TCR#93 with Shimmerz!!

(日本語版は下のほうにあります。）

Hellooooo, everyone.
Thank you for popping by. I know I don't very oftern "do" my blog in English but one of this year's resolutions is "DO" English.

So Let's see how I go with this one and forget about "Lose 5 pounds" ha!


Here is this week's TCR palette.

I was one of the very fortunate ones to be sent out Meg's garden design products.

And this is what I made with their beautiful papers.

The picture is my mum and her 3 grandchildren.
As my little journal says, she is the best mum and grandma in the whole world.
I love her very much and she is the one who I look up to most.

and here are some close-ups.

Guess what?
Today I will be doing a "tutorial-ish" post. ( you didn't see it coming? Neither did I!!)
My LOs are usually very much unplaned. I play by ear...

Anyway, here is how I created the background.
Some people might have a heart attack or be totally horrified.
So be warned....

I tore 3 different papers , 2 patterned papers from Meg's garden design and one which I painted with several different pinks, randomly into pieces.

(please note that I don't mean to mistreat the papers by tearing them. This is just the way I do it. I'd be doing the same thing with my own designed papers if I had any..)

Then I stuck them onto another paper, applied some gesso all over it and some stamps afterwards.

Here is how it looks when they are all stuck together nicely.

(my husband said, I thought Quilters were mad because they cut a big piece of fabric into many small pieces to make a big piece AGAIN but you do that with papers, too??? What's with you? )

Let's forget about him.


with some stamps. (I added more stamps and rub-ons later on, too)

Those pink flowers with green leaves on my LO, I fussy cut them from a patterned paper(and the rest of the paper was of course torn by my hands to be blended in the background. No waste!! )

I used some of my favourite tools, water-based pastels and of course shimmerz products to make the cut-out flowers look prettier by adding some colours.

They definately look shiny and more "alive", don't they?
I have to admit that I am in LOVE with shimmerz products.

For the cut -out branches and leaves, I used shimmerz coffee colour, too.

I also used the Apricot shimmerz to colour some white flowers.
They turned out very pretty with a shinny look.

Products used:

Shimmerz Apricot
Shimmerz Coffee
Pearlz Peas B mine
Blingz Gold Glimmer


Some people might think this is all too much, too timid, time consuming and needing too much patience but I enjoy putting that extra time and effort to make something a little more special than it already is.
And Shimmerz products certainly take a big part of that.

If you want to know what Shimmerz has to offer or haven't heard of them, head over to their blog and online shop .
You will be in for a big treat I guarantee!

Thank you for visiting and hopefully I will be doing more of the  "International language" posts in the future.

Naomi xx




わーーーーーー、次は日本語版かよ。（めんどくさいんかい。）
一緒にちょっとずつ英語と日本語を交互に書いていったらいいのかもしれないのですが、
だって、書く事がビミョウに違ってくるので（というか、英語版は真面目です。）
別々にしたほうがいいのかな～と思ったりして。
どうでしょうか？(１人で悩め）


カラールームからですが、shimmerz との共同です。
パレットは上に載せました。
その他画像も上の方に・・・

特に説明するまでもなく、一応「チュートリアル」的な投稿なのですが、
たいしたことはありません。
shimmerz の宣伝です。

イヤイヤの宣伝ではなく、日に日にshimmerz がスキになっていきます。
日本のオンラインショップではあまり見かけないと世界的に有名なＣさんがおっしゃっておりましたが、是非手に入れてみる価値ありだと思います。
ただ、ペイントの入れ物はかなり小ぶりなので、
わたしのように一気にドーンと使うくせのある方にはお得ではないかもしれません。
(その宣伝ダメやん）

台紙は紙をちぎって作りーの、
ジェッソを塗りーの、
スタンプを押しーの、
ラブオン貼りーの、
ミストふりーの、
ジャーナル書きーの、
石釜で焼きーの、

なんでもありか。


写真は孫３人と一緒の母です。
わたしにとって世界一の母であり世界一の祖母です。

そして永遠の理想像です。
わたしの、母に対する尊敬心、信頼感また愛情の深さをわたし自身の子供たちにも受け継いで、
同じ分だけの「思い」で自分自身も子供たちに慕ってもらえるような、
なんでもできる素晴らしい母親にはなれなくても、
子供たちにとって誇りの母親になりたいと思うのです。