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Happy Thanksgiving!

As we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the states we want to tell you how thankful we are for each one of YOU! We appreciate the patronage and support you have given to us throughout the year. May you be blessed in return!

The Mini-Album Give-Away Winner Is...

Sandi James!! Congrats to you, Sandi, from everyone at Prima.

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My favorite colors. My fingers are so crossed!

Posted by: Sandi James | November 20, 2009 at 03:10 PM

Please email within the next 7 days to claim your prize: sharon@primamarketinginc.com

TNT: Turkey 'n Trimmings?

Like many of our readers in the U.S., I'm visiting family for a long Thanksgiving weekend.

My husband and all the brothers-in-law and their sons are outside raking up the leaves in Grandma and Grandpa's yard which reminded me of this layout of the Autumn colors up in Kent Falls, CT.

So while my mind turns to the big feast tomorrow... and I realize that I don't have access to my lovely craft studio from here in Arkansas, I do have a prior craft that hasn't been shown on the blog before that I would like to share with you.

 
As you can see, once again, I am playing with flowers as something more.  this time a little Autumn Fairy.  And I keep thinking that if I had these Big Box Blooms in my hands, right now - I would be keeping my nieces and nephews busy making some turkeys.  Wouldn't they be perfect for the feathers?  But alas, the craft studio is far, far away back in Connecticut.  But perhaps you can do this craft with your guests.

 
I love the Times Alphabet Chipboard Letters.  These are a wonderful cream in color, a perfect neutral, as well as very alterable in this case using alcohol inks to mimic the lovely colors in the backdrop.  A couple of these products are just favorite, staples that I'm constantly returning to -- and all available to order.

Among the Products Used Today:

• #810054 Time Alphabet Chipboard, Small Cream
• #860011 Harmony Ribbons, brown lace
• #510275 Big Box Blooms, Petal Poetry 3

And now, to add to the fun...simply leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win a prize, featuring products used in today's post. We will randomly choose a winner on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009. Open to North America only due to shipping costs, but approx. every 5 weeks or so we will host a worldwide drawing.

From the entries received on our last technique post, using Random.org's random integer generator -- the VERY THANKFUL winner for our previous technique post drawing is:

Shawna!

Please contact me so we can mail out your lovely prize at sallylynn@primamarketinginc.com

Best of luck to each of you!  And I look forward to chatting with you today and every week with TNT.

P.S. Do you want a Prima Endorsed Artist-Educator to teach a workshop at your store or event?  Contact Lu at 909-627-5532 and dial 2 for more information.  The full schedule of upcoming workshops is online too.

Have a great day and a lovely Thanksgiving weekend too, for all who are celebrating this week.

SL

Leave it to the Birds

Prima recently had some new visitors! 

We're thinking they just loved sitting up there watching us come and go.

(Maybe they were really hoping to get peeks of the NEW Prima flowers and papers for CHA!)

Here's hoping they come back soon to entertain us again!

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Birds are popping up on these NEW designs from our ever-so-talented Design Team too!

 

H2O Fun is a sunny layout featuring lots of crisp colors and artsy techniques. Ingvild Bolme loves to cut patterned paper apart and use those pieces as design elements (like the cute bird)...after adding those she layered on paint, packaging, Painted Ladies and Baby Lilies.

Check out all of the special touches she adds to each project! Painted Ladies:532727, Evelyn Baby Lilies: 532680 ,

Anam Stubbington uses the Life In Colors "Dance for the Birds" paper (910006) to highlight these SWEET photos of her and her hubby. A felt gate, felt stems and printed canvas sheets bring amazing textural interest to the whole layout. (felt gate: 526726, Felt Stems: 531041, canvas sheet: 920340, Journey stamp: 531201)

Fabulous Canvas Page Idea

You know our canvas refill pages are great for LOTS of projects, right?

OH YES, they are! Lets take a look at one fantastic idea using a canvas refill page on a layout.

 
Cari Fennell took an 8x8 canvas page (920463), spritzed it with Glimmer Mist and used it as a mat on her gorgeous layout! What do you do with the grommets? Well, they are perfect for adding a big ribbon bow, while lots of Prima flowers and lettering finish off the page with lots of colorful style. See how the canvas adds so much texture and depth to the page? 

Don't you love how the stitched word (920388) perfectly matches the alphas (531096)? Both add beautiful color to the design.

Peeks of Wildwood (530143) and Fleur Danseur flowers (531980) add natural touches to the layout.

Try thinking OUTSIDE the box when using our refill pages! You will be surprised at how versatile they are. There are SO many projects you can use these for.

It's Time for a Give-Away!

Today we have an EXTRA SPECIAL give-away just for YOU!

YES...included is a whole album AND a bunch of really fun accessories!

 

The fabulous Prima give-away includes:

• One GORGEOUS Donna Downey turquoise, scallop-edged album-920203
• Four Donna Downey Iron-Ons-920272, 920227, 920289, 920296
  
• One 12x12 canvas printed sheet-920357
• Two packs of amazing letter stickers (with bonus crystal and pearls)-531072, 531164
  
• Two Donna Downey stitched words-920395, 920371
• One full pack of Donna Downey canvas-covered buttons-920333
• One full pack of Mini-Pebbles-881801

For your chance to win leave a comment on this post. We will choose a winner on Wednesday, November 25th. Open to all countries. Winner must claim prize within seven days of winning post.

GOOD LUCK!

Prima's Product Pick Winner Is...

http://altermyworld.blogspot.com/2009/10/prima-contest.html

oooooooo i would love to win this
ANg

Posted by: altermyworld.blogspot.com | October 22, 2009 at 02:35 AM

Ang wins a fun little prize pack for posting a link to this month's Product Pick.

