Happy Easter Treat Box w/ Creative Inspirations Paint

Hi Creative Inspiration Paint Fans!

I just wanted to pop in to share 

one of my Easter Treat Boxes

I used my Cameo for the Gable box

along with CIP~ Embossing Powers in Super Sparkle Pink and Black.

I also painted my skittles (those pink little blings) using Fuchsia paint

I have more details on my blog for those who are interested.

Chick-n-Scrap

 Reminder:

  you still have a few more hours to enter this weeks challenge

Inspired by: Easter

Have a GREAT Saturday and see you back tomorrow for a brand new Challenge!

~Jessica~

Happy Friday

Good morning!

Holly, DT member from last term, wanted to share another project with everyone using CI products!!

She created an adorable Easter bag!



Isn't it cute?! Just love the adorable chick!!

She used the Seafoam paint on the Easter bag to give it some beautiful shimmer! (Dabbed Shimmers technique from Technique Junkies)  You can see her post here.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!  And for those who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter!!

Long life is in store for you

Hello, my dear crafting friends! Irit is here again and this time with my new oriental card.

I got those The Rubber Cafe oriental stamps and decided ti make this All occasion card with CI Paints and embossing powders .

The Blossom stamp was stamped with Clear embossing ink over this Basic Grey light patterned paper, then heat embossed with  Deliquesce Fine   white embossing powder  and trimmed for the front panel.
The Laced Fan stamps was stamped with the very Colorbox Gold ink  over this red patterned paper and then heat embossed with Deliquesce Fine Clear embossing powder.
   I made it 3 times, partly cut the fan pieces and made it 3d with some 3d glue foam.
As my blossoms were pretty much white and bare, I colored them (just a bit) with Creative Inspirations Garnet and Blush  paints and used the stamped images as my resist (wiped with a baby wipe after the painting)
The cluster of partly recycled  pieces was added and my card was done. Hope you like it!
See you  with my nest post in 2 weeks!
And here Creative Inspirations Paints and powders I used for this project

Irit

A Book of Memories

Hi Everyone,

I'm very excited to be part of the Design Team for Creative Inspiration Paints! For my first post I created a 'Memory Book' using a variety of elements to host the gorgeous CI paints.  This book is a real book, once read by many, so with a little TLC (perhaps some would say sacrilege) it 

has now been altered in a major way.  

Every element on my book has been painted.  I used 'Winter Frost' as the cover base.  'Winter Frost' is a brilliant colour to use over 'any' colour - it simply highlights in a magical manner.  The page edges are coloured using 'Antique Gold', giving that old bible appearance. The chipboard pieces by Imaginarium Designs came up a treat using the 'Gold' CI Paint - the shimmer is amazing and when in the right light it looks like millions of beautiful diamonds. 

 The flowers have been washed in a mixture of 'Fairy Dust', 'Pink Highlights' with touches of 'Gold' thrown in.  The large rose, was painted in 'TuTu Pink', and 

Beige', then a watered down mixture of 'Winter Frost', and then 'Fairy Dust' applied.  All foilage was painted with 'Green Olive'.  I used a variety of colours of cardstock for the leaves, so the paint gave a different depth with each colour.  Very pretty!

Every die-cut element was cut from 'White' cardstock, and coloured using various coloured paints.

Inside Cover

The paper flowers (below) came up a treat and look at all that pretty shimmer!  I used paper flowers on the inside of the book, due to them laying flat, therefore they will not get damaged when the book is closed.

Till next time

Sandie

Spring Bouquet

Oh how I love spring flowers! I fell in love with this stamp, Millie's Teapot Arrangement, from Sweet Stamps the minute I saw it. This month we have teamed up with Sweet Stamps,, so I wanted to share a card using this wonderful stamp. To create my card, I started with a Kraft cardstock base. I sponged green olive CI paints over the base. It's barely visible on the scan above, but it's cool in real life. I then used the lace die cut from Heartfelt Creations/spellbinders to layer. I stamped the image on Cryogen cardsock and used the outside the Nestie technique to cut it out. Then I brought out my CI paints and had fun painting the image. I used lots of colors: sage, emerald, evergreen, orange, buttercup, canary, autumn wheat, caramel, lavender, blush, tutu pink, and rose quartz. I sponged around the edges with green olive. to finish off my card I used a row of green rhinestones along each side of the card. Shimmer and bling and spring flowers make a great match.
Barbara Washington -- designer

Sponges

Good morning fellow crafty friends!  Hope you had a nice weekend!

