Splash of Color Blog

Holiday Memories ATC!

Hey scrappers! Donna here, sharing  an  ATC for December!!   With Christmas soon upon us, I went with a festive ATC this month, created using pieces from the Antique ATC collection as well as a few  Holly Jolly die cut shapes.

To begin the ATC, I first misted the Antique Frames with Spanish Moss and then lightly painted the "Noel" tag with Nutmeg color concentrate.   Next, I adhered a few micro beads to the small piece of die cut holly and the "Noel" tag.

Once all of the above pieces were dry, I  layered the black dotted ATC base over a piece of green ribbon and then adhered that over the Antique ATC die cut frame,   I then adhered the Noel tag, using a smaller piece of die cut frame  adhered to its left.    To complete the ATC, I adhered the holly,  a piece of rick rack, stapled the"Holiday Memories" die cut at the top and lastly added a button, and a bow! 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Holidays!!!

 

29164 Antique ATC Die Cut Shapes

29150 Antique ATC Cards

30055 Holly Jolly Die Cut  CardstockShapes

29041 Luminarte Radiant Rain Mist, Spanish Moss

26438 Luminarte Radiant Rain Color Concentrate, Nutmeg

 

Mix it Up !!

Hey Scrappers, Donna here, and welcome to another session of  "Mix it Up"!  As I’ve been doing in the past, today I’ll again be mixing pieces of at least three (3) different Creative Imaginations’ product lines together and incorporating them into one  fantastic page, with simple directions included!

For today's layout, I’ve mixed papers and stickers from the Family Matters, Art Warehouse and Kid Doodle paper lines as well as using a Brights 6 x 6 paper pad and a few "Paint It" word stickers.

I'm thinking you may have lots of turkey feast pictures to get on paper........so here we go!  This is a fun one and you could easily adapt this layout to include even more paper designs or more pictures.  

 

Using a piece of kraft cardstock as the layout base, begin by spritzing with mist and set aside to dry.  

Next, cut a 1/2 “ strip from one of your patterned papers.  Position it with a border sticker at the left edge of the layout.  Adhere.  Layer additional sticker(s) (here "real life" sticker Family Matters)  over previous and adhere.

Crop photo using a circle punch.  Next, die cut several circles and circle outlines from various pieces of the different patterned papers. These can be created with various circle punches as well.   And, get those buttons out too, different sizes and colors will work.

 

 

Determine placement of photo (or photos), die cut circles, lace, buttons, and additional stickers at bottom half of  layout and adhere. Make sure to do a bit of lunder/over placement with all.   Stitch buttons.

 

Punch three (3) holes at bottom,  left edge of layout.  Run twills and/or ribbons through holes and knot.

Layout done and I hope to see you next month!

 

Products Used:

29524 Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Sour Lemon

28626 Art Warehouse Bright Mums DS Paper

28624 Art Warehouse Brights DS Paper

29466 Family Matters Children DS Paper

28654 Brights 6 x 6 Paper Pad

28853 Kid Doodle 12 x 12 Cardstock Stickers

29469 Family Matters 5 x 12 Cardstock Stickers

29155 Paint It Devotion 2.5 x 10 Words Stickers

Love You.....ATC

I created these little beauties with a very sad heart. 
They are to commerate the passing of my friend's father.
I made one for all the girls in the family!! 

I am a person who like litte momentos to remember occasions....
So, I thought I would create something beautiful 
to remember such a sad day!!

I began my creation with a piece Paint It paper.....
that I covered with various Luminarte ~ Twinkling H20's.
Then cut 3.5 x 2.5 to create my ATC backs.  

Using Tim Holtz ~ Mini Heart Set, I cut four of the larger heart 
from two pieces of Corrugated Kraft ATC's.

With the smaller heart, I cut 4 hearts from
one piece of Birch ATC. 

This is where the fun began!!
I mixed up a batch of Hot Cinnamon and Coral Berry ~ Primary Elements.
Making sure to have equal parts of Primary Elements and Bind and Resist
with a dash of water.
(if you don't use the Bind and Resist....
all the beautiful Mica will just fall off!!!)

I randomly painted Hot Cinnamon on the
corrugated heart and spritzed with water
for better coverage!

