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It's Going to Be a Flower-Filled May Day!

May Day is just around the corner...

 

and you know what THAT means?!?

 

It means lots and lots and lots of flowers!

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We asked our talented gals to go ALL OUT with flowers and here is what they have to share with you! So join in, get your flower on and enjoy!

 

Jamie Dougherty flowers things up with this adorable springtime birdhouse!

You just gotta love the trinket baubles hanging down off of it!

• 546281-Arcadian Collection-Blush
• 547547 Cute as a Button Centers
• 529031 Le Petite Fleur Vines
  
• 549572-Aire Collection flowers
  
• 930028- Vintage Trinkets-Lace flowers
• 930066- Vintage Trinkets-Bird Cage
• 930073-Vintage Trinkets-Milk Glass
• 547530-Lovely Leaves Collection
• 541781-Alphabets-Jack and Jill
• PE-040-30 Classic Prima light white pink flowers
  

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Ingvild Bolme decorated a normal, regular, run-of-the-mill box and turned it in to quite the showstopper!

Look at the gorgeous details and techniques Ingvild used! The paper is applied in torn pieces with Ranger's gesso for a nice, shabby effect.

Each angle of the box is given loads of attention with the ribbon border doubling as a "hinge" for keeping the lid attached when it is  opened.

And a sweet bird tops off the beautiful creation!

Supplies:

• Sparkling Spring Paper-Petite Fleur- 842611
• Say It In Crystals Border-544447
• Prima Centers- 530884
  
• Say It In Crystals
• Corine Collection 548865
• Champagne Rose-546830
• Delightful Day Collection-546997
• De Soie Collection-546632
• Mountain Lilies-543051
• Evelyn Lilies
• Leaves-540456
• Alpha-531140
  

 

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Stacy Cohen took a spring bonnet and Prima-fied it! How easy is that? Just think of the possibilities for altering items now!

 

• 921545 Rose Trim
• 548964 Regent Collection Rathbone
• 544805 Say it in Crystals
• 546359 Angelica Rose Jewel
• 533243 Baroque Blooms Plum
• 537647 Lilliput Roses Iris
• 528379 Butterfly C 
  

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Anabelle O'Malley used flowers in such a unique way on this vintage-inspired layout! Our Craftable flowers are pure white and ready for you to color or alter.

• Annalee Romance 841812
• Annalee Notecards 541989
• Annalee Chipboard 541651
• Essentials 9 Annalee Mini 543631
• Times Alphabet 536923
• Alphabet-Paisley Road 541767
• Say it in Studs 530569
• Lace 541354
• Craftable Flowers 2 543983

 

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Trina McClune uses a variety of gorgeous blooms on this personal layout. What a perfect accent to a story about feeling better about yourself!

• 542306 – Ribbon rubans
• 542276 – Ribbons rubans
• 542290 – Ribbons rubans
• 533649 – Cherry Blssm Branches white
• 541484 – Pebbles
• 541545 – Pebbles
• 543853 – Barboleta
• 542436 – Lousa May Alcotts Bubblegum
• 542863 – Vivian Eliza
• 544089 – Cottage Blossoms – Canary
• 543631 – Essentials 9 Annalee mini
• 533151 – Trellis Roses lemon crème
• 535469 – Mini Rose
• 538699 – Cameo roses mandarin
• 541774 – Alphabet stickers
• 541392 – Lace
• Other: white cardstock, embroidery floss, Tim Holtz distress ink – worn lipstick

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Want an inexpensive project idea? Repurpose an older item with a few Prima items and turn it into a gorgeous centerpiece like Anabelle did with this older vase!

A bit of ribbon, crystals and flowers made this vase fresh, modern, and oh-so-lovely!

•  Floret Gisele 548162
• Via Flamenia Collection Cilegia 548049
• Meirecourt Collection 547790
• Innoscence 2 545987
• SIIC 544263
• Powderpuff - Mire Court Lace 547790

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Designer Day: Come Meet Birgit Koopsen!

Today we have a very talented gal from The Netherlands to introduce to you! Birgit Koopsen is a wonderful scrapbooker who teaches all over the world, a fabulous person to work with, and is extra cute to boot!

 

We cannot wait for you to get to know her, and her country, a little bit better!

 

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Hi everyone! I’m thrilled to be here on the Prima blog to tell a bit more about myself today!

