A Creative Life

Scrap Room, Cute Pics and a Video!

My eldest turned 14 last weekend!  What freaks me out is the notion that in 4 years time I will have an adult son!!  Seriously, I do not feel old enough for that to be approaching so fast!  Most of the time I still feel like I am 29!  So there is a decade on top of that, but who is counting! LOL!  That decade went so quickly, and at times I admit I was hoping it would move along at a good rate, so the kids would get older and easier, but ultimately there is no such thing as easier, just different!  The lesson for me in all of that is to not wish it away quickly and just try and enjoy the moment as they go by so so quickly.  

The year is rushing by and soon this little girl will be starting school!  I had her hair in piggy tails and just had to take some pictures of her cuteness!  She eats up the camera!  It never ceases to amaze me with how photogenic she is!

Oh she had me from the moment I found out I was having her!  But that cute little smile and cheeky little personality always make me smile!  All my children have character to burn!  Ashton is now at that totally adorable age where he pulls the funniest faces, speaks in his cute baby pronunciation but still hugs and cuddles like a baby!  However, he is not one to hang around for photos!!  Tried to get a picture of him this same day, but he did a runner every time the camera was pointed in his direction!! All I could capture were a couple of blurry pics! Sigh!!

Now I have also had my scrap space featured on the Aussie Scrap Source Blog!  It is not a pretty space! LOL!  Pretty much an area that has been jammed from floor to ceiling with products, mostly flowers!

My scrap area is in my bedroom in my bay window as I have a long room I have taken over one end with all my supplies.  Due to such space limitations, my storage all goes upwards!

 

An Ikea shelf contains boxes with punches, dies, chipboard, stamps, fabric glimmermists and on top of it my papers in vertical storage.

 

The big white baskets on top of my dresser contain alphabet stickers and mini albums, some complete, some still needing to be started!

 

Even the dresser drawer has been taken over with scrap supplies!

Shoe boxes have been converted to storage containers for glimmer mist! I am lucky that hubby takes a size 15 shoe and the boxes from his shoes are HUGE!

 

All my printed papers are stored in Cropper Hopper’s brilliant vertical storage.  I recently went through my stash and reduced it by half just so I could fit it all in.

 

I have recycled some of my Prima tins and labelled them for storage. Just used a digital brush label, and added the flower name to the front and printed on Avery label sticker paper.

I got hubby  to help me make the white bookcase style shelf. After we had one made and decided I needed a second!

 

Recycling old Heidi Swapp jars for some of flowers.

 

A4 draws from Big W make a great place for storing Prima SIIC, stamps inks and felts.

 

I have used these hardware drawers from Big W for some of my flowers.  I keep them in ranges rather than just colours as I often has to scrap with certain ranges and it makes it easy to keep it sorted.

 

Ribbons and laces are colour sorted in plastic jars.

 

Punches and Prima Alpha Stickers are kept in tubs under my desk.

Other tips for cheap storage ideas:  I cut down cereal boxes so that they are lower at the front than the back and then cover with scrapbook paper and this is great for storing alphabet sticker sheets.

CD plastic cases are perfect for storing spellbinders dies in.  I usually put 2 sets to one case and cut down the packaging and pop it in there as well so I know which set it is.  Then you can use a CD storage unit to store all the cases in and if you label the spines you know what you have at a glance.  

So that is my space, it isn't pretty, I wish it was but I do not have the space or the budget for beautifucation!  In my dreams I would have a loft style scrap room with all white cupboards, timber flooring, a large island bench in the middle.....ah sigh! You get the idea.  It will take a lotto win for that to ever happen and since I don't buy a ticket for lotto, the chances have slimmed down to non-existant!

Finally, here is a video tutorial I did for Prima......

 

So thanks for stopping by and finishing the marathon post! 

 

Yes I am Slack!

