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June 02, 2012

Video Day with Heidi Kelley

Today we would like to share with you an amazing project designed by the artistic Heidi Kelley. Heidi has also put a video together to show you how to recreate her stunning page! How great is that?

We hope this helps make your weekend a creative one!

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I love grunge, and I suppose that is no surprise based on the projects that I am forever turning out! One of the things that I adore about Prima is that even though it is beautiful, and girly with its delicate details - it is very easy to turn masculine with its prints, and boyish, by grunging it up!! This video today is all about creating this layout... from start to finish, totally boy, totally grungy, totally Prima.

or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPHUgswSvVI

Supplies used:

Nature Collection Paper "Meeting a Fairy" #950071
Shabby Chic Treasures #890711, #890735
Prima Mask #882150
Alphabet Stickers #544232
Mixed Media Album #557942
Pennant Banner #921589
Other:
Gesso
Masking Tape
Paint Mist
Paint
Paintbrush
Medicine dropper
Rub-ons
Buttons

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June 01, 2012

Scraplift a Little Inspiration

Happy Friday! Today is our last day of the design team's scraplifts for the month. This has been a fun addition to our blog and we hope you've enjoyed it as well. Scraplifting can give you that boost of inspiration and creativity.

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This first stunning layout by Karola Witczak has inspired Hege Lundquist's scraplift for today.

Here is what Hege found creative about Karola's work:

I've had the honor of scraplifting Karola! I've been a great admirer of her for a long time. I chose this slightly different layout with earth colors and cool blue. I chose to focus on how she has built up the layout and the location of all her items.
I have used a different color scale than her when I'm really in love with the bright and pastel ones.
I have really enjoyed this and will probably try even more to
scraplift Karola another time and use her as inspiration later. Thank
you so much, Karola :-)

Supplies

Item# 844059 Songbird Collection Lineage
Item# 555597 Lucerne Songbird
Item# 555528 Perle Bebe Songbird
Item# 551612 Resistant Canvas - Printery
Item# 553081 Bristo Blooms - Nugget
Item# 553333 Country North - Alla Prima
Item# 533175 Trellis Roses
Item# 556501 Allegra Annaise
Item# 557287 Charlotte Coral Ice
Item# 557324 Charlotte Tiffany
Item# 557577 Pankita Rose Spring Mix
Item# 558147 Cherise Grape Vine

Our next lift was inspired by this layout by Stacy Cohen. Stacy inspired Maiko Kosugi to create a fresh colorful page.

Here is Maiko's insight on Stacy's beautiful work:

I had the honor of scrap lifting from the very talented Stacy Cohen!
I adore Stacy's color sense filled with her wonderful ideas. It was so difficult to choose which layout to scrap lift since all her layouts are just gorgeous,
but chose this one after seeing Stacy's gallery over and over again!
I followed Stacy's sketch for my layout and decided to make mine using the Sun Kiss Collection.
I love the delicate designs of Stacy's work, and it is a true inspiration where the part Stacy cut paper like waves! I really enjoyed it too!
Also I added some touches of my style by adding a large flower and Vine. I really wanted to add handmade doilies like Stacy did, but since I am not good at it, I decided to add die cut doily to my page. lol
Moreover, I am using the mulberry paper instead of gauze.
And finally, I added modeling paste to some places in order to make the whole color tone more settled down.
Thank you so much Stacy for this wonderful inspiration I really enjoyed it very much!!!
Maiko

Supplies

# 844172 Sun Kiss Collection Sunshine Path
# 844189 Sun Kiss Collection Sweet Tea
# 844219 Sun Kiss Collection Shady Nook
# 844226 Sun Kiss Collection Kindred Spirits
# 844240 Sun Kiss Collection Lemon Ginger
# 555689 Charme Rose Sun Kiss
# 555634 Perle Bebe Sun Kiss
# 555702 Lucerne Sun Kiss
# 555726 Pixie Vine Sun Kiss
# 844240 Sun Kiss Collection Lemon Ginger
# 554125 Crystals Fairy Belle
# 556846 Miss Godivas Marshmallow
# 556853 Miss Godivas Mermaid
# 557089 Lady Godivas Orange Ice
# 557652 Laraine Blue Lagoon
# 890803 Resin - Garden Well
# 891183　Chalk Fluid Edger - Coltfoot Stemens
# 891169　Chalk Fluid Edger - Shabby Tote
# PE-067-D48 YELLOW 100 PCS
# PE-914-LT.Blue BLUE 72 PCS
# PE-006-9 Rose Yellox/Cream

Sharon Laakkonen designed this colorful scrapbook page that inspired Heidi Kelley on her scraplift page.

