Creative Imaginations Blog

Guest Designer ~ Lynne Forsythe

Hi Everybody.....My name is Lynne Forsythe and I hail from the small but BEAUTIFUL state of NH! I have been creative all my life but was introduced to the paper crafting industry about 5 years ago. I began making scrapbook pages then progressed to card making and now have emersed myself in the Mixed Media genre. I work for my LSS along with teaching classes at various stores and events. It's an honor and a priveledge to get to share my creations with you this week!!

When creating, I love to alter what ever medium I am working with, paper, fabric, ribbon/lace.....with COLOR. I think that is why I absolutely fell in love the LuminArte line of products which sooo compliment the rest of the Creative Imaginations offerings!

For my first project I chose to make a card.

I began by spritzing the canvas card with a mixture of Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists.
Butternut
Spanish Moss
Persimmon

I then pulled out a couple papers from the IOD ~ Preposterous line
Whimsical
Playful

I diecut a flower from the papers, when finished I misted it with
Butternut ~ Radiant Rain

I created the leaves for my flower from one of the
Black ATC's

Do you see the YUMMMIE shimmery green on the leaves???
I acheived that look by mixing up a batch of Primary Elements
Costa Rica ~ Olive Green

I finished off the card with
Antique Words



Once I began playing with the Primary Elements....I wanted to try more things!!
So I pulled out a
Black ATC
and let the creative process flow!

Now, before I go any further....
The concoction that I used was
Primary Element Colors and
Glaze Medium.



This time I added Primary Elements
Majestic
to the mix!

I painted it on a paper flower,
Mixed it with Olive Green,
I dipped a canvas flower into a watered down version,
Painted with the watered down version on the
Paint It! ~ Umbrella
Dipped paper in it
Tried stamping with it
(would have work had it not been a fluted surface)
still loved the result.

Finished up with leaves cut from a piece of
Kraft ATC
and painted with the Primary Elements ~ Olive Green.

I hope you have enjoyed my creative adventure!
If you have any questions.....feel free to ask!!

 

Cards by Alice

Hello, it's Alice and I'm here to share 3 cards with you today!

For my first card I used Debbie Mumm's, Song Bird collection.  I really enjoyed making this card!  This collection has beautiful neutral colors and has a nautre theme.  Perfect for anything, right?

Supplies

Debbie Mumm Diecuts

Debbie Mumm 6x6 Pad

Have you seen or used the NEW IOD Ragamuffin?  It's the perfect blend of vintage and soft colors.

I didn't put a sentiment on this card because it was so pretty without it so you can use this for any occasstion.

Supplies

IOD Ragamuffine collection

This is Terri Martin's Graducation line, but I ended up using it as a congratulaitons card for just about anything.

This looks like it could work for a wedding card, right?  It's perfect for any congradulating moment.

Supplies

Graduation Foil Paper

Graduation Paper

 

Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

 

 

Bazzil + Unity + Think Pink

Hi there, it 's Eva sharing a new card with the beautiful Bazzill Cancer Awareness Glazed Cardstock, Marah Johnson's Embracing Hope Unity Stamps and our new Think Pink Luminarte.

I always love playing with resist papers and our Luminarte products, so I was looking forward to paint these very special papers by Bazzill.  I paired the pretty products up with some Spellbinders.  Here is what I came up with.

The Think Pink Petite set is all you need to paint these beautiful papers.  After I die cut my flower and leaf, I just painted them  to coordinate with my card as well.

Supplies used:

Bazzill Cancer Awareness Glazed Cardstock

Unity Stamps - Embracing Hope by Marah Johnson

Luminarte Think Pink Petite set Twinkling H2O's

Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents by Samantha Walker

Spellbinders Sprial Blossoms One

Spellbinders Foliage

Christine Adolph--Sakura

Have you ever come across one of those collections that is just so pretty that you don't even want to cut into it?  That's exactly how I felt about Christine Adolph's Sakura collection.  The beautiful colors and patterns are suitable for framing!

As you can see, I eventually decided to cut into those pretty papers to create this layout.  I used the die cut paper as my background and cut the lanterns from patterned paper to use as a decorative element across the top of the layout.

I brought out the purple in the papers by painting a strip of Paint It papers with sugar plum Luminarte Twinking H2Os.  I further embellished with die cuts, layered stickers, and a border punched strip of real wood paper.

I create this card for a friend.  I embossed a piece of wood paper and then inked the raised design and then embellished with twine and a die cut. 

