Prima Build A Page July 2013 entry

Using Lyric collection and the Prima Build-a-Page sketch for July.  I used heavy weight gesso, color shine, stamping, and of course Prima flowers and embellishments.

 I squeaked this under the wire.  Prima has a new way of submitting your BAP entries now, you have to do it right from their blog post, instead of emailing the.  I kinda liked the old way, because it meant that someone was actually looking at the entries and selecting which ones to feature on their blog.  Now, unless you scroll to the bottom of the blog post you won't even know the entries are there.  And they are only thumbnail sized.  So, I have provided you a larger view of my layout.  I also posted it on my Facebook (and tagged Cari LOL) 

 

Photo Bomb, Cari Fennell of Prima.  It was a humorous moment actually.  I was posing for a photo and Cari jumps in behind and makes this teethy grin - I love the spontaneity of this photo, the quality is not really there, but it was cute nonetheless.  I wonder if she will even see it?  What is even funnier is the very next photo was Emma trying to photo bomb Cari photo bombing me ... and all you can see of Emma in that photo is a blurry shot of the back of her head and not much of Cari or I - not scrapworthy, LOL

Guest designer for Great Impressions!

Finally I can spill the beans, a few months ago I was asked to be a guest designer for Great Impressions stamp company.  I had applied for their design team but did not get selected.  But was so over the moon excited when asked to be a guest designer. I did up two cards.  Both coloured with Copic markers.  Please stop by their blog and see what others have been creating with these stamps!   

Hang In There
For my first card I used the Ride Em' Cowboy (G470) stamp - and paired it with Carta Bella's Giddy Up collection - I simply love how this paper perfectly compliments this stamp.  I used a sentiment from a totally different stamp collection "Hang In There"

 

 Just The Two Of Us



For my second card I loved this walking away image of this couple called Forever (G451) , I can envision them walking through a meadow gazing at all the wild flowers and simply enjoying life.  I tried to keep the colours light in this as I knew I wanted to use Prima's Lyric collection for this.  The sentiment was perfect for this, again from a Stamp Of The Month from previous months.

 

 

Well folks, there you have it, I hope you enjoyed looking at my creations as much as I enjoyed making them - and I sure did enjoy making them. If you want to see these cards in person be sure to pop into Auntie Em's Scrapbooking in Cornwall.

 

Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought!

 



 



 

Four

I was searching for a title for this layout - and then it hit me, four ... simply four, that's how old she was when I took this photo.  I love the way the ruler turned out.  The background page is from the Ledger Pad from Prima - I'm really loving that pad, there are 48 sheets of varying colours which make for great backgrounds or cut-outs for the Julie Nutting dolls.  For the rulers I used gesso (black for the one on top, white for the bottom) and I added Inca Gold to highlight the numbers in red, and gold for the remainder of the ruler.  The roman numeral was from Finnabair's Mechanicals collection which I added gesso and then gelatoes.

Short and simple - sometimes the best things are left simple.