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I love to create these beautiful home decor canvases. They make such a great personal gift that will be treasured for years.

I used my favorite @Perfect Paints and beautiful fabric and papers from @Canvas Corp to create this unique piece. Here's how I did it!

First, I painted the inside of the canvas using Perfect Paints Shimmering Matte Acrylic Bright Gold and Red Wagon. When dry, I mixed a little Bright Gold into Pearl Plaster and stenciled. If your stencil doesn't fit the piece, let dry and continue in sections. I just love the effect - it really looks like flocked paper.

Next cut out imagines from Canvas Corp Farmhouse Christmas fabric and papers. I love the the fact that this line is black and white so I was able to customize my embellishments . I used Perfect Paints Shimmering Matte Acrylics Bright Gold, Red Wagon, Moss Green, Vintage Mercury, Shadow, Aged Copper and Halo.

Lastly, place your embellishments and picture in desired locations and glue.

Super easy and Fun !!!!

To purchase these beautiful paints :

http://www.perfectpaints.net/

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Perfect Paints

I'm so excited to announce that I recently joined the Perfect Paint Design Team and I couldn't be more happy  about it. I just love working with their rich, creamy, shimmery paints and plasters. The variety of colors just inspire me to create !! I can't seem to use enough of the bright gold. It is beautiful on everything! I need gallons of it! I hope to inspire you with creative projects that you be able to recreate yet add your own spin to your masterpieces.

  Perfect Paint is a new local company created by the amazingly talented artist Cherly Mezzetti.

Pleas check out her website for so many wonderful projects- you will be truly inspired.

Best yet you can order directly from her website.

http://www.perfectpaints.net/

Here is a fun fall project to get you started - 

First I used Tim Holtz tattered leaves die to cut out a bunch of leaves. I than painted them using Perfect Paints shimmering matte acrylics Cantaloupe, Cajan Pumpkin, Aged Cooper, Red Wagon and Bright Gold - love these names - .

I wrapped a straw wreath with burlap and glued my leaves in place - add a bow and hang up.

I hung mine in my dining room, I just love how it shimmers !!!!

Imagine Crafts and Lawn Fawn

This week IMAGINE Crafts is proud to feature the fun and amazing stamps from Lawn Fawn! Our Artists In Residence are here all week to inspire you with their amazing projects using IMAGINE Crafts' products along with rubber stamps from Lawn Fawn. Be sure to visit both company's blogs daily for ideas, tips and techniques from our design teams.

I love these whimsical stamps by Lawn Fawn. These cute little critters inspired me to create a 3-D scene, so I decided a Faux Shadow Box would be just perfect. So fun !!!

Please check out http://imaginecraftsblog.com for more inspiration and full tutorial on making this card.

Halloween Mixed Media Book

I love to decorate for Halloween and make all kinds of spooky decorations . So today I just want to share this Halloween book I designed for a mixed media class. I created it using pattern papers from different manufacturer  paper lines, Which included Authentic, My Mind Eyes, Thersa Collins and Echo Park . Once I choose the background papers for the book it was so much fun to decorate with stamps and die cuts .

Because I am paper horder, I do have a few kits available for sale  - leave me a comment if your interested . Hope you enjoy !!

Hazel & Ruby

This week IMAGINE Crafts is proud to feature the products from Hazel & Ruby. Our Artists In Residence are here all week to inspire you with their amazing projects using IMAGINE Crafts' products along with a selection of stencils, paper and embellishments from Hazel & Ruby.

Wow, Hazel @ Ruby have some really great products. I loved working with the Boutique Alpha Mask Stencil and when combined with  all the beautiful colors from Imagine Craft Inks your  projects will be masterpieces. So today I created a cute little canvas of my grand daughter, hope you enjoy my project.

1. First adhere tissue paper to canvas using Creative Medium.

2. Next pick your saying and stick the letter mask to your canvas.

3. Using sponge daubers ink till your happy with the results.

4. Peel your letters off, I outlined mine and colored them in with a sponge dauber.

5. Make tissue flowers, just punch out about six scallops per flower. Stack the layers and put a brad in the center and fluff up.

6. I cut a mat for my photo and decorated it with sequins. Add a fun little bling !

7. Punch out some hearts from the tissue paper, I added IrRESTible to the dots for a little dimension.

8. Attach your pieces to the canvas and you have a beautiful piece of art.

9. Sprinkle a few sequins for interest .

Supplies: 

Imagine Crafts

Versa Magic- Keylime, Pixie Pink, Pink Grapefruit ,Sea Breeze, Mango Madness 

Memento- Bahamas Blue, Rosebud

IrRESTible - Wedding Dress

CreativeMedium , Sponge Daubers

Hazel & Ruby

Boutique Alpha Numbers Stencil Mask

Green with Envy - the Markery Sequins

Pass the Tissue - crafting tissue paper

Other supplies

8x10 canvas, punches, brads

The quality of this tissue paper is fantastic, I had plenty left over - so I decided to decorate a pumpkin. I inked the tissue paper with Memento Pumpkin. Tear into strips and covered one of those ugly plastic pumpkins you find at the dollar store.

Hope you enjoyed - as always thank you for your support and comments .

Nancy

Imagine Crafts, Authentique and May Arts Blog Hop

, Welcome to a crafting extravaganza all week featuring myself and other Artists In Residence from IMAGINE Crafts, along with the Design Team Members of Authentique Paper and May Arts Ribbon.    

I'm so happy to be blog hopping with one of my favorite paper companies Authentique, and too pair it up with the beautiful ribbons from May Arts. Of course the cherry on top was using the awesome shimmer sprays and inks from Imagine Crafts. So I couldn't stop at just one project, so today I made a cute little book and two cards.

