Time flies when you scrap with Robin's Nest

Hello, dear Robin's Nest friends! Irit is here with my new January post.
My new post today is all about using " whatever you got" and make a nice page with it. And here is a story . I got a small shipment of goodies from Robin's Nest- all green. Lot of paper, stickers, rub ons- but everything in green. So I challenged myself to scrap a page with most possible number of products from this shipment and I think I made it!

Here is a supply list:
Brown Herringbone cardstock,  Hunter Green with glitter cardstock, Clover border paper, Gateaway stripe paper, Daisy stripe Rain Forrest paper, Woodsy, Birds and Switzerland stickers,Dragonflies and Time  Rub- ons, Green ribbon, Men Dew Drops, Green glitter journaling tag, White alphabet.
And now to  work:
1. Cut  your Herringbone cardstock to 11*11'', round corners, distress it a bit with sand paper block and glue to your green glitter basic cardstock.  Hand cut the borders from Clover Border paper and arrange it on the top and on the bottom as shown.
2. Make two circles from the same paper, use the backside and adhere the circles as shown. Trim the edges and glue the left edge on the left  upper side.
3. Glue your photo over the circles. Add  2 strips from Gateaway and Daisy papers as  shown over and under the photo.
4. Now the fun begins: add stickers, rub- ons, ribbon, dew drops and be a bit crazy. I added some rub-ons over the photo, a clock over the ribbon etc. Add your title and as white was too bright, I  covered it a bit with distressed glitter. Add 3d glaze over the bird sticker and some over the trees for more texture and interest. Write your journalling.

And the last thing: don't afraid to alter thing: alter rub-ons, letters, stickers, paper. Sometimes less is more, sometimes- more is what you need.
See you again in two weeks with my new projects!
Irit

Robin Nest at CHA with Charity Wings

At CHA this year, we did a wonderful thing with Charity Wings with a live video stream from the show. We also filmed the post and here it is... hope you enjoy




I made this video from home to show the mini book for you guys..



Thanks for stopping by here again.  I hope you love Robin Nest papers as much as I do.

Terri Sproul - please stop by blog and see other of my video from CHA.

Great Display Piece for Less

If you saw my last post for The Robin's Nest, you saw the 3 dimensional flowers and noticed that I hang my 3 dimensional pages on the wall. I have a Creative Memories Display board on which I display my 3 dimensional pages. It is hung near my home computer, so that I can store all those many secret passwords for the websites I visit. We got another computer for Christmas and I wanted to make my own. So, I got to thinking how can I make it on a budget and today I'm sharing my idea.
Supplies
12 x 12 canvases (two)
The Robin's Nest Fleur Green Olive Paper
The Robin's Nest Black and White Holly (Red side)
The Robin's Getaway Paper
The Robin's Nest Black Journaling
The Robin's Nest Germany Stickers
Modge Podge
Small Brass Hinges (2)
Ribbon
Foam Tape
I started with two 12 x 12 canvases from Michaels. I got a two pack on sale for $4.00. I chose to make the front plain but chose The Robin's Nest Fleur Paper because I wanted something that looked beautiful, even if I was not displaying a page at all times. I hope to make a page for each season and swap them out. Here is how my Valentine's Day season page looks in the frame. I used The Robin's Nest Black Journaling cut in half as a photo corner, and matted them on the red side of The Robin's Nest Black and White Holly.


I used The Robin's Nest Getaway, more of the Black and White Holly's (red side) on the inside of the frame, so that it would look nice when it is opened to retrieve the contents inside. The ribbons help to retain slips of paper with my computer passwords and other paper clutter. The stripe on the inside of the frames and on the outside edges is from The Robin's Nest Fleur as well. I used the sticker from The Robin's Nest Germany set. I loved the color with the other papers, I speak German and have visited there so it fit so well. You can see how both sides look together when the hinge is attached in the third photo below.
To the side of the two canvases I added the brass hinges. Here's a tip to a help you add those teeny tiny nails and not hurt yourself: use an awl to mark where you want them to start and then hold them in place with your paper crafting or sewing tweezers until they are started. It kept me from some colorful language!
If you make a similar piece, be sure to make a note about the finished dimensions of the page that will fit in your frame. With my photo corners, the finished page that fits in my frame is 11" x 11". I will also make template, so that for future pages I don't cover my title with the photo corners of the display piece. I love this look for less, made with The Robin's Nest for less than $15.00!

