Fish Out of Water | Shimmerz Paints | MK Gunn

 Hey, it's MK!  Today I'm creating a two page layout, enhancing patterned paper and making fishy trails sparkle. Are you ready?

I started by using a background cut file as a stencil on my blue patterned paper.  I wanted the background stencil work to be tone-on-tone and barely visible.  Then I added Inklingz Spotlight White and sprinkled it at a diagonal across both my blue papers to make it look like the shimmer from the waves.  I cannot tell you how much I love this little paint pot.  Setting that off to dry...

While the background is drying, I'm going to paint my fishy trails with Shimmerz Silver Bells.  I put two coats on them so I could get a really good shimmer and shine.  Before they dried completely, I splattered some Spotlight White over them.

Back to the background...now that the white is dry, I'm going to splatter Color Splash Sea Breeze and Once Upon a Lime on the same direction that I used the Spotlight White in.

While that is drying once more, I'm going to stitch on my fishy trials.

Now that all the prep work is done, I can put this layout together.

I added sequins behind my meshy ribbon for some added sparkle, used scraps of paper to back my fish and added my title.  Once everything was in it's place, I used Color Splash Whites of Their Eyes to splatter over the entire layout and embellishment clusters.

I love the movement that all the splattering has added to this layout.  I especially like the depth I get when adding splatters before I create the layout and after it is finished.

That is all that I have for you today.  Thank you so much for stopping by!  Here is the process video, if you'd like to see how this layout came together:

I hope you have a great one and I'll check back in soon.