A Free Spirited Merry Christmas!

Hi Bloom Girl fans!  I've just finished a quick card for your last minute gifts. She's quick and easy to duplicate!

A closer look to this Golden Goddes

I prepared a Snapguide with some videos on the steps so that you can create your own!

I hope your Christmas is filled with family and love and that the new year brings you many blessings!

Milagros 

Check out How to Make a Quick Christmas Card by Milagros C Rivera on Snapguide.

Our Faith in Motion

I have been working on a series called Faith In Motion. or emotion. I love sharing my art and my faith with people and I try to create pieces that others can relate with. Here are a couple in the series.

Supplies I used were wood panels, Acrylic paint by Liquitex and Deco Art, Paint brushes by Princeton Brushes, Graphite pencil by Faber-Castell, copper leafing,

Thank you and I hope you enjoy this series as much as I have creating it.

"Rooted In Faith"

 
                                    "Duality"

And a little work in progress

Merry and Blessed Holiday Season and Happy New Year.

Jamie

Creating In Faith

Many of you now know that I recently came out with a new line called Creating In Faith. I would like to thank Prima Marketing Inc. for allowing me to release this collection with them and share my love for my faith as well for art. Many stores now have it in stock but if you haven't had the chance to see the collection, the full line will be at CHA! I am so excited to share with you all the possibilities of this collection and will be demoing during the show! I will also be doing a few periscope shows while at CHA so if you are unable to attend CHA, you too can see all of the new products coming out. I hope you can join me. For up to date information make sure to follow me on my Facebook Pages...

Jamie Dougherty Designs
Creating In Faith with Jamie Dougherty

AND

If you would like to join us in your walk with faith check out our Creating In Faith group as well.

Here is the Live With Prima video I did, showing you how you can recreate this look :) 

I Hope you enjoy
Jamie

Card tutorial : Happy endings are only new beginnings

Good morning everyone!

Bloom Girl Stephanie here with you and I'm thrilled to show you this creation today, as it made me go way out of my comfort zone, and I loved the experience! I have been turning this concept of card in my head for quite a while now, and then, it hit me: watercolours, alcohol markers, and an epic sentiment to focus on. Not to mention a gorgeous floral stamp!

Here's what you need to create this card:

Colouring medium and ink (I used Copic markers and Memento Tuxedo Black ink)
Bloom cling stamp - Floral
Bloom cling stamp - Sentiment from Lacie's set
Distress inks or your favourite watercolouring products
Mop brush
Water
Scott towels or any sponging paper
Mixed media paper
Foam tab adhesives
Kraft and black cardstock

1. Start by cutting a 4"x6" piece of mixed media cardstock.
2. With your brush, add water on your cardstock, carefully trying not to go too far near the edges.
3. Again with using your wet brush, dab some ink and transfer onto the watered surface of your cardstock. You should see the water reacting immediately.
4. Add more ink of the same colour for intensity, or change colours and repeat the step onto other parts of your cardstock.
5. Gently sprinkle water with your brush over the full piece, and sponge with your scott towel. Let everything dry completely.This will create "blank" spots, increasing the watercolour effect.
6. Stamp your flower onto regular colouring cardstock and colour it.
7. Stamp sentiment onto cardstock, separate and cut words.
8. Once your mixed media piece is dry enough, glue to a 4-3/16"x6-3/16" of black cardstock, mounting both on 4-3/8"x6-3/8" cardbase of kraft cardstock.
9. Put foam tab adhesives behind your flower image and some sentiment pieces, mount onto mixed media cardstock. Put regular adhesive on the pieces that are left.

The process of this card was pretty easy, so you should be able to overflow our facebook group with your inspiration, too! 

Catrina's time to shine!

Hey everybody where did the month go? OMG it's almost gone!!! Well I think it's time we dust ourselves this beautiful lady and bring her back out to celebrate All Hollows Eve and Dia de Los Muertos they are both pretty close to each other and Miss Catrina is our perfect Bloom Girl to helps us set the mood!

You know when you have an idea buzzing in your brain and you find what you're looking for? Well today I set up to find just that! Here's my finding and subsequent transformation!

I thought it would be the perfect size for my stamp but it was a tad smaller, no reason to stop!

I took my glass out and armed with StazOn I stamped my girl.

Next step in creating a faux stained glass effect was to trace the image using Pebeo Cerner Relief

Once traced leave it to dry. Of course I couldn't just sit and wait right!

I decided she would pop more if I painted the lantern black!

Looking perfect

Now to color it in I tried using a paint brush but the result was undesirable. I had a streak mark, not what I was going for!!! Then I remembered the needle applicators for Dina Wakleys acrylic paints and that was the perfect thing. It was like flooding a cookie with icing in between my " solder lines"! I've posted a video on my Twitter feed @paperboutiquesb that can show you how I did it. It's also on the FB page of the Bloom Girls

You can find another short video on faux soldering on my Instagram feed @milagroscrivera

For the lantern sides I had a little helper who got all excited when coming from school to find this project and begged me to help!

She's so intense, and yes you can totally engage your kids in helping you with this type of projects, and don't mind my mess, creative mind at work!

Time to enjoy my creation at home!

Here's the palette of colors I used just in case you are inspired to give it a go

Happy haunting my friends!!!

Milagros

Bloom Girl Peyton in a Vintage Christmas way

Hey everyone!

DT Stephanie here with you today to present Bloom Girl Peyton! As the holidays season approaches, I wanted to show you that all the Bloom Girls (and boy!) can be turned into a Christmas ornament, gift, home decor, and of course, cards! So this is the first of my (hopefully) long list of ideas!

As always, I stamped my image first, coloured it, and fussy cut with sharp scissors the parts I wanted to keep. You don't have to use the full image/design if you think something can't fit what you have in mind! Then, it's up to you to figure out a sketch for your card, starting with your favourite christmas patterned paper, and stunning pops of colours added by your embellishments.

Supplies used :
Bloom Girl Peyton stamp
Copic markers
Cryogen White cardstock
Memento Black Tuxedo ink
Mushroom weave trim from Prima, 577100
Metal embellishments - flowers from Prima, 960339
Peace and holly flowers from Prima, 584408
A Victorian Christmas 6x6 paperpad from Prima, 990541

Hope you like Peyton turned this way and make sure to share your own version on our Facebook Group!

Ginger, a warrior in pink!

It's October that means Breast Cancer Awareness month!  It means getting your mammogram done, encouraging a friend or loved one to get one and supporting those we know are giving a fight! So join me today while I show you how to create something you can give to a friend or relative to help them be strong and be brave!

First stamp your girl on Jamie's watercolor paper, using archival ink and then cut

Then paint her 

Following the line of her dress make an incision with your Xacto knife

Weave some braid cording to make her a fabric dress

Create a wing with modeling paste and cut, remember to use watercolor paper!

Write a nice message, don't be afraid to try some free hand calligraphy! And don't forget to use archival ink here to. Pitt pens are perfect!

Fill your lines and watercolor your background 

As you can see I filled her headband with twine and tied with a small bow a breast cancer awareness charm

She's now ready to brighten someone's day!

Remember to Be Brave and Be strong for someone in need!

Hugs

Milagros