HUGE news!!!!!! I'm so excited to share!

PRESENTING OUR 2015-2016 PRIMA DESIGN TEAM!

First of all: a special THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who applied! We were humbled beyond words to see so many talented people apply for our design team. Your creativity, beautiful projects, and sweet words about our company are all appreciated so much.

We know that along with the excitement for the new team there will be some disappointment too...and we hurt right along with you. If there was ANY way we could add everyone who applied to the team we would do it in a heartbeat! So please know we appreciate YOU. We love seeing your work, we know you put yourself out there, and we THANK for it.  We will always consider ALL of you as part of our Prima family!

So, after spending hundreds of hours going through gorgeous design team applications, poring over blogs filled with beautiful projects, and repeating this process multiple times, we FINALLY have our new team narrowed down! Please help us give these designers the warmest welcome ever. (Click on their blog links for a wonderful creative journey around the world.)

  

Ania's Blog: http://www.encza.blogspot.com/

What's your favorite color?  For many years it was a white and navy and now I love all shades of gray, black, yellow and gold :)

What's your favorite movie?  I don’t have one favorite. I like dramas, comedies, and cartoons for children. Currently I watch, with my kids, "Transformers" all the time. You know ... day after day! :)

 

Camilla's Blog: http://camillaslillasida.blogspot.com

Tell us your favorite thing about living in your country, Sweden! Sweden is a beautiful country with lots of things to see and experience.

If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go? Thailand – love the friendly people and the beautiful landscape and beaches.

1. Céline's Blog: http://ptitesmimines.blogspot.com/

• Tell us your favorite thing about living in your country, France? The food, I really like french food, all types of bread, pastries, cheeses, and wine! :)

 

• If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go? USA of course, I had the chance to live 2 years in Florence KY, and I miss so much my friends !

 

 

 

Evgenia's Blog: http://evgeniapetzer.blogspot.com/

 

• What's your favorite color? Any shade of turquoise!
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• If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go? New Zealand, read so much about it, saw millions of photos, and I know, one day, I will make this dream trip a reality!

 

Fran's Blog: http://purple--peanut.blogspot.com
What's your favorite color? I love so many colors, but, if I had to pick, it would have to be turquoise.

What is one food you cannot eat? There's a few, lol, but I'm not really too keen on meat.

Helen's Blog:  http://helentilbury.blogspot.com

What is your favorite Prima product: I adore ALL Prima flowers but particularly the vines as I love leaves too!  I find myself drawn to the smaller blooms of 2 inches or less as they are so easy to cluster!! 

If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?  I could go on vacation anywhere it would be to Poland!  The country looks so beautiful, the buildings in the old towns look so intricate & the Polish people I have met online are the most creative, friendly, resourceful & genuine people I have ever met.

Irina's Blog: http://irina-angold.blogspot.ru/

Tell us your favorite thing about living in your country, Russia? Oh, it's difficult.  Each country is special in its own way. I love my country, because there is snow! That's for sure! I love our snowy New Year, family traditions and gifts under the Christmas tree))

What is your favorite Prima product ever? Flowers of course! I like the different elements, but it's my love. I have an incredible amount of Prima flowers! As soon as I see them just want to create. They always give me inspiration!

 

1. Jessy's Blog:  www.jcchris.com

• What's your favorite movie? I love movies but I have not been watching movies in the cinema for the past 2 years. One of my favourite movies will be "Ever After". I love romantic-chick-flick-comedy kinda movies. 
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• What music do you listen to when you scrap? I enjoy listening to praise & worship songs. And I do listen to current hit songs too, my current fave is Lay Me Down by Sam Smith. 

 

 

Joanne's Blog:  http://scrappinforme.blogspot.com.au

 

What is one food I cannot eat? Seafood, which is quiet sucky, as I am the only one in my family that cannot eat it and everyone around you while eating it makes it look like it tastes so good.

What is my favorite color? I love all things pink, seriously who wouldn't. Even though I am quiet a tomboy it all still comes back to pink. :)

Maiko's Blog: http://shiny-scrap.blogspot.jp

What are your favorite colors? My favorite colors .....mint green and yellow!

