Prima: Bloom Collection {NEW Winter CHA 2014}

I'm here today with a look at another NEW collection from Prima:

Bloom Collection

Designed by the talented Jamie Dougherty, this collection is bound to inspire your inner artist!

"Inspire & Create" Bloom Book Cover

The Bloom Book is filled with page after page for inspiring and creating your artwork. And of course there are an array of flowers and embellishments to go with it- in a bright, beautiful color scheme you are sure to love!

Here I've used some of the paper from inside the book to create the title for my book cover, along with various background textures and some help from chipboard shapes, flowers, leaves, and more :)

The fabulous bloom girls in this collection are amazing! I loved this confident artsy girl- she just had to take center stage on my cover :). She's way cooler than me- but she gave me the confidence I needed to make my plan come together for this design. :)

Products Used:

980009 Bloom Collection Art Book
573065 Bloom Collection Paperclips
980108 Bloom Collection Brads
980153 Bloom Collection Chipboard Pieces
572099 Wire Thread Sweet Pink
572204 12x12 Stencil Anchors
921842 Poppies and Peonies Canvas Banners
575212 Freshly Picked
575151 Hand Delivered
575120 In Full Bloom
575168 Fragrant

I hope you are having a great weekend! I have Prima shares over the next few days, so don't miss out :)
Take care,

"Farm Girl": A Layout for 7 Dots Studio

Good morning!! It's a brand new week, and I'd like to start it off with a project :) I'm up on the 7 Dots Studio blog today with a sweet layout created for my daughter:

"Farm Girl"

love that the Messy Head and Domestic Goddess collections came together here for a super girly layout of my daughter. Fun imagery from Domestic Goddess was paired with the urban elements of Messy Head, making for a truly enjoyable creative experience!

We were also given the opportunity to create with VLV Stamps this month. I had fun scattering the Hearts and Dots background stamp, and using the Film Strip stamp to accentuate the center strip that runs through my layout. Thank-you to VLV for the opportunity to use these amazing stamps!!

7 Dots Studio Products Used:
Messy Head Collection "Love Letter"
Messy Head Collection "Big Words"
Messy Head Collection Elements 6x12
Messy Head Collection Alpha Stickers 6x12
Domestic Goddess "White Apron"
Domestic Goddess "Collage Fashionista"

VLV Stamps used:
Hearts and Dots Background
Film Strip

 

 Thanks for letting me share with you today!

"She's 2!": October Prima ArtZine Layout

Good morning and welcome to the weekend! I hope it's a good one for you- we're supposed to get snow and normally I would complain, but it is rifle season opener for deer hunting and snow is just what we need to get the deer moving :). So that is what I will be up to this weekend!

I thought I would drop in and share with you a layout that I created for the October ArtZine from Prima! I hope you all had the chance to check out the entire issue, but if not, here's a look at the layout that I made as a sample for last month's BAP sketch.

"She's 2!"

This is a photo of course of my cutie pie daughter Aspen on her 2nd birthday. What a fun sketch for this fun picture! I really enjoyed creating with this one. I used a bowl turned upside down to create the half-circles on either side of my layout, traced simply with a pencil. I then used gesso, watercolors, and some stamping to create the details along the edges.

Here's a reminder of the BAP sketch from October:

 And a little bit of a closer look at my layout:

I have a bit of a pink and brown fetish. I just love combining warm shades of those colors!

The beautiful "Delight" collection was perfect for my little girl. I've used the daylights out of this collection- and I love it still! A timeless range; Jodie Lee sure knows how to design the best!!

Products Used:

950705- Delight Collection "Darling"

950743- Delight Collection "Delightful"

843618- Printery Collection 6x6 Paper Stack

559335- Cling Mount Stamps Romance Novel

910228- Mixed Media Background Stamp

544232- Alphabet Stickers

555153- Cling Mount Stamps Songbird

565787- Frost Frappe VII

566647- Avante Cedar

567156- Pageant Peach Pastel

565763- Frost Mini Sachet

571511- Le Mia- Desert Sand Flower

571429- Layla

565527- Lifetime Roses

 

 Thank-you for stopping by! I know- I have not been around to visit blogs lately. Just when I think things are slowing down, they pick right back up! But thanks for your support and encouragement! :)

"Beauty": Reverse Canvas Step-by-Step for PaperHaus!

