Bloom Boy!! With Guest Courteney Gibson

Bloom Boy!!!!!!!!! Say what!?!?!? 

I am so excited for this! Jamie's NEW Bloom Boy "Quentin" is so very handsome! He's a steampunk dream with gears, bow tie, monocle and the alway fun moustache! Lol! He is seriously so fun to color!!! 

I decided to use a technique I learned a while back at a mixed media journal class. It's so cool, using a paper bag and a few of your brown distress ink pads. You crumple up your brown paper bag getting lots and lots of crumples in it! ( Is "crumples" a word?!?! Lol!) Then I un-crumple it, laying it back as flat as it can. I take my favourite brown distress ink pads I drag them across the bag. The distress inks pick up and highlights all the creases in the bag, once the ink has dried, I then take Glossy Gel Medium and paint your bag covering it all. This adds a glossy look making your paper bag look like leather. I love it. Next I grabbed a piece of Tin Foil from my pantry. That's right just plan regular Tin Foil, I cut a piece off the roll and put it inside an embossing folder pressing the folder closed the design gets pushed right into the tin foil. It works perfectly. Using a heavy gel medium I glued down my glossy paper bag onto a large tag and layering I glued down my tin foil on the bottom half of my tag. Then I just kept on layering, Prima's wood ATC's added some fun dimension. Sticking with the Steampunk theme I used Junkyard Findings clock faces, Ingvild Bolme's ceiling light bulbs and Jean plates. Prima really makes embellishing to much fun. Adding Glossy Accents to "Quentin's" monocle and bow just added the finishing touches! I hope you all enjoy this tag as much as I enjoyed making it!!!!! Xoxo

List of Products
980337- Bloom Boy Quentin
572952- Wood ATC-Classic Cards
57280- Time Traveler's Wood Icons
892210- Ingvild Bolme Jean Plates
892180- Ingvild Bolme Ceiling Light Bulbs
891596- Junkyard Findings Clock     Faces

573102- Cartographer Typewriter Keys

990138- Cartographer Flare Buttons

Courteney McMillan-Gibson

https://poshcreates.wordpress.com

P.S. We will be moving the Bloom Girls over to Jamie's Designer blog starting Feb. 2nd!! There you will find all of the NEW Creative Team's designs along with special posts from Jamie herself. Join us there at 

http://jamiedoughertydesigns.blogspot.com

We hope to see you there. You won't want to miss all of the new stuff we have in store! 

Hugs and happy creating!! 

Fabulous Scrapbook page by GDT - Courteney!

Hey My Bloom Peeps! Courteney here! I had so much fun creating this layout. My beautiful nieces are to me what Bloom Girls are all about! Truly beautiful inside and out, sweet, strong & living there dreams.

I have to say Jamie's NEW Sirena Bloom Girl is my absolute favourite!!!!
I swear Jamie read my mind, I have wanted a Seashore Bloom Girl since I saw Jamie's stunning project she made for a Charity Wings advent. (I may have even begged her to buy it) Lol! So needless to say when I saw Sirena I may have jumped up and down flailing around like a fool!!!

Playing with many of my favourite Prima products, this layout was so fun to create. Using Prima's Seashore paper collection, chipboard and stamps. Gold Foil Bloom spray and alway beautiful Prima trims. I just couldn't stop. Using Jamie's NEW Criss-Cross Stencil and Heavy Matt Gel Medium I added some cool looking clear texture for my background, then I lightly sprayed Gold Foil BloomSpay over the dried medium for another layer of dimension. Coloring Jamie's NEW Floral stamps with watercolour pencil crayons and Wink of Stella pens to add some sparkle and some pearls with a pearl pen. Sirena I colored with copic markers and watercolour pencils crayons adding sparkle and glossy accents here and there. Popping layers on top of layers with pop dots adding dimension everywhere. I just love how it turned out and I hope you do to!!!

List of Prima Products
Jamie Dougherty's NEW Bloom Girl Sirena #980344
Jamie Dougherty's NEW Floral Stamp
#980313
Jamie Dougherty's NEW 6x12 Criss-Cross Stencil #980412
Seashore Collection paper #814144
Seashore Chipboard pieces #813727
Seashore Clear Stamps #572600
Trim #573379
Color Bloom Gold Foil #573805

Thanks everyone for stopping by!!!
Courteney McMillan-Gibson
https://poshcreates.wordpress.com

Altered Frame with Courteney!

Let's make something old, new again!!!! I was going through a few older items my mom had given me to Alter and I came across this Gold frame that I thought would work out perfectly for this project!

 

 

I added some sparkly gold paper to the frame and started layering!
Jamie's amazing NEW "Floral" stamp is absolutely stunning and comes with 3 different size flowers. Plus they can be colored to match any project!!!




Once I adhered the biggest of the flowers in the "Floral" stamp set I started layering the smaller ones. Putting Jamie's NEW "Emily" Bloom Girl right in the middle!!! I absolutely
Love the Steampunk glasses and gears that surround here. She is so beautiful and so much fun to color!!




I am so very excited for everyone to see and play with all of the Amazing NEW Bloom Girl stamps and stencil!!!
Xoxo
Courteney McMillan-Gibson

Bloom Girl Inspiration with GDT Courteney!

Today we have GDT Courteney here to share this gorgeous project with us.

 Nothing like a great summers day to sit and play!!

 Everything about summer is beautiful here in Alberta!
Butterflies & Flowers being two of my favourite things so I just had to use the stunning

 Bloom Girl Sharon.

Luckily the shop that I work at had these amazing wooden butterflies. I seriously had been looking at them for weeks trying to figure out what I could make with them.
A coat of Gesso and some of Prima's beautiful Bloom Sprays. Lots of fun spraying and a whole bunch of drying!  I got the design I was looking for! Stand out amazing color with a beautiful shine!

Coloring is definitely my favourite part of all my Bloom Girl creations and this project was no exception. This time I chose my water color pencils. With so many butterfly's you can use so many colors!!!
Adding some of Prima's "Say it in crystals" and Flower vines was just the icing on the cake.

 So much fun!
Once everything was dry I layered the wooden butterflies on top of each other. Once layered I decided you couldn't have a butterfly without intenia so I curled some of Prima's wire around a paint brush and slowly pulled the wire off. Ending up with the perfect pair of intenias.
I hope you all enjoy!!!!

Have a great day!

Bloom Girl August Challenge 1

 

Hi there all of you Bloom Girl Fans!

 

Today is a very exciting day. We have our first brand new challenge! We will have a monthly challenge with a new Inspirational Challenge each month. You will be inspired by our amazing design team throughout the month with a variety of different projects.

 

This Challenge will be open to any type of crafters, whether you scrap book, make cards, paint, draw, mixed media the choice is yours! You don't even have to use a Bloom Girl Stamp in your project to play! How awesome is that!

 

For our August we have a gorgeous color palate that Jamie has put together.

You can use all colors, some colors or simply tell us how this color scheme has inspired you.

 

 

Now, let's have a look at what some of our designers have done.

 

Mindy

 

 Lisa

 

 

Stephanie

Jeannie

 

 GDT -Hee Sun Kim

 

 

Courteney

 

 

GDT - Anita

 

 

GDT - Sherry

 

 

 

You will have until August 31st to enter this challenge and for a chance to win a little something special from Jamie Dougherty! :)