When Life Gives Lemons | Julee Tilman

Hi  Shimmerz friends! It's Julee Tilman popping in today with a little shimmery creation.

This weekend I was at a local craft store and came across the sign below. I'm an avid coffee drinker and this totally made me giggle. I knew I just had to recreate it in card form for one of my coffee loving friends!

To start the card, I pulled out stamps from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and stamped the lemon on watercolor paper, then masked the lemon off and stamped it again. I then added a mask to the other lemon and created a background around the lemons by plopping on Hint of Mint Spritz, Well Blue Me Down Coloringz, and It's Mint to Be Shimmerz. When it had dried I splattered with more Well Blue Me Down and Bumbly Bee Shimmerz.

After I peeled off the masks, I painted the lemons using Limoncello and Bumbly Bee, then stamped a few of the leaves on a scrap piece of watercolor paper and colored with a mixture of Hint of Mint and Bumbly Bee. That's one of the things I love about Shimmerz, everything blends so well you can always create the perfect coordinating color! The leaves are fussy cut and layered over the lemons.

The when life gives you lemons sentiment is stamped in black and embossed with clear embossing powder to really make it stand out and then I started in on the customized portion of the sentiment.  I pulled out the Bitty Minnie Alpha and stamped the word trade and them, then chose the for from the Happpy Alpha set to make a little banner across my panel.

The coffee is one of the fabulous Dotz embellishments from the Cup O Love Dotz collection. Love these sweet little embellies for cardmaking! I accented it with a couple more stamped leaves, then set this aside to work on a little splatter background. I like a little variation in my splatters, so in addition to the Bumbly Bee and Limoncello Shimmerz, I also splattered on some Goldie Lox Shimmeringz. This color is so beautiful and added just the perfect amount of variety.

I finished with a black mat and a white card base. Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your day Shimmerz! 😁

As always, if you place an order in the Shimmerz Shop, leave my name in the comments for a free sample product!

Hello Hint of Mint

Hi Shimmerz friendz! It's Julee here, popping in to share another creation I made with the June Missy Whidden Color Kit. Have you picked up yours yet? The exclusive Hint of Mint color in this kit is all kinds of gorgeous, and not to be missed! Just sayin'! 😉

For this card, I paired that glorious Hint of Mint Spritz with the Chance of Rain Spritz, spraying, smooshing and splashing to create some deep ocean vibes. To give it even a bit more depth, I splattered on some It's Mint to Be Shimmerz. Holy shine, Batman!

Once my background was how I wanted it, I pulled out the new Hey Gillfriend stamp set from The Cat's Pajamas and colored up this sweet little mermaid with Copic markers. I added some Angel Wings Shimmerz for a bit of sparkle and then coated with some crystal lacquer for a glossy finish.

I imagined her sitting on a coral reef deep in the ocean, so stamped the coral images several times across the page, embossing with white puff embossing powder for some extra texture.  I tucked in a few little stamped and colored seashells from the stamp set and some shell confetti.

Next I moved on to the sentiment. I wanted to use one of the sweet Dotz in the kit, and decided on a simple hi. To frame it, I cut some circles from paper I had colored with Chance of Rain and Hint of Mint respectively, then layered them together, popping in a few little sea creatures to add to the whimsy.  I finished with a few pearl accents on the scalloped edges. There you have it. If you haven't picked up this kit yet, you better hurry. It's a definite keeper!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope your day Shimmerz!

Lazy Days | Niki Rowland

Hey lovely Shimmerz Fans, Niki here today and I have a layout to share where I've applied beautiful Shimmerz Paints to a cut file. The cut file is by Paige Evans and was included in the first Missy Widden Kit. 

The cut file is so beautiful. I choose to cut it from mixed media cardstock and then I applied different colours of Shimmerz. I have used:

Shimmerz Celery

Shimmerz Pink o de Mayo

Shimmerz It's Mint to Be

Shimmerz Going Peach Side

Creameez Pink Champagne

Creameez Good ol' Summertime

I used the packaging technique to apply the colour to the cut file. Once the different colours were dry, I then added splatters in the same colours to the cut file. I also applied Dazzlers Spun Sugar Texture Paste over the top to the entire file. I just added this with my fingertip so it was left with a slight texture and a lovely shimmer.

When my cut file was completely dry I attached it to the layout. I then added more paint splatters in the same colours around the outside of the heart. 

I added my photo, a background paper by Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happiness collection as well as a number of embellishments from the same collection. I also added a few acrylic hearts and an acrylic title. The acrylics are by a UK company called Bramble Fox.

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you've enjoyed this layout, I loved creating it and am delighted with how it turned out. To recap which products I used they are:

 Shimmerz Celery

Shimmerz Pink o de Mayo

Shimmerz It's Mint to Be

Shimmerz Going Peach Side

Creameez Pink Champagne

Creameez Good ol' Summertime

Oh and don't forget that if you place an order via the Shimmerz website, enter my name in the comments for a freebie.

Happy scrapping xxx

There's Snowbuddy Like You | Niki Rowland

Hey Shimmerz Fans! Niki here today and I have a layout to share that has a winter theme. These photos are from a birthday party my children went to a few weeks ago at a snow centre. They basically zoomed down a very large snow slide on giant rubber rings - how much fun is that!

