I have never used a crankbait so i got a few to try out, heres what i got so tell me if i should get something different. these would be my shallow cranks:

norman lures fat boy - sexy shad and nutter shad  - 0 to 4 feet

rapala dt06 - baby bass and shad - 0 to 6 feet

one thing to add is tell me if you think i should have gotten like two completely opposite colors of each like sexy shad and firetiger for the fatboys and then baby bass and some other for the dt06

I wouldn't call baits that dive to 6' shallow (mid-divers).......but the Rapala DT6 is a murderous little bait - - you'll do well.  

Those are both great crankbaits.

For what I term "shallow cranks" - I tend to like the Bandit Footloose and the Mann's Baby One-Minus myself.

what about the colors

I think you will do great with those.

Baby bass, shad colors, and firetigers are probably some of the best producers. Not sure what it is about baby bass, but I always avoided it in the past - what a mistake.  I also like shad color baits with a purple, green, or blue highlight, since that matches alewife in this area.  Before the gobies took over the Great Lakes, crawfish colors worked really well.  They probably still do, though I haven't been throwing them much.

Great baits but I wouldn't call them shallow.

norman lures fat boy - sexy shad and nutter shad - 0 to 4 feet

Those are good baits and good colors.  I REALLY like the Nutter Shad color.  Good choices.  Nutter Shad is pretty close to a sexy shad color scheme.  

If you are looking to compliment what you've got, I'd pick up a few more:

1) I'd get one in a crawdad color.  Norman makes several red crawdad scheme.  Pick one you like.   I like the "Chilli Bowl" color.

2) Norman makes a really nice "Sunfish" color scheme.  I'd get one of these.

3) I'd get a chartreuse color scheme.  Norman makes several.  Their "Chartreuse SX" color is my favorite.

4)  "Smokey Joe" is another useful color.  It's just a grey shad color.

I don't know if the Fat Boy comes in these exact schemes, but there should be some reasonably close schemes available.  

Ok..heres what I did last week. I swung by BPS and picked up some of their Bass Pro Shops® XPS® Lazer Eye Nitro Extreme® Shallow Crankbaits for 25% off. I hit a local pond 15 acre the next day and proceeded to catch fifteen LMB in a two hour time frame. The largest one was 3lb 6oz. This is the first time I had fished this lure and it was fun!. I was using a 5.3:1 Ryobi AD5000 with 12 lb Stren Mono. It was mid-day and a cold front was moving through later that night. With a slow retrieve, the lure was running just under the surface with a slight wake being left behind it. I went back this week and picked up a few more plus some of the Bomber Square A cranks that BPS has on sale. Shallow water crankin' will be what I go to first this year.

Another shallow crank you'll want to add is the Mann's Baby 1 minus, as the name implies it runs 1 foot or less depending on line diameter and where you hold your rod tip. If your fishing budget allows consider the BPS RC cranks, get the 0.5 Ghost color non rattling version for calm days on clear water and the 1.5 in the copper green shad (non rattling) which is my all time favorite shallow water crank.