Tuesday Color Spotlight: Pink Highlights

Good morning! This week I'm going to take a look at the color Pink Highlights! This paint is another clear iridescent, like "Fairy Dust" (which was last week's Color Spotlight), but this one has pink highlights!

You could use this paint to alter just about anything you want to give some clear shimmer to with a tint of pink! It would be adorable on baby girl cards, which is on my list of things to do! But I was in a flower mood this week.

I created these two cards. I got these lovely flower stamps from my friend Shawn and hadn't used them yet, so I thought it was about time I did!A close-up....The paint along with the ink color almost made the paint look like it had a hint of purple in it!
Another card:
You can see the pink highlights in this close-up shot:

Remember to check out the blog hop going on right now for a chance to win an amazing prize!! The chance to enter ends tomorrow night! Also make sure to order you LIMITED EDITION paints before they are gone!


Have a wonderful day!


Kendra

When I See Your Face

When I see your face, I can't help but to smile!!

Another quick layout I made the other day for Sawyer's album! I just love these pictures. Very simple layout as I didn't want to take away from the photos! Have a wonderful day!

CI Paints 1 Year Anniversary Blog Hop

We're celebrating the one year anniversary of Creative Inspirations Paints with a fun blog hop!

You should have arrived here from Clare's beautiful blog. If you didn't please start at the CI Paints blog. Molly at CI Paints is giving away a wonderful aniversary prize, so you don't want to miss out! On each one of the design team members blog you'll recieve a letter, which will spell out the clue you'll need to enter to win the prize!

The LIMITED EDITION colors are: Ivory, Beige, Denium and Burgundy. Below is a picture of all the colors.

Aren't they amazing? I just love the shimmer of these paints! Make sure to order yours before the are no longer available! They'll be available until December 31st!

Well I created 2 different projects for this blog hop. The first one is a layout of my little guy! He loves taking walks and going to the park!Since the background piece is shimmery, I had a really hard time taking a close-up shot of the layout. I used Ivory to cover the letters Park, Beige to use on the edges of the story, Burgundy was used on the work the. I also used Ivory and Beige to alter the stickers. I have a TON of stickers from years ago when I first started scrapping, before the Cricut was around, so I no longer use them at all! So I thought I better start doing something with them or give them to Sawyer or toss! So to added a little spice to them and added some shimmer!!

Next is a quick wedding card I made for the wedding we had to go to yesterday. I used Denium on the man's bowtie, Beige on their hair, Ivory on her dress and Burgundy on the flowers. I just love these LIMITED EDITION colors!

I suppose I should give out my letter, as I am sure you are waiting for it! :) Thanks for stopping by my site, I hope you enjoyed! The letter you are looking for from my is:

R

Now onto Lisa's great site!

Remember to order these special colors before they're gone! If you buy all four you get a discount!! Have a wonderful Sunday! Happy blogging!!

Cherish These Moments

A quick layout I made last night! Both the kids were in bed early, that NEVER happens, so I made sure to take advantage of the free time, although I wasn't feeling the greatest.

I used Cricut carts Calligraphy and Storybook on this layout.I just love these first pictures that were taken of the two of them!

Party Time: Bags

Another fabulous challenge at the CI Paints blog this week!! This week's challenge was "Party Time: Gift Wrap....Bags....Boxes....", once again another thing I have to admit I never did. So this was another fun challenge.

Make sure to check the blog out to see the other wonderful creations!

I went shopping the other day and bought a few gift bags that I thought it would be fun to alter. I had a lot of fun last week making the party favors, so I made a bag to go along with them, but as I was finishing up, I decided instead of using the bag for Ava, I was going to put her little girlfriend's name on it, "Emma". As she will be turing 1 in November, so we'll put her gift in it!

A close-up picture of the crown. I cut the crown from "Sweet Treats". I just love that cart! Look at the shimmer!! I used CI Paints Sky Blue, Mint and Bright Yellow.

If you haven't already check the Creative Inspirations Paints Website out, you really should. There are so many wonderful colors to choose from. I gave one of my paints to a friend and she just e-mailed me the other day telling me she's ADDICTED! She had to order a few more paints for herself!! :)

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Catch of the Day!

