Blog Hop Extravaganza with Westcott and The Bloom Girls!

We are SO excited to present you a STRONG and BLOOMING collaboration between the Bloom Girl line by Jamie Dougherty and Westcott! All the designers have been playing with amazing products from Westcott and we were thrilled to base our projects on the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign that is always held during October.

To celebrate this awesome opportunity, both Jamie and Westcott are doing giveaways* to one lucky winner. Nice, right?! To enter the giveaways, you must comment on each blog listed below and make sure to thank our dear Jamie on the Bloom Girls Creative group on Facebook and Westcott on their Facebook page. You can find their products HERE on the Prima website and HERE on the Westcott one.

*The Westcott giveaway is open to US residents only from Oct. 17th 2014 10am PT to Oct. 20th 2014 12am PT. The Bloom Girl giveaway is open worldwide from Oct. 17th 2014 10am PT to Oct. 20th 2014 12am PT.

Have a sneak at the Design team's beautiful projects, then hop around to see their finished projects. 

Jamie Dougherty
Janine Koczwara
Jeannie De Gruccio
Lisa Adametz
Louise Nelson
Mindy Baxter
Stéphanie Beauchemin



Happy Creating!!!

Mixed Media with DT Janine using Bloom Girl Hope!

It's Janine Koczwara here again with today's post.  I always love to try new things and in that spirit I was intrigued to see how stamping onto printed tissue paper and then coloring the stamped Bloom Girl image would turn out.  I love the multi-layered effect I can achieve with tissue and wanted to combine it with my love of Bloom Girl stamps.

So the first step was to stamp "Hope" onto Tim Holtz tissue paper and then cut around the image.  I took a Ranger Kraft size 8 tag and swiped a touch of gesso onto the background before adding a slight touch of bloom spray.  Dried it off and then used Matte Medium to apply my stamped Bloom Girl tissue paper onto the tag before applying Faber Castell Gelatos and Big Brush Markers to color the image.  It was fun and created a different, more sheer look to the image.  You can still see the Tangerine Bloom Spray coming through the tissue from underneath.

Then it was onto creating a fun Mixed Media back ground for my stamped image.  I once again used the Bloom Watercolor Paper (yes I am in love with this stuff and have used several pads of paper already!)

I started by adding color onto the background with Color Bloom Sprays and a mop brush, watering it down at times for different intensities of the color.  After drying this off I masked with Prima Heavy Gesso through the Prima Random Circles mask and dried off again before adding more Bloom Spray for patches of greater intensity.

I then used the Prima Bloom Stamp that comes with the Flairs, to stamp different colored flowers with Prima Chalk Inks (Fall Leaf and Coldsfoot Petals), fussy cut around these and added embellished the page with these and Prima Bloom Flowers that have been altered using Bloom Sprays.

I had a lot of fun altering and experimenting on this page.  I would recommend having a play with stamping onto tissue, then using soft gel medium or matte medium to apply to your paper before coloring as  the sheer layers give so many opportunities for creativity.  If you do try this technique please share it on the Bloom Girls Creative Group on Facebook!

PRODUCTS USED:

980047 Prima Bloom Stamp Hope

9800269 Prima Bloom Watercolor Paper Pad

 980085 Prima Bloom Flairs

573065 Prima Bloom Clips

575182 Prima Bloom Flowers

846817 Prima Forever Green Garden Talk

846763 Prima Forever Green Watch Them Grow

960179 Prima 6x6 Checker Stencil

960445 Prima Bubbles Stencil

891299 Prima Chalk Coldsfood Petals

891282 Prima Chalk Fall Leaf

573935 Prima Bloom Spray Tangerine

573874 Prima Bloom Spray Sorbet

 961442 Prima Heavy Gesso

961428 Prima Soft Matte Gel

Ranger Tags Size 8 Kraft

Tim Holtz Tissue Paper

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mustard Seed

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Ripe Persimon

Faber Castell Gelatos

Faber Castell Big Brush Markers

Stampendous Mish Mash Stamps

Luminarte Silks Solar Gold

Luminarte Polished Pigments Gold Dust

Sharpie White Paint Pen

Sharpie Black Pen

Scrapbooking Inspiration from DT Janine!

Hi it's Janine Koczwara here with my first Bloom Girl post.  I adore working with the Bloom Girl stamps, but I wanted to try and incorporate one onto a layout.

I have stamped "Gardenia" onto the amazing Bloom Watercolor paper, then proceeded to color with Faber Castell Gelatos and Watercolor Pencils.  To color with Gelatos, I rubbed some onto a silicone mat and then added water to make a lovely watery paint, allowing  me to paint her very easily and the colors blended well.  I then used flowers from the "Gardenia" stencil with Ranger Distress Ink, around the image before fussy cutting out to use on the layout.

Once I had my "Gardenia Girl" page accent all complete I went to town with other Prima Stencils and mixed media supplies to create this fun page around my daughter.

PRODUCTS USED:

980207 Prima Bloom Stamp - Gardenia

980252 Prima Bloom Stencil - Gardenia

980269 Prima Bloom Watercolor Pad

846824 Prima Epiphany Collection - Striking Appearance

846862 Prima Epiphany Collection - Words to Live By

846817 Prima Forever Green Collection - Garden Talk

572846 Prima Metal Dies - Flowers 2

577773 Prima Rodanthe Flowers - Whitecap

575922 Prima 6x6 Stencil - Decor 2

573744 Prima Bloom Spray - Iris

573935 Prima Bloom Spray - Tangerine

573805 Prima Bloom Spray - Gold Foil

Ranger Distress Ink - Mustard Seed

Ranger Distress Ink - Black Soot

Ranger Distress Ink - Dusty Concord

Ranger Distress Ink -  Ripe Persimon

Prisma Watercolor Pencil - Burnt Umber

Faber Castell Gelatos Boxed Set

White Sharpie Paint Pen

Black Cardstock