Real Sweet Layout | Katty Miranda

Hello everyone! Katty here, I am beyond excited to share my very first post here as a part of the amazing Shimmerz Paints Design Team. I am loving the new products we just released. Today, I will be working with the Acritonez, these are the self priming Acrylic Paints. These paints are very versatile. I am using white cardstock as the base of my layout. I used my Silhouette Cameo and cut out two flower sets from the Silhouette Studio that were meant to be layered on top of each other.

I began by painting all of the flower pieces individually. I began with the Acritonez in the color Pink-a-delic. I used the color in several different ways, in it's true form, as an acrylic paint. I also mixed in some water, which slightly lightened the color. I even mixed in some other Shimmerz products like the Spritz in Ruby which darkened the color. I wanted a lot of different shades of pinks and corals to create a big cluster of flowers. I used some of the flowers as a stencil in a few areas within the cluster.

I also used a few other colors, Spritz in Cotton Candy and Caribbean Sunset, a Vibez in Sweet Heart and a Creameez in My Clementine. For the leaves I used the new Acritonez in Jivin' Jade and a leaf cut file also from the Silhouette Studio. I used the leaves as a stencil as well as the leaf cutfile itself.

I used three photos of my adorable niece from this past Halloween. I printed them in a smaller size and used a scallop punch to give them a fun shape. I lined them up above my cluster of flowers and added dimensional foam behind them. 

For my tittle I used silver glitter foam word thickers from the Pinkfresh Studio Felicity Collection. I added a few stickers from an Elle's Studio sticker sheet and I used a Heidi Swapp pink and white diagonal stripe patterned paper to mat the whole layout. I love how it turned out.

There is a process video on my YouTube channel if you'd like to watch.

Products used:

Acritonez: Pink-a-delic, Jivin' Jade

Creameez: My Clementine

Vibez: Sweetheart

Spritz: Caribbean Sunset, Cotton Candy, Ruby

Thanks so much for stopping by! Remember, if you make any purchases from Shimmerz Paints be sure to mention my name and you will receive a FREE product with your order.

XOXO

Play- Scrapbooking Tutorial with Irit

Hi! Irit here and I'm happy to share with you a new layout I created using some old and new favorite Shimmerz goodies! Here's the finished layout-

I started by preparing my cardstock with gesso. Next I mixed white acrylic paint with Blue Jeans Vibez. It's a new color for me and I love it! Mixing it with white created the most beautiful shade of blue. Another option would be to use Inklingz in Corney Flower Blue.

Once the paint was dry I added lots of splatters with Vibez Pop Art Pink, an old favorite. Love this pink. It's a gorgeous warm pink and has gold shimmer. It's a lovely contrast to the cornflower blue.

Next I created my custom embellishments. I love doing this. I sprayed some Vibez in Pop Art Pink, Coloringz in No Yolking and Spritz in Caribbean Sunset on a piece of scrap cardstock. Once that was dry I embossed flowers and fussy cut them. Simple and effective way to create embellishments that work perfectly with your color scheme!

My title is by Crate Paper from their collection Poolside. I printed the words to my daughter's favorite song at the moment on a transparency and added that to my layout. My photo is matted on a Jen Hadfield frame and a few patterned papers from the Felicity Jane kits. Doily from my stash, some older Dear Lizzy ribbon and a flair button also from Felicity Jane were the perfect final touches. 

Watch the video and see how all this came together!

Check out the Shimmerz store for all these goodies and more. Don't forget to mention my name when placing an order, you'll get to choose a free product of your choice! 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Cute & Happy Layout With Irit

Hi! Irit here and I'm so excited to share my first project as part of the Shimmerz team! 

One of the hard decisions us crafters have to make is which colors to choose for our project. I find it easy to match my colors to the collection I know I want to use and that's just what I did for this layout (doesn't it look scrumptious??)-

Here's my finished layout-

I started with this cute patterned paper by Crate Paper Wonder collection as my background. I knew I wasn't going to use a lot of water so I didn't prime the paper with anything. Using the packaging a.k.a. the smooshing technique (shown in the video) I applied Vibez in Egg Noggin' and Glorious Day (two lovely golden shimmery sprays, Glorious Day is a touch darker and deeper and I used it for the splatters all over the layout as well), Coloringz in Oh Say Can You Sea (beautiful flat aqua shade) and Spritz in Caribbean Sunset (gorgeous warm orange pinkish red). 

Once these were dry I added some Dazzlers in Coral Me Crazy (a soft peachy shimmery paste) and Texturez in Patina (perfect mint!!) through a stencil for a tone on tone effect. You can find all these goodies in the Shimmerz store!

You can see exactly how I created this layout and background in the process video-

All the papers and embellishments are from the Wonder collection by Crate Paper. Here are some detail shots-

Thanks so much for visiting and I'll be back next month with a new project!

