Create with Shimmerz and Amy Prior

Hi everyone! Amy Prior back with you all again today to share another recent creation using tonnes of gorgeous Shimmerz paint products. 

I have recently been spending lots of time reorganising my scrap studio and I wanted to create some new decor items to add to the space as the ones I had were made over 7 years ago so needed updating. My style has changed dramatically in 7 years.

I had these gorgeous raw Natural Canvas Banner pieces in my stash (amazing what you find when you clean, sort and organise your space). I knew they were perfect for my first decor piece and when I realised that I had 6 pennants, the perfect word came to mind to use and that was "Create".

I have quite a large stash of old Chipboard letters in a box but I could not find the same type of letters in either upper-case complete or lower-case complete. I went with a mix of both and I just love the whimsy look it gives to the finished project.

The Canvas Pennants were raw so after wetting them with lots of water, I started to add various colours of Shimmerz to the background to create gorgeous girlie rainbows over each piece. 

I was running low on Pink Shimmerz so I have also added some Beets Me Inklingz to the backgrounds because, well, it is my favourite LOL. Next step was to paint my chipboard letters and I went with White to create a nice contrast against the intense colours of the background. I am just so chuffed with how this turned out.

Final touches included lots of gorgeous little flowers mainly Scrappers Garden & Petaloo plus some Flourish with a Bling pearls scattered around. The petals of the flowers and leaves were given a little dip of Tidy Widy Texturez to bring that white into them a little.

Shimmerz Paint products used include...
Shimmerz in Tickle Me Turquoise, Sunny, Pink, Key Lime, Jilted Jade & Magenta colours,

Inklingz in Beets Me colour, 

Dazzlerz in Spun Sugar colour,

Texturez in Tidy Widy colour.

Thanks so much for stopping by and until next time, happy scrapping!

Amy Prior xx

At Dusk a mixed media Canvas

Lucy Edson here, with a mixed media canvas I created with Shimmerz and few other products. Let me share a little of my process with you. I began by building some texture onto a 12x12 canvas with Liquitex Natural Sand- texture gel - this stuff is awesome - I linked it to the catalog if you want some for yourself. ;) I applied it with a palette knife along the top and bottom edges and let it dry. Then a coat of gesso and blended some acrylic paint in soft colors. Then I used Shimmerz Spritz in Baby's Breath for a pearly glimmer. Then laid out my design and attached the Prima papers with gel medium. I'll add some notes about the details with the close-ups but here is the completed project - one of my personal favorites to date.


I feel it really captured the soft feel of twilight at the beach and the freedom of childhood - two things I adore.

You can see some of the irridescent effect of the Shimmerz, below, and I cut out the butterflies from a Prima papers and painted it with some Shimmerz in Pixie Dust - love the glitz and shine.

To mimic the sunset, I added some Shimmerz Blinz in Gold Gimmer - very glittery!!


A close-up of my embellishment cluster - don't you love the new Prima flowers! Dreamy! I made some wire wraps with pearl beads to add a sheen and dimension. Also, added some hand-dyed scrim to add some softness and the feel of seaweed.

Notice the great texture from the sand texture and sheen!

The side angle - I am in love with this piece!!

It is so easy to take your ideas for a layout and turn them into a home decor project like this! Enjoy the process and have a wonderful day!

Lucy