Holiday Games

Christmas in October? Yes, I did it. I figure, if people do Christmas in July, I can get away with some Christmas stuff in October, right? I really am excited to share my projects with you today because they use some of my favorite colors of Creative Inspirations Paints. 

I made these for a class that I will be teaching in November, which is the real reason I did the Christmas thing. But the colors are some of my favorites. :) 

The layout uses some Rustic Red, Garnet and Green Olive on it. If you look closely, you can see that the background is tissue paper highlighted with some of the Rustic Red on the creases and some Garnet splashed over the top. I used the Green Olive with a Crafters Workshop stencil to add more texture and shimmer. 

The tag was super easy to make. I used my all time favorite Kassi Tutorial of Marbling with the CI Paints to make this. I chose Winter Frost and Silver Frost for my two CI Paint colors since they wouldn't be so prominent. I've found that although you can do the marbling technique with any of the CI Paints, the lighter colors such as Winter Frost, Autumn Wheat, Silver Frost, Ice Blue, Ivory, Gold, Pink Highlights and Beige are my favorites to work with when marbling. If you haven't stopped by and tried out the tutorials that Kassi shares, you need to check out the Tutorial Section. There are so many things to do with these paints! I'm constantly discovering new things! 

As always, the colors used today: 

Have a wonderful day!! See you soon! 

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

A Joyful Canvas

Good morning and Happy Christmas Eve to everyone! I hope you are all ready for tomorrow and are able to spend some quality time with your loved ones and friends. 

I wanted to make today's post quick since everyone is preparing for the big day tomorrow, or already in the middle of some festivities! 

Today's project is a canvas I made for my boyfriends mom, Joy. She loves Christmas, and has one of the most beautifully decorated houses I have ever seen! Since her name is Joy and ornaments and decorations with the word Joy are in abundance this time of year, she has a tree decorated entirely with Joy ornaments. Also, there are various pieces of art around the home that have the words Joy on them. Which is why I made this canvas. The Joy isn't just the word joy, it is Joyeux Noel. We don't remember her having many French phrases around the house, so I thought this would be cute. 

As you can see it has lots of Creative Inspirations Paint on it. The background, tree, tree trunk, and tree top are covered in CIP goodies! There are even some jewels on the Joyeux Noel. 

I used the following paints and jeweled inspirations on the canvas: 

Thank you so so much for stopping in today from your busy schedule!! I will see you again after the New Year!!! 

Merry Christmas!!!! 

If you would like to get some paints before the start of the new year, remember that everything in the CIP store is 10% off!!! 

Angel Card

The beautiful stamp set 'Lace, Take One Step' (JS342) was painted using Creative Inspiration Paints in Amethyst, and Plum.  The angel wings were covered using Helmar's Acid Free Adhesive, then sprinkled with Resplendence Angel Dust. The Angel Dust is amazing, such glorious shimmer!  I was going to add some of the Angel Dust across the flowers, but wanted the 'wings' to really stand out.

The roses/flowers were painted with Silver Frost just on the edges, and the bottom petals,and the foliage too.  No matter what the colour the Silver Frost is painted over, it gives a glorious shimmer, and I adore the way the flowers shine.

Resplendence Angel Dust upon angel wings

I added tiny glass lilac seed beads to the lace using Gemstone Glue. In the right light, they shine, especially with the beautiful Amethyst and Plum CIP's - I will be definitely be playing around with more beads in the near future. 

Supplies:
 Creative Inspiration Paints: Silver Frost, Amethyst, Plum and Resplendence Angel Dust

Joanna Sheen 'Lace, Take One Step' (JS342) Rubber Stamp Set

American Craft Cardstock

Flowers: I am Roses

Martha Stewart Punch

Helmar: Acid Free, Premium, 450 Quick Dry, and Gemstone Adhesives

Braid, Hand-Dyed Silk Ribbon & Lace

Cheery Lynn Designs - Little Stackers Nesting Dies & Scalloped Stackers Nesting Dies

A Few Ideas

Hi, it's Gini and today I'd like to share several ways to use Creative Inspirations Paints on your projects.

I've always enjoyed distressing the edges of my papers. The technique that I used here started by painting a border of Silver Frost around the edges. I let that dry and then I used a distressing tool to rough up the edges of the paper. You could also use the edge of your scissors. Finally, I painted the frayed paper with the darker Coal color. This really enhanced the distressing.

Chipboard is fun to paint too! I began with Dusty Attic chipboard, and painted it with Silver Frost (for the highlights), Antique Silver and Coal (for the shadows). The great color selection that Creative Inspirations has, makes it wonderful for adding highlights.

I wanted my seam binding ribbon to be very tattered - so I quickly painted Rose Quartz on white seam binding, spritzed it with a little water, and balled it up to dry. I sometimes do this type of technique with color sprays, but I found using the paints really helped to keep the wrinkles were I wanted them.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you got some ideas of great ways to use your Creative Inspirations Paints.

Simply CAS

Happy November! Can you believe it's here already?? Where is this year getting to? I sure as heck don't know, but every time I blink, another week or two has passed!

Today I have a project I made while checking out some of the galleries on Splitcoaststampers earlier this evening (Wednesday night.) I saw this card and thought it would be fun to try it using Creative Inspirations Paints.

I wanted to make a winter scene, so I took some time with my colours. To make the gradation of the ground, through the snow and up into the winter night, I used 7 different paints. In order, from bottom to top, I used Mocha Latte, Silver Frost (just a tiny hint), Winter Frost, Blue Ice, Tanzanite, Sapphire, and Denium. I don't think the light is good enough for the photograph to show just how shimmery and wintery the card really appears, but it looks like snow sparkling on a moonlit night.

Silver Fairy

It's Holly posting today, and for today's card, I used this beautiful Silver Fairy stamp from I Brake for Stamps. This is colored with Copic markers, and then I used some Creative Inspirations Paints over her hair and her wings. The die cut flourishes are painted with Silver Frost paint for a shimmery accent, and some tiny little jingle bells are dangling from the hand-dyed ribbon.

The wings are painted with Fairy Dust - a shimmery translucent paint. It's perfect for angels and fairies and butterflies. I've used the Silver Frost paint on the hair and the tiny jingle bell on the end of the wing. You can see the beautiful shimmer here:

I hope you have a wonderful, shimmery day! :-)