 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorials today. I've got something a little bit different still a tutorial I'm still going to make these cards but I just also wanted to share a really cool product so this is the new opal polish from Cosmic Shimmer and basically if you've used like the gilding polishes if you use embossing pastes all those kind of texture pastes mediums in your mixed media projects all that kind of stuff then you will you will love this product. I stumbled upon it by accident I'm a you know I use a lot of Cosmic Shimmer's products and this is distributed by Creative Expressions and I have their products as well but it was on their Facebook group and it was a demonstration I think they were in Frankfurt a few weeks ago and yeah it just started to play on my Facebook feed and I watched it and I thought wow that is pretty impressive stuff. Brought the the the set of six which I've got here and I was showing it with my mum and she was like this is really cool and even my dad thought this this stuff is good. So I've been playing around with it today because I ordered three from one company because they didn't have the other three and then I ordered the other three from another company and then the one I originally ordered from ended up having all six by the time these were coming so I really went to get them like literally days after they'd just been released so not everybody had them actually physically in the warehouses so it was kind of like a pre-order. Anyway I'm going to go through all the colors in a moment I just want to show you the kind of effects and what this is all about so you can see here they give you a lovely iridescent finish but you get two colors out of one pot and that's the magic that's the really really cool part. So you know this pot here gives you two different colors and it's it's really really cool to watch. So this one here I've used on white cardstocks this is just smooth white 300 gsm white cardstock this is from Paper Mill Direct and I just wanted to do a tone on tone and I've done no sentiments on any of the cards because I just thought they're ready to go when I need them but this would look nice for maybe a wedding anniversary or even a wedding card a congratulations you know something like that but also what I'm going to show you is this amazing new bubble 3d embossing folder also by creative expressions which they release the same time but yeah I've just added the flowers they're just some punched flowers that I put on that one this one here is showing three of the colors which again I'm going to show you how they come together I thought this was quite a spring looking card looks really nice and again I kept the same theme throughout so that's one thing I'm going to continue I've just matted them on a really nice thin piece of gold that one is their gold mirrored cardstock and again I've used that bubble embossing folder I'm going to use some different ones in this kind of demonstration here I've used the three colors this is a bit more grungy you've got the blue going into the purple down into the gold there and then I've used the same colors to do the flowers really really fun and then this is tone on tone with the purples and I've added a silver this is a top folding landscape and I thought maybe a special number there you could have like you know 50th birthday so that's why I've kept that plane so I can add something because I think that that needs a big birthday number there I think that would look really cool and you can see all the dimension I bring it up there on that embossing folder and also obviously all the height there I've got with those beautiful flowers so that's the kind of cards that's the end result so what I've already gone ahead and done is I have gone and used my embossing folders and I've created these lovely background so I've got this one here which is the honeycomb and this is a 3d embossing folder by stamping up and made by Sizzix so that's that one which gives you this here so I've done one on black and one on white okay then I've got this is a new one this is the germini like pillow pillow effect and it gives you this one here and this again is the 3d one it's really raised it's probably quite hard to tell here but it is it's really dimensional well 3d and then I've done it on the white as well there and it's gorgeous it's really really nice so that's that one I will put all these links in my blog to these folders as well this is my favorite one this is the new one by creative expressions this is called bring this one over I know that's another one that I brought that's another good one this one isn't 3d though and I just think this technique will show up better when I'm filming it with a 3d embossing folder that's another new one I got that's the candy burst that's really cool but it's this one here bubble burst it's ef3d011 but again I'll share the links to where I've got it from they are the other four designs which I'm probably going to end up getting as well because I love that heart that's the bubble one there's just three more to get there that spiral one was the one that I think she demonstrated on actually so that's that one there and you can see here just look at that and it can all it's almost like a skin like an animal skin as well when you like a dragon so if you've got any you know anybody that loves dragons and all the kind of you know mythical magical whimsical all that kind of stuff you know what I'm saying but it's it's really really cool and that's it there on the white and again you can probably just see there's a lot of dimension but you look against the black there on the side of that you can see all the different parts they're raised it's really really lovely so those are yeah like I said love embossing folders um okay this is the fun part so I'm going to just grab some copy paper now I have made a little swatch here but I'm not really going to show these to you yet because they give away the colors so I just want you to kind of look at this and you know see if you get as excited as I did maybe it's just me I don't think it is I think it's pretty cool so let me use my swatch here just so I can go through so lavender blue let's have a look so this is lavender blue so if you're not familiar with these so if you screw the lid off and it gives you your lovely paste there I guess and then on the top here you click it off it's kind of it has a plastic there which has obviously come off now and it has your built-in sponge now the good thing about this is it's obviously less mess but it doesn't matter you don't have to rub all the excess off you can just click that back in as long as it clicks in and that will stay you know nice and soft so that when you go to use it again you can use it now also the good thing about