Mixing Old with New! Mixed Media Video Tutorial!

Hello everyone, Gabrielle here with you today! Do you ever look at your pile of old stash that you've had building up over the years and think, what will I ever do with this item?  Years ago when I first started out scrapping I had bought some LARGE Prima blooms, I think I might have used one or two of them on a page but these blooms are seriously BIG, lol.  I finally found a fun way to use them!  I had been browsing around on Pinterest and saw this artist from Singapore named Grace Ciao who does her artwork with real live fresh flowers.  I thought her artwork is really beautiful but thought it's sad that the blooms will die (I think she takes photos of her work and uses those).  Anyway, it got me to thinking that it would be fun to use those old fabric petals that I had in my stash from those many years ago to create a fun mixed media style canvas.  (You can use any fabric or paper flower petals for this project, I was just happy to find a good use for my old stash! :)

I was also looking to use this months (February's) Inspiration Board from Dusty Attic (see my personal blog post for more details....so I gathered together a few of my favorite Dusty Attic chipboard pieces and colors from this palette from my Shimmerz Paints, and got to working.  Here is a step by step Video Tutorial I put together on how I made this project...enjoy!

This project was a lot of fun to create!  I began by quickly drawing up a figure, which I then traced out onto a piece of neutral color paper.  Here is a copy of my figure, just right click on the photo and 'save image as' to your computer, then print out for your own use...

Here are a couple close up shots of the canvas. ...

I used Tombow adhesive to apply the petals to my project but on hindsight think I would use a different fabric/craft glue (like Aleene's) for this next time....I feel like the Tombow seeped through the fabric of my petals and left a bit of a subtle stain. (I will definitely be trying this out again! :)

Here is a list of the Shimmerz products I used to make this canvas:

Shimmerz Paint Products:

- Tuscan Sun Spritz

- Treasured Hymn Spritz

- Pumped up Purple Coloringz

- Razzle Dazzle Berry Vibez

- Don't Be Suede Vibez

- Have a Grape Day Texturez

- Marooned Over Miami Texturez

- Coral Me Crazy Dazzlerz

- Ruby Lost Her Slippers Inklingz

- Miner Miner 49er Inklingz

NOTE:  Be sure to get a FREE/Bonus Shimmerz product (in the color of your choice) with your next Shimmerz order by mentioning my name in the Instructions to Merchant part of your order!

Thanks so much for stopping by the Shimmerz Blog today, hope you enjoy playing with your Shimmerz products as I do! xo xo

Getting Whimsical with Shimmerz {and NEW INLINGZ!!}

 

Hi everyone!  Gabrielle here with you today to share with you my first project as a Shimmerz Educator!  I was so excited to get my happy little hands on some of the NEW Inklingz and was just amazed by the beautiful effect you can get with them. 

 

 

As soon as I saw the color 'Blue My Mind' from the Inklingz, I knew I had to do something whimsical with it.  I pulled out some polymer baking clay (Sculpey or Fimo) and made a mermaid tail to act as a center-piece to my canvas design. I also made a few little accent pieces (Starfish designs) to add to the canvas as well.  The mermaid was made by sculpting the clay by hand and the 'scales' were added by using the tip of a pen (with the pen retracted so that the ink tip doesn't touch the clay).  I used the pen tip on the starfish as well.  Baked it for 15 minutes and gave the piece a coat of Gesso....now it is ready to paint!  I gathered together a bunch of my gorgeous Shimmerz products and an 8"x10" canvas and got started.  Here is a list of the Shimmerz products I used for this canvas.....

 

 

Shimmerz Products: 
Inklingz (Blue My Mind, Miner Miner 49er), Texturez (Patina), Spritz (Treasured Hymn), Vibez (Egg Noggin', Jenni B Bleu), Dazzlerz (Tutti-Frutti), Shimmerz (Key Lime, Green Olive).

And to make it easy to follow along, I created a video tutorial to show, step by step how I created this canvas.  Enjoy!



Here are a few close-ups of my project....

 

The Inklingz create such a wonderful two toned, shimmering effect, I think my favorites are in the 'Gold' collection, I know I'll be using these again and again!

 

As you can see in the video, Shimmerz products are easy to use.  The Inklingz are a little different because they are a dry cake, much like a watercolor pigment cake.  You just add a little sprtiz of water let it sit for a moment and do a little stirring with your paint brush.  The more you stir, the thicker and more luxurious the paint becomes.

 

For my chipboard piece I used some Shimmerz paint, they have wonderful little flecks of mica in them that not only add glitter to your design but even a tiny bit of texture as well.

 

And finally here is a photo of the corner cluster of embellishments I added to my project.  I hope you enjoyed my project and that I've inspired you to give a mixed media canvas a try. 

 

If  you would like to purchase some of the NEW Inklingz or any other Shimmerz products, just head on over to the SHIMMERZ STORE .....and remember if you would like a FREE bonus Shimmerz product, when you put your order in just put my name 'Gabrielle' into the 'INTRUCTIONS TO MERCHANT' area and you will recieve a FREE full sized bottle of Dimensionz or Shimmerz or a sample sized jar of Dazzlers or Textures in the color of your choice!

Note: right now you can get extra savings on your Inklingz by purchasing full sets of the Pearl, Gold or Metal color groups!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and checking out my project! xo

 

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My Niece, My Friend

My Niece, My Friend by Carrie Ferrier

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a lover of white cardstock. Well, my new "love" is taking my love of white cardstock and dressing it up with Shimmerz Spritz and Vibez! Holy Cow, this was fun!

I used a combo of Spritz Treasured Hymn, Spritz Tuscan Sun, and Spritz Vibez Hot Fudge to soften and warm up my white cardstock background.



My funky little flowers were fun. I used Pearlz Emerald Isle and Shimmerz Green Olive paints for my flower colors. On a separate sheet of scrap white cardstock, I simply painted 7 "blobs" of color and let them dry. While they were drying, I freehand cut a small funky flower shape out of cardstock for my template. When the 7 blobs of color were dried, I turned the painted scrap of cardstock over, traced my flower shape on the back side of each "blob" and cut them out. I distressed my flowers by simply by folding them in a tight ball and then unfolded them.

I painted my lace with Shimmerz Butter Cream paint to warm it up a little.









I realized as I was making my little flowers, that the possibilities are endless when making handmade flowers using my paints! Totally hooked on my Shimmerz!!!!