Heidi shares what inspired her about Sharon's page:

I scraplifted this layout of Sharon's for a few reasons! First, I loved the title - something about it struck a chord with me, so I played off of it - just changing it a bit. Secondly, I loved that she used a cluster of three photos. Inspired by this, I tweaked it a bit to feature one larger photo, and stuck a couple smaller photos behind them too to make it look like a pile of pics. I used the same paper line, Doodle Deux, but mimicked her design elements instead of using the same ones. I thought it would be fun to use gesso to take the place of the wide yellow strip in the middle of her page, and then I clustered various cuts from the paper as well. :) Of course, I still had to add my art mediums as well, making the layout my own!

Supplies

Doodle Deux Collection:
Doodle Bits #843977
Two-by-Two #843939
En Francais Alphabet Stickers #554309

AnnaMarie Modro chose to scraplift this beautiful page by Janine Koczwara:

May You Always Be *Fairy Belle Collection*

To be on the Prima Design Team with the fabulous Janine is truly an honor...to be able to scraplift her – BONUS!! :) One of the things I admire most about Janine's style (beyond her stunning photography of those gorgeous children! :) ) is her ability to layer - paper, elements, embellishments...she is truly able to layer with ease. As one scans over her page, the eye is drawn to the many layers and details, placed just right...and the way she layers and clusters is both fluid and smooth. There are so many wonderful elements to Janine’s layering - hand-cut images from the patterned papers, mixing and matching of florals, the use of punches, die-cuts, and/or doilies, and the mixing of colors within a palette. And yet even with the multiple layers and clustering going on, there is never a sense of the page being too "busy"...the layers instead serve to enhance her amazing photography which remains central focus.

In scraplifting this layout, I retained many of the original design elements within Janine's "May you always be this sweet" layout, but rearranged some of the vertical layers into horizontal ones and added in more floral elements. Many of Janine’s layouts also seem to highlight one absolutely stunning photo, and I chose to use one photo on my layout as well, slightly enlarging it from her original design.

It was truly an honor to scraplift you Janine - thank you for inspiring me! :)

Supplies:

Item# 843434 - Romantique Col. Estella
Item# 843465 - Romantique Col. Ha' Penny
Item# 843458 - Romantique Col. Hedgerow
Item# 843441 - Romantique Col. Gazette
Item# 843410 - Romantique Col. Orchard
Item# 551223 - Chipboard - Romantique
Item# 551131 - Reflections - Romantique
Item# 551285 - Art Tiles - Romantique
Item# 890704 - Resin - Old Church Window
Item# 890681 - Resin - Large Window Shutters
Item# 550783 - Vintage Buttons
Item# 550431 - Toggle - Bobbin
Item# 553739 - Tweet Vine - Quail Glow
Item# 552879 - Cradle - Robin
Item# 552572 - Jardinere - Romantique
Item# 551698 - Fleur De Lys - Chorale
Item# 556778 - Mariposa Topaz
Item# 558406 - Kennedy Vintage
Item# 552633 - Bretton Vines - Purity
Item# 552022 - Flaxence - Barley

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May 31, 2012

Colorful Canvas Tote on LWP!

We have one more amazing class for May and it's one you won't want to miss! Jen Matott is hosting the show tonight and she will share even more great ideas using Faber-Castell products with Prima canvas. Jen is a designer for Faber-Castell and has a degree in Fine Art as well as Art Education. We can not wait to see the fabulous tips and techniques she plans to share with our viewers.

Join us live for this class and more on our Prima channel at ustream.com. This is also the place to see all of our classes we have previously aired. We also have a Live with Prima group on Facebook, that anyone is welcome to join! Create a free login on ustream.com to participate in our live chats, that take place during every show. Log in, go to our channel and start typing in the chat box next to the video screen.

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Colorful Canvas Tote with Jen Matott (Designer for Faber-Castell)

Thursday, May 31st at 6:30pm PT/ 9:30pm ET

6/1-1:30am GMT/ 11:30am Sydney

This class will explore different mixed media techniques using both Faber-Castell DMC and Prima products. Jennifer Matott will lead you through techniques with the "yummy" Gelatos, Aquarelle pencils, and Big Brush Markers for a artsy bag that will get you noticed! This class is messy, fun and FULL of technique.

