Prima Education Team 2012-2013

Happy Thoughts Card tutorial by Louise Williams

Welcome to our first mini Tutorial with Prima Educator Louise Williams. We would love to see what you create using this tutorial. Please email a photo, along with your name and blog link by June 7 to sherry@primamarketinginc.com and we will pick a couple to feature on the blog. 

Prima Happy Thoughts card by Louise Williams

 

Prima Supplies:
Madeline - Madeline Collection - Item# 842376
Sugarplum Roses- banana
Item# 543709
Raja Centres - Olive

Other supplies:
Dimensional paint
Distress Ink (Walnut Stain)
Adhesives
Word Stamp
Black ink
Seam Binding Ribbon
White Pen
Cardstock

Instructions:

1. Cut a section of 9 squares from the middle of the Madeline paper, then trim each square down to 1 1/2” square 

2. Lightly ink each edge of each square with the Distress Ink. Using a white pen outline each square

3. Cut a piece of cardstock to XX” x XX”. Score along the middle of the long edge and fold. 

4. Cut the strip of green from the reverse side of the paper and trim to the width of the card. Stamp a greeting on the right hand side of the strip and roughly position all the squares and the strip into place.

5. Tie a double bow with the seam binding ribbon around the strip. Do this by tying a traditional bow from a long piece of the ribbon, and using the tail ends create a second bow on top.

 

6. Adhere all the squares into place with double sided tape or glue. Cut one of the doilies from some Prima packaging and adhere into place behind the strip, which should be adhered with some pop up foam tape.

7. Using a punch, create some leaves from the remaining paper and curl the leaves with your fingernail to add dimension. Lightly run them over the distress ink pad.

8. Arrange the flowers, leaves and Raja centres into place and adhere.

9. Finish the card with some dimensional paint dots on the butterfly and flower images of the paper squares.

Here are some detailed close ups.

Thanks Louise! 

 

 

 

 

 

A warm welcome to

the multi talented Birgit Koopsen from the Netherlands! We cannot wait to see what Birgit creates for your workshops!

Birgit's Bio:

Hi! My name is Birgit Koopsen. I'm married to Erik and mom of 3 beautiful kids (Anne (girl) 1994, Lennart (boy)1995, Marlijn (girl) 2002). I live in a little village called Winsum in the north of the Netherlands.

I started scrapbooking officially when my youngest child was one year old but actually I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I always enjoyed photography and always "pimped" my photo albums, 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 scrapbooking and being able to use whatever technique I wanted in this hobby! Besides that I love how it keeps all the beautiful memories of special events and everyday life alive. Especially for my children! In the last 7 years scrapbooking slowly turned into a job. I teach and demonstrate in my own studio at home as well as in scrapbook stores, at (international) scrapbook events and for the Dutch wholesales company Kars. I work for magazines, am on several DT’s  and last year released my first paper line.

My favorite colors are lime green, turquoise, pink and orange in combination with black and white. But basically I just love all colors.  I love flowers in all shapes and sizes, border punches, letter stickers, (spray) paints, canvas, patterned paper, transparencies, stamps, bling bling and book paper (and much more).

My style goes from clean and geometric to “busy” layouts with lots of details and colors, I sometimes love to "go freestyle" and play with paints and inks and use non-scrapbooking products! Besides layouts I also love to make mini albums and altered projects. 

and here are some of Birgit's (and ours!) favorite projects!

Sharon Laakkonen

Welcome to this gorgeous lady Sharon Lakkonen who has been with Prima for 5 years. Sharon knows the products and Company inside out and we are blessed to have her also on the Education Team!

Sharon's Bio:

Sharon has been involved in the scrapping world for about 8 years. Her designs have been showcased in most of the domestic and international scrapbook and craft magazines (over 200 items now) and she has had the wonderful opportunity to contribute artwork to several books, including Prima's Idea Book released in 2010. Teaching classes all over the world is one of the most fulfilling aspects of scrapbooking as Sharon loves to share her passion for scrapbooking with Prima products!


Sharon is currently the Design Team Coordinator, Event Coordinator, and Media Relations contact for Prima. You may have met her at the CHA shows in the States. Sharon also runs the Prima blog and teaches lovely Prima projects at events and stores all around the world.

