Wall art

Hello , My dear creative friends! Irit is here and this time we are going to make some Wall art, or actually just some wall patterns, using those simple and cheap office stickers together with our gorgeous Creative Inspirations Paints.
I made a few different samples of  possible walls- all ATC size and one finished ATC just show your how you can use your walls after they are done.
Product list:
Creative Inspirations paints: Chocolate, Beige, Garnet, Sunshine
Office stickers: permanent and non- permanent  ones
And now to work:
1. Painted permanent stickers wall
Add some small permanent stickers over your cardstock building a wall pattern.

Cover the whole pattern with   a lot of paint. As our stickers are the regular paper, they catch the paint faster and better (the ATC is part glossy), but still all the cardstock is paint covered.

2. Wall made with non permanent  stickers.
I used those big printable stickers, torn and added as a wall pattern. After the whole piece was painted, I just peeled those stickers for this wall look.

3.Misted wall
This time I made a bit of a homemade mist with our sunshine paint and misted the permanent stickers to  make my Yellow brick road. The black spots were made with some  black ink drops

And my final ATC project- I made the red edges with Garnet paint and stamped with Black ink over the wall

That's it for this month! See you in February with my next tutorials.
Irit

Spring painted garden

Hello, dear artistic friends! Irit is here with my second January tutorial and this time we are going to use some embossing powders over painted chipboards.

Here is the product list for this project:

Creative Inspiration Paints: Garnet, Fuchsia, Blush, Evergreen, Lime

Flower and leave shaped chipboards (I used Tando Creative ones, but you can die cut yours at home)

White gesso

Clear and yellow embossing powders

Heat gun

And now let's get fun

1. Cover all bare brown shapes with white gesso and let it dry.

2. Paint your leaves with 2-3 shades of greens, add some clear embossing powder over the wet paint

3. Heat the powder- you get some bubbles from the heated paint, but I just love the look.

4. Cover the flowers (they are white and don't need any gesso) with red and pink paint

5. Add some yellow embossing powder over the wet paint

6. Heat the colored powder with your heat gun

And now just arrange those painted ad embossed beauties over your project
And here is my final project: other shapes and other colors, still very same techniques used here.
I show just a part of it, as it's my CHA project and can't be shown yet, but the part shown is just a perfect example of this techniques I was talking here.

See you next week with my last January tutorial
Irit

Shiny snowlakes with paint and microbeads

Hello, dear Creative friends! Irit is here again with my first  January tutorial and this time I am going to show you how to use your " lost and not found" microbeads  and micro glass beads over Creative Inspirations Paints with no glue for this nice and shiny effect.

Product list: for the finished project

Creative Inspirations Paints:

Ice blue

Tando Creative chipboard shapes

Micro beads- gold and silver

Glass beads

Ribbons, blings

White gesso

And now to work:
I made a few samples with tag shaped bare chipboards to show you the options on bead coverage.

Sample  1: Cover the bare chipboard with white gesso and let it dry.

You can skip this step if you have white shapes. Add  a lot of Creative Inspiration paint

 Now  sprinkle  your  colored microbeads over the wet paint.  Don't wait too much as we want  to adhere the beads withour using any glue.Let it dry.
Sample 1- Gold micro beads

Sample 2: Cover another piece with CIP and add glass microbeads (those are a real smallest possible glass chips) over the wet paint. Let it dry.

Sample 3: Cover the gessoed shape with a lot!! of paint and add some seed beads. I used 3-4 colors for this sample and we need the thick paint layer as those beads are bigger.

And now for my finished project- I used 2 kinds of microbeads and glass beads.

The upper snowflake on this project  was made with clear glass micro beads.

The middle one was made with gold micro beads.

The lower one was made with silver ones.

Don't use too much beads, as we want to see this gorgeous paint color over the shapes.

The  lower basic shapes under the snowflakes  on this project were covered with gesso and the same paint without  beads as they were brown bare chipboards (snowflakes were white).

Now adhere the snowflakes as shown, add some blings and connect the ornament with ribbons.

I know, the tree is gone for now, but there is always the next year for this gorgeous ornament!

See you next week for my next January tutorial

Irit

Embossing painted acryl and paint on embossed acryl: just not the same

Hello dear painters! Irit is here again and this is my last tutorial for this month as Kassy will be here onece a month  with her delicious monthly tutorials.. I will be resting or maybe experimenting  with some new exciting technoques.

This time I decided to show  you 2 techniques of using Creative Inspirations paints on  acrylic pieces.

First one is a clear acrylic   piece, painted  and then dry embossed and the second one is frosted acrylic piece , first embossed and then painted.The background was done  using another great technique, but you have  to wait till my next post to see the process, as this technique  needs its own tutorial.Or I need a better weather/light  for this one.

So here we go!

Products list:

Piece of clear acrylic, I used the inside of this frugal small Ikea frame, but any acrylic piece will do.

Frosted acrylic butterfly (Maya Road), you can also make your own die- cut at home

Embossing plates- you don't need to use the ones I worked  with, any embosser will be fine

Creative Inspirations Paints: Lavender, Sage, Mango

Background patterned paper, any delicate  kind of it, I used Prima

Ribbon, pin, clear crystals



 Step one: This is a background step I am not going to teach this week ,so just mix all 3 paints from the list and add them randomly with a wide brush  or your fingers. The great thing with our paints is this waterbased issue, so you can use your fingers and just wash  them  later. Let the background  dry a bit. You can see the texured side you painted, but we  will use the backside as we want this project to be smooth.

And here are the paints I used here

Step 2: Adhere the background patterned paper to this piece, painted side on the back, smooth non painted  side on the front and dry emboss it as shown.

