My May Add On Kit

My May Kit came together surprisingly easy!  Since I decided to make it a boy kit, my head was full of ideas to try!  So many ideas that I decided to do an add on kit.  LOL  I haven't really focused on the boy stuff before, but it was really fun!

May Add On Kit

My Kit Contents:
Good Supply of cardstock
Various ribbons, twine
Epoxy buttons
Red brads, star brads and  brads that look like screws
Chipboard embellishments
Various boy themed stamps
Homeade ribbons
blank playing cards
lined paper for journaling

Bet you can't wait to see my main kit now, huh?

Card Challenge Part 3

Unlike those really badly made B movies with the massive amount of sequals, I'm sure you have been chomping at the bit to see more of our card challenges.  Come on.  Admit it!

Here is another Pam tradition while with us....baking!  Of course I made cookie dough to munch on, but cupcakes were mainly on the agenda.

**Bacon Sprinkled cupcake:  YUCK!

Card Challenge: Sparkle Snow Challenge

Pam (sorry it is sideways)

Isabel

Me

Fish Challenge:

Isabel

Me

Pam

Chipboard challenge...which I didn't do and forgot to take a picture of Isabel's...but here is

Pam's

After Pam left (and I got a little teary), Isabel decided to do card challenges with me.  You don't understand how big that is.  She ONLY does them with Pam.  Never just mommy.  Yeah for me!

So here is our first mother/daughter card challenge:

Sketch Challenge

Isabel

Me

I cannot wait for National Scrapbook Day...I feel more mother/daughter challenges coming on!  I even organized all of her scrap stuff and got her some new storage.  My 6 year old is going to need her own craft room soon.  LOL



Pam's visit....revisited

Besides card challenges, Pam had some goals in mind for our visit.  Here is one of them:

and here is the other:

We had quite the interesting time at Denny's.  Our first visit (yep, there were two) for dinner led us to a very enthusiastic waiter (hi, Chad).  I really thought that ONE of us was getting an engagement ring at the end of the meal.  We were too full for dessert (and laughing too hard at our creepy waiter), so we took Collin and Isabel for a treat after school.  Bacon Sundaes all around.  Don't judge us.  They are pretty yummy!

Ready for some more card challenge?

Here we go!  Cloud Challenge:

Isabel

Pam

Elephant Challenge:

Pam

Isabel

Me

Pam, again.  Show off.

Tomorrow is another day...and more card challenges!

Card Challenge!

My good scrappy friend, Pam came for a visit last week.  My problem is I'm not sure if she came to stay with me or do card challange with Isabel.   At least they let me join in.  LOL  We got out all of our scrappy stuff and Isabel would give us a theme for our cards.  We would all make them and then put them on the fireplace mantle to admire them.

So, I give you, card challenge....

The button challenge:

Pam

Isabel

Collin

 

Black and white challange:

Collin

 Me

Pam

Isabel

More tomorrow.  I'll let these sink in.  :)

April Blog Hop!

Welcome to the last stop on the hop!  If you have joined somewhere along the hop, make sure you head over to The Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog for the list of blogs on the hop.  This month was SO full of inspiration that I had to do more than one project for the hop! 

My first inspiration came from Melissa (The Scrappy Jedi) and if you click on that link, you will see what inspired me so much!

I loved the simplicity of the layout....plus it gave me a great excuse to get out some sprays and get a bit messy!  The banner on Melissa's layout is adorable...and so easy to recreate!  I tried doing my title several ways, but was happy to be able to pull out one of the playing cards that I put in my kit...I think it makes the perfect touch.

Of course I HAD to browse through Sherri's Blog and found a fun card that would let me play with my new Mother's Day Boquet Cricut Cart (look here to see the card I used for inspiration).

It was VERY hard for me to cut this cute BG striped paper.  I had to close my eyes when I did it.  LOL  Oh well....there is always new paper to love!  I wanted to add some interest to my flower without inking, so I faux stitched the layers and the leaves.  I really love the bottom layers of borders...and laughed when I realized that I have the EXACT same punches.  Great minds shop alike!

Thanks for joining us on our hop!  We can't wait until next month!

Photo motherload!

I generally don't try to fit too many photos on my layouts, but I found a sketch that completely inspired me to make TWO layouts this past week. 

Here is my inspiration sketch (Sketch Support):

Here is what it inspired me to create (with my Counterfeit Kit, of course!).

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE these journaling spots that I have been creating for the kits...really helping me to get my story down!  I am so happy that I was able to get so many memories down on paper with this sketch.  

Song Bird Prarie (Mini Challenge #1: Memorabilia)

I have a nice fat accordian file folder just stuffed with bits and pieces of things I have saved (tickets, brochures, cards, kids drawings, tags...).  I had a great time riffling through them all for this challenge (and lost a few things in the process that the kids wanted back LOL).

One of my favorite trips with my husband was to a bed and breakfast for one of our anniversaries.  I already made a mini album of that trip, but found some bigger memorabilia and thought they would make a great layout for our larger album.

I used a wonderful sketch from PageMaps found HERE.  I posted the main layout on our Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog, but here are some peeks and an explanation of how I made my bird.  :)

In my kit I had added some Sticky Back Canvas and had used part of it to make some birds (free handed).  I have tried to stamp on canvas before and didn't like how it came out, but I jumped right in to give it another go.  Here is how I added color to my bird (shown on the wing):


I decided to use a complementary color to go with the body of the bird.  I used a sponge to dab on some buttercup yellow ink.

I picked a honey color to do the stamping and used a background stamp from Autumn Leaves.

I love the sticky back!  So nice to not have to add adhesive and makes it really easy to layer!  I added a gem for the eye and am really happy with how it came out.  My six year old immediately asked to make one, too, and happily showed me a purple bird that looked very similar to mine.  :)

Hope you enjoyed the peek...and hope you look at my FULL layout at our blog.  (There will be some other great layouts from our DT there as well!)