Tim Holtz ASSEMBLAGE CLOCK with Mini Album

Hello friends this months Design Team Project I decided to make myself this Tim Holtz Assemblage Clock with Mini Album. I have made several and decided it was time to make my own. This photo is one of the most special to me. It is the last photo taken of my mother and Father before my father passed away in 1981. Several of the photos in the mini album I matched up about the same age of my mother and father. I also added some with us kids and the only family photo ever taken of all of us. I used the Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Combination Box to create with. I also used several different pieces to create this. I made a space out of chipboard and covered it so I could install an small mini album in the back of some very special photo's for me to remember my Father, Mother and siblings. If there is anything that I used in making this...Please contact Suzanne at Flamingo Scraps and she will be able to special order it for you. Hope you like my creation as much I love having this keepsake.

Mini book in back of the clock

Products used
Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Combination Box
Seam Binding – Cream
Tim Holtz Distress Paint
Tattered Angel's Tattered Leather
Maya Road Rhinestone chain
Tim Holtz Alterations Misc.
Graphic 45 Papers mixed from warehouse box

And remember if you see something not sold in the store to contact Suzanne to see if she can special order it for you.

Puzzle Piece Magnets Using the Warehouse Boxes

Hello all! Ramona here. Today I am going to share with you some magnets that I made for Christmas Presents. I got these awesome things from Flamingo Scraps in the Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Combination Box, from which you could get this awesome paper... but it is not guaranteed to receive this in your box. I cut these out on my cameo and made them 4 thickness, or you could get the larger puzzles and make them. But they were so fun to create!! Hope you like them as much as I had fun making them.

Here is my the assembly of the chipboard

Covered with paper

The back after decorated and magnet added

Products Used:
Fancy Pants Cork Shapes Arrows
Claudine Hellmuth Studio Kit: Mediums
Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Embellishment Box
Webster’s Pages Ruffled Bloomers — Teal
Prima Tiny Junkyard Findings Vintage Trinkets — Sampler
Seam Binding Sampler
Maya Road Wood — Bird Cage Pieces
Maya Road Trinket Pins Hearts & Pearls
Maya Road Trinket Pins Vintage Pearl
Tim Holtz Distress Paints
Tim Holtz Distress Stains
If there is anything that I used on this project that you do not see in the store. Contact Suzanne at Flamingo Scraps and she will be happy to try and get it for you.


I wish you all a Happy New Year filled with happiness!!

Hugs~

Designs~By~Ramona

December F4 with Canvas Buttons, Fab Scraps CB, Hinges, and Prima Flowers

This month our Merry Flockinistas were given the following products to create a beautiful and imaginative project. Hoping this last F4 of 2013 is as inspirational as it was fun.


1) Maya Road Canvas Buttons
2) Fab Scraps Chipboard Birdcage
3) Prima Flowers
4) Mini Metal Hinges

Erin

Every year, for the past five years, we have attended Burgers and Butterflies to help remember our little girl Kristen. We release butterflies to help us remember our little ones that are no longer with us. 

This is the first year Catherine was aware of the butterflies around her, and one little butterfly stayed on top of her head for about 30 minutes. We like to think it was her sister giving her kisses.

 

Ramona
Hi all! Ramona here with my F4 project. I was so stumped on this one, and had to think hard for this idea. After much thinking, I took the canvas route. I used many products to achieve the worn and tattered look. I really enjoyed these products. Enjoy !!

Luanne
When I saw the goodies for the December F4 I immediately thought of a garden. I used a paper box from my stash, and painted it with TH paints, Weathered Wood and Bundled Sage. First I put on a coat of gesso, and while that was drying I went to work on the bird cage chipboard element. I laid a brick walkway using a stencil and some light modeling paste.The gate is Maya Road vintage fences and doorways. The Prima flowers looked like a pink sun to me. Here's hoping  you have a wonderful 2014 and that all your dreams come true.

Front

Side

Back

Kathleen
Here in the Natale household, finding a good vet is probably more important than finding a good people doctor. Luckily we not only have a good vet, we have a GREAT vet! For this F4 I decided to make a birthday card from our pets,. The flowers pot is made with the Maya Road canvas buttons and I embroidered the stems. The naughty pet footprints are from a stamp I used TH distress paint on.

