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