Romance

 Hi everyone, here's my first page of the month for Shimmerz Paints! I have used a photo of my son and fiance that was professionally done.
 The quality of these paints are really good. The pale peachy color is one of my all time favorites, I use it I think on every page I've done since I started on the team in January.  It's a rich, creamy, shimmery, container of loveliness, called Dear John Letter Inklingz. It looks good enough to eat!

To make this page I did the following:

1.Put piece of cardstock under photo, adhere with double sided foam tape

2.Adhere foam core board to cardstock.

3. Adhere to watercolor paper mat.

4. Adhere 2 layers of foam core board between the mat and background paper. I used a 12 x 12 piece of watercolor paper.

4. Make some pencil marks where you want stencil to go.

Apply texture paste in a thick layer with a Prima stencil and credit card.

6. Paint stenciled areas with Dear John Letter Inklingz, when the paste is dry.

7. Apply thick layer of Ranger Clear Rock Candy Crackle to raised texture paste,after the paint is dry.

8.Paint chipboard with a mix of Emerald City Inklingz and Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz,when dry apply crackle.

9. Paint area between raised areas of texture paste with Penny 4 Your Thoughts

9.Start gluing all the embellishments on.

You can see some texture on the page, I used two layers of Tidy Widy Texturez, with a layer of gesso between them. The White Tidy Widy is nice and thick, and shiny!It's similar to texture paste.

 I put a layer of Dear John Letter over the whole page. I also used it over small areas of gesso I put on almost every element on the page.

The metal rosette to left of Aron is by Finnabair, the little Eiffel Tower charm next to that is Vintaj. The metal key is by Tim Holtz, it's below the Prima rose. Next to the key is a small Celtic cross, from my stash.

I rubbed on silver mica powder on the page.

The flowers are from Prima. The rusty metal next to Nick's face is by Finnaabair.

I added some gold leaf, a few fairies cut from Graphic 45 Paper, and the gnome is from my stash. The bling is from Swarovski and Prima. Underneath the photo is metal by Tim Holtz: the peace token, heart, and flower piece.

The dried flowers are from walks I go on at the dog park with my dog Mack. The bee to the left of the rose is from some old Prima papers. 

Thank you so much for looking, and have a very blessed week!

Embellishments by Joyce

This post is primarily about creating embellishments for our projects using Shimmerz Paint products.  I thought I would share with you some of my embellishments that will be used on my upcoming Shimmerz blog posts and maybe inspire you to create some of your own.

Faux Encaustic – metal rim office tag:

My newfound go to Shimmerz product is….”Paste-eez!”  The product is dimensional and can create a lovely milky ethereal faux encaustic look without the hassle of melting bees wax.  This embellishment started with one of those white metal rim tags you find at the office supply store.  Apply some Shimmerz paint to the white part of the tag, let dry.  Apply some paint brush splatters of Shimmerz Vibez Snow Storm on top of the paint, let dry.  Affix a fussy cutting of a butterfly, let dry.  Finally, apply a coat of Paste-eez, Salt of the Earth (not too thick of a coat) with a small spatula.  The important thing to remember is to let the Paste-eez dry naturally if you want a faux encaustic appearance.  Simple and easy. Right?  Now, I want to run to the office supply store and find the smaller metal rim tags….more Paste-eez please!  Warning:  It’s addictive, and you will want to apply this product on everything.

Here’s what the embellishments look like on a finished page of my little whispers book.

Tag: Gesso; apply a little torn bit of a doily piece to one side of the tag; apply bits of fiber paper with a matte medium; using a paint brush I applied Spritz-Bamboo Leaf and Spritz-Olive Branch.

Blue Fern Studios shell chipboard

Gesso the chipboard; apply fiber paper on chipboard using a matte gel medium and dry thoroughly.

Apply a diluted application of Coloringz – Peachy Keen over chipboard, being careful to  leave small spaces of white gesso intact; then apply full strength Coloringz-Peachy Keen in valleys of the fiber paper using a small paint brush, dry each application thoroughly; apply Spritz-Taupe of the World with a very small fine paint brush in to the little valleys of the fiber paper and dry thoroughly; use a very sharp charcoal watercolor pencil in the little valleys to create depth and contrast; if the lines look too hard and harsh, apply a fine mist of water and let the products loosen  and flow, dry thoroughly; lightly go over raised areas of the chipboard with moistened Creameez-Marshallow that has been allowed to thicken so that you may use your finger to swipe some and add over the top of the raised fiber paper areas; finally apply some metallic white paste on the top raised paper areas.

Note:  Before proceeding with each application above, allow each application to dry thoroughly, otherwise you will have a muddy mess on your chipboard and the fiber paper will deteriorate.

Doesn't the Texturez -Tidy Widy make the coral in the photo below look realistic?  Love that stuff!

Watch for my June 15^th design team blog post here on Shimmerz and you’ll see where these shimmery good and sumptuous chippy pieces ended up.