Prima Products:

921538 Donna Downey Canvas Tote
555146 Cling Mount Stamps- Almanac
554699 Resist Canvas Nature Garden
554699 Calcutta Leaves
920920 Canvas Flowers Plain
547608 Amia Shalimar Buttons
558192 Tattered Treasures-wheat
551339 Say It In Crystals- Brights
558253 Butterflies
558253 Wood buttons Doodle Deux
921712 Paintable Quilted Words- Journey
550028 Mask

Extra Materials:

US ArtQuest Light 101 Art Cement (light modeling paste)
Palette knife
Mini Misters
Faber-Castell Gelatos
Faber-Castell Red/Yellow Aquarelles
Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens (black Small)
Faber-Castell Big Brush PITT Artist Marker - Black & Red
Faber-Castell Textural Accents
Beacon Fabri-Tac
Brushes
Acetate or Plastic (to create a template)

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May 30, 2012

Prima & Faber-Castell Blog Hop Wrap-up and Winner!

Today is the wrap-up to our month long blog hop with Faber-Castell. Our teams had such a great time creating for the hop and hoped you all enjoyed joining in on the fun. To close out the blog hop, we have a few projects to to share with you as well as the winner to our blog hop! What better way to break up the week.

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First we have this bold and colorful layout created by the lovely Ms. Leslie Ashe. Leslie uses the Gelatos on Prima's resist canvas to add color to her page.

Here is a little bit from Leslie about her page:

I decided to get bold & have FUN with Faber-Castell goodies on this page. I used the Gesso as a background – to tone my bright paper down just a little bit. Then I used a Prima brick mask & colored between the “mortar” with gelato’s. I also used the gelato’s to color my resist canvas flowers, then used the artist pen to blend it all together for a fun watercolor, artsy effect.

Supplies

Songbird Jotz Paper #844066
Cardstock Alphabet #554316
Resist Canvas #554376
SIIC #551414
SIIC #536206
SIIC #553968
Mask #550004
Mariposa Meadow #556730
Antique Mirror #551100
Flocked Rub Ons #550844
Faber Castell Supplies:
Mix & Match Golor Gelatos – Green
Metallic Gelatos – Gold
Gesso (textured accent)
pitt artist pen – orange glaze

Our next Prima/Faber-Castell project was created by the artistic Heidi Kelley.

Heidi tells us how she went about decorating this beautiful journal:

Altering items with art mediums is made so much fun with Faber Castell! I was able to color the cute Prima birdhouse shabby chic treasures with the Pitt Pastel pencils, blending as I went, and then highlighting with the Gelato stick. I also used gesso to highlight the Alla Prima paper background, and then colored with the Pitt Pastel pencil in random places. I then used a bit of bead gel and molding paste, let dry, and then once again highlighted the peaks with the Gelato stick and Big Brush pen! The metal trinket also took the color from the Big Brush pen, making it look rustic and sunshiney :)

Supplies

Shabby Chic Treasures #890797
Trinkets #555221
Alla Prima paper Ferrulle #843380
Canvas Banner (scraps) #921842
Faber Castell:
Mix & Match Mixed Media Sampler "Neutral" - Gold gelato stick
Mix & Match Essentail Took Kit - Blending Stump
Mix & Match Stamper's Big Brush Pens - Light Yellow Glaze, Cadmium Yellow
Mix & Match PITT Pastel Pencils - blue/green

This amazing banner was created by the even more amazing Cari Fennell. Cari uses the Donna Downey canvas banners to create this "Fun" piece.

Here are a few steps from Cari on how she created this beautiful project:

I colored the banners with a mix of gelatos, spritzed with water and blended the colors. I punched out scalloped circles using my Marvy punches and stacked them together. Then I placed the chip letters in the circle centers. I added black gelato to the letters to darken them a bit. I stamped the birds using black paint and cut them out, then added them to the banners as well...

Supplies

921835-Canvas Banner Donna Downey
921774-Bird Foam Stamp Donna Downey
921781-Small Bird Foam Stamp Donna Downey
540227-Innocence Flowers
551797-Crystal Palace Seamist
553005-Gillian Flower-Cider
554354-Almanac Alphabet Stickers
920791-Pom Pom Trim-Light Blue
843960-Doodle Deux Paper-Doodle Up
??-Doodle Deux-Lucky Charms
Faber Castell-Gelatos
Light blue, Red, Orange, Light Pink, Black
Black Seam Binding
Black Acrylic Paint-Adirondack-Pitch Black

This last layout is the work of the talented AnnaMarie Mondro. AnnaMarie uses a softer color palette showing you can combine Prima and Faber-Castell and get any color scheme.

