Under the Sea...on my window

OK...confession time...whenever I get anything new, I have to use it immediately! If I get a new stamp, I ink it up and stamp it on a scrap paper just to see it! Same thing with products like Shimmerz. When I got my most recent order of Shimmerz and Blingz, I opened up every single jar and painted a blob onto a piece of cardstock just so I could see it right away!! Well...when I saw the new Under the Sea Blingz, I immediately though of the shades of blue and purple in hydrangeas. I adore these flowers!

For this card, I colored my image with Copic markers. On the flowers, I simply dotted a bit of violet and light blue marker on the flowers - I didn't color them all the way in, I just wanted a little bit of depth and shadow. Then I painted the Under the Sea Blingz over all the flowers! Wow!! I'm lovin' this color!!

I was really able to capture the sparkle of the Blingz in this photo below. Click on it to open a much larger view in a separate window - you can really see all the blues and purples reflect the light!



Thanks for letting me share with you - I'm really excited about these new colors. If you haven't had a chance to check them out, you can see them all on the new website!

Hugs, Jami

Recipe:
Stamps: Pretty Window (Sketching Stamper), Quotes (2RedBananas)
Paper: Purely Pomegranite (Stampin Up), White (Georgia Pacific)
Ink: Computer, Tim Holz Broken China (clouds)
Accessories: Under the Sea Blingz
Copics: B29, B32, E09, E29, E33, E35, E41, G28, R02, RV11, RV29, V09, Y11, YG03, YR24

Feelin' Crabby

No.....I'm not crabby! Last week we took the kids up to Seoul to the aquarium. It's a wonderful aquarium and we all had a fabulous time. It's inside a HUGE mall...so really, you can't go wrong!

I took this picture of my husband sitting in front of the crab tank. This big ol' crab came walking right up like he wanted his picture taken. Isn't that thing gigantic?! I wanted to make a little 6x6 layout with this picture and I wanted to use a black and white photo. But I also wanted to keep the bright orange color of the crab. What to do..... Add Shimmerz!! I painted on some Marigold Shimmerz to Mr Crab. He was still a little scary to me, but some googly eyes fixed that!


I was searching for some alpha stickers to use with this to spell out the word crabby, but all I could find were some fun foam stickers. You know the ones you buy in the packages of 5-million or so? And they all come in pastel colors... But one layer of Shimmerz takes care of those colors - and gives you all the sparkle your alphas deserve!! I used Coal Shimmerz and Marigold Shimmerz on these. Underneath that coal Shimmerz is a pastel blue letter! The best part - they are peel and stick!! I love that!


I'm sure there are tons of fun things you can use the fun foam on with your projects - so next time you pull it out, try adding a little sparkle on top!!

Hugs, Jami

Layout Recipe:
Paper: Knight Sky (The Paper Co), Hopscotch (K&Co)
Tools & Accessories: Marigold & Coal Shimmerz, Labels-1 Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Orange Wrinkle Ribbon (May Arts), Burlap String (May Arts), Dew Drops (Robins Nest), Fun Foam Stickers (@ Michaels), Googlie Eyes