Using CI Paints to Create Background Paper

Monday I shared a card I created with CI Paints on their blog and am sharing here with you today!

I just LOVE these paints, they are amazing!

I decided I was going to use the paints to create my own paper!  I used "Garnet" and "Blush" to create a background paper with my brayer.

I used glossy photo paper and first put the paints on a scrap piece and added a good amount of water to each color to help it smear a little better and to also help keep the paint wet longer (the paint was almost like soup), as the paint does dry pretty quickly.


Then I ran a brayer though it a few times and then ran the brayer across my good sheet of photo paper!

Oh does it shimmer!! :) Yummy!

I used "Winter Frost" to cover the hearts!  My the picture it is kind of hard to tell, but I made the winter frost have a tint of pink in it.  I had my cup of water next to me with my paint brush in and the water was reddish/pink from using the brush to put the paint on the scrap piece of paper.  So I took some of the water and mixed it with some winter frost to give it a tint of pink! 

Finished card:

I embossed the photo paper to give it a little texture as well. Pretty simple card, but I didn't want to take away from the shimmery background!!

Hope you like what I created! Have a nice day!

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