Monday, October 18, 2010

Shimmery Glimmery Scents?

This week end I felt like a mad scientist developing a new potion to cure the world, or at least a portion of it.  I wanted a shimmer to my flowers but it seems the Perfect Pearls settle on the bottom of my spray misters and ends up clogging up the sprayer.  So, I decided to try my Iridescent Medium to see if it would give me a shimmer without the clogging factor and Oh My, It does!  I took my White Rain Liquid Hair Spray (dollar store purchase) and filled the mini mister to just over half way, added a couple drops of a  re-inker and dipped the end of my paint brush handle into the Iridescent Medium a few times and swirled it around in my mixture.  As you can see from the image, the shimmer is beautiful!  Well, I of course, loved it, but wasn't fully satisfied with my new potion, so I took it a step further and added a little of the Rose Scent (also a dollar store purchase) to the mini mister and believe it or not- it scents the flowers to smell like roses!  I bought the Iridescent Medium at Hobby Lobby (in the artist's paint section, with a 40% off Coupon) to mix into my cheap water color paints to create a paint similar to that of the Sparkling H2O's without the cost (works great I might add).  I have had it for a bit now but just never thought of mixing it into my Glimmer Spray Mixture! The first picture is the Iridescent Medium and the second shows the effects on the blue and gold circles along with the products I used :)  *Hugs*

5 comments:

  1. Thanks Alicia for the steps and products!!!! It's beautiful!

    Judy Garrelts

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  2. Great Job Alicia!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the tip!

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  3. Wow! That is so creative!! Will have to try this!! TFS

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  4. Wow ...what a wonderful idea... Thanks for sharing this.

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  5. Alicia, this is brilliant. I haven't come across irridescent medium before (we have Windsor and Newton here in the UK so must look out for it)- does it have some sort of adhesive in it like Perfect Pearls, so it stays stuck on when it's dry?

    I can just see mad scientist Alicia with her bubbling potions and test tubes, hair sticking out at all angles and cotton wool in her ears against explosions! You'll be signing up for the syfy channel next!!!

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