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Hi! This is Sage Kimble and I'm the Mad Stamper.
In this video, I'm going to show you some tips for using Smooch Spritz,
and how to make your own color and Shimmer Paint Spritzes.
Stampin'Up! sells Smooch Spritz
that comes in these little glass tubes with the nozzle on top.
I love the bit of bling it adds to a project, but I don't like how easily the nozzle
gets plugged up.
I know many people have given up on Smooch Spritz because of the clogging
problem, but I'm going to show you a way you can still use it without the
frustration.
First thing you want to do is take the Smooch Spritz and shake it up, because
all of the bling and the colors down here at the bottom...
and so you want a mix that really well
so you don't need all the bling in
the tube
when you pour it out.
You can see pretty easily if there's still some of the
bling down in the bottom
and you just keep shaking until that's all dissolved in the liquid.
So that looks like I've got all of it.
And the next thing to do it is to
unscrew the nozzle and take it off.
So if you're going to use a Stampin' Spritzer,
it's best to fill it only half way
with the Smooch Spritz
because it will just about fill up the whole
spritzer bottle with the amount that's in the tube.
I'm going to use this
spray bottle that I've been using for Smooch Spritz and
since it's a 2 oz. bottle, I can pour the whole thing
into the spray battle.
Then I'm going to pour a little bit of alcohol in.
You don't need much; even a little will thin down the Smooch Spritz enough
to keep from clogging the nozzle.
Then you shake it up
and you're ready to use it. In a minute. I'll show you my setup for spritzing so that I
don't get it all over my craft table.
But first I want to show you how to make your own color spritzes.
I'm going to make a Pool Party spritz for a project I'm working on.
Since Pool Party is such a light color, and I want it to show up against a
white background,
I'm going to use quite a bit of ink refill.
I'm gonna put about twenty drops in here. With a darker color, you won't need as
much ink.
So that's what twenty drops looks like in the bottom of the tube.
It fills about a quarter of an inch of the tube.
Since I want a little bling in this spritz, I'm going to add some Frost
White Shimmer Paint.
So after shaking it up,
I'm going to use a dropper,
because it's kind of hard to pour out just a drop or two
with the Shimmer Paint.
So I've got a little dropper I've used
before
and I add
just
two drops.
Then I need to add alcohol.
So I added enough alcohol to bring
the mixture up to about an inch here.
And as you can see the Shimmer Paint has a tendency to stick to the sides.
But don't worry about that because
enough will get mixed in
to the liquid
that it'll work fine.
So I a shake it really well
and then I'm ready to spritz with it.
This mixture is going to give me a lot of color saturation
like you see here but if you want it finer
or more diluted,
of course you can add more alcohol.
You can also make a nice spritzing mixture with alcohol and just Shimmer
Paint.
I've got some
Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint mixed with alcohol in this bottle
and all you do is pour in a pretty good dollop of the
Shimmer Paint
and then some alcohol.
This is mixed pretty thin
so that it'll give a nice even spray.
But again, you just experiment with the ratio that
gives you the effect that you want.
I have a spritzing box set up in the laundry room so I'll show that to you
now.
Here we are in my laundry room
where I've got my spritzing cardboard box set up
at an angle. You can see that I've got Dotto here
on
the back of the box.
I find that I get that best results when i can hold the spritzer
almost upright
and parallel to the surface that I'm spritzing. So that's why I position the box in
this way.
I'd like to start with spraying a piece of
scratch paper so that I
make sure that I've got the
mix I want and I see how far away I want to hold it.
Also that first spray or two
may come out
pretty splotchy because the tube isn't filled with the mixture yet.
It helps if you're not tentative when you spray.
If you just give a really solid
push on the nozzle,
all the way down to where it stops,
you'll get
a really good spray.
Remember that spritzing is a
casual technique.
You don't have complete control over where the color lands
and
the spray pattern.
So only use it when you don't need perfection.
Once I know what my spray pattern is going to look like, I can take my Card Stock
and place that in the box
and hold the spritzer approximately the same distance away and
press the plunger.
I hope this video inspires you to get out your Smooch Spritz, your ink refills
and Shimmer Paint
and get spritzing!
For more inspiration and instruction,
be sure to visit me on my website at www.StampingMadly.com,
the Stamping Madly Face Book page,
and The Mad Stamper YouTube channel.
Happy Stamping!