The challenge of Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 8

Day 8 of the Prima Christmas cards, was the "Bloom collection" stamps. I managed to get hold of the Sophie bloom stamp, and decided to do something different than the other cards I have delivered for the challenge so far.

I decided to colour the stamp. I colour with watercolours, Prismacolours and Promarkers, but this time - I decided to go with the Promarkers.

The bird, is from one of Primas collections, and the paper is from the Princess collection. I have used stencils and Gesso to create effects on the background. I have also used glass and plastic beads.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - Day 8 - Bloom collection
• Crafty sentiments - Die cuts (swirls in between the flowers)
• The paper shelter - Metal (metal flowers under the paper flowers)
• Brown sugar challenge - Anything goes
• Crafty catz weekly challenge - Anything goes
• Cute and daisy - Anything goes
• Fussy and fancy - Happy Hollidays
• Simon says stamp blog - Holiday cards

The challenge of Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 7

The challenge for the Prima's Christmas cards for day 7, was Wood icons. 

I just love this Prima paper - Ava - from the Princess collection with the birds. I had one paper left, and wanted to create a card with the paper. 

I also found an old Prima paper, Nature Garden Collection "Blackthorn". This paper has birds on it, so I cut out one of the birds, coloured it with Prisma colors and Gesso, and used it as a decoration on the card

The paper in the background is Epiphany collection from Prima. The wood icons, I chose to use, are from a set with leaves and flowers. I have coloured them with distress ink (vintage photo). The green paper leaves are my own design. I have also used a Snow Pen and added white glitter, to create a snow effect on the background. 

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - 12 days of Christmas - day 7 Wood icons
• Crafty calendar challenge - Christmas
• Ooh la la creations challenges - Christmas
• Creative inspirations - Seasons Greetings
• Sugar creek hollow - Vintage Christmas cards - not traditional colours

The challenge of Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 6

Day 6 of Prima's Christmas cards was using Prima' trims. I have a few boxes full of trims, but had no Prima trims left, but the store wher I am DT, have lots of Prima trims, so to get hold of the trims was an easy challenge.

I often use a lot of trims. I went for a thin Prima trim to have between the layers of paper. I also had some Prima delight discover paper, left over paper from the November kit challenge, so I found a way of using the rest of this. The banners are just diecut of the edge of the Delight discover paper.

I have used plenty of flowers, silver - glitter tape and paper, silver bells, an old lace and some string.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - 12 days of Christmas - day 6 trims
• The pink elephant challenge  Anything goes
• Creative inspirations - Seasons Greetings
• Cute and daisy - Anything goes
• Totally gorjuss - Glitter
• Picture and scrap - Julekort

A Prima Mixed Media Rally box

How to wrap a present for a youngster interested in cars? Well, I made a paper box and decorated it with Prima - fasola - lifetime and different products. You can find the template for the box here.

The car is an old toy car, we had in a box of Geocaching trading items. I painted the car with MetaMica paint. 

The lid is decorated with layers of cardboard,with texture paste to create an uneven ground for the car. I also used Mixed Media products to create the "mud" texture and dry painted it with different brown colours, and a mixture with white and black. I have also used Ayeeda's gold microsphere beads from 13 arts.

The flag is made with white card, a stencil and distress ink. I have also used tape with glitter.

I have used gear dies from Memory box, and made die cuts in different brown colours. T

The inside of the box is decorated with an old Prima paper.

Prima PPP- November

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - November PPP
• Picture and scrap - Eske
• Nordsalten hobbyklubb - Monopop - Brun og gull
• Papirlosjen - Metall
• Scrappelyst - Kreativ gave
• Cute and daisy - Anything goes
• The pink elephant challenge - Anything goes
• A creative romance - Something old (car)
• Craft spot by kimberly - Fall
• Crafty sentiments - Die cuts
• 7 kids challenge blog - Anything goes with fall colours
• Brown sugar challenge - 2 ore more colours
• Daring card makers - Something old (car) and something new (Ayeeda's gold microsphere beads from 13 arts)
• Totally gorjuss - Glitter

The challenge of Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 5

I set myself a goal a few weeks ago, to do as many as possible of Prima's Christmas card challenges as I possibly could. This was to challenge myself to try something new with Prima's products. The challenge for day 4, was to create a card using Prima's November kit.

