Welcome to our very first Flamingo Five!! We picked five products then challenged our September Guest Design Team and ourselves to use all five items in our project or layout!! So without further adieu... here are the five items:
Up first, Graphic 45 Hallowe'en in Wonderland,Wonderland Classifieds patterned paper:
And for our second item, Graphic 45 Hallowe'en in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass patterned paper:
The third item is Prima's new Craftables Flowers:
Fourth is one of our favorite staple items -- Prima Pearls & Crystals Ice bling:
And finally, the fifth item is the Flamingo Scraps Vintage/Steampunk Embellishment Grab Bag:
Full of Tim Holtz Grungeboard, watch pieces, clock hands, keys, metal gears, vintage ephemera, navy scallop ric rac, white ball trim.... every grab bag is different!!
All items available at Flamingo Scraps (limited quantities on hand!). We all started with these supplies and the instructions to make something using all five items. Any other items could be added to complete the project.
Are you ready to see what we made?!
Cindy's take:
I have to admit- when I opened the package containing the Flamingo Five, I had a moment of panic. My style is simple, so it is unusual that I use five supplies on a single project, let alone five that someone else picked out!
Fortunately, it didn't take long before I realized that these items would make a great Halloween wall hanging. I found an old wooden plaque, inked the edges with black Staz-On, and then used Mod Podge to adhere the dotted paper. I cut out Alice from the othersheet of paper and gave her a bunch of coats of Mod Podge too. With a coat of paint inside and out, and a smear of Stickles on top, the glass dome transformed into a full moon. The grungeboard pumpkin got a coat of paint and Stickles as well, and I backed it with a scrap of black paper. Then I punched out the negatives from the grungeboard butterfly and sprayed them and the Prima flowers with Glimmer Mist to make the pumpkin leaves.
To make the green vines, I sprayed the off-white trim with Glimmer Mist. When it was dry, I wound it around the handle of a foam brush and sprayed it with Krylon. Perfectly curled vines!
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| Supply list: Flamingo Five; Staz-On - Jet Black; Stickles - Star Dust; Glimmer Mist - Key Lime Pie; Mod Podge; Krylon Acrylic Spray; Paint Delta (yellow) and Americana (brown, orange) |
Jill's take
I used both pieces of paper. The flowers are in the upper left corner. The pearls and crystals in ice are on the letters, the centres of the flowers and are the stars around the moon. From within the vintage/steampunk bag, I used: ribbon, Tim Holtz grungeboard (moon/pumpkin). I used my own: piece of cardstock (Bo Bunny), piece of purple pattern paper (Basic Grey) and the lettering.
Amanda's take
I don't have too many Halloween related pictures, so I ended up making a layout for my husband's book about his bike riding!
Flamingo 5 items, Bazzill cardstock, font is 1942 Report, charcoal Maya Mist and navy Tattered Angels mist.
What I love most about this layout is really hard to see... if you look closely to the picture above, you'll see a really subtle watermark effect on the cream cardstock. I used my new 7 Gypsies gear stamp from the Steampunk stamp set and iridiscent pearl Maya Mist to "watermark" the cardstock with a shimmery pattern. Just wanted something a little more than just plain cardstock!
Susan's take
When my daughter Jessica was young, my Mother-in-law bought her an Alice in Wonderland dress from the Disney Store because she thought Jessica would look like Alice, at least Disney's version of Alice. Of course, I had to augment the dress with the white tights, black Mary Janes and a Headband to complete the "Alice" look!
I've been waiting for the right opportunity to scrap this photo of Jessica and Flamingo Five for September gave me the resources!
I used a Border from the Wonderland Die Cut Borders at the very top of the Layout. Bazzill card stock is the base of the Layout and the smaller photo mat. Everything else is from the Flamingo Five Set as follows:
- G 45's Wonderland Classifieds - The fussy cut Alice, the dotted frame and the bigger photo mat
- G 45's Through the Looking Glass - The fussy cut Mad Hatter and the horizontal paper strip under the photo.
- Craftables Flowers - I used Bronze Glimmer Mist on the bigger bloom and Blue Raspberry Metallic Maya Mist on the smaller bloom, then layered them.
- Pearls & Crystals Ice - Large Pearls used as flower centers
- Steampunk Embellishment Grab Bag - Grungeboard Moon, Vintage Key, Navy Blue Velvet Ric Rac Trim and Vintage Clock Hands emanating from one of the flowers.
This was a lot of fun!
Suzanne's take
I have to admit I was worried about this first Flamingo Five challenge! I'm an "organic" scrapper, could I work with pre-determined products? Well, the answer is up to you, but I am pretty happy with the result! I have wanted to scrap these silly pictures of my cat and was inspired by the Cheshire Cat in the Jack o' Lantern.
I used both sheets of Hallowe'en in Wonderland patterned paper (1,2), the Prima E-line pearls and crystals in Ice (3), the Prima Craftables Flowers (4) and the lace, rick rack, clock hands, tiny paper bag, gear, and grunge butterfly from the embellie grab bag! It must be said that Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a teal water color pencil helped me pull everything together! Now I can't wait for the next Flamingo Five!
Now that we've made it to the end, we hope you enjoyed our very first Flamingo Five and you'll come back and join us on the 15th of each month to see what we made with a new batch of five goodies from Flamingo Scraps! We hope that we have inspired you and we'd love to see what you make if you do, so please stop by and share it with us!
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