Guest DT Celina Matthews: Lady Luck

Hi, everyone! I wanted to share this page with you all because it reminds me of summer and all its glory. The photos are of some ladybugs my family and I saw in our flower beds and one that happened to choose my son's hand to land on. In my family we believe ladybugs are good luck and so this was a happy sight for us. I used Webster's Pages' Spring Market Collection for this page because the berry bushels, gingham patterns, and bright flowers remind me of summer.

From Flamingo Scraps:  Webster's Pages Spring Market Collection patterned papers, Bloomers, Flowers and Sparklers.

In this close up you can see the fabric bloomers, sparklers, and a flower from Webster's Pages, along with some Yellow stickles I used to dot around the die cut. Webster's Pages coordinates their papers and embellishments beautifully, so I love picking and choosing what I am going to do with their products.

 

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

Guest DT Tonya Gibbs: Cosmo Cricket 1934

When I got this collection from Flamingo Scraps I knew exactly what I wanted to do. It had kitchen wall paper written all over it. In my family, all kinds of things happen in the kitchen. I remember pulling a stool up to the counter to help Momma prepare dinner. I also remember the dinner with the entire family that happened every night (no fast food in my past). Some of my fondest family memories surround a dinner table or the kitchen. Even now, I notice that we all seem to congregate at the table or in the kitchen.

This little mini is going to capture some of the recipes that I remember being at the top of list. Like my Granny’s Japanese Fruit Cake, or Tomato Gravy. Momma’s fried chicken and pot roast. But most of all I want to write down some of the things I remember the most about family life in the kitchen/dining room. Funny stories, or how ‘bout that I hate cubed meat, because we always had cubed steak on report card night – lots of tears shed over that chewy meat. Or the night my Mom asked my sister (age 5) to help clear the table, and she picked up a plate and dropped it in the kitchen floor (she cleared the table). I don’t want these stories to die with me. I want them to linger on for generations. As I watch my kids grow, I realize that things are not as they were when I was little, and I know my Mother and Grandmother would report the same. Things like – there were no microwave ovens until I was in high school. Every night we currently pick a restaurant for dinner, where when I was young, dinner was always at home. It was a treat to eat out - not a given. I also want to include photos of some of those women in my life who made that kitchen time so special.

I love that this book is 6 x 6 the photos will be large and there are tons of pockets and journal spots for leaving funny stories.

From Flamingo Scraps: Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 collection patterned papers; Tim Holtz Walnut, Black Soot, Tea Die & Vintage Photo Distress Inks; Webster’s Pages Bloomers and Trims; Prima Bling.

Other products: Book pages; EK Success Punches; Fiskar Punches; Cricut Cartridges: Summer in Paris, Base Camp, From My Kitchen, Various Buttons, and Ribbon; Cuttlebug embossing jacket Paisley; Sizzix Embossing Jacket Swiss Dots; Tim Holtz Labels Die Cut.

To view the full mini album up close, please watch my video of the album!

More of Tonya's work can be seen here on her website or here on her youtube channel!

Guest DT Tiffany Morgan: Love at First Sight

From Flamingo Scraps:  Websters Pages Lullabye Lane (patterned papers) and Bloomers; Prima flowers and pearls

I made this layout with some ultrasound pictures of our little girl. She is due in May. I wanted something to capture how I felt when I saw her for the first time.

I used Websters Pages Lullaby Lane paper. It is perfect to capture those precious moments. I also used some Bloomers and some fabulous Prima pearls. I also used a fabric fancy. I put some vintage lace around the whole layout. My plan is to put it in a shadow box. I hope you enjoy.

I also would like to thank everyone for their sweet comments on my posts and to Suzanne and Susan for making this a great experience and, of course, to Amanda for putting together all our posts.

Thank you to you Tiffany, the pleasure has certainly been ours!! More of Tiffany's work can be seen here on her blog/gallery or here on her youtube channel!

Guest DT Roundup: December 2010

Welcome to December's Guest Design Team roundup!! It was another busy month for everyone... especially with the holidays, but check out all these beautiful projects these talented ladies managed to fit in!!