 Step 3: Emboss your butterfly with another embossing plate.

Step 4: Paint the butterfly using some cloth  over the embossed areas only, this time we want  to see the embossed texture, but make is only over the raised areas.

Use two less seen colors from the three we used  for the background. I used Sage and Mango as Lavender was a dominant on the background. Make a thin painted edge with one of the colors around the painted butterfly and then around the whole acrylic piece. Let it dry. Add some crystals over the butterfly.

Make a bow and tie the butterfly using a pin (the hole is there)

You project is done! Enjoy it!

 So see you in 2 weeks and then I am going to teach you this background technique. See you!

IRIT

Smell of Japan.. Kind of

Hello, dear painters! Irit is here again and this time with my own mixed technique  of making a background grid with Wonder Tape, paints and microbeads and finally to make  a Japanese style tag...

OK, kind of.. I don't have any Japanese stamps or products, but I am sure that  they are known for this Cherry blossom festivals.

Here is our  product list:

Cardstock  white tag- Ranger, but any tag will do.

Pink cardstock- American Crafts, but any pink will do as we are going to paint  after all.

Wonder tape- 1/8''

Creative Inspirations Paints: Ivory,Fuchsia, Blush

Microbeads- silver, any brand you have.

And for embellishments: Sacura punch (EK), crystals and pearls, ribbons

So here we go!

Step 1: Add your Wonder tape randomly over the tag and please, don't overlap it as we want to be able to peel it later. Now begin to paint with you paints  and don't afraid to paint over the lines, Using a tape for a grid painting makes it very easy to paint without a lot of fine work. Let it dry and really, let it dry… A lot of time, unless you want those microbeads to be over you paint as well.

And here are the paints I used on this project:

Step 2: Peel the orange tapes and sprinkle some silver microbeads all over the peeled glue. Add as much
as you want till the full coverage.
Your background is done and you can see the beaded background on the final project as  I just forgot to take my photo on this stage of crafting.

Step 3: Punch a lot of Sacura flowers from the white or  light pink cardstock. Add some  pink paint over.  Glue your flowers randomly over your tag, I adhered them on the places with bad microbeards coverage, mostly junctions, let them dry. Add some crystals and pearls as your flower centers. Add some clear glaze to keep those  pearls and crystals on their place as this " self adhesives" are non adhesives after all.. LOL.

 Tie  a few  ribbons and twines  inside your tag. 

Your tag is done! 

Now try this technique with another colors  and different embellishments. like blues and stars, browns and leaves etc.– works great!

See you next week with another fun tutorials using Creative Inspirations Paints.

Irit

New DT Birthday Card

Hi there everyone!! This is Carole Chesser here and I am so super excited to have my first DT post with Creative Inspirations! I still can't believe I get to be part of the team!!

This past week has been birthday central around my house, so I made a birthday card using a few Unity stamps. I thought I'd try painting directly onto my stamps and stamping with them, since I'd never used my paints that way before. As you can see, it worked out really well! It's definitely a different look, but I think it came out really cool, plus the shimmer is fantastic!
I especially love the look of the vine stamp down the left side of the card. I'm definitely going to be using this technique more often! I did learn that it works a lot better with a stamp that has more solid areas, rather than just outlines, such as the sentiment, but that did still work. I can hardly wait to try it with multiple colours!

I used Emerald on the vine and sentiment and Evergreen on the tree. I painted a second layer to add a little dimension after the first layer was about half dry. I wanted it to be a little streaky, so it looks more like it has depth.

Cupcake Flying in with a New DT Member

Welcome to Creative Inspirations blog. Did you have a nice weekend? The weather warmed up in Southern Ontario, Canada, which was such a treat.

This is Beth Norman, making my debut as a new DT member. I am so thrilled to be working with Creative Inspirations paints.

When I used my paints, I coloured the paints with a Creative Designs sponge stick, directly onto the cupcake. On the wings and bottom of the skirt, I blended with an artist's chisel brush.

I love how these paints are so versatile and how shimmery the results are. I am also pleased that I can use Creative Designs paints with my artist brush to add shadows and highlights. You will be seeing me work with my artist brush more regularly.

Stamp: Mo Manning
Background Technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter: Waxy Cuttlebug

Paint and Squish!!

Hello!!  JennK here with you today.  I am still stuffed from the feast yesterday...time for leftovers and a few crafts today.  I am so happy to be here to share the latest project I have been working on using these Yummy paints!  I was inspired by this weeks challenge of spreading your wings.  Well, I absolutely ADORE butterflies and so this is the first thing that jumped into my head.  I also have been working on a Dec. Daily...So I incorporated the 2 together.  Who says butterflies can't be part of Christmas??

First a Close up...

I used the paint and squish technique.  The What and Wha??  You say...  Let me explain.

First I cut out my butterfly.  Next I picked out the embossing folder and paint color I wanted to use.

Next I painted the paint onto my embossing folder.  Put a lot and you get a more of the paper covered.  A little less and less paper gets covered.  You get the idea..

Lastly place your paper into the folder and emboss...

This is a picture of the paper in the folder still.

Here you can see when I pulled the butterfly out...OHHH How lovely!

  So super easy and quick to achieve.  You could add more than one color too if you like.  Just be sure to wash your embossing folder and paint brush out immediately when done....otherwise you may not get all the paint off.

The paint that I used is Winter Frost..So fitting right?  Yeah!  I thought so too.  

Here you can see the butterfly on the project.....Don't these paints SHINE??!!

And now the complete Cover of my album for the Dec. daily.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  I hope you try out this technique with your Creative Inspirations paints, it really is an awesome effect.  Happy Craftin'! 

JennK