Bloom Girl Art Book with GDT Lisa Novogrodski.

Hi Everyone! It’s Lisa Novogrodski here and I am thrilled to be guest designing this month for

Jamie Dougherty’s Bloom Girl Team!

I wanted to do something a little “out of the box” with the Bloom Girl stamps. If you are familiar with my work then you know I like to use products in a different way then they were intended. Nothing is safe. If I can cut it up, rearrange it and put it back together again that is what I’ll do! Soooo… today I want to show you that you are only limited by your imagination when it comes to these fabulous stamps. While you can stamp and color them and use them on your project you can also stamp and rearrange them into whatever path your imaginations takes you down.

 

“See The Beautiful Foolishness of Things and Linger”

 

I’ve used the Bloom Art Book to create my project. I love that the pages already have some color and pattern to them. No “blank page fear” if you happen to suffer from that.

 

 

I stamped the Bloom Girl Joy on white cardstock and cut the flowers from her hair…and well… I cut off her hair!  The stamped flowers were colored with Caran d’ache water soluble crayons which I love. I also stamped with Clear Stamps and the flower stamp that came with the pack of Flair Buttons. I splattered the background with Bloom Mists and added some art doll parts to the girls!

 

 

On the opposing page I used Bloom Girl Paige. Again I cut her hair off and stamped her on white cardstock. I also stamped her again several times on pattern paper. I cut the flowers out and used a mix of those cut from pattern paper and those cut from white cardstock.  I mixed them into background scene as well as forming a crown of flowers for her head. I used Caran d’ache to color her face and the white stamped florals.

 

 

I set my Bloom Girls in a scene adding some more art doll parts and background interest to give my pages a fun quirky look! Give it a try!

 

Products:

Bloom – Cling Stamp Paige

Bloom – Cling Stamp Joy

Bloom-Typewriter Keys

Bloom Art Book

Bloom- Clear Stamps

Bloom- Flair Buttons

Color Bloom- Soft Teal

Color Bloom – Cotton Candy

A BloomGirl Altered Scrapbook Album

The gorgeous kraft paper cover of the Bloom Collection album is just begging to be altered! It's literally a blank canvas that you can customize for any theme or person. I decided to try some of the new Finnabair Art Basics on the cover while using the BloomGirl stamp "Sharon" as the main attraction:

I used the tag from the product packaging to create a hang tag on the binding of the book, to which I tied strips of lace ribbon, and torn fabric. I decoupaged book and dictionary pages to the binder cover, using Prima's new Chalkboard paint to add color. I then stamped the BloomGirl Sharon onto the book pages using ColorBox Crafter's ink, which I heat set to make permanent. Without heating, the ink would run when touched with your hands or with a marker or paintbrush when coloring the image in.

I used Tombow markers to color the stamped image in, using my fingers to blend the ink. I added some stamping with stamp wheels and then hot glued the flowers to the cver. I added dabs of Art Basics Gel Medium to the area around the flowers and sprinkled that with Art Ingredients Mica Flake.

Watch this handy dandy video I made that shows the process from start to finish:

Easy peasy right? Instead of attaching the tag to  the book, you could also use it as a holiday gift tag. Make a bunch of them from your old clothing and product packaging!

Supplies:

• BloomGirl Sharon Stamp
• Bloom Collection Album
• Prima Gold Butterfly Charm
• Prima Art Basics Gel Medium
• Prima Art Ingredients Mica Flake
• Prima Chalkboard Paint - Egg Blue
• Prima Flowers
• Assorted Ribbon and Fabric Strips
• Rolling Stamps
• Colorbox Archival Dye Ink
• ColorBox Crafter's Ink
• Heat Gun
• Hot Glue Gun
• Vintage Book and Dictionary Pages
• Twine
• Tombow Markers
• Foam Paint Brush

Consider stamping faces onto book pages to make them easier to color (you won't have to worry about coloring the skin). You could totally do this on canvas too!

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