Whimsical altered Bottles and Love letter stack for upcoming classes

Hello Hello everyone!!!! Still playing catch up on sharing projects created for the booth at CHA for Prima!

Lots and lots of yummies to share with you all! 

First are these altered bottles, I will be teaching a class on these in March! Will post updated info as it gets closer! And on the 25th of this month I will be teaching a class on the love letter stack below as well! So hope to see you all there :)

Make sure to check out the Prima Blog for more inspiration from the design team! Hugs!

Whimiscal Altered Bottles

 I created this love letter stack of envelopes for my honey on Vday! He loved it! I had personal messages inside of each one!

Altered Chandelier for Prima

Okayyyy , so this is a special post to me! About 6 months ago I got asked to create

 with one of the new products being released from Prima for the packaging. I literally

almost died from the excitement and honor of being asked to do so! altered art is my life, my love, my

passion! So to see Prima coming out with so many new lines and mediums that make that

love so easy for me is just amazing! So here we are. These gorgeous new wooden DIY

chandeliers for Prima! They have 2 types, traditional and bohemian. I created for the traditional one. 

But for CHA I got to make a bohemian one too! I have more to share soon :) 

'So with all this rambling, I have to say this project is so so so special to me! I was SO NERVOUS 

to create something that would essentially represent the brand. When people are in stores and want to purchase an item, my little project will be pictured there to HOPEFULLY inspire them enough

to make that purchase! So i felt extremely nervous. I finally just started playing! I used the 

Garden Fable line and countless other pieces from Prima. I did an image transfer onto the wood. 

But don't worry, I have 2 more coming up to share , one of those with a tutorial to show you 

how easy it is to paint one and achieve gorgeous results. I really really really feel so strongly about

these gorgeous DIY products Prima is producing. From the molds, to mediums , to even the pieces themselves that beg to be altered. i love this direction Prima took! Of course they still have everything that made us all fall in love with them to begin with. But they have made it a point to cover all

the bases. And i appreciate them SO MUCH for this! 

So here is my first chandelier and a photo of the packaging hehe! I really hope you all like it! Big hugs!

Scrapbook.com has them in stock if you want to get yours today :)

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Altered Pieces for Prima at CHA.

Hello everyone!!!!!! Wanted to catch up on some projects I created for Prima's CHA 

booth. Can I just say how AMAZING the new releases from Prima are! We aren't just talking 

paper here people! They have EVERYTHING! The new IOD Molds are probably my 

favorite new item! I just LOVE them all! And love how much bang for your buck you get!

You can create ENDLESS molds to go on your projects using the paper clay, or resin if you choose! 

For people on a budget, these are def initely the way to go! Here are a couple of my projects

using the molds!

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I altered this looking glass using the gorgeous Vintage Emporium range. Its so 

incredibly gorgeous and antique-y lol. 

 

I had this little wooden anchor in my stash and the new French Riviera line was perfect of course! 

Again using that beautiful mold! All i did was spritz it with some Teal Color Bloom Spray. So simple! 

 Hope you all like them! And keep your eye on the blog for all the amazingness! 

Big hugs!

Altered Spools for Prima

Hello everyone! I want to share a project that was really fun for me to create!

I know as crafters we all buy ribbons that come on those cardboard spools. I keep 

EVERYTHING Lol, so after seeing I had about 30 of these i wanted to upcycle them. 

In keeping with that theme I went outside to do some weeding around our fence line and 

was so inspired by the roots I was pulling out! Sounds so silly, but the organic texture was so

pretty. I immediately wnet in and started creating ( sorry honey, he had to finish the weeding lol.) 

The IOD paintables were perfect for this. All those wonderful prints really matched 

my mood. I kept with only a couple of colors and used the Oil Pastels and Color Bloom

sprays to do so. I hope you all lke my little spool picture holders :)

I will be teaching a LWP on the 14th on these. HOpe you will join me

supplies used:

Oil Pastels-814328
Paintables Secret Garden-814175
Paintables Classic Memories-814182
Paintables Bohemian-814199
Paintables Nostalgic Reflections-814274
Paintables Enchanted Aviaries-814267
Dresden Trim-942441
Ephemera-962890
Magnolia Trim-583026
Marseilles Pull-990299
Royal Megaerie Stickers
Royal Menagerie Flowers-583286
Butterfly Bulbe flowers-580605
Clear GEsso-961466
Heavy White Gesso-961442
3D Matte Gel-961398
Color Bloom Soft Teal-573782
Shabby Chic Treasures Frames-891128
Pixie Vine Nature Garden-555931
Clock Hands-891589
Wooden Branches-556556

Prima Bloom Girl Ornaments

Hello crafty people :)

Dusting off my blog again, please excuse my absence! 