Besides being a wife to Bill, and mom to seven children, Sharon is also a Nana to a sweet little girl, Amariah, that you will often find as the subject of her layouts! Homeschooling, quizzing and running her youngest four children around Kentucky take up the rest of her spare time. 

Here are some of Sharon's favs!

Nathalie Kalbach is here!!!

I am very happy to have the amazingly talented Nathalie Kalbach on the team, I recently toured in Australia with Nat and watched her teach some awesome workshops!

Nats Bio:

Nathalie Kalbach is a Mixed Media Artist and Scrapbooker living with her American husband in the second biggest city of Germany, Hamburg. Living in the heart of the city in a neighborhood thriving with art & craft, she gets inspired by her urban surroundings. Nat loves to design, teach and write – doing all of it wholeheartedly. She has her own column with Somerset Memories (Stampington) called “Nathalie’s Studio” and also writes for the German Scrapbooking Print Magazine “ScrapArtZine”.
Nat designs for several manufacturers – including Tattered Angels, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, Vintage Street Market and Basically Bare.
She is a certified Educator, Design Team Coordinator and Golden Ambassador for Tattered Angels. Nathalie has been an Endorsed Prima Educator from 2007 till 2010 and is thrilled to join the Prima Education Team as of June 2011 again. She teaches creative workshops in several different countries in Europe, Israel, the United States and Australia as well as online for CraftEdu.com.
Nathalie's style  and classes are fresh and unique, she loves to interact with her students and showing them the techniques and experiences she has learned, while pushing them in a subtle way to add their own creative kick to the projects. 

Nathalie has been published in several magazines and idea books including Scrapbook Workshop, Artful Blogging, Das Sketchbuch, Somerset Memories, Somerset Home, Somerset Studio,  Scrapbook Trends, Simple Scrapbooking and ScrapArtZine. 

Nathalie is absolutley thrilled to part of the Prima Educator Team 2011/2012.

And here are some of Nat's favourite Prima layouts!

Introducing the Prima Education Team

Over the next week or so I will be introducing you to the new Prima Education Team... 

First up is Janine Koczwara from Australia!

Janine's Bio:

Hi my name is Janine Koczwara and I have been scrap obsessed for 8 years now. I have 5 children, Lachlan 13, Cameron 11, Ethan 7, Kaitlyn 4 and Ashton 20 months. My DH, Paul and I have been married for 16 years this year.  I have been privileged to be a DT member for For Keeps magazine in 2005 and again in 2007. Then in 2009 I won a place on their Elite Team. I have been published in For Keeps, Scrapbooking Memories, Scrapbook Creations, Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft, S.M.M. Scrapbooking in Sweden and Scrap Info Russia. I was a  Prima Flower Girl for 2 years and have absolutely loved my time on that team. I also DT for Aussie Scrap Source , Australia’s premier wholesaler and am a co-founder of The Color room. In the past I have had the pleasure of serving on the Chatterbox DT as well. Scrapbooking is my creative outlet and a wonderful way to keep me even busier than I currently am. !!!  I love nothing more than playing around with gorgeous papers, and flowers and creating layer upon layer of lusciousness! I love the opportunity it gives me to challenge myself to take better photos and keep records of my beautiful children and I love to share what I learn along the way!

Here are a few of Janine's favourite projects and we think they are awesome too!

 

 

Welcome to the new Prima Education Team 2011 - 2012

A new Education Team announcement!

Hi everyone! My name is Sherry Mendoza and I am very excited to be working for Prima Marketing Inc. as their Education Coordinator.  I am in the process of putting together a new team of Educators for 2011-2012 and will be making the exciting announcement very soon. 

There will be some changes to this blog over the next few days including a new header. In the future, we will also be hosting mini tutorials on a regular basis as well as challenges. 

We at Prima are always striving to give you the very best including educating you on how to use our products for your projects and in particular for Stores to show your consumers. 

If you are a store owner anywhere in the world and you would love to have Prima Educator workshops in your store, please email me at: sherry@primamarketinginc.com. I look forward to working with you!

Please note that this will be a NEW team of Educators and the girls who will be listed on this blog will be the Educators who are entitled to work under the term of 'Prima Educator'. Their workshops are approved and supported by Prima as Prima Educational workshops. If you are unsure if someone is an Educator for Prima please contact me for clarification.