When dry I randomly painted on
Snap Dragon ~ Luminarte Silk Acrylic Glaze.

For the smaller heart, I painted on
Emperor's Gold ~ Luminarte Silk Acrylic Glaze,
when dry I painted on the Coral Berry.

To finish up my little grouping I used my Primary Element mixtures
to color the Color Me Crazy flowers.
The leaves were colored using
Spanish Moss ~ Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist
and Olive Vine ~ Luminarte Silk Acrylic Glaze.

On the back of each ATC I stamped my favorite saying......

"We do not remember days,
We remember moments"
Cesare Pavese 

Be sure to tell those that you hold dear to your heart....
that you LOVE THEM!!!

PRODUCTS USED:

ATC's
29169 Corrugated Kraft
29170 Brich

Luminarte ~ PRIMARY ELEMENTS
29531 ~ Dragon's Dance
(includes Hot Cinnamon, Coral Berry and Bind and Resist)

Luminarte ~ Radiant Rain SHIMMERING MIST
29041 Spanish Moss

Luminarte ~ SILK Acrylic Glaze
Olive Vine
Emperor's Gold
Snap Dragon

Misc Products:
Petaloo ~ Color Me Crazy flowers
Tim Holtz ~ Mini Hearts Set
May Arts ~ Twine and Silk Ribbon 

 

"Courage is Power" card for World Card Day!!

Shelley here with a card for World Card Day and Breast Cancer awareness month!

For my "Courage is Power" card, I began with several different papers from the 6"x6" paper pad from the "Beautiful You" collection by Christine Adolf.  This paper is absolutely gorgeous!  I used several different border punches on some of the edges of the papers, then assembled them on the card as shown.  I used the "Courage" cut out from the same paper pad, and matted it with the pink paper from the Dots and Stripes Warm 6"x6" paper pad.  I then pop-dotted it to the card, and placed a couple of pink flowers underneath.

 

Toward the bottom right-hand part of the card, I used a set of gates from the Life as Art Die Cut shapes.  I painted them with Silks Acrylic Glaze in Pink Grapefruit.  I used 2 small pieces of eye candy on the doors.

 

Under the doors is a pod from the Mixaparts system.  I started with a small circle cut out from the 6"x6" "Beautiful You" paper pad.  I painted it with Pink Azalea Twinkling H20.  I then used an overlay from the Shabby Chic prepack and a white resin piece from the Majesty Resin set.  I put a few glass beads in the pod, then glued it closed.  I used a 1" hole punch in the card, and glued the pod in from the back.  On the inside of the doors, I used some Oceanside Words and painted it with the Pink Azalea twinkling H20.

 

I was really pleased with the finished project!!  I enjoyed sharing this project with you! 

Have a great day!

Shelley Hamilton

 

 Products Used:

"Beautiful You" 6"x6" paper pad

Dots and Stripes Warm 6"x6" paper pad

Life as Art DC Shapes

SILKS Acrylic Glaze in Grapefruit

Twinkling H20 in Pink Azalea

Eye candy

Pods 3-pack #29617

Shabby Chic prepack #29613

Majesty Resin #29624

Paint It "Oceanside Words" Stickers

 

World Card Day!

Hi this is Cheryl and i am excited to share my painted card with you today! 

Nowadays we rarely send cards to each other through the mail.  I love cards, receiving them, sending them and creating them.  They are little pieces of our art that are meant to cheer up or encourage someone whether it be a birthday, anniversary or a simple "thinking of you" card. 

I designed this card using some scraps of our papers along with the swiss dot paper from Bazzill and an array of our beautiful Luminarte twinking h20's.  Here is how i designed it.