Festive Friday - Blog Hop #3

 Welcome back to Festive Friday! This is my 3rd Christmas creation to share with you. I truly meant for this to be a card...but my imagination got away with me and it became a oversized ornament instead! Don't you just love it?
To make this, I used Olive Fleur double sided paper, Red Glitter Paisley cardstock,  Red,Gold,Silver metallic dew drops in a bottle. Red trim, and champagne stickles, pre cision scissors and tacky glue.

Begin by drawing by hand or using a die to make 3 different sizes of circles onto the plain side of a cereal box, or something of that thickness. Do this twice.



Fold one set of the circles in half. The your draw petals as I did here.



Cut out your petals, these are your tracing templates.



Trace them onto the back side of your papers and cut out. You should have 16 petals of each size.



Satrt by glueing the petals tips onto its cooridinating circle as shown.



Take four more petals and evenly add them in the spaces.

4 more at a time until you have evenly glued all the petals down.

Add detail with your stickles and dew drops. There are approxmately 260 georgeous dews in each bottle!

Set your flowers aside for the stickles and adheared dew drops to set.

Then layer them one top of each other with tacky glue and tape some trim on the back to hang



 Thank you for coming to view my craft! Please visit the rest of the ladies in the hop for more Festive creations!
Next on the list, if you have been following the blog, is Cheryl Lindsay.

12"x12" Layout with Page Map - Glitter Copper Butterflies

By Amanda Marks

I usually scrapbook 8 1/2"x11" but I only started doing this last year when my daughter entered school.  Everything before 2010 is still 12"x12".  When I received the Robin's Nest Copper Glitter Paper, I knew at least for the first project I couldn't bring myself to cut it up because it is so beautiful.  I found some photos of my daughter in her hat and decided to scrapbook those photos with this amazing paper.

Materials:
Robin's Nest Glitter Copper Butterflies (12"x12")
The Paper Company Purple Passion
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Dusty Concord
Lutradur®
Glue
White Ribbon 1/4" and 1/2"
Scissors
Copper Mica Powder
Bic® Mark-it™
Dew Drops (8 tear, 4 mini dew drops (Belgian Chocolate), and 3 original dew drops)
Micron 03 Black Pen
Hat Embellishment:
Amazing Mold Putty
Delight™ Modeling Clay
Fondant Roller
Purple Craft Paint
Hat similar to "The Hat"

Page Map for a 12"x12" Layout - Click Photo to Download

 The hat being molded in Amazing Mold Putty

 Delight™ clay placed in the mold.  Allow to dry for 24 hours, cut out a hat shape and paint.  Add Ribbon and Dew Drop for flower.

Lutradur® Letters being covered in Copper Mica Powder

The Finished Layout:

Robin's flower box

Hello Robin's Nest Bloggers,

Flowers are one of my favorite things ever. I love their smell, I love thier shapes, I love their colors. What a treat for the beauty of our world we have on this earth - FLOWERS. I remember reading a quote years ago, "As far as I can remember, flowers have been my constant companion." I feel this way too, they just are so friendly. They just bring me joy.

I finally have a photo for you of this wonderful box with the lid covered in flowers that I made!

Irit was my inspiration on making this box. She made such a fabulous garden of flowers, and I had never made my own flowers before, so decided it was time to try.

It is so fun what you can create from a punch, or die, spray bottle filled with water, colored mini stamp pads, and paper. I am a bit partial to pinks and reds, but there are yellows and greens in there too.

You punch your flowers out first. I just used several flower punch shapes, and dies. Smaller sized flowers in the middle and larger sizes underneath. I used different shapes together too. They did not have to be the same shape of flower for the layers. Each punched flower was distressed with ink around the edges. I used different shades of pink, red, and brick stamp pads. Then I layered them on top of each other and poked a hole in the middle of all of them, then attached about 7 of them together with a brad, some have more layers, it just depends on how big you want your flower to be. Experiment! Then sprayed the paper with my water. The next thing was so easy, I just started pulling each layer of paper, up with my fingers to create the flower, scrunch the paper to a 3-d form. Layer by layer. Sometimes, I would spray a little more water. You can also spray the flower shapes before you attach them together, but I found it was easier for me to attach the unsprayed flowers first.

Each flower was set aside to dry in the 3-d shape. After the flower is dried, I then attached a dew drop at the center over the top of the brad, some flowers I attached 3 dew drops over the top of the brad. Then I glued them on the top of the box with liquid glue, a glue gun would work too.

