Product Focus - Glitter Cloth by Scor-pal

Hi friends!  Its Katie here to welcome you to another Tuesday.  Today, I'm focusing on a product that Lori has available at Clear Dollar Stamps that I LOVE and USE, not necessarily every day, but EVERY time I use embossing powders and/or glitter and anything else that is made of a fine consistency like the fore mentioned.

This Glitter "Clean Up Cloth" is brought to you by the lovely Diana Crick of Scor-pal fame.  I've been lucky enough to meet her and she is truly lovely and not only that she has produced some great products that WORK!

As you can see from the picture, the glitter cloth comes packaged to you very neat and tidy and I'm going to show you how should separate it and use it :)

The picture below is after I've unfolded the initial fold.  The first thing you'll notice when you touch the glitter cloth is that it is slightly tacky, very similar to tack cloth.  Its not a residue that will stay on your fingers or anything, but it is there.  Secondly, you'll notice that it also resembles cheese cloth for those of you that are familiar with that.

Keep on unfolding.  This stuff is very sturdy, but fine as well so it might take a little bit of picking to get your edges going.  Just keep pulling it apart... it won't rip.  Notice how tight it is.

So this (below) is what it looks like after that last "unfold". 

 

This last unfold will start in the center and will fold out to the right and to the left.

This is your final cloth measuring approximately 18" x 36".

The instructions suggest cutting it into 4 sections, but for my own personal use I cut it into 8 sections consisting of 4 cubes (using the existing fold lines) as seen in the photo below.

 

Now how about seeing it in action.

I decided to create a card that used both embossing and eventually glitter, but check out the embossing powder that was left over (lol)... and clearly, I'm normally much neater but for today's purposes I left a lot on the table.

So I stamped my image on watercolor paper because I'm going to use tombow markers (098-avocado, 249-hunter green, 676-royal purple) and a waterbrush.

 

As I'm putting the powder away, I've left a mess.  Also, another note here.  I normally work on a self-healing mat and clean up is very smooth, but the table I'm using for the photos has a textured surface (table from Costco).

 

Place cloth right on top and swipe away.

And after... you can actually see the outline of my hand where I swipe.  Now obviously you have to take my word for it since you can't actually see it in action, but once the powder is on the cloth, it doesn't leave the cloth.  Shake and it stays.

 

Now time for the glitter (Martha Stewart).  At this point, I've stamped, colored, and its time to add accents of the glitter where I wanted.  To do this, I used my very favorite Quickie Glue Pen for my border on my cardstock mat and for my stamped image.

Here comes the glitter cloth...

There is a lot of life in this particular piece of cloth.  Imagine, I've got 7 more sections to use.  These are not reusable and are not washable.  Once you start cleaning up powders and glitters and it doesn't stay on the cloth, throw away and start with a fresh piece.

Now, I can't possibly let the post go by without showing you what I created in my non messy area too :)  I used one of the new release stamps from October that is part of the Flower of the Month Series... the pansy.  I made it into a birthday card so I grabbed a sentiment from another fabulous set called Ageless Antiques.

I used some Basic Grey Porcelain for my designer paper and used  the Textile Texture embossing folder to emboss on it.  Then I used some distressing inks to add some age to it.  I used a rectangle nestability to outline my frame around my pansies and then used a blade, ruler, and scissors to cut my flower out.  For the mat, I also used the nestability to cut and then emboss (click here for more info about this process) and then used my quickie glue pen to apply glue and then glitter to the edges of my cardstock and stamped flowers.

 

 

That's it for me today and if you don't have a glitter clean up cloth... definitely think about picking one up.  It is well worth the cost and does what its supposed to do!  Thanks for stopping by and spending time here with Clear Dollar Stamps.

This is Katie signing off for Clearly iStamp.

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Items you can find at Clear Dollar Stamps:

• Glitter Cloth
• Pansy - February flower of the month Stamp set
• Ageless Antiques Stamp Set
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folders
• Quickie Glue Pen
• Tombow Markers
  
• Nestabilities
• Basic Grey Paper
• Embossing Powder
• Aquapainter/waterbrush
• ATG tape

Other items used: Papertrey ink cardstock and ink, May Arts Silk Ribbon, Watercolor Paper

Comments

[Joseline Capre]

This is certainly something I need to buy. I might even buy a few more to put into my Christmas must have tool gift bags for my stampin' friends.

BTW, the card came out very pretty. I love the pansies and the bow came out so beautiful.

[Lisa]

Wow that is the coolest... I need..lol
because I get glitter allllll over the place.. But may I ask a question... How do you keep the glitter on the card. I use the glitter glue pen and even stamp glue and then use the glitter but if you bump it or touch it , it comes off. Is there something to keep it from coming off so fast... Thanks

[Shawna]

GORGEOUS card Katie! That cloth sounds like it would a very handy to thing to have on hand.

[Tricia T]

Gorgeous card and that's *another* thing I forgot to add to my order!!! Note to self... Order Pansy stamp and glitter cloth! :-) TFS!!

[Mary]

Oh my, I didn't know you were to separate the cloth! I have some and was wondering why it was so stiff when I tried to clean up the glitter mess, now I see that you separated it and I did mine and it does work alot better. Thanks for showing that. It works wonderful (even when it wasn't done right;)) You do beautiful work also! tfs,Mary

[Bev J.]

Pretty card you created. The cloth sounds like a neat item to have on hand. tfs

[Nancy Grant]

Very cool! Never would of thought twice about this product. Amazing card Katie! So beautiful!
:-0

[Becky Sorensen]

That sounds like I might need one!! Very pretty card too!!

[Candyf]

This sounds like it is a "must have" tool. I always have glitter all over the place so it would be nice to have something that would work on cleaning it up. Great tutorial and I love the card you created.