Spring fever!

I don't think I'm alone when I tell you that I am dying for SPRING!!  I can't wait for the bulbs, the flowering trees, the warm air and especially the sunshine.  Bring it!  On the subject of Spring, I've been inspired lately by rainbows and butterflies.  I created the cloud effect on these projects with a cloud template, a stipple brush and Blingz paint in Under The Sea.  I was also itching to use buttons...  a whole lot of buttons!!

Just look at how shimmery the Under The Sea Blingz is! 

Blingz have a ton of glitter mixed into the paint!

After I created the rainbow I was reminded of a quote that I heard years ago that I just love..

"As a child I was told and I believed that there was a treasure buried beneath every rainbow.  I believed it so much that I have been unsuccessfully chasing rainbows most of my life.  I wonder why no one ever told  me that the rainbow and the treasure were both within me." -Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD

I love this quote so I printed it out on some vellum paper and added it under the rainbow.

I got this cloud template years ago from Stampin' Up!.  If you don't have one you could simply cut one out of cardstock or plastic.

 

I also tried this technique on some cards.  Here is one of them:

I did the stipple brush with the cloud template again on the white cardstock with Under The Sea Blingz.  For the butterflies, I used a bunch of the new Coloringz.  They are so bright!  I used Pink Stiletto, My Bleeding Heart, Mandarin Mai Tai, No Yoking, Lime In Da Coconut and Mama Sings The Blues.  I gave them all a bit of shimmer with Goldie Lox Shimmeringz, except for the red one (My Bleeding Heart) I used Heavy Metal on that one.  Also on the blue butterfly I added a little of the Under The Sea Blingz with my stipple brush.

Thanks for stopping by the Shimmerz blog today!

Lori Renn