Mixed Media masculine layout with Sandi Clarkson

Hello, scrappy friends! 

Sandi  here with you today sharing my first Shimmerz Paint project for 2019! 

Here's hoping for a creative year for all of you!!! 

My first step after selecting my papers was to coat them with clear gesso and then added Paste-Eez Salt of the Earth texture paste pushed through a stencil. 

After that dried, I added my distressed photo layers along with the photo of my grandson. Before moving on, I did some random stamping. 

After choosing some chipboard embellishments from Creative Embellishments, I prepared them in a couple of different ways.

This Twig frame with fall leaves was sprayed with my Shimmerz Coloringz Chocolate Brownie.

After that dried, I sprayed the frame and leaves with my Shimmerz Vibez Hot Fudge which gave them a warm glow!

Before adding my florals and other embellishments, I enhanced my focal area by painting on Coloringz Well Blue Me Down with a small brush.

As I worked, I keep some water nearby so that I could dilute and let the color run as desired. 

The chipboard title piece is from Creative Embellishments Adventure Word Set.

I decided to alter it a bit differently and chose my Inklingz Penny 4 Your Thoughts which turned out great! It gave it a nice, copper-y look.

In the background, you can see the Paste-Eez Salt of the Earth which was pushed through a stencil.

Here I tried to capture a better view of those copper tones of the Inklingz Penny 4 Your Thoughts.

The leaves were treated with a smattering of Blingz Gold Glimmer along the vein lines.

Finally, I added my florals and bling. Then splattered with gesso as well as Coloringz Night Moves which is black and the primary project color Coloringz Well Blue Me Down.


Thanks so much for coming by today!
Be sure to mention my name if you do a little retail shopping at Shimmerz for a little free paint.

Shimmerz products used:
Coloringz Chocolate Brownie
Coloringz Well Blue Me Down
Coloringz Night Moves
Vibez Hot Fudge
Paste-Eez Salt of the Earth
Inklingz Penny 4 Your Thoughts
Blingz Gold Glimmer
(discontinued Spigelmom Scraps sequins Boy Mom Life)

Snow Very Much

Happy Wednesday Shimmerz fans! It's Ericka here and I can't believe it is almost December. I hope you had a chance to take advantage of some of the awesome Shimmerz Paints deals this last week as well as getting some Christmas shopping done. I'm continuing with our fun Design Team Challenge this month. I used Elfin' Magic Vibez along with some other awesome Shimmerz products and our new stamp You're Snow Amazing.

Isn't this snowman adorable? I love his hat and his cute little friends, such a perfect winter scene.
I started by stamping the image in Versafine ink on watercolor paper and heat embossing it with Polysparkle embossing powder. I then used my Elfin' Magic Vibez as a paint and colored in the hat and scarf. I love the bright green of this spray as well as the shine it has on paper.

I used a little Gold Glimmer Blingz on the snowman to give him a little shine and added some Vibez Snow Storm to blend in a whiter look.

I love the bright colors of the Shimmerz so used a variety in my card. See below for my supply list.

I finished the card by painting the sky using Shimmerz Ultra Marine, Sugar Plum and Royal Purple to give it a cold night air look. I added white paint splatters and the snowflakes included in the stamp set for snowy look.

I love how easy these Shimmerz products are to use together and how well they blend together leaving behind a beautiful shimmer to any project.

Thanks for stopping by and remember, if you make a purchase to put my name, Ericka Strange, in the notes for a special freebie.

