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Shimmering Marbled Glass Tiles by artist Marti Wills

Marti here, I am excited to show you a unique and beautiful way to jazz up your chipboard pieces using Luminarte's Primary Elements Artist Pigments.

I LOVE the brilliant radiance of Luminarte products and I especially love the functionality of Primary Elements Artist Pigments.  The powders can be mixed with all sorts of mediums to make gorgeously shimmery colors for all sorts of projects.

Here I used one of the tiles on my card.  In addition, I mixed Pink Azalea Primary Elements into Heavy Body Gel and made a shimmering embossing paste.

This video will show you how to make the marbled tile:

 

Enjoy!

 

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Creative Imaginations Primary Elements Artist Pigments

Let's give a warm welcome to Christine from Scrap and Time. She is sharing some of her tips and techniques using our Primary Elements Artist Pigments with different mediums. Enjoy.

Christine here, today I am showing you the Primary Elements Artist Pigments from Creative Imaginations! These are pigment powders mixed with a little Mica to give them some sparkle. You can mix these powders with a variety of products such as Multi-Medium or Gesso to make your own paints

For this diagram I mixed the pigments with the medium that came in my kit and used an  ExiStencils from Creative Imaginations. It was basically a Multi-Medium. Since I was making samples, I didn’t use a lot of medium, allowing me to get strong colours. You can also see how I mixed pigments to make custom colours.

But you can also mix them with Gesso. I used a White Gesso, so now the paints are more pastel, but they are opaque! You can see the lighter blue sitting on top of the purple.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of the pigments mixed with a Multi-Medium and with Gesso.

When I was making my samples I was brushing the excess on to this page. You can see that by using the medium the colours show through each layer.

I really enjoyed playing with the Pigments and blending my own colours!

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Scrap Time – Ep. 758 – Creative Imaginations Primary Elements Artist Pigments from Mark Giles on Vimeo.

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Enter today!! Giveaway for Dion Dior’s online class - A Taste of Silks

Sign up while you still can for Dion Dior A Taste of Silks! This is such a great learning opportunity for anyone who is curious about the Silks Acrylic Glaze. You will want to take this online class and right now, Dion is doing a giveaway for one FREE spot in the class and a $40 coupon card from Luminarte.

Dion here, I'm so excited to officially launch my new online workshop A Taste of Silks. This wonderful new 2-week class begins May 18th, 2012.

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Silks Acrylic Glaze are a new product from  Luminarte. They are beautiful, shimmering fluid acrylics that are so versatile they can be used on almost any surface. For a sneak peak into this class, take a look at my new video.
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To celebrate the official launch of this class, I am thrilled to announce a Silks giveaway--you could win a place in this fabulous class, along with a $40 coupon card from Luminarte. Simply leave a comment on my blog Dion Dior & More telling me what you love most about the video, and why you'd like to learn about acrylics.

For a second chance to win, simply share this giveaway on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, then go to my blog, Dion Dior & More and leave a second comment with a link to your share. I'll be randomly drawing a winner next weekend, so don't forget to include your email address so I can contact you when you win.

Registration is now open. For more information, or to register, please click here.

Good luck and thanks for checking in. xx

Primary Elements Artist Pigments and polymer clay by Marti Wills

Lets set aside some time to be creative. Remember, if you are creating with Luminarte, share it on the Luminarte Fan Page. We have Marti Wills sharing a super cool technique with our Primary Elements Artist Pigments on polymer clay. This can be used with so many of your projects or as jewelry.

Marti here, I discover simple techniques using polymer clay, Luminarte Primary Elements, and stamps to make gorgeous clay tiles.This video tutorial from FaveCraft.com by Marti Wills shows you how to create cool designs on your polymer clay using Luminarte Primary Elements Artist Pigments.

Materials:

• Polymer clay - white, black and/or glittered works best but experiment with other colors
• Pasta machine or clay roller
• A variety of rubber stamps and/or texture plates
• Luminarte Primary Elements powders

 

 

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Tips and Techniques with the Primary Elements Artist Pigments

Hello everyone. Today, I wanted to give some more details about Creative Imaginations NEW Primary Elements Artist Pigments. They are available in April at your local stores.  I created this video for those of you that were lucky to win a set in our January's Giveaway and to keep you inform of what's NEW with LUMINARTE. This is my first you tube debut so thank you for watching. :)

NEW from Creative Imaginations!  Create your own paint with the Primary Elements. This is a permanent paint that allows you to go into mix media such as leather, terra cotta clay, glass, fabric, plastic, wood, clay, metal and many more surfaces. They contain 100% pure ground color and proprietary minerals that refract light. It's iridescent sparkle (like the Twinking H20's) BUT now in pigments for all mix media.  Simply mix with Primary Elements All-Purpose (Clear Glaze) Medium with your Artist pigments and enjoy painting in all your favorite surfaces! Also, you can blend combinations of Artist Pigments with water and a bit of Bind & Resist Medium for use on paper and cardstock.  Enjoy!