So, I am becoming one of those blog neglectful people!  I know, it is bad, I haven't updated since before Christmas, but I have been totally swamped with stuff.  Promise!!  Even today I am going to be lazy and just share a couple of projects that were shown on the Prima Blog!  I got to use my new best scrapping friend on this LO - my Prima Distress tool.  If you have not tried it, you need to get your hands on this tool, it is fabulous if you love a distressed Shabby Chic look to your pages.

Just in case you were curious as to how I create a LO.  Here is a really sped up version of the creation of the layout above!

 

 

Now onto a step by step for my second project that focuses on the design elements rather than a lot of techniques to create this elegant page. Getting the design of a page right is extremely important to the overal effectiveness of the Layout.  The design started around the hand cut sprawling vine paper, it provides movement in the layout and draws your eye around the page.

 

 PRODUCTS USED:

843540 - Printery Collection - Love Ledger
843526 - Printery Collection - Page Four
843557 - Printery Collection - Folio
843519 - Printery Collection - Signature
551247 - Printery Chipboard Pieces
890742 - Shabby Chic Resin Treasures
544225 - Alphabet Chipboard - Black
543761 - Orchard Mix - Dewdrop
538637 - Fairytale Roses 
539504 - Primrosa
538675 - Cameo Roses
540456 - Mulberry Rose Leaves
545482 - Alencon Lace
Prima Velvet Ribbon
Special  Edition Gypsophillia, Small Roses and White natural flowers

Other Products Needed: 

Martha Stewart Around the Page Punch
Tim Holts Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Ranger Glossy Accents
Distress Ink Tool
Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmermist - Cotton Candy

• Step 1 - Carefully cut around the patterned paper and trim it back as shown on the LH side, so that it can sit above other elements on your page. The new Prima Craft Knife is perfect for this step.

• Step 2 - Use the Martha Stewart around the page punch to create a decorative edge around your page, Ink edges and stick down onto the black paper.

• Step 3 - From the paper that has several distinct areas on it, cut out the long black damask floral part. Punch across the top edge. Ink edges.

• Step 4 - Cut a strip from the cream left over part of the paper the first cut out came from and punc across one side, ink edged and stick down as shown below.

• Step 5 - Add the two layers of ribbon as shown.

• Step 6 - Arrange the handcut edge and the strip across the page and stick down.

• Step 7 - Cut another section from the patterned paper, the bordered ledger part. Ink edges and stick down just above the top of the punched edge.

• Step 8 - Glimmermist 2 small roses and one fo the white flowers to the delicate pink colour.

• Step 9 - Add your photos, chipboard and floral embellishments and finally your title to finish off the page.  I have printed part of the title onto transparency, cut around it and stuck down with Ranger Glossy Accents.  I used Porcelain font downloaded from the internet.

By placing the emphasis on the large deep pink flower, deep pink velvet ribbon and the deep pink in the colour photograph, a trio of accents has been created to make the whole page pop.

Sizing of flowers is crucial in making a floral cluster work effectively.  Always start with your largest flower/s and work downward in size from there, adding small sprays and leaves as the last touch as this is the best way to ensure balance  in both design and color compsition to the cluster.

The small cluster provides balance to the larger cluster and also helps in creating part of a visual triangle in the design of the LO.

Hopefully I can come back with another post soon!  Crossing my fingers!

 

 

 

 

 

Still Playing...

Still playing around with my new camera a bit.  I always love to see the kids looking cute and from a scrapping perspective it is a necessity to have a good stash of photographs to be able to draw from!  Especially with CHA creating just around the corner!  Sooo looking forward to seeing what Prima have come up with for this CHA!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pictures below were taken at my MIL's place.  Kaitlyn was so funny, she wanted to walk across this fallen log, just like the older boys, but the moment she got a coule of steps in she was too scared to continue until Ethan held her hand!  She was very pleased with herself  

  

 

  

As for this one, this is her utopia!!  In her letter to Santa at Kindy, she said she wants a REAL puppy, a REAL kitten and a REAL Bunny!!  Oh, and a pair of pretty shoes!  Good to see she is fashion conscious in amongst her animal loving heart!  I had to advise her that Santa struggles to keep REAL animals safe on the sleigh journey, so he doesn't usually give "REAL" animals.  I also informed her that they are a little hard to wrap as well, and it is a rule of Santa to wrap all presents!  Did I let her down gently enough?

