Being Invested with Process Video | Niki Rowland

Hi everyone, Niki here today with a new layout to share. I've used wide paint strokes to create the background for this layout.

I've used a mixture of Inklingz and Creameez and added a small amount of water to each colour. Once the paint had activated a bit I used a wide paintbrush and painted directly onto my white background.

The colours I've used are:

Honeymoon Inklingz 

Teal the End of Time Shimmerz 

Boogie Boardin’ Blue Creameez 

Ride the Tide Creameez 

Green Grass Inklingz 

Freshly Minted Inklingz

Once the background stripes were dry, I then went back and added paint splatters over the top of each stripe. I did this colour-on-colour style.

I've used a mixture of different paper collections to create this layout, but mostly Crate Paper All Heart. Even though this collection was aimed towards girls, I found lots of things that were relevant to this story and worked really well.

I added machine stitching and also used tissue paper and tulle for extra texture. I fussy cut some stars and used an acrylic word for a title, as well as little alpha stickers too.

Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you have enjoyed this layout. I have also put together a process video which you can view below.

Don't forget if you place an order via the Shimmerz Store, enter my name in the comments and you will get a little freebie in with your order.

Happy scrapping xx 

Together Is The Best Place To Be

Hi everyone! Melissa here with my second post of the month for Shimmerz Paints! I love the rich tones and sparkling effects I can achieve with Shimmerz! I have used an engagement photo of my son and his fiance.

To make this page I mounted the photo on watercolor paper. I used a layer of foam core board between the photo and the watercolor paper, and two layers underneath it and the background paper.The background paper is from Stamperia. I stenciled on some stars using a Tim Holtz stencil, and texture paste with an old credit card. I glued on the big Reneabouquets gears,and prepped them with gesso. I added two flowers from Prima. At this point I decided what colors to paint the gears and the paper. I used Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz on the gears,and a mix of two colors on the paper: a lavender color Inklingz named Honeymoon, and Oakie Bear Blue Inklingz. On top of the two I added a light layer of the Penny color.

I added a thick layer of Ranger Clear Rock Candy on the chipboard. When it was dry, I added a small amount of I Love You Onyxly Inklingz to the edges of the chipboard, to help make the cracks more visible.

To add visual interest I added the following: micro beads, seed beads, charms,Jim Holtz metal, Finnabair metal, feathers from the bird bath in my yard, dried and pressed flowers, chain, gold leaf, black tulle, distress glitter, metal glitter,pearls, rhinestones, and more. I wanted to use some small chipboard hearts and stars in Tim Holtz shapes, but I only had the negative part of the chipboard left. I traced some new ones out onto watercolor paper,fussy cut them, painted them with Penny, and put crackle paint on.

The gold stars are Tim Holtz rub ons. The sand looking stuff is dry Ranger Distress Frayed Burlap embossing powder. With my finger I brushed on gold mica powder over dry gesso to kind of tone down the detail of the background paper. All the blue on the chipboard and the page is the same mix mentioned earlier.

Thank you so much for looking, and have a great week!

Inspired by Spring

Hi Everyone, Beck Beattie today feeling all inspired by Spring now that it has FINALLY arrived in Australia!  The actual weather still needs to improve a bit but hey at least the season is Spring, so that keeps us all in good hope of the beautiful summer weather that is now not too far away.  Can you tell I'm not much of a Winter girl??  

So for my page I was really inspired by my love of this season and captured it in my scrapbook page with a lovely photo of my bridesmaid's bouquet from my wedding.

Here is a video so you can watch my page come together!

 Shimmerz Products Used:

Products Used:
Shimmerz Creameez in:
Trippin' in the Tropics
My Clementine
Shimmerz Inklingz in:
Honeymoon

Here are some more pics so you can get up close to my project today!

What do you get inspired by?  Maybe you can find some inspiration from your local weather!

 Thanks so much for heading over to the blog today to check out my project!  

Don't forget to mention my name when you order for some free product!  WOOT!  

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

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