Summer Snow Queen Mixed Media Canvas

Hi Bloom Friends! It's Lisa with you this fine Monday and I am so thrilled to bring you my project today. I've had a color scheme in my head for quite a while and I've really been wanting to use it on the Summer Bloom Girl Stamp, which is a little ironic....seeing as it's Winter. :)

I knew Summer NEEDED to be a Snow Queen. She NEEDED to be dressed in elegant whites and golds. Her eye is a dazzling glass glitter. Her hair is touched with gorgeous Gold Leaf Mica Flakes. This canvas is texture, glittering golds, shimmering metallics and I wish I could hug it. (Yes, I'm crazy like that.)

There are a few steps involved but here we go!
1. Using a sticky back canvas, prime the canvas using Clear Gesso, so the colors of the watercolors don't alter. Allow to dry.

2. Adhere random pieces of white pieces of tissue paper on top of the sticky back canvas (just enough to cover an are where the stamp will go). Coat will Gel Medium. Go for texture! Allow to dry.

3. Stamp Summer using Distress Paints. These are a water based acrylic paint that are VERY water soluble. Spritz the bottom areas of her hair with water, if desired. Mix different areas prior to stamping for different tones to the paint. (I used Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo, Tarnished Brass, & Frayed Burlap.) Heat Set.

4. Once dry use watercolor pencils to create shading. I used TWO watercolor pencils for the shading and one for her pupil. That's it! Oh and this is when I did her iris with the glass glitter, too.

5.  After all the shading is done to your satisfaction is when you get to go crazy adding your flowers. This is entirely up to you. The size, the colors, the amount, etc. Since I was going for a white/gold theme that's what I did here.

6. Then start building your background. I used old packaging. I tore some cardboard off of a box then ripped the top layer of paper from it here and there and coated it with white gesso. I also added in some Mica Flakes in Frosted and a tiny sprinkling more of Glass Glitter in Gold Rush.

7. Using the Color Bloom Spray in Gold Foil and the 12 x 12" Bubbles Stencil I gave a 9 x 12" canvas a light coating with the spray. Just enough to have some of the pretty gold shine through. I highlighted some of the circles (or "bubbles") with a gold watercolor pencil and also with a Gold Pan Pastel for extra shine.

8. Prior to adhering everything together I wrapped some Prima Trim around the corrugated cardboard piece and then adhered that to the canvas. Then I attached a small strip of glitter trim to the bottom of the corrugated cardboard and across the trim. Finally, removing the backing and adhering the Snow Queen!

Here are some alternate views:

This photo shows her flowers a little bit better, I think.

It was a little hard for me to take the photos without them looking grey, White is just so hard to photograph!!  But, I just love how this turned out and I hope you'll make your own "Snow Queen" Bloom Girl.

Products Used:

Prima:

Prima Bloom Girl Stamp (Jamie Dougherty Designs):  Summer

Color Bloom Sprays:  Summer Sky, Vintage Metal – Gold Foil

Mica Flakes: Frosted, Gold Leaf

Prima Stencil: 12 x 12” Bubbles

Prima Flowers:

Prima Medley Treasure

Prima Jubilee Christmas Collection 

London Collection – Majesty

Interlude A

Frost Mini Sachet

Prima Trim

Art Basics Soft Matte Gel

Art Basics Gesso, Clear

Other:

Ranger Sticky Backed Canvas

Blick 9 x 12” Canvas Art Panel

Pan Pastel Gold

Ranger Distress Paints: Walnut Stain, Tarnished Brass, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo

White Tissue Paper

Faber –Castell Design Memory Craft® Art GRIP® Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils

Winter Jing Tag - with DT Lisa

Hi Bloom Girls (and Guys lol) ! It's Lisa here with you today and I have a tag to share using the beautiful Jing Bloom Girl stamp. I really wanted to use her in a different way and to show that you don't have to be an expert at coloring to use these gorgeous stamps.

Can I just say how much I love these cool and lovely, yet earthy colors? 

Here are my steps:

1.The tag was created by first coloring on the tag using Gelatos® and blending with my finger. 

2. I tore off a piece of the polka dotted tissue paper and stamped what I had with the Jing Bloom Girl in white pigment ink and then heat setting with white embossing powder.

3. I then used Gel Medium to adhere the tissue paper to the tag. And heat set.

4. In random areas I used various shades of blue Stamper's Big Brush pens to color the flowers (I also used Gelatos® to color her face.)

5. I applied Whipped Spackle randomly through a stencil to various parts of the tag, Prior to the
Color Bloom Sprays were applied randomly.

6. The edges of the tag were inked using Archival Ink in Jet Black.

7. The snowflakes were something I just had in my stash and thought they'd look cute!

8. The finishing touches were to add the flowers. I love picking and choosing just the right ones, don't you?

I hope you liked this different take on a Winter tag and see how very easy it is to use the supplies you have on hand to make something very different and VERY beautiful.

Have a wonderful week!

Products Used:

Prima Bloom Girl Stamp (Jamie Dougherty Designs): Jing

Color Bloom Sprays:  Summer Sky, Vintage Metal – Precious Stone

Mica Flakes: Frosted

Prima - Finnabair Mechanicals - Vintage Trinkets - Leaves 1

Prima Stencil: 6 x 6” Lattice

Prima Flowers:

Cartographer – Adventurer

Bloom – Fresh Cut

Bloom  - Free Spirit 

London Collection – Majesty

Interlude A

Gelatos®

Stampers Big Brush Pens

Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Ranger Tag

Hazel & Ruby Tissue Paper

Gel Medium

Gesso

White Pigment Ink

White Embossing Powder

Snowflakes (from stash)

Christmas with Bloom Girl Gardenia

Today I am sharing a Christmas card I made with the Bloom Girl Gardenia stamp.

