OH so cute Owl

Hey Everyone, Beck Beattie here today with a sweet off the page project share.  

A little while ago I picked up this cute wooden Owl at my local Kaisercraft outlet.  I have been dying to use it and I knew some Bella! papers teamed up with my Shimmerz products would look perfect for what I had in mind.

Products Used:

Shimmerz Vibes Spray - Hot Fudge

Shimmerz Spritz Spray - Cotton Candy

Shimmerz Texturez - Sandy Stone

Bella! New York Paperz - Chevron

Bella! Raw & Rustic Paperz - Valentine

Bella! Raw & Rustic Paperz - Bunting

Ruby Rock-it 'Bolt' floral

Bella! Bling - Hearts

Bella! Bling - Small Borderline

Kaisercraft Wooden Owl

Assorted metal flowers and embellishments

Assorted lace trim

I created a video for you to watch it come together, it was sure fun creating it!  If you want to head over to my blog you can check the video out HERE

I love how my Shimmerz products really helped me match in the various products I wanted to use to create my sweet owl.

The base for my project is a sweet Kaisercraft Owl that I recently picked up at my local outlet store.  After choosing my pattern papers to use, I stitched them together with a wide but close together zig-zag stitch and adhere them to the owl.  I used a sanding block to remove the excess paper from the wood.  This is best shown in my video.

To create the eyes I sprayed the yellow 'Bolt' flowers with the Shimmerz 'Hot Fudge' spray and layered with metal flowers and embellishments using silicone adhesive.  I also used Silicone adhesive to adhere them to the wooden owl

Next I colored up the lace trim using the Shimmerz Vibes and Spritz sprays along with the Texturez paste for this divine glimmery color.

Additionally I colored up the chipboard pieces using the same Vibes spray in Hot Fudge for the lovely dark brown color it became.

My Shimmerz products really helped me match in the decorative flowers, trim and chipboard I used to embellish the owl.

I hope you enjoyed my share today and I might have inspired to you go a little 'off the page' and create something fun and a little different!

Happy Crafting!

xxxBeck BT

Oh pots full of colour goodness - paintery effects for cards

Hi Everyone Beck BT here today to share with you a fun gender neutral card.  I love to create cards ready in my stash for any occasion so I always have some on hand for different people.  I often find using my paints is the most fun way to create stunning backgrounds easily finished off with a sentiment as in this case today. 

Shimmerz Products Used:

Shimmerz Creameez - Daffodil

Shimmerz Creameez - Witches Brew

Shimmerz Inklingz - Naughty or Nice

Shimmerz Creameez - Lettuce Get Together

Shimmerz Creameez - Thunderstorm

Other Products Used:

Tinby Designs Heavy Weight Cardstock - White and Kraft

Dark Room Door - Arty Circles collage stamp

Dark blue cardstock

Dark blue twine

Bella fundamentals Sentiments pack

Create your own:

To create my card I first stamped the circle images with permanent black ink.

 Next I added some of the Thunderstorm colour to the background.

 Now I added colour to the circles along with some splatter as well.

Then my background was done and ready to add those finishing touches to make it into a card.

I hope you enjoyed my share today and head back real soon!  

Happy Crafting!  

xxxBeck BT

Crazy about elegant florals

Hi everyone, It's Beck BT back with a card share featuring divine Shimmerz Inklingz to make the sweetest card!  I adore creating cards full of interest, texture and dimension and this card is all that and more!  I teamed up the new Richard Garay 'Silver and Gold' collection with some Shimmerz Inklingz paints to make the most stunning flowers ever!  Have you thought of taking your plain die cuts and making them into something special?  Well Shimmerz Inklingz make that a breeze!  It seemed like this is seriously a match made in heaven.

Here is my sweet card.

Products Used:

Shimmerz Paints

Inklingz - The Holly & The Ivy
Inklingz - Giddy About Green
Inklingz - Naughty or Nice
Inklingz - Brass Knuckles

Other products:
Tinby Designs Heavy Weight Cardstock - White
RG Richard Garay - Silver and Gold Collection prints
RG Richard Garay - Silver and Gold Flower Fold Die set
Fun Stampers Journey Sentimental Prints Stamp set
Fun Stampers Journey Natural Twine
American Crafts Gold Cardstock
Gold Glitter Enamel Dots

I have also created a video for you to enjoy watching the project come together:

Here are some more pictures of my sweet card.

I hope you enjoyed my share today!

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

Grunging it up with Beck BT

Hey Everyone, it's Beck BT here today grunging it up on a fun masculine scrapbook page.  I had so much fun creating this page of my boys.  It was so much fun to create the layers of color and texture on the page with the help of some of my favorite Shimmerz products!

Products used:

Shimmerz Texturez - Gritty Graphite

Shimmerz Texturez - Tidy Widy

Shimmerz Paste-eez - Baby Boy Blue

Acritonez - Tar Tar

I started out on my page by creating the background using a stencil I had previously stencilled with on the background of another page.  I used the excess on my stencil to stamp with the Texturez pastes in both colours listed above onto the background of some white cardstock and this was the base for my page.