 

Product

• Samantha Walker Tea Party Floral plaid paper {gold side}
• Samantha Walker Tea Party Floral pancies paper 
• Bazill swiss dot paper {white}
• Petaloo small rose
• Christine Adolph Beach Blanket Paint it! varnish paper
• Luminarte Twinkling H20's Petite kit - Autumn Brillance
• scallop scissors
• Accucut dies:  Border scallop from Medium and small butterfly, Butterfly album, Scallop lace border 
  

Directions

1. I cut my card using Bazzill swiss dot cardstock into the standard size and folded it in half. 
2. Using my Accucut border dies I cut out a two butterflies {small and med} and two borders from our Paint it paper.
3. Paint the med butterfly and both borders using Luminarte Petite autumn brilliance paints - let dry. 
4. Cut the SW gold paper approx 4-1/4"x4" and adhere to top of card
5. Cut a strip using scallop scissors from paint it paper and swiss dot bazzill paper
6. Adhere the white scallop border along bottom of gold paper.
7. Cut a small strip approx 1/8"x6" and weave into the border lace scallop and trim ends
8. Add both strips that were painted as shown leaving room for the folded strip above scallop lace border.
9. Cut a 1/4"x12" strip from SW Tea party pansy paper and fold along long edge glueing under white scallop and trimming off excess.
10. Adhere small butterfly to med butterfly.
11. Paint small rose using Luminarte Autumn Brilliance paints - let dry
12. Adhere rose to center of butterfly and adhere butterfly to card.
13. Stamp or print out sentiment and mount to scrap piece of painted scallop paper.

Thank you for dropping by!

 

Two ATC's Today!!!!!!

Hey Scrappers,  Happy Monday, Donna here with a couple of ATC's to start off your week.  

Both cards this time around feature the spunky "Loolah" ATC pack, and I've also added in a few other little pieces from other lines.

On this first one, I first adhered two Gallivant die cut shapes to the base, then tied a piece of lace around the bottom.  Next, I  layered the card with the flower and butterfly stickers (first bend the butterfly in half and then adhere one side of it with foam adhesive for added dimension).  

I lastly painted azalea Twinkling H20 on the "beloved", adhered it, and my ATC was done.

Supplies Used:

Loolah ATC Pack

Beautiful You 5 x 12 Carstock Stickers

Gallivant Die Cut Shapes

Paint It with Luminarte, Devotion Word Stickers

Luminarte Twinkling H20's, Azalea

On this second ATC, I began by punching one corner of the pink ATC, and then adhered another, lighter ATC underneath it, leaving the lighter color showing through.  After layering several of the smaller "Loolah" die cuts on the left, I adhered them, then added buttons and stapled a piece of lace on the right.  The "friend" was created by painting the word with Kiwi Twinkling H20s and adhering two more "Loolah" die cuts.  

To finish, I lightly painted the crochet flower with Kiwi Twinkling H20, adhered it to the left, and outlined the card with a fine, black pen.

Supplies Used:

Loolah ATC Pack

Ragamuffins Crocheted Flowers

Paint It with Luminarte, Devotion Word Stickers

Luminarte Twinkling H20s, Petite, Kiwi

Have you made your Monday ATCs?

A Nautical Road Trip Mini Mini!

Hey Scrappers, Donna here, sharing a mini, mini book project I created using Samantha Walker’s Nautical collection. 

One of the many things I love about Creative Imaginations' collections are that they contain everything needed to create a project with, whether that be a layout, a mini album or an altered item  – the papers, the chipboard (the chipboard buttons look so real!!!), the stickers and the die cuts.  They all work together beautifully and often there is no need to add any other product but maybe some ribbons if you are in the mood!  And that is just what I've done with this project - my Nautical mini, mini book.

The book base is plain chipboard and measures about 4” x 2-1/2”.  I covered some of the pages with patterned papers and a few pages, completely with photos.  I used Twinkling H20’s to paint the inside back and front covers as well as the edges of the book. The rest of the book is created completely with items from the Nautical collection, each page a sampling of paper, bits of chipboard, die cuts and stickers,  all working together beautifully, one layer at a time!

 

 

 

Here, I cut a circle die cut in half and layered it over a sticker on the right.

 

 

I adhered the remaining half of the circle die cut to its back side.

 

 

More fun layering of chipboard flowers, buttons and a die cut star fish!

 

 

 Again, layering of die cuts and chipboard pieces.

 

 

 

 

I painted my cardtock stickers here with PoppyTwinkling H20.

 

 After binding all pages with two, small rings, I tied two pieces of ribbon through the rings and my mini, mini  was done!  

Trying creating with a complete Creative Imaginations collection!  You'll be glad you did!