Hopefully you have been following along with Prima's 12 days of christmas! 

Some AMAZING inspiration going on! I got to create using Jamie's amazing

Bloom range. I decided to use the Birds stamp set. It is my favorite one, and just seemed

to go perfectly with Victorian Christmas papers. 

Prima Products: Bloom Girl Stamps Birds-980528, A Victorian Christmas 6x6 Pad-990541, Holiday Lights Flowers-583415, Midnight Kiss Spray-583460, Victorian Christmas Rudolphs Nose Flowers-583446, Art Basics - 3D Gloss Gel-961367, Gold Mica Flakes-961756, Platinum Crackle Paste-961527, Color Bloom Sprays Tea Stain-573836, Color Bloom Sprays Empress Gold-573805

Altered Choo Choo Train Party Decor and BAP for Prima

Now that I am playing catch up! I wanted to share a few more projects for Prima 

I have created the last few weeks!This choo choo train is one of my all time fave projects! I just used kids building blocks as my base. So fun to make!

I used so much supplies from Prima I cannot keep up lol. I also did  a Ustream on Live

With Prima showing how to do some of the carts, in case you missed it all the shows are recorded! 

Next up i have ...... a layout..... gasp! LOL! i do not do layouts very often, I just leave that to the

experts ! I have never been very good at them lol. But i had to try my hand at the gorgeous BAP this month created by Riikka. Hop over to the Prima Blog and participate with the BAP and PPP challenges! they are always amazingly inspiring! Hugs!

Creating in Faith Bible Journaling

Well dusting off my old neglected blog here. I figured I would do a little summary in case some of you

don't follow me on Facebook to explain my absence. My mother passed away suddenly and

completely unexpectedly about 2 months ago. my life has just been upside down since then. This year has

been full of ups and downs, but this was a blow I could never be ready for. So, I have been

pretty depressed, nothing has been teh same. I started reading my Bible more though and getting a lot

of comfort from it. One of my fave artists is Jamie Dougherty. She has lines with Prima, and now she has come out with an entire line dedicated to "creating in faith" with Prima. I was over the moon excited to get these amazing and inspiring supplies. We went on a trip to visit some family in Tennessee, so I couldn't take much with me. Just some watercolor pencils a few markers and stamps and inks. And my box of new supplies from Prima. So here are my first attempts at Bible Journaling. Or Illustrated Faith. Whatever you want to call it, I call it refreshing! it is really really relaxing and therapeutic for me! Check out the Prima blog for the master herself, Jamie! She creates AMAZING pages! and the other gals did gorgeous gorgeous pieces as well! 

http://prima.typepad.com/prima/2015/10/presenting-creating-in-faith.html#more

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Watercolor Pin Spin for Prima

Hello amazing ladies!!! Here today with my altered frame for Prima. We were challenged to pick a watercolor Pin on Pinterest to draw inspiration from. The birdie instantly drew me in. 

I know my colors are much more muted ( because I am a coward LOL) but i used tons of watercolor techniques. The Oil Pastels were AMAZING and the watercolor pencil sets with the Prima Paintables are a match made in heaven. Hope you all like it, hop over to the blog to see more inspiration from Melissa!~ And all week we will have lots of watercolor love going on. Hugs!

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 My inspiration pin!

Prima Products: IOD Oil Pastels-814328, Watercolor Pencils Scenic Route-576691, Watercolor Pencils Soft Neutrals-576707, Paintables Belle Fleur-814250, Chalkboard Paint Eggshell-577162, Chalkboard Paint-Antique Pink-577155, Chalkboard Paint Egg Blue-577216, Art Basics -Heavy Gesso White-961442, Clear GEsso-961466, Silver Microbeads-962562, Iridescent Gold Mica Powder-963552, Color Bloom Frost Spray-582890, Birds Bloom Stamp Set-980528, Metal Embellishments-583545, Metal Embellishments -583576, Metal Brads Embellishemnts-583514, Royal Menagerie Flowers Louise-583293, Royal Menagerie Flowers Elizabeth-583309, Esparenza Flower Spray Delfina-581923, Finnabair -Paintbrush Set-962760, Relics And Artifacts Chandelier Pendants-941673, Clock Faces-891596, Shabby Chic treasures bench-890780