Let's get started-

1. First I choice my paper and ink colors to match. I than die cut the paper and put chipboard between the pages, adhere it with Creative Medium. I love using Creative Medium because it holds so well and it never leaves a residue. I than inked the edges of the pages and sprayed with Fireworks and Goosebumps. 

2. I picked what paper would be the cover, layed out my design. Added some flowers, which I inked and sprayed to match.

3. Needed a few more touches!

4. For the inside of the book, I sprayed the pages and inked the edges. Picked out the photos, added some fun stickers and diecuts from the matching embellishment sets. Made some bows and had fun decorating the pages.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Back Cover

Loved how the colors just flowed together in this book.

The supplies I used : 

 Imagine Crafts/ TSUKINEKO 

VersaColor- vc5-03 Limone, Creative Medium,

Fireworks- Dandelion, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Lilac Posies, Grape Jelly,

Goosebumps and Sponge Daubers.

AUTHENTIQUE 

Radiant - paper line, components paper die cuts, Details cardstock stickers and

Petite diction - mini word stickers 

May Arts 

Ribbon

Other Supplies

Die cut for making book, Prima plain flowers, pop dots, rhinestones 

Easel Card

You can close it a little more to hid the message

Supplies Used 

Imagine Crafts

Delicata Golden Glitz, Brilliance Pearlscent Olive, Fireworks Tuxedo Black

AUTHENTIQUE -- Harmony Collection, Life Cards

May Arts

Ribbon

Supplies used :

Imagine Crafts/ TSUKINEKO 

Versa mark Seabreeze, Shimmer Frost, Brilliance Thyme, Versa Magic Niagara Mist,

Fireworks Bamboo Leaves

AUTHENTIQUE -  Harmony Collection- Life Cards

May Arts - ribbon

Other supplies:

Penny Black - leave die, rolled flower die and doily 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my projects today,

As always I really appreciate your comments and support.

 

        Thank you 

          Nancy

  

   
 

Here are today’s other featured Artists In Residence projects:

Baerbel Born

Maureen Cronin

Nancy Hawes

There' more inspiration to be found on the Authentique Paper and May Arts blogs! Simply visit these blogs to view the projects created by those company's design teams and to view the other prizes available.

 

Prizes galore for participating in the Blog Hop this week!

All three participating companies in this week's Blog Hop will all be giving away 3 prize packages for leaving comments on the featured blog posts. Each day will we feature projects created by the artists from IMAGINE Crafts, Authentique Paper and May Arts. Simply visit their blogs and leave a comment on each post by midnight PST September 27th. We ‘ll randomly select three different blogs from the seven days, then randomly draw one commenter from each blog as the winner.

Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found,” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog’s name), and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.

Imagine Crafts and Magenta Blog Hop

B Welcome to a week of fantastic collaboration between IMAGINE Crafts and Magenta Rubber Stamps! Both companies are excited to share with you their products, from the latest inks from IMAGINE Crafts to the newest Fall and Holiday stamp releases from Magenta.       

Welcome to my blog , I really enjoyed making this winter scene , even though I don't want to see summer end.

      To start here our the supplies you will need:

Imagine Crafts/ TSUKINEKO 

Encore Ultimate Metallic Green and Blue, Vertigo, Creative Medium- clear, Delicata Golen Glitz, 

VersaMagic Pumpkin Spice, IrResistible Pico Embellisher- wedding dress and sponge daubers.

Magenta

Deers and Reindeers stencil- TM50

Merry Christmas Stamp - C07885-F

Stampendous 

Shaved Ice

Other supplies

Card base and a piece of DP 5x7, black card stock 6 1/2x 4 1/2, vellum and a piece of white card stock 6 1/4 x 4 1/4.

Snowflake punch, embossing folder, snowdrift diecut and scrap book paper.

First, ink your white piece of card stock with Encore blue using a sponge dauber.

2. Die cut your Vertigo.

3. Ink your book paper with Encore green , cut out three triangles ( for trees ) and run the through an embossing folder and ink again.

4. Next ink your piece of DP with Encore green using a sponge dauber.

5. Now stencil your  reindeer on the vellum using Pumpkin Spice and highlight with Golden Glitz. 

I love the effect of the vellum , it gives it a foggy, misty look !!! 

6. I made a greeting for the inside of the card .

7. Attach your layers as shown in picture, together using Creative Medium.

8. Using Creative Medium glue and a toothpick add some Shaved Ice to the Vertigo.

9. Add some snow drops to your scene with Pico 

10. Punch two snowflakes out of vellum.

 

I added these taps to the top to hide the glue on the vellum. 

Prizes galore for participating in the Blog Hop this week!

IMAGINE Crafts and Magenta are offering a total of three different prizes this week as part of this Blog Hop. These prizes include IMAGINE Crafts' irRESISTible Texture Spray, irRESISTible Pico Embellisher, Delicata Shimmery Silver and Golden Glitz AND some of the newest releases from Magenta. Take a moment to visit the other featured artists' blogs listed below and leave a comment on their posts by midnight PST September 21st. Three winners will be randomly selected from three different blogs from the seven days of the Hop, with one commenter from each blog draw as the winner.  

 

Presenting the other featured projects for today:

Darsie Bruno

 

Savannah O’Gwynn

 
 

Jolande van Oosterhout

 

Dianne Johnson

 

Edith Racine

 

Blog Hop Hint – if you click on a link that takes you to a page saying something like, “Sorry this page cannot be found,” just click on the header at the top of the blog (usually a picture, or the blog’s name), and it will take you to that blog’s most recent post. That post *should* be our hop. If not, you can probably scroll down a short way to find the hop post.