Crazy about elegant florals

Hi everyone, It's Beck BT back with a card share featuring divine Shimmerz Inklingz to make the sweetest card!  I adore creating cards full of interest, texture and dimension and this card is all that and more!  I teamed up the new Richard Garay 'Silver and Gold' collection with some Shimmerz Inklingz paints to make the most stunning flowers ever!  Have you thought of taking your plain die cuts and making them into something special?  Well Shimmerz Inklingz make that a breeze!  It seemed like this is seriously a match made in heaven.

Here is my sweet card.

Products Used:

Shimmerz Paints

Inklingz - The Holly & The Ivy
Inklingz - Giddy About Green
Inklingz - Naughty or Nice
Inklingz - Brass Knuckles

Other products:
Tinby Designs Heavy Weight Cardstock - White
RG Richard Garay - Silver and Gold Collection prints
RG Richard Garay - Silver and Gold Flower Fold Die set
Fun Stampers Journey Sentimental Prints Stamp set
Fun Stampers Journey Natural Twine
American Crafts Gold Cardstock
Gold Glitter Enamel Dots

I have also created a video for you to enjoy watching the project come together:

Here are some more pictures of my sweet card.

I hope you enjoyed my share today!

Till next time

xxxBeck BT

Steampunk Canvas Video Tutorial by Gabrielle Pollacco

Hi All! Gabrielle here with you today to share a new project I made up using a unique elongated canvas and some really fun Shimmerz products! I've always wanted to try doing one of these long canvas's and I found myself one in a nice manageable size for my first try, this is a 4x12 inch Artist Loft Canvas that I found at my local craft store.

I was going for a metalic/verdigris look for this one so I chose these colors and products for this project:

~ Mandarin Mai Tai Coloringz

~ Olive Branch Spritz

~ A Shade of Grey Coloringz

~ Chocolate Brownie Coloringz

~ Before the Dawn Coloringz

~ Ride the Tide Creameez

~ Miner Miner 49er Inklingz

~ Giddy about Green Inklingz

I will take you through the whole process of creating this project, from making the heart centerpiece embellishment to layering on all these lovely paint products.  So grab yourself a cup of coffee/or tea, relax and enjoy!....

I hope you enjoyed watching my step by step on creating this canvas!  Here are a few close-ups of my page .....

Close-up of the air dry clay heart I made as centerpiece for this project as well as some of the Dusty Attic chipboard pieces I used to make up the canvas design.

I added some textures with molding paste and some stencils and used the Shimmerz NEW 'Ride the Tide' Creameez and 'Giddy About Green' Inklingz with 'Miner Miner 49er' Inklingz to get the verdigris (aged metal) look.

Thanks so much for stopping by the Shimmerz Blog today! You can order your paint products at the Shimmerz Paint Store HERE.   Remember if you would like to have a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product in the color of your choice, just put my name 'Gabrielle' in the 'Instructions to Merchant/Seller' part of your next order!  xo

Get Your Rainbow On ~ Art Palette Canvas with Video Tutorial

Hello Shimmerz fans!  Gabrielle here with you today to share an OTP (Off the page) using a really fun wooden art palette canvas I got in the September kit at Flying Unicorn Kit Club.  There were so many cool metal ornaments included in this kit so I went and used these and some of the flowers and Shimmerz mixed media elements included in this kit as well.  I also added other colors of Shimmerz paints as well. Here are the Shimmerz products I used in this project:

~Golden Wheat Shimmerz

~Grape Escape Vibez

~Caribbean Sunset Spritz

~Hot Fudge Vibez

~Beets Me Inklingz

~Pugnacious Purple Inklingz

~Me and Blue Inklingz

~ Giddy about Green Inklingz

~Gold Mine Inklingz

~Pink Inklingz

~Tarnished Treasure Inklingz

~ Brass Knuckles Inklingz

I recorded a video tutorial on how I made this canvas design, hope you enjoy!

I thought I would share a bunch of close-ups that you can enjoy at your leisure. Above is a close-up of the embellishment cluster, a combination of metal accents, blooms and gems.  I gave the whole thing a coat of gesso and then spritzed and painted with Grape Escape Vibez.  Last but not least, I dabbed on some Brass Knuckles Inklings to further the metalic look on my embellishment cluster.

I used a variety of stencils....Heidi Swapp Moroccan stencil, Crafter's Workshop 'Art Is' stencil and the Prima 'Sunrise Sunset' Checkerboard stencil to create a textural background on my palette.  I then layered on lots of Shimmerz colors to create an 'artsy' looking background.

I chose a quote that I thought would work nicely with the art palette design....'Art is not what you see but what you make others see' ....I used the Tim Holtz alphabet stickers (included in the Flying Unicorn kit mixed with some Webster's Pages alphabet stickers I had in my home stash).

Here is another shot of the embellishment cluster.....I finished the design with a few colorful adhesive gems.

Originally I had planned to use a bunch of large colorful gems as my 'paint colors' but couldn't find them in the size and colors I was looking for....then I came across these 'sugared' gems at a local dollar store and went with these.  I used a variety of coordinating colors of Inklingz as a background mosaic design behind the colored gems.

There are a bunch of paint brushes included in the palette set, so I took two of these brushes as accent pieces to my design and 'dirtied them up a bit, giving them a well used look, by smudging on some paint colors before I applied them to my canvas.

I hope you enjoyed today's project! If you would like to order some of the beautiful Shimmerz products used on this project you can find them HERE.....and remember if you would like to get a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product, be sure to mention my name 'Gabrielle' in the INSTRUCTIONS TO MERCHANT part of your order, and Shimmerz will send you a bonus product in the color of your choice.

Before I leave today I want to share some exciting news!!  The lovely folks at Shimmerz Paints have been hard at work creating NEW and EXCITING paint colors!  I just had a peek and the NEW colors are up and ready to go!  I don't know about you but I'm super excited to give these new color palettes a go! xo