Friday, October 28, 2011

SHIMMERZ NEWS.....

LIMITED EDITION 
SHIMMERZ 
CHRISTMAS COLOURS



The colors include........ 
Pearlz in 'Santa Baby', 
Blingz in 'Grinchy Green', 
Shimmerz in 'Frosty's Got The Blues', 
Vibez in 'Egg Noggin', 
and 
Enamelz in 'Jack Frost'

Remember they are limited edition and will only be available over the Christmas Period while stocks last!
Get in quick!

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hello everyone!  I hope you have all had a good and creative week?

Busy here!!!
I have a growing belly.  Lots of aches and pains already!!!!  (oh dear!!!!)
TCR has a new Palette up....if you have not seen it on FACEBOOK or on The Color Room, stop by and have a look at what the Designers did this week.
Two new very clever, very Talented RDA's this week.....
Shona and Lean.  (Lucky Us!)

Ok so here is the Palette for this week
A nice serene Boys Palette to be creative with.
Remember, cards, layouts, digital pages, projects, tags, art journaling......what ever you can think of to create using these colours!!!!!

So pretty!!!!!
 and the sketch.........

and the card sketch.......


Please upload what ever you create this week to the TCR PHOTOWALL.  We look forward to having a look!!!!!


Saturday, October 15, 2011

HELMAR DT CALL




Helmar are looking for more Designers!!!!!!!


If you are interested
Go see the call HERE if you like using this.....





Deadline for submissions - October 26, 2011
For additional information on our products, visit our design team blog at: www.helmarusa.typepad.com.  Feel free to EMAIL any questions to info@helmarusa.com

So go on.....apply now!!!!!!

Its a GREAT team to be a part of!

Shimmerz Creating

My Day for Shimmering over at the Shimmerz Blog today!!!!!


This one was super messy.  I got paint and gesso all over my table, but it was fun to get all artsy!!!!!
It totally took on a mind of its own.  It turned out NOTHING like I had planned.  But it was fun getting my grunge on!




I painted and spritzed and dripped my way through this!!!!
Cool!  Love getting my hands dirty!

Have a good day!


Friday, October 14, 2011

The Color Room's Release #80

Hi there.....Here is the release for Today!



Not colours I adore together....but I gave it a go anyway.
I was surprised!


Elements of my own design
Echo Park Alphas and stickers
Karla Dudley Digi stamps
Hero arts white flowers/pearls
Audrey Neal heart tab

It was actually ok once I got going!!!!

And yes you may not have heard, but we are adding on some home extensions!
Our Third will arrive March 22.

We were quite shocked.  (It was a bit of a surprise.)
We are ok now!

Now we have to repurchase all of those baby things I gave away a few months ago.
Woops!

anyway.......
have fun creating this week!




Monday, October 10, 2011

Helmar Fun......


I posted this over at Helmar this week.


I made some clay using Helmars Tacky Craft Glue.

Its a great one for kids,  Both mine tore off chunks and started forming their own sculptures!
I used to make tiny bread dough flowers from PVA white glue and white bread with the crusts cut off.........
YES!!!!  You heard right!!!!!  
It works.
It is very messy, cause you have to mix the dough in your hands until all the white glue is incorporated into the bread and it no longer sticks to your fingers.
Not totally appealing to me any more!!!!
There are recipes all over the place for making your own clay.
Some contain allum and plaster and all kinds of wonderful products.
I had played with corn flour before, but had never made a recipe for others to follow.  Kind of a one time deal each time I played!!!!
So I had a look for other recipes to see what measurements people used and decided I wanted to try to make a smaller batch that did not need storing.  Just enough to make a few things, and have had enough by the time the clay ran out.  This amount was perfect for that.  I am not certain how this will store, I put what I was not using in a zip loc bag and it sweated a little,  I dont know how much more it would have done so if it was stored for any length of time
ANYWHOO.....
I came up with this, using stuff from your fridge and cupboard.....I included things that others used just in case they were beneficial. (LOL)
so the oil (makes it more manageable) and the lemon juice were included.
Ok.
That's enough talking.....
1/4 cup of Helmar Tacky Craft Glue
1/3 of a cup of Corn flour (adding up to, another 1/4 of a cup, to get the correct consistency)
1 Tbsp baby oil
1 tsp lemon juice
Mix this altogether in a bowl (it does wash out fine, just do it straight away)









This is perfect.  All my goodies are drying now.....so I will post again with what I did with the finished creations, next time!!!!  

Be sure to stop by the Helmar Blog to see what all the amazing Designers are doing each day over there!


Friday, October 7, 2011

Palette #79 on TCR

The release today is showing Palette #79.




More deeper colours today from The Family Room......

Be sure to do some creating just for you this week!