 

Products Used: Samantha Walker's Nautical Collection

 By the Sea DS Paper

Ocean Waves DS Paper

At The Beach DS Paper

Sea Stripe DS Paper

Nautical 5 x 12 Chipboard

Nautical 12 x 12 Stickers

Nautical Die cut Shapes

Luminarte, Twinking H20's, Petite, Poppy

Basics Cardtock Stickers, Script.

The Beauty of Color....

In the BEAUTIFUL state of New Hampshire......the hills are becoming ALIVE with color. 
Every day......there is MORE and MORE COLOR!!

I become so inspired by this season, every year.
It never ceases to amaze me how one leaf can hold so much color.

Having said all that.....I created this wall hanging for my daughter
to share with her....the beauty of the year!
(she's in Texas)

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I pulled out an Ultimate Kit of twinkling H20'S ~ Ulitmate Romance.

I hydrated the following colors:

Poppy Red
Persimmon
Mango Mamba
Mustard Green
Autumn Butternut 
Sweet Alfalfa
Cedarwood

and let the coloring begin!!!

I cut Mini Tattered Leaves from
Hallow's Eve paper pad
Correspondence ~ Paint It paper
and a CI transparency....



I mixed the Twinkling H20's with gel medium as it won't
adhere to a transparency by itself....will flake right off (I know I tried!!)
I wish you could really see the beautiy of the transparent leaves.
I also colored the Paint It paper with the Twinkling H20's.
I spritzed the Hallow's Eve paper with
Egyptian Golden ~ Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist.

Did you notice the background???
I mixed the Twinkling H20's with Pearl ~ Modeling Cream
and used the Floral Stencil
SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

I finished off the wall hanging by painting the frame
with Emperor's Gold ~ Silk Acrylic Glaze
and "words".
The perfect accents to this wall hanging!!

 PRODUCTS USED:

ExiStencil
28379 ~ Floral Stencil

Luminarte Twinkling H20's
Ultimate Kit ~ 28410 ~ Ultimate Romance

Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist
26402 ~ Egyptian Gold
26389 ~ Sunburst
29041 ~ Spanish Moss
29042 ~ Sweet Whisper

Luminarte ~ Silk Acrylic Glaze
SLK-104 ~ Emperor's Gold

Paper
PaintIt ~ 29581 ~ Coorespondence
29901 ~ Hallow's Eve Paper Pad
14003 ~ Transparency

 

 

CI/Faber Castell Blog Hop by Shelley Hamilton

Hi, Shelley here with my CI/Faber Castell Blog Hop Project!

For my project, I made a "Summer Vacation Journal"!  Art Journals are very popular right now.  This journal isn't purely for art, as I decided to put some of our vacation pictures in it.  However, I was a bit more free with this album than I usually am.  I did a lot of artsy stuff, a lot more writing, and was as informal as I wanted to be.  It was a blast!  I plan to let each one of my kids do one, as well.  They love coloring, drawing, and pics of summer vacation!

 

 
I started with a plain journal, and piece of Bazaar Noir Chintz Foil Paper.

 

I knew that I wanted to use the new Faber-Castell Pastel Pencils in Blue/Green.

 

So, I began "coloring" the paper.  One cool thing about these new pastels is that they come in sharpened pencil form, so you have a lot of control, and can color with great detail.  Another nice thing is that they are easily sharpened.  I used a common hand-held sharpener as these became dull.

  The colors are amazing.  I chose to color-in most of my paper pretty darkly.

 

There were a couple of areas, however, where I colored in very lightly, then rubbed them with my finger to make the color pale and even.

 

After I had chosen the colors I was going to use, and had colored for a little while, I began to look for papers to coordinate with the front of my journal.  I found several pieces of Samantha Walker's "Tea Party" line that were perfect for what I wanted!  After I finished using the pastel pencils, I used a spray sealer to make the page permanent(no smearing of the colors).  Faber Castell also mentions the fact that you can use hair spray.

 

Another new product by Faber Castell are the Gelatos.  This particular set has blues and purples.  Beautiful!

 

Before adhering the colored paper to my journal, I used the Cotton Candy Gelato from this set, on the edges of the journal.  The Gelatos come in what looks like a chapstick container.  I just applied the Gelato directly on the journal edges.   After doing this, I got a paintbrush(this set comes with one) a little bit wet with water, and went over the already painted edges.  This helps smooth the color out.