Ang-please email within the next seven days to claim your prize:

sharon@primamarketinginc.com

The Prettiest "Thank You" Ever...

When Ingvild Bolme makes a Thank You card she creates a piece of art. Just take a peek at all of the special details on this amazing Garden-oriented card.

Ingvild uses one of our Felt Gates as the base for the card. Prima mini-roses and Tea & Silk patterned paper cut-outs add dimension and color.  (see complete supply list below)

The gated front opens up to a special sentiment page where Ingvild highlighted the Tea & Silk paper, along with lots of stamping and hand-made puffy clouds.

 

Even the back has special touches on it!

Airy Prima lace ties the BEAUTIFUL card together.

Wouldn't you LOVE to receive this card? It is beautifully done by one of our talented gals!

Prima Supplies:

Felt Gate: 526665

Mini-Roses: SA-016-6, PE-900-1-CREAM, SA-16-12

Patterned Paper: 810450, 810467

Stamps: 850616 (bird, flowers)

Lace: 534981

Stay tuned as we will be posting our Prima Pick winner later today!
 

TNT: Fairy Ornament - and some new Artist-Educators Added to the Team!

We got such a great response from last week's Frosty Christmas Tree, that I decided to spark up some holiday creativity with TNT - once again using materials in unexpected ways.

As a reminder, TNT stands for the explosion of creativity that goes on every time I put together a technique post, as well as the fact that my craft area looks like a product bomb has gone off in it, once I'm finished with the project!  As part of this weekly feature - we are going to utilize the chat feature, on the right-hand sidebar of this blog.  Throughout the day, I will be fielding your questions on the topic of the techniques and tips featured here.  If I cannot figure out an answer, I will take it to the team to research your question.

As often as possible we will feature the work of our fabulous design team as well as our artist-educators.

Our project for today is simple to construct and a really fun way to personalize your holiday decorations.

Assemble your materials.

You will need one ornament from #534028, both flowers #532727 and one vine #533823 for this project.

Fold the round flower in half to make the skirt.  Staple this from the inside to the front, bottom of the ornament.

You can use a little adhesive to hold the petals in shape if needed.

Now punch two small holes in the front of the ornament and through the petals of the star-shaped flower.  I used a Cropadile punch to make it easier to get through all the layers in one shot.

I highlighted the hole punch area so you could see it well.  Now use a thin silver wire to thread through both holes, with the ends coming through to the back of the piece.  Place the crystal branch on the back of your project and trim as neccesary.  I wanted two 'arms' and two 'legs' of branches with crystal tips.

Twist the wire to hold these items in place securely.

 
Position and adhere a silhouetted head from a photograph onto your snow angel.  And here is your assembled project.  Notice how the ornament's silver cord sits right over her head, like a halo.

And this little girl is dancing about for a reason - we've got some new Prima Endorsed Artist-Educators to announce today!  Please join me in welcoming:

Joei Lau, Sherry Steveson and Tammy Tutterow.

Feel free to browse their interview pages and blogs to get to know these, and all of our other Prima Endorsed Artist-Educators.

And remember even though TNT is relatively new to the Prima blog, there is a whole archive of prior techniques from the Prima Artist-Educator blog that you can view as well.  Take a look!

I'm sure you will love the fun techniques shown today.  And now, to add to the fun...simply leave a comment on this blog post for your chance to win a prize, featuring products used in today's post. We will randomly choose a winner on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. Open to North America only due to shipping costs, but approx. every 5 weeks or so we will host a worldwide drawing.

From the entries received on our last technique post, using Random.org's random integer generator -- the winner for our previous technique post drawing is:

Janette!

Please contact me so we can mail out your lovely prize at sallylynn@primamarketinginc.com

Best of luck to each of you!  And I look forward to chatting with you today and every week with TNT.

P.S. Do you want a Prima Endorsed Artist-Educator to teach a workshop at your store or event?  Contact Lu at 909-627-5532 and dial 2 for more information.  The full schedule of upcoming workshops is online too.

Have a great day. 

SL

Everything is Coming Up PEARLS!

Our NEW pearl products make finding a great-priced embellishment super EASY!

 


Each E-Line package is FILLED with soft pearls and sparkling crystals. Or try our Say It In Pearls centers for something fancier. The pearl centers are amazing creations filled with lots of gorgeous pearl shapes, colors, and sizes.

Let's see how our fabulous design team uses pearls to accent their projects!

Caroline Ikeji uses LOTS of great pearl centers (530785, 530679, 530686) for her colorful layout. Not only do the flowers look extra special with these centers, but our pearl centers are "peel and stick" so you can fly through a project while making it look like you spent a TON of time on it. :)

Christiane Muller used gorgeous pink E-Line pearls (300524) to accent the black Voila felt piece on this beautiful stitched paper (534745) page. This not only provides great contrast, but it really draws your eye around the layout. Christiane also outlined a few pearls with black pen for some extra fun.

 
Iris Babao Uy uses just a few well-chosen pearl centers (530907) on this design of her sweet baby! Use the centers to anchor a special piece of lace (534967) and to add lots of rich color to your layout. (Tip: The background is created with one Prima stamp and a variety of ink colors. Iris used our sold-out newsprint stamp, but try these others for a GREAT effect- damask: 850746, mosaics: 850708, or book page: 850623)

Janine Koczwara uses a cluster of pearl centers (530877, 531027) on this amazing layout! Pulling a common color (rich brown) for the centers really pulls the whole design together and gives it a feel of luxuriousness. Even the layered, large Maxi Aster flower (701222) has a special center added to it.