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:
What makes Silks so special? It’s the secret mix of mica and other proprietary mineral particles that refract light, like a crystal. Silks are easy to use paints that create a semi-gloss glaze – not too shiny, not too flat, but just right. Simply brush Silks onto your project, using a wide brush for broad strokes or a fine brush for details. Or use a brayer if you want even wider swaths of color. Allow Silks to dry between colors to keep the glaze layers distinct and create depth, or blend the colors while still wet if you prefer that effect.
What surfaces are suitable for Silks? Silks are formulated for paper, wood, pre-washed fabrics, papier mache, acrylic and other plastics, canvas, gourds, silk and silk ribbon, terra cotta, paper-clay, air-dry clay, air-dry polymer, leather, faux leather, and more. They dry faster on paper and other porous surfaces, more slowly on non-porous materials. Thinner applications dry faster than heavier layers. Climate conditions are a factor as well. Silks are fully cured after 48 hours. 1 ounce wide mouth jar.
When you open the jar, you might notice a milky glaze. You’ll need to re-mix them to the the mica particles fully mixed in.
You can apply Silks with a paintbrush, stencil brush, or foam brush. Or you can pour in on and then brayer it around.
I made a little video so that you can see the swatches and the Silks in action!
Here are the photos of my swatches:
Swatches
Notice that if you layer when the Silks are wet, you'll blend the colors. Laying on a dry coat will give you a translucent layered effect.
This looks more dimensional than it really is- the translucency makes gives it that look.
Silks come in 35 luscious colors…and I heard a rumor that there will be a bonus color added at the end of this month! I kind of want them all.
Here are a few things I made with my Silks!
Playing in my journal
And here it is in my journal! I found that Silks have a pretty low water content, so it didn’t buckle my paper too badly.
I also made some ATC’s for a swap. I used the Silks to stamp the “2″ as well as the gold honeycomb effect.
So here’s the nitty-gritty. Silks retail for about $6.99 a pot, which is about an ounce. That makes Silks one of the pricier items of it’s kind. However, it is very high-quality and artist-grade. (And with most paints, you get what you pay for.) So I can totally justify having a few pots in my stash. (Note to family- YES, these WOULD make a nice Mother’s Day Gift!)
They might be a challenge to find, so ask for them wherever you shop for art/craft supplies. And it just so happens that Silks are available online through Susana’s Custom Art and Card Design (SCACD.) **Yes, they are also an advertiser here at CTD, but that is just a happy coincidence.**
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 ExiStencilsfrom 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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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. aa
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.
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 byMarti 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
Marti here, I took a quick detour from the papercrafting and mixed media to do some jewelry!
I was first inspired by the necklaces I saw one day at Kohls.
I made the pendants using UTEE and Luminarte Primary Elements in a bezel and adding some Gala Glitz too (vintage glass shards and microbeads).
I added a variety of other beads and charms along the chain. Fun and surprisingly easy! Here is a second one in black and silver.
I love it paired with the green and black.
There is a video below that has this charm in it along with other things you can do with UTEE - SCACD carries the bezels, UTEE and Primary Elements I used.
It turns out that making the little eyes on the top and some bottoms of the dang-lies is actually super easy! In fact I just might make some more stuff!
One tip - go pick out your beads, chain and additional charms FIRST and then decide on the colors for your Bezel. It is really tough to do the bezel first and THEN look for matching beads :P
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!
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.
Today, I wanted to share this video from CHA 2012 with Marah Johnson demoing ourTwinkling H20's and Silks. The Nostalgia Die Cuts that Marah is painting on will be available in March. Enjoy
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.
