My scrappin' life

Exciting news from Prima!

April 1 was the official distribution start day of Prima's new Art-Zine ‘My Prima Place’.

I feel honored that one of my projects is in this first issue with step-by-step instructions !!

We’re ready to excite, inspire, motivate, and share …….the wonderful world of Prima!

We are very pleased to announce the imminent arrival of our premier issue of "My Prima Place”, a complimentary publication dedicated to all things 'Prima'.

This 28 page bi-monthly Art-Zine created by our in-house Editor, Sherry Mendoza, which showcases a variety of styles and projects including Scrapbooking, Card Making and Mixed Media.  

With beautiful photography and written tutorials prepared by our talented international design and education team, My Prima Place will be a great source of inspiration, information and influence. We will also be adding projects and features from acclaimed guest-artists and designers from all over the world to keep every issue fresh and informative.  

Prima's Art-Zine will be available from stores and distribution to stores will commence on April 1st, 2012. 

And here's a little sneak peek of the inside:

Magazine enquiries: sherry@primamarketinginc.com 

Sales enquiries: sales@primamarketinginc.com

 

Join me at Live with Prima tonight! and WOW! words-on-wednesday

8 pm CET / GMT +1 / 11:00am PT/ 12:00pm MT/ 1:00pm CT/ 2:00pm ET!

Find all the details here: http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2011/10/whinsical-wall-decor-beautiful-layout-and-festive-frame-on-lwp-this-week.html

Would love to see you there!

And the words for today are:

Wishing you all a bright and shining Wednesday!

My Tattered Angels/Prima blog hop layout

Last thursday there was a fun blog hop over at the Tattered Angels and Prima blogs. I hope you enjoyed it! I showed a little sneakie and you could see the completed project on the Tattered Angels blog. Today I'm sharing the layout I created for this blog hop here.

I used a Prima mistable canvas sheet which I colored with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Key Lime Pie, Olive Vine, Trunk Bay and Jack Frost. I covered the three little flowers with TA Glam Chandelier to give them a shiny look. Flowers, chipboard alpha, SIIC, trinkets, notecard and the cut out little butterflies are all Prima. The crocheted ring on the journaling spot was handmade by myself :)

And here is the layout with a picture of me and my sweet daughter having a good time at the Lake of Annecy last vacation. I so enjoyed having her and her boyfriend visiting us for a couple of days!! (and yes, the water was really that blue!)

 
 
And a few close-ups:

 
 
 Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

Tattered Angels and Prima blog hop - great give-aways!!!

Hi there!!

Today the Tattered Angels DT and the Prima DT are partnering in a fun blog hop in which you can win some great give-aways.

This is Tattered Angels lovely give-away:

 

And here is a sneakie of the project I created for this blog hop. Go to the Tattered Angels blog , find the completed project and find out what you need to do to win this prize! It's that easy!

 

And here is the lovely Prima give-away:

 

To be able to win this give-away go to the Prima blog and find out what you need to do!

Make sure to check out all the amazing projects the DT-members of both companies created using Tattered Angels and Prima products!! Have fun!

 

• Anna Dabrowska
• Benedicte Raphalen
• Birgit Koopsen (you are right here!)
• Christyn Holmes
• Emeline Seet
• Erica Taylor 
• Gaelle Fauglas
• Holly Simoni
• Jamie Dougherty
• JJ Sobey
• Mandy Collins
• Martha Richardson
• Nat Kalbach (DT coordinator)
• Nicole Martel
• Patricia Komara
• Peg Hewitt
• Sherry Mendoza
• Susan Lui
• Trisha Ladoceur
• Vicki Chrisman 
• Zoe Nemburt

 

• Sherry Mendoza, coordinator
• Birgit Koopsen, you are right here :)
• Cari Fennell
• Ingvild Bolme
• Jamie Dougherty
• Janine Koczwara
• Louise Williams
• Marion Smith
• Nathalie Kalbach
• Sharon Laakkonen
• Stephanie Ackerman

Anna Dabrowski

Karola Witczak

Stacy Cohen

Trina McClune

Leslie Ashe

Maiko Kosugi

Trudi Harrison

Heidi Kelley

Anna-Marie Wolniak

Stacey Young

Hege Lundquist

Anne Jo Lexander

Emeline Seet

Marie-Nicolas Alliot

Steph Devlin

AnnaMarie Mondro 

Sharon Laakkonen (DT coordinator)

Prima mini album with Scrapbook Adhesives

Today is my day on the Scrapbook Adhesives^TM by 3L Crafty Power Blog to share a project.

I made this mini album using Prima paper and embellishments ans also used a lot of packaging material. I love those backings with the nice flower prints and the hole on the top to hang them in the store. They can be used make great tags and mini album pages.

 

 

 

 

To see how I created this mini album with a transparent map on the cover you can check out the Crafty Power Blog!

Have a great day! Wishing you lots of sunshine!

Baby page for Prima Educator blog

Today I want to share with you a sweet baby page that was featured on the Prima Educator blog last week.

 

To make the background I cut out the frame of the Sparkling Spring Coll. paper Amie and layed it on top of the dotted paper Pink Apron from the same collection.

 

The beautiful blue canvas flowers where the starting point to embellish the page together with the SIIC's. Most of the times I cut up the SIIC's to make them fit my layout. I like it when a little peice of crystals returns on another part of the layout rather then have the whole bunch in one space.

 

I wanted to bring back the red of my nieces dress into the layout but didn't have the right color flowers. Therefor I colored them with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, which I also did with the Birdsong Script birds.

 

To make the little tab on the left side I cut a little piece from a Canvas Screenprint and folded it in half.
The date was stamped on there and then I used staples to apply the tab to the page.

 

Materials used: 842659 – Sparkling Spring collection paper | 842628 – Sparkling Spring collection paper | 920876 – Canvas Flower Blue | 546267 – Arcadian White | 548131 – Floret Collection Rosie | 920357 – Canvas screenprints | 547165 – Birdsong collection Script | 544768 – SIIC | 544256 – SIIC

Make sure to check out the  Prima Educator blog for more inspiring tutorials and sneak peeks!

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Prima CHA sneakies

Here are some sneakies of projects I made for the Prima Educator wall at CHA:

 

 
 

New materials used on these projects are the beautiful Shabby Chic Resin Treasures designed by Ingvild Bolme, my favorite new paper line Printery Collection, a lovely Layered Muslin Flower and Aglow Mica leaves.

And yes... I even did some crocheting :)

Prima iron-on butterfly tag

Today I would like to share with you a cute butterfly  tag I made for my first step-by-step tutorial on the Prima Educator blog this week.

  

For step-by-step instructions on this tag you can click here to see the original post!

These are the materials I used: 920357 Canvas Screenprints | 547486 Lovely Fabric leaves | 920630 Iron-on Butterflies | 546069 Innoscence 2 | 544775 SIIC & P | 921415 Cabachan Coll. Lace | 545345 Flocked rubons | 542108 Clear Stamps.

Tattered Angles Glimmer Glam Organic Garden | Chalkboard Sprout |Glimmer Mist Sun Sisters, Bahama Blue, Tattered Rose, Cosmos and Pomegranate

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L repositionable dots | crafty power tape

Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful Sunday!

Prima Core Educator!

I am thrilled and excited to announce the new Prima Core Education team! So honored to be on this amazing team!

 

So looking forward to all the fun stuff that's coming up!!