Back around Father's Day we recieved this fish image from Faith at Designed 2 Delight and I just haven't had a chance to use it until today! My Grandpa loves fishing, so I thought this image would be perfect to use on his birthday card!

I used CI Paints Blue Ice, Green Olive, Sage, Emerald and Autumn Wheat.

Have a beautiful day!

Tuesday Color Spotlight: Fairy Dust

Welcome to Tuesday's Color Spotlight!

Today I'm going to look at one of my favorite CI Paints....Fairy Dust!! I go through this one a lot! I love it!

Fairy Dust is a clear iridescent that can be used to add shimmer to just about anything, while leaving the original paper, brad, ink, etc. the original color.

I really like how you can use Fairy Dust to add shimmer to designed paper. No more having to buy expensive shimmery designed paper when you can use what you already have at home and just use the paint to add shimmer anywhere you'd like. (Not saying it's not fun to buy new paper....but if you'd ask my husband he'd say I killed millions of trees with all the paper I own and he likes to tell people if our house would start on fire my craft room would be the first to burn with all the paper!)

Another photo of using Fairy Dust to add shimmer to a few of the circles.

This is a piece of paper I used on one of my last projects. I thought Sky Blue was a great match to the color in the center of the flowers (bottom circle), but this is just to show how Fairy Dust adds a shear shimmer rather than shimmer and color. The top two circles I just used Fairy Dust.

Who doesn't like shimmery paper?!?! I sure do! I really like that you can use Fairy Dust to add shimmer to whatever sheet of paper you'd like! Once again no more having to pay more for paper already with shimmer! You can just use your CI Paints! These paints have so many great uses!!

Here is the card I created for this week:

One last great thing about Fairy Dust is you can color your image in and use the paint to add shimmer to the areas you'd like while keeping the original color. Same goes along with using inks. Sometimes I like to ink the edges of my paper and then brush on Fairy dust to also add some shimmer.

Fairy Dust is a must have! Check the paints out on the website!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

"Teddy" from Designed 2 Delight

Last week was the first week of the month, so make sure to catch Faith's free image at Dsigned 2 Delight! If you share your project you create with this week's free digital image "Teddy" you'll recieve the following image free! Trust me...you don't want to miss out! Her images are adorable!

This week's challenge at Double Delight Challenges is a sketch, using Faith's image. Can you believe this is their 6th Challenge already! Where does the time go when you are having fun crafting!!?? :)

Sketch:

So here is my card:
I thought it would be fun to use this image for a baby shower card. My best friend is expecting her first baby this fall (I am so excited!!) so I thought it would be good to get her card made for her baby shower, which is only two weeks away. No waiting till the last minute! (I'm so proud of myself!)

Challenges:

Dsigned 2 Delight: Image

Double Delight Challenges: Sketch

Charisma Cardz Challenges: Teddy Bears

Party Time: Party Favors

Although I'm on Team B for CI Paints and really don't need to post until next week, I thought it would be fun to play along this week as it sounded like a fun challenge! This is something I have never done before, their challenge this week is "Party Time: Party Favors"!

CI Paints is celebrating it's 1 year Anniversary this month! How exciting! Congrats Molly! These paints are truely amazing! Mark your calendars August 15th will be our first CI Paints blog hop!!

Check the blog out to see all the creative projects!

I know I'm a little ahead of myself, but it's the only party coming up that I could think of, as I thought it would be fun to actually use what I create. I can't believe my little girl is going to be 1 in January! It feels like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant with her. I wish I could freeze time, both her and her brother are so much fun at their ages right now! I don't want them to grow up!! (keep dreaming...right?!?)

Here are the cute little party favors I've been creating this past week! I think they turned out so cute! Just perfect for a little girl's party! Not sure what I am going to put in them yet, but I think I have some time to think about that!

I first cut the favors from my Cricut at 3", using "Sweet Treats", which I just recently got as I thought it would be a fun cart to use the treats on cards and lo's for the kids. Looking through the book I got so excited when I found this crown favor!!