Is this not the face of trouble??  He is so darn cheeky!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Totally love this picture of Ashton, despite the big smear of dirt on his cheek!  Kind of sums up his little personality really well!!

Steph came over the other day with Madison and the girls had a lovely time playing.  However when we wanted to get a couple of shots of the two of them together they were not so willing. We resorted to bribery and corruption!!  Yes, Hot Milo's were the bribe and then the girls were quite co-operative!  These were a couple of the shots I loved.

Such little cutie pies!!  They really do play so beautifully together and get so excited to see one another.

I had an interesting weekend as well.  I was at Lydell's place with the kids on Saturday along with some other friends of ours and the kids were playing in the pool.  Cameron was being a bit pesky and splashing one of the adults (Derek) with water so he went to poke Cameron with a metal pole.  Well at that precise time, Cam decided to dive underwater and went face first into the forementioned pole!!  A trip to Accident and Emergency and 3 stitches later......

As for a side matter, I can't believe that you can take a picture that is this clear with no flash, straight off your phone!!

Onto scrap related stuff....

On this lollipop posy, I have covered the can with layers of punched paper for a delicate base and mixed lollipops, blooms and some candy gems for the floral display at the top.

 

This is another version using prima papers to create your own flowers ... you can see how this was made in this video...  (my first attempt at a video tutorial!! Luckily practice should make me better!)

  

And a LO created for the Color Room using Prima products...

Love all the layers in this.  Now I just need to be able to find some more time to play a bit more with my scrap supplies.  Feeling like I am always at work and not getting enough creative time!  Got a week off between Christmas and New Years, so I am hoping to break out the creativity then!!  Wish me luck and thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Signs Of Spring LO Tutorial

Just a quick update with another tutorial.  I still have a couple of these prepared to share, so bit by bit I will upload them here.

Prima paintables can be so much fun and in this tutorial, I will show you one way to bring them to life on your page in a fun and colorful way!

Products Used:

602291    Prima Paintable
881283    Signs Of Spring Collection Paper
881290    Signs Of Spring Collection Paper
881306    Signs Of Spring Collection Paper
840952    Tropics Collection - Celery Splash
531171    Alphabet Stickers - Black
549374    Candy Gems - Cotton Candy
532680    Evelyn Collection Flowers
535063    Sultan Centers
536350    Clear Stamp
536275    Clear Stamp
543877    Roosevelt Collection Flowers
528966    Caboodles Flowers
528676    Caboodles Flowers 
548131    Floret Collection - Rosie

Other Products Used:

Prima Comfort Craft Tools, Scissors, Craft Knife and Cutting Mat
Martha Stewart Deep Around the page Punch - Wildflowers
Watercolour Pencils
Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmermist - Teal High Heel 
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain 
Circle Punches or Cutters 

• Step 1 - Punch directly around the border of your Tropics Collection page according to the instructions for your punch. Ink the edges and stick down in the centre of your hot pink, Signs Of Spring paper, which has also been inked and distressed. (I carefully removed the centre from the pink paper so I could use it on the front of the LO).  Once stuck down sew around the page.

• Step 2 - Add some texture to the background by randomly stamping your Prima Chickenwire stamp.  Rather than placing it on a block to stamp, I inked it and then held it in my hand and only pressed down rough areas to stamp so that there were no solid straight edges.

• Step 3 - Take the spray tube out of your glimmermist and allow drops to splatter onto the page. When the large drops have fallen, flick it slightly for smaller drops.

• Step 4 - Cut some strips from your patterned paper and then cut V's into one end, Ink then distress and arrange on page as shown.  

• Step 5 - Cut 1 from the orange paper, 9 inches x 4 inches, ink, distress and stick down in the centre of the page, make sure the previous pieces are secured at this stage as well and the ends fit under the orange piece. Sew around edge of orange sheet.

