Happy Thanksgiving ...

This week is a celebration of gratitude and family, and as my brothers and sister arrive for the holiday, I'm filled with thankfulness and blessings! Wishing you and yours the Happiest Thanksgiving full of laughter, love and yummy food and always be thankful for what you have, for there are many others who are less fortunate! ~ Enjoy!

I've created my scenic sunset using Buttercup, Raw Sienna, Pumpkin, Burnt Clay, Rustic Red, Burgundy and Coal in that order with a wet paintbrush. My poppies are die cut from black cardstock and a sentiment and bow finishes the card.

 

Each 1st Monday we will now be sharing 4 Creative Inspiration Paint Colors of the Month and those colors will be on sale for the entire month at 33% off of the original price! For this month the colors for the Fall Season are Burnt Clay, Pumpkin, Raw Sienna and Rustic Red!

I've used these colors on my card: 

 

Dad Card with Dana

Hi CIP fans! Dana here today sharing a clean and simple card for the Father's Day theme this week. I have a Making Memories Jersey Foam Stamp Set that I love using with my Creative Inspirations paint. The font is perfect for all my masculine projects and the CI paints work wonderfully with the foam.

Check out the fantastic sparkle! It's subtle enough to still be manly!

Thanks for stopping by today!

You Make My Heart Sing

Hello friends! Today I have an Artist Trading Card I created using some of my favorite Deliquesce embossing powders from Creative Inspirations Paint! 

I must admit, until this year, I had NEVER embossed anything! I owned an embossing gun and a couple of powders, but had never used them! Now I absolutely love embossing whenever I can!!! 

Making this was super simple. Using some Coal paint, my Gelli Plate and bubble wrap, I created the background of the card. I used Versamark embossing ink and a stencil for the sentiment and embossed some Deliquesce Super Sparkle Red over it. It really sparkles! 

I cut the heart out of some packaging and primed it with white gesso. Using my Versamark pad again, I stamped the musical notes and embossed using Deliquesce in Fine Black. I used some Garnet paint on the edges of the heart and also to color the smaller heart inside. 

Here are some close ups of the heart and sentiment... check out that shimmer and sparkle! 

I hope you've enjoyed my card today, and that you all have had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend! Remember that our Inspired By: Anything Goes Challenge is still going on this week!! Get your entries in!!  

Before I say goodbye, here is a recap of the paints and powders I used: 

Have a great day!!! 

Fly Free!

Good morning and Happy Friday my paint loving friends! Emily here to share another mixed media piece I made using some Creative Inspirations Paints. 

I often will get an idea in my head for a project out of the blue, and have to go to my studio to get some of it down on canvas, paper, or whatever I am working on. If anything, I try to get out the papers, paints and embellishments I want to use for the project. This normally happens, which is nice. Other times, I will start the project, in particular, a background, without having any idea of what I will put over the background. My piece today was one of these... I completely finished the background part, with stamps and all, but didn't have a clue as to what I would put on it for the finishing touch. 

It sat for almost a week... until today. I happened to look at a bird stamp I had, and the idea hit me. A large dimensional bird covered in acrylic and Creative Inspirations Paint with some grungeboard letters spelling out my words. 

This is what I ended up with. . . 

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Not only does the bird have CI Paints, but its legs, the canvas background and the letters have CI Paints products on them.  The letters were first painted with Coal paint and then I decided to add Delequesce in Black over it and heat it with my heat gun for a shiny textured look. 

See the heart in my bird's wing? If you have me figured out, then you know I almost always have a heart in my project. I normally have them out in the open, but this one needed to be a little hidden... somewhat! 

Below is a collage of close ups ... look at the shimmer and sparkle! 

And as always, here is the palette of colors I used from Creative Inspirations Paint: 

Thank you for stopping by today! Enjoy your weekend and get creative!!! 

Listen to your Heart... use CI Paints! ;)

Hooray, it's Friday! I'm so happy that the weekend is finally here! Today I have a tag to share with you that I created for a banner setup I put together to hold cards and tags in our house. All it consists of is a long piece of twine with miniature clothes hangers along it to display the cards and tags. I change out the cards and tags depending on the time of the year and seasons. It is really working out well and is one of our favorite spots in the house. :) 

Believe it or not, there are quite a few CI Paints on this little tag. A lot of colors were used on the background of the tag which I first covered with Mod Podge and various pieces of old ledger pages. After the pieces had dried I applied Carmel, Blush, Rose Quartz Tickled Pink and some Beige paints. The girl was cut out out from a card I had received in a scrapbook kit years ago that I saved in hopes I would some day use. I finally did! I used Fairy Dust on her crown, Sea Foam and Coal on her eyes, and some Autumn Wheat on her wings. Beige and Antique copper were used on the girl's dress. After all of the paints had dried, I used a stencil and some Light Modeling paste to make the hearts which I covered in Deliquesce Super Sparkle Pink and then heat gunned. As a final step, I used my sketch pen to trace around the girl, hearts and sticker phrase. 

