A Creative Life: Prima LO Tutorial - Reflections Collection

Here is the first tutorial I had up on the Prima Educators blog.

You will need the following Prima Products:

842406 Madeline Collection - Rosalee
842413 Madeline Collection - Parterre
842444 Madeline Collection – Bella Donna
842451 Madeline Collection –Pistachio
842468 Madeline Collection – Parfait
842284 Reflections Collection – Shalimar
842338 Reflections Collection – Shimmer
842352 Reflections Collection – Talavera
841676 Prima Paisley Road – Dandiy
841713 Prima Paisley Road – Assam
841546 So Cute collection – So cute
548261 Dollhouse Collection – Tuesday
549244 Essentials – Madeline Collection
545895 Pebbles – Madeline collection
544232 Chipboard Alphabet Stickers – white
545406 Alencon Lace
546922 The Fitzgerald Collection – Rosea
531027 Say It in Studs flower Centers
544171 Scrapbook Jewellery – coconut
Backing from old Prima Viola Felt and Clear Prima Packaging

Other Materials Required:

Glimmermist – Candy Apple Red
Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Walnut Stain
Edge Distressor
Martha Steward Around the Page Punch
Marvy Uchida Scallop Circle Punches
Circle Cutters 6 inches and 5 ¾ inches

Instructions

Step 1 – Cut 2, 1 inch strips from paper, wet thoroughly with water and press a fold down the centre, unfold and proceed to use your fingers to press/crush the edges on one side to create a circle shape.

Step 2 – Form the circle shape into a spiral and hold it down to dry with something moderately heavy. You can quicken the drying time by using a heat gun.

Step 3 - once it is dry, use your fingers to distress the edges and add even greater texture. I also used distress ink around the edges as well.

Step 4 – Punch a couple of scalloped circles from the red Reflections paper (one 3.5 inches in diameter the other 3 inches). Ink the edges of these scalloped circles and distress slightly. Then adhere the spiral paper onto your punched scallops (I like to use Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive for this) Once it is dry you can sew around the spiral, I used the midfold that I original put into the strip as my guide to sewing. This firly attaches the textured spiral paper to the scallop circle but adds lots of texture at the same time.

Step 5 - Cut 2 circles, one slightly larger than the other using circle cutters, the green Madeline paper, 5 ¾ inches and the Paisley Road Brown paper 6 inches in diametre. Ink, distress and stick down on top of one another.
Step 6 - Colour your lace using Candy Apple Red Glimmermist and allow to dry before attaching to the back of your circles, once dry sew with your machine around the inside edge of the green circle for additional hold as well as added details.

Step 7 - From green Prima Madeline paper, cut 1, 5 inches x 10 ¼ inches. Use a Martha Stewart around the page set for your decorative border. Cut 1 from Reflections cream with brown spot paper, so it sits just inside your decorative edge but allows a bit of the green to show through. Ink, distress and stick down in centre of the punched green paper and sew around the edge with your sewing machine. Cut out your white lace doily’s from the Prima packaging and stick down as shown.

Step 8 - From Paisley Road teal paper, cut 1, 2 ¾ inches x 11 inches, ink and distress then stick down through the centre of the first rectangular strip (I used some offcuts in my LO so it doesn’t go all the way across so ignore the funny points!). Once again sew around the edges. I have used the backing off some felt viola on top of this paper. Make sure you use a good craft glue on the shiny side, so the matt side is upward facing. (I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry). Attach the smaller of the textured circles as shown.

Step 9 - Once you have done this you can add your large circle to the top section as shown and your handcut paper flowers, adhere them with pop dots for extra dimension. I have increased the intensity of the red dollhouse flower by a coating of Candy Apple Red Glimmermist, removed the original centre so I can replace it with a more fancy SIIS.

Step 10 - Finally finish off your LO with photos, butterflies hand cut from Reflections paper and your own title.

You can see all the wonderful layers of detail here and how much it adds to the overall depth of the layout.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I have created a category called tutorials on my blog, so hopefully typepad will play nice and if you want to see all the tutorials you can just click on the tutorial and pull them all up in one spot.

Comments

I really loved your tutorial and loved seeing how you add all the layers and details to your wonderful work. This layout turned out absolutely amazing! And it is such a cute phot of Ashton too!

Posted by: Romy | July 16, 2011 at 05:15 PM

this is a beautiful layout and i love how you have shown how it all comes together.. it all starts with a good foundation hey? love all the layers.. thanks for sharing!

Posted by: lizzyc | July 16, 2011 at 07:49 PM

It's amazing to me each and every time how you pull all these products togehter into one cohesive layout!!

Posted by: Jing-Jing | July 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM

Jane this is an AMAZING page ! You make this look so easy !

Posted by: France | July 19, 2011 at 09:13 PM

This was a fantastic tutorial! The LO is gorgeous & it was really easy to follow. Also ur daughter is a total cutie pie & I'm sure it won't b long until she is staring back at everyone on the cover of the Pumpkin Patch catalogue after her modelling course!

Posted by: Shell Carman | July 19, 2011 at 10:08 PM