Make your own mist sprays

[amy]

Hello beautiful ladies! I have a really easy tutorial for you today. It all started about a month ago when I reached for my Glimmer Mist and realized I was almost out...Oh NO!! I went to my local SB store and they were sold out as well, and I had no patience to wait for some to be mailed to me. I had remembered hearing somewhere that you could create your own, this got me thinking...HOW?! So I researched it a bit and found so many different ways to do it. The problem was that I didn't have the inks they say to use, so I just did it my own way figuring it out as I went along. I would like to share with you a few tricks I have figured out.

The things you may need:
*Clean empty spray bottles
*paints/powders (I used some PearlX that I have had forever)/food coloring
*water


Start off by getting your desired amount of powder into your bottle. I was using the end of a crab pick that I had bent to work for what I needed. Hey - I was using what I had around! lol I used two 'spoon' fulls of gold.


Then I added water. I was using a medicine dropper, this made things so much easier - for me!


This is what it looks like after I shook it up.


And this is what it looked like after sprayed onto white cardstock. Notice the pretty shimmer!! Now on these examples I sprayed the mist really heavy to show the colors.


Another thing I played around with was making paint sprays. Just add water to your bottle and I added 4-5 dropplets..ok more like paint gobbs straight from the bottle. On some of my mists I have used just paint and it looks pretty, but if you want it to shimmer then add your powder in a like color.


This is what the brown paint looks like. I didn't add the PearlX powder to this one just to show you how a paint spray looks.


Try adding food coloring to your mister! It looks awesome! The color of your mist will depend on how much food coloring you add to your water. I typically add about 6 drops. I like my colors to be bright! Again you can add the powders to this, but it looks great as is.


Here is that the blue food coloring spray looks like. I also didn't add any PearlX powder to this...all Food Coloring!


Here is a little sample of the colors I made today using these techniques. So fun and versatile and I can make ANY color I need to go with my LO's!! Now that's exciting!!


Here are a few recent LO's that I have created using my homemade mist sprays!



I hope you will give them a try and show off your work using your very own Homemade Mists!! I can't wait to see them!

[rissa]

Amy these are awesome!!! Where did you get those great little bottles from?? I'll be out tomorrow morning running some errands so i may be able to pick some up. I'd really like to try this

[jjkarma]

You are a genious!!!! Love, love all of your pages!!!

[amy]

Thank you ladies!!

Rissa, I actually bought those bottles on ebay. I got 11 of them for 7 dollars. They are exactly like the Tim Holtz ones that you can buy at Michaels but much cheaper because I ordered them through a perfume supply lady. The Tim Holtz ones are about 5-6$ for 3!! I can give you the link for the seller if you like or you can do a search for Mini Mister and they will pull right up. Before I ordered those I was just using little bottles I had around the house and cleaned them. You can also go to the travel section at like Walmart and they have little bottles I believe for 99 cents..but they are huge!

[Kristin]

That's a fantastic Idea Amy! I'll have to try that!

[rissa]

Thanks for the info Amy

I went on the hunt for these this morning. Actually they weren't as hard to find as i thought, i found some at the Sallys beauty supply around the corner from my house. They came 2 in a pack and they were $1.99 . I only bought 2 packs but hey thats 4 different colors and i can get more after the holidays!!! I'll have to invest in some of the PearlX stuff as well, but for now food coloring & water will do me just fine!!

[j3ss1ca]

That is really cool. I will have to give it a try.

[nathansmomma]

what a great idea!!! i need to try this out!!!