Up first, Cindy made these two fantastic layouts:

From Flamingo Scraps: American Crafts Thickers; Suede Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Other Supplies:   patterned paper (Scenic Route, Paper Loft); cardstock (Bazzill); punches (Fiskars for border and Marvy Uchida  for circle); inks (Colorbox, StazOn); pens (Prismacolor, American Crafts); Stamp (Stampin' Up!)

From Flamingo Scraps: Graphic 45 patterned paper; American Crafts Thickers; Suede Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Other Supplies: cardstock (Paper Company); ink (Colorbox); pens (Prismacolor)

Cindy says this about the 2010 layout:  This is based on a sketch from CK, Jan/Feb 09. I only had a single sheet of the Graphic 45 pp, so I had to cut carefully! The snowflake, which is by Zva Creative, was originally a metallic light blue. I used a tan Prismacolor art marker to color it and love the gold color that emerged.  The letters are American Crafts that I inked, then sprayed with suede Glimmer Mist (same technique done on the Bear Valley layout).

More of Cindy's work can be seen here in her gallery!


In December, Jolaine made these four gorgeous layouts:

From Flamingo Scraps: Websters Pages WonderFall (patterned papers)

From Flamingo Scraps: Websters Pages WonderFall (patterned papers), Websters Bloomers and Trims

From Flamingo Scraps:  Webster's Pages Sweet Seasons (patterned papers)

 

From Flamingo Scraps: Prima Fairy Flora (patterned papers, Prima flowers & bling

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

Tonya made a beautiful tag and layout this month, check it out:

Tonya says.... This tag was inspired by the Tim Holtz 12 Days of Christmas. The Bird is cut from the Tim Holtz birdcage die cut on recycled EK Success packaging, and the tag's background is a piece of Prima packaging with a music note stamp from Stampendous. The flowers are the Prima Cameo Roses that I openned up and flattened, then glimmered them with a soft pink. The sprigs for the tree branches were Christmas floral sprays.

Tonya says.... The background paper is from the Anna Leigh Collection from Prima. I was inspired to make this layout by the cover of the January issue of Creative Keepsakes Magazine. All the flowers are prima, and the laces are a collection of Prima and Fancy Pants.

More of Tonya's work can be seen here on her website or here on her youtube channel!!

We hope you've enjoyed December's roundup and go leave all our fabulous guest design team ladies some love!!

Guest DT Tiffany Morgan: No Sentiment Christmas Card

I'm so excited to be sharing again. Today I am going to share a card with no sentiment. The card is standard size. I sometimes have a hard time finding the perfect sentiment for a card so most of them go without. I think Websters Pages caters perfectly to cards and projects. The papers are so beautiful. For my card I used the Waiting for Santa papers. I used a few different papers from the line and I used the 6x6 papers. I did some fussy cutting and cut out the fabulous dress form. I used a bloomer and some other flowers. I also used some liquid pearls. I used some lace I had in my stash and the ribbon is some of the fabulous cheap trims. The butterflies are from a Martha Stewart punch. I hope you guys enjoy and I hope that this inspires you to create.

From Flamingo Scraps: Websters Pages Waiting for Santa (patterned papers) and Bloomers

Other Supplies: Liquid Pearls and Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

More of Tiffany's work can be seen here on her blog/gallery or here on her youtube channel!

Guest DT Tiffany Morgan: Use Your Die Cuts in a Different Way!

I am so thrilled to be sharing my project with you today. I am going to focus on using the die cut papers in a different way. For my layout I am using the Websters Pages Life's Portrait die cut paper. Instead of using the whole paper I cut out the border and popped it up with some dimensional adhesive. I think it is a cool way to use up those die cut papers.

I also used the vellum paper from the Websters Pages Life's Portrait collection. I did some fussy cutting with some of the other papers from the collection. I, of course, had to use some bloomers. I also used some Prima pearls and Prima flowers.

This layout is if my grandma and I. In Japanese grandma is Obaasan.

From Flamingo Scraps:  Webster's Pages Life's Portrait collection (patterned papers) and Bloomers; Prima flowers

I hope I have inspired you to use your die cuts in a different way.

