About Us

We create these amazing color engraved pieces of art in a small shop in Kansas, USA. 

And this is our story:

Laser engraving has been around almost as long as I have. Laser technology developed in the 1960s. Laser engraved wood showed up not long after that. Fast forward to the current times and there are all kinds of lasers to do a variety of duties. Including ones that can color engrave some metals. The idea of color engraving stainless steel really intrigued me as an art medium. After watching what seemed like days of research videos on this subject, I purchased my own laser. Followed by the extremely tedious process of creating a reproduceable color palette to use with images. The next step was to develop my own process to create slightly abstract pieces of art. And finally, a process to assign laser colors to the image. These proprietary processes enable me to engrave amazing color images on stainless steel. These combined processes are what make our product truly unique.

The result of my first metal art project in my eye was amazing! I decided that I wanted to share this uniquely beautiful art form. And so, Shimmering Designs came to be.