SPONGES!!

You're probably wondering why in the world I have kitchen sponges! ;)

Well recently I was shopping and needed to pick some sponges up, well as my mind is always thinking crafty thoughts, as I picked them up I thought it would be fun to buy some extras to use with CI's shimmery paints!!

I found, that I really like the pink one the best!

I started by using a paint brush to add the paint color of my choice, in the this case Tutu Pink, to the sponge.

I also did a test sample using Sunshine:

I didn't realize I didn't have any bigger paint brushes as the kids recently use them and I through them out as they had gotten really bad - so just a note you may want to use a bigger brush, so you can put more on at a time.

How fun is that?! 



Another sample using Burgundy:

You could make your own SHIMMERY backgrounds with these cheap sponges!!

Here's a sample using the yellow sponge:

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For my card I created I used a piece of patterned paper and then used the pink sponge and Tutu Pink:

I just love the look!

The entire card:

I also used Deliquesce Fine Black Embossing Powder on the stamped swirls around the sentiment.

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Here's another card using the sponges as well:

I used both Light Purple and Amethyst to add shimmer!

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I also have one more card I would like to share:

I used VersaMark to stamp a fun background stamp on the cross and then used Deliquesce Fine Clear Embossing Powder.  Lastly, I wanted Pink Highlights on the entire cross to give it some shimmer!

Have a great week!!

Kendra

CI Paints Inspired By: Easter

Thanks to all those who joined in last challenge and shared their "Thanks" creations with us!


It's a new month, so we have a WINNER to announce for March!!  Along with our 'Thanks' Random.org Top 3!  So make sure to check the post below!

Plus, we have some exciting news for you!!  This month, we have teamed up with SweetStamps.com!  Sweet Stamps carries our wonderful shimmer paints!


SweetStamps.com manufactures artistic rubber stamps on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks. They carry a variety of stamping and paper crafting goodies like their own Shades dye inks, metal embossing plates, embossing folders, cutting & embossing dies (Cheery Lynn, Marianne, Joy! and Nellie's), fine detail embossing powders, specialty cardstock and vellum along with supplies for parchment crafting!

With that being said, we will have two prize winners this month!!  One winner will receive some paints of their own and the other will win a $20 Gift Certificate to use at SweetStamps.com to get some sweet stamps of their own!   So make sure to join in our challenges!

We are lucky to have Sweet Stamps DT joining us this month for three of our challenges!! So we'll be sharing some of their stamps along with our paints!!
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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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This week's challenge is:

Inspired By: Easter

Here's some inspiration:

I used the adorable "Tulip Bunny" from Sweet Stamps for this card.

Tutu Pink was used to add shimmer to the flower.

And Ice Blue to add shimmer to the ribbon!

Kendra

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 I used a mixture of several colors as background on my Bold Butterfly Large 627, and Curly Butterfly 437 from Sweet Stamps

I even used a little on the greenery I made with a die cut from Cheery Lynn that can be purchased at Sweet Stamps.

 Dawn

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Cross Small

Bonnie

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Tulip Bunny and Pretty Oval Lace

Dawn B.

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Chick Set

Jackie
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Happy Bunny with Egg

Jenn
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Children Skipping and Happy Easter Sentiment

Joni
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Quilt Bunny

Linda
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Elegant Scrollwork Frame and Small Cross

Shelly
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Umbrella Girl and Easter Blessing

Tamara
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Girl with Bunny and Easter Greetings

Sandy
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Hunny Bunny and Easter Blessing

Stacey
(owner of Sweet Stamps)
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Join in for your chance at winning!!  We love seeing all the wonderful creativity!

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Random.org Top 3 and March Winner

Thanks to those who joined us last week for our Inspired By: Monochromatic challenge!  As always we seen some amazing talent from everyone, thanks!

It's the first Sunday of the month, so we have a winner to announce!!

CI Paints March Winner is..........

Marjo
 

CONGRATS!!

If you can just send us an email with your mailing address, and the 5 colors you would like, we'll get your prize out to you: ci.shimmer.paint at gmail dot com

You're welcome to grab this badge for your blog:

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Here are the Random.org Top 3:

#7 Rina Fashionista


#2 Maggie


#11 Diane J

Beautiful work ladies!

Thanks for joining us!

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