Building Contrast

Earlier this month, The Color Room offered a palette with some interesting colors (#75). These colors were so strikingly different from one another and I thought I would really challenge myself to create a bold layout, using a dark, dark, background created with Shimmerz paints, and then highlighting all the elements with other Shimmerz hues. 

The background was a pale colored corrugated cardboard prior, but after adding lots of Vibez in Before Dawn, Hot Fudge, and Pearlz in Toadlee, it was this deep, delicious color.

I then used Blingz in Under the Sea to highlight lots of the cracks within the cardboard, and do my dripping around the cluster, creating a beautiful contrast to the dark brown background. To add a bit more visual interest, I dipped the cap to my Under the Sea Blingz, into its paint, and stamped onto the background for fun. :)

xx Heidi

Splatters and faux cup rings with Shimmerz......

Hello.....(Waving from Australia)
I have a page today to share, which was actually done a little while ago, and for a Color Room Palette- but has some very easy and cool techniques to dress up a plain background.

 I simply used the colour as it was intended and spritzed the background aiming for droplets and drips as well as some colour coverage.  You just do this by pressing the sprayer part way down....it tends to splatter a little more this way.....lovely!!!!  I then shake the nozzle towards my page, and the droplets that dribbled out (with the partial press) splat very nicely on my page.  I used Shimmerz Vibez in Hot Fudge.

I also had a pretty piece of lace which was white.  I re-coloured it by painting it with Shimmerz Pearlz in Blue By U.  It works perfectly and means you can recolour any light coloured fabric trim with Shimmerz Paints using either the sprays or the paint pots.

I sprayed my flowers with several Shimmerz Paints, including Shimmerz Vibez in Rollong in the Hay and Shimmerz Spritz in Chick a dee, amongst some others.....I just kept spraying and drying until I got the color I needed!

You cant see so well, as the prints are partially covered with the title and flowers, but I also added some faux coffee rings to my background.  I sprayed a little of the same colour onto my craft sheet, and dipped the end of a toilet roll in the paint, then stamped and slightly twisted the toilet roll giving the best print I could get!  I love coffee ring stains (BUT definately not on my table!!!!)

Hope you will try dressing up your own simple yet 'artsy' background with Shimmerz Paints soon!!!!
Thanks for dropping by.....