AnnaMarie said that using the Faber-Castell art mediums made her step out of her comfort zone. Any style can use these mediums without intimidation.

Supplies

tem# 950026 - Nature Garden Collection Pixie
Item# 950064 - Nature Garden Collection Midsummer's Eve
Item# 555283 - Chipboard Pieces Nature Garden
Item# 890674 - Resin - Roman Pillars
Item# 556693 - Genie Stones Black Wrap
Item# 556716 - Petal Pins Beads
Item# 551506 - Say It In Crystals
Item# 550011 - Masks
Item# 558222 - Metalique Iron
Item# 557607 - Parisa Mayfair Mix
Item# 555856 - Perle Bebe Nature Garden
Item# 555870 - Melisse Nature Garden
Item# 555924 - Lucerne Nature Garden
Item# 555917 - Essentials Petals Nature Garden
Item# 555955 - Flutter Bits Nature Garden
Faber-Castell Metallic Gelatos (Metallic)
Faber-Castell Color Gelato (Blue/Green)
Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen (Green Metallic)
Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle Watercolor Pencil (Green)
Faber-Castell Mix & Match Pitt Pastel Pencils (Neutral)
Faber-Castell Glaze

Now that we've showed you a few more inspiring projects, lets get down to the winner for our Prima giveaway!!!

Congratulations Cecilia Johansson!

Cecilia please email sharon@primamarketinginc.com to claim your prize. Please label your email with "Prima/Faber-Castell Blog Hop".

What a great blog hop and so much fun to be able to win such great prices!
My absolute favourite technique is the amazing gelatos for backgrounds and coloring flowers, resist and so much more! I've already ordered them and can't wait to start playing around with them!
Thank you all for showing so much creativity and amazing inspiration! Love it!
Cecilia

Posted by: Cecilia Johansson | May 22, 2012 at 03:10 AM

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May 29, 2012

Scrap 'N Save with Prima!

It's time to save your Prima packages and receipts! We have a special offer for you if you do!

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Simple to Stupendous with Stacy Cohen

We have something new for you on the blog today! Simple to stupendous shows you ways of how to take your scrapbook pages to the next level. Stacy Cohen has brought this stunning page with her before and after steps on how she made her simple page stupendous.

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Whether your scrapping style is “Clean and Simple”, “Shabby Chic”, or something altogether different, Prima’s beautiful products can be incorporated into any style of scrapbooking.

Personally, I don’t have a single set-in-stone scrapbooking style. To keep things interesting for myself, I like to play around with different styles. Some of my pages are very simple with minimal embellishments, and others are filled with techniques and lots of lush Prima products. Today I’m going to show you two versions of a layout I created. The first version is very simple. On the second version I took it up a notch by adding more techniques and embellishments.

Here is the first version. Pretty simple, huh?

I created a quick and easy base for the photo by punching squares from the Songbird collection papers. One of these papers is the Songbird “Collage” paper. The beauty of this particular paper is that it has a collage of different patterns on one side, so I was able to get a variety of punched squares using just this one piece of paper. I kept the rest of the page pretty simple as well I used a minimal amount of flowers (just enough to “pretty up” the page a bit), added my title, and then I hand-wrote my journaling on a doily. This is a page that could easily be completed in half an hour and with minimal supplies.

Here is the second version.

As you can see, there’s a lot more going on here. I added more embellishments and details. For example, I beefed up my cluster of flowers and embellishments. I added some details, like machine stitching around the page and tiny drops of Liquid Pearls (by Ranger) around the center section.

Instead of a simple punched square design, I added a more eye-catching patchwork design adorned with pearls.

You can learn how to do this cool paper quilting technique here: Davinie’s quilting tutorial

To add a bit of sparkle and pizazz to my embellishment clusters, I coated some of the flowers and the butterfly with translucent white glitter.

Granted, this second version might still be considered fairly “simple” by some standards, but it’s stepped up just enough to give it that extra floral lushness that Prima is known for.

Supplies (not all of these were used on the first version):

844059 Songbird “Lineage”
844011 Songbird “Collage”
844080 Songbird “Title-it”
547189 Parfait Collection Blush
555306 Songbird Chipboard
554828 Songbird Chipboard Stickers
550066 Alphabet Stickers
555382 Alphabet Stickers
555597 Songbird Essential Flowers
555597 Lucerne Songbird Flowers
555573 Charme Rose Songbird Flowers
557157 Tivona Rose
557645 Laraine Pearl White
556327 Velvet Rainbow Naturals
558253 Butterflies
300456 E-Line Pearls

BONUS: Are you a 2-page layout kind of gal? Here’s a 2-pager I did that incorporates the basic design of my 1-page layouts above.

