A Grungy Butterfly

Hi friends! I don't know about you, but this week is going to be super busy for my family! Since Thanksgiving is on Thursday, we will be doing some traveling the day before to go see my fiance's family in Ohio. I always look forward to these trips! Since this week is going to be busy, I was able to get some projects done this weekend, and today's project is one of them. I am so pleased with the way this turned out. I can't wait to share it with my LSS, where it will be displayed. :) 

I decided to go grungy for this canvas, with lots of textures, including fabric, metal, pastes and of course, Creative Inspirations Paint on this... 

The canvas was covered with Tim Holtz Eclectic Elements Fabric. I used some CI Paints in Antique Gold and Antique Copper on the sides and front. Using a stencil and some Viva Decor Ferro in Graphite, I added the circles to the corners and sides. My butterfly is a page from the Genuinely Jane Studios Butterfly Album that I used more Graphite Ferro on using a Brick Stencil. I painted the empty spaces in the butterfly and it's sides using Creative Inspirations Onyx Paint. I added Antique Silver to each brick and dry brushed more Onyx back over the bricks for an aged look. 

I've been completely in love with the Patina look, and using some Sea Foam over the Antique Gold, I was able to create a slight faux patina look. It isn't perfect, but it looks fine for what I was going for. You can see it better in the photo below:

To add to the grunge look, I threw on some gears and the key hole to the butterfly. I brushed Onyx over them as well. 

I hope you've found inspiration in my canvas today! 

Enjoy your week and have a wonderful Thanksgiving! 

www.emilyhammann.com

Gift Card Holder

Hello!

Shea here with Glitter and Bonbons to show you a cute gift card holder I made for my son's birthday earlier this week.  He gets such a kick out of receiving handmade goodies from his mom.

I cut it with my Silhouette Cameo, the template of which included the shapes for the paper and the stars as well as the basic holder itself.  It even has a little hidden tab to keep it closed.

I stamped the striped paper with little Antique Silver stars and painted the larger red stars with Garnet, then I glittered some of them with Deliquesce Super Sparkle Red and popped up the largest star.  Some red Jeweled Inspirations finished them off.

Thank you for joining me and don't forget our challenge this fortnight is Inspired By: Back to School.  See you there!

Happy crafting!

Magnolia - Thursday

Time for Thursday again and today I am sharing a Magnolia card I created with copics and highlighted areas with CI paints.  I also painted the flowers around the edges to add some shimmer to them. 

I added a stick pin and some leaves cut from my circut along with a flourish corner from Momenta. I also hihglighted her socks with the Antique Silver.  I hope everyone enjoyed my card and dont forget to join in on the CI Paint challenge!

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I Love You to the Stars and Back

Hello everyone! Hopefully you were able to check out all of the wonderful projects in the recent blog hop between Creative Inspirations Paint and Genuinely Jane Studios! If you didn't you can go back here and see all of the links to the projects on the hop. 

For my project today, I used a page from a GJS Bracket Album to make this star covered hanging using some CI Paints and Deliquesce embossing powders. 

Black gesso was used to cover the front and back of the wood bracket before adding modeling paste using a CW star stencil. After the modeling paste dried, I painted the stars with Antique Silver CI Paint and embossed around the edges of them with Deliquesce Platinum embossing powder. 

The sentiment was made by painting cardstock with more black gesso and using a stencil and some yellow paint for the sentiment. After it dried, I embossed around each letter using Fine Black Deliquesce embossing powder and then used some Buttercup CI Paint over them for some shimmer. I wanted hearts on this since it was a love theme, so I painted some Studio Calico wooden hearts with Tickled Pink paint and added them in various placed. The sign was tied off with black ric-rac ribbon. 

As you can see there is a lot of shimmer to this project! My daughter fell in love with it when she saw it, so I have it hanging in her room. 

Below are the CI products used on my project. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the Inspired By: Father's Day Challenge going on and have a wonderful day!!! 

You're a Star!!!

