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

Sweet & Just Me Inspiration with Amy Prior

Hi everyone! Amy Prior back again today to share a couple of layouts with you all featuring lots of gorgeous Shimmerz products. This first layout titled "Sweet" was created using Shimmerz in Tickle Me Turquoise, Magenta & Sugar Plum plus I have also used Shimmerz Inklingz in Beets Me, Blue My Mind & Pugnacious Purple.

To create this effect on the background, I have sprayed lots of water over my Bazzil double thick cardstock and then applied my various shades of Shimmerz and Inklingz to get the desired Cameo style look of color. 

I have then dribbled lots of little bits of the Shimmerz and Inklingz randomly around the paint splodges to give the effect of the paint being splattered onto the paper. I also accidently smudged a lot of the background so the dribbles perfectly covered up those booboos!  

My next layout that I have to share with you all is titled "Just Me..." and was created using the gorgeous BoBunny Moment in Time collection alongside some Shimmerz Texturez paints in Gold Mine & Teal Me No Lies.

To create this crackled effect, I have added the Teal Me No Lies Texturez paint through a Prima Marketing Crackle Stencil first all over and allowd to dry. 

When this was dry, I have flipped the stencil and added the Gold Mine Texturez to create a new layer of dimensional cracks. I just love double layering stencils and the Shimmerz Texturez are the perfect way to add more texture to any layer.

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