Dress Pattern Vintage Tags by Joyce

Sharing some dress pattern vintage tags with you here today.

Pattern paper was applied on cardstock and sewn along the edges. Some Spritz Truffle, Shimmeringz Bronze Bombshell was spritz on top of the tags and allowed to dry.  Some Inklingz Penny 4 Your Thoughts was applied with a wet brush on top of the spritz.  Apply your favorite stamp,  white embossing powder and set with a heat gun.  Some Inklingz Miner, Miner 49er was applied on each of the tiny jewelry tags around the words. One of the tags has a little postage stamp collage on top.

These tags quite simple to create and they look vintage enough to insert in my next vintage junk journal.

Thanks for letting me share with you.

Be Brave, - an art panel with Astrid

Hello lovely Shimmerz friends. Today I have a little art panel to share with you.

These are the Shimmerz products I used this time:

Spritz - Truffle

Vibez - Before Dawn, Plum Tuckered Out

Dazzlerz: Foiled Again.

All available from the Store of course.

Here's a quick how to: Start by taking a little art panel and putting down some different textures, then cover everything with gesso.

I used lace, chipboard, cheese cloth, art stones, corrugated card etc.

Here's a closer look at the textures, brought out by the layer of thick  gesso:

Next I took a chipboard butterfly, covered it with gesso, then the Foiled Again Dazzlerz which gave it the most amazing shimmer and finally used two of my sprays, Plum Tuckered Out and Before Dawn applied with a brush to the centre of the butterfly:

I added some gold foiling to part of the wings too, just using a glue stick and some Ranger gold foil.#

Next I went to work with my sprays on the background and also added some background stamping and a sentiment:

I added the butterfly to the centre and that was it.

Well, that's it for today, quick, easy and fun to do, - hope you like it........

And like usual, just a little reminder, - if you want some free paint:

Thanks for your visit today and to my American friends, Happy 4th of July tomorrow!

Sepia Christmas Card with Astrid

Hello Shimmerz visitors, lovely to have you visiting today.
I think like many of us, I am in full Christmas card making mode, - this time I have one in sepia tones to share with you.

I used three Shimmerz products only for this project:

Vibez spray in Before Dawn

Spritz spray in Truffle

Inklingz paint in Tarnished Treasure

I took some 5 x 7 smooth card and ran it through a Snowflake embossing folder.. I sprayed the whole card liberally with Truffle Spritz, added some water and dried it with my heat gun. I then very carefully highlighted the raised bits by dry brushing with some gesso for a wintry effect.

Next I diecut and embossed a large snowflake using the Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake die and matching embossing folder and used the same method to colour it, but darkening it in places with the Tarnished Treasure Inlinkz paint.

I just love the effect of the dry brushed gesso over the wonderful shimmering paints and sprays.

After adhering the large snowflake to the centre of my card it was time to embellish.

I coloured some white ribbon with the Truffle Spritz and threaded it through some lace as shown above.

Next I made a messy bow using the same ribbon, but I had crinkled it while still wet with the spray.

I adhered it to the side of my threaded piece of ribbon and added a little punched out snowflake to the centre.

I coloured a little wooden sentiment with the Tarnished Treasure paint, it only needed one coat, the Inklingz have so much pigment that it coloured the wood just perfectly, giving it just the right amount of silvery tarnished sparkle.

Lastly I darkened the background around the large snowflake with the Before Dawn spray, using a paint brush, - this to help it pop a bit more against the quite busy background. I adhered the card to a precut folded bit of card and that was it.

Well, I hope you like my shabby card and that you are having fun with your own Christmas and seasonal crafting. 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!

Thanks for your visit today and see you next time!