Guest DT Janet Zeppa: Calendar Layout

I make my parents a calendar every year for Christmas and this is one of the pages. It's a layout of my sister and her DH.  It is a simple page without alot of dimension because my parents always tease that they will have to get a longer nail to hang up the calendar if I don't stop with the bulky embellishments! LOL!!



Patterned Paper and Stickers -- Sassafras Lass Indie Girl,
Prima pearls and flowers from FlamingoScraps. 
Other supplies -- Journal Tag GCD, Ranger Liquid Pearls



More of Janet's work can be seen here on her blog!

Weekend Whimsy: Tear Strips -- Not Just for SKUs Anymore!

WAIT!!!!!  STOP!!!!!!!!  Think a minute before you throw away that tear strip you just cut off your patterned paper!  For some companies, tear strips are not just for SKUs anymore!  Take Sassafras Lass's Indie Girl -- that scalloped edge is the ultimate in new thinking for tear strips.  It can be used as a border, any number of ways as an embellie.  If you are smart like Susan, you trim off the top of the paper (don't throw it away either) and have a 12x12 sheet of paper with a gorgeous scalloped edge!

Sassafras Lass Indie Girl has the ultimate in usable tear strips!

Teresa Collins' NOEL has a beautiful black and white pattern on one side of the tear strip.  Just trim out the logo or, as in the examples below, pleat over it.  A little glue, a little stitching, and you have a pleated paper embellishment just made for a card or to edge a photo!

Don't throw away that gorgeous black and white strip!

And Guest Design Team Member Tonya wins the prize for tear strip creativity for using the Graphic 45 Steampunk Debutante pattern title portion of the tear strip -- beautifully distressed -- as a banner on her Steampunk Mini Album!!

They don't call us scrappers for nothing -- and now companies are getting into the act with the whole piece of paper being usable!!  Tear Strips -- Think About It!!

Guest DT Janet Zeppa: Sassafrass Lass Indie Girl -- Not Just for Girls!

Hi everyone! It's Janet here and so happy to be sharing my first project with you!

Have you seen the Sassafrass Indie Girl in the store? Well I did and I Iove it! Don't have any girls to scrap about? Well not to worry. I'm here to show you that this collection can be used for the men in your family too. This little guy is my grandnephew Evan playing with the toy that we got him for his birthday.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink and a Tim Holtz mask to bring in the blue and green colours.

I also used Pink Paislee stickers for my title. I added some hand stitching to my pages with floss. Love to do this!

From Flamingo Scraps: Sassafrass Lass (patterned papers); Tim Holtz for Ranger (mask and distress inks); Pink Paislee (alphabet stickers)

Other Supplies: Savvy n Sassy (ribbon); Bazzill (cardstock); Stampin' Up! (buttons and brads); DMC (floss)

More of Janet's work can be seen here on her blog!

Guest DT Diana Fisher: Maya Road Chipboard Buttons

Hello, it’s Diana with you today.

I want to share with you how you can use your sticker sheets and raw chipboard to make well-coordinated embellishments. Just because you don’t have the chipboard pieces that match a paper set doesn’t mean you can’t make some yourself!

From Flamingo Scraps: Maya Road chipboard buttons

Other Supplies:  Sassafrass Lass stickers

I used Sassafras Lass stickers and Maya Road raw chipboard buttons to make these embellishments.

The best part about using stickers is no glue to worry about. And you are able to save all of that beautiful paper you have by not cutting tiny little corners off just to cover a 1-inch piece of chipboard.

For some added dimension, I popped the chipboard button up off of the bottom sticker with a Pop Dot.

I made 3 embellishments that I will use later when my Indie Girl papers from Sassafras Lass land on my doorstep this week—via Flamingo Scraps, of course!

I saved them on a sheet of acetate while I wait. You could always adhere them back to the original sticker sheet if you’d prefer.

And there you have it… homemade chipboard to match your paper sets using the sticker sheets.

Thanks for reading the blog today!!

More of Diana's work can be seen here on her blog and make sure you swing by Sketchy Thursdays to play along with her fantastic weekly sketch challenge!

Musically Inclined

Have you tried the Sassafrass Lass Indie Girl?  I finally got a chance to play with it this weekend! 

From Flamingo Scraps: Sassafrass Lass Indie Girl patterned papers
Other supplies: Cosmo Cricket School House chipboard alphabet; Making Memories metal music notes (thanks Jen!) and kraft cardstock

I was short a few letters so I made do with what I had... I was at an all day crop and without many letter options.  It definitely forced me outside me comfort zone! What have you done when you were a letter or two short?  Please share... I have a lot of alphabet stickers & sets that I want to start cleaning out!

Make sure you join us on Wednesday the 15th for our very first Flamingo Five... five scrappy products... five projects... by five different people!!  This month's Flamingo Five will be featuring one of our favorite new paper lines..... You definitely do not want to miss this... I've seen all five projects and you are going to love it!!  

My First Old Page Maps Challenge

I joined the Weekly Old Page Maps Challenge on Scrapbook.com this month.  And then things got busy and the Layouts are due this week and I only got two done :(

But that's two more layouts than I had this time last month so that's good :)

I'd like to share those layouts with you.  The first one is from this page map

 I've been trying to use existing photos in an effort to clean out and organize the photo box under the bed.  So this is a 5x7 of my daughter when she was about 6 months old.

Sorry for the lousy photo!  For some reason, we couldn't get this one to scan right!

I used Sassafras Lass' Indie Girl papers.  They are so cute and each page has a border on the reverse side of the UPC - thanks for being value conscious Sassafras Lass!  Of course the edges are inked with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and the one paper edge is punched using Martha Stewart's Loopy Border Punch.  I added some pizzazz to the Bengali Bloom by Prima by adding some Stickles to the center and on the petals.

The second layout is from this page map

The photos are of my niece Katherine.  When she was a baby, she always had that pacifier in her mouth!  It seems like every photo I have of her, she has a pacifier.

I used Upsy Daisy's A New Day collection papers for this.  So cute!  I love the colors and the clean lines.  The patterned papers remind me of calico.  The flower centers are the fabric brads from A New Day collection.  There's a little Prima bling and some Navy Blue Velvet Mini Ric Rac.  The red alphas are from Pink Paislee's Starlight collection.

I have enjoyed participating in this challenge and my thanks to Nati Tristan for hosting it so capably each month!  I'm looking forward to the September challenge.

By the way, Upsy Daisy's A New Day collection (and London Blush!) is on clearance at Flamingo Scraps!

A New Paper Line from Sassafrass Lass!

I saw this listed under CHA Sneak Peeks and just had to check it out!  Indie Girl is a new paper collection from Sassafras Lass and I am loving it!

 Here's what Sassafras Lass says about their new collection:  Inside each of us is a spirit of creativity that dares us to express ourselves freely, uniquely, boldly, unabashed, independent and with a smile on our face.  Let your Indie Girl run free with a collection that mixes girly girl and tomboy with no set boundaries or defined agenda.  The way creative is meant to be.

What I love most about these papers is the scalloped paper border on the reverse side of the UPC tear strip!  Cut it off and use it as a border on your layout or cut down the paper and leave the scalloped border in place!  Genius!

Look at this layout from the Sassafras Lass blog!

Flamingo Scraps has ordered the Indie Girl papers and some coordinating embellishments!  They are shipping in early this month - I personally can't wait to play with them!