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

Meet the Flamingo Scaps Design Team!!!!!

Flamingo Scraps is so pleased and proud to announce our new Design Team!!!  We have 9 new fresh faces and two continuing designers who have new fresh titles & duties!!!  So, without further ado, the November 2012-April 2012 Flamingo Scraps Design Team!!!!!

Tonya Gibbs - Lead Educator

 
Tonya is also known as Psychomom - for all the right reasons!  A Florida Native, she hails from Keystone Heights; she is married and has two children, who, along with her neices and nephews are the frequent subjects of her scrapping.  Innovative techniques and inspired details are the hallmark of Tonya's style.  She has been designing for Flamingo Scraps for two years and has recently begun broadcasting live Ustream shows sponsored by Flamingo Scraps.





Cindy deRosier - Flamingo 4 Coordinator



 Cindy deRosier is from California and is married with a little boy.  Cindy has also been designing for Flamingo Scraps for two years; she has a clean sleek style that shows off her beautiful photos.  Cindy has the amazing ability to make everything an adventure, perfect for coordinating the Flamingo Four.  We are excited to be bringing back the popular challenge under Cindy's guidance.
 







Kathleen Natale - Design Team Coordinator

Kathleen Natale is new to the Design Team, but not to Flamingo Scraps!  She is a native of Palatka, FL and lives just up the road from Suzanne.  Kathleen is a wife, mother, avid fur-parent, and Gammy to the light of her life, her 5-year-old grandson!  Though she will be technically in the background coordinating the Design Team, we know her lively personality and beautiful crafting style will shine through.
 

 
 
 
 
  

 

DESIGN TEAM

Abigail Stoops
Abigail started scrapbooking a little over a year ago and was only gonna do her wedding album. Eighteen months and dozens of projects later, she admits she is ADDICTED!!!   She says, "Art has always been important to me. I need a creative release. I think that shows in my career choices and my hobbies. I love looking at photos and I love taking photos. And, life moves fast. We have to document it. Scrapbooking makes all that come together for me."

 Alicia Flick

Alicia Flick has recently gotten back into scrapbooking, after a five year hiatus.  Even though she wasn't scrapbooking, she was still taking pictures all of the time, so has an endless supply of pictures to scrap! :)   Alicia is mainly a multi-picture scrapper who loves to tell a story along with creating the art.  Of her style, she says, "I am more of a simplistic scrapper than is the norm these days. I love to see all of the clustering of embellishments and the beautiful things that other can do with their talents, but it's just not me. Trying to be something I wasn't took the fun out of scrapbooking, and I really think led to me stepping away for a little while. I think there are a lot of people like me out there."  

 

 

Erin Reed

 

Erin Reed is a stay at home mom (my children give me wonderful pictures to scrap with), a former high school science teacher, and she loves to scrapbook!!  Her first love is family - they mean everything - her second love is crafting, especially scrapbooking.  Erin started scrapping in 2006 when her oldest child was 10 months old.  But she really fell in love with the craft when it became her emotional release during a painful time in her life.  Erin says, "I feel that I even dream of page layouts and techniques in my sleep, and when I wake up I can’t wait to try them out!! I find that scrapping is the best therapy out there!!"

 

Melissa Williams

 

Melissa Williams is a mother of 2 boys living in Michigan. She is an all-around crafty-type person, and loves, REALLY loves, color.  She is especially drawn to primaries, turquoise, and pink. She puts all of this into her designs and loves to try new things, so her style is always evolving.  Melissa really likes using techniques on her pages - from sewing to painting to inking and grunging it up.  Melissa says,  "My designs are fairly uncomplicated - I try not to put too much on a page so that the focus still rests with my photos, yet I try to add small touches to give my pages interest. But, that's pretty much what I try to be: uncomplicated, bold, and dynamic."

 

 

 

 

 

Ramona Downing

 

Ramona Downing loves scrapbooking and mixed media!!  She loves making old memories new, from pictures of her family’s heritage to new pictures taken.  Right now, she is into Mini Books and altered items and  loves using Prima and Graphic 45.   Ramona is always up for new crafting adventures at retreats and classes.  Ramona says, "I love watching new papercrafting tutorials  on Youtube and Ustream.  I want to share with Flamingo's friends and customers what I have learned by watching YouTube and Ustream."

Last, but certainly not least is Annmarie Colbert from Lumberton, NC!!  Annmarie is in the middle of FEMA training -- so we will show you a picture and information very soon!!!!! 

 

 

Welcome to all these FABULOUS ladies!!!  Flamingo Scraps is so fortunate to have attracted this incredible group of talented and FUN paper crafters!!!!  I have a feeling the next 6 months are going to be a wild ride!!!!!

 

 

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!