 

To finish out the front of the album, I added small silk Eye Candy in several different places.  These Swarovski crystals make all the difference!

 

 

I used the Cotton Candy and Gold Metallic Gelatos on this page.

 

To get this effect, I rubbed the Gelatos on a wooden stamp--blue on the top, gold on the bottom.  I then put a little water on the paintbrush, and brushed the stamp with it.  Then, I stamped it on the page.  I repeated this process each time I stamped.  I enjoyed the process and the outcome!

 

On this page, I used a trimmed piece from the front/back of my album, and used it on the bottom of the page.  I used the Cotton Candy Gelato on a white paper flower, then blended it lightly with water and a paintbrush. 

 

After the flower had completely dried, I went back in and added steaks of the deep yellow pastel pencil.  The outcome was pretty, and I was assured that my flower would match the paper(Blue Pansies from Tea Party) that I had already picked out, as well as the cover of my album.  After doing this, I sprayed the flower with Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Luminarte in Pearl Lilac.  This gave it a nice shimmering look.  To further embellish this page, I made small dots on the paper with Viva Colour Brand by CI's Paint Pen in Sunny Yellow.

 

On this page, I used a kraft envelope that I edged with the dark blue pastel pencil and painted with the Cotton Candy Gelato.  I also used the Viva Colour by CI Paint Pen again.  The yellow flower sticker is from the Tea Party line.

 

On this page, I used the Gelatos to edge the banner pieces and the paper mat.

 

Here are some of the items I used the Cotton Candy Gelato on.  Remember that after you rub the Gelato directly on the object, that it is a good idea to use a paintbrush and a little water to spread the color about.

 

Before I glued the glitter on the letters for the banner, I first colored the letters with one of the pastel pencils.  I just wanted a bit of color under the glitter so the chipboard color wouldn't show through.  I also wanted to glitter right away, without letting anything dry, so I chose the pastel pencils instead of the gelato.  Otherwise, the the letters might have been a bit wet, and the liquid glue for the glitter wouldn't have stuck to the letter.

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my project!  I have enjoyed sharing it with you!!

 

Products Used:

CI Products:

Bazaar Noir Chintz Foil Paper

Tea Party Die Cut Shapes

Small silk Eye Candy(Swarovski crystals)

Blue Pansies paper from Tea Party line

Tea Party Sticker Sheet

Tea Blossom paper from Tea Party line

Label from Art as Life ATC Pack

Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Luminarte in Pearl Lilac 

Tea Service paper from Tea Party line

 

Faber-Castell Products:

Pastel Pencils in Blue/Green

Gelatos-Blue

Metallic Gelatos

 

Art Journaling with Faber Castell!!

I'm going to tell on myself here for a moment....
Up until a week ago, I've shied away from
Art Journaling.
a fear of the unknown....
a fear of the right and wrong
a fear of finding ANOTHER ADDICTION!!

Not exactly sure where to start,
so I pulled out a piece of Paint It ~ Bazaar Noir ~ Zanzibar paper.

(I am not a big doodler....
so why not let someone else do that work!) 

 

I used various colored Gelatos to color the background.
When all colored in I spritzed with water
and let the colors blend.

Trying to keep one dimensional,
I pulled out a CMC Flower from Petaloo.
Using Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils
I colored on the flower,
then spritzed with water.


 


 
Here is my second attempt at Art Journaling.
I do have to say....I didn't do so well
keeping this page flat....oooops!!!


 

I adhered a piece of Paint It! Define into my Art Journal.
Using three different blue Gelatos
I colored the page and spritzed with water.

The clouds were created using one of the stencils
from the Cherry Blossom Stencil Kit and
a bit of 

Using the Coconut Gelato, I colored inside the stenciled
cloud....then using a wet paintbursh
smoothed out the color.

The grass is a combo of Lime Gelato, May Green Pitt Big Brush Pen
and RainForest Twinking H20 from the Ulitmate Romance Kit.

 "seek the dream, embrace the journey, discover your destiny!"

Products used:

Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist 
26398 Autumn Leaf

Luminarte Radiant Rain Color Concentrate
26435 Olive Vine

Twinking H2o's
28410 Ulitmate Romance
Pearl Red & Sweet Alfalfa
Paint It ~ Words