More of Tiffany's work can be seen here on her blog/gallery or here on her youtube channel!

Scraptathlon Week # 9

Week # 9 at Scraptathlon - just one more week to go and guess what?  Amanda is tied for third place!  Way to go A!!!

Here were our instructions from our hostess Kia:

It's use your STASH week here at Scraptathlon. Our victim this time around is BUTTONS! I have drawers full of buttons, I don't know why, but, I need to get past using one or two in a LO and USE some of the zillions that I have. So, for this week, your challenge is to use heaps of bountiful, bodacious, beee-yoo-ti-ful buttons as possible on your LO.

Here is Susan's take on the challenge:

This was a fun week on Scraptathlon!  And boy did we need it after Kia's Crazy Eights challenge last week!  I love buttons and I used a mixture of old and new on my layout.  I found some old photos of my kids on Cinderella's Carousel at Walt Disney World.  I fussy cut the banner to go across the top of the layout from Fancy Pants Wishful Thinking collection papers.  A little Glimmer Mist behind the photos and I even found a Carousel charm to use.  I used some Prima Pearls and Prima's Donna Downey Canvas Buttons.  The Webster's Bloomers even got some buttons glued in the middle!  Sorry for the poor photo - my scanner is on the fritz!

From Flamingo Scraps:  Fancy Pants Wishful Thinking patterned papers; Prima say it in pearls bling swirl, flowers and Donna Downey canvas buttons; Websters bloomers in Aqua and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Other Supplies:  Carosel charm, Martha Stewart loopy punch, buttons from the stash, cardstock

And here's what Amanda did for the Buttons challenge:

I waited until the last day... I was totally lost in search of inspiration!  And then I remembered the topic challenge from the These are a Few of my Favorite Things blog right now... favorite stores!!  (If you haven't seen this topic challenge blog, check it out -- I'm always inspired!! Hi Julie!!)  Of course, I'm on the Target bandwagon.  I created a few quick Target logo masks using an ad we got in the mail, a heart mask I cut freehand, taped them down with temporary adhesive and misted the background.  I then removed my masks and filled my masked heart with some cut outs from the same Target ad.  I added a title, some glittery foam hearts and BUTTONS!!!   Whole layout came together in 30 minutes. 

From Flamingo Scraps: Cherry Metallic Maya Road Mist, Pink Paislee Artisan Alpha

Other supplies: darice foam hearts, black sharpie pen, miscellaneous red buttons, and a Target ad

Only one week left of our challenge!!  We hope you enjoy your weekend!!

Scraptathlon Week # 7

Life got busy for Susan this week, so it's just me again!  This week's challenge was based on a song from the Princess Bride, using the inspiration "As You Wish" from the movie.  As our hostess explained there was a line from the movie:

That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying "As you wish", what he meant was, "I love you."  This week, I want to know how YOU and those you love say I Love You. -- Do you say it "Olive Juice?", Do you not say the words ever? Do you say it through baking? Letters? Artwork on the fridge? Show us all the love this week.

So I made this:

From Flamingo Scraps: Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage black & white patterned paper, Websters Aqua Bloomers, Maya Road chipboard (heart), Prima White Mini Flourish Say it in Pearls, Prima e-line bling (to dot my i's)white trim and black mini pom pom trim

Other supplies: thread + sewing machine, Basic Grey sugared patterned paper (reds), Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper (black scraps to cut title), white bazzill swiss dot cardstock, white cardstock, threading water punch, gray sharpie pen

I've been having fun mixing and matching all my Pink Paislee paper scraps and looking for ways to use the leftover pieces of Websters Bloomers -- I really hate to waste anything!
I hope you are out enjoying the summer weekend!

Boy or Girl?

A quick layout about my sister's current pregnancy -- my 2nd nephew/niece to spoil!  Actually, this is the first page for his/her's scrapbook!

From Flamingo Scraps:  Webster's Lullabye Lane (yellow patterned paper), Webster's Garden Gala (brown patterned paper), Webster's green bloomers and brown lace, Prima e-line pearls

Other supplies: white sprinkles thickers, white cardstock, brown sharpie, font is Pea Leslie's Happy Font

I can't wait to start scrapping another baby album... guess I better hurry up and finish my nephew's first!  Have a great weekend!

