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Sunday, 2 June 2013

DISTRESS PAINTS - 1


This is Tanvi wishing you all a very good morning, here to share my first post on DISTRESS PAINTS. 
Hope you are having fun with all our activities, please do share your work with bakers twine in our first challenge – A NEW BEGINNING & USE BAKERS TWINE. We have some amazing inspiration on the use of bakers twine lined up for you this month……………….make sure you drop in often or better still follow us so you do not miss out something.

I am here today to introduce the newest product to join the ranger distress family – DISTRESS PAINTS, announced at CHA Winter 2013. And take my word for it, once you use these versatile paints you cannot do without them……………I am kind of getting obsessed with these!!!

WHAT ARE DISTRESS PAINTS?
  •  Distress Paints are very fluid water-based acrylic paints for multiple surfaces.
  • These special paints are developed to be reactive with water just like Distress Inks and Distress Stains—perfect to accomplish a wide variety of artistic techniques.
     WHAT ARE THE COLORS AVAILABLE?

     Distress paints are available in 27 colors that coordinate with the Distress palette in 1 oz. bottles with a very convenient dabber system application which I will show you in a while.

Picture Courtesy: ohmycrafts.com


And three amazing metallic shades


Picture Courtesy: timholtz.com

HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM DISTRESS INKS/STAINS


DISTRESS PAINTS
DISTRESS STAINS/INKS
Fluid water based acrylic paints
Fluid water based dyes
Can be used of multiple surfaces – paper, fabric, metal, glass
Can be used only on paper & other porous surfaces
Once the paint is dry it does not rewet – so can be easily layered with inks/stains
React with water even after they are dry
Single layer gives a deep vibrant color
Several layers have to be applied to get a deeper color

HOW DO I USE THESE?

Distress Paints come in bottles with a mixing ball inside. They have a convenient dabber system for easy application with a built-in spring valve. To use shake the bottle, simply press down on the valve repeatedly to release the paint & soak the dabber top. Just shake, dab & dry……………no mess at all!!!
You can -
  • paint straight from the bottle onto a surface with the dabber tip
  • squeeze onto the surface & swipe
  • open the bottle & use a paint brush
  • add it to your palette &  use, as any other paint to add color to your objects
  • use it with a palette knife
WHY SHOULD I USE DISTRESS PAINTS?


  • Very fluid water-based, multi-surface acrylic paint
  • reactive with water while the paint is wet allowing some great blending ability and awesome textural effects.
  • once dry; they don’t rewet so you’re able to layer these with the other distress products like inks and stains to achieve unbelievable effects. (This  makes them different from inks & stains which react with water)
  • palette of colors from the distress line will make it easy to coordinate with other distress products too.  
  • matte finish on craft projects
  • convenient dabber system application
  • create astonishing backgrounds, embellishments, layouts, cards
  • colors stay rich and vibrant
  • paint dries with a nice smooth opaque finish.
These are incredible paints with some very innovative properties unlike any other paints & so so so easy to use. Can’t believe, right? Wait until I show you pictures!!

WHERE CAN THESE BE USED?
  •      on a number of surfaces – paper, grunge board, plastic, wood, metal, chipboard, fabric, ribbons, laces, canvas, vellum, acetate and many more.
  •  with stamps, embossing folders, stencils, templates, masks or simply with your fingers.
In the picture below I have used the paint on different surfaces………………..left some part uncolored to show you the original surface.












Ok,  enough of gyan on the paints let me now show you some results.

A. In this tag I squeezed some mowed lawn, picked raspberry & salty ocean paints directly onto the tag, added washi tape & stamped………..its that simple.


B. For this tag I squeezed salty ocean & mowed lawn paints on my mat, spritzed with water & swiped the tag……………..isn’t that an amazing background? Add a washi tape, stamp, embellish……………. & u have a tag in a few minutes.


C.The BG of this tag is picked raspberry.  I let it dry & then dabbed salty ocean onto the tag directly from the bottle. Washi tapes once again & another tag ready!!



This was my first experiment with distress paint (by now you all know I love experiments!!!) & was not disappointed, they are certainly worth having in your craft room. THE CRAFT SHOP now stocks the entire range of distress paints.........& I will have to pick a few more colors.

Want some more ideas, tips & techniques for distress paints? Do visit again. This was just a basic introduction; I will be back with a couple of more ideas – embellishment, backgrounds, mixed media layouts.

Please do leave some love if you find this useful :-).

Friday, 31 May 2013

Challenge #1 - A New Beginning and use Bakers Twine!


             We welcome you all to the First Challenge in Color Conceptions!! You should have come here through the bloghop , beginning from my blog. If you did not come through bloghop ,you can start hopping from here, to win some cool goodies!!

           We are extremely happy to announce the beginning of our new challenges here. And we promise you loads and loads of inspirations and DIY, Techniques, Tips, Tutorials,Reviews and lots more related to crafting!! Excited? We know .. and we are excited too!!
       