You can see how easy it is to take a 1-page design and incorporate it into a 2-page layout!

I hope you enjoyed today’s post! Now tell us, what’s your usual scrapping style?

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May 28, 2012

Designer Feature with Ingvild Bolme

Happy Memorial Day...Today we would like to introduce to you, Ingvild Bolme. She is the designer behind Prima's Comfort Craft tools, the ever-handy Chalk Edgers, and Shabby Chic metals and resins.

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My name is Ingvild Bolme from Norway, mother to little Iselina (5.5 years), who also is my biggest scrapbook inspiration. I discovered scrapbooking in 1996, and, since 1997, have been totally addicted to this amazing craft. My style can vary a bit after the pictures I scrap or the occasion I design for, but there are always lots of details on my works, simply because I love to put on lots of embellish and try out different techniques. I also love the vintage and romantic style and often choose that style if possible. I love photography and design, and I simply love everything within this craft. Prima is my heart brand, and I dare to say that Prima's products has shaped my style in scrapbooking to what it is today.

You can see more of Ingvild's work on her personal site:

www.ingvildbolme.com

The Comfort Craft Tools are an ergonomic line that give you the comfort and support you might need for those detailed scrapbook projects. The line includes a craft knife, self-healing craft mats (available in two sizes), and the all-in-one distressing tool. This distressing tool will make all of your other distressing tools obsolete. It has a sanding edge, heavy grate distressing edge (with removable bed), edge distresser, bone fold, wire brush, and rub-on tool. This is a must have in your arsenal of scrapbooking supplies.

Also available are the amazing chalk edgers. These come with a handle already built onto the ink pad for ease in holding. The iron shape reaches well into those tight corners and the broad pad will cover larger areas quickly.

Here are a few of the chalk colors available.

Along with the handy tools Invild has designed a beautiful line of embellishments done in metal and resin.

The Shabby Chic line is full of wonder and whimsy fit for any design and style. The pieces can be altered to match your color schemes as well! Here are some projects Ingvild designed using some of her products.

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Now here are a few projects, by our design team, showcasing Invild's line of tools and gorgeous embellishments.

Altered 6 x 6 Shadow Box - Trudi Harrison

This fantastic altered piece was designed by Trudi Harrison. Trudi created this breath-taking frame and embellishes it with a few of the Shabby Chic resin and metal embellishments.

Altered 6 x 6 Shadow Box Detail 1- Trudi Harrison

Supplies

#890735 Resin - Mini Windows
#890704 Resin – Old Church Window
#890759 Resin – Gable
#890674 Resin – Roman Pillars
#890858 Metal Treasures – Bird Cages
#556808 Miss Godivas – Celadon
#553319 Pixie Glen – Coventry Rose
#843571 Pixie Glen – 6 x 6 Paper Pad
#552534 Essentials 11 – Pixie Glen
#551629 Resist Canvas
SA-002/1 White

This next project was designed by Steph Devlin. Steph uses the adorable bird resins on her page, a perfect centerpiece to her beautiful layout. Steph also utilizes the Comfort Craft knife to do all of her intricate fussy cutting.

Supplies

844134 - Edison
844158 - Agenda
844141 - Notary
844127 - Shaffer
556259 - Lucerne
554590 - Art Tiles
556235 - Charme rose
554224 - Trinkets
556655 - Vintage Mix
557737 - Marcelle
890773 - Small Birds Resin
557645 - Laraine
544232 - White Alphas
891169 - chalk fluid edger- shabby tote
891015 - chalk fluid edger- rust
890964 - Craft Knife

Maiko Kosugi brings this soft stunner. Maiko uses the metal gates to frame part of her cheerful photo. She also accents her page by using the Chalk Edgers in Shabby Tote. The chalk ink adds detail to the abundance of layers.

Supplies

# 844011 Songbird Collection Collage
# 844035 Songbird Collection Zephyr
# 844059 Songbird Collection Lineage
# 555382 8"x10" Alphabet Sheet Songbird
# 554828 Journaling Chipboard Songbird
# 555580 Essentials Petals Songbird
# 555597 Lucerne Songbird
# 555542 Camille Songbird
# 555610 Pixie Vine Songbir
# 555573 Charme Rose Songbird
# 555559 Vinetta Songbird
# 891169 Chalk Fluid Edger - Shabby Tote
# 557171 Tivona Frost Mix Large
# 890896 Metal Treasures - Hutches
# 554408 Wood Tickets Nature Garden

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May 25, 2012

Exercise Your Creativity and Scraplift

Today is our last Scraplift feature for the month. We had so much fun using each other for inspiration and we hope you did as well.

