Ice Cream Dream! Scrapbook Layout & Process Video | Amanda Baldwin

Hi Shimmerz Friends & Fans! 

Amanda here, and today I am sharing a super sweet scrapbook layout featuring a few of my favorite Shimmerz Paints products! 

Here's my Ice Cream Dream layout.....

Dreamy, indeed! 

Summer never looked quite so sweet! 

You'll spy lots of Shimmery goodness here:

Dazzlerz: I Lilac You

Vibez: Princess & Sweet Heart

Shimmerz: Key Lime, Lilac Blossom & Celery

and

Creameez: Sky's The Limit

Told you it was my favorites!!! 

Here's a closer look for you.....

For this pretty page, I hand paint the Floral Frame 01 cut file from Cut To You, with Shimmerz Celery and Key Lime for the leaves, and then Shimmerz Lilac Blossom & Vibez Sweet Heart for the blooms. I just love how good this combination looks! Super pretty!

For my cardstock base, I apply a Peonies stencil with Dazzlerz: I Lilac You. Once dry, I fill around the stencil area with Creameez: Sky's The Limit & apply a few splatters of Vibez Princess too! 

It's a really soft and subtle result, and flatters the delicacy of my design! 

To embellish my darling photogrpah & page, I am using the beautiful Ice Cream Parlour digital collection from Tinker N Co Digital. I love that with digital collections you can print off as many die cuts and papers as you need! 

You'll also spy some of the Freezin' For A Reason sequins from our friends at Spiegel Mom Scraps. Yay! Everything coordinates so beautifully!

Want to see more of how this layout came together?

Please watch my process video HERE: 

Thanks so much for watching! 

I hope I have inspired you to get painting today! 

Need supplies?

Remember that typing code AMANDA in the comments section of your Shimmerz Paints store order will earn you a FREE paint! Yesss! 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Painting Watercolor Style with Gabrielle {Video Tutorial}

Hi All, Gabrielle here with you today to share my latest layout using Shimmerz Paints!  I find for the past year or so I have found myself obsessed with the look of watercolor paints, I just love the pretty translucence of it.  So for my project today I thought I would take some watercolor paper and Shimmerz Paints and create my own watercolor background design.

These are the Shimmerz Paints products I used on this page (above).  REMEMBER....if you are looking to order some Shimmerz Paints products, just mention my name 'Gabrielle' in the INSTRUCTIONS TO MERCHANT/Seller part of your order and you will receive a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz Paint product in the color of your choice! :)  You can order your Shimmerz Paints HERE.

As always, I have created a step by step video to show you how this page was made, hope you enjoy!....


Here are a few close-ups of the page to enjoy at your leisure....

I used some new Dusty Attic chipboard designs for this page design (Spring Blossoms #2), first giving them a coat of white Gesso, then applying my translucent color layers.....allowing the colors to lightly bleed into each other as watercolors are apt to do.

I painted the butterflies using a BoBunny Butterfly stamp with a very light ink just to give me the barest outline of the butterfly.  Then wet the wings with plain water and just dabbed in a little color with the Shimmerz paints (Heidi Ho Blue Coloringz, Power to the Purple Creameez, Glorious Day Vibez).  I then added a bit of background stamping with a few of my own stamp designs (Script and chickenwire....these can be found at The Scrapbook Diaries).

I also masked off a section of the background paper behind the photo to create a color block on which I used the Glorious Day Vibez, Chocolate Brownie Coloringz and let some of the Heidi Ho Blue Coloringz run into it so that it seems like the flower is bleeding some of its color onto the background.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and hope you give some of the techniques I employed a try, ....happy crafting! xo