Good morning and welcome back!

Today I have a reverse canvas tutorial that I created for the PaperHaus Magazine blog. I hope you enjoy!

"Beauty"

You will need a stretched canvas for this project, of any size. Simply flip it over to the back side and let's begin!

Product List:
Patterned Papers: Prima Marketing
Flowers: Prima Marketing
Embellishments: Prima Marketing
Letter Stickers: Prima Marketing
Chipboard: Blue Fern Studios
Masks: Prima Marketing
Stamps: Prima Marketing
Mediums: Modeling Paste (Golden); Gesso (ProArt); Watercolors (Luminarte); Acrylic Paint (Apple Barrel); Mist (Shimmerz); Chalk Ink (Prima Marketing); Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Other: masking tape, pearls, cardboard, book pages
 

Thank-you for stopping by today! Take care of yourselves :)

Prima Marketing: Scraplift!

Good morning and welcome!

Today some of the Prima team members are scraplifting a Prima veteran: Felicity Wilson!

Felicity has a fun, textured, layered style and it was a pleasure to lift one of her fabulous layouts :)~ and I certainly hope I did her justice ;)

"Handsome Boy"

Some days, you take out the camera and got nothing. And then others- you get something great. I captured this great photo of Wyatt playing with his football recently- and couldn't wait to scrap it. Such a handsome boy- turning into a little man right before my eyes!

Here is the layout by Felicity which inspired my project:

I attempted to adhere to her overall design and made a few changes to make it "my own". The large pennant was turned vertically to better support my portrait photo, I applied some gesso and masking to my background and kept the banners and title placement. 

 I added lots of amazing Prima embellishments, both old and new.

Of course I couldn't help but apply plenty of the new Allstar Collection for this sporty photo of my little guy! I love the neutrals in this range- so versatile! And accented by the yellows of the Ladybird collection made it fresh and young :)

*NEW* 846251- Allstar Collection "Depth Chart"
*NEW* 846213- Allstar Collection "MVP Allstars"
*NEW* 846237- Allstar Collection "Memorabilia"
*NEW* 971106- All About Me Collection "Dotty"
*NEW* 570460- Allstar- Sugar Dots
*NEW* 569662- Allstar Tickets and Tags Set
*NEW* 570886- Allstar Flowers
*NEW* 960445- 12x12 Stencil: Orbs
*NEW* 571108- La Tela- Canvas Rose
*NEW* 571405- Scarlett

Thank-you for stopping at my blog today. Come back again tomorrow, okay? I have a step-by-step tutorial for you- so don't miss it :)

7 Dots Studio: October Projects!

I'm back again today :) 

(did you miss me? ha!)

I have a couple of 7 Dots Studio projects to share. And they were a challenge (to myself)- no flowers! Uh-oh...

don't worry. 

I'm okay with them. Let's see what you think!

"Truth"

 I really enjoyed this particular verse and it inspired me to create in my art journal (which I've set aside for a bit lately). It felt good to start and complete a project with no intended direction- I just went with it. And I'm happy. It's real...

genuine...

faith inspired. 

I can't ask for anything more!

Products Used:

9th Wave: Coral Reef
Messy Head: Elements 6x12
Messy Head: Elements 12x12
All I Ever: Stickers 12x12
All I Ever: Elementals 12x12
Dreamer: DAydreaming

Next, a card...and a simple one! 

"Something Special"

 I started this card with the "You are my whole world." card from the Messy Head collection, and built it from there. I love mixing colors and textures and just seeing where it all takes me. I never really know where I'll end up- and though this card is a bit "tame" for me, I loved it simplicity. Perfect for expressing the message I wanted to convey. 

Products Used:

9th Wave: Coral Reef
9th Wave: 6x6 Designer Pad
Messy Head: Elements 6x12
Messy Head: Little Thoughts
All I Ever: Elementals 12x12

 Products Used:

Brigitte Butterfly Set

I hope your week is off to a great start. Thanks for coming by!

PaperHaus: "This IS My Smile"~!

Good morning! I know I've bombarded you with posts this past week- and it's not letting up yet ;) So bear with me...

