Living my dream

A Prima Tutorial

Hi there everyone! It's my turn to share some Primaliciousness with you today.

As it's the school holidays in NZ we've been hanging out with my nieces a bit meaning I've had some great photo opportunities. I took this photo just the other day and decided it 'had' to be scrapped.

I'm stoked as it seems to have caught each of their individual personalities in just the one photo.

Here's the layout I created with the photo.

To create this layout I've used the beautiful Zephyr collection, making the most of it's 'softer' sides.

To see how I put it together, please take a look at this short (1 minute) video....

 

In preparation, I did add the muslin to the back of the photo mat. This was pretty easy. I just popped a border of glue around the outside of the back of the mat, then scrunched and adhered the muslin as I went around the mat.

Here's a close up

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Supplies used:

Supplies used:

844455 – Zephyr Gramercy

844486 – Zephyr Tempore

556808 – Miss Godivas Caladon

556846 – Miss Godivas Marshmellow

554613 – Decorative Wood embellishments

559267 – Wood Buttons Romance Novel

554705 – Resist Canvas

544232 – Alphabet Stickers

891428 – Eros Shabby Chic Treasures

891442 – Shabby Chic Treasures

557621 – Parisa Aspen Mix

557997 – Hermosa Teal

557652 – Laraine Blue Lagoon

Other: Spellbinders die (Ribbon Banners large), Muslin, Doily.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at how this type of layout can be made. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me in the comments below. I'd love to hear from you!

 

paperHaus Tutorial

HI. It's Trina McClune here and I'm really excited to be sharing my first tutorial with you on the paperHaus blog!

I've had this project in mind for quite some time and I'm thrilled to have finally made it happen!

You see for me, scrapbooking is more than 'art' (although that is the FUN part of it! Grin), I love to tell stories, and I do alot of journaling in my projects.

This mini album celebrates the 'old' (yes literally!) about me. It is all about the year I was born.

Inside I've created a little story about what happened that year. I'm still to complete it, and will be adding in things like what the cost of bread/milk/eggs/sugar were in 1969. Who the NZ Prime Minister was, Songs that were popular etc etc.

But for now, let's have a look at what I've done....

A close up of the front cover.

Page one is all about the year, it's my title page.

Page 2-3 gives a few details about me, plus some 'highlights' of the year.

Page 4-5 give some pictorial details of the highs and lows (according to me).

 As you can see, I've deliberately kept the 'decorating' to a minimum as I'd like the details to be the main focus. I've also used a monotone colur palette to help with this.

Here's how I created the front cover....

Step 1:

Cut your covers from some thick card in the shape you want. I've used a Spellbinders die for mine.

Then cut two pieces of canvas for each cover, slightly larger than your covers.

Step 2:

Adhere the canvas to both sides of your card using a glue stick.

Then stitch around the edge of the card to ensure it's is really stuck on (plus it looks good!)

Step 3:

Use a mask (I used Prima's brick wall mask) and some texture paste to create a wonderful textured design on the front cover.

Step 4:

Add some muslin. The way I do this is to cut a piece that is alot larger than the area I want to cover. I then add some glue to the area I'm covering and scrunch the muslin over the area, squishing it into the glue to adhere.

Step 5:

Decorate. In this instance I used Prima flowers, vines, a hand cut clock from some Prima packaging, a doily, and a gorgeous new medium (Windsor and Newton watercolour Iridescent Medium) I've discovered through Janine Koczwara (Thanks Janine!!!).

Supplies used:

Prima flowers, alphabet, Say it in crystals, paper and other embellishments, Prima brick wall mask, Canvas, muslin, iridescent medium, texture paste, Spellbinders dies, white tag, doily, seam binding, white cardstock, Cuttlebug alphabet, and home made resin pieces (you can view a video on how to make these here).

I hope you've enjoyed my project today. Please feel free to leave me a comment or question and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Have a great day.

Trina.

Tuesday Tutorials on Prima's Facebook page

Did you know that Prima are having tutorials on Tuesdays now?

Yep!

Check it out. Different members of the Educator team and DT are showing you all sorts of things. It's like a mini class every Tues.

You can see the full set of tutorials from my one last week right here. But in the meantime you can see the layout itself below.

Keep an eye on Prima's FB page for more each week.

Join me in a 'how to' video to make a one piece of cardstock mini album

Yes! You heard that right! Today we're going to make a 3.5" x 3.5" mini album from just one sheet of 12" x 12" paper.

It's a little bit tricky, but I hope the video below will help you along your way. Once you have the tricky bit of cutting and folding done, it's easy peasy!

Here's a look at what you'll be creating:

 and another glimpse:

Aren't the colours divine?! Uh huh! Love the new firefly range from Prima!

Because it's so quick and easy, I also made it in a different colour scheme...

and a close up

Please join me in my 'how to' video for this sweet mini album.

 

To make these mini albums you'll need the following Prima product:

845209 - Firefly Journey

845193 - Firefly Magique

845179 - Firefly Aglow

559144 - Alphabet Stickers Rondelle

556846 - Miss Godivas Marshmellow

556853 - Miss Godivas Mermaid 

An outside the box way to use some embossing folders

Who loves cupcakes? ME! Who loves Spellbinders? ME! So what happens when we put them together? Let’s take a look shall we?!

I’m sure some of you will have seen this before, but it’s not that ‘common’ so I thought it would be fun to share.

And yes, you’re guessing right. I DID put some fondant icing through my diecutting machine.

Here’s how I did it….

Step 1:

Choose the colour you would like your cupcake topping to be and add to white fondant to create your colour.

Step 2:

Roll your icing between two sheets of grease proof paper to your required topping thickness.

Step 3:

Cover your chosen embossing folder with cornflour. I’m not sure if the product I’m using has the same name all around the world, but it is a very fine flour. Make sure once you’ve coated the folder, you then shake it all off.

Step 4:

Now place your fondant icing onto the folder, and cut the overhang off.

Step 5:

Close the folder, and put through your die cutting machine.

Step 6: Gently pull the folder apart so you get your beautifully embossed icing. Now cut into circles to put on top of your cupcake. If you don’t have anything that quite fits, look around for cups or similar to use.

Step 7:

Grab your cupcake and layer with some butter icing (if you have some, add some edible glue to the top of the icing to help stick your top on without having to ‘squish’ it too much). Add your cupcake topping.

Step 8:

Eat and enjoy!

Spellbinders Product you can use:

Spellbinders Grand Calibur® Machine

ANY Spellbinders embossing folder – I used EL-010 Paisley

You could also use any others that you like. I also tried  EL-009 Flora which was gorgeous as well.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my take on using Spellbinders M-Bossabilities. They sure are fun and can add so much interest to any project you want to tackle.

T

Please note: “Spellbinders does not endorse the use of dies on food products.”