'Make Great Memories' Layout with Process Video | Niki Rowland

Hey there everyone, this is Niki with a new layout to share today. I have used four Inklings & Creameez Shimmerz Paints to creat the water colour effect background on my layout.

These photos were taken on the hottest day ever recorded in the UK so this layout had to be full of bright summery colours. I chose to use Heidi Swapp Color Fresh collection and I started off by figuring out the basic arrangement of my layout. I added the strips at the top and stitched through them.

I added my Inklingz and Creameez to my background using the packaging technique. The trick with these hard paints is to drop some water in them and allow them to sit for a few minutes - this melts the top layer slightly and you end up with a fabulous rich paint.

I pick up some colour with a paintbrush and transfer it onto the packaging. If it's not wet enough then I add some water. Sometimes I just press it onto the layout, then add water directly to the layout and then put the packaging back over the top so that I still achieve the water colour effect. I have made a process video of this layout so if you want to see how I create my backgrounds in more detail then take a look at that. You can find it at the end of this blog post.

The four colours I used are:

Pink Champagne Creameez

Berry Hot Creameez

Refresh Mint Creameez 

Meet Me @ Sunset Inklingz.

Once the paint applied with the packaging technique was dry(ish), I then added splatters. I usually add them colour-on-colour, ie yellow splatters over yellow paint. I did this for this layout. I also added some extra splatters once I had finished the layout.

Here's another look at the finished layout. You can see that I've also used some Dotz...one to the left of my photos that says 'Smile' and the other one is above my photos - that fabulous orange and yellow swirl...this reminded me of a very hot sun, so perfect for this layout.

Thanks so much for joining me today, you can view my process video below. Don't forget that if you place an order via the Shimmerz Store, put my name in the comments and you will get a freebie with your order.

Happy scrapping xx

Good Vibes | Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, Niki back with you today with a very colourful layout to share! I went rainbow crazy with lots of Shimmerz Paints and the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Happiness collection.

To create the background I started off by finding the middle point of a piece of Marshmallow card. I then drew a starburst very lightly in pencil. I then filled in each section of the starburst with different Shimmerz Paints. 

I'm in love with Creameez at the moment, The colour is so intense. The more water added, the less intense they are, but if you only add a small amount of water the colour is very rich.

The colours I used are:

Yellow: Shimmerz Bumbly Bee

Green: Shimmerz Celery

Mint: Shimmerz It's Mint to Be

Blue: Creameez Witches Blue

Red: Creameez Red Necking

Pink: Creameez Pink Champagne

Orange: Shimmerz Orange Sherbert

I applied all these using the packaging technique. I blotted the colours inbetween applications so that they didn't run into each other too much. When they were a little bit dry, I then added flicks of the same colours over each coordinating colour block.

When my background was dry I added my photos and a few layers of patterned paper. I then went crazy with the colour-on-colour embellishment where I used ephemera, sequins and stickers.

I love how this layout turned out! It is so bright and happy and I am really in love with rainbows at the moment! Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope you have enjoyed this layout.

Don't forget that if you place an order via the Shimmerz website, enter my name in the comments and you will receive a little freebie in with your order. Happy scrapping xxx

 

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

Baby it's Cold Outside | Niki Rowland

Hi Shimmerz Fans! Niki here today and I have a cold, wintery, icy layout to share today. I almost always put a border around the edge of my layouts but for this one I decided to stick to mostly white so I have a super white background to do justice to the snowy photo.

I started off by making a water color effect background. I did this by using the packaging technique. I applied light shades of blue, pink and yellow. The colours I've used are:

Pool Me Close Shimmerz, Lemoncello Shimmerz, Pink Champagne Creameez and Freshly Minted Inklingz.

Once I had applied the paint to the background, I added splatters of the same colours to make my background a bit bigger and also to get some small dots of intense colour.

I then used a snowflake stencil and added white snowflakes using the very gorgeous Spun Sugar Dazzlerz. 

I also mixed the same colours I used to create my water colour effect background, with Spun Sugar Dazzlerz, so that I had a texture paste in each of the same colours. I then pushed all the colours through a dotted stencil onto a separate piece of white card. I overlapped the colours in some places so that I got a two tone effect. Once dry I cut this into strips and used it as part of my photo cluster.

I built my photo cluster onto my mixed media background. I added tangles of silver thread and I used cute ice skates and mittens Perspextives by Bramble Fox. I also added a title 'Baby it's cold outside' Perspextive underneath my photo cluster.

Here's another look at the completed layout. I finished off with a few small embellishments  (oh and that massive blue arrow I've had for years!) and fussy cut some snowflakes from patterned papers. I added another small title using alphabet stickers and handwrote my journaling above it.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you've enjoyed my cold wintery layout...let's hope there is some warmer weather coming soon!

Happy scrapping and don't forget to enter my name in the comments of your next order and you will get a freebie! xxx 

Products used: 

Pool Me Close Shimmerz

Lemoncello Shimmerz

Pink Champagne Creameez 

Freshly Minted Inklingz

 Spun Sugar Dazzlerz