Bloom Girl Gardenia with Easy Background Tutorial

Hi my sweet Bloom friends. It's Lisa here with you today and I have a little tutorial today on how to create a fun background for any card, but ESPECIALLY your Bloom Girls (and upcoming Guys, too.) Here's the card I created using the technique:

1. Start off with watercolor paper. Jamie has awesome watercolor paper!! Did you know? She does! It's a beautiful, thick paper that is A4 sized. Just trim a sheet to 4 ¼ x 5 ½" and place Frog tape or other low-tack painter's tape around the edges.

2.  Using an acrylic block (mine was 1 x 7" long) rub a Gelato® completely all over one side. Spritz with water and then press (rather hard) onto the paper. Before removing the block, lift the block in different areas. This will give you a more watercolored look - more random.

3. Repeat the process for each color you wish to use. It's completely fine to overlap the colors and to let them drip into each other. (For this card 4 Gelatos® worked perfectly.)

4.  Prior to doing any stamping with your Bloom Girl it is important to allow the background to either air dry or heat set. **Do not get too close with your heat tool if you use a high temp embossing gun.**

5. I do stenciling and spraying PRIOR to stamping, which may seem weird. But I do this so I don't get too hung up on placement, It just feels more organic to me that way. I hope that makes sense. The times that I don't do it this way is when I'm using a texture paste or things that require layers.

6. Stamp Bloom Girl Gardenia using an Archival Ink. (I used Coffee by Ranger.)

(You can see the stencil over her facial area.)

7. Once the Bloom Girl is stamped the rest is really up to you and how you want to embellish and finish it up -- what you want to add to make it YOUR OWN. :) You can see my close ups to see what I added (and the product list, too.)

Another angle:

If you're more of a visual learner (some of us are - myself included!), here is a video I created with this same technique for Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®.

I hope that you enjoyed this fun technique and will use it on one (if not MANY) of your next Bloom Girls!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Products Used:
Prima:
Prima Bloom Girl Stamp (Jamie Dougherty Designs):  Gardenia – 980207
Jamie Dougherty A4 Watercolor Paper - 980269
Color Bloom Sprays:  Summer Sky, Vintage Metal – Gold Foil - 573805
Mica Flakes: Frosted, Gold Leaf – 961756
Glass Glitter, Gold Rush - 961657
Prima Stencil:  Checker - 960179
Prima Flowers:
*Prima Sugar Bloom Collection - 549053
*Talia Tempting - 574680
*Cartographer Adventurer – 574529
Bloom Typewriter Keys - 573065


Other:
Ranger Archival Ink – Coffee
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®:  PITT Artist Pen (Dark Sepia – 125), Gel Medium, Gelatos® (Iced Coffee, Cinnamon, Iced Chai, Gold Champagne), Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils (Medium Flesh – 151, Cobalt Green – 156, Raw Umber – 180, Burnt Siena – 283).
My Favorite Things – Hot Fudge Cardstock

Mixed Media altered frame with Gardenia by DT Stephanie

Good morning Bloomies!

Stephanie here on the blog today with a Christmas prezzie that went to one awesome gal! I try to go out of my comfort zone as often as possible, but sometimes it can go all wrong, like this AHAHAH...oh well, I'm still showing it to you guys!

So the idea was to turn a blank wooden frame (from Michael's) into a total mixed media madness gift. Knowing me, you all realize I couldn't pass the opportunity to put a Bloom Girl coloured in Copics on that, don't you?! Miss Gardenia here got stamped and coloured, then fussy cut to keep only a small section of her bust and hair. 

I inked the frame with a white Prima Chalk Edger (loooooove those cutie inks, so affordable and practical!), added some mold paste with a checkboard stencil, glued some lace and trimmings on half of it, and added several pieces of embellishments, all from my Prima stash box. Everything got a nice coat of heavy gesso from the Finnabair line and got dried with my heat tool. After that, I sprinkled a few pigment powders from Luminarte here and there, misted water over the whole thing and let dry on its own. As always, I put my Bloom Girl on foamy adhesive and VOILÀ!

Close-ups...

What about you, did you make some crafty gifts for Christmas? Come and show us on the Bloom Girls Creative Group on Facebook!

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.

Mixed Media Bliss with Guest Bloom girl Zoey

Hello everyone!

