Splash of Color Blog

Funky Cheetah Gift Bags and Mini Basketball Albums for Basketball Party

 Shelley, here, with a some cute basketball items, using Splash of Color's awesome products!

 These are the gift bags that I used for the mini albums I made for my little girl's basketball team!

 I painted white gift bags with Sky Blue Silks Acrylic Glaze and African Jade Silks Acrylic Glaze, leaving some white spaces for where the spots would go later.  I then cut a large heart out of random black and/or grey basketball paper, and glued it in the middle of the sack.

I painted the spots with Key Lime Silks Acrylic Glaze.  After these completely dried, I used Black Ice Silks Acrylic Glaze around the spots.

 I then punched out a tag out of aqua cardstock, stamped a basketball on it and painted the basketball with Kiwi Luminarte Twinling H20.  I then finished it off with a few curly ribbons on the tag and on the handle of the bag! 

Here are the books I made for the girls that went in the bags!  I put around 10 pictures in each one of the albums!

Here is a close-up of the front of the album!

Here is the back of the album!

 

Here is Team SWISH after winning the Championship!! 

Here are the bags, sitting with the Championship trophy at the end-of-the season party!   We were proud of our girls!

Here is my little baller with her goodie bag!!

 

Thanks for looking!  I hope you enjoyed it!

~ Shelley

 

Splash of Color Products

 Sky Blue ~ Silks Acrylic Glaze 1 oz. jar

Key Lime ~ Silks Acrylic Glaze 1 oz. jar

Black Ice ~ Silks Acrylic Glaze 1 oz. jar

Kiwi ~ Luminarte Twinkling H20s Grande 10 gram

 

Fall Football by Shelley Hamilton

Shelley, here, with a fun football poster!

My 11 year-old son plays football, and his team got to play a special game at the University of Texas at Arlington's stadium.  This was a real treat for the boys, and we made some posters to honor our team!!

This poster with the little football player on it was one of mine.  I had a terrible time trying to paint the posterboard with poster paint.  So, with no hesitation, I dug into my Splash of Color goodies, and found this awesome orange color to paint his jersey.  This paint is Ginger Peach Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist!  I poured it into  a cup, then painted away!  This beautiful color saturated the posterboard right away, with no problems at all.  The other mothers were very impressed at how sparkly and shiny the paint looked on the board!

My daughter, showing off the poster!  She actually made several posters, herself, and all of them had beautiful colors in them!

 Products

Ginger Peach Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist

Thanks for looking!  I hope you enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed sharing it with you!

~Shelley

 

Football Album by Shelley Hamilton

Shelley, here, with an album I made for my son's football pictures!

On this page, I embellished the middle of the paper with some cool Splash of Color rub-ons.  They come in several different sports, and I LOVE them!!

On the "tigers" title, I painted the chipboard black, then completely covered with Viva Colour Paint Pen in "Black Pearl".  It gave the word dimension and shine!

I used Silks Acrylic Glaze in "Black Ice" in several places on the album, including the edges.  This paint covers nicely, and this particular color has shiny metallic flakes in it for a beautiful pop! 

I used cut-outs from Splash of Color's End Zone paper on this page, and throughout the book.

I was happy with how this album turned out, and I am so glad you stopped to look!

Have a crafty weekend!!

~Shelley

 

 

Splash of Color Products Used

Viva Dimensional Pearl Paint Pen in "Black Pearl"

End Zone Double-Sided Paper

Touchdown Swatch Pack

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Black Ice

Canvas: Peace, Love, and Softball by Shelley Hamilton

Shelley here, with a canvas I painted for my daughter!

 

It's a painted canvas with a few of her softball pictures on it!  She's going to be anxious to hang this in her room!

 

I started with a 14"x18" canvas, and glued three photos down toward the bottom.  I then used black cardstock to fashion the film strip around them, and glued this down, also.

 

I then drew the peace sign, heart, and softball on the canvas, and painted the whole canvas, including the symbols and the background using Splash of Color's Silks Acrylic Glace and Splash of Color's Viva Colour Precious Metal Effect Paints.  For the background, I just made a few large paintstrokes with one color, let it dry, then did another color, etcetera, until I was happy with it.  You will get a more pronounced look if you wait for each color to thoroughly dry before putting the next color down.

