CI Paints Birthday Hop

Good Morning Bloggers!

I am so excited to be celebrating 

Creative Inspirations Paint

3rd Anniversary with a

Birthday Hop!!!

You should have come here from

Barbara

 if not, please start at

 Creative Inspirations Blog 

as you don't want to miss out on all the fun!

For my project I used the sketch from

Mojo Monday

and came up with this birthday card!

Lots of texture and dimension with CI Paint bling and sparkle

All my favorite!!

I did some of my favorite techniques using my paints, 

coloring the satin ribbon and painting the chipboard pieces.

The one balloon looks pink but it actually is almost a perfect match to the paper!

These also happen to be some of my favorite color combos,

you already know I love pink and kraft together.

I love anything with kraft!!

Supplies Used:

CardStock~ Kraft, 

PTI~ Vintage Cream

Designer Paper~ Simple Stories~

Happy Day Paper Pad

Cut Files~ Scalloped Border~

Lori Whitlock

Embellishments~ Chipboard Pieces

Hemp Twine~

Liz's Paper Loft Boutique

Satin Ribbon~

painted with Autumn Wheat CI Paint

Extra's~ Creative Inspirations Paint~

Autumn Wheat, Denium, Chocolate, Rustic Red, Buttercup

Sewing Machine

Your next stop along out Birthday hop is 

Irit

Blog Candy!!

Creative Inspirations Paint will be giving away 10 paints to a random commenter,

 but to be eligible you need to leave comments on the 

CI blog and all DT member blogs!

Plus...

Don't Forget about our sale!

Perfect time to stock up on some paint!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a GREAT Friday!!

Here's a look at the entire hop list:

Creative Inspirations

Barbara

Jessica ~ ME~

Irit ~ NEXT~

Kassi

Kendra 

Sandie

Shanna

Creative Inspirations

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Entering this into the following Challenges:
Mojo Monday~ Square Sketch
The Kraft Journal~ Use a Sketch
Paper Playtime~ Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon~ Ribbon and Bling
My Crafting Channel~ SVG Saturday
PaperPlay Challenge~ Layer it Up
Crafty Ribbon Challenge~ Spots and Dots
DL.ART~ Happy Birthday Linky Party
Wags 'n Whiskers~ Birthday
Simply Create Too~ Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show~What Did you Say
Go Fish Challenge Blog~ Circle or Triangle

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #22~~ "Scrapping School Memories"

Good Morning Everyone!

It is time for another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!!

This weeks challenge is " Scrapping School Memories"~

Create a scrapbook LO with a school theme BUT it must include a chipboard element.

The Design Team was lucky enough to be given a few files from Regina over at The Cutting Cafe to work with. Thanks Regina!!

Regina is also our sponsor this week and the lucky winner will receive Any 3 Files from her store!

If you have yet to visit The Cutting Cafe you really need to hop over there. She has just about everything you could possibly want....cut files, PDF files, boxes, bags...well you get the idea!

Oh so my project for this challenge was made and then I added the pictures when my boys went to school yesterday for their first day.

It was great to have the LO completed and then know what pictures I had to take :)

Here is my completed LO....There are few items I create that I say "Wow, I really love this....this is one of them!! I love how this turned out!!

Here is the LO before I put pictures in and added the year with white chipboard numbers

I don't have very many chipboard pieces in my stash so I decided to make my own!

The bus numbers~which is actually my boys school bus is from numbers I picked up last year at Target.

They sure came in handy!!

The "Waiting for the Bus" is The Cutting Cafe~The School Years Printable Stamp Set

I printed and cut the stamp out then attached to a piece of inked chipboard and matted it on blue cardstock.

The same was done with "1st day of School"

You cant tell but it really gives great dimension!

Love the little boy~ He is from Paper Doll Dress Up and I used PKS~491 Everyday Character Faces

Again used the same technique and made my own chipboard pieces from the same set over at

The Cutting Cafe

The border is another set from The Cutting Cafe~School Day's Printable Set.

The extras added to this LO are:

Trendy Twine in Peppermint Twist

School Bus cut from Stretch Your Imagination at 3 1/2"

Yoyo Yellow ink from SU

White gel pen for extra doodles :)

Border punch from EK Sucess

Paper from DCWV~ The Grade School Stack

So I hope you like my LO and will join us this week over at Whimsical Wednesdays!!

Remember you have 2 weeks to link up for a chance to win 3 Files from The Cutting Cafe!

Can't wait to see what you all create and thanks for stopping by!!

Have a very crafty day :)

Im also entering this into the following Challenges:

Cooking w/Cricut~School Dayz

The Paper Variety~ Stamping

Amanda's Crafts and More: Getting Scrappy Challenge #16