using this is it it's almost instant dry so you can pretty much once you've done it and almost finished it the beginning's already dry so yeah it's it's that's also a good seller for me so take off your lid clip out your little top here now take some of it and you just want to create the lady that I watched she said have like a little kind of ski slope effect so you see it kind of dips down and just kind of rub off the excess you don't want to have you don't need a lot and these will last you for ages okay so I'm just trying to think in my head because I do want to I'm keeping all these I've cut them kind of to size so I want to think about blending them but for the minute I'm just going to show you I might try and fit all six colors along this one that might look quite cool okay so I'm very carefully now I'm just going to swipe that up here and there we go so that is the color that's in the pot okay and it's this really nice it's all pearlized you can just see there obviously once that dries so that's that one there now if I get that same one and put it on the black what color do you think's going to come out on the black you would think the blue so I'm just going to pop some more on here and then same swoop and you get purple and that's a real deep purple it's coming up almost I think because it's hitting the the light so the pearlized kind of colors coming through there but that is purple so you see there you two different colors blue and purple really cool okay so let's pop that back and maybe my swatch will show it a little bit more but the lavender blue gives you those two colors so that's that one there and then that one there so you get purple and blue so two colors in one pot now this will work on any kind of dark colors so if you're using dark navy dark green all your darker colors you're going to have that purple color and your lighter colors you're going to have that blue okay so that's that one then I'm going to use the blue parakeet which I think was this one here yeah so blue parakeet has obviously got this greeny color so again take it off click these out okay again just kind of load up your sponge and then I'm going to go straight down this one here and it comes out blue and it is so nice it's so shiny and just looks awesome that's why I'm showing it on this card here because it's just seems to just show it up better then on here and you get this lovely green which is the color in the pot so look at that now and you can blend them I've overlapped there and you've got kind of a greeny yellow going on there but they blend really nicely so you know there's four different colors there and that's across two pots so that's that one there then I'm going to use let's do what's another good one well they're all good to be fair let's do blushed blushed peach that's golden flamingo blushed peach so again exactly the same white load it up do this one first put a bit too much on there it doesn't matter to be fair but you get that really nice just like a rose kind of rosy gold color really lovely and then I do the same you'll get this peachy color now on the white but because it's all pearlized just how you can see how already you're creating a really cool background this would look nice as like a bit more kind of underwater I think because of that green and blue there so that one there is your blushed peach and then we've got golden flamingo which is this one here so you got this really nice again kind of pinky peach pop it here and look oh look at that gold it is so nice these are just awesome and they're so quick to use and this one I'm going to add here it's probably going to be a bit similar to the one next to it yeah it's just lighter but it's gorgeous and that is the pinky flamingo color which you can just see there so what a difference you know between that one there in gold and there's your pinky color so that's that one and then I'm only going to get five on here and all six so let's do pink thistle which is this one here and I'll do the other one on another so look at that look at that gorgeous paste again load it up I'm going to do it down this side here it's a darker shade to that one there it is a darker almost like a raspberry kind of color look how cool that background is I've gone a bit heavy in there in terms of it being just like all the others but that is still a really nice if you imagine all stars from the galaxy on the embossing folder having its stars and then doing this on your backgrounds and that's dry all of that is completely dry so like I said it's very quick and then if I just do this one on the edge here look at that lovely purple finishing it off there and again look at those two really lovely backgrounds really quick so that is these now there's one more to show in terms of the two different colors but look at all the colors there that we've got like I said there's 10 different colors there already and then the last one is gold and glow so this is just two kinds of shades of gold really you don't get too much at this one but it's actually if I use the honeycomb then that works quite well with the gold so I'm going to kind of take a bit of excess off and then just roughly very lightly go across and then maybe kind of just blend it out a little bit towards the top but this sponge makes the application really easy to do look at that you know and then you've got a little bumble bee on here and you've got a nice little saying saying be happy it's just I love it I think it's really good and you can go around the edges so if you want to just and you can kind of frame it like so just to kind of seal it off a little bit isn't that lovely really nice really rich that one is and that color again what did I say that was the golden glow so that's it on black and then if I grab the white here and do exactly the same again so just very lightly so it's the same really this one they were just too nice shades of gold but this has got a lot a lot more softer finish but I mean I've been playing around with these a lot today you do start to get used to using the sponge and you know putting more or less pressure on and I'll show you some other little samples that I've got as well but look at that isn't that stunning really is lovely every time I don't get bored of this just going to go over that a little bit more but I just think if the effects they give just works so well with you know an embossed piece of cardstock and you can layer it up as well like I said it dries so quick there we go look at that ready to go and go over the middle a little bit more there gorgeous then I'm going to do just want to show off this embossing folder I want to do this here in the pink so now I can show you my swatch and you can kind of see a bit more the two colors so that's the lavender blue there's the blue parakeet so that's