When scraplifting, there are so many things you can use from a layout as your lift. It could be the colors used, the outline of the page, it can even be as simple as the products used. You can go back through your own work and find projects to scraplift. Using scraplifts is an easy way to get out of that creative rut or give yourself that extra boost.

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Our fist scraplift was inspired by this creative page designed by Trina McClune.

There are so many gorgeous layouts from Trina I truly could not decide which one to lift. I scrolled through her gallery (several times) and was mesmerised by this stunning page. Her work is so incredibly neat and her little details are just delightful.

Of course having 3 boys the pink just would not work for me, but keeping the same amazing design I opted to change the colour palette.

I loved Trina layout so much that I kept a lot of the same elements on my page and just added my own touches and style for example the misting!! I cut paper circles and distressed the edges and used the end of a paintbrush to dot my way around the page.
Thankyou so much Trina for inspiring me, I really did get lost in your layout;) ~Stacey Young

Supplies

#550080 Alphabet stickers
#549343 Candy Gems Fruity Tutti
#546892 Treasure Rae Emerald Sea
#544294 SIIC
#549046 Sugar Blooms
#547424 Precious Metals
#549015 Sugar Blooms
#552770 Carlotta Blue Pearl
#555726 Pixie Vine
#870317 Pebbles
#844226 "Kindred Spirit" Sunkiss
#843885 "Billettes" En Francais
#843854 "Cheval" En Francais
#552114 Meredith Dove
#557089 Lady Godivas Orange Ice
#557652 Laraine Blue Lagoon
#557720 Marcelle Curtain Call
#553463 Medley Midas

Anna Marie Mondro thought up this beautiful layout. Her beautiful work inspired Emeline Seet's wonderful project.

I scraplifted Anna Marie's gorgeous mix of warm colors into her layouts.Her use of embellishments and use of recycled elements (i.e.: corrugated board) brings attention to her photos.

It is a struggle for me to scrap in darker, warm colors. However, the freedom to scrap lift Anna Marie's layouts made me think it isn't so difficult to work with deep colors after all ! Thank you for inspiring me, Anna Marie :) ~Emeline

Supplies

Printery Collection "Monogram" #843533
Printery Collection "Printery Collection" #843519
Printery Collection "Page Four" #843526
Printery Collection " Signature" #843519
Notecards Fairy Belle #554897
Vintage Knittie Flower #546595
Melody Love Note Flower #548803
Manette Maples Flower #557256
Yellow Flowers #PE-067-D48
Toggle- Bobbin #550431
Flutter Bits Songbird #555627

This colorful treat was created by Leslie Ashe. She was the inspiration for Janine's scraplift.

I had the wonderful task of scraplifting one of the layouts of the super talented Leslie Ashe!! I love the way Leslie has an artistic edge to her pages and a more free-flowing style. I chose to lift this page as I adored her arty circles and the way it meandered down the page. I used a lot of elements from the original page as my inspiration, especially the placement, but adapted other aspects to fit my style. In keeping with the artistic whimsy of the original page, I went to town with glimmer mists to create my own “artsy” background paper, but rather than using Pan Pastels for circles as Leslie did, I used an octagon die and double layered them to add a touch of my style into it as well.

Finally I finished off the page with flowers, chipboard and some bling. I replicated the flower placement fairly closely, but chose to add a bit of my style to it by incorporating a bit of bling trailing from the lower floral cluster. Thank you so much Leslie for creating such an inspiring original design for me to lift. ~Janine Koczwara

Supplies

844226 Sun Kissed Collection – Kindred Spirits
844202 Sun Kissed Collection – Nectar Fields
844196 Sun Kissed Collection – Bliss
544842 Sun Kissed Collection – chipboard
555696 Sun Kissed Collection – Essential Petals
555702 Sun Kissed Collection – Lucerne Flowers
555658 Sun Kissed Collection – Camille Flowers
555665 Sun Kissed Collection – Vinetta Flowers
555634 Sun Kissed Collection – Perle Bebe Flowers
554521 Wood Buttons
554316 Alphabet Stickers

Emeline Seet created this amazing layout. It's the perfect layout for Anna Dabrowska to scraplift.