Unfortunately, I have problems getting hold of Prima kits here in Norway, and ordering them from abroad would cost a little fortune in toll and surcharges. So I had to do my best, and see what I could find in the main craft shops from the kit. I am lucky to live between the two largest craft shops in the country. This weekend, I set myself a goal to see what I could find. And after a good search through the computer systems/online shops to see what they had. I wrote a shopping list and went to the shops.....

And this is what I found:

1 sheet of Prima delight discover and lifetime fasola, and one pack of Prima flower market north country (of course nothing else went into my shopping basket..... )

So I started creating....

I started turning the sheets of paper around, to figure out what kind of card to make. One of those I am doing a Christmas card for, likes quilting. The back side of  the delight discover paper had a vintage sewing machine, so this is what I used. I also used some of the flowers from the set. Added a few new Prima wood icons (that fell into my shopping basket), Prima die cuts, and the only "Prima Christmas paper" I had - "Special Delivery - Deck the Halls".

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - 12 days of christmas cards - day 5 - Special Delivery Nobember kit
• The pink elephant challenge  Anything goes
• Creative inspirations - Vintage
• Cute and daisy - Anything goes

Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 4 - and testing a new products

The challenge for day 4 with Prima was Cracle Paste. I have used Cracle Pastes before, but never tried Finnabair's Crackle Texture Paste. Well, I had a go, and used Finnabair's paste and a stencil on the background. 

The paper is from Epiphany collection from Prima, probably my favorite paper collection at the moment.  I have also used Ayeeda's gold microsphere beads from 13 arts - and I just LOVE these! I got these as a gift from Aida and I hope we will be able to get these in Norway sometime soon.

I have also use golden Meta Mica around the edges, golden metal doilies and diecuts with different golden and glitter papers. I have also used golden metal Christmas bells.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - 12 days of christmas day 4 - Cracle Pastes
• Scrappegarasjen - Jul
• Scrappehjertet - Jul
• Crafty calendar challenge - Christmas
• Inkspirational challenges - Christmas (no red or green)
• Sugar creek hollow - Vintage Christmas (no traditional Christmas colours)
• Crazy challenge - Favorite technique (Stenciling)
• Brown sugar challenge - Two or more colours
• Daring card makers - Something old (Flowers, bells and string) and something new (microsphere beads and Finnabair's paste)
• Acreative romance - Something old (Flowers, bells and string) 
• Totally gorjuss - Sparkly and glittery
• Hiding in my craftroom - Any holiday

Prima's 12 days of Christmas cards - day 3 and StampARTic challenge.

We have a new challenge at StampARTic, This time, the challenge is Christmas.

I have made a Mixed Media Christmas card with inspiration and products from Prima and Finnabair.

I have used paper from the Epiphany collection from Prima and Stars and Jump Rings from Finnabair.I have also used pieces from an old clock, a computer and a sewing machine. I have created background effects with distress ink and my own stencil. The Merry and Bright stamp is from Bo Bunny.

I am entering these challenges:

• Prima - 12 days of Christmas day 3 - Finnabair
• Hiding in my craftroom - Any holiday
• Sugar creek and hollow - Vintage/Chabby chic Christmas cards - not traditional colours.
• Acreative romance - Something old (Pieces from an old clock, a computer and a sewing machine)
• Daring card makers - Something old  (Pieces from an old clock, a computer and a sewing machine) and something new (Finnabair stars and Jump Rings and Prima paper pad)
• Picture and scrap - Julekort
• Papirlosjen - Metall
• Scrappegarasjen - Jul
• Scrappehjertet - Jul