on the black and then on the white it's a real kind of like lime green it's lovely I really like that one blushed peach in fact I've just put pink there and it should say white never mind that's the cardstocks it's on black cardstock and white cardstock there's your golden flamingo pink this so I love you get those two different shades there and then like I said that's your golden gloss you can see it's much much softer it's a real kind of I'd say yellowy gold there there's that's a bit softer but yeah I really like them so I'm going to use I want to use this pink that one there the golden flamingo on this here I don't know I've just gotten an idea to do like a princess kind of card with the the pillow kind of effect on the background so this is just check it is again just load up your sponge and then you can go over it now what I might do with this one is I'm going to push down I'm going to actually fill in so I can show you all of the the embossed parts of it I'm going to fill it all in and you can buff this off as well so again I'll show you that in a moment but if you get right in there kind of dab it down look at that again it's kind of not picking up as it's really pink it really is it's a lovely lovely shade it's the color of the pop on here it looks more golden because obviously the light's hitting on it so I don't tend to do too much mixed media in my card making I tend to keep that for my scrapbooking and even then I don't I'm not a real heavy mixed media person but I imagine people who do love doing their mixed media will really like these because they are they're really lovely to work with and look at that so this is that color right now but it's hard to see with the the lights from my lamp but it's beautiful really it's lovely um and what one should I do this color let's do um put that back in there let's look back on this again just look at that isn't that lovely oh I love these so much really really do um I'm going to do the blue again there actually I think the blue was from the green here let me just check because you wouldn't think yeah but I think that's the most contrasting of them all you know you've got this on the white and then you get that color on the back it's just brilliant and you wouldn't think that that is going to give you that blue but it does again just going to load this up and I'm going to really look at the it is just magic I'm now on what about 20 minutes and I have already made okay I'd already embossed the you know had that ready but I have made you know so many lovely backgrounds and yes you can get this just from using mirrored cardstock and things like that but you do have a different texture to this there is a different finish and it's fun to do and that's what I love there we go and that will just take a few minutes to dry they all like I said they all go away so quickly I'm covered because I've been working on them a lot today but it all washes off as well so but look at that isn't that amazing they are just so so good guys I love them I think seriously you could have just got me this for Christmas and I would have just been the happiest girl they just look so good it's got a real like silver going through it as well it looks metal doesn't it looks like a piece of metal so that is those that I've just showed so there they all are all these different lovely textures and patterns and I'll just show you some others here this is just what I was playing around when I first got it so you can just see them again on that bubble that was a whole piece there using the one of the purples that was the pink this no it wasn't pink thistle it was lavender blue so that's the lavender blue on that one again really nice see what I mean it's got I imagine like a dragon's skin that's what that kind of looks like there to me or a unicorn or a mermaid mermaid's tail that could be as well so you see what I mean they would work great for you know any kind of yeah magical cards you're going to make things like that in the background so cool so that is what it does and then I'm just going to create a couple of cards so I think I'm going to use I definitely want to do this one it's bone dry now so again that didn't take long at all so I'm going to do a nice card with that one and well I'm going to do them all I'm going to mat them all onto my cards ready to go and then kind of build them up from there and just show you the end result okay so I'll quickly just show you as well how to create kind of just plain backgrounds for you to then be able to die cut so you've got matching embellishments so these two I'd already done and this is using the so this one here so this is when I need my swatch notes this one here the lavender blue yeah that one there okay so that's giving me those two so that's a real here's a real strong purple color and there's like a nice baby blue so that's those two and they're ready now to obviously be tight to die cut and then I want to do matching for this one here and this one here which is golden flamingo which is that one there and then my blue is blue parakeets which is that one there I think no sorry lavender blues I just done blue parakeets that one there isn't it yeah so all you do is just grab so I've got some plain I'll drop my black so I'll do that one so I've just got a piece of plain plain white and just exactly the same way and you just again load up your sponge grab some crappy paper and just start just as you kind of would use any of your you know inks your distressed inks and just kind of load up your paper and the nice thing about this is you can build it up so once you've done it once if you're not happy with it just go over it again once it's dry because like I said the bottom's almost dry by the time I finish the the other end and you can see that just gives you that real lovely pinky peachy shimmery card okay so you can see that piece there now so the bottom is dry and I can just go stick with it that way because it's easier for me again just go back in and just build it up I don't think I need to do anymore that's going to be fine for what I want to do so I'm probably just going to do another tone on tone kind of effect but you can see now I've got two pieces that match so they're ready to go and then again click all that away grab my black piece and then we're going to make the matching one for this I think out of all of them though this is the one for me that really does really make a difference I mean you know you see that green there and then you get that effect so just look it's just so cool I love how it's green on the white copy paper underneath when you go off the edges and you can heat set this if you want I mean look at the way that's picking up in there that looks like again a galaxy background I can imagine I don't know just I think that looks really