What are your favorite Prima products?  Of course, everything!

Melissa's Blog:  http://lilybeanpaperie.typepad.com/

What is your favorite Prima product: I LOVE the Songbird Collection! It's soft and sweet with beautiful graphics.

What is your favorite color? Pastels speak to me, but I also love pops of bold, bright happy colors...and gold! Everything is better with a touch of gold.

Miranda's Blog:  http://mslibertycreations.blogspot.com/

What is your favorite Prima product ever? VINES! Any and all of them, but in particular the summer carnation ones. :) I love how a vine can just pull any project together and make it look polished and perfect!

What's your favorite movie? Very tough one, but time to let the inner geek out! Currently my favorite movie is "Interstellar." I LOVE all things outer space. And of all time- the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and all of the Harry Potter movies. :) Told ya, big geek! haha!

Mona's Blog:  http://cupcakescreations.blogspot.com/

What is your favorite Prima product: My favorite Prima product ever is the versatile and beautiful Prima resin embellishments. A resin embellishment can add that extra special touch to any project.

 

If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go? If I could go anywhere in the world, I would love to take a trip back to Paris. There is so much history, architecture and culture to absorb, it seems as though one can never have enough time to take it all in.

 

 

 

Patti's Blog:  www.mypiecesoftime.blogspot.com

What is your favorite movie? My favorite movie is Dirty Dancing. I absolutely LOVE Patrick Swayze and there is just something about this movie that gets me! I just love everything about it.

If you could go anywhere where would you go? If I could go anywhere in the world on vacation it would be a tropical island somewhere. Not a tourist spot, just secluded, but with food of course!!! Just sandy white beaches, sparkling blue water, warm ocean breezes and my entire family!! I would want my kids and grandkids to be there too. And I would want to stay for at least 2 weeks!

Riikka's Blog: paperiliitin.blogspot.com

Tell us your favorite thing about living in your country, Finland! I love the big change in the seasons! The winters are cold and dark and when the light starts to increase when spring arrives we Finns go crazy! The first sunny day in spring, no matter what the temperature is, you can see Finns crowding the terraces in shorts. Our summers are warm (not hot) but what's the best is the amount of light!

What is your favorite Prima product ever? Just one? That's hard! But I guess I'd have to go with stamps as they are so versatile. I really love the new Finnabair stamps and my favorite of those is "Messy" (961893).

  

Robbie's Blog:  http://robbiesphotoblog.blogspot.com/

What's your favorite color?  Blue

If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go?  Rome

  

Robin's Blog:   http://robinshakoor.blogspot.com

 

What is your favorite Prima product ever? My favorite Prima products are ALL of the flowers.  I have never seen a flower in all of Prima's collections that I didn't love!  Each one has it's own personality and I have even created layouts using flowers as my inspiration. 

 

What music do you listen to when you scrap? I love all kinds of music.  My iPod has an eclectic mix of music from Beethoven to Rap.  I would have to say that when I scrap I love to listen to instrumental music.  My creativity flows when I have a soft melody surrounding me.

 

 

  

 

Sarah's Blog:  http://www.sarahbargodesigns.blogspot.com/

 

What is your favorite color?  MY fave color- mint green!

 

What is your favorite Prima product ever? Those fancy packs of die-cut note cards!

 

 

 

Song's Blog: http://creationbysong.blogspot.com

 

What is one food you cannot eat? Bugs. I don’t want to eat bugs. I don’t care how delicious they are, I am just really scared of bugs, dead or alive.

 

What’s your favorite Prima product ever? Oh dear, I want to say everything. But, if I have to choose, I am gonna go with the resin and metal embellishments. They are just so unique and definitely cannot find anything like them. So are the papers, flowers, and everything Prima.. See? I can’t make a choice. lol!

 

 

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2. Tiffany's Blog: http://stampingattiffanys.blogspot.com/

• What is one food you cannot eat? I cannot eat Sushi. California rolls, yes but raw fish I can not do. (kind of ironic since I'm Japanese.) 
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• If you could go on vacation anywhere in the world where would you go? I would love to visit Greece. It is so beautiful.