Look at all of the sparkle and glimmer of the Deliquesce on the hearts! I love it! 

You can see some more of the shimmer of the background and her dress here. 

 Once again, I have a collage of all of the Creative Inspirations Paint products used in my project today. 

I hope you have enjoyed my tag today. I will see you soon! 

A Very Special (and Shimmery) Thank You Tag

Hi, and Happy Friday! It's the end of the work week for most, and the start to the weekend... I hope you all have some fun plans! I work on Saturday, but after that, I will be doing some creating in my studio. 

Today I have a tag to share that I colored with some gorgeous Creative Inspirations Paint. 

I've been on a tag kick recently. They are great for adding to cards, placing in cards, attaching to gifts, or just hanging up in your home. I plan on attaching this one to a card. 

The tag is a large shipping tag that I covered with some black spray mist and then covered with Coal paint. I added three coats of the Coal to ensure it was covered on both sides. I also added some water to it to thin the paint. After the Coal paint dried, I used Lavender along the edges of the tag, as well as in various spots around the tag. Lavender was also used on the Prima flower. 

After the sentiment and flourish stamps dried I attached my flower and a few clear Jeweled Inspirations. 

Below are some close ups of the shimmer!! 

Below are the CIP colors and Jeweled Inspirations used for my tag. 

Thank you for stopping by.... I'll see you Monday!! 

All My Love

Hi CIP fans!  Dana here today sharing a clean and simple card that I created with some leftover flower packaging and some odds and ends from my stash.  The brilliant rhinestones are Clear Jeweled Inspirations.

I used Coal to stamp my sentiment as well as the heart, which I then colored in Garnet.  I added some shimmer to my flower petals with Blue Ice and Winter Frost.

Thanks for stopping by today!

CI Paints Inspired By: Turkey Turkey

Thanks to all those who joined in our "Sketch" challenge, 
we enjoyed all your wonderful creations!
 Check the post below to see the
  Random.org Top 3!
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This week's challenge is:

Inspired By: Turkey Turkey
we want to see all those projects with either a Turkey on them or anything that is Thanksgiving related...

Here's some inspiration:
I made a fun Thanksgiving gift tag...

 Lots of texture and dimension mixed with CI Paints...makes for a great project!!

Here is a close-up of the Turkey that I colored with my copics but added some CI Paint in
Gold, Raw Sienna, Coal and Burgundy.
He sure does shimmer :)
I also colored my ribbon with chocolate using 3 Girl Jam Antique White crinkle ribbon.
The mix of the paint on the ribbon and the antique white color makes the paint darker and lighter in certain spots. Not sure you can see it well in the picture but trust me..it looks awesome!!

I hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with this weeks challenge!!
Remember 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!!
As always thanks for stopping by and
have a great week!
~Jessica~

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General Challenge Rules

Each week you will be given a challenge to find inspiration in/from what ever the challenge theme is... you can be as literal or abstract in your inspiration as you want....Just make sure you can tie it back to the theme! Challenge closes at 6:00pm Eastern on Saturday.

You will always be able to jump back to the current challenge by clicking the "Current Challenge" link in our sidebar. The rules can always be found by clicking the tab "Challenge Rules" at the top of the page.

You do not need to use the Creative Inspirations Paints in your project, however, if you do, tell us which colors you used, and your name will go in the drawing twice! Each month, one person will win 5 jars of paint in the colors of their choice. The winner will be randomly drawn from all the people who have played that month, so make sure to join in on our challenges each week!

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An Adoring Canvas

Hello to you all this Monday, I hope it is going well! Emily here today to share a canvas I created using loads of Creative Inspirations Paint along with some Deliquesce embossing powder. 

The following paints and powder were used in today's canvas:

Creative Inspirations Paint

I used a 6"x12" stretched canvas. I primed it with Gesso before using my acrylic paints to paint the background and heart image. After the acrylics dried, I added my Creative Inspirations Paint in Tanzanite, Denium, Coal and Ice Blue all over the canvas by layering each color on and mixing them in various places, except for the red heart.

 I just wasn't happy with the heart not having any dimension, so I added tissue paper, modeling paste and some heavy body acrylics to it. After it had all dried and hardened fully, I used more acrylic paints in red and then covered the acrylics with Rustic Red and Garnet Creative Inspirations Paint. 

As you can see, I also added various stamps all over the canvas, and also for the word "adore" on the heart. After "adore" was stamped, I went over the letters with my Faber Castell markers and then again with CI Paint in Coal. I also used my markers to trace around the heart as well as add some doodles to it. 

For a final touch I added Deliquesce Super Sparkle Pink embossing powder over the heart for even more sparkle and texture. 

In the close up shots below you can just see all of the sparkle! 

What's fantastic about these paints is that I can mix and layer them on my canvas for varying looks. :) You can do all sorts of fun things with these fantastic paints! Don't be afraid to mix things up!! 

Thanks for stopping by today! Enjoy your day and be sure to get Creative! 

