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Easy To Be Green Reminder!

Prima's "Easy To Be Green" contest is underway, but there is still plenty of time to dig out your Prima containers and re-purpose them! Here is a direct link to the contest rules: Easy To Be Green Contest Details

Here is an example from our very own Design Team member, Iris Babao-Uy. Iris took a wooden box from the Naturally Flower collection (507336) and altered it to create this gorgeous keepsake box. A few well-chosen Prima embellishments (Elysee lace, Voila felt, Say It In Crystals, Painterly Petals flowers and Renaissance flowers) can turn any container into a work of art!

Hopefully, Iris' beautiful box will inspire you to enter the contest and win BIG!

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Easy To Be Green Reminder!

As Prima gets this second contest rolling, let's share another "Easy To Be Green" project with you! Again-you can use any Prima packaging for this contest! Let your imagination go wild!
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This versatile Prima tin can house a variety of treasures. Sharon Laakkonen created it especially for her  daughter to hold special weddings treasures in! The tin's clear top allowed Sharon to use Urban Cosmos rub-ons (870126) right on top adding a very cool, sheer appearance, while Say It In Crystals (517380) add reflective sparkle. The layered flower (Minnie Me and Belle Fleur) offers a beautiful focal point and text-filled Artful leaves (523862) add a whimsical touch. A simple scalloped-punched, layered strip of Cavalier (810368) and Urban Cosmos papers (870102) and Tea & Silk ribbon (810214) around the side adds a hint of romance.
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Remember, the contest ends June 30th!! You can find all of the details right HERE!

Go Green Reminder!

There are only a few more days before Prima's Go Green contest will be ending! 
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To enter simply click here.

To read the rules please click here.
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Prima Flower Girl, Cari Fennell, created this amazing night light out of a Essentials 3 container that she painted! She hand cut the Tea & Silk paper and inserted that inside the box, along with an LED light. A bit of Voila felt, an IOD chipboard butterfly and a bit of Prima ribbon was added on the outside. Is this creative or what?
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Here it is all lit up!

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Flower Girl, Mara-May Baca created this knock-out gift box using a Sprites container! Here is a list of products used on this creative package:
Bold O Lay Chipboard 830038
Coquette Collection Vanity 602017
Say It In Crystals Centers 517915
Quick Picks Stone Rose Flowers 510046
Ribbons 519759
Say It In Crystals 514358
Another creative project from the talented team!

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Flower Girl, Janine Wahl, was inspired by the Prima brad package she received. Janine used the package as a template and traced it onto chipboard and plastic! That isn't all she re-used though! She also took the backing from a Felt Mattie and used it as a mask (see pic 4). She simply laid it on the back of a journaling card and sprayed it with Glimmer Mist. How cool is that?

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We hope this post has inspired you to dig out your Prima packages and create a delightful GO GREEN entry!!

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Save The Date!

Here's just one more fun project reusing a Prima container!
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This cute little Prima tin (from a Maxie Can 513009) comes with a magnet on the back so you can easily transform it into something magnificent for your fridge! Sharon Laakkonen printed a photo (with the date & title added in Adobe) about 2.75 inches square. She trimmed it to fit inside the lid and then adhered it. After putting the lid back on the tin bottom ,she added a few embellishments (523688) to make this "Save The Date" reminder one of a kind! What a great idea for parents and grandparents! Simply swap the photo (and text) out to change this project to fit a ton of different themes! A Pixie Tin would work well for this type of project as well (516512). Just adjust your photo size to fit the opening.  Photo by Ann Galliers



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Another Go Green Project for you!!

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Here's one more Green project! There are so many ways to reuse your Prima packages! Check out this link for additional ideas on how to reuse many products you may have just lying around your house.
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Sharon Laakkonen took these cute Sweet 'n Sassy (514129, 514105) bottles and filled them with beads for her daughter, Breanna. What a clean and classy display. Now she can see what she has to work with at a moment's glance.

Other ideas for these bottles:

~fill them with colored sugars or sprinkles for the kitchen

~fill them with buttons for your scrap room

~keep them in your bathroom and keep all your little items in them-hair twisties, bobby pins, Q-tips, etc.

~display your son's marble collection...or bug collection!

As you can see there are tons of uses for Prima's containers!!

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Yes, that is what we are encouraging everyone to do with their Prima products!! Not only is Prima committed to developing products with recycled materials (Collage Sheets, etc)...we are also continually looking for ideas for reusing the packaging. Today we bring you an adorable idea for altering some of our bottles!
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Flower Girl Rita Weiss took three Sweet 'n Sassy bottles (514129) and altered them to store some of her daughter's keepsakes (hospital bracelet, first lock of hair, first tooth, etc.) The beautiful Prima ribbons perfectly fit around the lid! (519728, 519711, 519704), while coordinating flowers adorn the fronts! Isn't this the cutest display of bottles ever??

