Heritage RoadApril 2015 Scraps of Elegance KitMay Prima Build-A-Page

7 Hours left....and I am once again making the deadline for the Prima Build a Page sailing in by the skin of my teeth!!!

This month Jennifer had another great sketch incorporating an all time favourite of mine, tearing. I loved the diagonal strips and the lovely words featured on the sketch. I am still using products from our April Scraps of Elegance Kit 'Lynne's Garden Terrace' which was filled with papers from the gorgeous Prima Butterfly Collection. All the Prima flowers, leaves, little resin Ladybug and 'Tag Me' pieces are from the Main and Add-on Kits.

The little Beauty is my youngest daughter Michelle, age 2, way back in 1992...

I used a Prima Mask and white Crackle Paste from Art Extra-vagance for texture. The Prima crochet Doilies are from a previous and the Lamppost and Street sign from Prima are from my own stash.

The beautiful Butterfly is as usual from Renea Bouquets. I made some elements from the beaded string found in the Main Kit. I simply glued them into a circle on my craft-mat and once dry, I coloured them with some alcohol Inks.

I achieved the diagonal strips from the sketch by tearing and punching strips of paper and layering them on the top of the page. 

Textures achieved by using white crackle Texture Paste and spats using the Gelatos mixed with some water.

A cluster using the Tags, flowers, leaves and the cute Lady-bug...

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Our heritage and ideals, 

our codes and standards,

  the things we live by and teach our children

 are preserved or diminished by how freely

 we exchange ideas and feelings.

-Walt Disney-

Prima Design Team Call

I am going to take the plunge and in the nick of time pluck up the courage to apply for the Prima Design Team again...this will be nr 4 for me...but as one of the currant designers told me last year...she made 6 calls! That means I have some catching up to do.

 I am applying with not much hope of ever making THE TEAM...not because I think I'm not good enough, for going through my work to seek some pages to showcase I realised that I have actually made some pretty darn good pages in my time... I just realise and am realistic about the fact that there are sooooo many amazing Scrappers and Artist out there who have a great following making them more suitable to be chosen for the Team...

Please take a few minutes to enjoy what I am showing today, and feel free to follow the links to the original posts for more details...all except the first one, I made that today and have not written the blog yet. I hope to show that I am able to create clean and simple as well as more artistic and Mixed Media. I do not need to say that I am an absolute FAN of Prima Papers, Flowers, Resin Pieces and of course the Finnabair Art products...

Dream Garden

Perfect 

You are my Happiness 

Dream 

Dream Passionately 

Sugar and Spice

Princess 

The Best Thing

Sound Fondations

Secret Garden 

I want to wish the Prima Team all the very best in choosing the next Design Team...And rest for sure...I will be back for number 5 and 6!!!

The world needs dreamers

 and the world needs doers. 

But above all, the world needs 

dreamers who do.

 ~Sarah Ban Breathnach~

Live BeautifullyDusty Attic~April

This is such a beautiful photo of my daughter Michelle...you might be seeing it a few times more! 

For this page I used Kaisercraft Papers from the 'Betsy's Couture Collection, Petaloo Flowers and my favourite combination...Dusty Attic chipboard and Lindy's Stampgang...

I treated both the title and Swirly Vine as follows...After a layer of Gesso I randomly dabbed on some coarse Texture Paste. I then painted with some LSG Magicals 'Shabby Turbine Teal' and 'Oak Leave Olive' Mica's mixed with Soft Gel.

The Ornate Corner was embossed with LSG Embossing Powders, 'Café au Lait' and 'Queen Sheba's Silver'.

I used the largest of the Vine Frame #2, embossed it with Stampendous Aged Embossing Powders 'Teal' and 'Ivory' and used pieces of it between my flower cluster.

I coloured the flowers from Petaloo with some 'Steampunk Sepia' Magicals from LSG... 

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Please visit the Dusty Attic Blog for more inspiration from our Designers...

From the Dusty Attic Store I used the following pieces.

Small Vine #4

DA 1101

Ornate Frames #2

DA 1137

Live Beautifully

DA 1170

Vine Frames #2

DA 1192

Happy Scrappings

Patricia Basson 

Between the Sheets 

"I am not a perfect mother and I will never be.

 You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be. 

But put us together 

and we will be

 the best mother and daughter we would ever be. 

~Zoraida Pesante~

SpecialMarch-Lindy's Stampgang Colour Challenge

Another nail scrapping entry...

This one is more soft and elegant befitting the gorgeous Mood board at Lindy's Stampgang...

I stared by adhering some tissue paper to the background and added modelling paste through a stencil and white crackling paste to the edges.

The Dress form and Ivy Corners are from Dusty Attic.

I sprayed the background with A Bit o' Bubbly Starburst Spay. On the crackled corners I used South Shore Sand Flat Fabio Spray. On the Swirl and Blossom Stencil I used C'est la Vie Cerise Embossing Powder and on the Mini Dots there are actually two Embossing colours, Cosmic Pink Blue and Orange Creamsickle.

The Ivy Corner was Gesso'd and painted with C'est la Vie Cerise Flat Fabio Spray. On the leaves I painted a little clear crackle accent. 

The bodice of the Dress form I painted with Autumn Leave Crimson Mica Powder mixed with Modelling Paste.

This whimsickle  'dress' was another Prima flower that I never knew were to use but could not get to throw out...It's the Tiffany Petals Platinum flower...and so glad I kept it for it made the ideal dress! I cut the petals loose and layered them and filled them with Prima Candy Gems and a few dainty Roses...

The stand was also embossed with Orange Creamsicle.

I can not invite you to play along with this colour challenge...but tomorrow is a new month meaning another Challenge will be up at Lindy's Stampgang!

Follow this link to the challenge...

On this project I used....

Autumn Leave Crimson Micas

Embossing Powders: C'est la vie Cerise

                                   Cosmic Pink Blue

                                     Orange Creamsicle

Sprays: A Bit o' Bubbly

                C'est la vie Cerise

               South Shore Sand

The fairies went from the world, dear,

Because men's hearts grew cold:

And only the eyes of children see

What is hidden from the old...

~Kathleen Foyle

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!!!

DreamScraps of Elegance February Kit

In the February kit, 'Lisa's Love Notes' from Scraps of Elegance...we have several sheets of Prima's Epiphany Collection Papers...As well as a gorgeous selection of different Prima flowers!!! I put them all to good use on this page with a photo of Michelle.

I tore and layered two sheets and curled the edges. I wet my background paper with some water and flicked some of the 'Love Struck' glaze from the Colour Add-on onto it resulting in a bleeding effect.  I made a paste using the DeciArt texture paste mixed with some Champagne Gelatos from the Creativity Add-on which I spread through the Crafters Workshop stencil. I also did some stencilling with the Verca Colour, also from the Colour Add-on...

I painted the chipboard with the glaze and added a little of the Stampendous Mica Fragments.

The vellum Hearts are from Jillibean Soup...in the Element Add-on.

To achieve the curled and distressed look of the black Tulle from the Main Kit...I used my Heat-gun to melt the edges...very carefully, otherwise you will burn it! I did mine before I added the photo for the heat will damage the photo. I also did some stamping with the Blue Fern stamps from the Elements Add-on.

I will soon have another project ready for you...in the meantime you can see more gorgeous work from my fellow Design Team friends here at the Scraps of Elegance Blog...

Also visit the Scraps of Elegance Shop to sign up for the monthly kits...

Look at us,

 said the violets blooming at her feet,

 all last winter we slept in the seeming death

 but at the right time God awakened us, 

and here we are to comfort you.

 ~Edward Payson Rod~