Blessed Joy | Shimmerz Paints Creative Team | Masculine Mixed Media Layout

 Hello everyone!

Who's up for some Fall Fun right about now? As one day leads into the next, we are slowly transitioning from Summer to Fall, and hopefully some cooler weather. I have a masculine mixed media layout to share with you today, and it can easily be adapted to more of a Fall theme. Not only that, but it also took under 20 minutes to make!

Let's get started. I began by choosing a navy cardstock as my base and added 3 horizontal brushstrokes of white acrylic paint followed by two areas of modeling paste in the upper right and lower left hand sections. I set my base aside to dry off the modeling paste and in the meantime began selecting my embellishments. I didn't got to crazy with the embellishing so as not to cover up the mixed media. 

Once my base was dry, I sprayed Rollin' In The Hay and Bed of Roses near the modeling paste; and splashed a bit of Granny Gray on the other areas. I then began to add in my pictures (matted on silver cardstock and backed with craft foam) nestled a bit on top of each other and began placing the previously selected embellishments (for added dimension, some of them were popped up on craft foam as well). Finished off the tags with some off-white ribbon, added a few drops of golden Stickles, and splattered some more Rollin' In The Hay and Bed of Roses to tie everything together. 

And that's it! Pretty quick and simple, but altogether a stunning masculine layout. Hope I've inspired you to crack out your fall colors and get creative. Thank you so much for reading up to this point. Remember, you can always get a freebie in your next Shimmerz order by typing "LORIMAR" into the comments section.

- Stay Well, Lorimar.

You Are One Of A Kind

Hello! Super excited to be playing along for the Shimmerz Color Challenge, and here's my first layout.

I chose Coffee (love the name, color, and drink; Lol!) because I find it really hard to use browns as focal colors in my projects. This being said, I love this color now!

For this layout, not only did I step outside my comfort zone in terms of the focal color, I also pushed myself into making a masculine, nature-themed layout to document this picture from a few years ago of my husband (then my boyfriend) enjoying one of his hobbies.

Bearing in mind how brown is a color I struggle with, I also don't have a lot of patterned paper in this tine. Plus, I love color, I added blues and greens into mix by using the same colors/tonez from within the picture. I first began to work on my background. I dipped my brush into the Coffee pot (no pun intended) and started to draw vertical lines. Without waiting for it to dry, I ran a brayer over it and did the same thing only with horizontal lines. Splattered a few drops unto the background with the same color. Waited for it to dry and, using a "reptile skin" stencil and Jeni B Blue (Vibez), added a layer of teal to the background. Set the base aside again to dry and began to work on creating all the layer for the picture cluster.

I used a lot of different patterns in different tones of blue or green to layer in beneath my picture. Mixed in a bit of teal, but tried to stay between the blue and greens. Added a pop I did at a pop of brown right next to my picture tie in with the background. My picture/patterned paper cluster is set on 3D craft foam and the picture itself is also set on some craft foam. In the end, there are 2 layers beneath my picture.

Then I trimmed about maybe an inch on each side of the base a wonky matter and then distress the edges. In a way I wanted to recreate the idea of an old map. Beneath the first base, I placed a light blue pattern paper with rope design; I did this to continue with the masculine, nature-like vibe. With a brayer, I added a bit of In Deep (Coloringz) around the border and used a brayer to thin it out. Then added some splatters. Since the first base is light and the second base is white, I ran my brush with Coffee around the entire border of the second base. Did this also to further add on to the element of the distressed look.

Once everything was dry, I placed my patterned paper cluster onto my base with glue (I find it works better when adhering things on mixed media), and began finalizing the layout using embellishments in different tones of blues, greens and browns. Layered some green leaflets (leftover from another project) to give another "nature-y" element, added my journaling in blue marker and finished it all off with splatters in Coffee (Shimmerz) and  Oakie Dokie (Creameez)

3 words: I LOVE IT!! Hope you are inspired to make something like this, and thank you for looking! Remember, type my name in the comments section of your next Shimmerz order to receive some free paint.

Thank you once more for looking and happy craftin'!

- Lorimar

Oh pots full of colour goodness - paintery effects for cards

Hi Everyone Beck BT here today to share with you a fun gender neutral card.  I love to create cards ready in my stash for any occasion so I always have some on hand for different people.  I often find using my paints is the most fun way to create stunning backgrounds easily finished off with a sentiment as in this case today. 

Shimmerz Products Used:

Shimmerz Creameez - Daffodil

Shimmerz Creameez - Witches Brew

Shimmerz Inklingz - Naughty or Nice

Shimmerz Creameez - Lettuce Get Together

Shimmerz Creameez - Thunderstorm

Other Products Used:

Tinby Designs Heavy Weight Cardstock - White and Kraft

Dark Room Door - Arty Circles collage stamp

Dark blue cardstock

Dark blue twine

Bella fundamentals Sentiments pack

Create your own:

To create my card I first stamped the circle images with permanent black ink.

 Next I added some of the Thunderstorm colour to the background.

 Now I added colour to the circles along with some splatter as well.

Then my background was done and ready to add those finishing touches to make it into a card.

I hope you enjoyed my share today and head back real soon!  

Happy Crafting!  

xxxBeck BT

Grunging it up with Beck BT

Hey Everyone, it's Beck BT here today grunging it up on a fun masculine scrapbook page.  I had so much fun creating this page of my boys.  It was so much fun to create the layers of color and texture on the page with the help of some of my favorite Shimmerz products!

Products used:

Shimmerz Texturez - Gritty Graphite

Shimmerz Texturez - Tidy Widy

Shimmerz Paste-eez - Baby Boy Blue

Acritonez - Tar Tar

I started out on my page by creating the background using a stencil I had previously stencilled with on the background of another page.  I used the excess on my stencil to stamp with the Texturez pastes in both colours listed above onto the background of some white cardstock and this was the base for my page.

Next I added the Paste-Eez over the top brusing up and down. These are SO SO yummy!  They are like tubs of soft goodness spreading onto the page so easily.  I love that they are not opaque either so you can still see the sweet layers peeking out from underneath.

For the darker black I used the AcriTonez to add some black stamping.  This was so cool for this technique as the AcriTonez need no priming at all and give immediate opaque coverage.  Sometimes layering non opaque and opaque can give stunning effects.

Here are some more pictures of my page for you to get up close with all the layers.  As you can see I teamed my background up with some of my favorite papers from Simple Stories and also some elements from Coco Vanilla Studio.

I hope you enjoyed my share today!!  Keep scrolling down to see how you can get some free paint!  

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

100% Boy Card with Beck BT

Hey there it's Beck BT here today to share with you another of my cards using the divine Shimmerz products.  I've created a boy theme card today complete with some yummy texture and layers.

For my card today I used the follwoing Shimmerz products:

Shimmerz Texturez in Tidy Widy & Gritty Graphite

Shimmerz Spritz in Truffle
Shimmerz Tickle me Turquoise
Inklingz Can't Elope

 Thanks so much for heading over to the blog today to check out my project!  I hope I've inspired you and shown you how lovely a little Shimmerz Paints can take your card to the next level!  If you'd like, to head on over to my blog HERE for step pictures and complete products lists used and you can see a little more detail on where I used the divine products!  

Till next time
xxxBeck BT

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