At the same time, I've been a bit absent. Still canning away and there are so many projects at hand with winter likely hitting us in a month or so...I'm barely getting by at this point. But thanks for always hanging in there with me, it's truly appreciated.

Today I have a fun layout to share with you that I created for PaperHaus. As I look back on the last several months' worth of photos of my kids, not only is it difficult to find a photo of my Gunner LOOKING at the camera, but it is pretty much impossible to get one of him smiling. He thinks that by my asking him to smile, I somehow mean I want him to show me an open mouth, his teeth, or his tongue- or a combination of all three, ha! But never...never a smile :(. But that's just him- he smiles and laughs all day long- but once that camera is out, it's game over.

SO- I decided to embrace this fault and create a layout about it :)

"This IS My Smile"

I've really enjoyed playing around with layers of different mediums lately! I generally start by placing some paper layers and then applying a coat of gesso. After that- it's game on! On this particular layout, I followed that up by applying (randomly) some blue acrylic paint over top of the gesso. Then came some scattered stamping with distress ink. Next I applied some masking (using light modeling paste) and created some dimension by sprinkling on some embossing powder and setting with a heat gun. On top of that I brushed on some watercolors and just a touch of mist. All set for photo and cluster work!

Product List:

Patterned Papers: Prima Marketing

Flowers: Prima Marketing

Embellishments: Prima Marketing, Melissa Frances

Chipboard: Blue Fern Studios

Letter Stickers: Prima Marketing

Mask: The Crafter's Workshop

Modeling Paste: Golden

Gesso: Pro Art

Watercolors: Luminarte

Other: acrylic paint, paper doily, pearls, microbeads, seam binding, book pages

I hope your week is going well so far. I'm so happy you took a moment to come by- thanks so much as always :)

Watercolor Fun: Prima & Pink Paislee Swap Part 2!

Good morning and happy Monday! Today is the second part of the Prima/Pink Paislee swap- I hope you got the chance to get yourself in the running for some goodies- winners announced today!

To close out the swap, we've created some watercolor fun tags. Here is mine:

"Captured Moments" Tag

I loved taking the Color Wash papers and creating a classic Prima tag with it. I applied some masking and had fun with some turquoise watercolors to accent the areas to the top and bottom of my cluster work.

Prima Products Used:
554156- Lace and Crystals Border Fairy Belle
891879- Ingvild Bolme- Resin Heart
960445- 12x12 Stencil: Orbs
571757- Abbey
571542- Le Mia- Chantilly Flower
566029- Mini Sachet- Rose
565282- Divine Mini Rose Stems

Pink Paislee Products Used:
PP01037- Color Wash 6x6 Paper Pad
PP01047- Color Wash Sentiment Stickers

Thanks for coming over! Be sure to check out the Prima blog today for plenty more watercolor fun inspiration ;)

See you soon!

Blue Fern Studios: Parts & Pieces!

Hey everyone- I'm here today with my last two Blue Fern Studios projects for the month, showing you how to use up some of your bits and pieces for those who like to piece apart your chipboard to make the most of it. We all like our product to go a little further!

For both projects, I've used 7 Dots Studio products as we continue our month-long swap with them. What fun it has been combining them with Blue Fern chipboard!

First up, I have a canvas to share:

"Grown Up"

I had two pieces remaining from the Doily Bunting and Page Chains sets. I made them a part of my mixed media background by applying gesso, tape, and embossing powder over top of them.

Products Used:

Page Chains

Doily Bunting

(7 Dots Studio Products Used: "Messy Head" Collection paper and Elements, "All I Ever" Collection paper and Stickers, "9th Wave" Collection paper, and "Hopefully" Collection Stickers)

Next up, I have a very girly tag :)

"Love Happens!" Tag

For this tag, I took the top section of the Princess Window and one of the Heart Set pieces. 

I simply painted the heart piece with gesso to accent the title of my tag. The window piece was primed with gesso before being traced with glossy accents. While the glossy accents was still wet, I sprinkled on broken glass glitter, star sequins, and microbeads.

Products Used:

Princess Window

Heart Set

(7 Dots Studio Products Used: "Messy Head" 6x6 Designer Pad and Elements)

Thank-you so very much for stopping by today! I hope you've had the chance to play along with our monthly sketch challenge- just a few more days left!

See you soon :)