few of the embellished tags from the “kit”.
I also keep a pile of these tags in my craft room to experiment with various techniques such as this tag – it’s one of the techniques we’re doing in my Tattered Techniques Tag class on May 19th in a Northern California store – Art Inspired Studios.