• Step 6 - Cut one each from blue and green Signs of Spring Paper, 5 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches, ink and distress edges and stick down as shown. Sewing around each piece before sticking the next one.

• Step 7 - Take your Prima paintable and a few matching colors of watercolor pencils.  I like to use a couple of each of the shades, for additional shading.  Color in the paintable, if you want a more intense colour, be firmer with the pencils, just a hint of colour, just a rough soft stroke will do fine.  Where the image shows dark shading, I usually use a darker shade of pencil over the top of that spot.  Once it is fully colored in, I take a very fine paint brush, dip into water and go over the areas colored in.  Wash the paint brush before going over a new colour to prevent bleeding.  You will see the watercolor pencils merge together before your eyes.  Heaps of fun and highly effective!!  Allow the sheet to dry and if you need to apply more color you can do so, at any point, you can even dip the tip of your wet brush onto the end of the pencil for extra color while it is still wet.

• Step 8 - Carefully cut around the colored image, you will need both good sharp pointed scissors, craft knife and Mat ( I recommend the new Prima Comfort Craft Tools for this as they are all ergonomically designed and as there is a lot of cutting involved it will lessen hand fatigue)

• Step 9 - Carefully cut between your floral arrangement, so that one half can go above the photo and the other below. Tear a piece of cardboard in a circular fashion that is just bigger than your photo will be. Ink edges and stick down both cardboard and cut out paintable.

• Step 10 - Using circle cutters, cut out your photo and a circle frame (or mat) and then adhere to the page as shown.  Finish off with flowers, lettering, stamped butterflies and some Candy Gems.

• Hint: For something a bit fun, try printing out your journaling and cutting it into peices and arrange on the page.  This adds an artistic and whimsy touch to the page.

You can see the degree of shading you can achieve with the watercolor pencils on the paintable, the results are beautiful and it makes you feel so artistic when you can paint your own paper!!

When I am designing a page, I always cut up and try out a lot of different things that never end up on my pages.  Often these bits and pieces of extra stamped butterflies, cut circles or paper lie around on my desk until I am forced to clean due to lack of visible space for creating!!  Rather than just moving on to the next project, I decided to create a card from these leftovers.  It is fun and can "force" your design a little according to what your leftovers are.  

This time I had a couple of cut out circles that I didn't use, a paper rosette I created that I originally was trying to use under my photograph for extra texture, but I just couldn't get it large enough. Extra strips of paper, created into flags and a piece of cardboard I tore down too small!

Try challenging yourself to make a card from your leftovers next time you create!!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have enjoyed todays tutorial.

 

Glittered Masking Tutorial

In this tutorial, I will show you an easy technique for creating a glittered mask on your page.  With  just a slight twist on the regular way to mask on a page.

Products Used:
842819 - Botanical Collection - Romance
842826 - Botanical Collection - From the Heart
842888 - Jack & Jill Collection - Happy Easter Jill
842314 - Reflections Collection - Mantra
841157 - The Shabby Chic Collection - Majestic Breeze 
542597 - Sweet Taffy Collection - Blue
546328 - Angelica Rose Collection - Bonney
546274 - Arcadian Collection - Weathered
930042 - Vintage Trinkets
544942 - Clear Stamp
545567 - Mask
544294 - Say It In Crystals and Pearls 
544232 - Alphabet Stickers
540463 - Mulberry Rose Leaves 
Viola Felt - grey 

Other Products Required:
Glitter
Gel Medium
Ranger Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Distress Ink Tool
Spellbinders Dies
Edge Distressor 
Martha Stewart around the Page Punch

•  Step 1 - Cut Your Text Paper 8inches x 8 inches, ink and distress edges and stick onto the centre of your cream swirl paper. Machine sew around the edge of this paper
• Step 2 - Cut 1 from your blue spot Paper, 11 inches x 6 inches, ink, distress and stick down across the centre of the text paper.
• Step 3 - Cut 1 from the pale green section of the Jack and Jill paper, 5 inches x 10.25 inches and then punch around the page according to the instructions of the punch.

