"At the End of the Day...." Art Journal Page.

Hello everyone I it's my turn over on the Colour Blast Blog again.

Another art Journal Page.

So without further ado here it is:

This project was a little difficult to photograph as it is full of glorious shimmer from the sprays, you will just have to take my word for it!

The background is made using old book paper and a printed paper serviette.

I then used Impasto and a stencil to create the texture that worked like a resist. 

Impasto dries clear and has a shine to it when dry so I wanted to see how the sprays reacted with it. 

The Shimmer Spray I used was "Bling" and also "Steel" for a contrast. I loved how the Bling worked with the texture!

As you can see the shimmer collected in the texture to give it dimension and make a lovely soft background.

The phrase was created by using the coordinating Colour Paste in Bling, once dry I added shadows to make it jump out a little more.

A very simple page full of shimmer! 

The Colour Blast products I used were:

"BLING" Shimmer Spray and Colour Paste 

"STEEL" Shimmer Spray

 Lastly you can get your Colour Blast products HERE !
I hope you have been inspired!
Till next time thanks for dropping by!

"She Blooms!" Art Journal Page.

Hi Everyone I am back with an Art Journal page to share!

Have you got your hands on any Colour Blast goodies yet? If not, well maybe I can inspire you to get out there and grab some!

So I have been playing with the Colour Pastes and Sprays to create my Blooming Girl.

So here she is......

I used the sprays in Dusty Charcoal and Steel through a couple of stencils...... really just sprayed around randomly to give my acrylic splashes a little shimmer!

I then stamped my girl, a Donna Downey Stamp with Stazon ink, drew her some shoulders and gave her some shadows to make her "pop". 

I then grabbed some colour paste in Rose Petal and applied it through a stencil to give my girl a flowery dimensional crown. This gave the page some shimmery goodness as well as adding some amazing texture! 

I did not waste any paste (hate to do that) as I flipped the stencil to add some more flowers into the background as well to tie it all together.

After the paste had dried I then added some highlights with a white Paint Pen by Sharpie and to my delight I found that the pen glided onto the paste beautifully and stayed put!!!!

I added some scripty scribble and my page was done!
Here are the Colour Blast products I used:
Dusty Charcoal Shimmer Spray


Rose Petal Colour Paste

And here is where you can get your hands on them:

I love how she turned out, moody but girly, what do you think??

I hope I have inspired and thanks so much for for dropping by!

"Looking Fabulous", My First LO for Colour Blast.

Hello and Happy New Year to all!
I have been a little quiet of late as I have been in Relax mode at the beach. Every year I switch off and enjoy going "Off Grid", so to speak, for the month of January. I use this time to recharge my batteries and get ready for the creative year ahead. So.... I am now back and trying to catch up on things, it is so hard to get back into the groove after the break, my mind is ready to explode with ideas!
The first share for 2016 is my very first project that I have created as a Design Team Member for another Aussie Company, "Colour Blast". I was lucky enough to get my hands dirty using their wonderful products, I can tell you now they are a heap of fun!
The details of this LO can be found on the Colour Blast Blog.

So without further ado here is my first project, a scrapbook page featuring my 2 boys looking smashing all dressed to impress for their cousins' wedding early in 2015:

I used the  Colour Blast Embossing Powders as well as the coordinating Shimmer Sprays on my  Scrap FX chippies  to get a metallic "grunged-up" look, they worked a treat!

So how did I do it I hear you ask? 

Too easy! 

I shall explain: 

First the background piece (which is left over alphabet "backing"..... yes I keep everything...you just never know!).

 I  gave it a spray randomly with a couple of Shimmer Spray colours:

 "Singing the Blues", "Dusty Charcoal" and "Steel".

  These sprays gave the raw chipboard a touch of colour and a hint of shimmer, I wanted more texture, so I then embossed sections of the panel with embossing powders in "Steel", "Dusty Charcoal" and "Snow White".

The Snow White gave a glittery effect.

On the Wings I did pretty much the same process, except instead of spraying I used a brush to colour the details. I just wanted the wing tips embossed, so I used an embossing pen and the 

"Steel"  Embossing Powder to achieve the look!

Take a closer peek:

So what is left? The chipboard words of course!

These are just embossed in the usual manner in the "Steel" colour then I sprayed the "Dusty Charcoal" and "Singing The Blues" Simmer Spray on top to create a bit of colour variation.

Lastly the Title:

 I embossed with "Steel" and "Snow White" to get a sparkle happening. Then sprayed with "Singing The Blues" to get a tinge of blue to coordinate with the background.

Here is a list of the Colour Blast products I have used: 

Shimmer Sprays:

Steel

Dusty Charcoal

Singing the Blues

Embossing Powders:

Snow White

Steel

Dusty Charcoal
You can get your hands on these products Here.
Here is a list of other products used:
Scrap FX:
Industrial Machines Transparency
Steampunk Wing L & R
Playground Alphabet
Wordlet
Facts to Remember
 Months of the Year Minis
2015 year pack

Other:
Viva Decore Metallic paint
Black paint
Vintage Findings by Prima
Tim Holtz Chit Chat words
Stamp by Scrapbook Diaries

So that is about it for me, be sure to keep cruising on back here to check out all the goodness that the other team members share.

Thanks for dropping by!