The flowers on the box only took me about an hour and a half to create, and glue on the box. And it was my first time making them, pulling out the supplies and finding just the right paper colors is all included in this hour. Why pay so much for those flowers on the market when they are so easy and fast to make. You can make them with your extra scraps of paper, we all have a box of these saved somewhere in our supplies, those extras that weren't used on layouts, or just not big enough for the layout we had been working on. Great use for Scraps.

For the leaves, I used the same idea, only they were not layered, just punched, distressed, sprayed, scrunched, dried, then attached.

Robin's Nest papers used:

Green stencil, hunter green glitter dot, kiwi sorbet for leaves. (I also used a die cut swirl with the Kiwi Sorbet and brown glitter dot)

Yellow glitter dot, Honeycomb fleur, pink glitter dot, summer pink glitter dot, red glitter chipboard for flowers, and just white plain paper.

I also added punched birds from a Martha punch from glitter brown chipboard. Have to have a Robin in there somewhere!

I attached several colors and sizes of dew drops, and tear drops to the tops of the flowers and leaves.

The box is covered in Classified paper, the top of the box in the new brown glitter leopard and brown classic swirl cardstock.

I think you could make a supply of flowers for your pages fast by just having extra flowers punched and ready in your drawers in all different colors. Then just glue to your page, keep a supply close! This will be my next project, just making a supply of flowers in different shapes and sizes to have stored in my supply box.

There is a big trend right now to use flowers on your pages. Try it, I'd love to know what you think.

What a great idea, and money saving project for the future pages I will create.

What a fun project. I was so excited that it was soooo easy.

Thanks Irit for the inspiration.

Until next week!

Robin

ALL GIRL Scrapbook Page: Becky Conley

Hello and welcome! I am back from CHA, full of inspiration and excited about all of the new products. Now, I can share this layout I made for the show using two of my favorite Robin's Nest products: Gorgeous Papers and Dew Drops.


ROBIN'S NEST SUPPLIES:
Glitter Pink on Gold Daisies: Daisy Gold / Daisy Stripe Gold paper,
Pink Coral Mini Dews

Other Supplies:
Light and bright pink card stock scraps
Makins Clay: brown, white, red
Art Foil: Copper
Flower Punches (2 sizes), Heart Punch (1")
Manilla tag, Pink embroidery thread
Flourish stamps (Mine :o)
Floral Frenzy Rollograph Stamp by Clearsnap
Brown and bright pink ribbon
Eco-ArtBoard 1 3/4" squares (3)
Brown and bright pink ink pad
Cricut Plantin Schoolbook font
The Best Glue Ever! ScraPerfect

1. Use a circle template to cut 11" half circle, ink edges and adhere to the background paper. Ink edges of background paper. The Glitter Pink on Gold Daisies paper is striped on the back side which was used for the circle. Adhere the ribbon where the half circle ends.

2. Mix the red and white clay together in equal parts to make a nice deep pink, roll to slightly larger than 1/8 thick. Ultimate Clay Machine setting #4. Roll the Floral Frenzy stamp over the clay, pushing to create an impression. Create 3 complete blocks. Let dry. Rub bright pink ink pad over the high spots and let dry completely, cut into squares. Use the excess clay to punch small hearts (7 needed). Ink the hearts with bright pink ink pad.

3. Ink 3 pieces of Eco-ArtBoard with brown ink, heat set to dry completely. Apply The Best Glue Ever! free-hand in a floral motif that mimics the flowers on the background paper, let dry until completely clear and tacky. Apply copper Art Foil. Layer large and small flower punches in light and dark pink card stock, glue Pink Coral Mini Dews to the centers. Arrange the Eco-ArtBoard squares and stamped clay squares to create a border as shown.

4. Stamp pink card stock with bright pink ink pad and flourish stamps. Cut out the title and hand cut random large hearts approx 2" and slightly smaller to create the large flower shown. Bend and crinkle the petals for dimension, ink the edges brown and glue into place. Add the layer of clay hearts, adhere punchies to the center and embellish with Pink Coral Mini Dews.

5. Attach the photo using glue on the sides and bottom only to create the pocket for the journaling tag. Ink edges of the tag with brown ink, embellish with punched clay hearts as shown. Embellish the centers of the daisies on the background paper with Pink Coral Mini Dews.

Thank you for stopping by the Chattering Robins blog, come back often for many great project ideas and inspiration.

Cheers!
Becky Conley