Pretty Poinsettia

Only 14 days left until Christmas, and the hustle and bustle of the season is upon us! As we rush about, please try and remember what the Holiday means to you, the special moments, the love and the reason for the season! Enjoy!

~ Darsie

I created the background for my card using Garnet, Evergreen and Winter Frost paints! I first die cut my poinsettia in various sizes with copy paper and laid them onto my white cardstock. I used low-tack tape to secure them so that they wouldn't move as I painted the background. With a paintbrush, I added Winter Frost first, then dabbed lightly with Garnet and Evergreen until I was pleased with the results. Once the paint was dry, I removed the copy paper poinsettias, and stamped with a poinsettia stamp using red ink in the stenciled areas.

Each 1st Monday we will 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 December are Garnet, Evergreen, Emerald and Winter Frost.

Christmas Advent - CIP Style!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Tina here today.

I realize that the Christmas Countdown has already started, but if you haven't started your Countdown to the big day, or if you are looking for ideas for next year, today I'd like to show you my version of a Christmas Advent, CIP Style.

I wanted to create an easy (and quick) way to celebrate that yearly Christmas Countdown.

To start, you will need 25 white coin envelopes (available at your local office supply store), your favorite stamp, CIP Embossing Powder (in green and red), Embossing Ink, CIP Paint (in green and red), countdown numbers (I used number circle stickers from Pretty Little Studio), festive holiday paper and your favorite scalloped punch, several Christmas die-cuts (I used several from Pretty Little Studio), and an advent frame.  (mine is a Silhouette frame from several years ago).

Step One:   Heat Emboss coin envelopes with stamp and CIP Embossing Powder.

 

Step Two: Using water downed CIP paint, apply a 'wash of color' to each envelope.

 

Step Three:  Cut envelope in 1/2 and punch open edge with fancy scallop punch.
Staple Countdown number to outside of envelope.

Step Four:  Add Countdown 'present' to each envelope.  I typed up small sentiments and added to each envelope.

 

Step Five:  Hang daily envelopes and Christmas die-cuts on Advent Calendar.  Enjoy!

The great thing about creating this Advent Calender, is that the envelopes can be re-used next year, or if you are a scrapper, you can use them in your December Daily projects.  :)

I hope you enjoyed my project today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas!

Hi there! Emily here today with an art journal page I created using the great CIP colors that are on sale this month! 

This month's colors, as a reminder are:

And the page I made...

I used my Gelli Plate with some of my favorite stencils along with Emerald, Evergreen, Garnet and Winter Frost CI Paints to create a background. After the background was created I traced my trees using a Dyan Reavely stencil and black marker. I completely covered everything but the trees with black soot Distress Paint. 

An embossing pen along with some Deliquesce in Fine White  was used to go around the edges of the trees. to make them stand out. I love how the Deliquesce makes them POP! 

The Dyan stencil has these cute lights along the edge for a border on both the small AND large stencil, so I used the smaller stencil on the corners with some modeling paste. After the modeling paste dried I colored the lights in Garnet, Evergreen and some Gold CI Paints.  They really look like shimmery holiday lights! 

No Christmas Tree is complete without a topper, and so I grabbed some UmWow chipboard stars and covered them with Deliquesce in Super Sparkle Gold  to make them really shine! 

I have to say, this page is one of my favorites. I don't know if you can see, but the CI Paints behind the Distress Paint, still show up! I love the texture that it gives! You can't create that on your own... it's a natural texture created by the two mediums because of their chemistry. You can still see some of the shimmer of the paints behind the Distress Paint, and even the color in some places. :) 

If you get a chance, play around with the paints and other mediums, especially layering! It's a lot of fun! I do a lot of layering in my art journal, which is how I discovered this look.  

I hope you have enjoyed my holiday journal page and play with your own paints!! Have fun and get messy!! 

♪♪ It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! ♪♪

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Tina here today with a project that will get you in the holiday spirit!

I can't believe Christmas is only a month away.  It seems like Summer was just yesterday!

Tags are one of my favorite, 'no-brainer', easy projects.  I could spend all day creating one tag after another.  They are so fun and so easy, they are a great way to try new product or experiment with new techniques.

I started my tags with an ombre painted effect, using a favorite star stencil.  Starting with my darkest color on the top of each tag, I used 4 greenish hue's to complete my background.
{Hint:  I used a cosmetic sponge to apply the paint to the tag.  Lots of control and you can cut the end off when you are done with one color to use on the next.}

Once my paint was dry, I layered holiday themed die-cuts, tags, and fun embellishments.

I also love to color my embellishments to match the colors of my project.  I have colored my ribbon with stains and inks in the past, but wanted to see if it would work with CI paints.  It did!  Beautifully!

I sprayed my ribbon with water, then dipped my fingertips into the lightest color first.  I randomly rubbed the ribbon with this color, then repeated with 2 additional colors.  Once I was happy with the color, I crinkled the ribbon into a ball and dried with my heat gun.  Once it was dry, the beautiful shimmer from the paint looked gorgeous on my new custom-made ribbon.  I will definitely be trying this technique again!

That's all for today!  I hope this inspired you to create something for the holiday!  We would love to see your creations!

Christmas Wishes Card

How about a fun Christmas card with leaves? I have been in Christmas mode since the beginning of last month and having so much fun creating Christmas cards. I took out couple paints and decorated the card for today's project. If you want to see how this card is put together in person make sure to check out the video below!

I wanted to add lots of textures for today's card. So I embossed the 1st layer cardstock with woodgrain embossing folder and crumbled the die cut leaves to give more depth. Don't they look cool? I love how our CI paints give touch of shine when painted. Crumbled areas also hold more paint so they look darker than the smooth area, giving more interest to the project.

I hope you enjoy today's tutorial! Thanks for stopping by!

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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!