Meet our Guest Designer for September...Melinda Thompson

 Our Guest Designer this month is Melinda Thompson from Australia. 

She is an amazing artist!

 Here is a little more about Melinda. 

"Hi my name is Melinda Thompson but most people in the scrapbooking world know me as Min. I am married to a wonderful husband Brad of 13 years and we have two adorable boys, Riley 6 years, Finlay 4 years who are my constant source of inspiration. I am 3 weeks off having our 3rd precious baby so I can’t wait to scrap those little baby photos again! We live in a growing country town called Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia and just love the quiet country life. I love to scrap and journal about the little & insignificant details of my boy’s life. My style is always evolving, not sure if I have a style as I love to experiment with new techniques, so it often depends on what I am scrapping or the challenge. Even though I have two boys, you will always see flowers here and there on my LO’s. But I do love to use any mixed media/art mediums on my layouts and love any distressing technique, misting/masking, stamping...the list goes on. I am so very honoured to be given this opportunity to be Guest Designer this month at Shimmerz. Shimmerz has been an all time favourite product of mine since I found it a couple of years a go now..its one of the first things my hand reaches for when I start a project! Looking forward to sharing my creations with you all this month.
Feel free to visit me at my blog  www.minseverydaymoments.blogspot.com "

So Welcome Melinda.....

Here she is to share her first Project!

Hi Everyone,

Its all about Bright Colours this month so for my 1st layout I have used lots of gorgeous bright Shimmerz products not only on my background but to alter my flowers.

 Here is a list of what I used:

Background Coloringz – Lime in da Coconut 

Coloringz – No Yoking 

Pearlz – Green with Envy Altered Flowers 

Spritz – Caribbean Sunset 

Shimmerz – Pink Blingz – Hottie Pink 

I love to use Shimmerz to alter things, weather it be flowers, chipboard, backgrounds and so on. Here is a close up of an altered flower. Love the shimmer and shine and lots of texture it adds to everything when altering with Shimmerz.

For my background I have used modelling paste with a mask and then randomly spritzed the 2 Coloringz. Love the bright colours in the Coloringz range. To add extra depth and deepen the colours further I have unscrewed the bottle top and using a fine paint brush I painted in between the masked area as well as some Pearlz – Green with Envy (one of my favourite colours!)

 Thanks so much for visiting! "

Absolutely stunning isnt it?

Thanks so much Melinda, Looking forward to next week!!!