Shimmerz Paints Supplies Used:

You're Snow Amazing	Vibez - Elfin' Magic	Vibez - Snow Storm	Blingz - Gold Glimmer
Shimmerz - Royal Purple	Shimmerz - Sugar Plum	Shimmerz - Tickle Me Turquoise	Shimmerz - Ultra Marine

Shabby Chic Summer Place Junk Journal by Joyce

Summer’s over but I’m not quite done with it yet. It’s me Joyce here today to share my shabby chic Summer Place Junk Journal.  It’s stuffed with old things I used to hold dear: a collage featuring an old ticket to a play I attended; stained Battenburg doily; Pansies I dried years ago and now have a home in my journal; a letter from Grandma which included a dollar to buy ice cream on the way home from the neighborhood pool; a post card from my favorite Pre-Raphaelite Artist; and some music sheet to, “ A Summer Place” by Percy Faith.  When I was a young child, my mom would play this song when she set up to oil paint or attend to chores. Then and today, it still resonates with me. I feel all is right in the world and it still brings a tear to my eye.  

Here's a little slide show of the completed journal. Thanks for viewing with me.

All the chipboard, and linen fabric in the junk journal was treated with yummy, creamy Shimmerz Paints.

Let me tell you what I used.

Chipboard:

Acritonez-Three Sheets to the Wind

Inklingz – Pugnacious Purple, Precious Posey, and I Love you Onyxly

Shimmerz – Orchid-stra

Button:

Blingz- Gold Glimmer

Shimmer – Berry-licious

Coffee dyed paper and white linen fabric:   I combined the following two products to achieve a dusty lilac color.

Vibez- Princess

Shimmeringz-Heavy Metal

Thanks for letting me share with you.

Christmas Canvas Mini Class with Jamie Dougherty Part 3

And finally we have Part 3/ the final video in our mini class series. Enjoy!!

                     

Christmas Canvas Mini Class with Jamie Dougherty

Hello and happy Monday. Today I would like to start the week off with my first of three videos for my mini Shimmerz Paints class. Here is a sneak of the canvas we will be working on. 

The paints used on this project are:

Shimmeringz  Baby's Breath

Vibez  Snow Storm

Enamelz Molten Metal

Enamelz ltd Jack Frost

Blingz  Gold Glimmer

                      

Enjoy and see you back here tomorrow.

365 Art Journal page

Hi there...I am back again today to share some more shimmerz Paints in use!!!!  This time in my journal, which is an art journal / project life journal.  This page is recording a recent event in our family on February 18......and was fun to do.

Products I used

COLORINGZ

Mandarin Mai Tai

Anchors away

VIBEZ 

Razzle Dazzle Berry

SPRITZ

Chick-a-dee

BLINGZ

Under the sea

ENAMELZ

Sparkiliscious

The background is made with book pages, tissue paper and decoupage medium, with distress ink.

I used a mask with Mandarin Mai Tai and Chickadee making circles patterns in the background, Then drips with Anchors Away.  Between each layer I used Helmars Fixative Spray to stop the colours melting together when they get re-wet!  It kept the colours seperate nicely.  I added Razzle Dazzle Berry in more concentrated colour sprays and let that drip too, then went over the area behind the photo in Under the Sea.

I used some watercolour crayons to do the circles and some more Under the Sea to colour the centres.  I sprinkled over Sparkiliscious Enamelz over the entire area of the wet circles and embossed it making it look glossy and have a hard acrylic look. ( and ever so sparkly!!!!)

I added some pen in black and white, edging the text (which was stamped with Staz-on) just to add highlights and to neaten things up.  And its finished!  I stuck everything down and called it finished!

Get some Shimmerz into your art Journals girls.  So much fun.
Thanks for stopping by the blog today!

Have a good day!!!

Highlighting with Shimmerz

Hello! Christine here with a project that I created for last week's Creative Therapy prompt. It asked "Are you proud of who you are?" and the following project is my interpretation of it. I will also share how I highlighted different elements on this project using different Shimmerz products.


I used a piece of cardboard as the foundation for this project, and I used Before Dawn Vibez to add some color to the distressed edges of the cardboard. To complement the raw color of the cardboard, I splattered some Penny Pincher and Before Dawn Vibez onto it before laying down the papers and embellishments.

Next, I highlighted the harlequin patterned paper by painting some Coal Shimmerz paint onto the black diamonds. I love how it brings attention to the pattern in a pretty, shimmery way!

