Prima Education Team 2012-2013

Today's amazing tutorial is from Birgit Koopsen!

Welcome to the Prima Educator blog!

Today I want to share with you a sweet baby page.

To make the background I cut out the frame of the Sparkling Spring Coll. paper Amie and layed it on top of the dotted paper Pink Apron from the same collection.

The beautiful blue canvas flowers where the starting point to embellish the page together with the SIIC's. Most of the times I cut up the SIIC's to make them fit my layout. I like it when a little peice of crystals returns on another part of the layout rather then have the whole bunch in one space.

I wanted to bring back the red of my nieces dress into the layout but didn't have the right color flowers. Therefor I colored them with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, which I also did with the Birdsong Script birds.

To make the little tab on the left side I cut a little piece from a Canvas Screenprint and folded it in half.
The date was stamped on there and then I used staples to apply the tab to the page.

Materials used:

842659 – Sparkling Spring collection paper

842628 – Sparkling Spring collection paper

920876 – Canvas Flower Blue

546267 – Arcadian White

548131 – Floret Collection Rosie

920357 – Canvas screenprints

547165 – Birdsong collection Script

544768 – SIIC

544256 – SIIC

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Birgit

She...or the anatomy of a layout by Nat Kalbach

She...

...happily transformed into an artist I created this canvas a couple days after I quit my job as a paralegal to become an artist and workshop teacher full time and realizing how good I feel about this. I wanted to use some of the Prima supplies that I hoarded for a while cause I was too afraid using up some of my favorite supplies. But sometimes you just have to use your supplies :) I first painted the Canvas on the edges and the frame with acrylic paint.

I ripped some of the paper and glued it down. Then I used a Prima mask with gesso over the mask to give this some dimension and texture and sprayed it afterwards with Glimmer Mist.

As you can see I used some left over Rub Ons and rubbed it partly over the textured areas - especiall when I had the feeling that some parts would have to be connected, as not having floading elements. I added some Glossy Accents on top of the butterfly to give them some dimension too. The butterflies are also great to symbolize the Transformation I'm talking about in my little journaling.

One of my favorite supplies the last months is Glass Beads by Golden, I just love how it gives texture and lets everything shine through. I also love that it is not taken off the Glimmer Mist even when you sprayed before and even though it is a wet medium.

So why not gather some of your left over supplies and make a fun Mixed Media Collage?

Prima Supplies:

# 880712 Pebbles - time gone by Straw Berry Kisses Cupcake Paper

# 842574 Arabesque Melody Collection Paper

# 843045 Pink Parfait - Sweet Fairy Collection Paper

# 840365 Rub-Ons Value Pack

# 545581 8x8 Masks

# 547271 Belina - Annette Collection Flowers

# 811860 Letter Perfected Felt Alphabet

# 811853 Letter Perfected Felt Alphabet

# 535209 Sultan Centers

Other Supplies: Stretched Canvas, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Golden Glass Beads, Golden Gesso, Ranger Dimensional Pearls, Ranger Glossy Accents, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™ Adhesives Shees and 3D Foam Pads, Crafty Power Tape,Canvas Fabric

Thanks for stepping by :)

Nat

Summer CHA Education Team sneak peeks!

We know you are super excited about the new Prima products being released at Summer CHA in a couple of weeks and we wanted to share some sneak peeks of projects that some of our amazing Education Teams girls have created!

Nat Kalbach

Louise Williams

Birgit Koopsen

Janine Koczwara

Are you going to Summer CHA???

Make sure you swing by the awesome Prima booth and do a make and take with our Prima Endorsed Educator Ingvild Bolme!!!