The soft colours and patterns in the Romantique range really appealed to Sue and she has teamed them with beautiful photos of her daughter Lily, blowing dandelions, late one afternoon. Although Prima are very well known for their gorgeous flower collections, Sue also loves their papers and their other embellishments, such as the vintage buttons featured on her page.
The tags pictured, have been created by tracing manila tags onto the Prima paper, cutting them out and inking the edges and then attaching the re-inforcement circle stickers from the original tags. A technique used to create beautiful but cost-effective embellishments.
The vintage buttons have created a lovely feature on the page, and of course who can resist a couple of those gorgeous flowers!
This year Chris wanted to create a simple little gift for her daughters teachers for 'World Teachers Day'. She created each of the teachers these cute little cards with the Prima Paisley Road 6x6 paper pad, chipboard journaling note accents and essentials flowers. To keep the message simple Chris stamped the Hero Arts Tiny Bird Message stamp (an old favourite) onto the co-ordinating Paisley road paper from the 6x6 pad and added them to the card.
Chris then placed the cards and a small chocolate bar into the plastic lolly bag and created toppers from the Paisley Road paper to seal the bags. Her kids love taking these to school for their teachers.
Before packing up her supplies after making the teachers cards, Chris whipped up a couple of little gift tags using the Paisley road collection and little bit of machine stitching. These gift tags will be ready to go on the next birthday present!
Trudi Harrison created this stunning layout featuring papers from the gorgeous Prima Alla Prima Collection with a touch of Printery. Some subtle masking has been included on the background patterned paper. It can be seen peeking out from behind the photo. The Prima 8" x 8" Circular Flourish Mask #545574 and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists Coffee Shop and Patina were used to create this effect.
Essentials flowers have been layered with hand cut paper elements and a variety of other pretty Prima blooms including Gillian and Angelica, Avon, Coventry, Lilliput, Love Letter and Sherwood Roses.
Trudi Harrison adored the soft and delicate Prima Romantique paper that has been used for the base of this gorgeous layout. It was combined with the softer lilac and paler olive colours of Prima Londonerry. Trudi also added doilies cut from Prima acrylic packaging. A bouquet of Prima blooms both new and older add a touch of girly prettiness. You will also spy a Bretton Vine, Splendor Leaves, Meredith Butterfly and some Resin tucked amongst the layers.
To create a decorative accent to the resin bird house, an architecture resin cornice was attached across the top. A little Say It In Crystal glittery heart was the perfect size for filling the little heart crevice. A larger butterfly element was die cut from patterned paper. The antenna's were created from a pastel twister as well as a little flight path.
Lots of gorgeous Prima products are featured on the third and final layout we fell in love with from Trudi Harrison, including some of the new Resistant Canvas, Masks, Resin Bird Homes and Small Birds and blooms. To create the background, Trudi first attached the Resistant canvas vines to cardstock and misted with 'Timeless Lilac' Glimmer Mist. The white resistant markings that show give a lovely subtle effect. 'Patina' Glimmer Mist was then randomly misted over the top and with a paint brush and again with 'Timeless Lilac'. More depth was added to the various leaves and flowers.
The gate element which sits behind the photo was first created with texture paste and the Prima #550042 Mask. Once the texture pasted dried, Trudi then misted lightly with 'Turquoise Blue' Glimmer Mist. A touch of 'Timeless Lilac' Glimmer Mist was added around the edges with a paint brush. The gate was then cut out and attached. The Resistant Canvas Scalloped Borders were coloured with Glimmer Mist 'Timeless Lilac' and then attached around the outer edges of the layout.
Please join us in thanking Trina McClune from the Prima Design Team for sharing the next 2 layouts with us! Trina says that she loves how versatile Prima products are and that she can combine older Prima embellishments with their newer papers. Here Trina has used the Printery collection paper with many of their wonderful embellishments as well as Prima's clear recital stamp. You can find step by step instructions on creating this layout on Trina’s blog here.
And here's a final word from Trina about this last gorgeous layout. "I just adored the prettiness of the Pixie Glen line. The colours are muted and soft. So beautiful. It's also perfect for someone like me who likes to cut and layer."
