I taught a card in class recently using shimmer embossing paste over the top of the stamped and coloured image to add some sparkle. I decided to try it again on this Christmas card.
This is also my entry for the Just Add Ink Challenge #JAI632
The challenge was to choose two items from the list of Deers, Trees, Sparkle.
I chose Deer and Sparkle but there are trees in it as well. Bonus!

You only need a thin very layer of paste. You need to colour your image with Blends. I haven’t tried it with an image coloured with ink but I imagine the ink would run a little with the moisture from the embossing paste when you first spread it on.

If you live in New Zealand and want to recreate this card, you can order all the products from my online store rhondafawcett.stampinup.net

For this project, I used sunprints DSP for the blue circle. I stamped the trees from the Peaceful Deer stamp set in versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I stamped the Deer in black memento ink and coloured it with Gray Granite Blends and a light Crumb Cake Blend. I then added a thin layer of shimmer embossing paste. Once paste was dry I punched it out and added it to the blue circle. I matted the blue circle onto a die cut Gray Granite scallop circle. (Layering Circle dies). I stamped the snowflakes in Navy ink. (Second generation to give a softer look to match the lighter blue on my paper). I adhered this to the bottom right corner of my thick white card base. I stamped a sentiment at the top with Gray Granite ink and finished the card with a strip of Gray Granite shimmer ribbon.