Sweet Happiness (Sharing some BoBunny!)

I've had this picture for a while now, but never had the right paper to scrap it. I ordered Bo-Bunny's Rose Cafe collection from Scrapbook.com and it was perfect for the prized photo!!! The blues and yellows were perfect!

I used lots of layers because all of the papers are so pretty!!!! I slight distressed and inked the edges of most of the layers.

I stamped some leaves and cut them out. I made the yellow blooms by layering some from my stash.

I layered two pieces of the Chipboard Layered pieces for my title.

I used pieces from the Ephemera pack as well as more buttons!

Products Used:

Bo Bunny Rose Cafe -

Ephemera

Layered Chipboard Stickers

Buttons

Bistro Paper

Heirloom Paper

Dot Paper

Fresco Paper

Misc. blooms

ink

pearls

I hope you enjoyed seeing my page! I had a lot of fun creating it! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, I really appreciate your time!

WeR Memory Keepers Layout!!!

Our precious little Ava is 3 months old now!!! She is growing so fast, seems like yesterday she was coming home from the hospital. I wanted to create a fun page for this sweet little picture so I chose my WeR Memory Keepers Chalkboard collection, the colors were perfect and the patterns are just plain fun! 

I added some "faux-stitching" with my Zig markers and added a few buttons and fussy cut some flowers from the paper.

I used foam dots and popped up the cut out flowers for dimension. Added some floral buttons from my stash.

Here you can see some of the embellies and the faux-stitching. I love the fun designs on the papers in this collection.

This page was really fun to create, and is was quick to come together. Sometimes I get so busy creating for my design teams I forget how much fun it is to scrap just for me!!!

Thanks for dropping by, I really appreciate you taking the time to visit!!!

Products used:

WeR Memory Keepers Chalkboard collection

Watercolor paper

Sketchbook paper

Ombre paper

Chevron paper

Collage paper

Doodlebug Designs alpha stickers

buttons, pearls, ribbon

Almost Two!!!

Our sweet little Kinsey Grace will be 2 years old in June. The time has flown by. Seems like it was yesterday she just came home!!! This is a picture that was taken not long ago and it shows how much she has grown up!

I used lots of blooms and Prima goodies for this one. I used the Optimist and Anna Marie collections, they mix well and came in the Prima March "Special Delivery" box!!!

Here are some close-ups.

I used some resin corners that I had in my stash too. And some leaves.

I used these cute alphas, they reminded me of something for a child!

I love the colors of these gorgeous blooms!

I used the little alphas to make a "monogram" of her initials on top of the photo.

This was a fun layout to do and it came together really quickly! I used a truck that Delaina Burns told me about for dimension, instead of wasting a lot of foam dots on large items I used a piece of cardboard from a box! I always have them laying around! (Thanks Delaina!)

Thank you so much for dropping by for a visit, I really appreciate each and every one who drops by, whether you leave a comment or not, thanks so much!!!!!

Supplies used:

Prima Optimist collection - Flair Buttons

Prima Optimist collection - Perfect paper

Prima Optimist collection - Magnitude paper

Prima Optimist collection - 6x6 paper pad

Prima Optimist collection - Sticky tabs

Prima Anna Marie collection - Sewing Basket paper

Prima Anna Marie collection - Eloise paper

Prima Anna Marie collection - Nightingale paper

Prima Alphablends alphas

Prima Architecture collection resin embellishments - Old Church Window

Prima Labelle Cerise flowers

Miscellaneous blooms & leaves

Scor-Tape adhesive

inks

Julie Nutting and Some Prima Goodness!!!

I attended a class at EMI Scrapbooking a while back taught by Prima Educator Delaina Burns. Check the blog, she has another really great class coming up soon! I was lucky enough to win a goodie pack and it contained a cute little Julie Nutting stamp, some paper, a mini-album a few more goodies. I finally got to play around with them and LOVE them!!!!! I wanted to share what I created!