• Step 4 Place the mask over your punched out paper and then brush on a coating of Gel Medium

• Step 5 - Sprinkle glitter over the area covered in Gel Medium, shake off excess and then stick down onto page as shown and sew around edge.
• Step 6 - Use your artisan dies and punch out  2 , one from Reflections paper and one from the Botanical floral paper. Ink and distress edges, stick down on top of each other.
• Step 7 - Stamp your shipping tag and arrange your flat flowers and tag at this point before sticking your artisan shaped papers in place.
• Step 8 - Add your photo and finish off with flowers, felt and other embellishments

I hope you will give a glittered mask a try for a gorgeous sparkly effect!!  Don't forget to wash the mask and brush afterwards to ensure all the Gel Medium is washed off!

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Pixie Glen Tutorial from Live With Prima Class

I have been playing with the sweet, delicate Pixie Glen range!  This range is so full of pretty and playful details, perfect for baby pages or feminine LO's!  This layout is filled with lots of Shabby Chic elements to compliment the pretty papers.  This was the LO I taught in my Live with Prima class. Live With Prima Recorded Class

Products Used:

843236    Pixie Glen Collection - Dartmoor
843205     Pixie Glen Collection - Rose Arbor
843168     Pixie Glen Collection - Window View
843182 Pixie Glen Collection - Pyske Cuts
541064    Lace
536350    Clear Stamp
536152    Monarch Centers
Special Edition Prima Roses Pink Cream (PE-002)
538620    Fairytale Roses - White
890797    Shabby Chic Resin Treasures - Birdhouses
546137    Innocence Collection II
549336    Candy Gems - Blue Berry
544324    Alphabet Stickers
Prima Packaging

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Circle Dies
Spellbinders Lotus Die
Papertreyink Doily Die
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Distress Ink Tool
Edge Distressor
Martha Stewart Lace Doily Punch
Martha Stewart Leaf Punch 

• Step 1 - Ink and distress the bottom page of your design.  Cut a small slit along the umbrella and near the bird, so that the green paper can be slipped under.

• Step 2 - Cut Green Jack and Jill paper, 8 1/2 inches x 6 inches, ink and distress edges and curl over top LH corner slightly.

• Step 3 - Punch a strip from pink text paper (check what is on the back before punching so you do not go through images on the other side you may need to use later, or just have 2 sheets if easier!). Cut to 8 1/2 inches in length and around an inch wide after punching and slip under RH side of green paper.

• Step 4 - Cut out floral elements from the "rose arbor" paper and slip under green paper as shown.

• Step 5 - Using a set of nesting circle cutters (I used spellbinders dies) lay the 4 largest dies onto the pink paper so they sit perfectly within each other and run through your die cutting machine. This should give you 3 circle frames.  Ink the edges of all the frames and stick the mid sized one under the green paper as shown.  All of these layers are ready to be stuck down now.

• Step 6 - Handcut the strip of floral vine from your paper, ink slightly and stick down on LH side edge of the green paper as shown.

• Step 7 - Cut / tear a piece of corrugated carboard box, 4 3/4 inches x approx 4 1/4 inches (at longest torn edges), Ink and place on page.  Before sticking down, stick your piece of lace (approx 6 inches in length) as shown and your smallest circle down as well.

• Step 8 - Stick down your largest circle at the top as shown. Cut out the frame shown from your patterned paper, ink and distress edges then cut the two decorative ends of some green Prima packaging, ink edges and stick to the back of the frame before sticking onto your page as shown.

• Step 9 - From the blue paper cut a lotus shape using the spellbinders die, a lace doily with the Papertreyink die from green J&J paper and finally a circle from pink (this should be left over after cutting the circlular frames.)  Ink the edges of each layer and stick on top of each other.

• Step 10 - Cut a couple of strips (1 blue and 1 pink) and cut out a V in them, ink and distress then layer under the lotus/circular element.

