Exciting News- Shimmerz Design Team

I have some really exciting news to share today!!

I was asked by Stacey, the owner of Shimmerz to join her wonderful team.

I'm super excited about this new adventure as I love working with Shimmerz products

you can see the announcement here, and I  hope you come visit me on the Shimmerz blog.

Love you forever- Guest Designer at Scrap & Music

I'm Guest Designing this Month for a fairly new and really fun challenge site called Scrap & Music. Here is the layout I made for this challenge. The rules are below.

The rules are very easy, you should use the sketch and some part of the lyrics as a title. 

This is the sketch designed by Amarilys Doria 

and the music is " A Thousand Years ", by Christina Perri  

http://letras.mus.br/christina-perri/1977486/.

Heart beats fast

Colors and promises

How to be brave

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall

But watching you stand alone

All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still

Beauty in all she is

I will be brave

I will not let anything take away

What's standing in front of me

Every breath

Every hour has come to this

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you

Time has brought your heart to me

I have loved you for a thousand years

I love you for a thousand more

One step closer

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you

Time has brought your heart to me

I have loved you for a thousand years

I'll love you for a thousand more

I used the C'est Magnifique July Kit for this layout featuring papers from Kaisercraft: On this day!! and flowers from the Lyric collection.

I wrote part of the lyrics along the side of my vertical lines. I love this part of the song because that's how I feel about my kids.

I used lots of die cuts from the same Kaisercraft collection to embellish around the photo.

 Materials:

C'est Magnifique July Kit

Papers and die cuts: Kaisercraft

Flowers: Prima

Hero script stamp

gesso, cheese cloth, doilies

Letters: Prima

Black Pen

Black coal Prima fluid chalk edger

You Shine so Bright- GD for Shimmerz Part 2

This is my second post for my GD this month. I created a background using lots of Shimmerz Products

I used a porous sponge to dab color onto my white card stock. I sprayed on my mat first and then dabbed it randomly on the page. You can see that it looks like it was splattered on, but that is just the texture of the sponge.

I also used some beautiful Prima flowers and the an Ingvild Bolme Light bulb which is a fave.

For the dabbed background I used:

Spritz: Rock a Fella, 4 Leaf Clover and Olive Branch

Vibez: Blue jeans, Sea Foam and Egg Nogging

Pearlz: Green with envy

After the background was dry I masked a sun like pattern using light molding paste. 

Then I painted it with Sunny Side Up Pearlz.

Well, I hope I inspired you to get your Shimmerz out of the box and if you haven't any then just go to the Shimmerz Shop and get yourself some. You'll love them and If you mention me during checkout at the "Instructions to Merchant" box, you can earn yourself a free Shimmerz product. It can't get better than that.!!

Materials used:

Shimmerz:

Spritz: Rock a Fella, 4 Leaf Clover and Olive Branch

Vibez: Blue jeans, Sea Foam and Egg Nogging

Pearlz: Green with envy, Sunny side up

Other products

Papers: White Card stock, Simple stories, Les Papiers de Pandore

Flowers: Prima

Butterflies, crystals and bulb: Prima

Golden Light Molding paste

Golden Gesso

Alphas: Sassafras

yellow thread

Rhonda Palazzari Stencil

Happy Times- GD for CSI #84 with 2 Crafty

The 2 Crafty team is guest designing for CSI this month Come visit the CSI site every friday this month to see some inspiration from the 2 Crafty DT

We recently went to fly kites downtown by the lake. It was a gorgeous day and of course the kids enjoyed running down the beach with their kite. This is one of the pictures I took. There's more of them coming in the next few weeks as I've really enjoyed scrapping them. I used the title "Happy Times" because that's what they were. The title Happy is part of the 2 Crafty Birthday Sentiments set.

How I solved the case:

 I used the Pink Paislee Hope Chest collection for this layout as it fit perfectly with the CSI#84 Palette and used the sketch as inspiration.

For the evidence I used twine to make the string of the kite and I used the fob watch from 2 Crafty.

For the testimony I journaled in cut-up strips.

I couldn't create this layout without thinking of the Mary Poppins song "Let's go fly a kite." I kept on singing it in my head over and over again, so I knew I had to include the lyrics on the layout. I wrote down the chorus from the song and then cut down the strips to include as journaling for the testimony.

"Lets go fly a kite, up to the highest height. Lets go fly a kit and send it soaring..."

I bet you its stuck in your head now too, lol.

I really wanted to glue a string on the paper to make it seem as if the kite was flying off the page. This picture of my son had the perfect angle to do this.

I used two other 2 Crafty chipboard pieces: the Chevrons which I stamped in green ink using a honeycomb stamp and the Swirly Leaf flourish which I embossed and then inked.

Materials

Papers: Hope Chest by Pink Paislee

Chipboard: 2 crafty

Flowers: Prima, Recollections, Dollar Store

Finnabair honeycomb stamp by Prima

Ingvild Bolme green fluid chalk ink

Shimmerz: rock a fella spray

black pen

mesh: creative bags

Crystals: Prima

cocoa ink

twine: WR Memory Keepers

embossing folder: provo craft

You & Me- Prima's August PPP

Its that time of the month to introduce the August PPP for Prima

This is a perfect palette to use with the new Anna Marie collection from Prima and that's exactly what I did. I added lots of layers around the photo to make it pop out of the page!! I love the combination of these colors together

This is a photo of my hubby and I downtown by the water front. We were goofing around while our son took some shots of us.

I used Finnabair's resist canvas border which I sprayed in Shimmerz Caribbean Sunset spray.

I used some stamping with Finnabair's honey comb stamp. I also added some pink paint lines using some Shimmerz Magenta Paint. 

Prima Products:

570033- Anna Marie Chipboard

846350- Anna Marie Swiss Miss

846367- Anna Marie Sewing basket

846299- Anna Marie Eloise

846336- Anna Marie Calico

846367- Anna Marie Nightingale

565824- Labelle Jade

961183- Finnabair Elementals Resist canvas border

551506- Say it with crystals

960810- Finnabair Vintage Vanity honey comb stamp

890995- Black coal Ingvild Bolme fluid chalk edger

other products used:

gesso, seam binding, cheesecloth,

Shimmerz: Caribbean sunset spray and magenta shimmerz paint