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Hi everyone! Melissa here with a new design team page for the amazing Shimmerz Paints!  These paints are so wonderfully textured and delightful. I love to use them! The chipboard and a lot of the textural elements are from Reneabouquets. The photo is from free google by Stella de Libero.

To make this page, I put the layers under the photo together, I taped on card stock under the image to make it stronger. Below that is a layer of watercolor paper, and at the bottom is corrugated cardboard. I ripped off a lot of the paper from the cardboard, and painted it with gesso. While it was still wet, I poured on Ultra Thick Embossing Powder, and heated it just enough for it to melt. I put layers of foam core board between everything, to add dimension. I stenciled on texture paste , and then added color to it and the background watercolor paper. I used Blue My Mind Inklingz, Tickle Me Turquoise, Ultra Marine, and Peacock's Plume Shimmerz. 

I picked out Beautiful Board, sponged on gesso,then painted it with Shimmerz Paints, and when dry, topped it with a thick coat of Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint. The colors I used are: Good as Gold, and Olive U Truly Inklingz.I glued on glass glitter,metal glitter, seed beads and micro beads. I added more paint on top of these, in First Blush and Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz.
  You can also see gold mica powder, I dabbed it on to sort of tie everything together. I used a lot of copper mica powder and water on the watercolor paper and cardboard because of the copper in the photo, along with a lot of other colors.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, glass glitter,metal and distress glitter, seed beads,glass beads, pearls, Swarovski crystals,rhinestones,pressed flowers,lichen,leaves, Prima flowers, a butterfly from Reneabouquets,black tulle, iridescent wrapping paper, metal from Tim Holtz,Vintaj, and my stash.

When I had a lot of colors on the page, I thought it was too blue, so I put on a layer of Prima Platinum Crackle. When it was dry I rubbed on silver mica powder. I added more gold mica powder.

I outlined a lot of areas with black gesso to add definition, and also painted the edges of the cardboard and watercolor paper.

I was done and then realized I needed more blue to match the dress. I added first Tickle Me Turquoise and Teal The End of Time Shimmerz.

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