Prima BAP March 2012 - "Mitchell with the Forest Fairies"

Good Saturday to you all,

Today is "Gardening Saturday" in Winnipeg so I was up early to get there before the press of crowds. I think everyone had the same theory as myself as it was just packed. I saw lots of great gardening ideas and some new innovations. I was really drawn by the Master Gardener booth. You can take agronomic and horticulture courses over a period of a year and then write an exam to become a certified Master Gardener. What a great idea! I am going to do some further research on their webpage to see what the costs and time commitments would be. If I could retire right now I would become a summer gardener and a winter crafter/artist. That reminds me, I need to buy a lottery ticket!

Today I have a scrapbook page to show you that I made using the BAP March layout from the Prima Blog. How I love these products! My greatest challenge is using flowers on a page with my son! He is so understanding! He just lets me create as I see things, and then he tells me he thinks they look good - flowers and all. What a gem!

For this page I started with white paper. I masked off a rectangle and sprayed purple mist and splashed royal blue glimmer glam in this area. Then I used a Prima mask and applied lots of gesso to the top right and bottom left corners. Then I had to let it dry.

I loved the white picture frame created by the gesso application but wanted to bring it out a bit more. I took some Create a Shade pearl and painted all the white gesso and then used a paint brush to add blue and purple ink as accent colors.

I have used a Prima Mask with gesso, Nature Garden Collection “Fairy Godmother”, assorted Prima flowers, gems and jewels. I cut out the fairies from the paper and added liquid glass and pearl accents. These surround black and white photos of my son in the Assiniboine Forest, Winnipeg, Canada. I really liked the forest and fairy combination.

 Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a crafty weekend!
Wanda

Friendship Card - Spicy Supply Challenge - Ribbon

Good day friends!

I was at a girlfriends house for crop day and this was one of the projects I completed. I am very pleased with this creation. They are some of my favorite colors. I put some vellum through my cuttlebug to make a textured background behind the banner.

For the stamp I daubed on the teal and darker turquoise ink and then put on a bit of chocolate brown. Then I embossed this with clear embossing powder. I just love the way the colors blended.

The friendship title is a resistible chipboard from Close To My Heart. Using the same 3 colors as on the stamp I daubed all over the piece to get a nice marbled effect. I put teal ribbon on and thought it was a bit too powerful so I layered a white fibre ribbon over top (same as on the banner).

This one will go in my stash for someone special to receive. I also want to enter it into a competition 'Ribbon' Gingersnap Creations Blog on http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2012/01/gc134-spicy-supply-challenge-ribbon.html . Please send along your comments. I would love to hear from you.