Front and inside of card. The sentiment reads, "Happy birthday to our favorite vet. From, the wonderful Natale Pets"

Inside flap sentiment , "Even the naughty ones".

Our youngest cat Lulu is the hunter/trouble maker so this was perfect for her. Ironically enough, there was a bird that went in the cage, but Lulu knocked it off of my table and my golden retriever ate it. So much for the cat that ate the canary!!

Santa's Southern Helper

Hey all!  It's Luann.  I don't know about you, but I have searching for fun and fairly easy decorations for Christmas on the internet, in magazines, and on TV.  I love to buy the special Christmas editions of magazines and wish. Today I have a decoration I was inspired to make by a Christmas oranament I purchased in July and a tutorial I saw in a magazine. 

First off let's start with the magazine tutorial.  Christmas trees made from Carta Bella Winter Fun and Echo Park Merry Christmas lines.  I just love these papers for Christmas.  I found the tutorial in the December issue of Martha Stewart's Living.  For the base I used a  Maya Road wooden spool and a craft stick. Cut a circle using a punch in 3 different sizes (6", 7", 8") and cut it in half. Then spraywith Heddi Swapp Color Shine in gold and tinsel. The stars on top are Cosmo Cricket Glitter Sheets. If you love glitter and hate the mess .....you want these! 

 I finally found a bell dome that would work and a plate charger for the base. Added a little moss, snow, and water (aka Cosmo Cricket Glitter Sheets).

I searched and searched around my scrapping stash and Christmas stash to find a few trinkets and Santa.  Did you see the Prima plane and camera? How about the wrapped presents? I found a tractor and a mini sewing machine to add to the presents.  The little sign is from Heidi Swapp Believe Ephermera.

It looks like Santa is getting ready to load his sleigh!  Oh!......What does my wandering eyes see?  A helper?

It's......It's......Flamingo Scraps' Flamingo - Pinky going out to deliver the Christmas goodies you ordered!



I had a wonderful time making this dome.  I hope you try your hand at one.

Here is a picture of the whole Flamingo Christmas dome.



Wishing you joy and happiness.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

XO

Luann

Resist Stamp Misting

I love seeing those beautiful background of papers from tons of different companies - they look distressed, dimensional, and gorgeous.  Here I will show you how I made a small 6x6 distressed misted paper for a card using stamps, ink, and mists.

 Resist Stamp Mist Tutorial

1) Supplies - Cardstock (light colored - tan, white, cream), spray mists in your choice of color, ink in your choice of color to correlate with your mists, and acrylic stamps.

2) When picking out your stamps use one that looks like the object you want to stamp, resist spraying will not show the detail of the stamp, just the outline.  I chose a leaf shape (butterflies, hearts, flowers, birds all work great too).  Lay your stamp on the paper flat side down (so there are no gaps between the paper and your stamp, raised parts facing up).  Spray your mist lightly, carefully pick up your stamp, move to a new location on the paper, spray with a different color (start with your lightest color first then move to your darkest color last), keep rotating and spraying until you have the look you want.

 3) I added a few drops of mist from the stamp leftover from misting resist technique to drop onto my paper for a better effect.

4) Pick out a different stamp for contract effect.  I went for another leaf stamp and chose a dark color (brown) for contrast.  I use a solvent ink (like StazOn) for this so it would not bleed into the wet mists.  I used both primary stamps (just applied ink to the stamp) and secondary stamps (stamped 2 times before reapplying ink to the stamp).  Stamp around the page, coming off the paper, across, layer it - remember this is supposed to look distressed and shabby!!

 5) Stamp in your resist spaces you created with the front side of the stamp (fill in the holes).  Pick a color that is similar to your mists (I chose orange) in a distress ink.  Steps 4 and 5 and be done in either order.

6) Now you can chose to do what you like with your new background paper.  You can make your paper as large as a 12x12, or cut it up and use it as your wish!!

You can find these products at Flamingo Scraps!!

Supplies used:


Ink - Ranger
Mists - Heidi Swapp
Flower - Maya Road
Bling - Prima
Twine -Maya Road
Stamps - Prima

Enjoy!!

Baby in Fancy Pants

Hiya Flock, Genie here.  I've got another blast-from-the-past layout for you today.