Hello friends! I'm so happy to be back on the blog today to share a card I made using a stencil, chipboard, distress ink and some Creative Inspirations Paint and Embossing Powder. 

Using a Crafters Workshop stencil and a mixture of Denium and Onyx CI Paints, I stippled the design on my white cardstock. After the paints dried I went over them using a Distress Ink pad. This is very similar to the marbling technique using the CI Paints. 

I painted some UmWow star chipboard with Antique Silver and then embossed a gear design on it using Deliquesce Platinum embossing powder with my Versamark embossing ink pad and a gear stamp.  The Platinum embossing powder looks great in contrast to the Antique Silver Paint. 

Here are some other views of the card... you can see the shimmer of the embossing powder and the paints.

And a recap of the paints/powder used on my card:

These colors look so great together... I'm thinking about making a canvas using these. I'd say a night sky theme would be good! ;)

I'll see you soon! Have a great day! 

Smile

Hi CIP fans and followers!  I've made a card to brighten someone's day, and painted it up with the shimmery paints from the Creative Inspirations Paint store.  The image has several colors: Turquoise, Antique Silver, Sage, and Silver Frost.  The scalloped background she's on is accented in Turquoise as well.  I had a bit of fun with some white seam binding and Sapphire Inspirations paint.  Just added a bit of alcohol to the paint and coated the seam binding.  Then I rinsed it with water to lighten it up for my project.  Just crinkled and used my heat gun to dry.

Here is a closer look at the CIP products that I've used:

Don't forget to check out the current challenge right HERE on the Creative Inspirations Paint blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

hugs

Kimberly

Inspired By: Favorite Stamp - Bonjour Card

Hi CIP fans!  Dana here today sharing a card in keeping with the Favorite Stamp challenge theme this week. The formula of CI paints makes adding color to small areas a breeze. Each square image on my card measures less than one-inch.

As always, the color, coverage and shimmer of CI paints is fabulous!

I took my color palette for this card directly from the top of the stamp: Garnet, Rustic Red, Rose Quartz, Autumn Wheat, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Sage, Lavender and Antique Silver.  The range of colors offered by Creative Inspirations is wonderful and I easily selected my paints for this project, no mixing required!

I hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with the challenge this week at Creative Inspirations Paint! You do not need to use CI paints on your projects, but if you have them, we would love to see how you used them. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey; Stamp: Hampton Art; Paint: Creative Inspirations Paint; Flowers: Prima; Bottle Cap Charm: Prima; Ink: Ranger; Other: Patterned Paper, Twine

CIP - Sky Blue Sleigh

Hello CI Paint fans! 

For today's project I've painted a wooden sleigh with Creative Inspirations Paint, and added some of the Jeweled Inspirations bling (SS30 Clear and SS34 Clear).  I started off by using the Sky Blue paint, and added a layer of the Blue Ice paint over it.  Love that bit of shimmery white it has added.  The runners/blades are painted in Antique Silver.  The sleigh is filled with bits and pieces of pine, silver, and white.  

The Creative Inspirations Paint I've used:

The Jeweled Inspirations I've used: 

You can see a short video of the Sleigh:  HERE

Don't forget, there's a 10% off sale going on at the Creative Inspirations Website all month!

Thanks so much for joining me today, and I'll be back soon with a new CIP project!

hugs
Kimberly

Creative Inspirations Paint - Witches Cauldron

Hi there Crafty Friends!  Kimberly here, and I'm back with a new project with CI Paint.  I've used four colors from the Creative Inspirations Paint line on this little witch card.  Amethyst, Lavender, Antique Silver, and Spring Green.  The Amethyst is on both layers of the flower, the Lavender is on the bumpy berry, the Antique Silver is on the smooth berry (this one I dipped right in!), and the Spring Green is on the leaves.

A close up:

The Creative Inspirations Paint I've used:

Thanks so much for joining me today, and I'll be back soon with a new CIP project!

hugs

Kimberly

Picture Tutorial on Making the Tag Hearts

Good Morning Creative Inspirations Paint fans!!

