Hi everyone! Melissa here with my second post of the month for Shimmerz Paints! I love the rich tones and sparkling effects I can achieve with Shimmerz! I have used an engagement photo of my son and his fiance.

To make this page I mounted the photo on watercolor paper. I used a layer of foam core board between the photo and the watercolor paper, and two layers underneath it and the background paper.The background paper is from Stamperia. I stenciled on some stars using a Jim Holtz stencil, and texture paste with an old credit card. I glued on the big Reneabouquets gears,and prepped them with gesso. I added two flowers from Prima. At this point I decided what colors to paint the gears and the paper. I used Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz on the gears,and a mix of two colors on the paper: a lavender color Inklingz named Honeymoon, and Oakie Bear Blue Inklingz. On top of the two I added a light layer of the Penny color.

I added a thick layer of Ranger Clear Rock Candy on the chipboard. When it was dry, I added a small amount of I Love You Onyxly Inklingz to the edges of the chipboard, to help make the cracks more visible.

To add visual interest I added the following: micro beads, seed beads, charms, Tim Holtz metal, Finnabair metal, feathers from the bird bath in my yard, dried and pressed flowers, chain, gold leaf, black tulle, distress glitter, metal glitter,pearls, rhinestones, and more. I wanted to use some small chipboard hearts and stars in Tim Holtz shapes, but I only had the negative part of the chipboard left. I traced some new ones out onto watercolor paper,fussy cut them, painted them with Penny, and put crackle paint on.

The gold stars are Tim Holtz rub ons. The sand looking stuff is dry Ranger Frayed Burlap embossing powder. With my finger I brushed on gold mica powder over dry gesso to kind of tone down the detail of the background paper. All the blue on the chipboard and the page is the same mix mentioned earlier.

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

Never Stop Dreaming

 Hi everyone! Melissa Larson here with my first page of the month for Shimmerz Paints!  I love the quality of these paints, I feel I can really express my love of nature with them.

To briefly describe how I made this page, I put texture paste on with a stencil, then mounted the photo on watercolor paper. I cut up chipboard and die cuts and glued them all around the pic. I put the flowers and some of the embellies on, then started painting. There are a lot of layers of Shimmerz and Inklingz. The gold is mica powder. 

Here are more details:There's chipboard at the top and bottom of the photo. I put a thick layer of Ranger Clear Rock candy over paint, then put more paint and gold mica powder on top.

 I used a lot of micro beads and glitter glass. 

I put a layer of foam core board under the between the photo and the watercolor paper, and then two layers between that and the Blue Fern paper.

The die cuts are made with Spellbinders dies. 

The big blue flowers are from Prima. The fairy at the top is from Graphic 45, I used a few others on the page. The feathers are from the birdbath in my yard, I've collected them over time, the birds leave them there in the water.

The little metal leaf at the bottom middle is from Vintaj. The title sticker is from 7 Dots. The truth metal tag is from Tim Holtz.  

I used a lot of pressed flowers. That yellow one is a buttercup. The little sun image to the left of the big blue flower is from Stamperia. 

Here's a list of the colors I used:

Inklingz:

Dear John Letter

Oakie Bear Blue

Blue My Mind

Greener Pastures

Blue Lagoon

Penny 4 Your Thoughts

Shimmerz:

Celery

Teal the End of Time

Blue Grass

I used some patina glitter glass, and mermaid shard glitter glass from Reneabouquets Shop.

Thanks so much for looking, and have a great week!