Prima, Prima, Prima!
I am very pleased to share that I received an Honorable Mention in the PrimaHybrid Creative Team Call! They chose four new designers and eight honorable mentions. Of course, I would have LOVED to have made the team, but I'm pretty thrilled to be anywhere near the top of the pile! And while I'm on the subject of Prima, I thought I'd share a review I wrote a week or two ago for Craft Critique:
In case you haven’t heard, your favorite flower manufacturer, Prima, has recently started a new division called, “PrimaHybrid.” The PrimaHyrid First Blush Digi kit is a collaborative kit created in order to celebrate the debut of PrimaHybrid. The images are by all twelve of PrimaHybrid’s designers: Carrie Stephens, Corina Nielsen, Dianne Rigdon, Doris Castle, Gina Miller, Iron Orchid Designs, Kim Christensen, Meredith Fenwick, Nancy Kubo, Trish Jones, Vera Lim and Weeds & Wildflowers Design.
This is a HUGE digi kit.
It downloads in 6 separate .zip files and includes 37 Background Papers, a Newsprint Alphabet with a-z lowercase and numbers, and 70+ Embellishments. I’ve been playing with it for almost a month and still haven’t exhausted the possibilities!
So far, my favorite elements from the kit are the soft and shabby papers by Doris Castle and Vera Lim. They’re just so pretty! I want to wallpaper my bedroom with them! I also really love the glitter flowers by Weeds & Wildflowers Design. They’re a spray of tiny glittery flowers you can splash over your layout. One set is black and the other is white. Also, Weeds & Wildflowers Design’s newsprint alphabet is so cool! There’s no other way to describe it. Each of the letters is made from slightly crumbled newsprint and they just jump off the page! These elements may not be your favorites, but with such a wide range of designers and designs, there’s sure to be something to please everyone in this kit. Now, hang on. Before you walk away thinking, “Oh a digi kit. I don’t do digital scrapbooking, I’m not going to buy this kit,” imagine what else you can do with it. There’s no question that hybrid is hot. For those of you who don’t know, hybrid scrapbooking is about combining paper and digital scrapbooking. A simple example would be computer journaling. Believe it or not, if you’ve ever put computer journaling on a paper page, you’re a hybrid scrapbooker! You can print out the high resolution papers and embellishments and use them on your paper pages (print on matte photo paper for best results). You can also make a digi page, print it out (I use my standard 8.5x11” printer even though I scrap 12x12) and then embellish it traditionally. There are so many possibilities!
Here are a few projects I have made with this kit:
The kit is currently selling for $9.99 and I think it’s worth every penny!
And I got some more great news today: I made it onto my very first digital design team! I'll be creating with Tara Sroka's beautiful products! Yay! I made my very first digital layout back in August, so I'm feeling like I'm on the fast track! Thanks for stopping by!
Congratulations on HM. I love your article!!!
Posted by: Nat | March 03, 2008 at 04:46 AM
Gorgeous, Gorgeous LO's. Thanks for the links!
Posted by: Lesli | March 03, 2008 at 07:52 AM
That's awesome, congratulations!
Posted by: Jules | March 03, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Hi, thanks for the comments to my blog. I enjoyed reading your post, very informative, I like that. And, you layouts are beautiful. Congrats on the HM, sweet :)
Posted by: lisaannette | March 03, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Wow! What an awesome and HUGE digi-kit! :) Love the layouts you created with it. Many congrats on the honorable mention!
Posted by: Sarah C. | March 03, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Oh how exciting!!! yay on the DT and the mention!!! love your work!
Posted by: Sharmaine | March 03, 2008 at 07:03 PM
Hey WOW! Big and lots of kudos to you. You are MOOOOVING closer to your dreams if you haven't already touched them!
Congrats BIG TIME to you and all of your well-deserved acheivements and recognition!
Posted by: jenny O (TesoroMio) | March 03, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Congrats on the HM with Prima, I absolutely think they are at a loss for not having you, but - that's alright! =) Also, SUPER, HUGE congrats on the digi gig! You are on a serious creative roll, so happy for you as it is so deserved!
Posted by: jen davis | March 04, 2008 at 06:24 PM
Your layouts are beautiful and the collage is awesome. Congrats on the honorable mention with Prima!
Posted by: Lisa - Scrappycatz | March 05, 2008 at 12:55 AM
yaeh!! congrats on your HM!! love your articel and layouts!!
Posted by: christiane | March 05, 2008 at 05:12 AM
Congrats on the honorable mention at PrimaHybrid! :)
Also a big congrats on the digi design team... :) Enjoy!
Posted by: {leah} | March 06, 2008 at 09:28 PM