 

Here is a side-view.  I went ahead and painted the sides of the canvas the same way as I did the background, as I do not plan on framing it.  Another technique I have used before is to glue buttons on the sides to dress it up a bit!

 

To make the cardstock look like a film strip, I used Splash of Color's Viva Colour Silver Metal Effect Paint on the edges.  To make the peace sign, heart, and softball show up well, I outlined them with Splash of Colors's Viva Colour Graphite Paper Pen.  This should be done toward the end of the project, as it will need to completely dry.   For the softball laces, I used Splash of Color's Viva Colour Red Gitter Pen.  On the heart, I used red glitter sparsely.

On the top portion of the canvas, I embellished with hot pink tulle and buttons that I stamped myself, along with a bit of twine.

Lastly, I wrote the words "Peace", "Love", and "Softball" on the respective items, using a fine tip black marker.  On the film strip, I used a thin white marker to write my daugher's name, team name, and when the picture was taken.

My little girl loved it, and I had fun making it for her, and sharing it with you!!!   I hope you enjoyed looking!  Have a great day!

Shelley Hamilton

 

Splash of Color Products Used

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Pink Azalea

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Color Berry

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Pink Grapefruit

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Carmen

Silks Acrylic Glaze in Sunburst

Viva Silver Precious Metal Effect Paint

Viva Purple Precious Metal Effect Paint

Viva Turquoise Precious Metal Effect Paint

Viva Red Glitter Pen

Viva Graphite Paper Pen

 

Other materials used

14"x18" canvas

Black cardstock

Thin white and black markers

Hot pink tulle

Hot pink buttons stamped with tiger stripe stamp in black ink

Pink and White twine

Adhesives/paintbrushes

Red glitter

 

 

 

Altered Basketball Box by Shelley Hamilton

Shelley, here, with an altered project that I made for winter CHA!

It's a wooden box that holds 4"x4" pictures, and it's on a swivel, so it turns!

 

I used Christine Adolph's ALL HOOPS Collection!  Isn't it cool?!

 

The box works like four picture frames.  You slide in the pictures from the inside of the box, and there is glass that covers each one.

I painted all edges of the box first with Viva Colour Precious Metal Effect Paint in Gold.  I then papered all of the sides and the top of the box with paper.

 

For the silver edges, I used a base coat, then Inka Gold Metallic Rub in Haematite on strips of paper, then glued these on the edges.  It looks like the edges are metal!

 

I installed a trophy topper on the top of the box, after I covered it in the base coat and the Inka Gold Metallic Rub in Haematite.  This topper started out as a shiny gold, and it is made out of plastic.  Using these products, it made it look like  pewter, and I really loved the look!

 

Here is a picture with the lid of the box removed.  For the lid, I made a couple of mini-magazines, and adhered them.

 

For the inside of the box, I made a tiny album as a bonus!  It just housed a few pictures, and was a fun addition to the box!

 

 

I used rub-ons and scrap paper and stickers to embellish the mini book.

 

I lined the inside of the box with felt, as to finish it out.

 

Lastly, I used some brown and white twine around the bottom and the top of the box!

I hope you've enjoyed looking at my project.  I've enjoyed sharing it with you!!

 

~  Shelley

 

Products Used:

All Hoops Paper

All Hoops Cardstock sticker

My Court Paper

Slam Dunk Paper

Viva Precious Metal Effect Paint in Gold

Viva Inka Gold Metallic Rub Base Coat in Smoky Blue

Viva Inka Gold Metallic Rub in Haematite

Basketball Rub-Ons

"Play Ball" ATC by Shelley Hamilton

Hi,  everybody!  Shelley, here, with a baseball ATC!

 

I started this ATC with a piece of paper from the Christine Adolf Extreme Sports All Baseball collection!  I stamped on it, then matted it on white.  I then stamped the image on white paper, and painted it with several beautiful colors of Silks, and glued it down.

I painted canvas flowers with Silks, attached them to the card with brads, then used baseball epoxy stickers on top of those.

