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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

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.

Introducing our new monthly feature ~ Techniques with Eva Dobilas!

Hi there, this is Eva here today.  I am bringing you a new monthly feature that will showcase some fun techniques each month!! This month I choose to work with our Real Wood paper and showing you how to use it in different ways.  To show of the techniques I created three different ATC's. 

Die cutting with Real Wood paper.

Dry Embossing with Real Wood Paper

Wet Embossing and painting on Real Wood Paper

To see how I used the techniques on these ATC's please watch the video below.

 

On my Life is Beautiful ATC I used Samantha Walkers Spellbinders Antique Frame and Accents. I simply diecut it and to highlight the design I dry brushed some white acrylic paint and that is all you need. To decorate my ATC I used Samantha Walker's Life is Beautiful Unity Stamp set, which I painted with Twinkling H2O's.

On my Love ATC I did some dry embossing and used Spellbinders new Valor M-Bossibilities folder. Once I embossed the paper I once again dry brushed some white acrylic paint over it to highlight the embossing. Love that affect of embossing real wood paper, definitely one of my favorite techniques. To finish off my ATC I used Marah Johnson's Monarch Die cut frames, which I painted in with Twinkling H2O's. The Love stamp is by Justrite Stamps from their Winter Words set.

My last ATC is showcasing wet embossing on real wood paper. For this ATC I worked with My Favorite Things Inspired by Butterflies and Inspired by Love sets. I simply inked up my butterfly stamp with Versamark embossing ink pad and using White embossing powder I embossed it and here is what it looks like. Once I embossed it, I just painted it with Twinkling H2O's.

We will be featuring some of our other 

Peeps Peace Collection

Those adorable little bunnies and chickies are back!! That's right, Creative Imaginations has added a few new products to the Peeps Collection and they are ready to don your projects.  This adorable collection can be used for everything from Easter to Girl's Night Out.  Take a look at what our Design Team has created:

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Altered project designed by Tanisha Long

Card designed by Eva Dobilas

Layout designed by Nicole Capote

New IOD Ragamuffin Collection

IOD's new Ragamuffin collection brings back so many fond childhood memories for me! Days filled with tea parties, dress up and birthday parties.  This new collection by IOD does not disappoint - the vintage feel and adorable images transport me right back to my childhood!

The collection works perfectly for a child's birthday, dress-up, friendship or even halloween!  Or why not scrapbook those childhood photos?  However you decide to use this collection i am sure it will capture years of memories both past and present!

 

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Layout designed by DT member, Lynn Kopas

 
Card designed by DT member, Eva Dobilas

  Altered envelope book designed by DT member, Cheryl Mezzetti

 

Product used:

• IOD Ragamuffin Collection {In stores now}
• Envelopes
• May Arts Cream EA09 ribbons

Introducing Samantha Walker's new line "Tea Party"

One of my favorite stories to tell from when I was little, is when one of my cousins engaged my Grandmother in a proper tea party. I thought it looked like so much fun. Grandma put her pinky in the air and sipped her tea very politely with my young cousin.  I was slightly jealous of this interaction and how much fun they seemed to be having...until Grandma asked my cousin, "you are so short, where have you been getting your water for the tea? It tastes so sweet!" Then my cousin proceeded to take my Grandmother into the bathroom to show her where she had been getting the water, and she dipped a tea cup into the toilet and offered my Grandmother another cup of "tea."

I wasn't so jealous of that tea party any more...but having a tea party did pique my interests. The following Christmas, I got my very own tea set.  I cherished that set.  It had pink roses on the little plastic cups, and I knew where to get my water for the tea...not like my cousin. I made many happy memories with that tea set and my stuffed animals.

 I think we all can think of a time where we enjoyed a "tea party" with a friend, doll or stuffed animal when we were little. As adults, drinking tea is associated with friends, and chatting, and enjoying the passing of time together.

 That's why I'm so excited to introduce to you, my new collection, Tea Party, for Creative Imaginations.

Through the iconography of tea party elements, it celebrates friendship and the warm feelings associated with the ones we love. I hope this collection warms your heart, and inspires you to create projects for and about those friends and the people you love.

This lovely project was designed by Eva Dobilas with papers stickers and embellishments from the Samantha Walker Tea Party collection.

This card was also designed by Eva Dobilas.

Layout created by DT member, Lynn Kopas

I hope you have many more Tea Parties (or hot chocolate parties, or soda pop parties, or your favorite friendly beverage of choice) celebrating friendship in your life...and when you do...you now have the perfect collection of products to document all about it.

To read more about the Tea Party collection, visit the Samantha Walker blog.

 

Day Five of our 12 days of Christmas

Hello, this is Eva here, wanted to wish you a happy Holiday Season with another fun project that is perfect for the season to give or get as a gift.  We all can use a journal for 2012, so I thought I would make one of my own.  I have a super busy jam packed 2012 planned for myself in a lot of ways and I know this journal/notebook will keep me on track.