First up I used the darling "Adara" Julie Nutting stamp set to make 3 tags. I made a pink, blue and lavendar theme. It was so much fun mixing and matching the little outfits. I chose to use one paper for the skirt and collar and another for the top! I also matched the little socks! It was fun to stamp and cut the little pieces, it was like playing paper dolls when I was little!!!

I added some bling and some mixed Prima blooms (some even very old from my stash). I also used a few miscellaneous stamps and some ribbon. Then added a chippie word for each!

This is the one that I used some blue on. I colored each little girl with my Prismacolor markers. I really want some of the Prima watercolor markers!!!!!!

The little lavendar is my favorite, since purple is my favorite color!!! I popped each little doll up with some foam dots for dimension.

Next I made a card using the cute little Christmas stamp. I stamped individual stars and candy pieces and colored them with my markers. I made a little banner with twine and pop dots. I also used a few small blooms around the little Christmas tree! I used pastel colors because that's what I think of when I think of "sugarplums"!!!!!!

Here are a couple of close ups. I did a little "faux stitching" with my markers as well for a home-made look!

I also got the little dollhouse album! This is ADORABLE!!! I covered the front with some of the Julie Nutting paper and only added a few small blooms at the windows! I also stamped a few vines randomly on the house! I haven't finished this one yet, I'm going to stamp some blank girls and cut them out, and also some mixed outfits on squares and put in the little pouches in front. Then I'm going to draw some scenes on the white pages. That way my Granddaughter can decorate the little dolls in whatever outfit she likes and place them onto the scenes! I thought this would be a fun little rainy day activity for her!!!!

 I also got this month's "Special Delivery" box and let me tell you it is crammed with goodness, gorgeous papers, beautiful blooms and more! I've had so much fun playing with this stuff!!! I've created three layouts so far!!!

This first one is pictures of the sweet little flower girls at our daughter's wedding! The papers I used are from the Anna Marie and Optimist collections. The work really well together!

I cut a couple of the little dresses from the paper and used pop dots for dimension. Added some pearl accents as well.

Here are some of the gorgeous blooms that were included! I added the little blue one and used one of the flower centers included! I also used some Alphablend alphas that I already had.

Here are a couple more of the little dresses along with one of the flair buttons.

For this one of our sweet little Granddaughter I wanted to pull a lot of the pinks! So I used a piece of the Anna Marie paper for the background. Stamped some leaves and made some little tags.

Here are some close-ups for this one. I love the flowers, the pink and aqua colors together. I also used a marker and colored the Alphablend letters for the word "precious".

I also stamped a banner from the Delivery Box with pink ink and wrote her initials with a pink marker.

These pages were so much fun, I just love these colors!!! Now I have a couple more with more of the Optimist collection papers to share!

I cut out the little frames and put the photos in them. I popped them up with foam dots. 

I did some journaling and doodling with a white gel pen and cut some of the little words from the paper and popped them up too.

A couple more close-ups!

I had so much fun creating these projects! I can't wait to see what's in the Special Delivery box for next month!!! Thank you so much for stopping by, I really appreciate your time!!!

Prima Products Used:

Anna Marie Papers -
Sewing Basket 655350846329
Swiss Miss 655350846312

Nightingale 655350846367
Chalk Edger Dry Sand 655350891176

Optimist Cling Stamps 572457

Alphablends Alphas

Optimist ATC cards

Optimist Sticky tabs 572440

Optimist Flair Buttons 572402

Pankita Rose Spring Mix 557577

Labelle Cerise 565879

577391 Capistrano blue punch 

577407 Capistrano smoothie 

556327 leaves

Julie Nutting Cling Stamps Adara 910815

Julie Nutting Cling Stamps  Sugarplums 910815

Julie Nutting Blush 6x6 paper 655350910860
Julie Nutting 6x6 Dress Me Up 2 paper 910877

Julie Nutting Dollhouse album 910556

535131 flower centers

Ephipany flowers Bombshell 578831

565954 Mini Sachet roses Sunrise