 

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Wisdom Circles by Dion Dior

                                                               Done with Twinkling H20's and Silks.

This month was always going to be a crazy one for me.  Two of my classes are running in Feb, as well as deadlines for other projects.  I love it!!  I've been enjoying teaching my "Mastering Twinks" class through Joggles.com immensely.  The participants are amazing and I'm blown away with their work.

In the meantime, I've been burning the midnight oil in preparation for my contribution to "21 Secrets".  This beautiful program is being hosted by Dirty Footprints Studio and offers 21 amazing workshop.  My little piece in this class is called "Wisdom Circles".  It's a workshop that uses myth and legend to infuse the art of making mandalas.  I've just finished this short little video to give you a taste of what to expect.

Wisdom Circles from Dion Dior on

21 Secrets begins on April 1st.  Click here for more information.

Wisdom Circles from Dion Dior on Vimeo.

 

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Twinkling H20's and Silks demo by Marah Johnson

Today, I wanted to share this video from CHA 2012 with Marah Johnson demoing our Twinkling H20's and Silks. The Nostalgia Die Cuts that Marah is painting on will be available in March. Enjoy

Scrap Time - Marah Johnson - Creative Imaginations from Mark Giles on Vimeo.

 

 

Sheena Douglass Luminarte Part 2

Today, I wanted to share the rest of the videos from artist Sheena Douglass. We created the backgrounds in the Luminarte 1 and now we are creating the dragonfly or butterfly (aka toppers) for the background papers.  In the videos Sheena offers a lot of great advice on caring for your Existencils from Creative Imaginations. She also shows some different applications for applying the Radiant Rains to your next project.

To learn more about Sheena visit  Sheena29's Channel on You Tube or follow her Sheena blog to stay on top of where and what creative things she will be doing next.

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More techniques with the Twinks and Silks. Resist background papers by Marah

 

 

I spent my morning working with Luminarte Silks and Twinkling H2O's   again....these products work so well together....like PB&J, cookies and milk, ham and cheese....you get the picture. I made a couple of new videos, the first was a step 2 of sorts to yesterdays video about using the Silks as a way to create resist. 

The second video is about painting with Silks on Fabric, its just a quickie...super basic just to get a couple of points across.

 

hope these get you a bit inspired...ready to try some new things and as always....be creative in all you do!

I am sure I will post again soon-Marah

To see more of Marah Johnsons visit her blog at Randomly Speaking or her Etsy page at 4 Johnson Girls. The paint brushes and, stencil that Marah used were from Creative Imaginaions.

 

Thanks for stopping :)

Twinks meet Silks with Artist Marah Johnson

 

A first of many "Silks" Video for you. I am so enamored by this product! its like puppy love, love at first sight....twitterpation at its finest.

of course no post would be complete without a few samples.... and ATC using the technique from the video.

a couple more samples from the video....

You can order Twinkling H20's and Stencils from Creative Imaginations.

You can order silks here.... (my inner enabler is coming out!)

I am off to play a bit more...perhaps another artist trading card or two.-Marah Johnson

Don't Miss Your Chance to WIN!  

Create an Artist Trading Card using Luminarte™ Paints as one of your materials and mail it to the Creative Imaginations Headquarters. Your ATC becomes your raffle ticket to win AWESOME Luminarte Paints and other Luminarte Friendly products. The more you create, the better chances to win. We will pull 3 winners each in November and December 2011. Send your art in early for more chances to win.  All entries will be considered at the time of the raffle.

BECOME PART OF OUR TRAVELING GALLERY

All submissions will be featured in the Creative Imaginations booth at The Craft and Hobby Association Show CHA. They also will be on loan to various retailers across the country. Submissions may also be  
    by Sonia Mara Adame       featured on our  Luminarte
                                           Blog or in Luminarte ads and
                                           promotions. 

RULES:

• Create a 2.5”x3.5” art card using Luminarte Paint.

• Optional: Include Paint It! Papers, BE Foil Kits or other Creative Imaginations product. (this will not increase your chances to win, but may increase exposure of your card in other marketing promotions)

• Label the back of the card with 
         Name
         Email address
         City
         State
         Country (if outside the US)
         Luminarte product used including colors

• All cards submitted become the property of Creative Imaginations, LLC.

Mail Cards to:

CreativeImaginations
c/o Luminarte ATCs
17832 Gothard St
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

 
Last raffle drawing will be December 15, 2011.

Happy Painting! :)



by Sonia Mara Adame