Counterfeit Kit Challenge 3 for August

If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen this sneak peek of this page:



As you can see, I am a little behind on using up my kits, so this page is taken almost entirely from my July kit. I was inspired a week or so ago to cut the tiny windows out of this fun Dear Lizzy frame paper with an exacto knife, and back them with tiny squares of the Teresa Collins patterned paper from the 6x6 paper pad, and then backed the whole sheet with a lovely, thick piece of the Carta Bella textured paper. Then it sat in my scrap basket for several days, with out a given purpose. When I was looking over my challenge for the CKC blog this moth, I knew immediately that for a challenge based on the word "Friends", I wanted to write a little bit about the unique relationship that my girls share. I thought of this paper, found a picture that demonstrated some of the things that I wanted to talk about, and it all came together nicely for me in this page:




The journaling says: " Having a twin sister means having a built in best friend to fight with,laugh with, and share with. You are both great readers, and you had fun posing with Posiedon in Epcot's Italy pavilion, since you have both read several books with Greek mythology in them."

Workspace Wednesday

I haven't forgotten my promise to show you my crafty space when it's all finished, but for now, I will keep showing you bits and pieces, as I put them back into the room. I am ever so slowly getting all of my little bits unpacked and organized. I have decided that, as I am a very visual person, the best type of organization is by color. So, here is a peek at some of my pretties as I sort and put them away:

A spice rack for brads that I picked up at a garage sale, and I spray painted (my room's accent colors are red and turquoise), and punched pinked circles to label the lids:

A rolling cart of drawers that I purchased with a gift card on line for my flowers (still working on sorting and filling this as I have tons of flowers):

Now, any ideas or inspiration for using all of these flowers?

Another layout from my March kit...

Just a quick post to share the page that I made using Shimelle's Sketch 12 and my March kit:

 Love the papers-Maggie Holmes, Pebbles, Amy Tangerine...and I added some of my new Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist, a Tim Holtz mask, some Want 2 Scrap pearls, a Basic Grey Canvas tag, pink chevron washi tape, a flocked Doodlebug brad, a heart from the Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm set fit in the fussy cut camera perfectly, and I put a coating of Glossy Accents over it to make a "lens".
Here is a closer look at the embellishments:

Thanks for looking-I always love to know what you think!

A couple more cards...

that I made for World Card Making Day (Weekend):
Card #1:

See It on 2Peas

 It was made for
WCMD 2012 Challenge 5: Trend Watch Challenge by Julia Stainton, using Kimber's Saturday Card Sketch on 2Peas

Card#2:

See It on 2Peas

This one was created for Just Lulu's WCMD Challenge on 2Peas: use a sticker, a brad, and a stamp. The stickers, brads, and papers are all from My Mind's Eye Sweetest Thing:Lavender collection. The doily stamps are from My Mind's Eye, the sentiment is from TPC Studios, twin is from Martha Stewart.

Loving all of the new Dear Lizzy stuff!

As you saw from the kit I posted earlier, I have some of the newest Dear Lizzy papers, and I just couldn't wait to use them! I used this sketch from the Paper Variety:

I combined the sketch with the ScrapFIT challenge:

The 'Its Easy as 1, 2, 3..' Workout is here and all you have to do is list out numerically your journaling on your layout! This could be a list of your Top 10 favorite moments from last year, a list of goals for the new year or the countless reason you love ScrapFIT (Just kidding!). Show us your numbered list!

And the 2 Peas Dear Lizzy Challenge...and I used my newest "Counterfeit" kit, "Catching Fireflies", along with some cardstock from my March and February main kits.

I got a lot of scrapping done today, so expect me to share several more layouts over the next few days!

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?

Serendipitous?!

That is what I thought this morning when I saw the new challenge on the CKCB blog this morning! You see, they didn't tell us (the DT) that they were going to give this challenge, but I was just getting ready to post a layout for it anyway! They challenged us to use this sketch from Creative Scrappers:

And I created this layout for the sketch:

 A Closer look at the detail:

Most supplies I used were from my "Cozy Cabin In The Snow" kit, and a few were pulled from my "Christmas Memories" kit, and I added in a few bits from my scrap paper file. I love the combination of blue and red for a snow layout!I cut the huge snowflake into 2 pieces to make them "bleed" off of the page, and I made the white snow flakes on the blue patterned paper stand out a little extra with extra dots from the white glitter Thickers I used for the title.

My Forever Love...

