Start Each Day With A Grateful Heart

Hi everyone! Melissa here with a design team page for the amazing Shimmerz Paints. I love these paints, the colors are so rich!

I've used a photo from free google, by Stella de Libero.

I put the layers under the photo together,including taping water color paper under the image to make it stronger. Below that is a mat of watercolor paper, and at the bottom is corrugated cardboard. I tore off most the paper from the surface of the cardboard, and painted it with gesso. I put two layers of cardboard between each of the layers to add dimension, and taped it to the background watercolor paper.

I applied texture paste with a stencil and a credit card.

I picked out Reneabouquets Beautiful Board,arranged it around the page, took it off, and prepped it with gesso. I painted them with Pixie Dust Shimmerz,then A Rose ( By Any Other Name)  I added a thick coat of Clear Rock Candy Crystal. Later I added  Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz, gold and then silver mica powder.

A lot of the textural elements are from Reneabouquets. 

I drew out the colors of the photo to the watercolor mat and cardboard. I used  A Rose ( By Any Other Name) , Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz, and Green Olive Shimmerz.

I painted the background with First Blush, and a little Penny 4 Your Thoughts Inklingz.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, seed beads, glass glitter,distress glitter,gold leaf,glass beads, pearls, Swarovski crystals, rhinestones,sequins, pressed flowers and leaves,pieces of floral picks,gold lace,flowers from Prima and Reneabouquets, metal from Tim Holtz,Reneabouquets, and bling and metal from my stash. The gorgeous butterfly is from Reneabouquets.

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