Ustream Nov. 5 at 8:30 pm

Join us LIVE, November 5, 2012 at 8:30 p.m. EST on Ustream, as Tonya Gibbs creates this vintage chic Holiday Mini using Pink Paislee's City Sidewalk Collection.  Kit details are below. 

 

USTREAM INFO:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gibbst

Please join the crowd early to insure easy access.

 

PROJECT DETAILS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video showing more details of the book:

 

KIT DETAILS

 

We are excited this month to bring you two kits for this project.  Both Kits have shipping costs within the contential US included in the price.  If you are International, please ask about your discounted shipping costs.  Last month kits sold out fast, so be sure to reserve yours today!

 

KIT 1 - DELUXE -   $49 

Includes whole packages of items used:

1 set Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Clear Stamps
1 package 8x8 single sided Pink Paislee City Sidewalks Paper (24 sheets)
1 package PP City Sidewalks Parcel Tags 16 pcs
1 package PP City Sidewalks Ephemera  47 pcs
1 package PP City Sidewalks Collage Cards 8 pcs
1 package PP City Sidewalks Garland 31 pcs
3 Teresa Collins Mini File Folders
Prima Vintage Tote  Chalk Ink
Christmas  Washi Tape
Crate Paper Bo Peep Wood Veneers 19 pcs
White Lace suitable for dying
3 Manila File Folders (end tabs)
1 yd Twill Ribbon
Green Bloomers (approx. 4 blooms)
2 Transparencies
1 Recipe Card
Exclusive Tonya Designed Download Sheet
Embellishment Pack – bells, Prima Flowers, Webster’s Pages Cameo, Studio Calico Wood Veneer camera, Maya Road Shaped Paperclips, MR Cabachon Flowers, small pearl beads, Artist’s Pin, PP mistable chipboard.  

Email Suzanne at flamingoscraps@yahoo.com for an invoice!!

KIT 2 - STANDARD - $27

Includes partial packages of items used:

1 set Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Clear Stamps
12 sheets 8x8 single sided Pink Paislee City Sidewalks Paper
5 PP City Sidewalks Parcel Tags
15 pcs PP City Sidewalks Ephemera
2 PP City Sidewalks Collage Cards
10 pcs PP City Sidewalks Garland
3 Teresa Collins Mini File Folders
3 Manila File Folders (end tabs)
1 yd Twill Ribbon
Green Bloomers (approx. 4 blooms)
2 Transparencies
1 Recipe Card
Exclusive Tonya Designed Download Sheet

Embellishment Pack – bells, Prima Flowers, Webster’s Pages Cameo, Crate Paper and Studio Calico Wood Veneers, Maya Road Shaped Paperclips, MR Cabachon Flowers, small pearl beads, Artist’s Pin, PP mistable chipboard

Email Suzanne at flamingoscraps@yahoo.com for an invoice!!

Additional items needed to complete the project:

Acrylic Paint (red, white, 2 shades of green)
Thumb – anyone’s will do
Toilet Paper roll
Yarn/twine
Cookie Cutter
Washi Tape
Lace
Stamps
1 sheet 12x12 chipboard

Creating With the Stars!!!!

Today, Flamingo Scraps is pleased to have as our Guest Blogger, one of our FABULOUS customers, Laurie Morris!!  Laurie was fortunate enough to take classes recently with Tim Holtz and Dyan Reavely on their swing through the Sunshine State!!  We asked Laurie to share this fantastic opportunity with all of you!  Take it away Laurie!!

Creating With the Stars!

Two of the brightest stars in my universe, anyway!

In September I took the "Patchwork Pandemonium" class with my idol, Tim Holtz.

It was the only one of Tim's four classes at She Scrapbooks in The Villages that I could get into. Tim is a great teacher,

Mario is a blast,

and everyone had a ball in this 5-hour class. Patchwork Pandemonium teaches several techniques using grunge paper as the substrate and then small pieces of grunge paper which we subjected to various products such as Distress Inks, Crackle Paint, rubber stamps, tissue tape, and more.
 

