Travel Themed Scrapbooking Supplies Designed by Frank Garcia for Prima Marketing: 6×6 Paintables Watercolor Paper from the French Riviera Collection Plus 4×6 Journaling Cards from the French Riviera Collection and the Capri Collection
Paintables Watercolor Paper from the French Riviera Collection Designed by Frank Garcia for Prima
Prima Paintables Watercolor Papers from the French Riviera Collection Designed by Frank Garcia
Frank Garcia has designed multiple lovely pads of paintable paper for scrapbooking and other paper crafts. Prima Marketing manufactures these designs, which are known as “Paintables”.
Pictured here on this page, you can see how I painted some of the nautical and ocean themed paintable papers Frank designed to complement his “French Riviera” collection by Prima Marketing.
This is watercolor paper that is designed to withstand painting; the paper as it comes out of the pad has printed designs, but the background of the paper is white, allowing you to paint it whatever colors you want to use.
I LOVE the paintable aspect of this paper, because it can be a real challenge to find nautical themed patterned scrapbooking papers that are exactly the colors I need. Lately, many manufacturers have released nautical themed paper collections that are navy blue and red. The navy blue works fine for me, but I usually cannot use red papers or even red accents; the red typically clashes with my photos. So these papers are just what I need, because I typically need grays, aqua blues, turquoise, sand colors, and “beachy” colors to make my sailing themed scrapbooking layouts.
Down Sides to These Paintable Papers
The “Paintables” patterned papers are lovely and useful, and they don’t really have many downsides. I love and recommend them. However, I’d be a bad reviewer if I didn’t point out the less-than-ideal things I noticed about them.
The first bummer is that these papers are expensive.
When I originally purchased mine, they cost less than they do now. I’d still buy them again at the current price, but ouch! Scrapbooking paper is expensive in general; and watercolor paper is also expensive. These papers are priced in line with other products of their ilk, but they are not cheap. I think they are worth the money if you have it to spend on them. There isn’t anything else available that’s quite like these papers, but if you could get by with using a cheaper paper, you might want to look around at your options.
(You can find more paper recommendations HERE.)
Another downside is that these papers are made in China, and shipping stuff from China to North America is not environmentally friendly. So if you are located in North America, you might want to consider shopping locally instead of buying this paper.
If you are in the USA, I recommend Pinkfresh Studio, Graphic 45, Echo Park and 49 and Market as being a few alternative manufacturers to consider; their papers are all made in the USA.
If you are located in Europe, I recommend Stamperia and Ciao Bella as a couple of European paper sources you might want to check out.
But if you can’t find anything else that will work as well for the projects you have in mind, these paintable papers are a fantastic option. If you’re creating a paper craft project where you would prefer to control the colors you use, I think you are going to love Paintables papers. I highly recommend them to other crafters in cases where you can’t find a locally-produced paper that would work as well for your needs.
Where to Buy Prima Paintables Patterned Scrapbooking Paper:
Project Ideas for Using the Prima Paintables Patterned Scrapbooking Paper:
Sailing Away from Sardinia — a 6″x8″ Pocket Page Scrapbooking Layout
Some of the elements on the “Paintables” papers are fantastic for fussy cutting out and using as scrapbooking page embellishments. You can see an example of that in the sailing-themed scrapbooking layout pictured above.
That’s it for my product review of the Paintables paper by Prima Marketing. I hope you enjoyed taking a closer look at this paper!
Thanks for visiting my website today! I invite you to make yourself comfortable and check out some of the other papers and other craft supplies I’ve reviewed, or perhaps some of the project ideas I’ve posted.
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By Amy Solovay
About the Author: Amy Solovay is a content creator and educator who holds a bachelor’s degree with a studio art minor; she has also earned a separate degree in textile design. Amy learned to paint and collage as a small child, and she still enjoys painting and mixed media art techniques all these years later. Beyond that, she enjoys introducing other crafters to the best new craft supplies, and she also loves helping crafters learn new techniques for making the most of the craft supplies they buy.
As an educator, Amy Solovay used to teach in-person college courses in trend forecasting, marketing and surface design at California Design College in Los Angeles.
Nowadays, Amy uses online platforms to teach digital courses to craft pattern designers, content creators and influencers all over the world. If you’re an artist, crafter or DIY enthusiast who is interested in earning income from your creative work, you’re invited to visit Crafterprise.com to learn more about monetizing the arts, craft(s) and / or DIY projects you do.
This page was last updated on 9-11-2024.