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!!! 

Home Sweet Home

Happy Saturday friends! I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! Emily here today with a quick share of a mini canvas I made using some wonderful Creative Inspirations Paint! 

I made this adorable canvas last night using remnants of a Studio Calico kit, some 3 Girl Jam crinkle ribbon, stamps, tissue paper and loads of CIP paints! 

These are the colors used in the canvas today...

Below are more close ups and angles.... 

See the tissue paper on the canvas? I used a similar technique to the recent tutorial by Kassi using tissue paper that you can find in the tutorials section HERE. Instead of using a sheet of tissue paper, I tore pieces of it off and layered them on top of one another to create clouds. This is a really fun technique to use on your projects for added texture. 

Thank you so much for stopping in on this Saturday! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Butterflies and Beauty

This week's card started as a bit of an experiment. I used the Cheery Lynn French lattice large die and cut the design from a sheet of two sided adhesive. I adhered the die cut adhesive to the aqua cardstock and removed the top cover sheet. I covered the adhesive with CI Resplendence (glitter) angel dust. The result was a beautiful, sparkly design on the background paper. Then I stamped my image from Great Impressions on white cardstock. I painted the image with CI paints: spring green, emerald, turquoise, ivory, caramel, burnt sienna, coal, peach, and canary. I die cut the image using a Spellbinder's die (Label 23) and cut a corresponding layering panel which I highlighted with peach CI paint to add shimmer. The flower was die cut (Cheery Lynn miniature rose die) using crepe paper layers with canary CI paint highlights. The butterflies (Cheery Lynn dies) were cut using yellow and orange cardstock. I then used canary and peach CI paints for highlight and shimmer. I love how this card turned out with all the shimmer and sparkle.

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

Shimmery Heirloom Ornament Card

I can't tell you how excited I am to be posting my first project on the blog as part of the Creative Inspirations Paint DT! Already, I am having a blast playing with these fantastic paints and can't wait to share many more projects with you all in the future!

But now let's get to this week's project shall we?!

• I used the Spellbinders "2010 Heirloom Ornament" dies to cut out the ornament after I stamped and embossed it with the matching JustRite "Merry and Bright" stamp set.


• Next I colored in the ornament image with Garnet, Gold and Caramel.


• I stamped the sentiment separately and punched it out with 1 1/4" punch and popped it up on the ornament.


• Then I inked all the edges with Antiue Linen distress ink to make the edges stand out a little.


• Finally, I painted a peach colored silk ribbon with the Garnet paint to match the ornament and attached it along with a few pearls as a finishing touch.


• The label was cut with Spellbinders "Labels 8" die and stamped with Hero Arts "Pine Bough" stamp in Peeled Paint Distress ink.


• The card base was a light green cardstock stamped with Hero Arts "Raindrop Background" in Peeled Paint Distress ink


• The final touch before assembly was to use a fan brush to "white wash" over the background in Ivory to give it a fantastic pearly shine!
  

Here you can see the Creative Inspirations colors I used, from left to right they are; Garnet, Gold, Caramel and Ivory.

Finally, here, I hope you can see the shine! I know it's hard to see on the ornament because it is so intricate but you can really see the shimmer on the ribbon and on the background.

Hope you anjoyed today's project! Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

Carla