Wednesday, June 9, 2010

It's a BIG Fish...




I got to play a bit today with my Creative Inspirations Paints, the challenge this week is painting on acetate or acyrillic. This also fit the Transparency challenge at Gingersnap! I stamped this fabulous Fred B. Mullet image, BG-015-R, Big Pompano, on one side of my acetate in black stazon, and then flipped the piece over and painted or "dabbed in" with several different colors of CI , finding that I liked the darker colors the best. There is no right or wrong with these FAB paints, just use them! I actually multi layered color on top of color until I got the affect I was looking for. Try it, you'll luv these paints.



After they dried, I lightly brushed on some white craft paint over the painted side of the image, and cleaned up the edges with a qtip. While that was drying, I searched out some blue papers, and ran the lighter blue thru my Sizzix Tiger embossing folder, which to me looks like waves. Then I took a cosmetic sponge and dabbed some Sea Foam paint on my craft sheet and swiped it across the waves for extra shimmer. This piece is actually 8- 1/2 x 3- 3/4.


The colors I used today are red. white, Sapphire, Turquoise, Sea Foam, Bright Yellow, Canary, Sage and Evergreen!

Please go to my side bar for Creative Inspirations Design Team, and check out what the other team players made this challenge. Thanks for stoppin' by.....hugz


8 comments:

Terry said...

Love your fish! Sounds like a lot of work went into this one! That EF is great! Love it, Gerrie!

Lisa Somerville said...

Very cool, love the vibrant colors!

Kassi said...

that fish looks awesome!!! I love the layered color!

Basement Stamper said...

what a beautiful fish, nice bright colors!

Shelly Schmidt said...

This is just gorgeous! Looks very realistic too- beautiful colors.

~ Kendra ~ said...

Love the colors together!! Great job! The fish looks so cool!

Clare said...

great colors!

Creative Inspirations said...

Wow Gerrie you did an awesome job with the paints. It really shows the brightness of the colors.