Nat Noted -- Oct. 29/12

I love Fall because of the wonderful colours, warm sweaters and comfort food! The cooler weather also means more time inside to scrapbook all the pictures I took last summer.

It is also the season for crazy weather. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path of Sandy aka The Frankenstorm. Stay safe!

I found some wonderful things online thatI had to share with you.

1. I think I seem to remember that I *may* have said somewhere that I didn't understand why anyone would make and want to give or even want to receive a Hallowe'en card. I take it all back if the Hallowe'en card looks like this. ;-)

Photo credit: Hege Lundquist (Prima)

2. American Crafts just released new products, including these fab scissors. I want this set now please.

3. Debbie Hodge lists 5 reasons to use black and white photos on a layout. I love this Dina Walkley page where the photo was converted to black and white to give it more impact (plus it's a cool layout).

Photo credit: Dina Walkley (Get It Scrapped!)

4. I am really loving the layouts by Lilith Eckles who is on the design team for American Crafts. I find this page very inspiring because Lilith took her inspiration from Pinterest. I also love the ribbon and the sewing and the words on the orange stripe and the pennants and the white space and the sense of movement. Wow.

Photo credi: Lilith Eckles (Lilith's Scrapbooking Venture)

5. Who knew ink splats could be so beautiful?  

Photo credit: Tina Walker (My Mind's Eye)

6. Christy Tomlinson designed some super cool iPhone covers. If you go to Christy's site, you'll see the other producst she's designed and a coupon code. Love Christy!

Photo caption: Christy Tomlinson

7. Noell Hyman from Paperclipping has a great post on how to start Project Life.

Photo credit: Noell Hyman (Paperclipping)

8. Anna Bjorklund from Tattered Angels decorated stones to play "three in a row" (which looks a lot like tic tac toe to me) with doodling and Glimmer Glam. The tutorial on the TA website is very cool. 

Photo credit: Anna Bjorklund (Tattered Angels)

 9. Love the confetti on this card.

Photo credit: Sally Traidman (Hero Arts)



I hope you find time to be inspired and create something wonderful this week.



Product Review - Spray Inks

Welcome to our first product review here at Auntie Em's Scrapbooking and Beading!

Today I will be looking at different spray inks including:


1. Smooch Spritz by Clearsnap
2. Glimmer Mist Chalkboard by Tattered Angels
3. Perfect Pearls Mist by Ranger
4. Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels


Spray inks can be alot of fun to change the look of items - you can custom colour paper, flowers, ribbon and a whole lot more with these items.  There are several 'resist' items on the market now including Pattered Papers (Ranger, Pink Paislee Mistables, Prima canvas etc.) For our purposes I have simply stamped with versamark and clear embossing powder to give you a simple look at the different sprays.


Smooch Spritz - 0.37 oz glass bottle (Colour I used is Mixed Berries)
I love the rich colour of these sprays, Clearsnap really offers up a deep pigment with these inks.  You can un-screw the top and use the plunger straw to 'flick' larger specks of colour too.  There seems to be a small amount of glitter in the bottom, but it is a pretty opaque coverage. I find that with the smooch you get an even and fine mist of colour, however I do find that they get clogged easy, and the glass bottle is worrisome to me, that it will get crushed in my bag and I'll have a shimmery mess to clean up combined with glass shards.

Glimmer Mist Chalkboard - 2 oz (colour I used is Concord)
Very little shimmer, and a more opaque coverage.  Available in more than 20 colours it offers a very rich colour, and a fine mist. Almost a flat colour, if you are simply looking to change the colour of something, but do not want to give it a shine, this is the spray ink for you.

Perfect Pearls Mist - 2 oz (Colour I used is Heirloom Gold)
If you are looking for lots of shimmer, this is the spray ink for you!  The perfect Pearls Mist comes in 24 different colours. These inks work great on both light coloured papers and especially dark coloured papers.  They pack alot of shimmer to them, much more than its hot selling competitors.  It comes with a ball bearing in the bottle to aid in the mixing.  My favorite colour is Heirloom Gold - strangely it smells great, like vanilla to me. 

Glimmer Mist - 2 oz (Colours I used are Weatfield and Olive Vine)
The most popular of the spray inks, and the catch-all name for spray inks.  I find that Glimmer mist tend to be very light in coverage, but very shimmery.  I must say that I have quite the collection of Glimmer Mists, it is available in dozens of colours.  Tattered Angels also sells sets of 4 glimmers in smaller 1 oz bottles, a great starter kit if you want to try out different colours and feel that 2 oz is far too much to get started with.  My favorite go-to colour is Wheatfields - it is a light beige with a touch of green to it, great for antiquing!

You can click on the photos of the tags that I stamped with the various spray inks for a close up view.  Better yet, come to Auntie Em's and see them in person, much more inspiring!


Let me know your experiences with spray inks and your likes and dislikes.

~Lorena~