"By the Fire" ~ Altered Control Board with Sandi

Hey, hey, Shimmerz Paints fans! 

Sandi Clarkson here with you today sharing my latest project .. an altered furnace control board! 

The back story here is that our heat went out late Christmas Eve and was not restored until January 2nd! It was a very long, miserable week to say the least. So, when the repairmen handed me this burned out control board, I knew I had to alter it and memorialize that we survived! Thank goodness for electricity and that Lowe's had plenty of space heaters. 

The second back story is that when I get a new shipment of product from Shimmerz, I always open it as soon as I possibly can and sit down and spray (or brush) them all out on the "nearest to me" sheet of white paper! Maybe even a paper towel. So, I wanted my project to sort of replicate that habit. Since rainbow patterns are popular in crafting, I went with that! 

My first step was to paint the control board white using some glass bead texture paste. Once that was dry, I began to spray from left to right.  My colors used were the following:

Coloringz Scarletts Fever

Coloringz Peachy Keen

Coloringz Mandarin Mai-Tai

Vibez Froget Me Not

Coloringz Heidi Ho Blue

Coloringz Mama Sings the Blues

Vibez Blushing Bride

To amp up that glorious texture created by the object itself, I added some like-colored glass beads here and there.
Then I added my flower and mechanical light bulb.

Here's another angle of what and my hubby and I are calling our little city! Haha!

My title is from 7 Dots and is sort of another tongue in cheek gimmick!
Yes, I am trying to make the best of our adventure.
It could have been soooo much worse!

Here you can see the netting I added under the florals.
The chicken wire is solely for photographing.

Trying to show you a close-up of the beads.

One last photo and I guess I'm done!
I hope you are inspired. 

This was one of those fun, cathartic projects.
Just aim and spray to your hearts content!
Loving my Shimmerz Paints!

Remember if you place an order, use the code SANDI for a free paint.

Products used:

Coloringz Scarletts Fever

Coloringz Peachy Keen

Coloringz Mandarin Mai-Tai

Vibez Froget Me Not

Coloringz Heidi Ho Blue

Coloringz Mama Sings the Blues

Vibez Blushing Bride

"Adventure" with Sandi Clarkson

Hello, Shimmerz Paints fans!

Sandi Clarkson here with you today sharing a fun mixed media background.
  It's really hot in my part of the world, so I'm staying indoors and taking the opportunity to scrap.

And because it's hot, what's better than scrapping a photo of my sweet grand girl eating an ice cream cone?

I began with lots of paper layers, then building a background of gesso, texture paste, stamping  and finally my Shimmerz Paints.

I used a transfer technique as well as paint splatters to apply the Razzel Dazzel Berry Vibez, Deep Blue Sea Vibez and Snow Storm Vibez.

Interspersed are some splatters and transfers of the Mama Sings the Blue Coloringz. I've gotten a little messier than usual with my background (considering the printed background paper), so I've tried to tone things down with some dabs of white gesso as well as the Snow Storm Vibez. Here is a good close-up of the Distressed Chicken Wire Stamp from Creative Embellishments.

More texture, paint and flower fun!



That's it from my today!
See you next time with my favorite project ever!
Don't forget to use my name with your order for a free product surprise!

Shimmerz Products Used:
Razzel Dazzel Berry Vibez
Snow Storm Vibez
Deep Blue Sea Vibez
Mama Sings the Blue Coloringz

But First, Ice Cream | Irit Landgraf

Hi! Irit here with a new project using some lovely Shimmerz goodies. Ink Sprays are my go to supplies. Keep on reading for all the details!

Here's my finished layout-

What I love about ink sprays like Coloringz and Vibez is how easy it is to get a gorgeous look in absolutely no time at all.

To create this background I used a stencil (it's actually an old specialty paper that looks like a stencil, you can see it in the video tutorial) and a mixture of sprays. Coloringz in Mama sings the blues & Don't citron me, Vibez in Razzledazzle berry and Spritz in Ruby.

Supplies used: Patterned paper by Glitz Designs, Ephemera by Scrapbook- Werkstatt, puffy stickers by Pink Paislee Oh My Heart collection.

Here's the video tutorial I created showing how this came together-

Don't forget to mention my name when placing an order on the Shimmerz website!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Days Like This, a quick layout with Karine

Hi,

I'm here today to share my last layout. 

Days Like This

For this layout, I used three colors: Deep Blue Sea Vibez, Rock-a-fella Blue Spritz and Mama Sings the Blues Coloringz. I was after a monochromatic look. 

I love the different shades of blue I got.

I thought the colors went well with this Craft and You Design paper called Spring Garden01.