Hocus Pocus for Your All Hallow's Eve!!!

All Hallow's Eve has become a night of frolic,

where children wear costumes and run amok!
Hocus Pocus

Pink Paislee's scarily cute Halloween collection, HOCUS POCUS, is available at Flamingo Scraps just in time to scrap all those adorable pics of children wearing costumes, frolicking, and running amok (especially after 19 candy bars!).  The matching embellishments are wickedly cool, but what else do we have in our bag of tricks and treats that coordinates with Hocus Pocus??

Halloween brings out the scary and pretty makeup, so why not some makeup for your layouts and paper projects -- the greens, orange, purple, black and a little granite blue in the papers are made for mists and stickles and inks and glam in shades like Haunting Shadows, Licorice Metallic, Salmon, and Paprika.



What would Halloween be without sparkle from Maya Road's Ultrafine Glitter in Iridescent and Licorice and Kaisercraft's orange bling.  Add to that Prima flowers (yes flowers for Halloween) Sugarplum Roses Chestnut, Sweet Taffy in lavender, and Clementine's in Tuxedo -- and don't forget the fabulous 7 Gypsies Rubbings! 

Come on  people grab up some of this FABULOUS Hocus Pocus and coordinating embellishments -- and while you are waiting for it to arrive -- use these images to plan your Halloween photos with Ouija Boards, skeletons, and spider webs!!  BWAAAAHHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


 

What Goes With What? Parisian Anthology!

What goes with Pink Paislee's FABULOUS Parisian Anthology?  Well, we think the answer to this is EVERYTHING!!!  Pink Paislee and the House of 3 have really gone outside the box with the gorgeous embellishments that coordinate with this long-awaited collection -- flowers, incredible bling, and paper embellies.  But the greatest thing about this paper is that it is meant to be ALTERED to ANY COLOR you choose!!  Frankly, I was scared to death to put inks and mists to this paper with its natural resist patterns, but after watching this fantastic video on the Pink Paislee site, I jumped in and it is easy peasy!!

So, having said everything goes with Parisian Anthology -- here are the samples I altered with Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Maya Mists, and Glimmer Mists -- all available at Flamingo Scraps!

Parisian Anthology altered with Tim Holtz Distress Inks -- left to right --
Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen, Chipped Sapphires

Using Maya Mists to Alter Parisian Anthology -- left to right -- Raspberry Blue Metallic,
Cherry Metallic, and Charcoal.  The left half of the Charcoal sample has been misted with
Iridescent Pearl Maya Mist.

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists -- Delphinium Blue, Pomegranate, Timeless Lilac

As shown in the video, I found it helpful to wipe away the excess medium that doesn't stick to the resist pattern.  It is like uncovering a treasure and gives a buffed appearance to the pattern.

Is there a color palette you would love to have but never seem to be able to find, a special picture you just can't find the right paper for?  Pink Paislee's Parisian Anthology just granted your wishes!!!

What Goes With What? Pink Paislee Sweetness & The Sweetest Day

How beautiful a day can be

When kindness touches it!

~George Elliston

Did you know there is actually a Sweetest Day, a day dedicated just to the sweet people in your life?  It doesn’t matter who that person is, or what their relation to you. They just have to be "sweet" in order to get a little recognition. It is celebrated on the third Saturday of October, this year, this past Saturday, October 16th.

The beautiful collection Sweetness by Pink Paislee was actually designed and released to celebrate the growing popularity of The Sweetest Day -- but we're sure you will find it to be an all pupose  romantic vintage inspired collection to use now, for Valentine's Day and all year round -- because everyday there is someone or something sweet in life, and everyday an opportunity to be kind. 

Bling

Prima's Pearls and 3 Flowers pink, lt. pink, brown, lt. yellow, pearls and lace brown, crystals and lace clear, vintage swirls clear, vintage shapes 1 and 2

Trims

White Cheep Trims, Maya Road brown velvet rickrack, red and rose pleated grosgrain trim, and dotted grosgrain ribbon

Mediums

Tim Holtz distress paint, ink, and stickles -- mustard seed, Victorian velvet, tumbled glass, any of the clearish or white stickles, yellow, cotton candy, baby blue, cinnamon, red stickles
Maya mist cream, blue, cotton candy twin pack, cherry metallic,  Tattered Angels Glimmer mist lemonzest, chalkboard strawberry shortcake, Glam Big Apple and Hayride, Glaze - champagne

Flowers 

Primas including Brontes in strawberry and powder blue, Sweet Taffy in brown, Love Letter Roses in quartz and peridot, Clementine Princess

If you plan on using Sweetness to celebrate The Sweetest Day -- or if not the actual day, its intent -- check out this fantastic website for great quotations for titles and journaling!  How sweet is that!!!!

What Goes With What? Webster's Pages WonderFall

Webster's Pages is one of the best when it comes to producing embellishments to go with its paper collections, so there is no dearth of gorgeous items to complement the WonderFall collection.  However, Flamingo Scraps carries so many beautiful items from different manufacturers, it would be a shame not to explore the other scrappy goodness that coordinates with this lovely collection in shades of yellow, orange, green, grey-blue and burgundy.



Webster's Pages WonderFall -- NEW at Flamingo Scraps

 


Trims

Maya Road's pleated grosgrain ribbon trim in cream, Maya Road's velvet rick rack in brown and orange;
Cheep Trims daisy Venice lace trim and daisy trim with black centers.

 

Alphas and Numbers

Pink Paislee alpha in bayberry, Prima holographic alpha that changes in the light from yellow to rust to rose, Maya Road's chipboard alphas in several fonts, and just for fun Maya Road's Wooden Bingo Numbers that echo the number pattern in the paper!

 Flowers

Primas galore coordinate with the gorgeous Fall colors in WonderFall -- cottage flowers, zazi flowers in french blue, Sweet Taffy flowers in blue, Sirah glimmer leaves, elines in Beautiful yellow, craftables to alter at will, and Fluture butterflies

 Bling

Prima eline bling in garnet, sunflower, and morning, pearls and flowers swirls in light brown and pale yellow, bling and lace swirl in brown

 Inks, Paints, and Mists

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists in Olive Vine, Pomegranete, Lemongrass, Tattered Suede,  Tim Holtz Distress inks in Mustard Seed and Bundled Sage, Distress paint in Mustard Seed and Weathered Wood, stickles in yellow and patina, and distress stickles in mustard seed and weathered wood.

Check out the gorgeous Webster's Pages embellishments made to coordinate with Wonderfall -- but don't forget to poke around the store for other goodies that go with this beautiful paper -- you are sure to find just the right combination of products to inspire your next project!