Get Your Rainbow On ~ Art Palette Canvas with Video Tutorial

Hello Shimmerz fans!  Gabrielle here with you today to share an OTP (Off the page) using a really fun wooden art palette canvas I got in the September kit at Flying Unicorn Kit Club.  There were so many cool metal ornaments included in this kit so I went and used these and some of the flowers and Shimmerz mixed media elements included in this kit as well.  I also added other colors of Shimmerz paints as well. Here are the Shimmerz products I used in this project:

~Golden Wheat Shimmerz

~Grape Escape Vibez

~Caribbean Sunset Spritz

~Hot Fudge Vibez

~Beets Me Inklingz

~Pugnacious Purple Inklingz

~Me and Blue Inklingz

~ Giddy about Green Inklingz

~Gold Mine Inklingz

~Pink Inklingz

~Tarnished Treasure Inklingz

~ Brass Knuckles Inklingz

I recorded a video tutorial on how I made this canvas design, hope you enjoy!

I thought I would share a bunch of close-ups that you can enjoy at your leisure. Above is a close-up of the embellishment cluster, a combination of metal accents, blooms and gems.  I gave the whole thing a coat of gesso and then spritzed and painted with Grape Escape Vibez.  Last but not least, I dabbed on some Brass Knuckles Inklings to further the metalic look on my embellishment cluster.

I used a variety of stencils....Heidi Swapp Moroccan stencil, Crafter's Workshop 'Art Is' stencil and the Prima 'Sunrise Sunset' Checkerboard stencil to create a textural background on my palette.  I then layered on lots of Shimmerz colors to create an 'artsy' looking background.

I chose a quote that I thought would work nicely with the art palette design....'Art is not what you see but what you make others see' ....I used the Tim Holtz alphabet stickers (included in the Flying Unicorn kit mixed with some Webster's Pages alphabet stickers I had in my home stash).

Here is another shot of the embellishment cluster.....I finished the design with a few colorful adhesive gems.

Originally I had planned to use a bunch of large colorful gems as my 'paint colors' but couldn't find them in the size and colors I was looking for....then I came across these 'sugared' gems at a local dollar store and went with these.  I used a variety of coordinating colors of Inklingz as a background mosaic design behind the colored gems.

There are a bunch of paint brushes included in the palette set, so I took two of these brushes as accent pieces to my design and 'dirtied them up a bit, giving them a well used look, by smudging on some paint colors before I applied them to my canvas.

I hope you enjoyed today's project! If you would like to order some of the beautiful Shimmerz products used on this project you can find them HERE.....and remember if you would like to get a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product, be sure to mention my name 'Gabrielle' in the INSTRUCTIONS TO MERCHANT part of your order, and Shimmerz will send you a bonus product in the color of your choice.

Before I leave today I want to share some exciting news!!  The lovely folks at Shimmerz Paints have been hard at work creating NEW and EXCITING paint colors!  I just had a peek and the NEW colors are up and ready to go!  I don't know about you but I'm super excited to give these new color palettes a go! xo

Scrapbooking Natures Art

Hello Shimmerz fanz!  I thought today I would share a step by step on how I made the above layout, start to finish. Here are the Shimmerz products I used to create this page....

Shimmerz Products used:

~ Hot Fudge Spritz

~ My Bleeding Heart Coloringz

~ Ruby Spritz

~ Caribbean Sunset Sprtiz

~ Tuscan Sun Spritz 

~Rolling In the Hay Vibez

~ Copperhead Dimensionz

~ I'm not Limon Inklingz

~ Gosh Garnet Inklingz

Rather than try and explain the steps, I've made up a video tutorial to show you how I did it.  So grab a cuppa coffee/or tea sit back and enjoy!

I hope you enjoy watching my video and will want to give your own page a try!  Here are a few closeups of the page that you can view at your leisure....

I used some blooms from Tresors de luxe to decorate the corner cluster by the photo.

I added a little texture with somehome made texture paste with a stencil and I added a shabby brick look by lightly brushing on some Copperhead Dimensionz with the tip of my finger.  The Dusty Attic vine I painted with some 'I'm Not Limon' Inklingz.

After spritzing my background with a variety of Shimmerz Spritz's, I added some stamping and rub-on's. I also fussy cut some elements from Prima Almanac papers to embellish.  I painted the new Dusty Attic Wildflower #2 chipboard with yet more of the Inklingz, I'm Not Limon and Gosh Garnet.  NOTE: The color you see when you open a tub of Inklingz is not necessarily the color that it becomes when activated with water....for the true color, see the samples at the Shimmerz Website/Shop.

I hope you enjoyed my project today and will give these gorgeous Shimmerz products a try.  You can shop for your own Shimmerz products HERE. And remember, to receive your own FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product be sure to mention my name in the INTRUCTIONS TO MERCHANT area of your order.

Happy Scrappin'

believe in yourself.

Hello. It’s Naomi and I would like to share an LO, a very bright one with you today. I am hoping it brightens up your day.

I used the products below and gesso.

Products used:

Caribbean Sunset Spritz
Bed of roses Spritz
Mango Madness Spritz
Coloringz Pink Stilette
Colouringz Mon Shan
Coloringz No Yoking

I just love these bright colours together and they work so well amongst each other.
Wishing you all a very happy day!

Naomi xx