On Sunday, CIP kicked of the next Inspired by Challenge.

This weeks challenge was 

Inspired By: Tags.

The challenge is to make any project with a tag

and

I posted this tag

I received quite a few comments regarding how I made the hearts and I thought I would walk you through 

with a picture tutorial.

So here we go...

I started out with these fun chipboard pieces that I picked up at Michael's from the $1 bin

Colleen, another CIP DT member also made a project using these chipboard pieces which can be seen 

here

Next I choose the color of Creative Inspirations Paint I was going to work with.

Antique Silver, Blush, Evergreen and Tanzanite in this tutorial

Such a cool color combo I think...remember any colors will work :)

Using my paint brush I dabbed the color on.....so not paint them on.

You want the look of tie dyed, or splattered rather than a smooth coat

Don't be afraid to mix it up!

If there is not enough of one color, add more paint.

The more you play the different the end result will be

This is where my original project turned...

I was being very impatient waiting for the paint to dry so I took out my heat gun

and heated the hearts to quick dry them...

instead of just drying them...

the heat gun made the paint bubble giving the hearts even more texture and a splattered look.

Not the idea I was shooting for originally but so happy with how they ended up turning out.

Not only can you see the texture from the original unpainted embossed hearts, but the paint created a texture as well from being heated.

Now these hearts are ready for another project!!

I hope you will consider giving this a try.

We could love to see what you do!

Thanks again for stopping by and have a great day!

~Jessica~

Celebrating Love

Hi, it's Holly posting today! This week's challenge is "Something Old." I created this photo tray for my grandparents who will be celebrating their 67th wedding anniversary this month. Yes, 67 years! This project may be new, but my grandparents' love is timeless. :-)

I started out with some Authentique papers and some dies to put together six different "trays." The "love you always" and the little flourish under the heart (upper right tray) are chipboard pieces that I painted with black acrylic paint and then covered with Antique Silver shimmery paint from Creative Inspirations Paint. I love that shimmery antiqued effect over the black paint.

Why not try using some of your Creative Inspirations Paints over a darker painted surface? It's a cool way to age your project and give it a little shimmer as well. :-)

Have a wonderful day!

Salty Glimmers Christmas

Hi, it's Holly posting today. I'm sharing a Christmas card I made last week - yeah it was a very LATE holiday card. LOL

I started out by creating a background using the Salty Glimmers technique from Technique Junkies. What a cool background, and I love the shimmer! After I cut out the lamp post, the Christmas lights strings, and the lightbulbs, I wanted to make them shimmery as well, so I pulled out my Creative Inspirations Paints.

The lamp post and the light strings were die cut from black cardstock, and I applied some Antique Silver paint to those. I love how the Antique Silver paint looks against the black cardstock. The lightbulbs were painted with Garnet paint, and they really pop out against the die cut fence and the dark blue background. I also painted a tiny piece of white cardstock with some Sunshine yellow paint and adhered it behind the die cut lamp.

The Victorian Picket Fence was die cut from kraft cardstock, and I lightly rubbed a white ink pad here and there to give the fence a snowy look. Well, white ink doesn't dry very fast, so I covered it with some white embossing powder and hit it with a heat gun. Did you know that Creative Inspirations Paint will have embossing powders and glitters for sale in January?? That is a wonderful addition to the paints - more sparkle, more shimmer!

Wanna see the great shimmer?

Stamps: Candy Kisses (Rogue Redhead Designs)
Ink: Jet Black Stazon, Fresh Snow
CS: white, black, kraft
Cheery Lynn Designs dies: Victorian Picket Fence, Christmas Light Swag, Colonial Lamp Post
Creative Inspirations Paint: Garnet, Sunshine, Antique Silver
Other: Frosty Nights glimmer mist, oval punch, scallop oval punch, white embossing powder
TJ Technique: Salty Glimmers