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Here is a close-up of the lid which is wrapped with beautifully detailed Prima ribbon (519728) and has a die-cut from Prima's Baby Girl line (601119)!

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Thursday's Go Green Projects

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Flower Girl, Iris Babao-Uy, created this fabulous photo frame out of a Painterly Petal box!Isn't the most creative thing ever?? So, do not throw those clear plastic flower containers away when they are empty...make an adorable photo frame out of them for your mom or grandmom!

Supplies used:
Painterly Petals container: 524272
Say It In Crystals Frame Clear: 517366
Say It In Crystals key: 522643
Sweethearts White Flowers: 523213, 523268
Center Kisses: 520700

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Flower Girl, Sharon Laakkonen, took these beautiful glass flower jars and filled them with Lush bubble bars that she crumbled! They are gorgeous enough to display on your bathroom counter...and are ready at hand to sprinkle into a hot bath for heavenly bubbles! These lovely glass bottles could be recycled for a variety of other uses too!

Prima Bottles:
Back Left: Forever Flowers #3 (505936)
Back Right: Forever Flowers #2(505929)
Front Left: Forever Flowers #1 (505912)
Front Right: Flowers of the Month (506216)
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Fantastic Tins!

Prima sells a lot of flowers in these adorable little tins. Today we are going to look at two ideas for altering them! The tins are perfect for a number of uses: a mini-album keeper, a secret hiding place for someone's treasures, a decorated teacher's gift with a few candy bars tucked inside, a gift box for jewelry for your mom, a place to store your decorative soaps or to hide your own stash of chocolate! The ideas really are endless!
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Designer Cari Fennell turned this Prima Heavenly tin (518868) into a special keepsake box for a special little girl!

Prima Supplies:
Tin: 518868
Paper: Morning Song #810399
Chipboard letters: #516185
Ribbon: Morning Song #810207
Flowers: Belle Fleur Satin #524012, Obsession pink flower #523909
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Designer Janine Wahl turned this beautiful blue tin (Twilight Collection) into a LOVELY chocolate holder! She also attached paper to the clear hearts using Glossy Accents by Ranger. What a cool technique!

Prima Supplies:
Patterned Papers: The Coquette Collection #601973 in Tawdry #601980, Trinkets #602000 and Vanity #602017
Acrylic Hearts: Clearly Fun Shapes by Prima #820473
Whispers Angels Wings #519360
Say It in Crystals in Pink #514440
Tin: Twilight #520908

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A Very Cool Packaging Idea!

Flower Girl, Cari Fennell, took a package from Prima's Clear Stamps Sets by Christina Renee (850050) and altered it to create this very cool project!

Prima's stamp package has a clear cut-out that Cari used to stamp her title on twice! She stamped with black ink inside the package; then embossed it with gold embossing powder (on the blue paper). Next Cari stamped with black solvent ink right on the clear plastic area to create a shadow-effect for her title.

After creating the background part of the layout inside the package, Cari then added the embellishments on the outside of the package. What an amazing layout...and a great Go Green project! See the little stamp at the bottom of the package? This packaging was designed by Prima to be reused as part of our Go Green endeavors. What cool ideas can you come up with for using this package?

Items used:
Stamp Set package: 850050
Elysee gold ribbon: 519520
Elysee dark brown ribbon: 519520
Journaling Notes: 517748
Cavalier script patterned paper: 810351
Harmony blue paper: 860080
Whisper burgundy paper: 820268
Belle Fleur embossed flowers: 518028, 520168
Chatres Lace flower: 519070
Say It In Crystals Key: 522599
Say It In Crystals centers: 517915

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Prima is Going Green!

Actually, Prima has always encouraged the re-inventing of our unique packaging! Once those flowers are gone, the packaging is meant to be used for another purpose...but, let's not stop with just the flower containers! Prima has a variety of tins and bottles, along with a multiple of other products, that can be creatively re-used.  Prima's Design Team will be bringing you special "Go Green" projects all month long! In honor of this we will also be conducting a contest just for you...details will be posted in the near future!
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Janine Wahl took some Got Flowers? bottles (ex: 506469) and turned them into this classy looking spice jar set! A simple stamp from Prima's Paris set (#850036) creates the stylish label! What a great use for the Got Flowers? bottles!

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