It is me, Zoey again!! I am so happy to be able to share with you my last work using stamps from the Bloom Collection! 

I have to apologize because I do not have step-by-step picture , I was filming a video when I realized I wasn't recording at all. I hope I can still give you the idea on what I did!

Material Used: 

• 6x4 ATC PAD Time Traveler's memories #814076
• 6x6 PAPER PAD Time Traveler's memories #813932
• 12x12 SCRIPT PAD #844417
• Gardenia Bloom Girl Stamp #980207
• Color Bloom Spray #573881 , #573829 , #573812 , #573805

I started with a plain white canvas and I glued some strip of papers here and there and then I covered the whole surface with a bit of gesso with a bit of water in it.

I did this because I wanted to tone down a little the paper but I didn't want to cover up the whole thing.  I then sprayed the surface using Bloom Sprays a huge mix of color!

When everything was completely dry I stamped the beautiful Gardenia Girl - I know I said it already in my last post (that you can read here) but what I love most about all the Bloom Girls is that light of hope I can see in their eyes, it is pure magic to me.

I stamped twice the rose on Gardenia's hair over a piece of paper, add some color to it and fussy cut it. I glued the pieces to the base using foam adhesive

I added some splashes of color here and there and also added some crackle paint to give more interest to the background.

The quote is a quote I found in the 6X4 ATC PAD (#814076) , all I did was cutting it down into stripes and distress them with the distressing tool. I love when I find pre-stamped quotes in my paper pads, makes it so easy to coordinate everything together.

And there is my finished canvas.  I hope I was able to give you an idea on how I achieved this result even without step by step photo or video.

I hope you will like the result, as always for any comments, questions, suggestions please leave a comment!

Stay happy, stay creative....till next time!

CIAO Zoey

Inspirational Card for a Friend

He everyone.  It's me Jeannie with a fun type of card.  I'm sure you've seen many versions of this side step card.  I used the dimensions from PaperCompulsions to create my base, shown below.  

After I created the base, I stamped my image, Prima Girl Gardenia, colored it in with my InkTense Colored pencils and found this phrase on Pinterest:

I want to give this card to a friend who is starting on a path that will sure to give her some not so great days...

So I altered the phrase for her, now it says:

She’s a strong person, but every now and then

 she’ll need a person to take her hand and say,

 “Everything’s going to be alright"

Here is how the card turned out after I created the different levels on the right hand side of the card.  

I love how this all came together.  

I'm hoping to give this to my friend today...Let's hope she likes it.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's Bloom Girl Post. 

Bloom Girl Gardenia card by DT Stephanie!

Hi everyone! 

Stephanie here on the blog today, again with a card that I especially love with one of the Bloom Girls!

I decided to use Gardenia and add a little doodle here and there to her, celebrating today's optimist vibe. Even if the stamp size can be a bit unusual for a 5.5" squared card, I wanted to keep her whole and the flowers are making her pop even more, don't you think? So our gal Gardenia got coloured with Copic markers, then fussy cut, all edges blackened, got pumped on 3D foam adhesives, along on the Optimist patterned papers and some pink flowers from Prima Marketing.

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 <3

Mixed Media Layout with GDT Sherry!

Hey everyone, Sherry here:) I just wanted to share with you this little gem inspired by my nieces Princess Party birthday! 

With Frozen on the brain, I used a variety of cut outs from the Silhouette Cameo, distressed inks, flowers, mechanicals, a few Bloom Girls brads and tons of stencils and mediums, I created this fun, bubbly, layered layout!

I applied Gardenia with her stencil and a brown resist chalk edger! 

I sprayed my girl silhouette and half my flowers with Bloom sprays. I mixed gel medium with Lindy's Stamp Gang magicals to apply through a bubble stencil onto girl silhouette. 

Using extra papers/stickers from my stash I layered some under my main photo (after enhancing with Faber-Castell gelatos) 

Using a variety of stencils (snowflakes, 'princess', bubbles) and a variety of mediums (molding paste, gloss gel medium mixed with magicals, matte gel medium)

 

Adhere girl silhouette with pop dots to the center right of the layout blowing towards the top left corner. 