Next, I painted the metal nameplate with gesso and covered that with Coal Shimmerz paint for a distressed look. I included vintage flowers painted with Angel Wings Shimmerz and Gold Glimmer Blingz, and finished the project with some crinkled seam binding ribbons that was "aged" with some Penny Pincher Vibez.

I hope that this gives you some ideas for highlighting some elements on your next project! Thanks for visiting today, and I hope you continue to enjoy the creative process using Shimmerz!

Truly Loving the Shimmerz!

Good morning! I'd like to share a project that I created for this week's Creative Therapy catalyst which prompts us to consider when we first fell in love. Inspired by the question, I created this project which includes one of my favorite Bible verses about love:


The base is a black 7 Gypsies Artist Painter's Tray which I was finally able to order, and I since it was the only one I could find at the time, I wanted to make something special with it. I sprayed the black and white text background papers and flowers with Baby's Breath Spritz. I inked the edges of the patterned papers with Before Dawn Vibez and added a hint of Gold Glimmer Blingz to the edges as well for highlighting. I just love how all of the Shimmerz products combine to truly make this project shine!




The fleur de lis chipboard piece was painted black, sprayed with Before Dawn Vibez, stamped with a script stamp and highlighted with copper mica powder.


Finally, I wanted to add a bit of color to the Tim Holtz metal nameplate so I used a sponge to dab on some Penny Pincher Vibez to highlight the scroll work around the nameplate. It turned out beautifully!

I hope that you're inspired to create something that shares your love story, too! Thanks so much for visiting today!

The Gift of Vibez

I hope you have been enjoying all of the beautiful creations by the Shimmerz design team using the wonderful Vibez product! I have to confess that I feel so wonderfully blessed to be able to work with the new Vibez colors, and today I'll be sharing a project that I created which will allow me to share the amazing gift of vibrant shimmer with someone else (and hopefully make their day a little bit brighter as well! ;-D ).

For this gift set, I used Razzle Dazzle Berry, Sunset Strip, and Hermit the Frog Vibez as well as some Gold Glimmer Blingz.

A couple of white, swirl-printed Prima flowers were spritzed with Razzle Dazzle Berry Vibez which resulted in a great coordinating color for my card and purse. Two smaller pink Prima flowers were also spritzed with Razzle Dazzle Berry. I also dipped the tips of the larger flowers into a puddle of Razzle Dazzle Berry on my non-stick mat, and dried them with my heat gun (I confess I'm impatient when it comes to drying times! :-D ). That added extra shimmer to the tips of the flowers as you'll see in the close-up photos below.

The pink stripes on the border strip were also painted with Razzle Dazzle Berry Vibez. In addition to a spritz of Sunset Strip on the yellow flowers, I added some Gold Glimmer Blingz for extra textured and shimmer. The circles on the card's patterned paper from K & Company were embellished with some Gold Glimmer Blingz as well.

The mini purse was cut from white cardstock using the new Forever You Cricut cartridge set on "fit to page" so that I could get the largest purse from my 12"x12" piece of cardstock. I then spritzed it with Sunset Strip and spread it all over the cardstock using a foam brush. The result is a shimmery sunshine-toned purse! The great thing about Vibez is that the color intensifies with each additional layer of spritzing or painting, and you'll be able to see some variations in color on the purse in the photo that follows.

I cut the decorative border on the purse with my Cricut using a design I created in Sure Cuts A Lot (a software product that allows users to cut true type fonts and images using the Cricut). Next, I sprayed it once with Hermit the Frog Vibez for a more subtle shade. Once it dried, I adhered it to the purse front, zig zag stitched along the bottom border and embellished it with pearls. The purse has a small flap on which I attached the flowers using a Making Memories rhinestone brad.

Thank you all for taking the time to visit today! I hope that you all have the opportunity to work with this amazing new product on your own creations, and I look forward to sharing more Vibez creations with you again soon!