One Layout... Two Ways

So when I made this layout:

From Flamingo Scraps: Webster's Nature's Storybook patterned papers and alpha stickers, Webster's Coco Bloomers, Webster's white trim from Life's Lullabye trim card, Navy velvet ric rac

Other Supplies: navy thread + sewing machine, Cosmo Cricket rubons

My sister saw it and begged me to make her one to hang up in her house. How could I refuse?! I changed the title and removed the journaling.

Now it's ready to be framed and given to her as an early (very early!) birthday gift.

Now run on over to the store and get some of those fabulous trims!  Before I use up all that navy ric rac and those yummy coco bloomers!! ;)

Altered Storage Box for E-Line Bling

So I am totally and hopeless addicted to these:

Sea Salt Caramel & Almond Granola bites.  More like mini heavenly bites in my mouth.  If you haven't tried them, I strongly suggest grabbing a box next time you are in Target!  You will thank me.  (Then again, you may curse me for your new addiction!)  I've been snacking on them for a while at work and in my crafty room. 

One night is suddenly dawned on me that one of these would be the perfect new home for my Prima e-line bling stash! 

A piece of patterned paper and a few scrap embellies later and I had this:

From Flamingo Scraps: pink paislee 365 degrees collection patterned paper, pink paislee ambrose expressions alphabet, Webster's coco bloomers and Prima e-line pearl bling.

The perfect home for my bling. 

Pardon my scrappy table mess... trying to pack, scrap and blog all at the same time is messy work!

Start to finish, the whole project took me less than 10 minutes.  A totally quick and easy storage solution.  I'll definitely be making a couple more of these.... At least I'm going to use that as an excuse to justify buying at least a couple more boxes of these! :)

PS - If you want one of these fabulous boxes, but don't want to tempt yourself with a new addiction.... you just let me know (I certainly have plenty) and for the mere price of postage, it will be on it's way to you for crafty recycling and storage!

Scraptathlon Challenge - Week # 2

Our song inspiration for this week's challenge was Elton John's Border Song.  The challenge?  Create a layout with a minimum of four different borders.  The Scraptatheletes went to town and came up with some unique borders!  One Scraptathelete used journaling as a border!

Susan's layout this week was Gulf Sunset.  Here's what Susan had to say about her layout....

I have been jonesing to use some Webster's Pages Seaside Retreat collection in a layout.  This week's challenge was the perfect opportunity to satisfy my yearning.  I was inspired by Webster's Pages Design Team member Amy Tara Koeppel's layout, "One of the 7 Wonders".  I used the Seaside Retreat vellum sheet for the base.  It was a little scary when I crumpled up the vellum but it added dimension when I smoothed it out and sewed it with a zig-zag stitch to a piece of Bazzill cardstock - Border #1 complete!  I used two other papers from Seaside Retreat:  A Seahorse's Legend and Far and Away.  I used both sides of the papers for photo mats and punched a seashell border along the edge of one - Border #2 complete!  I used two different Seaside Retreat Fabric Ribbons for Borders # 3 and # 4 then I finished up by adding some embellishments in the lower left corner.  I actually managed a 5th border for good measure - it's some pretty crocheted lace from Prima at the bottom of the photo of my daughter.   Many thanks to my dear friend Andy for the Seahorse!  She used one of her Cricut cartridges and made Seahorses for all us Cropulators this year at St. Augustine Beach.

Flamingo Scraps products used:  Webster's Pages Seaside Retreat Collection - Vellum, Papers, Fabric Ribbons and Fancies, Webster's Pages Bloomers in Petal and Berry, Prima Marketing Tres Jolie Vines, Bling and Lace, Maya Road Trinket Pins - Hearts and Crystals.  Other supplies used:  Bazzill cardstock and K & Co. Seashell Embellishments.

Amanda's layout this week was Scarlet.  Here's what Amanda shared about her layout......