 

Luminarte

Twinkling H2Os in Sugar Plum

Christine Adolph Sakura

 Sakura DC Shapes

 Sakura Layered Sticker

Sakura Serenity DS Paper

 Sakura Lovely DC Paper

Sakura Blooming DS Paper

Sakura Spring DS paper

Real Wood

Real Wood 12x12 Thin Cherry

Marah Johnson Paint It Papers

Monarch Define DS Paper

 

Tanisha

 

Cards by Alice

Do you love paints and inky fingers?  Today on Cards by Alice I am going to feature the NEW Silks Luminarte acrylic glaze paints by Dreaming In Color.  These little pots have the same beautiful mica color as our Luminarte H20's but work with our paints to cover more surfaces!  I am also going to show you a few techinques on how to use them.  I really had fun using these paints and I know you will too.

Brillant shimmering semi-gloss arylic glaze can be used on wood, paper, fabric, clay and so much more.

I started out by dry embossing white cardstock, (used an embossing folder).  Next I painted the whole card using Sky Blue Silks acrylic glaze. Then I used Emperor's Gold Silks acrylic glaze paint to highlight the raised image by painting over it.  It only looks like it was a lot of work! And i just love how it turned out!

Can you see how shimmery the Silks paints are?  Isn't this cool?

I also used Ice Silks on the stamped butterflies so you can see how shimmery the Silks are.  The Ice color Silks is a clear coat that can be used on any color surface to add that extra shine.

Suppplies I used

Silks: Emperor Gold, Ice, Sky Blue and Ginger Peach

Alpha Basics CS Sticker 2.2x10 

Real Wood 6x12 Thin Birch

 

On this card I blended a lot of color to get the right effect.  You can blend these paints by dry brushing the paints on to your project.  I used Creative Imagination's Nature Stencil Kit

Nature Stencil Kit 

 

Drybrush is a painting technique in which a paint brush that is relatively dry can still holds paint. The resulting brush strokes have a characteristic scratchy look that lacks the smooth appearance that washes or blended paint commonly have.

 

Supplies I used:

Silks:Ginger Peach, Coarl Berry, Sky Blue, Guatemalan Green, Sunburst and Carmen

Nature Stencil Kit 

Here's my last card for today!

On this card I used both dry brushing and blending.  I also embossed and stamped on wood paper.

Supplies I used:

Silks: Guatemalan Green, Sky Blue and Fern

Real Wood 6x12 Thin Birch

 

I had a great time putting this post together for you all and I hope you learned something and don't forget to check your stores for this awesome paint.

May Arts and Creative Imaginations Blog Hop

Hello, Lynn here to share a card I created using the fabulous May Arts Ribbons.  Today is our last day to feature our work and post a winner!  Congratulations to Karen McAlpine “I really like this flower idea. I love adding handmade embellishments to my cards. Love that shelf of ribbon rolls---heavenly for a ribbon-a-holic like me! LO” Karen email me your ribbon selection and address to:ceeangels@aol.com. 

May Arts Ribbons are such a pleasure to work with and the possibilities are endless. The Creative Imaginations Team really loved the Sheered/Frayed flower ribbon and I used the white flower ribbon to create my spring card. I used the green leaves ribbon to ceate the stem. I cut the center of one flower and layered it onto another flower to create more dimension. I painted the flower with Twinkling H20 Ice and then sprayed the card with Luminarte Radiant Rain Ice Mist for a shimmery effect. Here's my card ...

 Supplies Used:

• Sheered Frayed Flower Ribbon
• Leaves Ribbon
• Raggamuffin Paper Pad
• Twinkling H20 - Ice
• Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist - Ice
• Paint It Alpha
• Gem Pack

Thank you so much for joining in the fun this week!  Stop by again next week to see what our design team has whipped up for you! 

May Arts & Creative Imaginations tutorial!

Hi everyone, it's Nicole here excited to share my project for our week long blog hop with May Arts!  But first another winner ~   Sharon S “Both the package and card are beautiful.  I forget that ribbon adds such a special touch to a package -- I really like the Silky Crush ribbon on that package -- gonna have to get me some of that.  :-)  Thanks for sharing your wonderful inspiration too” Sharon please email me your address to ceeangels@aol.com

Earlier in the week I was perusing facebook and stumbled on a really cute flower tutorial using fabric strips.  I played around a bit with the technique, but kept ending up disappointed with the end result because the torn fabric strips made the flower petals look frayed & messy when I really wanted a crisper, cleaner look.

Enter May Arts Ribbon!  Its finished edges were just the tweak I needed to get the crisp petals I was yearning for!  I grabbed my Debbie Mumm Songbird 6x6 pad and some of my favorite May Arts ribbon and got to work.

I started by spraying both sides of a 2 foot length of 1 1/2" wide white satin ribbon with Sunburst Spray until it was completely saturated, then dryed it with a heat tool. When it was completely dry, I folded it in half widthwise and secured it with some super tacky double stick tape.

Then I folded the ribbon in half lengthwise, once...twice...three...maybe four times.  Using my super sharp tonic scissors, I randomly cut notches into the top of the ribbon through all the layers...maybe to the halfway point, like this:

When it's done and unfolded, it looks like this:

Then onto a 2" gluber I pleated the ribbon (with the notched edge along the top) all around the gluber in a spiral toward the center. 

