CSI and Chipboard

Debbie here today to share a few tags that I made recently.  One of my favorite mediums to alter is chipboard.  These cute Julie Nutting tags were so fun to paint with Creative Inspirations. The tag backgrounds are sprayed and the chipboard dolls are painted.

  

This first tag is painted with Burgandy, Coal and Antique Silver.

  

 This doll was painted with Peach, Coal and  Garnet.

 

This doll was painted with Coal, Garnet, Peach and Antique Gold.

 

For this fun Halloween doll I used Coal and Antique Silver.

 

These tags were a blast to make!  It was playing with paper dolls again!  What's your favorite medium to paint?  Make sure you stop by the Creative Inspirations store to purchase your favorite paints!

Thanks for stopping by the Creative Inspirations Blog today!!!

Autumn Birthday Cards

Hello, CIP friends.  Julie here today from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers. Today, I have two birthday cards I made using Creative Inspirations Paint to share with you. They both use the same technique:

 

 

I started with a white cardstock base.  I used some mists to add some color splatters to the stark white.  Then, I stamped the  leaf stamps randomly on the paper.  I used some ink colors that would match the paints I wanted to use and stamped with those, including the sentiment. I then went to work with my paint colors, and painted the leaves, using it more like a wash, just to get the shimmer.  I used Creative Inspirations Paint in Rustic Red (on sale!), Green Olive, Pumpkin (on sale!), and Burnt Clay (on sale!).

 

 

Here's another angle of the first card to better show the shimmer...

 

 

I placed a few sparkles from my stash on the card, too, to add a little bling.  This card was one of my husband's birthday cards last month.  He loved it!

His sisters' birthday is a couple weeks after his, and we got together to celebrate them both. Here's the card I gave to her:

 

 

I used the exact same technique on this card, only stamping the random leaves a little differently, and using pearls instead of rhinestones. Don't you love the leaves in the background?  That was our backyard about a month ago.  All the leaves are gone now. :(   Winter's coming.

Here's a view of the shimmer...

 

 

I LOVE this paint! If you haven't tried it yet, you need to treat yourself.  With the sale colors, now's the perfect time!

For more details about this card, and to see what else I've been creating, please visit my blog.



Inspired by: Anything goes

Thanks to all those who joined in our " Happy Thanksgiving" 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

Hi  Everyone, DIANA L. here from DL.ART  with today's inspiration 
challenge for you:

Here's some inspiration:

With Christmas around the corner I thought I would create a card for the Holiday.
I tore three pieces of Rives Kraft card stock and embossed the edges with Creative Inspirations deliquesce white. I love the effect of the torn paper, but adding the embossing powder gives it and extra element  of dimension. The tree is formed using the resinesence and copper and green sparkle embossing powder in a silicone mold.  Here is a close up so you can see the detail

Creative inspiration  Products used:

I hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with this week's 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!

DIANA L.
for more information on my project come visit my blog at
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

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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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Random Top 3:Happy Thanksgiving

Thanks to those who joined us last week for our
 Inspired By: Happy Thanksgiving  challenge! 

Here are the Random.org Top 3:

# 2 Rhonda

 #29 Katie

 #6 Kathrine

  Beautiful work ladies!

You each will receive an extra entry in our August drawing for some CI Paints of your own!

You can grab this badge for your blog:

Holiday Cheer Card

Happy Friday, all! Today I am back with another fun Christmas card. This card features non-traditional red and green Christmas colors, yet shows elegant silver and blue color scheme. I don't know about you, but I am more into those rather than traditional colors lately.

Check out those cool paint colors! Don't you just love them? I am particularly loving the nice coral color, Sea Foam from the CIP's collection. I  used Silver Frost as a background for today's card - I used a stencil to add a nice background pattern to the white cardstock canvas.

I wanted to pop out the tag mainly so here I used Sea Form to paint the whole tag and embossed the sentiment with black embossing power. Make sure to emboss the sentiment before painting the tag, so that you can get the nice resistance effect!

To paint the tag, I did the 1st coat and went back to add some darker areas. It gives more interest and dimensions to the project.

I used a light gray cardstock as a card base, added a couple strips of pattern papers to compliment the rest of the card. As finishing touches, I added couple drops of pearls and tied a bow with a twine on a clear vintage button.

Hope you enjoyed today's card! Thanks for stopping by and spending some times with us!

CIP Fan featured Artist: Fall Wreath

                       Greetings CIP Fans!
Today we are sharing a featured project from one of our CIP Fans!
Our dt team member could not be here today on the blog
due to health issues. We pray she has a quick recovery!
We spotted this CIP fans work on our blog, right column
 under share your CIP projects under got paint?!
Her name is Sandee Setliff and she created this adorable
and beautiful Fall wreath!
Don't you just love that owl!

Sandee used Creative Inspirations paints in Copper, Pumpkin
 and Fairy Dust!
Thank you Sandee for sharing this with us!
We love how you used the CIP paints on your creative project!
Here's the link to learn more about her project!
Would you like to be featured on our CIP blog?
Keep sharing those projects you never know when we
 might share your project here on the CIP blog!
Did you know we have 4 CIP paint colors on sale
 all month at 33% off?! Here's the link!
Thank you for visiting the CIP blog today!

Fall Bliss ...

November in New York is when the leaves are almost all gone and we are settling in for a long winter. Soon, the leaves on the ground will be covered in snow, and all the beautiful colors of autumn will be a memory. Fall is my favorite season with the balmy weather, bright colors and time of harvest! I've created this card with these thoughts in mind! ~Enjoy~!

My leaves are from Spellbinders® Fall Foliage dies, and are cut from ivory cardstock, then painted with various mixtures of paints including: Burnt Clay, Pumpkin, Raw Sienna, Rustic Red, Emerald, Green Olive and Sunshine. Once dry, I used the cracked glass technique, then rubbed it with green ink to highlight the cracks. I layered them on an embossed background, attached a twine bow, tiny twigs and a fall sentiment to finish the card.

Have a blessed and creative day! ~ Darsie

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:

I also used these additional colors: Emerald, Green Olive and Sunshine

Colors of Nature, Canvas

Hi!  Tina here today with another CIP project, with colors inspired by the Fall and Thanksgiving time.

 

I began my canvas by adding several colors of orange and red to by background, misting with water and mixing together to create a wash.   

Using the same stamp (three times), I stamped the image to a piece of tissue paper.  I applied the stamped tissue paper to the canvas with matte medium and let dry completely.  (this was a great tip I learned from the fantastically creative Dina Wakley).  This is a great way to add a stamped image to a project without fear of a mis-stamp.  

Using the stamp as a guide, I colored in the flowers and stems with several colors of CIP.  

 

I outlined the image(s) with a doodling pen, and added depth by shading with an oil pastel crayon.

I wanted more texture and interest to my background, so I ran my fingers through a Watermark Ink Pad and  rubbed them on the surface of the canvas.  I loosely applied embossing powder and heat embossed.

You can see some of the texture near my sentiment in this picture.

And that is it!  This project only took a couple of hours and it is something that can be displayed year round!  

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great week!