Oh my goodness! I absolutely love the July Color Kitz. The colors are so bright and remind me of all things summer. I started with a piece of 12x12 Mixed Media Foundation Cardstock. I pulled several paints from the kit to create a mixed media painted background. I used Sunny-Shimmerz, Orange You Glad-Coloringz, Lettuce Get Together-Creameez, and Evergreen-Shimmerz.
Next I torn the patterned paper that has the oranges, lemons, and limes design on it. I added this torn paper horizontally across the top and bottom of the page. Next I cut a half inch strip of the orange plaid paper. My layout design is fairly simple and came together very quickly.
I adhered the velum fruit ephemera to a piece of white cardstock and fussy cut them out. This gave the pieces a little more stability and allowed me to add some foam tape to the back of them. I backed my photos with various pieces of paper from the kit.
I embellished with a few of the tiny foam dot stickers. With that my layout is complete. Remember when you shop on the Shimmerz Paints website you can add my name "Melissa Minor" to the notes section and Shimmerz will send you a free paint.
I couldn't wait to get creating with this beautiful kit!
Here's what I came up with.....
"Bloom & Grow"
Oh my heart! Isn't this so pretty!
And before you ask about the ice cream cut file, let me tell you that my moody cutting machine ate every single one of those ice cream cones! I know, right?! So frustrating!
On the upside, digital files keep forever, & I'll try cutting it again after I've updated my software, lol!
I've also opted for a 'clean look' mixed media page - lots of controlled painting for this sweet page!
Here's a closer look at my layout....
Whoa! So.much.pretty!!!
Turns out you don't have to use the cut file to maximize the awesomeness of this kit!
I began my layout by painting a bunch of blooms and leaves from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio "Sophisticated" pattern paper (Midnight collection) using ALL the colors!
Where's the Heidi Ho Blue, I hear you ask?
Well, to create those darker green leaves I mixed Coloringz Heidi Ho Blue with Vibez Hermit the Frog - so you kinda get a bonus 'extra' color in your kit ;)
Once dry, I fussy cut all the florals and arranged onto the 12 x 12 white cardstock base.
Next, I sprayed some scrap paper with pure Coloringz Heidi Ho Blue.
With this newly created blue paper, I punched a few butterflies, and even backed it to my photograph for added interest.
In keeping with the butterfly adornments, I just couldn't resist using the beautiful
The pretty yellow & lime butterfly coordinates perfectly with the Vibez Hermit the Frog painted leaves. Love it!
For finishing touches, I add my title Bloom & Grow also from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Midnight collection, & end with scattering lots of Spinkle Time! sequins onto my page....
So many lovelies to look at!
Absolutely gorgeous!!!
And such a 'clean' approach to using paints on your projects!
Rocío here with my first blog post and process video for Shimmerz Paints as part of their YouTube Education Team. I can't beleive it yet! I am so happy to be in this amazing team and to have the opportunity to share with you projects using the freakin' awesome paints from Shimmerz!!
For my first project I've created a mixed media mini album from a little travel I made last summer. The vibrant colors of the paints are just perfect for any project but I think match perfectly with the hot and colors of summer time.
As you can see, I got so much fun with the cover and I recycled two pieces of cardboard from a box to create the front and back covers.
I removed the first layer of the cardboard to see the part with "waves" and then I applied a coat of gesso. After that, was the fun part, time to use the paints and create that colorfull front cover.
I use a few collections from Pretty Little Studio but I had to add a little bit of color in some papers.
I also love stamps so I used them with Shimmerz to create a beautiful and shimmery background in two pages.
The album has different sizes of pages, I think that makes it funnier. Also, I added a few pages using acetate as base.
To decorate the acetate pages I used Dazzlerz with stencils and I love the outcome! The texture is super smooth and easy to apply.
I have to tell you I had so much fun creating the page you can see above and, actually, this was the first page I made for the album, using a thin washi tape to create the geometric design.
One technique I adore so much is to use a straw and blowing through it to create a background easily but very pretty and funny. This is one of my favorite pages! And I would love to show you all the pages but, I think that will be the never ending story, so I let you with the process video and you can see the entire mini album in it.
SUPPLIES VIBEZ: Deep Blue Sea, Rose Gold Red. SHIMMERZ: Magenta, Sunny, Evergreen, Peacock's Plume. INKLINGZ: Lover's lips, Green Goddess. DAZZLERZS: Lemon Drop, Tuti Frutti, Sea U in the mornin'
Hello lovely Shimmerz visitors, today I have a little gift set to share with you.
A card and matching bookmark for someone who loves reading...
This time I only used Shimmerz paints and no sprays at all, which is unusual for me as I love all the different Shimmerz sprays, but I thought it was time to make some of the yummy paints hold center stage.... Here are the ones I used:
Here's a quick run down of how I put all of this together:
I cut a piece of card to 7 x 7", created some texture with paste and a stencil and then painted with my chosen paints until I was happy with the effect. I blended the colours, using both a brush and a baby wipe and then spritzt with water to get a mottled effect. I love the marbled effects the paints create over the textures in the background.
I then used some stamps, these are all from the Unforgettable set from Hot off the Press.
I coloured the stamped images with more of the paints using a fine brush and added highlights with some watercolour pencils and a white gel pen.
To create the main sentiment I cut a separate piece of card, coloured and then stamped it and then slightly curled it with the end of a paint brush.
I added a flower from my stash and here is the finished card, matted and layered onto some Kraftcard.
The matching bookmark is made out of two separate pieces:
I used one of Tim Holtz Mixed Media dies, added some more texture paste through a stencil and then coloured as before.
Here is the darker piece that was glued underneath.
Some stamped and fussy-cut butterflies to embellish.
And here is the finished bookmark.
As you can hopefully see, just 4 of these little pots of paint can give you some wonderful background effects!
Thank you for visiting like always and I hope that you like my project....