• Step 11 - Finish off page with flowers, (a couple of mine have been coloured with Glimmermist),stamped butterflies, candy gems and your title. The green leaves have been punched from the green Prima packaging.

Hint: The new Pixie Glen papers work beautifully with the first release of Jack and Jill papers (they are the same tones of pink, green and blue), if you are wanting a few more options of patterns to mix with this range.

By building a layer cluster you add both depth and interest to the design.

Lastly, I have heavily inked many of the edges of this layout as it really adds to the depth of the page.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Tutorial LO - Londonerry

Just sharing my tutorial that was on the Prima Educators Blog.

Prima Products Used:

843113 - Londonerry Collection - Finnick Fannack
843106 - Londonerry Collection - Parlour Games
843144 - Londonerry Collection - Manor House
843151 - Londonerry Collection - Bradshaw
843755 - 12x12 Ledger Paper Book
843595 - Alla Prima 6x6 Paper Book
551247 - Printery Collection Chipboard
550066 - Alphabet Stickers
544249 - Alphabet Stickers
890759 - Shabby Chic Resin Treasures - Stair ornaments
890773 - Shabby Chic Resin Treasures - Small Birds
551445 - Say it in Crystals
841430 - Strawberry Kisses Collection - Raspberry Lemonade
534158 - Sprites No.3 Antique
713744 - Petal Palette Yellow
546137 - Innosense Flowers
882075 - Mask
536305 - Clear Stamp Script
536312 - Clear Stamp Music Notes

Other Materials Used:

Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmermist - Cornflower
Liquied Acrylic Pearlescent Paint - Yellow
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Pine
Stazon - Black
Spellbinderz Die - Cogs
Die Cutting Machine
Martha Stewart Around the Page Punch Set 

• Step 1 - Stamp some flat Prim flowers using black stazon ink.  I have used a music and script stamp for two different effects on my "Sprites" flowers.

• Step 2 - Glimmermist up the flowers in complimentary colors to the papers.  I chose Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmermist - Cornflower, love that colour and it works wonderfully with these papers.

• Step 3 - Cut 2 from Londonerry paper, light blue floral (from the 6x6 part of the paper), 2 inches x 6 inches. Ink and distress edges. It is easier to slip these pieces in once you have the dark blue paper in place.
• Step 4 - Use a die cutting machine to cut out your cogs from Prima chipboard, paint white with gesso and once dry ink the edges with distress ink.
• Step 5 - Cut 1 from dark Blue Londonerry paper, 5 inches x 10.25inches.  Use your Matha Steward around the page punch set to create the decorative edge according to the instruction. Ink edges and stick down, ensuring you can slip the previously cut paper inder the edge at this time if you did not stick it down before. Slip any cogs under the paper as shown before sticking down.
• Step 6 - Cut out your tag and then cut it in half, ink and distress edges. Slip one of your blue flowers under the corner as shown before sticking down on the light blue paper as shown.
• Step 7 - From the 6x6 part of the mustard yellow paper cut 2 sqares 3 inches x 3 inches, ink, distress and stick down on the dark blue paper as shown.
• Step 8 - Machine stitch around the edges of the different papers.  I did this after I had stuck down all the layers.

• Step 9 - allow some liquid acrylic paint to drop onto your page from the end of a pipette, gives a little splash of colour and added interest to the page.
• Step 10 - Using Tim Hotz Distress Ink, rub over your mask to leave a wonderful masked effect on your paper, I used an older piece of Strawberry Kisses paper as it had a lovely subtle text and light background) then carefully hand cut out around the outside edge. I always leave a bit of the green showing on the outer edge when I cut.

• Step 11 - Once this has been cut out it can be stuck down onto your page as shown.  Don't forget to arrange your flowers under the areas as you go.
• Step 12 - Cut 2 strips one from the Londonerry paper, the other from the spotted page of a 6x6 Alla Prima book (you could just use a sheet of the spots from the Alla Prima Line) and cut v's into them, ink distress and slip under the yellow tag paper as shown.