I enhanced my silhouette cut bubbles with crackle paste and distressed ink. I adhered photos (with the exception of the main photo) to show through random bubbles. Cut into 3-5 bubble sections. Adhere a few sets of bubble without the photos so they appear to be blown from the girl towards too left corner. Adhere main photo onto coordinating paper using pop dots then adhering it on the top left section. Arrange all other bubbles, including the ones with photos in them, around the main photo. 

Arrange flowers, mechanicals and brads to the bottom right to tie it all in!!! 

Zombie Bloom Girl Gardenia.

 

Hi there crafty peeps It's Mindy here!

 

 Since we have a gorgeous color combo/inspiration board I thought I'd make a Halloween Card. I used the Gardenia Bloom Girl Stamp. I wanted to make her look like a vampire or zombie, so I colored her lightly in my skin tone colors E11, E00, E000 then I went back with W5, W3, W1 and W00 to give her that 'dead pasty look'. I love the way it turned out. I had some flowers on this, but I thought it took away from the image, Soooo this was a no flower card. Shocking, right!?

 

 Remember ..you don't have to use a Bloom Girl Stamp to enter.. and you could win a fabulous prize from Jamie Dougherty!

 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

 





Live Inspire Create Canvas - With DT Lisa

Hey everyone! It's Lisa here with you on this woooooonderful Monday. So, maybe it's not wonderful...YET! But, it will be. ;) My point is that I'm here with you to show you a fun way to take a funky little burlap canvas and make it into something really special for your home OR as a gift!

This canvas is 4 " W x 12" L. Kind of odd, but I LIKE it. ;) When I saw this in the store I knew I had to have it. I thought it would be perfect for mixed media! This was my first try using this new size and I love it!

I used the Bloom Girls Gardenia Stencil to create two flowers using acrylic paint and PanPastels. I then fussy cut them out and added Glaze on top to seal them and give them a little shine. Other pieces used are half of a previously used paper doily that I roughed up, some printed tissue paper, gold metal effects around the edges, LOTS of Prima pretty flowers, and Jamie's exclusive chipboard phrases, flair, and acrylic stamp. The metal effects looks like mustard in my photos (sorry), but it's really gorgeous in real life. Super shimmery and shiny! Chunky, too.

Here are some close ups:

Those stenciled flowers just turned out sooo cool! I really should have just filled up the canvas with a ton of those, shouldn't I? Next time, I promise. 

I hope that as you're filling up your shopping carts with all of your Bloom Girls goodies that you don't forget the stencils. They are very, very versatile! 

Supplies:

Bloom Girl Flair Buttons with stamp

Gardenia 12 x 12 Stencil

Bloom Girl - Freshly Picked Fabric Flowers

Bloom Girl - In Full Bloom Paper Flowers

Bloom Girl Chipboard Pieces

Bloom – Radiant Petals

Bloom – Fresh Cut

Frost – Mini Sachet

Wishes & Dreams – Gem Stones

PanPastels

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® Glaze, Gel Medium, Stamper’s Big Brush Pens

Doily

Printed Tissue Paper

Metal Effects

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

Some Gardenia Bloom Girl creativity with DT member Louise :) :) :)

Hello Hello fellow Bloom Girl Fans :)

Today I would like to share with you a layout that I created using the fabulous new release Bloom Girl Stamp - Gardenia

To create a simple background pattern to compliment my black and white photo I have quite simply heat embossed the stamped image. To add a highlight with a difference I have swiped/brushed a band of purple Color Bloom spray mist across the face of the stamped image. I have colour coordinated the resin frame with the same spray mist.

To draw the eye to the framed photo I have adhered/clustered  some gorgeous black glass beads, sequins and resin flowers around the frame, along the sweeping line of the Bloom Girls  flowing hair. Tendrils of black cotton thread extend out from this clustering of embellishments and are made to look like an extension of the Bloom Girls hair.

Technique Tip: to adhere the glass beads I have applied Glossy Accents in and around the resin frame, sprinkled on the glass beads, allowed it to partially dry, and then gently shaken off the excess beads not adhered.

As you can see from these two close up photos I have higlighted the pattern of the resin frame. I have done with with a black ink pad.

So Bloom Girl Fans that is it from me for the moment, I do hope you are enjoying the Creative Design Teams creativity this month as much as I am :) :) :)

Cheers and Happy Creating!

Louise :) xxx