Dream PassionatelyMarch - Prima Product Pick

Hello dear Bloggy friends...

I am scrapping in on the last skins of my bottom for this Prima Product Pick challenge!!!

I made this canvas with a lot of Love for some one special...have finally also done a paintbrush alter, and boy it was such fun...will have to do another one soon...

Using the beautiful Teal colours from the Prima mood board I used Glistening Waves Color Bloom Mist and Tea Stain Mist on the background. The Teal flower behind the Resin Angel is a very old Prima flower that I have had for ages, and finally I found a use for it on this canvas. The rest of the flowers as well as the Glass Pebble are also from Prima.

The wings are from Dusty Attic and were placed in warm water for a few seconds to separate the three layers. I curled them a little, let them dry and gave them a final blast with my Heat gun to really make them curl. They were painted with Silver and Teal paints and the two top layers were dusted with Gold, Blue, Copper and Green Perfect Pearls.

I used Modelling Paste and White Crackling Pastes from Art Basics.

Between the brushes I painted a little Lime Wedge Mist as accent. I also have some Mulberry Mica Flakes and Pearl Glass Glitter on here. I also coloured some of the Glass Glitter with alcohol ink for extra colour.

Hold fast to dreams, 

for if dreams die, 

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Thank you for having a look at my work...always appreciate any visits!!!

You are my HappinessJanuary Prima Product Pick

This is my take on the product pick challenge for January...It is filled with beautiful soft Greens and Blue/Turquoise colours. As promised, I am using the sketch again, this time keeping to it as it was ment to be. From the Epiphany Collection I used 'At this Moment' paper...I wanted the beautiful Lamp image to co-inside with my frame, but those who know the design of the paper will know that the image is on the right hand side of the paper...therefore I used two sheets, cutting and mending them to suit my design.

I used Opaque Matte Modeling Paste to stencil some words and coated them with Light Pink Art Sugar.

I also used Clistening Waves, Peony and Vintage Coal Color Bloom Spray Mist on my background.

Some Prima flowers and two Crochet Icons are tucked between my arrangements as well.

I again coloured the frames with the Color Bloom Sprays.

From the inspiration boards I added a little glass bottle...

Not easy to see...but there is added texture from Crystal Glass Beads and Pearl Glass Glitter...all adhered with Soft Matte Gel. Also a good dusting of Antique Silver Art Sugar.

Thank you for once again visiting me and my Art...

~~~~

For happiness one needs security, 

but joy can spring like a flower 

even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Remembering... April 2013 PPP

The Prima Product Pick and colour challenge for April really took me out of my comfort zone...I am Greens and Browns and earthy colours and now I had to work with these Spring colours!!! But I did enjoy playing with something out of the ordinary for once...Although this page in the end had a mind of its own! I had my photos, design and papers all set out, even had al the paper mats cut and positioned, and then I started with the texture and misting...lol...and everything changed!  By the time I was done misting, nothing worked any more and I had to do a roundabout on all of it!!! 

 In the end I used this photo of  my three kiddies taken in 1991..at least their clothes matched the colours of the palette as well...

I started by white washing the background paper, a sheet of Prima's Script Pad with Gesso and a wet wipe. Thereafter I added a border with some Gesso. I applied Seedless Preserve Distress Stain with a sponge, misted with water and dried with my heat gun. Then I spritzed some of the same colour on with a mini mister. I made the blobs with Peacock Feathers Distress Stain.

I also used Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink and a Prima mask to add the yellow dots. The punched elements were part of a mat that I cut and ended up being used as elements tucked between my flower clusters.

My flowers are a variation of different Prima flowers and snippets from a Cherry Bloom Branch.

On top of all the inking, I also sprayed some Goosebumps Texture Spray on the page.

This is a Amore Cherry heart and a Beads Petal Pin, both from Prima...

I also tucked some Resits Canvas pieces that I inked with the Squeezed Lemonade Ink in between the clusters...

I used the following papers...although it's only snippets of them...

 Divine Collection: Canzone

  Lifetime Collection:  Quilter

Lyric Collection: Overture

Thank you for visiting my "Spring Garden"...hope you enjoyed your brief visit!!!

There is a garden in every childhood,

 an enchanted place where colors are brighter,

 the air softer,

 and the morning more fragrant than ever again. 

 ~Elizabeth Lawrence~

Wonderful

February Prima Product Pick

Just a quick post today to show my take on the PPP... No Prima flowers on this one...only handmade ones using Prima papers!

This is my youngest daughter and grannies 'Spottie'...who sadly isn't with us any more...I masked some tree trunks using the Aspen Trees mask from The Crafters Workshop and Ranger Distress Embossing Powders.

15 Layers of Donna Salazar's Peony die made this flower...Some trinkets from Prima.

This more open bloom took 11 layers of petals. The glitter is Donna's Fairy Glitter.

 This is the PPP to use...

Prima Papers used...Songbird Collection; Zephyr

                                          Sun Kiss Collection; Lemon Ginger

                                     Whisper Collection; Enlightened

Thank you for your visit....Much love
Patricia

Love...

Prima Product Pick...

What a lovely colour palette Prima has for this month! And I have photos to suit the palette! These are photos of my son Francois at play, he was just about 5 years old, making these photos at least 24 years old!

The design is quite basic, but I did have some fun adding texture to my papers...I used the following 

Prima Papers...Rosarian Collection / Old Garden 

                                 Sweet Fairy Collection / Blowing Kisses

                          Pixie Glen Collection / Garden Gate

I used a Prima mask and Gesso to add the dots and gears, dusted some fairy dust and added some beads while the Gesso was still wet. I also spritzed some Lindys Mist and heat embossed some Stampendous aged enamel on the page...

The Dusty Attic Lamp Post was primed with Gesso and then I added several colours of Distress Inks to it. I also randomly embossed Stampendous aged enamel on it as well. The 'glass' is alcohol inked transparent...The clouds are Prima chipboard's.

The masked gears...

These are Spellbinder's Basic Banners #2....see the Aged Enamel peeping from underneath?

A small Typo bulb nestles between several Prima Flowers...

Another Prima chip board and some Say it in Crystals...

Thank you for strolling along my PPP...wishing you all a fun filled week...

 You can discover more about a person in an hour of play
 than in a year of conversation. 

 Plato