nice really really cool I'm just gonna pop a little bit more on top in some areas so yeah if you are into you know in the mix media I do really think you're going to enjoy these and you can use them on from what I remember you can use them on many surfaces you can obviously you can do this as well like I'm doing here but yeah you can I think I might even say on the backs of these like so this isn't a review I'm not like going into that I'm just showing you how I like to use it and what I've been doing dip the sponge into the polish and apply so it can also be applied by the finger cloth roller or even a stamp so you can apply I imagine actually if you use a braier I'm going to try that and braier over because you can use it as like I said in your mixed media um so you can just take it like this and you can pop it over your stencils or you can just build up you know texture like that and that will just dry hard um I'll show you with a stencil here I'll just use just try just the simple polka dot one that's all dry enough I just lay this down here and just take some I haven't prepared this surface at all for stenciling so it may well bleed plus it's just going on copy paper which isn't the best you go slightly off camera there but there so it works obviously just like you know as if you know any kind of texture paste really you can use it just like that you just get a really lovely finish it this is just so so good it really is um yeah I love this now you can also buff them up I didn't show that did I let me I'm gonna have to rinse that I mean I'll rinse that in a second but you should do it pretty instantly um my mat is pretty grubby but it's okay this is dried really so I don't know if it'll work but you can off over the top you can really distress it I mean actually it is working you can see it's taking it off there again if you want to create more of a real grungy look these are great for like Halloween as well but can you see there now it's all kind of cracked and and that's just a very almost dry um cloth there but again I can see this being used for Halloween projects I'm going to throw that away now because I can't really I've got it all underneath it's all wet on there as well but again just kind of showing you what you can do with this product I think it's brilliant I really like it I like that it goes a long long way and um it can be used you know in card making scrapbooking mixed media so many different things so those sheets that I just made then I can now run these through I may well just punch let me just show you um this one here I think I'll just do this one the same I've got some plates there to run through as well what I'm going to do one two three I want to redo I really like this one here and I think that's going to look lovely in this pink with that quilted background so I'm going to recreate that so I need one two three so I've got those three there then I've got the big one here these are just stamping up punches one not going to get them all in what I'll do is I'll just change it up slightly because I'm not going to do another piece of this I'll make it work I'll do some smaller ones because I'm going to do silver um all silver leaves so I'll do that one I think that's about all I can get out of that I can do you could die cut these little bits if you want to save all that but again I'm not too worried that's that one there and then for this quilted one I think I might just do silver over the top although I have done that so I should really do it let's do the same and just then I've got them all for when I need them so one just managed to get it all out of that blue so yeah so I'll add silver flowers I think with both of these so this one will kind of look like that but with silver and then that is going to be like that again with silver rather than the gold so I'm going to finish that I'll put the video on high speed just so you can watch me make all the flowers up and everything and I'll show you how they end up okay so they're the cards that you just saw me put together again I'm not going to put any um you know sentiment on them yet because this could be used for all kinds of things I've got some friends that are really bullying tastic and you know she may well want this or I might even give it to her as a birthday card it could be landscape I quite like that portrait though and then have the the kind of message down here I think that will look good I mean they are over the top purely because I just wanted to show you the impact that these have this isn't my general style of card making but I will be using these in other ways and just maybe more as a little focal point as opposed to over the whole the whole card and certainly in my scrapbooking I'm going to be using them as well I think this is probably my favorite I really like the colors through this and I like the the tone and everything I just think that's really nice and then I love that one as well that's that landscape one and I just love that embossing folder which should be used on many things anyway and then you've got again with the purple there so I've really tried to show you all the colors and I think you can really see them a bit more when they're all you know you can see clearly the blue you can see that pink you can see that's purple you can see that gold color there that's the one I done there with that kind of rainbow effect which I thought was nice I just stamped happy birthday directly onto the card there just nice and simple and yeah and then that's that grungy looking one there which again can be either you know a portrait or landscape again I'll probably have happy birthday stuck on the flower coming out about there coming off to the edge and yeah I think they look they look quite nice I think if you're going to go for them and you want to maybe just try one or two then I would say in terms of real contrasting colors I would go for the blue parakeet and I think I'm going to go to this one a lot but then I do really love that's that golden flamingo so again that's got a real contrast there of color you see the real rich gold you get and then you get that pinky flamingo color there which I've done so maybe golden flamingo and blue parakeet because you do get four really different colors there but then you know look at it when you start to get the purples there which look really great there your nice gold tones and then you get that really lovely blue there as well so I mean they're all lovely they've all got some you know nice color on them so it's entirely up to you I just went for it and got them all it's something that's going to like said last me a long time and I'm going to keep using so yeah so you have it I will stop that now like said let me know what you think give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye