"Today"

Hello Everyone,

It was time to get this blog to become more productive than previous. I'm still dealing with some personal physical issues but I finally had an opportunity to get a scrappy stress relief while on bedrest.

I decided to combine a Swirlydoos Round Robin Challenge with Prima's May PPP listed below.

For the Round Robin Challenge, I had the pleasure of lifting Kim's beautiful Mother's Day layout of her mother, grandmother and her. I kept with the same basic design but flip the flower cluster to the other side. I did complete the twists of being included in the photo with my children. The 2nd and 3rd twists was to include distressing and many flowers. For my layout, I used the Prima Royal Menagerie & Garden fable paper and cards which I dry distressed. I also added modeling paste with Prima's doily#4 stencil. I altered a Tim holtz die cut chipboard with prima ginger coral bloom spray and white paint. The flowers and bling are also from different prima collections in my stash.

Prima Products: 

Paper: Royal Menagerie, Garden Fable
Cards: Royal Menagerie
Flowers: Audrey (#571580), Esperanza Generosa (#581893), Abbey (#571788)
Bling: Say it in Crystal Princess collection (#573195)
Stencil: Doily #4 (#582876)
Mixed media: Ginger Coral Bloom Spray

My first mixed media tag

This year, I have been intrigued by the monthly tag challenges at the Swirlydoos forum. I've been trying each month to participate. Well for the month of March 15-April 15 we were challenge to create a mixed media tag. Since I was inspired by the green Prima PPP color challenge this month. I used that color scheme for my tag.

In this tag, I have layers of textures which include tim holtz music tissue paper and gel medium as the base. I added Prima clear gesso and cheesecloth over the chipboard pieces and tag. I glued my prima wood embellies, flowers, and resin before adding color. I used a mixture of different mediums but my main color was the Prima soft teal color bloom. After my tag dried, I decided to add another prima fairy resin, glass beads and flowers. 

I actually enjoyed creating all the texture techniques on this tag. 

"Flow" - Prima PPP

I am happy to blog this evening my second project for the Prima challenges for January. I was truly insprired by the colors in this palette. I just wanted to let out some creative energy and just create. This is what I came up with. I used different types of mediums and prima product.

Products:
Pattern Paper: Prima Rhondelle, Engraver
Mask: Prima Doily#3
Flowers: Prima Namazzi Charcoal flower, Prima black stem (#564414), Prima Romance Novel (#562298),  Prima Pankita Rose Summer Mix (#557591)
Embellishment: Prima Wood Clocks, Prima Mechanicals Vintage Trinkets Flowers, Prima Engraver Washi Tape, Prima Engraver sticker letters
Mists: Lindy's Stamp Gang Whale Watch Blue & Black Orchid Silver
Paint: Silk Bolivian Blue
Mediums: Gesso, Bead Gel, Gel Medium, Shimmerz texturez teal

Thank you for looking!

"Joy" - Prima PPP

I am so excited about playing in the 2013 January Prima Product Pick Challenge. I have been watching this challenge for the past year and I could never get this done. So my 2013 scrappy year is starting out on the right foot.


                 

For this challenge, I created a 4x4 canvas using prima's products, tissue paper and glimmermist. My background was created by using tissue paper and gel medium. Then I sprayed the background with Patina and Electric Blue glimmermist. I added some prima resin and flowers to accent the background. Voila!

                       
Prima Product List

Pattern Paper: Rhondelle Gavotte

Resin:  Window Shutters Small

Flowers: Charme Rose -nature garden (item# 55590), Kennedy Blueberry (item # 558420), Laraine - Pearl White (Item # 557645), Essentials 10 Reflections (Item # 549251), prima vine leaves (Item # 549084)

Trinkets: Velvet Trinkets black (item #559960)

Misc Products: Tissue paper, Electric Blue and Patina Glimmermist, Black Claudine Hellmuth Acrylic paint, Colorbox - Joy