As great as "Patchwork Pandemonium" was, my 3-day immersion in all things Dyan Reavely was even more amazing.

This took place at Whim-So-Doodle in St. Petersburg, October 8,9, and 10. With a focus on Ranger Paint Dabbers and Dylusions sprays, we created layered backgrounds that we used for creating small books and tags. Stamps and stencils were employed along with paint and Dylusions spray inks.

Dyan is all about simplicity and getting the most out of every product, so we learned about more than one way to use Dylusions, for example, and how to use all kinds of papers and tags as "mop-ups" to sop up all that colorful goodness and create, almost accidentally, beautiful background bits to be used however we wanted. Dyan's new blank journal takes her inks and paint beautifully. Watercolor paper was used, too, and the way the colors showed on the watercolor paper were divine.

If you love color, you'll love Dyan's way of doing things and you'll love Dylusions.
 

Tim says to embrace imperfection!  Dyan says to live life in color!
 

So say the stars!
 

Laurie

Rondelle - Card from Scraps

Thank you once again for joining me on my Ustream a few weeks ago.  If you missed it - you can view it here.

For my project share this week, I decided to make a card with the scraps left over from the Rondelle Mini Album kit used in the Ustream earlier in the month.

From Flamingo Scraps:   Prima: Rondelle Flowers, Leaves, Paper, and distress tool. Spellbinders: Hexagons, Fab Scraps: flatback pearls, Pink Paislee - Portfolio Stamp, Maya Road, toile fabric: Stick Pin.  Other: pearls, black card stock.

I used a sheet of the Rondelle paper as my base.  Then made some little fishtail banners from strips of the left over toile fabric.  Fab Scraps' flat back pearls accented the banners perfectly.  Then I added a few of flowers and a Rondelle leaf to the base of a Hexagon that was die cut from another sheet of the Rondelle.  I thought this "hello" stamp from Pink Paislee was perfect for the top of the torn tag that was laying on my desk. 

This simple little card used so many of the left over supplies from the mini album project I created live.

If you have created something inspired by my Ustream, please share it on Flamingo Scraps Facebook Wall. Make sure you  tag me so that I see it. I love seeing your creations.

Announcements:
Don't forget the Design Team Call that ends on October 20. Details can be found here!

Save the Date - our next Ustream is set for November 5 at 8:30 est.  Be sure to join the crowd so you can easily log in the night of the show.  Next class we will be using the awesome City Sidewalks from Pink Paislee to make a holiday album.  Kit information will be available soon.  Make sure you are in the "know" these kits sell out FAST! Subscribe to the Newsletter, Like us on Facebook, and follow us here on the blog for the most up to date information.

Thanks for stopping in today,

Stamping, Stickers and Stripes

I've been having so much fun with Pink Paislee's Declaration collection!  Here's a layout from the two days our family spent at the Solano County Fair in August.  Other than the title, everything is from Declaration.

 

From Flamingo Scraps: Pink Paislee papers, stickers, and border

Other: BasicGrey letter and number stickers, Rubber Stampede stamps, Clearsnap ink

There are a few features on the layout I'd like to point out.  First, notice that I stamped the title words "County Fair" DIRECTLY on the layout.  I almost never do that, since the possibility of messing up is fairly high when it comes to me and stamps!  Not only that, but it was the absolute last thing I did, meaning that if I messed it up, there was no scooting things over or transferring the whole thing to another piece of background paper.  Fortunately, the stamping came out just fine.

Second, notice the tickets on the left hand side.  They are stickers that came with the collection and say things like "Music Fest" and "Drive-in Theater."  Neither of those fit my fair theme, so I carefully tucked the stickers under the focal photo so that the words were hidden.  

Finally, take a look at my journaling strips.  I didn't have an extra sheet of the background paper and couldn't cut a big enough piece from behind a photo to make journaling strips like I usually would.  None of the paper in my stash coordinated acceptably, so I found the only other paper in the collection that had the same off-white... the B side of this paper, with the diagonal stripe.

I carefully cut the paper on the diagonal to free the off-white portion of the stripe pattern and used that.  Worked like a charm!