Winter Snowman Painting | Shimmerz Paints

Hello Shimmerz Fans!

Nicole here and today I have a fun, wintry project share! Recently I was inspired by a water colored snowman I saw online and knew that I wanted to paint something similar! Here's a quick look at my final watercolor piece:

I wanted to challenge myself and use just one product for this piece.  One that was cool toned and reminded me of snow and winter.  This entire piece was painted with different shades of Spritz, Walkin' a tight Heliotrope.  I sprayed bits of this color into my palette and watered it down to get the varying shades, with the darkest being the color directly from the bottle. Overall, it took many layers of color, beginning with the lightest and layering darker shades on top, drying each layer in between.

Just look at those shimmery pine trees!!! Once all of my layers were exactly how I wanted them, I got out my brown Micron pen to draw on his arms, white Signo gel pen to add the snow flakes and North Star, orange colored pencil to add his carrot nose and a black glitter gel pen to add in his eyes, mouth and buttons.  Here is a close up of my final painting:

Thanks so much for joining me today!

I hope I've inspired you to try this technique! If you do, be sure to share it with us!

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You & Me Travelers Notebook Layout | Freckled Fawn

 Hello Lovelies!

Nicole here and today I have a very colorful travelers notebook layout to share with you!

This layout features the beautiful papers and charms from the November paper and embellishment kit from Freckled Fawn! Here's a quick overview of my final layout:

 My most favorite paper in this month kit is this vertical multi color/blocked sheet! I wanted to use that along with a piece that was more on the neutral side, so I chose the one with the teal scallop border. The busier papers I tend to use for my photograph so the more plain sheet I can use for any stamping, in this case, my title. 

I layered my photo with a coordinating 3x4 scallop card and added a large scaled scallop piece at the bottom of my photo that I trimmed from the same 12x12 sheet that I used on the other side of my layout.  I added the super cute floral charms from the November kit under my photo on some thread. To finish off the left page, I added in some enamel triangles & dots, a chip board sticker and a "today" wood veneer.

 Because the left page was so busy, I kept the right very plain.  I stamped my title in coordinating inks and embellished around it with November's enamel dots.  At the bottom of that page, I added in a strip of matching paper, a ticket that I punched from the November pocket cards, cardstock label for some journaling, foam arrow stickers and the enamel triangle stickers.

To finish my layout, I added some gold ink splatters.  Here's a look again at my final layout:

 Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you got inspired!

Travelers Notebook Layout | November Freckled Fawn Kit

Hello Lovelies!
Nicole here and today I have a super fun travelers notebook layout to share with you!  For this layout, I'm using the November Freckled Fawn Papers and Embellishment kit! This kits is full of brightly colored papers and embellishments this month and its one of my absolute favs! (I feel like I'm starting to say this about a lot of their kits lately lol!) I love all the bright colors! Here's a close up of my final TN spread:

Because of the size and shapes of my pictures, I decided to go with the horizontal approach this time.  I wanted to keep the two pictures together, so I decided to put the bulk of my embellishments and title on the bottom solid blue paper. I chose a few papers from the kit and hand drew some sketchy trees and fussy cut them out to create my own matching ephemera pieces.  I created a little winter scene with my title, "Hello, Winter." I then added my chipboard sticker banners, enamel dot stickers, flag label stickers and white snowflakes with my gel pen.

For my top page, I layered my photos with a couple strips of patterned papers that match the trees. I used a scallop boarder punch to add more detail.  I added snowman and mitten ephemera from my stash, one of the adorable orange rubber houses, a few of the label stickers and several white foam heart stickers. I finished the layout by adding a white boarder around both pages.

Thanks so much for joining me today!
I hope you enjoyed and got inspired!

Holiday Cards with Shimmerz Paintz

Hello Shimmerz Fans!

Nicole here and today I have not one, not two, but four different card projects to share with you! Today is officially December 1st and the Holidays are if full swing!  Time to not only check those lists twice, but to get out those holiday cards to family and friends! Shimmerz makes it super simple to make traditional and non traditional cards because the shimmer helps is sparkle for the season!

Today I used minimal colors on each card to show you just how easy it is no matter what colors you may have!  Here's a look at my final projects:

When I began each of these cards, I used a piece of water color paper, that I eventually cut down to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  I wet each piece with water and misted and slopped color on with my #8 brush.  I found the bigger my brush, the more dramatic look I got.  Here's what my backgrounds looked like before I cut them down and embellished them.

Once they were dry, I trimmed them down and began my stamping. I picked large size images from my Holiday stamp collection to make a bigger impact.  I stamped them on my card fronts and heat embossed them with different embossing powders.  For the Cardinal card, I just stamped and embossed the image on the card, then used my watercolors to paint it.  Here are some close ups of my final projects:

The colors that I used on today's projects are:

Inklingz in She Packs a Punch, Greener Pastures, Can't Elope

Creameez in Ride the Tide and For Shore

Original Shimmerz paints in Winters Mist, Coal and Pixie Dust

Spritz in Walkin' a tight Heliotrope

Vibes in  Deep Blue Sea

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Have a great weekend!