Rumbly in my Tumbly | Niki Rowland

Hey there Shimmerz Fans! Niki here today and I have a bright colourful layout to share with you today.

I've used the new Dear Lizzy collection 'New Day' and it has lots of bright colours in it. I chose a striped paper with lots of colours and tore a strip of it to go across the top of my layout. I then matched my Shimmerz paints to the coloured stripes and extended the colours down the layout.

 I've used all Original Shimmerz for this layout and the colours I've used are: 

Pool Me Close

Jilted Jade

Key Lime

Teal the End of Time

Winters Mist

Pink

Bumbly Bee

Gold n Roses

 

Once I had created my colourful background I then stuck on my striped paper. I created a photo cluster with three photos and lots of embellishments, all from the New Day collection too.

I used the multi print alpha from the same collection to make a fun title and I handwrote in my journaling at the bottom to finish off. 

Now you've got to the end, I'll let you into a secret. This layout was initially quite different. I had also got a striped paper strip at the bottom too with the colours painted up as well. I actually finished the layout but it was awful! It's extremely rare for me to make a layout that I hate and I really did hate this one, so much so that I didn't feel I could share it as a DT project for Shimmerz. So I left it a few days and then chopped it up, rescued the top painted part and added it to a new white background with a white strip right at the top and some white space at the bottom. This made it a whole lot better and I'm now happy with the end result (almost). See, even people on Design Teams get things wrong occasionally :)  

Happy scrapping lovelies and may Shimmerz paints colour your world beautiful xxx

Winter Cards | Julee Tilman

Hi Shimmerz fans! It's Julee Tilman here sharing a couple cards using the new winter release stampz.

First up is the adorable Love Never Melts set. How darling are these little snow friends working together to get the star on top of the tree?

I stamped the image and colored with Copic markers, then highlighted with Angel Wings Shimmerz. Next I painted a piece of cardstock with Winter's Mist Shimmerz and used it as a background, with a thin mat of black in between. The sentiment is from the new Filled to the Brim set and I finished off with a silver photo corner embellishment. Snow cute!

For my second card I pulled out this sweet snowman and birdie image from the You're Snow Amazing set. I stamped and then colored with Copic markers, adding all sorts of shimmery highlights with Angel Wings Shimmerz. The sentiment is stamped in black  and then I used the teeny snowflakes in the set to stamp in Angel Wings and then while it was still wet sprinkled a bit of extra fine glitter on it for a little extra texture.

I love how easy cardmaking is when you have such fantastic images. Even a simple layout like this shines with Shimmerz!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! If you place an order in the Shimmerz store, remember to put my name, Julee Tilman, in the comments to recieve a free little gift!

Frosty Fun | Color Challenge: Winter's Mist | Niki Rowland

Hey there Shimmerz fans! Niki back with you today and I have a wintery layout to share with you today. We are doing another color challenge at the moment: each member of the DT had to choose one color and make that the subject of their layout.  I loved this challenge last month and stuck just to my one chosen color. This month I'd added in a couple of extras too.

So my chosen color this time was 'Winters Mist' Shimmerz. These Shimmerz paints are little pots of watercolor gorgeousness...the color is already mixed to a runny consistency but they are thicker than spray bottle paints and thinner than acrylics - they are the perfect consistency for painting with and of course they sparkle - this makes me very happy :) 

 So I started off by working out roughly where my photo cluster was going to go. I then mixed some Winter's Mist with some Spun Sugar Dazzlers. Spun Sugar is basically a white texture paste so the colour took to it very well and then hey presto: I had a paste I could apply through a stencil but in Winter's Mist colour.  I applied it through a spotty stencil directly onto my white background.

I also splattered the top half of the background with Winter's Mist. I added in two other colours here too: Hi Ho Silver Blingz and It's Mint to Be Shimmerz.

I also applied Winter's Mist and a snall amount of It's Mint to Be with the packaging technique in order to get a watercolor effect below my photo.

I painted my cut file title with Winter's Mist. That's just one coat and the colour is so intense! Seriously I love these paints so much. Once it was dry I applied some Spun Sugar Dazzlerz through the same stencil I used on the background.