This is my first attempt at using some of the Mixed Media things I see everyone doing.

I know this is nowhere near what some of the Mixed Media Guru's do, but, hey, it's my first attempt.

The Bloom Girl stamps are just amazing if you like to use lots of layers and lots of different mediums.

I used my new FAVORITE papers from Prima's Cigar Box Secrets for my backgrounds.

I colored with Derwent's Inktense Watercolor pencils and used a collage decoupage to seal and glue everything together.

I added snowflakes, Prima Finnabair metal trinkets, Prima Flowers and little candies to complete the Christmas look.

I love the way this turned out and I hope you like it too.  I was nervous to try my hand at the mixed media techniques, but now, I think I might be hooked.

Thanks for stopping by today.  This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's Bloom Girl Design Team post.

Christmas With Bloom Girl Hope

Today, I am showing off this gorgeous card I made with the Bloom Girl Hope stamp. 

Since it's Christmas Time, soon, I decided to put a Christmas spin on the card.

I made a little Santa Claus hat for her and made her dress look festive too.

Can you see the Christmas candies tucked here and there?

Using the Prima Mini Type letters and the Prima Cigar Box Secrets papers, I was able to finish this off.

I adore the way this all came out and will make another fun Christmas project to share for my next post.  

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's Bloom Girl Design Team post. 

Merry Christmas 'Summer'.

Hi there my crafty peeps. Today I have a card to share using the 'Summer' Stamp and ironically I made a Christmas Card using her. That's just how versatile these gorgeous stamps are!

While at Michaels last week I found these berries and poinsettias and they are a little big but I knew they would be PERFECT with this image! I LOVE the way this card came out.

 

If you haven't gotten this gorgeous image yet we have a list of stores you can buy from HERE.

 

Have you seen the Bloom Girl Video Library? Tons of Bloom Girl Projects to check out.

 

Hope you all have a wonderful Day!

 

Hugs, Mindy

 

Paige's Christmas mood by DT Stephanie

Good morning Bloomies!

Stephanie here on the blog today with another Christmas card inspiration for you! This was a tricky one, as I was challenged to use only Prima products, but I didn't have any holiday papers left :-S So I decided to put the focal point on the gorgeous Paige, stamped in Memento ink and coloured with Copic markers. 

You can also spot these items, all from Prima:

980054 Bloom Girl - Paige stamp

846961 6x6 Epiphany paperpad

576875 Jute Trim - Wheat

577018 Lace Trim - Cloud

577094 Weave Trim - Oatmeal

891084 Resist Chalk Edger - Branch Bark

577780 Paper leaves - Rodanthe - Neptune

911041 Mini Julie Nutting Dolls - Wood Embellishment and trim from the packaging

564674 Metal Paper Clip - Lifetime

So what do you think, are you going to try and give a Christmas mood to your own Bloom Girls?

REMINDER!!!

 OH and did you see?! Our sweet Jamie is having a dt call! Be sure to share your creation using the Bloom Girls products on our creative group, you never know if you might end up with an invitation from Jamie herself to be on the team, woohoo!!

Thanks for visiting us today, and don't forget to check in on our Facebook group to see sneaks and many other fun things about the Bloom girls.

Christmas Inspiration with Sophie Bloom Girl and Lisa

Hi everyone! It's Lisa back on the blog with you today. I'm sharing a card with you today that (of course is HERE), but will also be seen over on Prima's blog as with rest of the Bloom Girls DT. We're participating in their 12 Days of Christmas Cards this week so this card and so many of the rest of the team have cards to share.

I used Jamie's gorgeous Sophie Bloom Girl stamp as my focal point here. But, when I was going through my stash I realized I didn't have much in the way of Christmas paper!! Such a travesty, I know. However, I do have papers from Prima that could serve double duty and once I pulled those out I knew exactly what to do. Yay!!

The paper collection that I used is Free Spirit. And I colored Sophie with Copic markers (I use the term loosely since I'm still really bad at it...Lol!!). Then I knew I just wanted everything else to be in shades of gold, cream, white, that kind of thing. And it really makes the reds and greens "pop" more. It's always fun going through all my flowers and embellishments finding just the right things. :)

Here's another angle:

In this photo you can really see all of that dimension! It's a heavy card. And lots of pretty shimmeriness on it. (I think I just made up a word.)

And a little close-up of her pretty face. (I even gave her a teeny tiny earring!)

I hope you enjoyed my card today, but more so I hope that you got inspired by what you can do from NON-traditional Christmas elements. There isn't a Christmas sentiment on this card and yet, I think, it still looks very Christmas-y. Don't you?

Don't forget to check out the Prima blog for ALL of the Bloom Girls awesome creations! You are sure to be inspired.

Have a wonderful week!

Bloom Girl Sharon in Christmas mode by DT Stephanie!

Hi everyone! 

Stephanie here on the blog today, again with a card BUT this time, there's a Christmas twist hidden somewhere with one of the Bloom Girls!

I decided to use Sharon and instead of leaving her butterflies in the open, I covered them with gorgeous flowers, wooden and metal embellishments, plus LOTS of yummy twine from Prima Marketing. Don't you think she looks full of joy? As always with my stamps, she's coloured with Copic markers, then fussy cut on some parts that are longer than my regular 5.5"x5." card shape, all edges inked. I'm very pleased with the way she turned out, and you'll definitely see more Bloom Girls on Christmas cards this month!

Thanks for visiting us today, and don't forget to check in on our Facebook group to see sneaks and many other fun things about the Bloom girls. OH and did you see?! Our sweet Jamie is having a dt call! Be sure to share your creation using the Bloom Girls products on our creative group, you never know if you might end up with an invitation from Jamie herself to be on the team, woohoo!!