Inspired to scraplift - oh yeah I am!

I'll be the first to admit that I get inspired from the work of others - seeing beautiful work from designers or someone who is passionate about their art gets my creative juices flowing.  I came across a layout that did more than that for me - I loved absolutely everything about this layout from the colours, to the products, to the sparseness and negative space.  Louise Nelson is a designer for Prima Marketing; so you know I already love the products.  She used gold on black and kept it simple - and stunning.  You can visit Louise's blog post here 

Here is my version of her layout

 

 

And here is a photo of Louise's original!  I can't get enough of it! Wowzah!!

Thank you for looking!

cute and innocent to Monster High

My daughter is going to a Monster High themed birthday party and I don't know where to find a Monster High birthday card, so I decided to make a tag, and what better a base than to use one of the Julie Nutting doll stamps from Prima - I can draw hair and give her a creepy looking dress and add some bling - that's about all it takes eh?  Well there you go - I painted it up with my watercolour pencils (loving these) and added some tulle and some SIC (Say it in Crystals) to the tag.

 

 

Before

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An amazing ArtVenture in Cornwall

What a fantastic time I had at the Cornwall Art Venture!  Three extremely talented ladies taught two classes each over the course of two days ... and a make and take!  I would definitely do it again if they come back to Cornwall!!

 

 
Cari's Classes - I learned the most from these classes - and got to use newly released products - love the 2nd layout it came with a frame!  Love the new Seashore collection!!!

 
 

 

Jamie's Classes - the 2nd one is my favorite of the weekend.

 

 

 
Limor's classes

 

 
 Oh my goodness - do you see all this!

 

These were the Make N Takes on the Friday evening - Cari brought a Fuji Instax camera that takes these mini polaroid photos and we got to create with the Insta Scrap collection.

 

On the Thursday night we had a special episode of Live With Prima that was recorded live at Auntie Em's Scrapbooking in front of a Live Studio Audience - all the Auntie Em's Peeps!!!! and took a group photo afterwards!
 

Well there you have it folks - a pictorial review of my weekend last weekend.  Let me know what you think!  And ... I've heard a rumor that Art Venture may be coming back to Cornwall next year ... keep your eyes and ears open for this!

Remember that your comments may just win you a prize - I will choose a random commenter to receive some RAK when my blog reaches 40K views - which is VERY soon!!!

Pop up card box

Using Crate Paper's "Oh Darling" collection I created a 3D box card.  This card takes a lot of practice to get the folds in the right directions and sizes, but once you figure it out its stunning, and believe it or not it folds up flat!

I got the template here 

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March Build-A-Page challenge from Prima

Whoa - how did I miss posting this?  It was sitting in my Draft box the whole time ... well here you go!

The March sketch for Prima's BAP was very Pocket Scrapbooking inspired.  I used the Engraver collection and followed the sketch closely without taking too many liberties.

 

Here is the sketch....

 

 

 

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Art Venture Cornwall - are you ready??

Another Prima Art Venture is almost here ... and here are my ATC's for the swap! 

I used one of the Bloom Girl stamps designed by Jamie - I coloured them with Distress markers on heavyweight watercolour paper.  I added a few little Prima flowers and some Say It In Crystals to the centres.  A little bit of gold for eye shadow.

I hope everyone loves them!

You know what?  You can win some RAK from me if you are chosen as the lucky commenter when I reach 40K!