With Love

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a design team page for the amazing Shimmerz Paints. I love these                                paints, the colors are so rich and fun to work with!

                                                             Photo credit:Fezbot2000.                                

To make this page I put the layers under the photo together first,including taping water color paper under the image to make it stronger. Below that is a mat of watercolor paper, and at the bottom is corrugated cardboard. I tore off most the paper from the surface of the cardboard, and painted it with gesso. I put two layers of cardboard between each of the layers to add dimension, and taped it to the background paper.

I coated 49 and Market Paper with clear gesso, then applied texture paste with a stencil and credit card.

I picked out Reneabouquets Beautiful Board,arranged it around the page, took it off, and prepped it with white gesso. I painted them with Imperial Amethyst Inklingz, then topped them with a thick layer of Clear Rock Candy Crackle.I painted the mat,corrugated, and the area around them with Orchid-Stra, Wisteria Lane, and Key Lime Shimmerz. I also used Imperial Amethyst, Olive U Truly, and Honeymoon Inklingz. I brushed and rubbed on mica powder in purple, gold, and green.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, seed beads, glass shard glitter,glass beads, pearls, Swarovski crystals, rhinestones,sequins,shells,strands of gauze,iridescent wrapping paper, black tulle, off white netting, gold lace, pressed and dried flowersand leaves, moss, lichen,gold leaf ,flowers from Reneabouquets and Prima, metal from Vintaj,Reneabouquets and Tim Holtz, and bling and metal from my stash. I added small fussy cut pieces from a few collections of Graphic 45 papers. 

Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!