Next I added the Paste-Eez over the top brusing up and down. These are SO SO yummy!  They are like tubs of soft goodness spreading onto the page so easily.  I love that they are not opaque either so you can still see the sweet layers peeking out from underneath.

For the darker black I used the AcriTonez to add some black stamping.  This was so cool for this technique as the AcriTonez need no priming at all and give immediate opaque coverage.  Sometimes layering non opaque and opaque can give stunning effects.

Here are some more pictures of my page for you to get up close with all the layers.  As you can see I teamed my background up with some of my favorite papers from Simple Stories and also some elements from Coco Vanilla Studio.

I hope you enjoyed my share today!!  Keep scrolling down to see how you can get some free paint!  

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

Creating inspiration prompts for the New Year

Happy New Year!  It's Beck Beattie here to share with you a fun planner project.  So the new year is here, and I'm getting myself organised!  I would like to keep myself inspired and want to have some little prompts and words of focus for the year ahead.  Although I haven't yet created my 'wish list' - still thinking on those, my card is ready to go and i'll add some wishes using a typewriter and then cut them into strips before adding to the card.

I created it to be able to be affixed to any part of the planner with a bulldog clip.  This will enable it to move with the dates and always be a great visual memory enabling me to keep focus on achieving those 'wishes'

To create the background on my card which you could use this technique on any project you desire... maybe a scrapbook page or a card or even an Art Journal page.  

I started out with the die and some Shimmerz Aqua huez.  I took 2 pieces of white cardstock and die cut one, the other forming the base of my card.  

I then used the die cut as a stencil an painted the colour through onto the card with the Little Boy Blue at the top and the Gray Matter at the bottom, blending them in the middle.

Doing this I found I had color on my die cut, I added a little more and then stamped that onto some cardstock for another project 

As you can see it quickly came together!  Then adhering all the elements together with paper and embellishments it came together rather quickly.  I also added an additional piece of the pattern paper as a base for the white cardstock cutting it slightly larger to achieve a decorative boarder around the card.

Shimmerz Products Used:

Aqua Huez in 'Little Boy Blue'

Aqua Huez in 'Gray Matter'

Other products used:

Fundamentals Doilies 

Fundamentals Sentiment toppers 

Bella True Romanic Paperz 'Love'

Kaisercraft Mixed Media circles die

White cardstock

Fun Stampers Journey Planner

Hope you enjoyed my share today,  and maybe found some inspiration for the new year ahead!

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

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Last minute Christmas cards with Beck BT

Hey everyone it's Beck BT here again to share some cards I recently made.  Have you been running around busy buying gifts, attending many festivities and possibly like me have a close birthday to celebrate adding to an already super busy time of year?  Well falling behind on making Christmas cards can easily happen - or simply there is someone you later realized you needed to make a card for.  Well today's cards are great examples to share with you for come quick and easy cards that look like you have spent lots of time making!

I made these cards using some yummy Shimmerz products that quickly transformed my plain background to a beautiful watercolour one.

Shimmerz Products Used:

Shimmerz Aqua Huez - Pot-O-Gold

Shimmerz Aqua Huez - Red Hot

Shimmerz Aqua Huez - Leapin' Lizard

Shimmerz Inklingz - Honey Do List

For my first card I used the Pot-O-Gold, Honey Do List and Red Hot Aqua Huez for a fun background.  

I added the first two colours with a plastic transfer method.  This is where you add some colour to a little plastic and then stamp down onto the background multiple times after adding the colour.  I dried with my heat gun between layers.

I finished off by adding some splatter with my paint brush of the 'Red Hot' Aqua Huez.

Then using some printed die cuts and jewel embellishments the card quickly came together

For the next card I used the same plastic transfer technique to add color to the background using this time only the 'Red Hot' and 'Leapin' Lizard' colours

Again it came together easily with the help of some printed die cuts, jewel embellishments and silver cord.

Don't forget to mention my name when you order for some free product!  WOOT!  

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

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A Birthday should be full of sparkle

Hi Everyone, it is Beck BT here and today and while we are delving into those Christmas papers and embellishments I decided to take a little of a different spin with them and create a Birthday card.  The paper collection I used for this card is called 'Christmas Promise'.  By using the papers as the 'supporting actor' I made my Shimmerz Dazzlerz the main start of the show.

Shimmerz Products used- 

Dazzlers Spun Sugar

Sour Apple

Licorice Stick

Coral Me Crazy

To create the star background I stenciled Dazzlers Spun Sugar, Sour Apple, Licorice Stick and Coral Me Crazy.  To achieve a softer colour green I mixed a little Sour Apple into the Spun Sugar Dazzlerz.  I also softened the colour of the Licorice Stick Dazzlers by mixing the left over mixed green colour into it before stenciling.  

While still wet I added a sprinkle of glitter over the top.  This added a beautiful sparkle to the finished card, while also diffusing the darker colour as well.

I hope you enjoyed my share today and found some inspiration.  

Don't forget to mention my name when you order for some free product!  WOOT!  

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

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