Some final layouts from my Prima Stash

I have a few layouts left from my Deluxe Pastiche Prima kit from Lil' Lambs Boutique.  I'm not sure I've enjoyed a line of paper more than this one.  It could be the crazy winter we've had here and I just love the bright, cheery colors.  Or it could be the incredible combination of Distressed Vintage to Victorian patterns that I liked so much.  Either way, I was thrilled to get so many projects done with it.

I entered a Paint and Distressing challenge on scrapbooking forum I participate in, and this is what became of that challenge.  The process was interesting to say the least.

We were called to use paint on our layouts somewhere and the twist was to distress it by using a hole punch.  I figured why not do both on my big circle in the corner.  I'm pretty sure I've forgotten how many layers of paint are on that circle, but I ended up with Gold paint, which I liked the best of all of them.  That's the fun thing with paints...you can just keep painting over it until you get what you like.  I did have a layer of crackle paint underneath which gives it that rough, distressed finish.  I then took my hole punch and punched, punched, punched all over.


For the scallop border, I cut out 11 circles and then fanned them around the outer edge of the circle.  After gluing the circle on top, I inked the scalloped border with Peeled Paint Distress Ink.

Finally, I blotted dots of Gold paint around the two opposing corners.  I've tried many things to make my dots but have found that a good old, non used pencil eraser does the best job for me. If you wash it off immediately after using, then it's ready for the next time you paint with it.

This next layout was a quick and simple one.  The background paper does most of the work for you.  I took my 5x7 photo and punched my matted border with the Arch Lattice Martha Stewart border punch. 

I border the bottom corner with the Prima flowers included in the kit. I did ink the edges of the big flower with Aged Mahagoney Distress Ink.  The ribbon, in the kit, I used in the upper corner of the photo to create a bow and at the bottom edge of the photo.  I used glue dots to create my ruffled border effect.

Prima has indeed become pretty slick with their marketing and packaging.  If you'll notice a lot of their packaging for embellishments come with this journal type background.  No need to throw that away.  Find a way to use it on your layout.  I took the packaging material from the brown, felt branches in the upper layout and cut out a small rectangle journaling spot for this layout.  3 of the edges were already cut with a ragged border, so I just cut the 4th edge to match.  I added a little Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges, handwrote my title and finished off with a rub-on butterfly.  I used my swivel Exacto knife to cut half the flower from the background paper, so I could slip my journaling spot in behind it.  Pop it up with a pop dot to give the flower dimension.

Ta-dah.  Easy as that.

Mojo Monday this week.

I was finishing up some projects this week using the Pastiche Deluxe kit from Lil' Lambs Boutique.  What do you do with the leftover scraps of paper from your kits?  Why you make cards of course.  If you're stumped for card ideas, Mojo Monday always has a new sketch every Monday.  You have a chance to see some great work from fellow artists and you get a handmade card to give to someone special.  You can see this week's sketch here and then my interpretation below.

I'm never one to just use a bunch of shapes on a card, although I love the look, my fingers just never seem to want to do that.  So I cut out some of the patterns and flowers to add to mine, just for something different. 

Everything but the solid cardstock is from the Deluxe Kit. 

Even Dandelions are beautiful things.

I took a quick break from making "Tim Tags" to work on this layout for Lil' Lambs Boutique. I picked up her Blue Prima Stitched Page Deluxe kit found here, and created this below of my oldest daughter. She's always been a fan of Dandelions and I'm not sure why. I happened to have my camera with me and caught this great picture of her with her Dandelion.

I took some of the blue velvet trim and cut a square piece to put under the clear pebble, on the white flower. Instant blue center! I also folded down the platinum flower to decrease it's size and work as a corner border for the photograph.

I love that lace that was included in the kit. So delicate and beautiful. I used Liquid Pearls by Ranger to create the dots around the photo mat.

Don't you forget to take time for the small things during this busy Christmas season!

Prima, Prima, Everywhere!!!

All you Prima loving people out there...this layout is for you!!! Outside of the brads and ribbon, everything on this layout is from Prima Marketing, Inc. I love that company! Lil' Lambs Boutique is carrying these wonderful Prima Stitched page kits and luscious flowers. Isn't it divine!

These are my two princesses at their very first Princess Tea Party. Oh my, you'd thought they went to heaven. The day came complete with a runway walk for each Princess, a brunch, a Princess Story Time and dessert afterwards. They are STILL talking about it.



I put in close ups of the two pages so you could see the Prima kits closer. This page is a Scraplift of ~Robbie~ from My Creative Scrapbook. It's lift a designer week. She has a wonderful bow tutorial here that I followed to make my double bow on the left. I used the masking technique to make my title this time. I printed the title on a piece of cardstock and then carefully cut out only the title portion, leaving the rest. I layed the mask directly on my paper and then sponged on several colors of Distress Ink by Ranger. It turned out pretty nice and is just another different way of doing your title work.



And then page 2, because there are just too many pictures from a Princess Tea Party. I decided to cut my Prima stitched page in half so I'd have coordinating paper on both pages. Thanks for looking and go get your Prima on!!