This little cutie is now 10 years old, and about 4" shorter than moi.  She's still that cute, though.  ;)

I started with a sheet of kraft paper.  I love the Fancy Pants Corrugated Paper, and decided to play with its texture a bit more by ripping it.  LOVE!  I have really been into layering lately, and used a few sheets from the Fancy Pants Collecting Moments 6x6 Paper Pad and the coordinating Brag Pad.  I kept on with my ripping theme for one of the lower layer pieces.  I liked how the color tied in with the ripped corrugated (see how I did that?)  ;)  All of the unripped paper edges were inked with a medium gray chalk pad.

(omg.  Would you look at that baby face??)

I add some wood embellishments from Prima, Maya Road, Cosmo Cricket, and some teeny stars from my stash.  I completed the layout with a gorgeous oval frame (Webster's Pages, something you might find in a Flamingo Scraps Combination or Embellishment Warehouse Box!) and some Thickers from my stash.

Thanks for looking, and I'll see you next time!

Mad Tea Party Jewelry Hanger using Jenni Bowlin Hotel Key Holder

Ramona here sharing with you a Marion Smith Mad Tea Party Jewelry Hanger using Jenni Bowlin Hotel Key Holder. I had so much fun making this hanger with all the extra's from the paper line. The 12X12 has sold out from Flamingo Scraps. But, you can ask Suzanne if she could order some for you. I have added a tutorial at the bottom to show you how I transformed this Key Holder.

Here is the full project view

Here I fussy cut the 10/6 out and added feathers,Glossy Accents and a Webster’s Pages Heart Cameo Push Pins

Here I fussy cut and added Glossy Accents, added some chain from my stash, Maya Road Trinket Pins Pearl Flower

I used Tim Holtz Distress Glitter on this heart. I so love the way it looks.

I also added various tags to the bottom that I can change when I want to.

For this I have gone step by step showing you how I altered this project using the Jenni Bowlin Hotel Key Holder

Here is how I split up the Ruffled Bloomers
Webster’s Pages Ruffled Bloomers — Teal

And how I adhered the paper cut outs to the chipboard and making sure you add it on top of the paper to seal it.

Products used
Seam Binding – Red
Seam Binding – Mimi Brown
Seam Binding – Black
Maya Road Wood — Bird Cage Pieces
Prima Chalk Ink Edgers
Claudine Hellmuth Studio Kit: Mediums
Tim Holtz Distress Paint
Lindy's Stamp Gang Cream Brulee and Hootie Potottie Hot Pink
Studio Calico Wood Pieces
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Vintage Photo

Some of the stuff that I used on this can be found in the Warehouse Boxes.
Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Embellishment Box
Flamingo Scraps Warehouse Sale Box — Combination Box

As I said above if you see something that I have used and can not find it in the store. Contact Suzanne and see if she can get it for you.

Happy Scrapping!!

Merry Christmas Layout

Last December, my friend took these wonderful pictures of my boys (plus some of me, my mom, and my daughter) when they were a week away from being 3 and 7 years old.  I just fell in love with the head shots of both boys, but could never find the inspiration to create a layout with them, until now!!

Putting pictures in Polaroid frames is huge right now, so I could not resist playing around with the idea and with the Maya Road frames.  My pictures were not the correct size, so I added a paper border inside and then added their names below.  I also wanted to try out my new circle punch (it made the doilies behind the pictures).  I then added in my own layers and clusters for lots of dimension and fun.  You can also see Heidi Swapp's file folder tucked in the layers!!

Here you can see some twine looped around to make a fun flourish behind the Prima flowers.  I then added in a fun charm, which is all stacked up on top of Fancy Pants chipboard, and Basic Grey 25th and Pine die cuts and paper.

 

Here you can see some I stamped on the May Road Chipboard  after painting it.   You can see Cosmo Cricket wood stars, Prima lace,  and some of my paint splatters and circle marks I made with Heidi Swapp Mists (here is a link to the tutorial on how I make them).

Supplies can be found at Flamingo Scraps - head on over to see them, lots of great sales to be had!!

Supplies used

Cardstock 

Patterned paper - Basic Grey and Heidi Swapp

Die Cuts -  Basic Grey, Fancy Pants

Chipboard - Maya Road

Wood - Cosmo Cricket

Lace and Flowers - Prima

Ink/Mist/Paint/Stickles - Ranger, Heidi Swapp, Clearsnap

Punch

Stamps

Metal 

Stickers - Fancy Pants

Twine