So a couple of weeks ago Stacey from www.shimmerzpaints.com contacted me and asked me if I was interested in trying out her paints called www.shimmerzpaints.com
Well what did you think I said – of course, send them my way and I will play!
So shimmerz paints come in spitz bottles and in these darling little jars. But these are not like other spritz paints – these first of all come in beautiful colors, AND they come with different textures with great names like vibez and pearlz and my favorite blingz. Each of these are deepy pigmented and each of the different types provide different levels of sheen, shine or glitz.
I started working with them in one of my journals which still has quite a few blank pages. I am always looking for ways to create new backgrounds, and WOW = did shimmerz create great backgrounds. I | them and I | all the wonderful rich colors!
I started by just playing around and spritzing the paint but then since I loved the color so much I used my paintbrush to spread the paint. I let this dry and then sprayed on another color just in some spots. I let that dry and then did some more painting using the little jars this time. When applied I found the paint quite watery but was surprised at how intense the color was despite the liquidity. Well,. after spraying and spritzing and swooshing and mooshing with these new colors I had pages and pages of beautiful color and layers. When it all dried I loved loved the finished look of the dried pages. On some pages there is just a nice gloss, and on other pages, like the fuschia-red page, there is actually like a sand in the paint which creates the most wonderful texture.
As much as I loved the backgrounds once they dried I loved them even more when I took pictures of the pages. Look at the depth of color these little shimmerz paints create. There seems to be many many layers and yet really its just a few sprtizs here and there.
Anyways, enough talk - here are some pictures. Okay lots of pictures
Oh what fun - don't you love all the color. Go on over to the site and take a look at all the possibilities - again it's shimmerzpaints!!!!
Let me know what you think!!!
Cathy
