Leave a Little Sparkle Wherever You Go

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a design team page for Shimmerz Paints! I love the intensity,texture, and gleam of these paints! They are such a pleasure to work with. The photo is from Sofi Kaveller, I used it with her permission.

To make this page I sponged gesso on Blue Fern Paper. I applied texture paste with a stencil and a credit card. I ripped some of the top layer off corrugated cardboard, painted it with gesso, and poured on some Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel. I assembled the layers and placed them on the page. The photo is backed with cardstock and double sided tape,so it would lie flat. I used watercolor paper for a mat, put it on the cardboard,with foam core board in between all layers.

I prepped the Reneabouquets chipboard with gesso, and painted it with Christmas Cheer Shimmerz,followed by a thick layer of Ranger Clear Rock Candy.The Christmas Cheer is one of my favorite colors,it's so shiny,bright, and has a lot of blingy texture. I painted the edges with black gesso. I put it on the page, and started adding everything else. I added pieces of Alchemy paper by Stamperia around the cardboard.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, seed beads,glass beads,plastic crystals, pearls, rhinestones, Vintaj brass jewelry, Tim Holtz metal,metal chain and jump rings, a Prima metal key, dried pressed flowers,bark, lichen, moss, mica powder, mica flakes, metal glitter, Swarovski crystals,charms, glass marbles, shells,cheesecloth, and tulle. I used ribbon,and pieces from fall and winter picks from Hobby Lobby. The butterfly is from Reneabouquets.

I added more color on top of the chipboard, I brushed on a little Pugnacious Purple,Blue My Mind, and Olive U Truly  Inklingz.

I randomly dabbed on gold mica powder all over the page,on raised edges.

Things were looking pretty grey until I started adding the purple, and then the Key Lime Shimmerz kind of made things pop.

This next batch of pictures are from my cell phone camera. I think I can get better detail with it than my regular one. 

I added a lot of layers of paint on the cardboard. While paint was wet I poured on diamond glass glitter,in various areas all around the page.  At the top left corner of the photo you can see a stick pin with a Swarovski butterfly on it. Underneath the stickpin, and the chipboard, there are layers of Pugnacious Purple and Angel's Kiss Inklingz. 

When I do a page, I never know if it's going to really work. Sometimes I just have to keep adding and taking away things, and layers of paint. I do my pages over a period of days.

The little hummingbird is from a calendar. You can see the silver mica powder I dabbed and rubbed  all over the page.This was to offset the white matte look of the gesso.

 The yellow behind the chipboard is from pressed flowers.

Adding small pieces of tulle was one of the last steps. At the end I added a lot of tiny dried flowers around the photo. 

The green stripe there is Key Lime Shimmerz. I was drawing out the colors from the photo.

The title sticker is from Tim Holtz. The brown at the bottom left of the layers,and on the right side of  mat, is Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz. I put in some stripes of Vibez Rolling in the Hay, to continue the colors of the dress. Next to them were stripes of Key Lime Shimmerz. There are stripes of Key Lime to the left of the photo.

The flower is from Prima. You can see gold mica powder on the Observations tag, also paint.

On the very edge of the cardboard there's a thin line of Vibez Grape Escape. Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!