         Our design team girls are so special.. It is just a short time, since we had come together as a Team..We are already enjoying our little crafty chats and leg pulling sessions, behind the screens!! It is so much fun!They were not given much time for this challenge,yet they came up with wonderful inspirations,for you!! Well done girls!!


           This is a new beginning for us and for you! and so comes our first challenge

Challenge #1 - A New Beginning and use Bakers Twine!



To participate, please ensure, you follow the below rules

  •  Be a follower of our Blog 
  •  Link Fresh New Entries only. Back Dated entries not allowed
  •  Link to the challenge specific post only and not to your blog url.
  •  Link Back to our challenge..ie Place the url of this post in the post you make.
  •  Leave a comment below after linking
  •  You could participate in a maximum of 5 challenges including this
  •  Maximum of THREE entries per person , please add (2) or (3) for your second and third entry against your name.
  •  Lastly please remove word verification from your Blog to help our DT leave comments easily.

       The Top 3 Entries will receive a Challenge Winner badge and one of them would be honoured as a GUEST DESIGNER for our next Challenge.

      One random winner from the participants would receive a GIFT VOUCHER worth Rs 500, to purchase in our shop - www.thecraftshop.in


      First is a gorgeous wedding card by Poornima, showing how bakers twine can be used to make frames for sentiment.

 Tanvi with her amazing creativity shows how we can use Bakers twine as Window screen, tussel on top of the house, flowers and fruits in a tree! This key holder will make a perfect gift for new house!


Next up is Rajni Chawla, who never fails to surprise us with her works,  Money Envelops for wedding and Birthday.Using bakers twine as bow.




A classy perfect card from Saumya, showing how to use Bakers twine for background behind window.

Look at the gorgeous Bakers Twine Butterfly trail, Khushboo has come up with!!

Enthusiastic Khush came up with another project, where she created borders for the masked areas to highlight it!



 And Finally it is me, with my 2 cards for Birthday and New Baby..

Bakers Twine used for Banners, Balloon threads and Gift Wrapping

Bakers Twine used for Laundry thread, Bow, Grass and Butterfly(?!!let me call it so!)


    We hope we have inspired you enough to try using Bakers Twine in your projects!:)  Waiting to see many of your projects in this space!! The challenge ends on JUNE 30.
           
Rules to  the bloghop:
·        Like our Facebook Page here.
·        Follow this blog.
·        Leave a comment on all the 6 DT blogs.
·        Leave a comment in the Challenge blog saying you have done all the above.

               If you are here by chance and want to blog hop with us, please start from my blog -www.colorconceptions.blogspot.in. One lucky winner is entitled to win a pack of Making Memories 5thAvenue Elizabeth Die cuts 112 pieces pack

   With this we come to the end of the hop.Closing date for the hop is 7th JUNE.. So you have one week time to complete the hop! All the best!!

Please come back often to participate in the fun events we are coming up with and see some fantastic DT posts!! 


Thanks for Visiting 
Team Color Conceptions


Please Link up you entries with in Jun 30th.

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Welcoming our new DT Members!!

Hello all!!,

              Good day to you!! We welcome you all to our Color Conceptions Challenge blog! We are starting our challenges from Tomorrow and there are so many fun events lined up!! Looking forward to your enthusiastic participation!.

            Here we have some talented lovely ladies, who would be our proud CONCEPTUALISTS!!, who would give you lots of inspirations and information about crafting!!We welcome them on board.. Visit their blogs and check out their beautiful projects!!More information about our designers,

         Dr Tanvi Shah is a Stylish crafter from Bangalore.She is a microbiology researcher & an enthusiastic crafter since her early days. Like most of us all, crafting never was her priority due to academics, job, home, kids & family. Thanks to her very encouraging husband she is now pursuing her passion. She feels, she got wings for her passion to fly since she started blogging in December 2013. She loves experimenting (has spent so many years researching in labs!!) & learning new techniques. Visit her blog at http://tanvispaperfantasees.blogspot.in/

         Saumya Mohanty is a classy crafter  from Mumbai. Crafting has been in her blood since childhood days!Thanks to her crafty and arty mom and brothers.But academics and job priorities overshadowed it. And then one fine day she decided to take time off from her busy schedules in TV industry and settle back home with her parents to spend sometime with her passion- Crafting and there has not been any looking back since then. It has been two serious years of crafting....repetitiveness in crafting is scary for her. So she tries her best to avoid it...She loves crafting stationeries, treat bags/boxes and LO's but her current favorite is minis and mixed media.Visit her blog at http://scrapyouridea.blogspot.in/


            Khushboo Rathi is an enthusiastic crafter from Kolkata.. She is an ex-jewellery designer by profession and a paper crafter by passion... She started her journey into paper crafts with punch craft and quilling and since then there has been no turning back.. She loves making special fold cards and trying new ideas she can experiment with on paper...Visit her blog at http://www.crafterkhush.blogspot.in/
 
