Stamping with Lumiere (You can tint it! Slick huh?)

Mixin' Lumiere up & paintin' it on is almost as fun as finger painting! :0)

For anyone, who may not be familiar with it, Lumiere is an acrylic paint that has pearl tones. It used to be sold by Stampin' up, but they retired it along with Pearl ex (the powdered pigment that you can add to Lumiere.) Both are made by Jacquard.

Of course--since you can paint & stamp with acrylic paints--you can paint & stamp with this loverly schtuff...

You can turn a block stamp into a line image by cutting it out. It's like havin' a whole new stamp-woohoo! :0)

To paint with Lumiere:

I started out with an embossed image (so that the dark outlines wouldn't be obscured by the lumiere.) If you wipe it off right away it won't obscure the lines--if you forget like me--because it's embossed--it lets you scrape the Lumiere off afterwards (gently with your fingernail ) :0)

• Paint a coat of lumiere allover blooms & branch
  

• Add a layer of reinker wash over top--as though water colouring (shading etc... the way you like to) This is a mix of Basic Gray & Black craft ink and water. The Black craft gives a purpley hue, kinda neat.
  

• Add another Lumiere layer--if you want to tone it down at all
  

• Optional texturing: when it's almost dry, you can use a dead ballpoint pen, or a glaze/glitter pen to dry emboss a pattern into it:
  

To Stamp with Lumiere:

Lumiere mixes beautifully with reinkers/ink refills.

Who knew?--probably some of you gals/guys, but not me! ;0) (This is Pearl White Lumiere; there are colours as well).

You can just keep adding reinker in stages until you have a colour you like. This is Basic Grey Reinker

Paint your Lumiere mix onto a stamp (or just plain Lumiere).

This is a Fancy pants stamp (From the garden set) It's honkin' BIG (6x6") & I was so happy to learn from Emily that I could use the cuttlebug adapter cutting plate as a block to stamp it with. (YAY!) wee Tip: As with any acrylic, you'll wanna wash your brush n stuff fairly quickly so it doesn't harden. (This has to be the most fun medium to clean up ever made, though; the tiny sparkles swirling in water are mesmerizing!)

For a tidier (more even) look with a thin coat or fine detail, you can mix your lumiere & ink on a plate/acrylic block & then brayer it onto your stamp. (I found I had to work way quicker as it was thin, so it dried quicker, but you get a nice application)

Then just stamp it. Love how you can see right through, hey? :0)

Be sure to clean your stamp right away,
so that the lumiere paint does not dry on it.

A dry brush technique is a great way to fill any areas that were missed in stamping. You can leave as much or as little of your Lumiere mix on the brush as you'd like. I try to work in little dots so it doesn't look too different from the stamping.

Lumiere is nice & wet, so you can emboss it.

Of course, if you powder it right away, you'll get lots on there (but you can wait a bit and get a distressed embossing kinda look 'cause less embossing powder will stick.) This is just clear embossing powder.

...and that's it...

Other Card details:

Stamps: illumination definition text stamp from Above the Mark stamps The text is stamped on Basic Grey in white craft ink (stamped off 2x to pale it a bit); Flourish from In the Garden by Fancy Pants, (Sorry, I've no idea where the magnolia stamp is from. If you know, I'd love to hear!) "love" sentiment from Noteworthy
Cardstock: Basic Gray, Black, Perfect Plum (main card), Naturals white (round tab)
Accessories: embroidery thread (Pewter gray 457), Hodge podge hardware styled silver circle (tag & brads), Strip cut from 7gypsies gaffer tape Le Monde (tinted with Black Stazon to reduce contrast of white text), Black marker to distress edge of Plum card.

Thank you all so much for bein' you! It warms my heart to know you're all out there making art!
(and I really need heartwarmin' today, it's chilly-rainy here in Coquitlam!)