I’m Birgit Koopsen and I live with my soul mate for 25 years and our 3 beautiful kids in a little village called Winsum in the north of the Netherlands. My husband has his own company (insurances/mortgages) and has his office at home in the former garage. I have my scrap studio also at home so we get to spend much time every day together with the kids, which is great! We have 2 daughters and a son (Anne 1994, Lennart 1995, and Marlijn 2002).

 

As the Dutch befits they go to school by bike: the youngest in our own village, the 2 oldest go to a village 10 km from here. I read one day that most Dutch households have more bikes than family members and, for us, that’s true. We have 7 bikes! We almost always take a couple of bikes on vacation!

Koopsen Family

We live in a wonderful house in a quiet street with a little harbor just across the street.

The house with the double red roofs on the right side of the apartment building is our house. The room underneath the smaller roof is my studio, the room underneath my studio is my husbands office.

We have a little boat and love to spent our free days on the water.

Our little village.

I love the country side where I live, especially in this time of year, when it’s all green and fresh. I love that we live in an area with so much water! But I really, really love the mountains in combination with either the sea or rivers, and since our country is so flat that you can see today who’s coming to visit you tomorrow, our favorite places to go on vacation are the south of France and Italy. The nature and the Mediterranean atmosphere, the food, the relaxed attitude and of course the wonderful weather are the ingredients for a perfect vacation! These countries make good scenery for beautiful pictures too!

Italy

I started scrapbooking officially 8 years ago, but ever since I was a teenager I’ve been enjoying photography and always "pimped" my photo albums, I just didn't know there was a name for it and special products. I've tried several crafts before I started scrapbooking; oil painting, model drawing, sculpted and much more. But after a while I always got bored with using the same technique over and over again. I was so happy when I found a magazine in the craft store one day about scrapbooking!  I love being able to use whatever technique I want in this hobby! There’s always something new to try! Besides that I love how it keeps all the beautiful memories of special events and everyday life alive. Especially for my children!

 

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 The projects I want to share with you today are two door hangers and a layout.

The picture on this layout was taken during a boat trip on Lake Garda in Italy. We spent the most perfect day on the lake. We brought a pick nick basket and enough drinks for a whole day. In the middle of the lake we anchored the boat and went swimming and sun bathing and when we returned back in the evening we had a lovely dinner on a terrace in Desenzano while it was getting dark and we viewed the hundreds of lights of the little villages along the lake. A day to never forget!

Layout Lake Garda

Detail 1

Detail 2

Materials used:

• Pink Parfait – Sweet Fairy 843045
• Amore – via flaminia 541800
• Aire coll. 549572
• Cabachon coll. 920968 – 920999 – 921415 – 921392
• Mask 8x8 544467
• SIIC & Pearls 544553
• Mistable 549763
• Alpha stickers 544225

This door hanger was made of a canvas page from one of the Prima canvas mini albums. I used a screen and gesso to get the texture.

Welkom hanger

Materials used:

• Canvas page refill 920470
• Masks 882006
• SIIP 530372
• Jewel box butterflies peacock 532352
• Innocence coll. 540166
• Note cards Fairy Flora 541972
• Lace 541323
• Gem stickers alphabet

The second door hanger is made out of wood and the text welcome was already on it when I bought it. I first stamped and embossed the tree on the hanger using white embossing powder. Then I used the Prima favorites Glimmer Mist  color kit from Tattered Angels to color it. I loved how the mist pooled in the lower parts of the embossed tree so I let the excess to dry as it was.

Wooden door hanger

wooden door hanger detail 1

wooden door hanger detail 2

wooden door hanger detail 3

Materials used: 

• Donna Downey foam stamp 920487
• Birdsong coll. Script 547165
• Eclatta 539207
• Vintage trinket 930066
• SIIC 544683
• Louisa May Alcotts Lavender 542443

 

Thank you so much for visiting here today! If you would like to know more about me, or my work, you can visit me on my blog: My scrapping life.

Smiles,
Birgit

You Put This Love in My Heart!

Although that is a title to a wonderful song, it might be better to phrase this blog post, "You put your love in this heart!" ...because our new Prima canvas heart is ready for you to do JUST THAT!

 

 

Just look at those five amazing canvas heart pages waiting for you to add your personal touches to them!

If you like coloring mediums then you just have to add one of our newest masks to the mix too!

Maybe this gorgeous floral mask?

 

or a square border design?

 

Our very own Iris Babao-Uy had fun pouring her heart into a Prima canvas album recently...and the result is simply GORGEOUS!

 

Starting off Iris colored the canvas pages with Glimmer Mist and a variety of our masks. Next Iris embellished it with a few of our latest and greatest products.