As I've been in Florida for most of December and quite a bit of January...I don't have many winter photos yet so I was delighted to have these snowy ones so I could get all frosty with my Shimmerz paints!

There are so many awesome shades of blue paint in the Shimmerz store! I picked out six and applied them to the bottom of my layout using the packaging technique.

I've used:

Winters Mist Shimmerz

It's Mint to Be Shimmerz

Frost Bite Vibez

Deep Blue Sea Vibez

Ride the Tide Creameez

Witches Blue Creameez.

I'm learning that to get a fabulous water colour effect background, the trick is to use several different shades of the same colour. This is demonstrated by how well this blue area turned out on this layout! It also doesn't matter too much if the colours mix together a little...becuase they are all just shades of the same colour, no muddy mixing this way.

I added lots of splatters in the same colours. I made a snowy hill for the bottom of my layout just by tearing white dotty cardstock. I kept holding this piece up against the water colour area I was working on to check for size. Amazingly I didn't get any blue fingerprints on it!

Once my background was dry I could start to assemble the rest of the layout. I used shades of blues and greens to add layers behind my photo. I bordered the whole layout with a dark blue border and I added lots of snowflakes, embellishments and sequins, also all in shades of blue. I did also add some white Perspextives and some silver thread, also a couple of glittery silvery hearts...this definitely added to the snowy effect.

 

Finally I finished off with my title which I created out of two different alphabet stickers, also in shades of blue.

 

Thank you so much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed my wintery layout.

Don't forget that if you place an order via the Shimmerz website and add my name in the comments you will recieve a free gift.

Happy scrapping xx 

Sympathy Card | Julee Tilman

Hi Shimmerz friends! It's Julee Tilman here to share a sympathy card made with Shimmerz products. Sadly, I had to put a pause on my holiday making, since a dear friend lost her father this past week. I had an idea for a card with a vibrant flower that would shine and radiate hope against a neutral background and here's what I came up with.

I started by stamping the flower image in jet black amalgam ink twice on watercolor paper. I then watercolored the flowers with Jeni B. Bleu Vibez, Well Blue Me Down Coloringz and It's Mint to Be Shimmerz. I used Elfin' Magic Vibez for the leaves. When these were dry, I fussy cut the two floral pieces on one image and cut a tag with the other flower image. Next I masked off the image and used a brick stencil and some See Ya Latte' Spritz to create a background. When dry, I removed the mask and then added the cut flower pieces, curling up the edges for a little added dimension. I highlighted the little dots in the center of the flower with Spun Sugar Dazzlerz.

For the background, I used a crackle stencil and blended in some See Ya Latte', Jeni B. Bleu and Well Blue Me Down sprays with a blending tool.  I then cut a length of sheer ribbon and dyed it to match the card with some water and Well Blue Me Down Coloringz. I used the excess ink to make some ink splatters on my background and then started layering everything together.

I accented the sentiment strip with a heart die cut, stacked 3 times for thickness and finished off with a bow.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a shimmery kind of day! Remember, if you see a little something you just have to have in the Shimmerz store be sure to put my name, Julee Tilman, in the comments section for a free surprise.

Stay Wild | Niki Rowland

Hey there Shimmerz fans! Niki here today. How is everyone getting on with Christmas preparations? I love Christmas so much but but today I have a bright and colourful layout to share with you that isn't Christmassy at all! Back to Christmas crafting next week!

So I couldn't resist using this beautiful die cut sheet by Paige Evans from her new Whimsical collection. It sat in my stash for a while becuase I wasn't too sure what to do with it but then I had a lightbulb moment and decided to paint it in all the Shimmerz colours!

I started off by trimming the white card down, backing it on a piece of light pink paper, and then I mounted it on the dark pink border. I then attempted to colour match the colours from the Whimsical collection with my Shimmerz colours. I did a good job - there are so many Shimmerz colours that I had lots of choice and perfect matches in some cases.

I then painted all the flowers and leaves in my chosen colours. I used (all Shimmerz originals) Sunny, Jilted Jade, It's Mint to Be,  Pink O de Mayo, Pink, Pip Pip Cherry-O.

The die cut background painted beautifully. In some cases the flowers were double blooms so I painted the inner and outer petals different colours. The effect is really very beautiful. I added a few yellow and Pink O de Mayo paint splatters. 

It took quite a while to do the painting but it was very peaceful and theraputic and I really enjoyed just sitting and being arty.

 

Once the flowers were all painted I constructed the layout. I wanted the focus to be on the flowers in the background and therefore I tried not to add to it too much. I created a base for my photos on some fussy cut flowers, also from the Whimsical collection. I layered up my photos with a few paper layers and bits of ephemera. I the added rub-on butterflies and enamel butterflies around the flowers on the background.  The title is an Acrylic Perspextive by Bramblefox.

Thanks so much for joining me today - I hope you have enjoyed my very bright and colourful layout!

Happy scrapping and if you place an order, don't forget to put my name in the comments to recieve a free gift. Happy scrapping xx 

Products used: 

Shimmerz Sunny, Jilted Jade, It's Mint to Be,  Pink O de Mayo, Pink, Pip Pip Cherry-O.