Have you been enjoying our monthly challenges? We sure hope so because we are shaking things up a teensy bit with our BAP sketches! We're super excited to bring you new BAP designers each month introducing fabulous original sketches to base new layouts off of! The cherry on top: we even have a new color scheme for our BAP! We hope you love it as much as we do!
Kicking off July's BAP is this dynamic sketch by Kasia Krzymiñska created just for YOU! She adds patriotic stars, trendy inky areas, floral accents, and more. To enter our BAP sketch simply create a Prima-based project and link us to it by July 31st on the inlinkz button below. It's THAT simple! (See June's challenges for examples. In fact, if you hurry, you can still enter as they close today! You can find them right here!)
Need a little inspiration for July? Let's start July's challenge with our very first Guest Designer for 2014-2015!!! We're super excited to present this amazingly talented gal from France!
Trina also stuck close to the original sketch and used soft colors for a sweet palette filled with femininity! Stencil use adds shabby-chic texture while a creative mimic of the "paint drips" on the original sketch is created with one of our brand-new stencils! (Sneak peek alert!!) Her photo takes center stage with a gorgeous Prima frame surrounding it!
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This is such a fun sketch to play with! I've roughly stuck to the sketch, adding hot air balloons cut from a sheet of Cartographer paper (Montgolfiere). I just loved the bold paint sweeps, which inspired me to use Color Bloom sprays with some texture added from a stencil. ~Fran
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I was so inspired by the actual design of the sketch. I flipped it over to the side. The sketch inspired me to pull out stencils and texture paste to add some dimension to the background. I finished it off by adding some gorgeous Prima flowers. ~Camilla
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Hi there, here is Amélie and this is my take for July's BAP. I tried to follow the sketch as closely as possible. As I used a dark background I didn’t ink it, but made only a few "ink stains" with gesso. I also played with layers under my picture, and added little embellishments and flowers around the photo. I hope you will enjoy it! ~Amélie
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WOW! Thank you for thenew sketch challenge! And the dt´s has made a beautiful projects - so inspiring!
Posted by: Karita | Monday, June 30, 2014 at 12:19 PM
Such beautiful projects! I love the texture in all of them. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.
Posted by: Kim Matthews | Monday, June 30, 2014 at 01:50 PM
Amazing sketch and creations by everyone!!!
Posted by: Keren Tamir | Monday, June 30, 2014 at 02:08 PM
OMG!!! gorgeous!! L-O-V-E the stencil from Trina !!!! I have to have it!!
Posted by: Annie Carignan | Monday, June 30, 2014 at 09:13 PM
Trina totally ROCKED this BAP!! Great to see some of the new DT too!! I love the new colour scheme! Way nicer ;)
Posted by: Danielle Tilley | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 at 02:20 AM
Sooo beautiful!!!
Posted by: Naiara | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 at 05:52 PM
Cou cou ma belle Céline! WONDERFUL to see you as the first GDT of the new term!! Congratulations again! Beautiful beautiful work as always! Bises
LOVE the sketch! room for plenty of interpretation there which all the amazing DT projects are a splendid proof of. Fab to see some of the new DT, hello hello WTG! xoxox
Posted by: Eila Sandberg | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 07:49 AM
Thank you Eila from the bottom of my heart, you have always a kind word <3 bisous
Posted by: Céline | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 03:29 PM
Thank you ladies <3
Posted by: Céline | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 03:31 PM
Thank you for the awesome inspiration and for the fun sketch to play with :)
Posted by: Mona Pendleton | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 at 11:50 PM
GREAT projects team and keep the inspiration coming peeps in playing along with the BAP!! x
Posted by: Wendy Morris | Thursday, July 03, 2014 at 11:04 PM
These are all so fabulous! And gorgeous page, Celine!
Posted by: Sandi Clarkson | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 at 10:06 AM
I loved working on this BAP!!!
Posted by: Luciana W | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 at 06:54 PM