The 7th Day of Christmas Prima style 22

***I have two posts today, please be sure to visit my post for the color throwdown HERE-thank you***

Hi there! In case you missed it, Prima is currently celebrating 12 Days of Christmas on the Prima blog -click HERE. There are many beautiful and inspiring projects for you to check out and a variety of challenges to play along with as well of many prizes to be won! Check it out HERE.

Today it's my turn up on the Prima blog in celebration of the 7th Day of Christmas. 

We were asked to create a Christmas tag featuring Prima's IOD Oil Pastels.

I was going for a cold wintry Christmas theme so I created a tag using a cool color palette by combining the following beautiful Oil Pastels colors: Yellow Green, Sky Blue and Light Blue.

To create this tag, I die cut and layered various pretty papers from the Garden Fable collection, added lots of texture using Light Paste Opaque Matte medium along with the Honeycomb stencil followed with lots of color using oil pastels. I embellished the tag with a trio of die cut snowflakes that were colored using the Yellow Green oil pastel then coated with Pearl Glass Glitter along with a variety of beautiful Prima flowers and a sweet resin owl.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my tag. Please be sure to visit the Prima blog for loads of inspiration and to join along in one of the challenges! There are many beautiful and inspiring projects for you to check out and a variety of challenges to play along with as well of many prizes to be won! Check it out HERE.

Prima Products:
814328-Iron Orchid Decor-Water Soluble Oil Pastels-Yellow Green, Sky Blue, Light Blue
582661-A Victorian Christmas-Clear Stamps 2
847333-Garden Fable-A4 Paper Pad
574598-Prima Flowers-Luna Limitless
980269-Jamie Dougherty-A4 Watercolor Paper Pad
961442-Finnabair art basics Heavy Gesso White
961404-Finnabair art basics Light Paste Opaque Matte
573942-Color Bloom Spray Mist-Glistening Waves
961633-Finnabair art ingredients-Glass Glitter Pearl
961268-Finnabair Elementals-6.5” x 10.25” Stencil Honeycomb
961428-Finnabair art basics-Soft Matte Gel Transparent
892593-Ingvild Bolme Shabby Chic Treasures-Owls
548858-Prima Flowers-Corine Collection
546700-Prima Flowers-Audrey Rose Col Blue Ice

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Winter wishes 19

***I have two posts today, if you are looking for my Prima post, please click HERE-thank you :)***
Hi! Today I'm so excited and honored to be joining along side the creatively talented design team as the featured stamper at the color throwdown challenge! I'd like to thank the color throwdown team for inviting me to join along!

Here's this week's color inspiration:

I made a rather clean and simple card featuring a fun snowman image from one of my first Stampin' Up stamp sets that dates back to 2004:

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge:

Thanks so much for visiting! Please be sure to visit the color throwdown challenge to see all the design team's beautiful samples and to join along in the fun! Please be sure to visit the Prima blog for a lot of Christmas inspiration!
Be Sweet ;)

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merry christmas 32

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! In case you missed it, Prima is currently celebrating 12 Days of Christmas on the Prima blog. There are many beautiful and inspiring projects for you to check out and a variety of challenges to play along with as well of many prizes to be won! Check it out HERE.

Being a Prima DT member myself, I am ineligible to win a prize but I still enjoy joining along regardless :) I created a mixed media style Christmas card for my dear husband which features a variety of Prima products.

Once I embossed the background, I painted it using Prima black gesso followed with Prima Mica Powders: Teal, Rust, Copper. The wooden snowflake came from a local craft store. I painted it using black gesso and Prima Teal Mica Powder:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
the Mixed Media Place Creative Gym Exercise #14 challenge where we are challenged to create a Christmas themed card, tag or ATC project:

the Merry Monday Christmas Card challenge where we are challenged to create a Christmas card with a reindeer on it:

Many thanks for stopping by~ I hope you enjoyed my card!
Be Sweet ;)

Prima products used:
962531-Finnabair art ingredients Mica Powder Copper
962487-Finnabair art ingredients Mica Powder Teal
962548-Finnabair art ingredients Mica Powder Rust
961459-Finnabair art basics-Heavy Black Gesso

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Season's Greetings 22

Hi there! Today I have a rather simple Christmas card to share featuring a fun tree image from a PTI stamp set that I recently purchased along with pretty patterned Tim Holtz papers. 

I stamped and heat embossed the image then applied Distress Ink around the image to make it stand out as it sort of faded into the background:

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Freshly Made Sketches:

and I'm also joining along with the current Card Concept challenge where the theme is Festive Glory. I was inspired by the gingham pattern and vintage vibe of the photo to create this Clean & Graphic Christmas card:

Thanks so much for visiting ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)

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