November Kit Reveal!

I am very excited about our kit to counterfeit for this month!  Head on over to Scraptastic Club to see the neat kits and other things they offer!

One thing I LOVE LOVE LOVE about their kits is the awesome Sneak Peek they give.  Other kit clubs should be this detailed and organized!  They show pictures of the kit, each individual piece in the kit and then have a product list!  Love that!

This month there are two great kits, Autumn Splendor and Home Sweet Home, and two add on kits to go with these.  I picked the Autumn Splendor kit because it seemed a bit less themed and easier for me to make more general neutral (I do tend to go girly on my kits, which is rough for my son.)

You can go HERE for a lovely break down of the kit.

I pulled patterned paper from some fun collections to make up the base of my kit.

I mixed matched from:

Here is the paper I added to my kit:

I am DETERMINED to use more chipboard!  The tags I already had, the clouds/butterflies/buttons I made with my cricut/cuddlebug/punches.

I had fun stamping and embossing on some grid paper.  I think they will make great bases for some layering.

I FINALLY made some of these flowers.  I was nervous, but it was super easy.  I also made a hair clip for my daughter, who has requested more in different colors. 

These are from the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge made from different sizes and layered.

**I am sorry for letting a half finished post go live.  We lost internet for a few days unexpectedly and I couldn't get on to fix it.

October's Costume Challenge!

Welcome to the final stop on our blog hop!  You should have made it here from Emily's Blog.

Don't you hate it when you come up with a challenge idea...share it with your partner in crime...e-mail it to your design team...post it on the blog...and then have NO STINKIN IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT?  Sticker challenge?  What was I thinking?  LOL  I even contemplated being too "busy" to do this hop, so I wouldn't have to do it.

Good thing I am more stubborn than that.

I got out my handy dandy book, The Scrapbook Embellishment Handbook by Sherri Stevenson, and started browsing for ideas.  I found one in the sticker section (who'd have thunk it?) about covering chipboard with stickers.  Hmmmmm....  I have OODLES of chipboard.  So I got out one of the hearts and a sheet of owl stickers.

I overlapped and layered the owl stickers on the chipboard heart, being careful to keep it looking random and not linear.  Then I flipped it over and trimmed away the excess.

Here is my finished project: a card inspired by Scrapbooks Ect. cover layout.  Don't you love the SMILE sticker from Momenta?  It has some nice puffy, shiney demension to it.

So that is my story and I'm stickin to it.  Now to make sure I plan an easier challenge for next month.

Layering Challenge

My nemesis in the scrapbooking world is layering.  There is a fine line between dimension and bulk and I tend to be on the more cautious side and go flat.  I have taken some online classes on layering and clustering and they have really helped with the way I design my pages.  Here is my layout for this challenge.  It is not bulky at all, but laytered as many things as I could.

It is amazing how just overlapping some things can make a difference. 

October Counterfeit Kit!

It is time for our next Counterfeit Kit!  Can you guess what we picked?

Here is the Link

**There is a really soft, pretty main kit and, if you scroll down, a great Halloween Kit, too!

Okay, now I have something funny to tell you.  You are going to LAUGH!!!  Okay, I had to be frustrated or laugh, so I picked laugh.  :)

When we pick our kits, we have a lot of links flying back and forth between Meridy and I.  Sometimes it gets hard to keep track of what link we are meaning for which month.  This was one of those time.  So I did the Halloween Kit:

Trick Or Treat

Really busy mix of patterned papers...LOVE IT!

Some fun journal embellishments that I just haven't gotten around to using..and a great alpha!

Nifty Orange Mini Album...and some paper sacks so I can make...?

Love these emellishments!  The monsters are fabulous!  Hate to stop hoarding them!

Okay...I just bought these...I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!  The little boy in the monster suit?  AWE!

Really old trims from my stash...Do you see the cute brads?



And then...wait for it...did a kit from the OTHER link we were going to do for Little Red Scrapbook.  Sigh.  Yep.  I did.  It is the kit we had ORIGINALLY picked to do for October, but then I only sent the above link the Design Team and they all made THAT kit...so we had to scrap the kit we had actually picked (I didn't want to tell all of those lovely ladies to take apart those kits and do the other one...LOL).

But I did the original one.  And here is the link for the kit I counterfeited:

Our Intended Kit

And here is the kit I made.  Based on a completely different kit from our Design Team.  Nice, huh?  LOL

Wonderland:

Papers:

Awesome Stickers (alot from Momenta...I can't wait to play with the Design your own stickers...)

Fun trims, flowers and butterflies (Pam made the butterflies...aren't they pretty?)

Cricut cart in case I need more flowers.  :)



This is my kit and I am sticking with it.  :)  Now get cracking!  We have some kits to put together!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop: Stamp Techniques

Welcome to the hop!  So, did you learn some new stamping tricks with us?  I can't wait to try out some new ones and rediscover some I had forgotten about!

My stamping technique is chalk popping.  Very old school, but fun to do!

You will need: Chalk (I LOVE Pebbles Inc...great chalk...excellent storage...best applicator ever), versamark, paper and stamps.

First I decide on my card design.  I love this unexpected circle in the middle, so I used my circle cutter to cut it out.  Then I used a pencil to trace around it so I could see where I was going to adhere my stamped image later.

Using Versamark Ink, stamp your image.  Don't be shy!  It is clear ink, but you will be able to see it.

Now take your chalk applicator (a q-tip will work, too) and get chalk on it.  "Pop" the chalk up and down on the stamped image.  I love using different colors, just like I would for coloring with Copics.  The chalk adheres to the versamark and even shades the paper that does not have the versamark.   Gently blow on your paper to remove any extra chalk.

 This technique gives a great soft, watercolor like effect on your card.

Thanks for joining us on our hop!  Don't forget to leave a comment on our main thread at Counterfeit Kit Challenge for a chance to win one of Sherri's stamp kits!  Keep an eye out in the next few days for a hint about our next kit!

Monkey Challenge

It was Pam's turn to challenge me...and boy, she had me stumped for a minute!

Pam's challenge:
White card base
2 green triangles
monkey
small red embellishment

Ummmmmmm.......thinking....thinking.....thinking....

Here we go!

I have more than one monkey stamp.  I will admit it.  LOL  I wanted to use the triangles as some sort of design element and thought of grass.  That led to a tree...with red "apples".  'Cuz you know they have apples in the jungle with the monkeys.  :)

My challenge for Pam...
CAS-ual Fridays

(You are welcome to join us, if you want to play.  :)  Just put your link in the comments.)

A challenge with Pam

My friend, Pam, likes to do card challenges....with my daughter.  Sometimes they let me play, too.  LOL  Since Isabel is in school all day now, Pam has no one left to play with except me.  :)  So BRING ON the long distance card challenges!

I am up first with a great window card from Jen M.  You can find her video tutorial HERE.

Here is my unashamed knock off of her card.  :)  Hey, I changed the bus to houses!  Mostly, I wanted to see if I could pull it off...I have not made this type of card before.

I made my own cloud background paper.  My stamps are a great set called WHAT MATTERS MOST by Ippity (for the houses, sentiment) and DOTS FOR SURE by Ippity (for the dots on the clouds).  You can check these stamps out at Sherri's Etsy Shop.

Off to see what challenge PAM is going to come up with.  Not playing with the six year olds any more, Pam.  :)