As soon as I saw the challenge posted, I knew exactly what I wanted to do!  I've been hoarding my Pink Paislee Queen Bee for just the right projects.... dying to use my new-ish Martha Stewart Loopy punch (I can't call it new because it's been in the house for months!).... and I had an extra copy of this picture of our dog Scarlet just waiting to be used!  Combine with a Sketchy Thursday sketch and viola!  This layout will be framed and hung in our house! As for my four borders... the first is the die cut paper for this line (gorgeous paper!!); the second is the loopy edge punched grey + yellow patterned paper; the third is the black patterned paper punched using the threading water punch from fiskars; and the fourth is the small yellow strip punched out with the small scallop heart punch.  I outlined everything with a pen, handcut my "leaves" to my flower and added my title.  The flower was made by cutting a scallop strip out with the cutterpede and gluing/folding it down to make a bigger flower-like base for my white primas.

From Flamingo Scraps:  pink paislee Queen Bee collection patterned papers, Webster's alpha stickers, Prima e-line pearl swirl (swirl, dragonfly + butterfly -- all one set!), Prima e-line pearls & crystals (center of flower) and Prima white flowers

Other supplies:  Martha Stewart loopy punch and small scallop heart punch, Fiskars threading water punch, cutterpede scallop edge, fine tip black sharpie pen

Would you like to see what all the other Scraptathletes did ?  Here's a link to the Scraptathlon Gallery.  Leave them some love by way of commenting on their work!

PS from Susan......Amanda's not about to brag on herself, so I will!  She took first place this week in both the neighbor's poll AND the judges poll!  Congratulations Amanda - YOU ROCK!

Happy Scraps to you!

Baby Love

Some days I really miss those sweet days of having a baby. Then, I remember the diapers, the late nights, the lack of sleep....and I am glad that mine are a little older now. Fortunately for me, my sister has a baby, so I can get my baby fix, you know...the smells...the smiles...the baby-ness of it all...and then go home and sleep through the night! lol

Whenever we do get together I always have my camera handy because...babies are just so dang cute. I loved this photo of my niece and was thrilled to find the Lullaby Lane papers from Websters Pages were the perfect match.

Flamingo Scraps Products Used:  Websters Pages:  Lullaby Lane Die Cut Sheet; Bloomers; Prima InnocenceFlowers-Foxglove; Ranger Industries:  Cotton Candy Stickles, Mustard Seed Distress Inks.

To add contrast to the papers and pull out more colors I inked all the papers with a bit of Mustard Seed Distress Ink.  And I added some beautiful Blommers and some Prima Innocence flowers I painted with Glimmer Mists.  A bit of Stickles on the title and.....

Did you know that Flamingo Scraps will be carrying Glimmer Mists soon.  Be sure to be on the lookout for an updated comparison of all things mist.

Hugs.

Nancy

Tutuorial: Painting Resin & Flowers with Maya Mist

A quick little tutorial to start the week!  So I pulled out all the supplies for my layout:

Supplies used from Flamingo Scraps:  Webster's Bloomer; Prima Entredeux stitched paper, white say it in pearls flourish, white fairytale roses, love story kissing pink flowers, maya mist cotton candy metallic and iridescent pearl

Up first, painting the resin.  Easy, just grab your bottle of mist, unscrew the cap and dip in your paintbrush.  I left the flourish on the plastic and painted it carefully.

I used cotton candy metallic maya mist and carefully painted the resin roses.  The resin works great with the mists because the mist is water based and it will soak right into the resin.  Spill a little on the bling?  Just wipe it off and it won't stain your pearls or crystals!

Up next were my white prima roses, which I sprayed a little water on.  Easier to get the flowers wet first before applying the mist with a paint brush.  Helps the mist spread easily down the petals to the center:

When I was done painting, the flowers looked like this:

A quick spritz with some iridescent pearl maya mist and they were ready to embellish my layout.

I love how this layout of my daughter Jessica's senior picture turned out.  It went together so quickly with all these fabulous embellishments from Prima and Websters.  Check back on Wednesday to see a layout Amanda made using the same technique to dress up a smaller say it in crystals flourish from Prima.