Stamping with paint expiraments!

Hi ya everyone! I sure had fun playing with paint this week- watching the "Thinking Inking" week 4 video really got me going. I've only got the one gold paint dabber but lots of other metallic and acrylic paints to play with.

I made the first card here using my gold paint and the Starburst Lace stamp from Hero Arts. I also used the Old letter Writing stamp from HA in the background. Used antique linen distress ink to warm it up and vintage photo around the edge.

Used a few paper poinsetta's from Hero Arts and even painted some clear gems with the gold paint. The gold paint gives it such a lovely shimmer and I was pleasantly surprised how well the detailed Starburst stamp came out.

The next expirament I used my favorite pearl white paint from Lumiere. I've got a whole set of these wonderful metallic paints- got them here at Dick Blick. They dry nice and quickly and I use these watered down in a mini mister instead of Perfect Pearls......and they work great!

I used my favorite big snowflake stamp from Stampin Up (the set Winter Post) all over some white cardstock. Let it dry and went direct to the paper using my Adirondack Stonewashed ink pad. I wanted a dark navy blue border but didn't have any paper that color so I used my Night of Navy ink pad to make the border. I added some pearls onto the center of each snowflake and did the border of the Nestie die cut to make it look a bit frosted too. 

Her are the ink colors and the paint I used. I simply shook up the jar of paint and used a round make up sponge to dab some paint right out of the cover.....then loaded it onto my stamp. Super easy and you don't have to have a paint dabber to stamp this way.

Now onto to more "somewhat" exciting news in my house.  My little guy lost his first tooth today......actually just about 2 hours ago! It's been loose and wiggly for the last few days and it was really bothering him when he got home from school. So being the former dental assistant and knowing all the "teeth" things I inspected the situation (the adult tooth was already poking up through the gums)  and with a bit of a tug and twist popped that tooth right out like nothing! I'm sterilizing the tooth in a Dixie cup with bleach and water.....this disinfects it and that's how they do it at the dentist office too- just FYI.

He's happy it didn't hurt and now I get to play the "Tooth Fairy" tonight- wohooo- can't wait!

Thanks everybody for stopping by and I hope you get to try stamping with paint- it's really pretty fun! Messy.......but fun!

I'm getting rather excited for Halloween night to come- it's so fun to go out with the kids and take them "Trick or Treating". I'm dressing up as a nice witch! I hope our weather is better Halloween night than it is today- 50 mph winds and icky cold rain.....yuck!

 

Inky Hugs, Anne

Lumiere paints- WOW!

Yesterday I went and played at my cousins stamp studio and had alot of fun (it's like going to Archivers). She was into painting intricate images with her Lumiere paints! I asked her if I could give them a try and wow- I LOVE them! I had brought along some already stamped and embossed images to try this on- of course I had to pick an image that has teeny tiny details! I used a tiny paint brush to paint on each individual color, and of course managed to smear the paint on almost every one I tried. But I got one good one out of the bunch that did not get ruined- yipeee! I love the sheer and pearlescent colors of these paints! You hardly need to use any paint either.....which means the pains will last a really long time. So I sat down today and finally made a card with my one good paint job....not really thrilled with the card but I just wanted to show you all these amazing paints!  I believe comparable paints are Radiant Pearls and Shimmer paints if you are interested. I know my cousin said she bought alot of the paints on Ebay, some at garage sales, and the rest at Dick Blick art supply stores. I think I  might have to visit Dick Blick some day soon.......love these paints!

The image of the egg tree is by Great Impressions, and the sentiment is by Verve!

Thanks for stopping by!  Anne