Remember Spring - for July Prima BAP and for Scrapafrica

if earth laughs in flowers

then azaleas are a belly laugh

proclaiming that Spring is here!

I have been pondering what to create for the July Prima BAP

challenge since I first saw the sketch

Whenever I do a challenge, I carefully read

the requirements and list them on paper

If there is a sketch to follow, I hand sketch it out

Then I let it soak in

If certain colors or elements are listed

I make a little pile of them and shuffle them around

just trying to get a feel for where to go with all of it

I had listed several challenges to try this month

along with the Prima ones, including the one from Scrapafrica

As I was playing with placement of some photos

that I had taken of our azalea bushes

and lining them up

I got to thinking about one long photo that ran across the page

so I played a bit with that idea and printed one out

I then painted a loose painting of azaleas and laid the photo

across it

Playing with some flowers

I quickly realized how similar the 2 sketches were

and decided to play on that

I painted a Prima flower and a Finnabair flower

with watercolor paints to match the photo

and then built up the little floral gardens 

diagonally across the page

Every ingredient is Prima (other than the watercolor paper and

the Pilot pen that I used to write with)

The watercolors are mostly Prima the Classics

but a few from Decadent Pies

I used the Prima watercolor brushes

The flowers are 100% Prima from

the Free Spirit, Stationers Desk, Finnabair alterable,

 and another unknown vintage package

in the background are Christine Adolph rub-on daisies

the chipboard pieces are vintage Prima Meadowlark

the little end pieces are from the Salvage District  6x6 paintables

This was a labor of love

a reminder of how much I love

the exuberant explosion of our azalea bushes in Spring

Thanks for looking

ttfn 

Prima June BAP - Salvage District

I went positively crazy with this layout for the Prima June BAP.

When I saw the page map, I knew that I wanted to use some of the vintage

Prima laces that I had won a long time ago.

I particularly love the Salvage District collection 

and knew I had the perfect photo

of the open doorway to an antique shop in Asheville NC.

I used some IOD Baroque 4 molds and paper clay

to make the architectural elements onto which

I adhered the photo - at an angle so it give perspective to the layout.

I layered lots of Prima laces with some sequin waste

and added Salvage District flowers and some cut outs 

from the Chateau paper and the cover sheet on the watercolor pad.

Originally I was going to use

another Salvage District paper for the background 

but the photo had so much gold and brown that instead

I used Timeless Memories Everlast.

I painted some of the papers with gold pigment

and used the water soluble oil pastels

to make them more compatible with the background and the photo.

I then added some vintage Prima buttons and 

some other little embellishments that just seemed to fit.

Finally I typed the journaling on my little Royal typewriter:

"the salvage district where you discover

treasures, magic, and mystery."

This layout was a labor of love

Hope you like it

ttfn