I had the honor of scraplifting a project of the wonderful and talented Emeline. I totally adore her sense of style and multifloral compositions which were a great source of inspiration for me. In fact I discovered we've got a lot of things in common: we both like to work on the customized backgrounds and we both create clusters... maybe a
bit of different kind, but the idea is similar! I loved studying Emeline's multi-layered flower projects, finding new elements in very detailed work and trying to follow her steps in composing a layout based on one, large group of embellishments. I found out that Emeline tends to use one, medium sized or small photo in a company of a large number of clustered flowers, usually situated on the one side or bottom of it - that was a challenge for me as I usually try to surround my photos from all sides! The next observation I made were her delicate, feminine, usually whitewashed color palettes - beautiful sets of colors matching each others perfectly... again, very inspiring!
My project is based on her amazing layout "Blessed are the pure in heart" - I loved this artwork from the first sight! Eye-catching photo, masked and painted background, large flower cluster - it all made my creative juices flowing! I started with the background: the two papers were layered one on another, distressed, and sprayed. Then stamped and painted with a bit of gesso. The photo I used is my interpretation of the composition of the original photo - the person showed on it has got the flower cluster behind her back, just like the children on the beautiful Emeline's picture. Building the group of embellishments I tried to use a similar set of elements, but with a touch of "me" too - and i'm quite happy with the final result:) Scraplifting this project was a pure pleasure for me - Emeline is a very talented artist, so I feel that I not only had great creative fun but also learned a lot about other ways of building composition. Thank you so much for this inspiring challenge! ~Anna

Supplies

Item# 950156 - Fairy Belle Collection La Ronde
Item# 950088 - Fairy Belle Collection En Pointe
Item# 551100 - Reflections - Printery
Item# 556372 - Laredo Socorro
Item# 890773 - Resin - Small Birds
Item# 558468 - Soiree Champagne
Item# 557669 - Laraine River Rock
Item# 551704 - Fleur De Lys - Almond
Item# 556495 - Allegra Adelle
Item# 551094 - Imagenne Stamp Set - Alla Prima

This dimensional work of art was created by Heidi Kelley. Heidi's layout gave Anne Jo Lexander, her ideas for her adorable page.

When I think of Heidi Kelley...I think of her little scenes, no matter if it's on a layout or a shadowbox, where she hand cut her photos, staging a whole new stage for her protagonists...and then there's paint, lots of paint, and colors, and usually a whole little mix of flowers....While I had her recent layout "Blowing kisses" as a starting point (her two focal points on the layout are the two clusters, I've mimicked them on mine)...I additionally had her whole style in mind when creating my lift, especially the playful side of her creations, it's like she's carefree and happy when creating, exploring the artsier sides of scrapbooking and painting and art journaling, happily bringing them all together.

I'll admit..I was terrified...I still am...I like to think I'm handling most styles well, but hers really is one I don't go exploring too often! But once I started...I had fun during the planning stage, thinking....what would Heidi do now....in the end I just had to jump in and get started before I regretted things too much! :D Heidi, I hope you approve! ~Anne Jo

Who wouldn't approve Anne Jo? This is terrific!

Supplies

Sun Kiss collection – Sun Dried 844233
Lucerne Sun kiss – 555702
Charme rose Sun kiss – 555689
Flutter bits Sun kiss – 555689
Tweet Vine quail 553722
Harmonie pastel 556877
trixie bright 557201
Miss godivas caramel 556839
Velvet rainbow spring mix – 556358, brights 556310,
Paper tag set – 921880
Pixie vine fairy belle 555504
Resist canvas – 554699
Mask – 545567
Canvas letters – 550110
Wooden clock – 554613
Antique mirror - 551100
SIIC - 551322

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May 24, 2012

Printery Mini Album with Marion tonight on LWP...

Tonight, we have our rescheduled class with Marion Smith, featuring her Printery Mini Album on Live with Prima. And on the schedule for next week, we have guest designer, Jen Matott from Faber-Castell, creating a gorgeous canvas tote using Prima and Faber Castell products. These two shows offer tons of great techniques and inspiration!

See these shows live on our Prima channel at ustream.com or watch the recordings at any time on the same channel. Join our Live with Prima Facebook group to stay up to date on all of the show news. Anyone on Facebook can join! Create a free login on ustream and join our chats that take place during each broadcast. The chat is located on our channel, next to the video screen. Hope to see you at the shows!

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Printery Album with Marion Smith

Thursday, May 24^th at 6:30pm PT/ 7:30pm MT/ 8:30pm CT/ 9:30pm ET

5/25-1:30am GMT/ 11:30am Sydney

Join Marion as she creates this sweet little book with Prima’s Printery papers, embellishments and more! You will love the color scheme and the vintage look of this project.