Just sharing a layout that I created this past weekend, using the current sketch at Sketchy Thursdays, and combining it with my current Pinterest Inspired Challenge at Sketches 4 All.
The Sketch:

The Inspiration from the Pinterest Inspired Challenge:

Pin

And, last, but not least my layout:

And a close-up look at the little details that make a layout special:

I love this photo taken of my hubby and me on our honeymoon, we looked sooo young! The supplies I used: Background is Crate Paper, Bazzill cardstock, red Recollections pearl brads, Petaloo velvet flower, felt heart accent I received in a 2Peas swap, white paper doilies, Heidi Grace Chipboard stickers, red and white twine, journaling spot from Meridy in our recent Master Forger swap. This layout actually came together pretty quickly, thanks to my January kits!The only thing I had to add was the felt accent!
If you are inspired by my Pinterest Challenge, please come play along at Sketches 4 All!

12 Tags of Christmas, Day 11

Tim's is finished with his tags, but I still have a couple more to share! Here is my tag from Day 11:

And here is Tim's tag:

I did not jump right into this tag-because I had almost nothing that Tim used for his. Then, I decided to go a slightly different route. I took a pearlized cardstock and cut it out for the tag, then inked with Distress Inks and homemade marshmallow mist. I didn't have ANY Santa stamps, so I cut a Santa out of Tim's Seasonal Paper Stash, and inked it with Versamark, and coated it with 2 layers of UTEE. The "Ho ho ho" is a sticker, and added a transparency printed photo corner and some felt and acrylic christmas trees with Glossy Accents. I made the jingle bell bead dangle, tied on some red satin ribbon, added a brad and a scrap of tulle.I still like the way my tag turned out, even though it is rather different than Tim's!

12 Tags of Christmas ...Day 2

Tim had another gorgeous tag today, of course! Here is Tim's tag:

 And here is mine:

Looking at them side by side, I realize that I forgot to distress/ink the bottom border...oh well! I still like the way my tag came out! I started with just a scrap of kraft cardstock (plain old kraft). I stamped the sheet music with a Unity Stamps Music Of My Heart stamp and black Staz-On ink. I then stamped the "Merry Christmas" with a Martha Stewart stamp and Versamark watermark ink, and heat embossed with UTEE. I used a homemade white shimmery water color paint and a foam brush over the whole tag, then allowed it to dry as Tim suggested. I then dripped homemade white shimmer spritz on the tag and dried with my heat gun. I inked the edges of the tag with Martha Stewart Sea Lavendar pigment ink, distressed the edges with my Cutterbee scissors, and then inked the edges of the tag with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. I used a border punch from Fiskars and a scrap of cardstock for the bottom border, and painted with my gold paint dabber. I added brushed silver brads that I "distressed" with an ice pick along the bottom. For the reindeer, I die cut a reindeer from cardstock with my Cricut and SCAL, and then I glued a scrap of canvas to it, and used it as a template to cut it out  by hand with my Cutterbee scissors, then distressed it with my fingernail and Tea Dye and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks. I made the little wreath for his neck with a bit of tinsel and a Making Memories metal star, and added a die cut piece of holly  (leftover from yesterday), that I painted with Rock Candy Crackle Paint, brushed the edges with Peeled Paint Distress Stain, and finished off with red rhinestones. The "Memories" plaque is an ancient metal word from DCWV, which I attached with distressed brads.
Now, gotta get to work on my other December projects!

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!

CKCB Challenge

A few days ago, the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog gave us this challenge:

Challenge # 3: Turn it on it's ear: Pick any of the sketches from Sketch Support and rotate it before you use it for a card or layout. You will get a fresh new look this way, but still have the ease of the sketch giving you the blueprints of what to do. So awesome!

I took this sketch from Sketch Support:

And turned it sideways to come up with this page:

I also used a challenge from My Scrapbook Nook's Virtual Crop this past weekend, "#2-This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath-pick 7 different flowers for your layout", and here is a close up of the flowers:

The journaling reads, "It is always so hard to get the four of you together and smiling for a photo.Out of lots of shots, this one was the best Nicole was able to get. Crazy kids!"

Products I used:

The background paper was Pink Paislee Vintage Moon, and the back side of one of the Echo Park Walk In The Park papers, sheer aqua ribbon, the brown border was from the Colorbok Flea Market Punch Out Pad, the title was one of the K&Co rub-ons from the booklet I included in my August kits, The flowers are Primas, Making Memories, and The Paper Studio. All supplies used are from my August Counterfeit Kits (which you can see HERE).

My Beautiful Daughter

The Sketch I Used (from Stuck On U Sketches):

My Layout:

Close Up of my flowers and embellishments:



This layout also qualifies for the Stuck On U Sketches Challenge to Use Die-cuts : the frame behind the photo, the journaling card, the word, "beautiful" ,  and the borders (all premade die cuts from the Colorbok Flea Market Punch-out pad).

