Prima September BAP

Precious Moments

Here is my entry for the Prima September BAP (Build a Page) Challenge and here is the Prima BAP (Build A Page) sketch designed by Hege Lundquist. (update - featured at Prima 10-12-12)

Very cool sketch....so off to my scrappy table I went.  I used the Prima Romantique Collection for this.

The photo is of my sweet little 5yr old niece.  I dressed her up and we went to high tea at a tea house.
Here are the close ups.

I used lot and lots of punched layers and inking for this.  I wanted to replicate the ruffles in her skirt without using lace.

Thanks for looking.

Here is my Prima product list:

• Prima - Pebbles Collection - Self Adhesive Pebbles with Gems - Annalee

• Prima - Stencils Mask Set - 7.5 x 7.5 - Fence 2 (brick wall)

• Prima - Almanac Collection - Chipboard Pieces 

• Prima - Velvet Rainbow Collection - Fabric Flower Embellishments - Vintage 

• Prima - Pankita Rose Collection - Flower Embellishments - Winter Mix 

• Prima - Laraine Collection - Flower Embellishments - River Rock 

• Prima - Romantique Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Gazette 

• Prima - Romantique Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Ha'Penny 

• Prima - Stencils Mask Set - 6 x 6 - Mix 7 

• Prima - Ingvild Bolme - Chalk Fluid Edger - Old Rose

September Prima PPP Layout - Scraps of Darkness

This layout is called  Winter's Simple Beauty.  (this was featured in Prima's PPP Challenge)

It's my entry for the Prima September PPP Challenge.    You must use the products shown in this image and/or the palette that is provided.

I love the woodsy fall natural colors that were picked and alas I have a photo that really accentuates these so I paired my photo with Prima's Craftsman Collection featured in the September Scraps of Darkness kit, My Guy.   Lucky me!  The kit had the perfect papers and the perfect collection.
Luckier yet, background paper I selected from the Prima line made my job super easy because it included almost all of the palette colors already, taking the stress out of the challenge.

I took this photo of my backyard after a small snow dusting in March 2012.  The trees in our woods looked like they had been sugar coated.  Truth be told, the winter had not been as snowy as usual so I was really desperate to take some photos after a snowfall.  I just love snow covered scenes.  Snow covered anything looks halfway decent.  I ended up glamorizing my husbands storage shed in our backyard.

Heck - desperate times result in desperate photos.  My husbands shed is really desperate.  Yet the trees are really pretty to me here.

I love to put the "crap" back in scrap.  I can't stand to see my co-worker, friends, family toss stuff away without first running junk past the "Jen approval process".  Is it worthy to save or can that garbage be honestly tossed.  Well well well..... the "Jen approval process" nabbed some wood bark off a dead flower arrangement that was delivered to my workplace.  My co-workers were scratching their heads asking what I was going to do with wood bark - me being a paper crafter and all.

"Oh don't worry your pretty little heads."

I hot glued a piece of heavy corrugated cardboard to the back to get it flat and voila!  usable reclaimed "junk".  hahahahahaaaaa.

Anyway, here are the close ups.
I used the Dusty Attic Twigs DA0129 to replicate my sugar coated woods.  I embossed the twigs with Stampendous  Shabby White Embossing Enamel - super cool stuff.  It's white embossing mixed with some gold and the results are fabulous.

I also used a Prima mask - one of the new gears masks.  I know you already realize this, but you don't need to use the whole mask.  You can use elements and sections of the mask to fit your needs.  I did not need gears.  I needed something to resemble snow falling so I picked the circles from this mask.

Prima Stencils Mask Set - 7x7 Gears 2

This image is here to show the dimension I used in the layout.  I added a lot of layers to help with my winter wooded scene.


Scraps of Darkness - for the Alternative Scrapper.  Please visit us and start creating all that you imagine.

This is my Prima product list.  
• Prima - Blossom Branches Collection - Branch Embellishments - Pistachio 
• Prima - Back Stage Collection - Clear Acrylic Stamps - Mix 1 
• Prima - Wood Embellishments - Decorative Clocks 
• Prima - Velvet Rainbow Collection - Fabric Flower Embellishments - Vintage 
• Prima - Genie Stones - Black Wrap 
• Prima - Laraine Collection - Flower Embellishments - River Rock 
• Prima - Stencils Mask Set - 7 x 7 - Gears 2 
• Prima - Bel Canto Collection - Flower Embellishments - Brown 
• Prima - Craftsman Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Tools of the Trade 
• Prima - Ingvild Bolme - Chalk Fluid Edger - Branch Bark 
• Prima - Ingvild Bolme - Chalk Fluid Edger - Dry Sand

Thanks a bunch!  What fun I had.

Scraps of Darkness - "Pin to Win" Contest

We are excited to announce we are now on PINTEREST!!!!

Want to win a September "My Guy" kit?
All you have to do is stop by our blog and click on the "Pinterest" button to follow us. Visit our Scraps of Darkness "Pin to Win" board and follow the instructions there.

You have from now until October 8th to enter!!!
So go ahead - head to the blog and get pinning.

Prima Aug BAP winner and PPP Feature

Oh gosh, oh golly. What a morning. Dark and rainy outside with a touch of fall weather.  But who cares! Inside the scrappy world, I have Rays of Sunshine. 

 Prima picked this as winner for the  Aug 2012 Prima BAP - Build A Page .

This is Rays of Sunshine,  If you click on the link, you will see the original post with the details.

This was the August Prima PPP -Prima Product Pick  (and Palette) and was Featured. 

This is Girl With Hat.  You can see the original post with details here.

Thanks a million to the Prima folks and to all those talented artists mentioned at Prima.