Sweet Friend with Isha Gupta

Hello Shimmerz friendz, Isha here sharing a clean and simple mixed media card with you today. Hope you had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends!

I decided to use some pretty colors create my card,  Creameez: Pining For You, Sky's the Limit, Luck O' the Irish, Cheeky Pink and Dandy-Lion; Inklingz: Coral Reef and Honey Do List; Shimmerz: Sugar Plum; Textures: Tidy Widy

I started by stamping the floral image onto watercolor paper. I then started coloring the image in layers. First apply the first color, blend it with water and then apply the 2nd. color while the first one is still wet. Let this dry.
Meanwhile, I added a wash for the background using Luck O' the Irish and let this dry. Once dry, I applied  Textures: Tidy Widy through a stencil and let this dry too.
Finally, I assembled all the elements together.

I really love the shine of the mix of various paints.

Here are the products I used:

Creameez: Pining For You, Sky's the Limit, Luck O' the Irish, Cheeky Pink and Dandy-Lion 

Inklingz: Coral Reef and Honey Do List

Shimmerz: Sugar Plum 

Textures: Tidy Widy

Thank you for stopping by!! Hope you like my creation and got inspired to create Christmas card using non Christmas stamps. If you decide to add some shimmery goodness in your stash, please don't forget to put my name "ISHA GUPTA" in the comments and get a free surprise freebie :)

The Secret to Having it all - a journal spread with Astrid

Hello all and thanks for dropping by here today. I have a quick journal spread to share with you.

I wanted to have a play with some Dazzlerz, these are the products I used:

Dazzlers Sea You in the Mornin and Gummy Berry Blue

Texturez Teal Me No Lies

Vibez: Egg Noggin, Palm Reader  Chance of Rain

Like usual I started with the background and brayered on the two colours of Dazzlers, I then used a stencil and some texturez and the sprays. This is what it looked like:

To be honest, I did not like it much, so decided to cover most of it up. It will never be a favourite, but you live and learn right?.... Anyway I used one of the wonderful Staks quotes you will find them in the Pickpocket Staks. I coloured them with a few spritzes of Eggnoggin and coloured pencils. Cut it apart and adhered them to my spread together with a vintage photo mounted on a piece of scrapbook paper and a few fussy cut butterflies. And that was it. Below a few close ups still:

Have a good one my friends, hope the sun shines on you and enjoy those Shimmerz paints. Until next time....

A very Special Occasion a project by Astrid

Hello all and welcome to the blog today. I have a card to share with you today, made for a very special occasion. You can read about it all HERE, and I really hope you will!!!

Anyway, here is my card.

Recently I had the idea to try and see whether Shimmerz paints would work on a Gelli plate, and I am very happy to say they do!! The background to this card was created on a the small 6 x 6 Geli plate.

I started by brayering some Teal Me No Lies Texturez and then I mixed in some Dazzler in Spun Sugar.
I pulled my print and the result was a beautifully textured shimmering blue. I lay a Prima stencil over the top and gave it a couple of sprays of Vibez Don't Rain on My Parade and voila the result was the background above.

I cut a tag from a piece of Pion paper, Inked around the edges with some Distress Inks, gave a a few spritzes of Spritz in Rock-a -Fella Blue for some subtle shimmer, stamped my dandylions and then put it all together on my card. Below are a few close ups still.

Sentiment stamped, fussy cut and adhered with foam tape.

Butterfly stamped in Hydrangea Archival and coloured with the Rock-a-Fella Spritz.

Well, that's it for today. I hope you will check out the link at the top to see who the card is for, and it would be awesome if you made a card for this girl too.

Thanks for your visit like always