I also used: Pink Paislee Butterfly Gardens, "Butterfly Wings", a paper lace doily, a brown crystal ZVA flourish, a K&Co. "Rose" sticker, Basic Grey painted brads, pink Primas and tiny pink roses that I made with a punch and scraps for my August Kit, American Crafts Thickers chipboard letters, and a partial sheet of the Pink Paislee Botanical Gardens (the pale pink), which I distressed on the edges with my scissors.

The journaling says: " Almost 12 in this photo, you are growing up so fast, and becoming a beautiful young lady. I have noticed quite a change this year in the way you act, and an increased self-consciousness. Stay confident, you are beautiful!" I just wrote a note from my heart as a little reminder for my 12 year old, who is growing and changing so much before my eyes. Let your kids know how much you love them, they need to hear it!

Using up my Counterfeit Kit for May...

Ever since I put my HUGE May Counterfeit kit together, I have had the ideas for some of these pages, so I was very happy to use up some more of the kits and GET THESE PHOTOS SCRAPPED! Here are my layouts, done almost entirely with my May Counterfeit Kits:

Basketball Playoffs LO:

(the green cardstock is from my June kit)

Back To School DPS(based on a sketch from the Scrappiest last month):

 Love 2 Read LO:
( I added yellow ric rac and a blue felt flower from my June kit)

Playground Antics DPS:

 Sweet Birthday LO:

Some Close Ups Of Some of my favorite details:

Die-cut Rocket:



Wooden heart that I stained:

Good Morning!

What a wonderful fall morning! I woke up to a crisp, cool morning and a beautiful sunrise!

The card that I have to share with you today is my first Christmas card this year...I am way behind last year! For some reason, I haven't been able to find my crafty mojo for a few weeks, and it has been somewhat of a challenge to make myself put together the cards and pages that I have! Ok, enough about me, on to my card!
I started with this sketch from Stampin Royalty :
I used a digital scrapbook kit from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, "Winterland".
I embossed some cardstock with a snowflakes to go underneath the sled image, which was cut in a circle shape using my Cricut and Winter Wonderland Cartridge, which I also used to cut the sentiment "Warm Winter Wishes" in regular, then the shift in the light blue cardstock, which I embossed with my Swiss Dots folder. I layered snowflakes-the felt one was a stiffened glittery felt that I cut with my Doodlecharms cart and Deep Cut Blade, and some rhinestone snowflakes. I added pink flocked brads from Doodlebug, a deep red shabby seam binding ribbon, a clear acrylic snowflake with glittered red dots from Making Memories Fa La La line, and a red glitter brad by Making Memories.

The challenges that I am entering this card into are:

• Stampin' Royalty: sketch


• 2 Sisters Challenge: Anything Goes


• ABC Challenge: "G" is for glitter


• Bee-Crafty Challenges: Christmas, using a digital image


• Craft Your Passion Challenge: Glitter, sparkles


• Crafty Ann's Challenge blog: Recipe-ribbon,gems, and at least one embellishment made of paper or card(stock?)


• The Crafty Pad: Christmas


• Creative Cottage Challenge:embossing


• Fussy And Fancy Friday Challenges:Winter Wonderland


• Gingerloft Challenge: Winter


• MyGraphico Crafts: Add Some Sparkle


• Quixotic Paperie:Christmas


• Southern Girls Challenge Blog: Glitter


• A Spoonful Of Sugar Challenges:Die cuts/punches


• Mark's Finest Papers: use die cuts or a punch


• Tip Top Tuesday: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Now, grab a cup of coffee, and pop by the other designers' blogs for more crafty inspiration

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Laurel Seabrook
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick(me)

Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen
Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey

It's Your Day!

I made this card with my dad in mind. Father's Day is coming up quickly! I used the Funky Forest and All Around Phrases digistamp sets from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff, and a sketch from the Basic Grey challenge blog. I *finally* broke out that pack of Basic Grey Mellow that I have had on my shelf forever!I decided to play along with a few other challenges, as well:

Basic Grey Challenges: sketch+must use Basic Grey

Aud Sentiments: "It's Your Day"

Crafty Catz: "The boyz are back"-make a boy's or man's card

Creative Cottage Challenge: Happy Father's Day

DareU2Digistamp : Father's Day, must use a digital image

DigiDoodle Shop: Anything goes

Simon Says Challenge: Father's Day/male card

Now, take a few minutes to stop by the other designers' blogs for inspiration and a freebie!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cheryl Gorka (DT Coordinator)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Leanne Garner
Lisa Jurecek
Margie Visnick (you are here)
Melissa Craig
Rebekah Doak
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tamara Bennett
Tracey Allen


Sitting out at the moment
Micki Harper

Sometimes guest
Erin Bailey