CI Paints Inspired By: Anything Goes

Thanks to all those who joined in our "Halloween Treats" challenge, 
we enjoyed all your wonderful creations!
 Check the post below to see the
  Random.org Top 3!
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This week's challenge is:

Inspired By: Anything Goes

Here's some inspiration:

I wanted to re-share this project that I made and posted to my blog on Friday 
~ first of all I LOVE the way it turned out
and
~secondly...it uses my favorite paints~ Creative Inspirations Paint in 
Lavender, Rose Quartz, Coal, Green Olive, Winter Frost

Now we see these awesome canvas bags all over blog~land lately decorated in the cutest ways for every holiday and treat so when I first started my bag I tried to color it with my copics...problem was, it was bleeding so it looked so bad. My hubby made the suggestion to use my paints....Duh on my part and then I remembered that our super sweet DT sister~ Kendra shared her project using CI paints on her bag~ you can check out her awesome project HERE
And this is how my Monster Munchies came to be :)

Here is a close-up of this adorable monster!!

I just love the sparkle the paints give it...plus no bleeding!!!

I felt bad sharing a project that I already posted to my blog so I made a card to share as well

More inspiration using the cute image from Bugaboo Stamps

For this card I used Pumpkin CI Paints to go over the cute pumpkins

and Deliquesce Black Embossing powder for the sentiment.

I LOVE that embossing powder!! So awesome to work with...

Just saying :)

I hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with this weeks challenge!!

Remember 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!!
As always thanks for stopping by and
have a great week!
~Jessica~

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General Challenge Rules

Each week you will be given a challenge to find inspiration in/from what ever the challenge theme is... you can be as literal or abstract in your inspiration as you want....Just make sure you can tie it back to the theme! Challenge closes at 6:00pm Eastern on Saturday.

You will always be able to jump back to the current challenge by clicking the "Current Challenge" link in our sidebar. The rules can always be found by clicking the tab "Challenge Rules" at the top of the page.

You do not need to use the Creative Inspirations Paints in your project, however, if you do, tell us which colors you used, and your name will go in the drawing twice! Each month, one person will win 5 jars of paint in the colors of their choice. The winner will be randomly drawn from all the people who have played that month, so make sure to join in on our challenges each week!

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A Wreath for the Fall

Hello my fellow paint lovers! Emily here today to share a wreath I minimally decorated for the fall season, and made sparkle with some lovely Creative Inspirations Paints! 

I used the following CI Paints on my flowers:

I also used some of the paints on the wreath itself. I wanted there to be some sparkle to it as well whenever the light hits it. It worked! 

For the wreath I used:

and

Below you can see how the flower centers and creases sparkle! It's amazing how vibrant these colors are!!

 The centers of the flowers are actually cork. I just cut a cork sheet down into some circles for the centers and painted them with my paints! The paint worked really well with the cork. I was afraid I might have to use a lot, but that was not the case! 

Thank you so much for stopping by, and don't forget to check out the latest challenge Inspired By: Black and  Orange

Early Happy Halloween

I wanted to make this post a fun one since it is my last post as a CI design team member. I decided to get a head start on October and do a Halloween piece. I created a shadowbox scene with lots of CI paint on it and a bit of  Resplendence Gold glitter.
I started with an old corrugated box which I cut down to size. I covered it with newsprint paper and sprayed it with Halloween colors. Then I covered the inside with black cardstock. The rickety house, tree, raven, cat, pumpkin, fence and zigzag are all made with grungeboard and diecut from one of Tim Holtz's dies. That's where the CI paints came in. All of these items were painted with CI paints. I also cut a cardstock backing for the house which was painted with canary yellow to show through the windows. Those of you who read my posts on a regular basis know that I always like to try experimenting with the paint. this time I thought I would try putting a coat of picket fence distress ink on the grungeboard to act as a base coat. I wanted the CI paints to show brightly and I thought that they might soak into the grungeboard. Well, the effect was a little different than I planned. I forgot that the distress inks react to water and since CI paints are waterbased there was a reaction on the part of the distress ink. However, this oops did work out well. To keep the distress ink from moving around, I pounced the CI ink on the distress inked grungeboard house and tree instead of brushing it on. The result was a cool texture, perfect for brick or bark. On the other pieces of distress inked grungeboard, I sprayed Workable Fixative over the distress ink and then painted with CI paints. It worked great. I used Resplendence Gold Glitter on the moon. The adorable little witch leaning against the pumpkin is a digital image from Digital Delights. Although you can't see it in the above photo, she is attached to the pumpkin with a Wobble spring so she wobbles if you touch her.
Here are the colors I used on my art piece: onyx, coal, pumpkin, rustic red, canary chocolate, winter frost, royal purple, sage, turquoise.
As I sign off for now, I want to thank the many of you who left those wonderful comments on my post over the past many months. Hopefully, you'll also visit me on my blog in the future. I may be leaving the design team, but I'll continue using my CI paints in my work. See you around in blogland.
Barbara Washington -- designer