Once all my painting was dry I then assembled my layout using lots of wintery/christmassy papers and embellishments. I didn't want this to be a Christmas layout so I pulled out all the blues and greens so that it looked wintery.

Thank you so much for joining me today, I hope you've enjoyed this layout and Round 2 of the Color Challenge - what's your favourite Shimmerz Colour??

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

Happy scrapping xx

Products used:

Winter's Mist Shimmerz

It's Mint to Be Shimmerz

Hi Ho Silver Blingz

Spun Sugar Dazzlerz

Spring flowers | Anna Komenda

Hello everyone. It's Anna here with new art journal page. I can't wait for the sprint to come and color this grey world around me. I hate winter and it's always hard for me to stay cheerful during long winter evenings. I am trying to stay positive by making a lot of rainbow projects including my latest art journal page. I was inspired by the flowers I was and I wanted to try making them in my journal.

I started this spread with mists applied with brush like watercolor. 

After sketching few flowers I applied white acrylic paint first. Then I mixed leftover mists with some more white paint and I received new, fun acrylics

Between each layer I used my heat gun to dry the page. It prevented flowers from smudging. I finished flowers using colorful Shimmerz paints.

As always I recorded a video for you, so you can follow my process.

Don't forget to mention my name "Anna" while placing an order in Shimmerz Shop. You will get free mini product. How cool is that?

Here is the list of Shimmerz products I used in my project:

Shimmerz: Key lime, Pink, Sugar plum, Sunny, Tickle me turquoise, Winter's mist, Bumbly bee

Vibez - Grape escape, Jeni B Bleu, Sweet heart, Blue jeans, Razzeldazzel berry,

Spritz - Chick-a-dee

Thank you for stopping by and see you next month with some more mixed media fun.

Anna

Underwater layout with Anna Komenda

Hello Shimmer fans. It's Anna here with my next project created with fabulous paints and mists. To be honest - when I started creating this page, I didn't know how it will end. I had this cute picture of y daughter in the swimming pool and I had this cute mermaid from Crate Paper collection. All I knew is that I want them together on one page.

For my mermaid layout I needed to create whole sea of water. I used watercolor paper and sprayed it with mists. I used wet brush to blend them together.

I wanted bubbles so I added this fun bubble foil. I sew it with sewing machine but it can be tricky. Foil is stopping the step from moving. But there is a solution - put a piece of vellum on top of your foil, sew through it and after sewing is done - just tear off the vellum. I also made some bubbles on my background using Dazzlers and stencil.

To get more whimsical effect I painted seaweed using all sorts of green paints. All my underwater layout needed right now was a little of embellishing.

Thanks to paints and mists I created colorful and busy design with almost no patterned papers. This is what I love the most while working with paints. You can make any kind of design using any color scheme in just a minutes. 

I have a process video for this page for You.

Shimmer products:

Aqua Huez - Leapin' lizard

Creameez - Lettuce get together

Inklingz - Honey do list

Shimmerz - Jilted jade, Key lime, Tickle me turquoise, Winter's mist

Coloringz - No yoking, Oh say can you sea

Vibez - Before dawn, Jeni B Bleu, Deep blue sea

Remember to mention my name while shopping at the store. You will get free mini product :)

XO Anna

Guess who's back again?!

Hi friends! Samantha Robles here with some exciting news from Shimmerz Paints. Stacey McElyea, Shimmerz CEO, and myself have been getting emails for months on a certain color and when-oh-when are we bringing it back? Well the day will finally arrive tomorrow, August 11th!

Who's ready for COLD AS ICE to hit shelves again?! Tomorrow morning, August 11th, we're bringing Cold As Ice back based on popular request! It's also bringing 3 new friends! Snow Way Man Vibez, Winters Mist Shimmerz and Colder Than Ice Shimmerz. Colder Than Ice is based on the popular Vibez color, but with tons of snowy shimmer.  

You can get 20% off

your order using the coupon code: COLDASICE20 starting tomorrow, August 11th, and going until August 18th. 

Other promotions, such as free product giveaways, will NOT be honored with the 20% off deal. 

Make sure to get your snowy deals before they melt away!!