Masterforger's 3-2-1 Challenge

We were given this challenge by the Counterfeit Kit challenge blog: 3-2-1
Use only 3 Embellishments, 2 Patterned Papers, and only 1 photo. Here is my layout:

It was really simple to put this page together with the limited supplies. 3 Embellishments: the tag, the handmade flower, and the journaling card from a Smash pad; 2 Patterned Papers, the pink backgraound from Crate Paper's Pretty Party collection, and Pink Paislee's London Market border strips paper; and 1 photo from my little sisters' wedding.
All of the supplies were taken from my May kits, with the exception of the handmade flower and the ribbon on the tag.

Mother's Day is coming!

Today I am sharing a fun flowery card that I made for my mom for Mother's Day:

I took the challenge this past weekend from Scrapbook and Cards Today blog, to use this photo for inspiration:

With such pretty colors, I immediately thought of Mother's Day! I am also linking up to the Simon Says Stamp Challenge:

MOTHER'S DAY/SPECIAL GIRL

Can you see how I was inspired? This was a great way to use up floating flowers from my stash and several past Counterfeit Kits!

Now, I have a question for you- Do you think I should stamp a sentiment on the outside, or leave it as is and stamp the inside only?

Forging Into February...

I was so excited when we got the email about our kits this month (well, I always am, lol!)

This Month's Inspiration Kit...

The February 2012 Inspiration Kit is your choice of two kits released in January and February by Scrapbook Circle. The first choice is their Valentine's Themed Kit called "You and Me", the second choice is their December Kit called "Note to Self". Feel free to counterfeit one or both kits!

Here is the Scrapbook Circle "You and Me" kit:

And my kit, "Me +You" (I usually try to name my kits something a little different from the inspiration kit, but I had that awesome arrow digi that was begging to be printed and used!)

A closer look at my papers (I actually made some of these, see if you can pick out which ones they are!):

A collection of fun handmade borders and banners that I made for this kit:

My fun little digi arrow that I printed and cut out:

Some yummy bling that I can't wait to use:

Hexagon journaling spots from Creativity Prompt: (free printable)

Valentine's ribbons and vintage trim from my Grandma's sewing box:

A Fun collection of Valentine's and Love Stamps:

Since I didn't have the Kraft Glassine Papers, I made my own, with scraps of kraft cardstock that I misted with a homemade marshmallow shimmer mist, crumpled and smoothed out while wet-it gave me this lovely paper with texture and shimmer-the photo doesn't do it justice!:

I put together a Digi Counterfeit Kit, too, which I called "Love Letters":

And I had to "Counterfeit" the "Note to Self" kit, too, since I had a lot of the goodies in that kit!
Scrapbook Circle's "Note To Self":

My kit, "Fifties Style Fun":

 I love all of the Echo Park, Jenni Bowlin, and October Afernoon goodies in this kit! 

 A Closer look at my kit papers:

  My handmade felt flowers(I found a tutorial for making them here):

Some AWESOME Jenni Bowlin foam stamps:

   

Some digital journaling cards that I printed:

A couple of Index tabs that I punched from scrap paper:

 Thanks for looking at my kit, now hop along to the other designers to see the gorgeous kits that that they have put together to create with this month:

Guest Designer: Brenda Smithhttp://theimperfectscrapper.blogspot.com/

Crystal http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Glinda http://razzledscrapper.blogspot.com/

Helen http://craftimperfect.blogspot.com/

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

Jen http://mypair-a-dice.blogspot.com/

Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/

Margie http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/ *YOU ARE HERE*

Milissa http://millermall.blogspot.com/ (Go HERE next)

Rebecca http://howiburb.blogspot.com/

Susanne http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/

Bethany http://inspiredscrapper-bethany.blogspot.com/

Meridy http://www.meridy77.blogspot.com/

A Couple Of Pages for Creative Scrappers

I think I have made pages for all of the sketches this month(except the one that just posted yesterday)! Wow!
Sketch 190:

 The layout I made:

A Closer Look at the flowers and bling flourish:

And Sketch 191:

My layout, "Snow Friends",

 A closer look at my handmade flowers-I made these with hand cut scraps of the sheer ribbon from my January Counterfeit kits, and snowflake button centers:

 And my chipboard snowpeople-I put these together from my ancient stash, and dressed them up with Pebbles glitter dots, buttons, and Glossy Accents:

Thanks for dropping by-come back tomorrow for a peek at the wedding invites I helped my SIL-to be make this past weekend!

Sparkle and Shine

I love using sparkly scrapbook supplies, it suits my girly side very much!! So, when The Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog gave us this challenge,
Challenge #2: Glitter Challenge: Find some fun ways to add some sparkle to your project. Or just blow some glitter around your room and call it a day.
I had no problem!
I used this sketch from Creative Craft World:

And here is what I came up with:

For the sparkly bits-the flower is edged with Stickles, it has a gem center, and the letter stickers for the title "Beauty" are nice and sparkly in real life. You can see the kits these goodies came from here:
http://www.scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-time-to-counterfeit-again.html.
Love these pictures of my mom and little sis!