The "Play Ball" sticker at the top is from the 5"x12" sticker sheet.

I hope you enjoyed seeing this fun, spring-themed baseball ATC!  Have a great day!!

~Shelley

Products Used:

All Baseball DS paper

All Baseball 5"x12" Sticker sheet

Baseball Clear Epoxy Stickers

Monarch Canvas Flowers

Sunflower Silks Acrylic Glaze

Bolivian Blue Silks Acrylic Glaze

Coral Berry Silks Acrylic Glaze

Ice Silks Acrylic Glaze

Sunburst Silks Acrylic Glaze

Snapdragon Silks Acrylic Glaze

NEW SPLASH OF COLOR, SPORTS EXTREME, FOOTBALL COLLECTION!!!

 Hey scrappers, Donna here, sharing Splash of Color's wonderful new Sports Extreme Football Collection!  

I've always been a sports fan, loving a few of the sports better than others,  and football has always been at the top of the list!  So, you know I was thrilled when I got to create with Splash of Color's new Football collection.   The papers are named ever so aptly for the sport - things like  end zone, kick off and all football.  The are lots of coordinating stickers too - end zone, touch down, game over, and big game.

Check this out..........

 

I new as soon as I saw the collection what I wated to do and that was to create a little something  brag book style, to show off my neohew,  who is a huge sports enthusiast - he plays pretty much everything,

I grabbed some old gift cards, some mod podge, chipboard, epoxy stickers and the wonderful new papers and created a mini album/key chain!  This was a really fun project, and easy to create, so if you have old gift cards (or credit cards) hanging around, give this a go! Simply apply mod podge to the cards, adhere your papers and stickers, and once those are dry, mod podge again over all.

 

 

I applied football rubons here and there, and of course, buttons.........

 

 

Check out the rubons on the canvas ribbon .....

 

and even 2" x 2" photos...

 

 

 

If you have a sports enthusiast in the house, especially one who loves football, you want want to miss this collection!

 

Products Used:

Splash of Color, Sports Extreme, Football 30326 Kickoff

Splash of Color, Sports Extreme, Football 30325 End Zone

Splash of Color, Sports Extreme, Football 30324 All Football

Splash of Color, Sports Extreme, Football 026927 Cardstock Stickers

Creative Imaginations Art Warehouse Football Epoxy Stickers

Creative Imaginaitons Art Warehouse Football Rubons 20311

 

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NEW Splash of Color Basketball collection

Hello there.  Splash of Color is releasing the most fabulous sports collection this CHA, and I am thrilled to work with the basketball collection called "Hoops". 

 

And here's my page I created with this collection:

 

Here is a fun page I did with this collection for my son who just started playing Varsity basketball last year.  As you can see from this shot of him hitting the backboard instead of the basket, he still has some learning to do.  LOL!!  I love the large titles in the sports collection and used it to spread across my page and cause movement.  The stickers in this collection make creating so easy.  I think you will love this Hoops collection for those basketball photos.

 

Splash of Color Hoops collection *instores and on our website Feb 2013*

 

NEW CHA release of Splash of Color's Football collection

It's that time again....time to release this cool Splash of Color football collection.  

We take so many sports photos so it is always refreshing when a fun sports collection comes out to aid us in scrapping our many photos.  This is a page I did for a friend of mine whose adorable little boy plays football:

I loved the grid-lines background paper and I thought that large football player was the perfect shape to cut out to add movement and interest to my page!  The football sticker border is extra cool too.  Each sports collection has lots of great journaling blocks that can be used for titles/journaling/etc.   You will not be disappointed with this collection

 

Splash of Color Football collection *instores and on website feb 2013*

Sneak peek of Splash of Color's New Soccer collection

I love soccer and Splash of Color's new soccer collection is pure fun.....down to the last sticker. 

 Check out this page I created for my son's last year of soccer:

I was able to use the great green grass paper for my background and designed this multi-photo page, using the cut-out Soccer word for my title and all the great journaling stickers for extra movement in my page.  If you are like me and have many soccer photos, this collection will definitely make scrapping them even more fun.

Splash of Color Soccer collection *instores and on our website Feb 2013*