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

  

To make this page I put the layers under the photo together first,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 paper.

I coated Prima's Moon Child paper with clear gesso, then applied texture paste with a stencil and credit card.

I picked out Reneabouquets Beautiful Board,arranged it around the page, took it off, and prepped it with white gesso. I painted them with Imperial Amethyst Inklingz, Wisteria Lane Shimmerz, then topped them with a thick layer of Clear Rock Candy Crackle. The leaf shaped ones on the left and bottom just had Wisteria Lane Shimmerz on them.Later I added gold mica powder, Dear John Letter Inklingz, and a little Blue My Mind Inklingz.  

I painted the mat and corrugated with Imperial Amethyst, then Dear John Letter Inklingz on top.

To add visual interest I added micro beads, seed beads, glass shard glitter,glass beads, pearls, Swarovski crystals, rhinestones,iridescent wrapping paper ,flowers from Reneabouquets and Prima, metal from Reneabouquets and Tim Holtz, and bling and metal from my stash. 

I sponged and painted on gesso around the page, then added Dear John Letter Inklingz.

I added Plum Crazy and Blue My Mind Inklingz on the bottom paper, around the photo.

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