• Step 13 - Finish off with your photo and other embellishments, including the new resins and some twine twisted around your hand or fingers to create the circles of twine. 

Try sticking two book end resins together to create a new look embellishment!

Finish off your flower centres with Primas new SIIC centres, they have a wonderful new texture to them and are perfect for finishing off flowers!

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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.

 

 

Prima LO Tutorial

I have decided to share my tutorials here on my blog once they have been shared on the Prima Education Blog.  I actually created this LO using this weeks Color Room Palette and sketch!  I will post my other tutorial that has been shown on the Education blog soon!

Products Used:
841348 - Umbrella Collection "Sweet Talk"
842314 - Reflections Collection  "Mantra"
841867 - Road Trip Collection "Postcards"
841669 - Paisley Road Collection "Panaji"
545581 - Mask
549763 - Mistable
811921 - Letter Perfect Felt Alphabet - Brown
547509 - Lovely Collection Burlap Leaves
536305 - Prima Clear Stamp Text
548858 - Corine Collection
549572 - Aire Collection
537586 - Melange Flowers Blue
Prima Belle Fluer Daisy - Green
Prima Green packaging
Prima Kraft Packaging
Cardboard Box 

Other Products Required:
Circle Punches or dies (plain and scalloped) of various sizes 
Spellbinders Cogs Die
Tattered Angels Glimmermist - Tigerlily
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass
Pearlescent Liquid Acrylic Paint 

• Step 1 - Give your striped paper a quick spritz of Tigerlily Glimmermist, and to create the large droplets, unscrew the top and allow the mist to drop from the bottom of the spray stem. Give a little flick if necessary.  Allow to dry and then cut 1/2 an inch off two sides, before inking, distressing and then sticking to the background Reflections blue text paper. 

• Step 2 - Use your mask and some Tim Holtz Distress Ink with the distress tool to rub over the mask onto white card (Janine used the white patch of a "Road Trip" piece of paper she had). Make sure you give it a good coat for plenty of color.  Janine prefers to use the distress inks with the finer designs of the masks as they don't bleed and give a lovely crisp image with no warping of your paper.

• Step 3 - Carefully cut around the outer design of your masked image and set aside for later.
• Step 4 - Cut out a swirl from a Prima Mistable Canvas sheet and color it using a Pearlesent acrylic paint. (Janine used a Daler Rowney Liquid Acrylic paint, shown below, as they wonderful and thin paint with a fabulous coverage.) Once the swirl is dry hand cut around the image.

• Step 5 - Using various size circle Punches (Janine used Spellbinders nestabilities circles and scallop circles) punch out circles and scallop circles from your green packaging, Paisley Road orange paper and Reflections blue text paper.  Ink, distress and then layer on top of each other, finish off by machine or hand sewing around the edge of the inner circle.

• Step 6 - Using some Prima packaging (the older kraft coloured packaging) punch out some cogs (Janine used a spellbinders die for these), then stamp them using Timber brown Stazon and a Prima text Stamp.  Then cover them with a coat of Glossy Accents or any other clear dimensional fluid and allow to dry.

• Step 7 - Tear back some cardboard and tear into a roundish shape.  I used my masked image to create a guide for where I wanted to tear as I wanted it slightly larger than the mask. (I often keep sheets from boxes I receive with scrapbooking supplies in them!)  Then layer your circles and the cardboard onto your background page.

• Step 8 - Use a scallop cut out from green packaging and a circle from Reflections blue text paper to create a decorative frame for your photo.  Once again I used my cirlces and scallop circle Spellbinderz dies) Layer these elements onto your masked cut out and stick down as shown.

• Step 9 - Finish off by layering all your elements and create a flower cluster. (the small flowers were enhanced using the same Tigerlilly glimmermist used on the background paper).  Add your title and journaling (mine was printed onto transparency).

The page is filled with color and a "fresh" feel to suit the image of her "watered down" son!

I added some stickles to the leaves of the green flower for added sparkle.

I like to curl the edges of my handcut elements up slightly to add more dimension.

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