Creative Imaginations Blog

Birds of a Feather!

Hey there, Tanisha here to share a couple of projects that I created with Debbie Mumm's gorgeous Song Birds Collection. This is one of those lines that I fall more and more in love with every time I look at it. It's filled with adorable little treasures like the tiny peach flowers in the die cut pack to the clever little phrases that inspired the title for my layout.

I started my layout by layering patterned papers, cardstock, and a border punched strip of wood to create the background. I lightly spritzed the lightest part of the background with Luminarte Butternut Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist.

Since this line has a lot of nature elements, I added flowers, a spray, and jute to add to textural interest.

I used a paint brush and Luminarte Butternut Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist to paint the chipboard photo corners.

I used the design of the layout and some of the same elelements to create a frame.

Here are some close-ups of the details.

Products used:

Debbie Mumm Song Birds

• 29228 Sweet Tweet DS Paper
• 29229 Song Birds DS Paper
• 29230 Fancy Flight DS Paper
• 29231 Nature's Song DS Paper
• 29233 Song Birds 12x12 Cardstock
• 29235 Song Birds DC Shapes
• 26397 Butternut Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist
• 26041 Real Wood 6x12 Thin Cherry

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

 

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 

Christine Adolph Oceanside

Just one look at Christine Adolph's gorgeous Oceanside collection and you can almost hear the rhythmic, foamy waves crashing onto the soft sandy beach.  The variegated blues and browns will add a soft vintage flair to your beach themed projects.

The delicate butterflies and dragonflies add to the versatility of this line.  This collection is perfect for boy, girl, and adult scrapbook pages and will definitely allow your imagination run free!

{click on images for a close up view}

 

Above 12x12 layout designed by DT Member Tanisha Long

Card by DT Member Alice Carman

This collection also comes in a 6x6 pad!!

8x8 layout designed by DT Member Nicole Capote

Be sure to jump over to Artist Christine Adolph's blog or become a fan on her facebook page.

Real Wood Cards!

Hi there everyone! My name is Cheiron Brandon and I am happy to be sharing some cards with you today that I have made from Real Wood paper. 

This is my first time over on the Creative Imaginations blog, so I thought I would tell you a little bit about me. I live in New Jersey, work in downtown Manhattan, and occasionally teach classes at The Ink Pad in NYC. I have been stamping and making cards for about seven years now, and try to make a few each night when I have time. You can see more of my creations over on my blog.

I love to play along with card challenges on different blogs, and decided to use some of this fabulous Real Wood Paper for a challenge card I made a while back. I first used the paper in a technique class that I took with the extremely talented Jenn Shurkus. This paper is really easy to cut with your paper trimmer, and I love to use it on cards since it is something you just don't see everyday. 

Here is a card I made for a fall challenge where I used Distress Stains to color strips of the Real Wood Paper, then cut it into small squares and stacked them using foam dots. 

Since it is December 1st, I thought it would only be fair to show you a Winter card made with Real Wood Paper as well. For this piece of wood paper, I embossed it with a Sizzix Embossing Folder (another trick learned in class) and painted it with Mediterranean Luminarte Twinkling H2Os and went over it in places wth some Heavenly Luminarte Twinkling H2Os to make it look frosty. It is a perfect background for my snowflakes!

You can see it a little closer here:

Thanks to Creative Imaginations for having me on the blog today! I hope you enjoyed my post and I'll be back again this month to share another project with you. 

Other supplies I used: 

Fall Card
May Arts Twine
Ranger Distress Stains 
Paper Smooches Stamp from Sentiment Sampler Set
Fiskars Oakey Dokey punch 

Winter Card
Hero Arts Stamp from Holiday Saying Set
MFT Snowflakes Dies & Label Die
May Arts Ribbon 

New Inspiration Challenge by Eva!

Hello everyone, it's Eva here announcing a new monthly challenge, where we bring you ideas to inspire you with.  I promise it will be fun and hope you play along, as there are some yummy prizes involved.  How could you not play along, right????

My first Inspiration Challenge is using one of the amazing products Creative Imaginations makes.  Have you seen the Real Wood line?  Have you had a chance to play with it yet?  Well, if not, it's time to play with some and here is where I will share the card I made using Real Wood Thin Cherry paper.

One of my favorite techniques with the Real Wood line is to dry emboss it and just paint it lightly with acrylic paint.  That is exactly how achieved the look of this card.  Can't wait to see your creative ways to use Real Wood products.

Here is the list of the Creative Imaginations items I used on this card:

• #26049 Real Wood 12x12 Thin Cherry
• #28563 Pear Paisley DS Paper
• #28559 Pear Harvest DS Paper
• #28561 Fall Harvest DS Paper
• #28070 Monarch Define DS Paper

Hope you play along with us, just upload your Real Wood creations to our gallery and make sure you add in the title REAL WOOD.  Here is what the winner will get.

An assortment of Real Wood papers

And since I used some of Samantha Walkers Orchard Harvest papers to create my card with, the winner will also receive this collection.  How fun is that!

Happy Fall!

Good morning and happy Fall to you!! Cheryl here to share with you a mini album i created using the new Samantha Walker Orchard Harvest collection!  For the base of my book, i use an Accucut Mini Mix and Match Album.  The size is perfect for holding all my favorite photos from our family visit to our local Pumpkin farm!

 

I will be teaching this Fall book at our Tim Collins Retailer Event in Houston next month!

 

I also added some of our Real Wood, painting the wood to match the Autumn colors using our Luminarte Pourables and H20 Grande Twinkling H20's!

 

Creative Imaginations Product used

• Samantha Walker Orchard Harvest Collection
• Samantha Walker Orchard Harvest 6x6 paper pad
• Real Wood - Birch
• Luminarte Indian Sunset Pourable Kit - Autumn Butternut
  
• Luminarte H20 Grande - Orange Peel
• Luminarte H20 Grande - Spiced Pumpkin
• Luminarte H20 Grande - Olive Vine

Accucut Dies

• Mix & Match Mini Album #CC106
  
•  Antique Frame #14885