Prima Products:

552091-Meredith-Merlin
843557-Printery-Folio
843526-Printery-Page 4
843489-Printery-Emperor
843496-Printery-Pressman
843502-Printery-Negative
843519-Printery-Signature
552671-Breton Vines Chronicle
930059-Vintage Trinkets
930028-Vintage Trinkets
539139-Calcutta Leaves
534158-Sprites No. 3
551414-Say It In Crystals

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Colorful Canvas Tote with Jen Matott

Thursday, May 31st at 6:30pm PT/ 7:30am MT/ 8:30pm CT/ 9:30pm ET

6/1-1:30am GMT/ 11:30am Sydney

Prima Products:

921538 Donna Downey Canvas Tote
555146 Cling Mount Stamps- Almanac
554699 Resist Canvas Nature Garden
554699 Calcutta Leaves
920920 Canvas Flowers Plain
547608 Amia Shalimar Buttons
558192 Tattered Treasures-wheat
551339 Say It In Crystals- Brights
558253 Butterflies
558253 Wood buttons Doodle Deux
921712 Paintable Quilted Words- Journey
550028 Mask

Extra Materials:

US ArtQuest Light 101 Art Cement (light modeling paste)
Palette knife
Mini Misters
Faber-Castell Gelatos
Faber-Castell Red/Yellow Aquarelles
Faber-Castell PITT Artist pens (black Small)
Faber-Castell Big Brush PITT Artist Marker - Black & Red
Faber-Castell Textural Accents
Beacon Fabri-Tac
Brushes
Acetate or Plastic (to create a template)

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Check out Cari's latest class featuring a canvas mini album from our Donna Downey collection and our new mid-release, Doodle Duex!

Video streaming by Ustream

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May 23, 2012

We're Mixing it Up With Mixed Media

It's the middle of the week and we thought we would mix things up a bit. At least mix the mediums. Today we have three stunning Mixed Media projects. Each one ready to entice you to break out those art mediums and step out of your comfort zones.

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For our first project we have this beautiful layout created by Heidi Kelley. She shows us how even with a minimalist design you can still incorporate multiple mediums into your work.

Heidi shares with us some insight into her page.

One of the things that delights me most in creating, is being able to minimally use supplies, making the most out of my papers... Really putting them to work. Prima's papers help me to create this way so easily because of the amount of detail within every paper and collection! I adore the Songbird collection because of the color palette, the detailed patterns, and the endless possibilities for embellishment!

I chose to use pieces of paper cut from this collection as all of my embellishments, using lots of negative space and a backdrop created with a combination of gesso, molding paste, paint, and masking tape. I love how simple, grungy, and beautiful it all looks when put together!

Supplies

Songbird Collection Paper #844066, 844080, 844073, 844028
Gesso
Molding Paste
Paint Mists

Our next project is a beautiful gift box with mixed media flare. Anne Jo Lexander does a magnificent job at creating a one of a kind gem.

I love dressing up a pretty box! I was looking into the bottom of my distress crackle paint (picket fence), so decided to just pour the last drops (almost) all over the box to add some whimsy the overall look. I love combining different fabrics of embellishments - leather flower, canvas flower, felt leaves combined with regular fabric and paper flowers and not to mention the lovely "glass" embellishments snuck in here and there.

Supplies

tweet vine quail – 553722
Charme rose doodle deux – 555795
Gillian cinder – 553029
charlotta parrot – 552787
Laredo nuevo – 556389
Fabrique Lakeshore - 557881
Flocked rub-ons – 550844
Printery – signature 843519
Vermont – brown 553630
Solitaire – jeweltone 552282
Art tiles – alla prima 551261

Our third and final mixed media piece for the day is a design by Stacey Young. Stacey uses many layers and textures in her projects and this canvas is no different. She uses soft colors and subtle design to pull everything together on this lovely work of art.

This was such a fun process creating this piece and I just adore this picture of me and my boys! I wanted to have a neutral colour scheme and to tie in a little bit of blue to match the boys shirts. I always like my artwork to blend in with the colours in my pictures. I mixed some papers from the Almanac and Songbird collections. I started with the mask up the top of the canvas and then added my papers as a base for my photo. When we go to the beach we always collect shells so I love to incorporate these into my beach scenes. I also found sand left in some of the shells so I scattered that along the bottom of the canvas. I added lots of flowers from the new release along with some older ones. I added sticks which I covered in gesso and I created with alot of misting and painting. I finished my project off with the cute little Metal seagulls.