Fall Leaves Mixed Media Layout - Daisie Scraps

 Hi everyone!  Daisie here sharing my first Shimmerz DT layout!  I'm so excited to be here!  I decided that with fall just around the corner it's time to start getting into the fall scrapping mood.  I pulled out 2 cute 4x6 photos of my youngest and a friend playing in the leaves and used that as my starting inspiration.  

 

Here is a list of the Shimmerz products I used for this layout:

• Foilz - Mother of Pearl
• Inklingz - Penny 4 Your Thoughts
• Inklingz - Tarnished Treasure
• Creameez - Refresh Mint
• Shimmerz - Teal The End Of Time
• Shimmerz - Sugar Plum
  
• Blingz - Gold-N-Roses 
• Shimmerz - Coffee 
• Vibez - Pink Moscato 
  

I started with a piece of white cardstock.  I thought I was going to paint my leaves directly onto the background of my paper so I mapped out my original design idea and started creating my leaves.  To do this I used an embossing stylet to "draw" my leaves out.  The stylet creates a raised edge on the opposite side of the paper which is perfect for filling in with paints without worrying too much about going outside the lines.  I "drew"  all of the leaves I thought I was going to use and then started painting.  

I used quite a few different Shimmerz products to get the colors and effects that I was aiming for (see product list for all of the colors used!).  I wanted to have some of the leaves look like they were turning so I mixed some of the light green shades with browns and deeper teals.  I realized that I didn't have any orange colors and decided to use the purples and deeper pink colors.  It worked out perfectly!  

I quickly abandoned my original layout plan and decided to cut out the leaves I had created.  I then stitched down the center of each using gold thread.  I pulled out some kraft cardstock for my background because it went great with the color of my leaves.  Then I started playing!  I sprinkled Gold-N-Roses and Pink Moscato all over the background in a diagonal.  I pulled out some scrap pieces of paper and fussy cut out some butterflies and some phrases.  The butterflies I jazzed up using the Foilz in Mother of Pearl.  It adds all of the shimmer with no color.  It's perfect to add that special sparkle to any plain embellishment.  After that I just kept embellishing around my leaves.  They really put you in the fall state of mind! 

 

Don't forget to add my name (Daisie) to the comments on your next purchase for a fun mini freebie.  Please check out my video to see the complete process!

 

I had a lot of fun creating this layout!  I hope you enjoy it!  I can't wait to see everyone's favorite colors to use for fall!  Thanks for stopping by!

Daisie
@daisiescraps

Altered Canvas Board with Astrid

Hello all, today I would like to share a little canvas board I made with you.

This started life as a little 5 x 7 canvas board to which I attached several die cuts and a little paper clay embellishment made with the help of a mould. This is what it looked like to start with:

Here is a list of the products I used to turn it into what it looks like now:

Vibez: Egg Noggin, Palm Reader and Before Dawn

Shimmerz: Celery, Golden Wheat, Cofee

Inlingz: Penny For Your Thoughts.

Below a few step by step photos of what I did: I started by adding some clear crackle glaze and when dry gave it a few sprays of Palm Reader, letting it sink into the cracks

Next I started the process of slowly deepening the colours with a mix of sprays and paints applied loosely, to give a kind of back ground glow.

Next came the painstaking work of applying a variety of colours to the openings between the die cuts and the die cuts themselves.

Bringing out the textures on the ornament with the help of all these lovely shimmering paints.

The white on the flowers was done with gesso, all the rest is the Shimmerz paints, adding shadows with darker colours around the flowers to bring them to the foreground a bit more.

The very outer edge, after using the Coffee Shimmerz paint, was deepened a bit further still using a Big Brush pen.

And here at last the finished canvas. I fixed a little easel stand (created with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die) at the back, so it can stand up. I like giving these little canvasses to people as an extra special card and they are great fun to do, specially with the help of all these lovely shimmering paints and sprays.

Well, that's it for today, thanks for your visit like always. Don’t forget, if you mention my name in the "comments" section of your shopping cart when placing your Shimmerz order you will receive free paint. Shop Shimmerz HERE and connect with us on Facebook, too! 

An experiment by Astrid

Hello Shimmerz friends, thanks for dropping in!
I have been wanting to try for ages how Shimmerz paints and sprays would work on Black gesso, - so today finally I am sharing my first experiment...

What you are seeing here is the cover of one of my journals, but this project started life as a simple tag.

I used a large G45 Kraft tag and started my adding some textures with the help of some stencils and texture paste. I also added some embossing powder.

Next I covered the tag with black gesso and then adhered some embellishments, chippies, die cuts and some flowers. The colours at this point are irrelevant, as everything will be covered with more black gesso anyway.

For my colour palette I chose the following paints and sprays:

Inlingz in Ruby lost her Slippers and Chocolates and Diamondsz

Vibez in Snowstorm

Coloringz in Night Moves.

I started by putting down a first layer of colour with the Ruby lost her slippers paint and the Chocolate and Diamondz, I also gave it a few spritzes with the Snowstorm to lighten it all a bit in the centre. The Snowstorm gave it a subtle shimmering layer.

At this point I noticed that the tag was exactly the right size for the cover of my journal, so I started to prep that.

Now this particular journal is actually an old hardback book. (If you want you can see one of the pages inside that I did for Shimmerz, just click HERE )

The book had the title printed in gold on the linen covered front, so I covered the entire thing in black gesso too and then added some old book paper and some embossing powder for more texture. Next I adhered my tag with gel medium.

Here finally you can see how I completed the tag and pulled it all together. 

As I wanted to lighten it all a bit further, I mixed some of the Ruby paint with gesso, this made it slightly more opaque and made it possible to create high lights here and there.

I added some darker shadows with the Night Moves Coloringz and a paint brush and finally added a bit of gilding paste here and there to add further highlight.

Below are some close ups still:

The heart was done with the help of texture paste and a stencil, I stamped into it with a text stamp before the paste had dried.

Here you can see the colour changes going from Chocolate and Diamondz, to the Ruby Lost her Slippers to the same paint mixed with a little gesso.

The sentiment was a Tim Holtz sticker, mounted on the little label die cut coloured with the Ruby paint. You can also see the shadows created with the Night Moves Coloringz.

Well that's it for today. I will definitely continue experimenting on black gesso in a different palette too. Meanwhile, thank you for your visit, and like usual, don't forget, you can order Shimmerz products directly from the Shimmerz Paints Store. If you do, mention my name (Astrid Maclean) in the «Instruction to Merchant/seller» part of your order form (just below your name and address). After clicking «add», you'll get a FREE product in the color of your choice. And for people from outside the US, Shimmerz do a really good deal on postage!