         Rajni Chawla is an extraordinary crafter from Delhi. In the 44 years of her existence, her creative hunger has made her meet new people, taken her to new places and made her learn new things. And she often feels that these experiences of her magically conspire and help her in creating something new every time she picks up her crafting tools. An Interior Designer by education, and a passionate crafter by heart; She has also worked as a packaging designer with Archies India Ltd. before starting up her own entrepreneurial venture by the name of Wedlock.
A little known secret – This is her first year in the line of paper crafts!!
Visit her blog at http://rajnichawlahandmade.blogspot.in/

       Poornima Jain is an elegant crafter from Ajmer, Rajasthan. Crafting is something she is very crazy about. She used to craft a lot in her childhood. Even during her college times, She was involved in some or other kind of crafting. And now when She is into a job, this passion is still there and this has led her to start a blog one and a half years back. The blog world opened all the doors of ideas, techniques to her. She feels,she is learning each day. She loves to make shaped cards and Paper Jewelry . She does not have a specific crafting style, she just makes what she is eager to try.Visit her blog at http://papercrafthorizon.blogspot.in/



            Priya Sivaraj  is a passionate crafter from Chennai. She is a software engineer by profession, but gave up the job to take care of kid and pursue her passion and she is loving both!.She loves crafting from childhood, like everyone.The crafting bug in her kept glinting now and then, till she borrowed some time for it to come out! Now it is on its full glow, taking up all her free time and keeping her busy!She is just enjoying it and hope you do too! Visit her blog at http://colorconceptions.blogspot.in/

Do visit and leave some love in our DT blogs :) 

P.S GUESS AND WIN CONTEST:
               We are happy, you let us know that you enjoyed the contest.. We received a total of 14 entries and there was no entry that had all 6 right. :(. Anyway all the best for coming up events.

Thanks for visiting,
Team Color Conceptions

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

CONTEST YET AGAIN!!


GUESS AND WIN CONTEST!!

With our new website up, last month, we are going to embark on a new milestone in this special journey. Color Conceptions is starting a new monthly CHALLENGE starting from JUNE 1st!! Excited?!!Many more events lined up!!keep watching!

We would be introducing our Design Team tomorrow.. But how do u like the idea of guessing them and getting a gift, before they are announced?! There are going to be 6 DT members!

To participate in this contest, you need to LIKE and SHARE this post, SEND your guesses to priyacrafty@gmail.com, with subject - DT Guess Contest. One of the right guesses, will receive a MME stamp as gift!!

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Winners!! Winners!! Winners!!

Hello Lovely Ladies!!

           Thanks for the awesome response you give at the store and in the blog!!.. I am indeed so happy to see that you are enjoying your shopping experience with the store :). Many ladies, keeping your fingers crossed  and I know.. this is testing your patience. so without further ado..

                                                    THE WINNERS FROM RANDOM.ORG ARE

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4.Vithya
8.Nehal
11.SriDevi Murali Krishna
12.Darshana Menon
18.Shruti Goel
20.Apeksha Kothari
21.Ujjwal
24.Sanchari
30.Jaya
32.Khushboo


You have 24 hours to claim your prize!! So, claim them bysending your mailing address to priyacrafty@gmail.com. Wishing you a very happy crafting! Thanks for all the ladies who participated in the event.


Thanks for visiting!
Priya

Thursday, 25 April 2013

Introductory Offers and Yummy Candy!!

Hello everybody!!!


            We are here to share the good news with you all!!  You can now shop with us at ease!! Yes , with our new website, shopping could nt be more easier!! We take pleasure in letting you know that we have launched our new website.

                                        www.thecraftshop.in

There are a lots of new products , which are in your wishlist !! So , grab them before they are gone!!!
And wait, we want to give you more reasons to shop with us!!.. Since we are happy, we are offering

5% off on anything and everything in the store for 25 orders
 And 50 orders will receive free gift with them!!*

.Does this sound fun?!wait...wait..we have more, Would you love to win a thousand sheets of  6X6 paper?!!Greedy ;) But you have got to share it with 9 other people...
   


Follow the below steps to win this super cool candy

1. Become a follower of our blog, if you are not already
2. Flaunt the above image , in your blog side bar, Linking it back to this page
3. Like our Facebook page 
4. Follow our Tweets 
5. Follow our Pins 
6.Share this post in your facebook, with the share button on the right.
7.Link your name with Mr Linky below and leave comment saying, you have done all.

There will be 10 winners each with 100 sheets of paper.so there will be more chances for you to win!! Winners will be announced on May 11th.

With all the happiness and well wishes you have showered on us, we are so overwhelmed and we feel this would be a small token of love.Thanks for the support and the encouragement you offer!! You made our day!!

Thanks
Team Craft Shop

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* offer subject to payment within 3 days of placing order

Friday, 19 April 2013

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