I used a store bought composition book by Mead, really a very plain looking one, and I thought Marah Johnson's Monarch Travel line would dress it up nicely, so all the products used on it are from that line, and of course I couldn't help myself and just had to paint with Luminarte, too. Here is what I came up with.

Doesn't this look so wonderful?  I love Marah's foiled papers, as they really lend so nicely to paint with Luminarte.  I also used a couple of My Favorite Things Die-namics and the pretty punched border is by Martha Stewart.  What I love about the Monarch Travel line is that it comes with beautiful quote stickers and alphabet stickers that you can work in cards, layout, or other projects linke mine.  Let me show you a closeup picture, so you can see more of the details.

And here is the list of the Creative Imaginations products I used on this pretty Journal book.

#28797 Compass Foil Paper

#28800 Abroad DS Paper

#28796 Navigator Foil Paper

#28802 12x12 Cardstock Sticker

#26337 12x12 Corrugated Kraft

#26359 Grande Twinkling H20 Olive Vine 10 gr.

#26360 Grande Twinkling H20 Nutmeg 10 gr.

#26372 Grande Twinkling H20 Guatemalan Green 10gr.

#26369 Grande Twinkling H20 Poppy Red 10 gr.

ATC Challenge Week

Hi there, it's Eva here today.  This week, we are showcasing some fun ATC's.  Our design team decided to try our hands out with ATC's, as they are the craze and boy, they are sure fun to make.  I like to play with stamps and I love to play with Luminarte and stamps, so for me, this was such an easy task to do.  Let me show you what I made.

I used the Unity October Kit of the Month to create this little ATC, as I just loved all the images for it. I also got to play with the brand new Think Pink Luminarte Twinkling Petite set.   And on top of using Luminarte Twinkling H2O's, I also incorporated Marah Johnson's Silver Dresden borders, which in my mind are just perfect for ATC's.  Hope you like what you see.

Here is the list of Creative Imaginations products I used to create this ATC.

29032 Luminarte Twinkling H2O Think Pink Petite set

29036 Luminarte Twinkling H2O African Jade 10 gr.

26351 Luminarte Twinkling H2O Sunburst 10 gr.

28070 Monarch Define Double Sided Paper

21076 Eye Candy Olivine Small

28074 Monarch Happenings Chipboard 5x12

25638 Silver Dresden Borders

May Arts and Luminarte

Good morning!! Our final winner from last week's blog hop with May Arts is

Marylinn Kelly " I had no idea ribbon could be colored so easily...I always think of fabric dye and a lengthy process.  Great ideas.  What versatile products, thank you.”  Marylinn please email me your shipping address to ceeangels@aol.com 

Hi there it's Eva here again and I have another quick post to share with you.  I am still playing with my gorgeous May Arts white ribbons and I thought why not share another card using them, so here I am today to do just that.

My card again is using the May Arts EA line in white, this time the 1/2" width as they are really just so perfect to use with Luminarte.  The papers I used for this card is Christine Adolph's Winter Song line and the stamps are by My Favorite Things.

Products used:

Luminarte Pourable kits:

• 29052 Spring Blossom (I used Ginger Flower)
• 29054 Glamour Girl (I used Apple Blossom)
• 29047 Summer Meadow (I used Fern)
• 28745 Winter Song Songbird DS Paper
• 28748 Winter Song Peaceful DS Paper
• 28949 Winter Song Brocade Foil Paper
• 28751 Winter Song Diecut Shapes

Be sure to check back later today for our Artist Trading Card challenge!

Sketch Challenge Inspiration

Hi there, it's Eva with you today reminding you of our September and October Sketch challenge Nicole posted a couple of weeks ago.  Make sure you participate as you could win some yummy Creative Imaginations prizes!

So, we have a sketch for you, and this time you can interpret it either as a layout, or a card.  Since I prefer to work with cards, I thought I would create a card to show you, a sketch can be worked in different ways.  Hope it helps you a little.  Here is what I came up with!

And here is the sketch for you to see again.

Remember these few guidelines when entering.  Your entry must be created for the challenge and consist of 80% Creative Imaginations products.  You will then be automatically entered into a drawing to win a great prize valued at at least $25 from Creative Imaginations. Challenge must have more than one entry to be considered valid.   Hurry this challenge ends October 31, 2011! 

Here is the list of items I used to create my card with:

#28070 Monarch Define DS Paper

#27979 IOD Devotion Rose Vine DS Paper

#27984 IOD Devotion Victorian DS Paper

#27990 IOD Devotion CS Sticker 5x12

#26359 Twinkling H20 Olive Vine 10 gr

#26369 Twinkling H20 Poppy Red 10 gr

#28417 Twinkling H2O Orange Peel 10 gr