Spatters gone wrong...tips/tricks/advice ?

I had a quick look at how my splatters turned out on the page I did yesterday and can report that while some of them are nice neat little circles, there are a lot that are more blob shaped. I find the smaller splatters tend to be more circular, I assume because with the smaller amount of liquid it more easily settles into a regular shape. I also find the surface I'm splattering onto makes a big difference. Cardstock or similar weight patterned papers definitely give the best and most predictable results, while anything with a slicker or more porous surface tends to form irregular drops (eg glassine bags, chipboard or foam thickers).

I'm pretty happy with how mine turn out, so I also think practice plays a part in it.

You could ry a smaller paintbrush, and start a little higher off the page.

I use the feed your craft stamp set dots and spots. I’m not great at flicking paint or ink. Here’s a layout I did with them.

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Google Tim Holtz splatter brush. It has stiff plastic bristles made to dip in medium, pull back, and let go to splatter.

Lots of cool ideas here. Sara Newman uses Tim's brush, but she runs her finger up the edge of the bristles rather than tries to splatter by shaking the brush. The only technique I would add, is if you have lots of splash room, spritze your mists UP, and let the drops land on your paper.

I don't worry about the splatters being perfectly round. Thinking they look more natural if they are odd shaped, like paint splatters on a floor after painting a wall.

Velocity and distance play a big role in what shape a droplet takes when it hits a solid surface. The faster the liquid is traveling and the more oblique the angle, the more likely you'll get ovals or even lines.

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Thoughts from someone who has no spatter experience: we tend to look much more closely at our own work and critique it more harshly than when we look at other people's finished products, especially on the internet. If other people seem to have perfect round dots of ink or mist it's probably just that you're not seeing them up close, in person, or in progress. Practice certainly won't hurt, but viewing the overall effect on the finished page after letting yourself take a break and get "fresh eyes" might also help a lot.

And in the long run the last thing you want people to actually notice on the page are the spatters (assuming you are scrapping family photos for memory keeping purposes). The confetti exists to draw your eye to what matters, so as long as the spatter isn't drawing people's attention, especially muggles who look at your albums, and doesn't look like a crime scene or ink accident, I think you're probably doing it right

I don't think the splatters are supposed to look perfect anyway. Any time I've ever splashed something on my floor or table - or my layouts/cards - by accident, the droplets have never been perfect.