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Monday, January 17, 2011

Playing With Acrylic Paint

Happy Monday everyone.

The latest challenge at Jingle Belles is 'use, practice, create... and jingle!' with acrylic paint. I haven't used acrylic paints on a card before, but I enjoyed playing. Here's what I came up with.


I only have this one acrylic paint from Heidi Swapp. I stamped the Hero Arts snowflake and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I painted the cardstock with the acrylic paint. I made the mistake of drying it with a heat gun before wiping the paint off the embossed image, so ended up having to scrape bits of paint off, LOL. Next I inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink, matted it, added some twine and a label and there you have it.

Thanks for looking.

Jay Gee

18 comments:

Laurel said...

Very nice, love that snowflake!

Brandi said...

You did a great job with the paint. I love the colors you used. I bet it is weird for you to make snow image cards when it is summer weather there. LOL!

Danielle said...

Beautiful! Great job with the paint!

Sue said...

love the contrast of the aqua with the kraft and white!! the twine is fabulous!! :)

Lisa - papergrace said...

Really lovely card. It's actually super pretty in it's simplicity. The colors are beautiful and twine is fabulous on ANY card. :)

SmilynStef said...

Love that vibrant paint color with the walnut ink frame ... and woot woot to you for figuring out a fabulous way to use your only paint ... thanks for joining our Jingle Belle fun.

lauren bergold said...

ok SERIOUSLY...you have never used paint on a card before?!! 'cause ♥WOW♥ you are already GREAT AT IT!!! :) i love this...i love that gorgeous shade of blue...and the embossed snowflake...and the perfect simplicity of pairing them with plain kraft cardstock, a little bit of twine and WALNUT ink! magnificent!!! ♥

Rosemary said...

You did a great job using paint for the first time! Love how clean and simple and perfect this card is, really great looking!

Leslie Hanna said...

HAHA! I thought the snowflake was painted until I READ YOUR WORDS. Sheesh. So pretty!

Karen B. said...

Love your CAS design and the colors, wow!

Dawn said...

Beautifully done! I love the colors you chose.

Jane said...

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!

Marianne said...

Love the simplicity of this card

Tyggereye said...

Your card is so pretty. I love the colors on this one. I'm so glad you took to playing with acrylic on a card. This turned out fab!

myself said...

The simplicity is beautiful! Gorgeous and creative. Great job!

Jess said...

Simple and stunning Judith! Love how you have attached the sentiment with the twine - you've inspired me!

Lorraine said...

This is a simple beauty! Love it.

~Tammy~ said...

This turned out beautiful! I love the shades of blue on the Kraft, and love the twine worked in with the sentiment panel! Just lovely Judith!