Cards - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Imaginarium Designs lovelies!!

It's Karyn here and today I'm sharing some cards made using lots of gorgeous Imaginarium Designs chipboard.

This first card was made for Rachael's 16th birthday this week. I've used lots of bright Dina Wakley paints.

My card base is black 6"x6" and I've cut some heavyweight Canson white cardstock     5 3/4" x 5 3/4" that I use to create my painted background. I've used Dina Wakley paints (Tangerine, turquoise, lime, sky, blackberry violet, magenta) to paint the background. I like to use a silicone brush for my painting - I love the effect and it is so much easier to clean between colours!! 

I then used 2 KaiserCraft mini designer templates (dots and dashes, and bubbly) and black marble and calypso teal Dylusions paint to add another layer of painty interest. 

Once this was all dry I added some Bo Bunny gold glitter paste in places, and I used my white Posca paint pen to draw some dash patterns and then to add some splatters (yes, you can use your paint pen to do this!!!).

I used a black and white paint pen to colour the chipboard, and a Fude ball pen to draw a boarder around the edge. You can see in the photo above I initially painted the chipboard word Happy with a black paint pen - but then changed my mind and covered it with the white paint pen - how good is that coverage!  

Imaginarium Designs chipboard I've used includes 

Nats hearts : code IDD0043

 

16th small : code IDN0054

You make me happy: Code IDW0097

Next are two cards made using Lindy's Magicals.

Both card bases are white 6"x6" and I've cut some heavyweight Canson white cardstock 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" that I use to create my painted background. I've used Lindy's Gang Magicals to create my background this time. I haven't used these much before but of course i have a jar or 10 in my stash lol so I thought I would use them on these cards. The colours I've used are "My mojito green", "whale watch blue" and "screamin banshee black". Don't you just love these names!! 

For the first card I started by adhering some old dictionary paper and chipboard to the card base using soft gloss gel. I cut out the word Father from the dictionary so I can use it for a fathers day card. Then I sprinkled some of the green Magicals across my page with a paint brush, then activated with a water spray bottle.

 

After drying this off I repeated the process with the blue then the black magicals. At times I used a paintbrush to make sure all the chipboard was covered. I always dry off between layers/colours and if in doubt add more water and colour :) 

 

I also added some white paper flowers that I then painted with the Magicals. I love the variety of colour pigments in the Magicals - doesnt this look amazing!! 

The last card is a baptism card for my gorgeous nephew Bryce. I created the background in a similar way as for the first card.  

As this was a baptism card I used the word 'baptize' from the dictionary. 

I also added the name Bryce to the card to personalise it.  

Imaginarium Designs chipboard I've used includes 

Denises trellis and flourish: Code IDD0007

Edward relief collection : code IDC0009

love cherish adore (small) : code IDW0036

capital letters : code IDAUC0001

Lower case letters : Code IDALC0001

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Colour Explosion by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Hiya everyone.  Leonie here today.

By now hopefully you've seen or heard

 about our June challenge with this fabulous moodboard.  I absolutely adore the bright beautiful colours on this mood board.  They are such happy colours.

When I set about creating my page for this challenge I had some Dina Wakley paint left over and so I made some extra backgrounds and then thought well I may as well use these for my monthly blog post.  

This is what I came up with, bit of a colour explosion - plus one other which you'll see late in the month. 

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 'Reflections'

For this first page I used Nat's squares chipboard as a stencil to create the pattern on my background. Then I added the actual chipboard under my photo and overlayed it with my 'Reflections' title which I'd sprayed with white Gesso.  Keeping it simple I scattered some chipboard stars around the page which have been painted white and then sprayed with KaiserMists. 

Reflections

21 Stars on a board

Nat's Squares 

'Cheeky Grin'

My second page started out with lots of random stencilling on the background.  The title pieces have been painted with the same colours as the background and the bubbles were painted first then I glued some chunky glitter on them.

Cheeky Grin

You Make Me

Brilliant Gorgeous Cheeky

Loolabelle's Love Arrows

Chris's Grade Year

Nat's Bubbles

'Now And Forever'

Lastly I have this multi photo page, each photo has been matted on several layers of B&W patterned papers.  The title piece is painted black as have the flourishes.  The flourishes also have some texture paste dabbed on them.

Now & Forever

Loolabelles Piechart And Hearts Embellishments

Bicycle

9 Cogs on a Board

Thanks for stopping by the Imaginarium Designs Blog I hope you're inspired to take part in our challenge this month.  All the details on how to enter are HERE

Cheers

Leonie Neal-Dawson