Just look at these luscious details! (Close-up of our Cinderella Vine.)

 Close-up of Sugar Blooms and Lovely Leaves.

Detail shot of a Sugar Bloom and Vintage Trinket.

 Close-up of SIIC swirl, trinket and sugar bloom.
Each inside page is filled with beautiful touches! Look at the creative use of color, masking and embellies!

Iris' creativity and love for scrapbooking is perfectly showcased in this amazing canvas mini. She really put her love in this heart!

 

Supplies:

• 547530 Canvas Heart
• 544430 SIIC Border
• 544737 SIIC Swirl
• 544867 Journaling Cardstock Sticker-Madeline
• 549015 Sugar Blooms-Fairy
• 549190 Cinderella Collection Vine
• 842291 Reflections Paper
• 842413, 842444, 842451, 842475 Madeline Papers
• 842789 Botanical Paper
• 930004 Vintage Trinkets

Lolly on Live with Prima this week!

The projects coming up this week are Lolly-Tastic! She is creating a home decor project that is perfect for Mother's Day or to decorate your home for the Spring season. It's also a wonderful project to create as a teacher's gift to wrap up the school year, filled with goodies from your child...the possibilities are endless! And next week, Lolly is creating an inspiration journal, out of a Prima canvas purse and adding a touch of whimsy using the Prima Mistables too. See all of the class details below!

If you would like any additional information on all of our upcoming Live with Prima classes or information about the program in general, be sure to visit the Live with Prima website. Our live shows are broadcasted and recorded on our Prima channel at Ustream and directly linked from the LWP website too!

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Spring Time Flower Vase with Lolly Chessie

Thursday, April 28th at 6:30pm PST

(7:30pm MDT/ 8:30pm CST/ 9:30pm EST)

 

Lolly will show you how to transform a regular terra cotta flower pot into a container you can fill with cut flowers! This project is done in creams, greens and browns so that it will coordinate with nearly any arrangement! You'll learn how to create a fun textured border using kraft paper and ink!

• 538620-Fairy Tale Roses-French White
• 549312-Candy Gems-Jelly Bean
• 548957-Regent Collection-Hamlet
• 543181-Blossom Branches-Walnut
• 540128-Madrigal Blossom-White Librett
• 545987-Innoscence 2
• 841478-Flights Of Fancy Collection-Miss Pretty
• Extras needed for this class (not included with the kit): 1 - terra cotta flower pot (6" x 6"), 1 - 12x12 sheet of kraft pape, Plaid Folk Art Paint (#527 - Forest Moss), Distress Ink (Peeled Paint)

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 Mini Canvas Inspiration Journal with Lolly Chessie

Tuesday, May 3rd at 6:30pm PST

(7:30pm MDT/ 8:30pm CST/ 9:30pm EST)

 

Join Lolly as she creates a mini canvas inspiration journal.  This journal can be used to capture ideas, favorite clippings and fun doodles.  It's a generous 2.5 inches thick and closes up for on the go creating!  During class you'll learn fun techniques for creating gradient effects on Prima canvas using acrylic paints.  Change the colors of this project by simply changing paint colors!  It can be completely customized just for you!

 Prima Products:

• 537418-Alphabet Stickers
• 542320-Purse Shape Canvas Album
• 549770–Canvas Mistable
• 850166-Transparency
• Extras needed for this class:
• Acrylic paint (Lolly used Plaid 2254 Grass Green, 503 Yellow Citron, 628 Pure Orange, 405 Teal, you'll also need some plain black and white paint as well)
• Buttons to match (Lolly used teal, orange and green buttons)
• Distress Ink - Black Soot

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If you missed Julie's show last night-check it out here! She made three adorable treat bags using Prima papers and other embellishments!

 

 

Reader's Showcase!

Today we have a very special post showcasing amazing work from one of our readers!

 

Bente Bjerknes, from Norway, used some of our latest releases-gorgeous Vintage Trinkets- to create this stunning piece of jewelry.

How exquisite is this? Bente combined a few of the following metal trinkets by Prima to create a gorgeous necklace that is a work of art!

Vintage Trinket number 930028 includes a generous and lovely array of metal flower that are stackable.

Vintage Trinket number 549732 includes two sturdy metal flowers complete with leaves and crystal centers.

 

 

After joining the trinkets, Bente used a classy ribbon to finish the necklace at the length she wanted.

It is so easy to tie on and take off at the desired length now!

 

Swoon!

It truly is a piece of art and we THANK Bente for sharing it with us!

 

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