Sketchy Thursdays Guest Design Team Entry

When Sketchy Thursdays posted this fun sketch with the theme of "gratitude", I thought it would be fun to play along! I am so grateful to my sweet kiddos for their patience as I try to learn and enhance my photography skills. This was one of those photo shoots!

The sketch:

My layout:

A closer look at my handmade rosette and die cut leaves:

Supplies I used were all from my November kit: SEI Dill Blossom Licorice, Tim Holtz Kraft Resist cardstock which I misted with Turquoise Glimmer Mist and dripped with Moonlight Smooch, Basic Grey cardstock letter stickers, Making Memories journaling spot,leaves that I die cut using one of the gem shapes from Once Upon A Princess cartridge using my Cricut from Wasua crinkle textured cardstock, and my rosette that I made from scraps. Thank you for stopping by today!

A Few Challenges and some Scrapbooking to Share

Sorry, I have been a bit of a bad blogger lately. I have spent some time creating, but not nearly enough time sharing. So, I thought it would be a good time to share some of the pages I have made with you.

First up is a page that I did for the CKCB blog's layering challenge. I used sketch #177 from Creative Scrappers. I also took the prompt to make a fall/Halloween page from Sketches 4 All, and this is what I came up with.

Sketch I Used:

The page I made:

 Supplies I used were all from my October Counterfeit Kit:
Swirly gray background paper was the backside of the Heidi Swapp, "The Lounge", and the green stripes were the backside of the Heidi Swapp "Groovin". I used a black glitter pumpkin border from the KI Memories Wicked border stickers, We R Memory Keepers Blackout felt border, a green ZVA bling flourish, an assortment of Primas from my kit, along with some of the Basic Grey Eerie brads, and a black and a few brass brads the chipboard letter stickers are American Crafts Thickers.
I am also sharing a page that I made with another sketch from Creative Scrappers.
The sketch I used, #175:

The page I made :

I still need to do some journaling, but I love the way it turned out so far!The supplies were all from my October Main kit: the back of the Echo Park Life Is Good "Bold Stripes", the polka dot and flowered paper is Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe "Dresses" (both sides), and used some border stickers and letter stickers from the Echo Park Life is Good Element and Alpha Stickers, pink satin homemade flower, some of my digital elements that I printed out on sticker paper for my kit: a Cosmo Cricker "Gluber" flower, and a yellow journaling spot from Echo Park's Digital collections, and pink Thickers that I used my pearl colored paint dabber on.

If you'll check back, I'll be sure to share the rest of my October pages through the next week, I promise ;-). Thanks for stopping by today!

October Counterfeit Kit

Can you believe that it's October already? I can't! But I am so happy for fall-I truly love the change of seasons! And fall means cooler weather, sweaters, colorful leaves, back to school for the kiddos, and Halloween. With 4 kids, how can I not love all of that? Anyhow, back to the kit!

This month, Beth and Meridy chose these kits from Little Red Scrapbook for our inspiration:
Main Kit:

and a Halloween themed kit:

And since I have as much (if not more) fun making up the kits each month out of my stash, I made up two kits, too!

My Main Kit, "Beautiful Autumn":

For my kit, I tried to stay with similar colors and patterns. Here is the breakdown of the goodies I included in my kit:
Papers:
Heidi Swapp "Groovin" (the green houndstooth-2sheets)
Coordinations Graphic 45 gray embossed dots cardstock
2 sheets from DCWV Lemon Flower Stack (yellow, green and silver glittered floral and the yellow paisley)
Echo Park Life Is Good "Grandma's Quilt"
SEI Chocolat "Framboise"
SEI Chocolat "Papillion"
Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe "Dresses"
Echo Park Life Is Good  Border Strips
The Girl's Paperie Paper Girl "12x12 Cabbage Rose"
American Crafts Play "Paper Dolls"
Heidi Swapp "The Lounge"
Echo Park Life Is Good "Bold Stripes"
American Crafts The Goods "Carriage"
The Girl's Paperie Paper Girl "Die Cut Wallpaper"
SEI Chocolat "Chocolat"

Embellishments:
ribbons: K&Co. scalloped pink felt ribbon, American Crafts light blue velvet scalloped ribbon
Lots of handmade flowers-lollipop flowers,satin burnt edge flowers, and ruffled ribbon flowers, along with a leftover Prima backing card from another pack of flowers that I plan to repurpose
a gorgeous butterfly mini banner that I received from a 2 Peas swap (those girls are SO talented!!)
Graphic 45 Botanicabella punch out butterfly tags
A sheet of sticker paper that I printed out lots of fun digi elements on-some from Echo Park,some from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, the Graphics Fairy, and Cosmo Cricket, to name a few.
American Crafts Thickers Darling Lipgloss chipboard letter stickers
Jolee's All That Bling large pink gems