I was done when I ran out of gluber, then I just trimmed off the excess.

After adding a button or two and some cute twine, it makes a beautiful embellishment for the front of a card for a special friend!

 

 

Creative Imaginations Products Used:

• Radiant Rain in Sunburst
• #29228 Nature's Song DS paper
• #29230 Fancy Flight DS Paper

Today we are giving away some ribbons from May Arts - you get to pick your favorite roll! All you have to do is post a comment and we will pick a winner and post it tomorrow!  And remember to hop on over to the May Arts blog for a chance to win some Creative Imaginations goodies!  Good luck!

May Arts and Creative Imaginations

Hey there, Tanisha here to share with you another project for our week long blog hop with May Arts. But first we have another winner! Vera W. Yates "These are awesome projects. But that shadow box took my breath away. LOVE it!" Vera please email me your address to ceeangels@aol.com. 

One of my favorite ways to use ribbon is on gift packaging.  I love that I can add that extra special touch without having to take a trip to the store.  I used May Arts Silky/Crush ribbon in white and blue/white baker's twine and the gorgeous Sakura line by Christine Adolph for this birthday gift and card.  To make my gift set sparkle, I spritzed the card and the front of the gift box with red pearl Luminarte Radiant Rain mist. 

Here's a close up of the gift box detail.

Here's a close up of the card --you can see just how shimmery the luminarte is.

Those special touches make this a perfect gift for your mom, sister or good friend.

Products Used:

Sakura Foil Paper

Sakura Spring Paper

Sakura Layered Sticker

Sakura Die Cuts

Today we are giving away some ribbons from May Arts - you get to pick your favorite roll! All you have to do is post a comment and we will pick a winner and post it tomorrow!  And remember to hop on over to the May Arts blog for a chance to win some Creative Imaginations goodies!  Good luck!

May Arts and Creative Imaginations Blog Hop

Hello and welcome back to our week long Blog Hop with May Arts and Creative Imaginations.  This is Eva here today and I have a sweet card to share with you using some beautiful May Arts trims and Creative Imaginations products.

 

As you can see I used a few pretty ribbons/trims on my card.  I really like working with May Arts ribbons, as they are such a wonderful addition to any project.  I used the pretty sheered/frayed flower in pink as my addition to the frame stamp, which is by JustRite Papercraft, their Just Keep Calm set. I also used faux/suede leaves, which came in a tan color, so I sprayed it with Luminarte Radiant Rain Mist to achieve the green color.  I love how I was able to customize the color of my leaf, it was so easy.  I am also a huge fan of the Grain/Ivory Striped wide ribbon and I found a way to incorporate it into my card as well.  As you can see I added a little bling in the middle of my flower, which came from the beautiful black gem stickers, just a perfect addition, don't you think?

For my card I used the following Creative Imaginations products:

#28069 Monarch Allegro DS Paper #28071 Monarch Cherish Varnish Paper #27964 Provencial Fleur DS Paper #26371 Grande Twinkling H20 Coral Berry 10gr #28918 Black Gem Mini Stickers #28922 Smoky Gem Swirl

Today we are giving away some ribbons from May Arts - you get to pick your favorite roll! All you have to do is post a comment and we will pick a winner and post it tomorrow!  And remember to hop on over to the May Arts blog for a chance to win some Creative Imaginations goodies!  Good luck!

 Hope you enjoyed today's inspirational projects by Donna ~ Be sure to come back later today for some more inspiration from DT member, Eva Dobilas.

May Arts and Creative Imaginations Blog hop week!

Welcome to another May Arts and Creative Imaginations blog week.  We are so excited to team up with May Arts again!  Our Design Team has been hard at work crating some of the most beautiful designs using May Arts ribbons and Creative Imaginations products.

To start, here's a card designed by Alice Carman

Have you ever tried to paint on ribbon?  You can using our NEW Silks paints and using May Arts burlap ribbon.

Here's a detail photo of how you can paint and blend using Creative Imagintions Silks paints and May Arts burlap ribbon, sheer flower and faux suede leaves.

Here's another ribbon from May Arts you can paint using Creative Imaginations Silks paints.  

May Arts sheer frayed white flowers click here

May Arts faux suede leaves click here

May Arts Burlap ribbon click here

Dreamin in Color "New" Silks in Sunburst, Olive Vine and Sky Blue

Creative Imaginations Raident Rain Shimmering Mist in Teal Zircon click here

 

Hope you enjoyed today's inspriational piece and come back everyday for a chance to win our blog hop giveaways! 

Today we are giving away some ribbons from May Arts - just post a comment and we will pick a winner and post it tomorrow!  Good luck!