Then I gathered some items I thought would be fun to alter the crowns with. I then began "playing" to see what I thought looked the best.

Each crown is unique in it's own way. A few of them I just added embelishments to and painted with CI Paints.

Others I put "happy birthday" on one side, which was painted with CI Paints and "Ava" on the other side which was also painted with the paints.

Close-up picture's of the writing. I used the Sweet Treats cart for the "happy birthday" and for "Ava" I used the Songbird cart.

For these favors I used CI Paints: Pink Highlights, Sunshine and Plum

As you probably have guessed by now her 1st birthday party is going to be themed "Princess"! I think all little girls should have a princess party sometime! :)

I am also super excited, as I have a friend from High School that hopefully will be making a castle cake for her b-day. Here is a picture of a sand castle birthday cake she made for another little girl's party.

Isn't she talented as well?

I hope you enjoyed my birthday favors I made for my little princess! I had so much fun making these!! Thanks Kassi for another fun challenge! Have a wonderful day!

Christmas in July!

Well, actually, a few days late! We recieved this adorable "Heartfelt Wishes" digi stamp from Faith at Designed 2 Delight to celebrate Christmas in July! Not only is Christmas one of my favorite holidays, but I LOVE snowmen!! Isn't he cute?

Recieving this digi got me so excited for Christmas! It also got me thinking...I better start thinking about making Christmas cards, rather then waiting till last minute!

I used CI Paint Winter Frost to and some beautiful shimmer to the snowman and Fairy Dust to add shimmer to the heart!

I used Sky Blue to add shimmer to the snowflake which I cut out from my Graphically Speaking cart! And then add a gem to the middle! This weeks Double Delight Challenge was to make your own embelishment.

CI Paints and Marbles

Who thought CI Paints and marbles couldn't go together!?!?!?!?

Well I was sitting around my craft area last night thinking what I could do for today to be creative and I saw my lonely little marbles sitting on my craft shelf wanting some attention.

A year or so ago I had see a tutorial on using marbles to make a pattern on your paper you use.

So I thought it would be fun to try the technique with the CI Paints!

I used an empty SU Stamp set container as it works really well. I first took some clear small pop-dots and put them on the back side of the paper to keep the paper in place in the container

I then used a paint brush dipped in the color of your choice, in this case I used Green Olive, and painted the bottom of the container.

Then you can pick up the container and shack it! Do a little dance, whatever you'd like! :) The marbles roll in the paint and over the paper to add an interesting texture to the background!

Here is a picture of what the paper looked like when I was done.

I decided to do the process over, this time using Evergreen.

Just look at the paper! Isn't it pretty?!?! I just LOVE the shimmer!

Here is a picture of the actual piece I used.

I used a toothpick to get into the smaller areas of the image, where a paint brush was a little too big.

My finished card:

I think it's a great card for just about any male that likes a nice cold beer!

A close-up! Shimmer-ific!

I like using CI Paints for this technique, almost better then just plain ink, as it give the paper such a nice shimmer!

I used CI Paints: Green Olive, Blue Ice, Citrus

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Aloha

A quick card I made the other day with a Great Impressions Stamps I recieved as a special gift.

I just love these flamingo's!

Details:

Card Size: 5" x 7"

Paper: Purple Cardstock in two different shades (Paper Company), Misc. patterned paper from Hobby Lobby

Ink: Staz-On Black, versaMagic Purple Hydrangea

Stamps: Water Swirl #H200 (Great Impressions), Flamingos in Flip Flops #G372 (Great Impressions)

Prang Colored Pencils: Purple, Gray Blue, Mustard Yellow, Yellow Orange, Tan, Magenta, Pink, Orange, Light Green, Red

Misc.: Spare Parts Paper Flower (the Paper Studio), Purple Ribbon (The Robert Stanley Collection), Fairy Dust Paint (Creative Inspirations Paints), Purple and Clear Gems (me & ,y Big ideas), "Aloha!" computer generated, Pop-Dots