My Embellishment Add On:

Echo Park Life Is Good Element and Alpha Stickers
American Crafts Thickers Sprinkles Cucumber glitter chipboard letter stickers
The Girls Paperie Paper Girl Flower Market Paper Route and Vintage Buttons
Shimmerz Bed Of Roses shimmer mist
homemade shimmer mist
assortment of paper and ribbon flowers

My Halloween Kit, "Creepy Creatures":

Papers:
Making Memories Spellbound "Glitter Crow"
American Crafts Moda Bella "Tailored"
Little Yellow Bicycle Frightful Collection "Large Stripe"
Purple spiderwebs from Target $1 Spot paper pack
Cloud 9 Design Halloween Fun "Multi Spiders"
Basic Grey Eerie "Screech"(back side shown)
Basic Grey Eerie "Reaper"
Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter "Pious"
Pink Paislee Vintage Moon "Harvest Moon"
DCWV Lemon Flower gray/silver glitter dot cardstock
K&Co Halloween Whimsy 12x12 Web Flat Paper
Halloween stripes from Target $1 Spot paper pack
SEI Eerie Alley Arachnophobia (back side shown)
Heidi Swapp "Star and Shield"

Embellishments:
American Crafts Thickers Sprinkles black glitter chipboard letters
Target $1 Spot Spooky Collection Chipboard Alpha Stickers
Jenni Bowlin Halloween Bingo Cards
Basic Grey Wholy Cow Rub-ons
Basic Grey Eerie Pops layered stickers, Glazed Brads
Making Memories Spook Alley glitter rub-ons
Target $1 Spot Halloween Rub-ons and Glitter Word Stickers
Marcella by K Halloween Candy Pillow Stickers
American Crafts Remarks Trick Or Treat Phrase Stickers Book
Making Memories Spellbound brads
We R Memories Black Out Halloween flocked lace
awesome halloween mini banners (from the same swap mentioned above)
Adirondack Metallics Paint daubers
assorted halloween Primas
black, purple, and silver glitter
assortment of fall/halloween stamps by: Creative Cafe for Hampton Arts, Scrappy Cat, See-d's for Inque Boutique, and Studio G
leftover black gems and pearls
die cut "wrought-iron" gate (I made it and put it in a kit a couple of months ago, but haven't used it yet)
KI Memories Wicked Glitter Sticker borders
DCWV fall word stickers
EK Success clear Halloween title stickers
Cosmo Cricket Tricks&Treats cardstock stickers
Marcella by K Halloween Glitter Embossed Stickers
7Gypsies 97% Complete Halloween Stickers

Closer look at my Halloween stamps and stickers:

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

How are you celebrating World Cardmaking Day? I have thoroughly enjoyed it!! I spent the morning blog hopping and being inspired! Then I stumbled across this challenge on the Pink Paislee blog, so I decided to pull out some of my Pink Paislee stash and play along!

Here are some of my entries for the challenges:
Challenge #5 was a color challenge, based on this photo from Pinterest:

And here is my card for this challenge:

For this card, I used paper from Pink Paislee's Vintage Moon line, " Night Owl", and a journaling tag from the "Father Christmas" punch outs, a little bit of olive colored chalk ink on the edges, and a few leftover rub-on stitched leaves, paper leaves, flowers, and brads. I used my scallop punch on a scrap of Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock(which I also edged with my olive chalk ink) , and a "Give Thanks" sticker.

Challenge #6:
Stamping Challenge: Layer stamps (I may have cheated on this one a little, because I chose stamps that were meant to be used together/layered).

Here is my card:

For this card, I used paper from Pink Paislee's Vintage Moon line, "Moon Glade", and a stamped frame and sentiment-I stamped the florally frame first with silver paint from a paint dauber, then after that dried, I stamped "Happy Birthday" with Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress ink, fussy cut and inked the edges with the Tumbled Glass ink, tied some hand dyed gray shabby seam binding, attached the stamped sentiment with pop dots, and added some homemade vintage stick pins, then inked the edges of the whole card with the Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

For my last card (today, anyway), I followed Challenge # 7: Use more than one type of medium.

Here is my card:

For this card, I started with paper from Pink Paislee's Butterfly Gardens line, "Dew Drops". I took some AWESOME Mistable scalloped trim in 2 different widths, and on the one I stamped with a script stamp and some homemade violet colored shimmer mist, and on the wider trim, I did some random messy paint stamping with a polka dot stamp and a silver paint dauber. On top of the muslin Mistables scallops, I tied some lilac colored hand dyed shabby seam binding, and added a flower that I made by layering flowers from Prima and Petaloo which I inked lightly with Tim Holtz Dusty Concord Distress Ink, and leaves from Precocious Paper, and inked all of the edges with Dusty Concord and attached it to a white cardstock card base.

What a fun day I had creating-I hope you got to play a little, too!!