Turntable 2 pg LO

 Good Morning and welcome :) Today is a new challenge over at Lasting Memories: theme: All About Shapes and the feature shape this week is CIRCLES:

The layout features circles in the stamped train image, the circle metal flair button, the paper has stamped postmark images and the title is within a half-circle and of course the subject matter is a circle. This is actualle a double page layout. But this side features the circles.
This layout came about from LOAD1015 Day28: Story: Tell of a memorable road trip. Product: Map! Image: A typical vacation photo. So I got 2 of the 3 parts of the prompt on my layout:

This is part of the Altoona, PA day trip. I was really cool to investigate this Museum because the way it was laid out we were unsure if we were allowed in buildings or not, but the door was open so we went in and found this on the other side of the storage building.

I had some fun creating that title on this layout. This side of the layout housed some of the photos of the turntable.

The right hand side of the double page layout has more photos of the round table and a few of the engines that sit outside of the round table. This one was not in action that day and not sure if it operation-able yet.

The title work I did one a piece of vellum that I had previously cut awhile back and used that to help me get the lettering right on the layout. My journaling too.

The arrows in each of these pictures point us out in the photos, I'm in the left hand photo and Dave is in the right hand photo. After the 1st of the year I need to get back to this album and get it finished up :)
Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world and I look forward to seeing what you all create and get posted over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenges blog.

Authentic

Were getting down to the end of LOAD216 just one more day left, today :) But this one is from yesterday's load, Day 28: Food. I have been wanting to do this layout a few times this month but I had to find the picture I took with the hubby's camera that day. So finally took the time last night and located the picture :) the other ones I got off the internet, but the one inside the restaurant is the one I took. While I was looking I come across a few more pictures that I need to scrap too, oh boy!

When we went to Altoona, PA to see the RR Museum and Horseshoe Curve, we decided to grab supper before getting on the road to head home. We stop when we saw the sign for this place, we both enjoy Mexican food. OMgosh! were we pleasantly surprised about this place, it is an Authentic Mexican restaurant :) Yes and their chips and salsa homemade you can tell swoon!

I got my background colors from outside of their building. Also the stars representing the rating of this establishment and the hearts cause we loved it so much! I saved their business card for use on the layout, I thought the recipe card appropriate here for a mat. The 2 word strips come from 2 signs they have hung up on their walls. Our Casa is Your Casa you see when you walk in and The best place to be is together sign is on the wall among all the stuff they have on the walls (like crackle barrel has)
I used the sketch over at Sketches in Thyme it was this past week's sketch

I really enjoyed using this sketch :)

The business card, word strips and my journaling

 The photo block. The have these very festive backs on their chairs I had to take a picture of them, the man in the picture was our waiter, very nice person and the place was cool to see and very friendly to be in. The picture of those chips and they serve it with 3 different sauces we just loved the red salsa would love that recipe to make it here at the house.

 Close up of the bottom corner block

 Close up of the title block

I tried a photo on an angle so you can see the glitter effect of the letters and I scattered dots that was on the Alpha sheet around the layout too. I used my current counterfeit kit: Color Splash for my layout and the pennants come from last month's kit.

Horseshoe Curve LO

This layout came about from LOAD Day #6 Geography. We were given ideas for the prompt but pretty well had free rein on what we wanted to do with it. So the first thing I did was looked up the definition of Geography, printed it so I could have on hand. Geography ("earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or picture or write about the earth". Well then there is a whole lot of things covered by this definition :) Just about anything that takes place on Earth is geography. So my first layout for this prompt, I went with a man-made phenomenon to change the earth a bit. Our trip to the Altoona Railroad Museum we include the trip up to see Horseshoe Curve.

 The 2 page layout was created with my Brighter Year Ahead Counterfeit kit. Across the 2 page spread I used the 1 postcard I bought to use for the title. A flatten penny you buy in one of the quarter machines they have at these places and 8 photos.

 The left side of the layout holds the largest part of the journaling. Some information I got out the book the we received during our tour, some interesting facts and some of our own take on the curve.

The right side of the layout holds a few pictures of the area up on top of the curve including a Pennsylvania Engine on display. Also 2 pictures of a working train coming around the curve. It's a sight to see if your in that area of Pennsylvania

 The postcard

 The journaling I got out of the book.

A tidbit about the Irish laborers that carved out the curve. Up on top our personal journaling, just as we were leaving we seen another train coming around the curve.

 The train coming around the curve. They have a schedule posted of the trains coming through so you can see it happening

 This is posted at the sight, details of the Horseshoe Curve

The grid of pictures that you see up on the observation deck waiting on the train to come by. Very enjoyable day and we had a wonderful time seeing the museums in Altoona, PA.

CKC Great Master Forger Search

Hello :) This is my response to Counterfeit Kit Challenge's The Great Master Forger Search challenge :) As soon as I seen the post about the challenge I knew I wanted to give it a go!
 "Hi you all, have you heard about a blog called Counterfeit Kit Challenge? I didn't till last month when I stopped by Cindy's Creations Blog and check it out." That was the beginning of my journey with this fun blog in November 2013 and I haven't missed a month since, I also increased my paper crafting double if not more since doing Counterfeit kits. For me the quickest way to craft is with a Counterfeit Kit and I just love that I can produce such fun kits from my own stash. Get ready this post is the fun journey I took this month for the response to The Great Master Forger Search.

So my journey began by answering these fun question in this post at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. Through these questions my replies gave me my kit choices:  1.  Paper Choice a.  Basic Grey: Second City collection:

Now this collection is a bit out of my comfort zone, but this girl came up with some fun ideas to tackle some of the papers to this kit. First I usually start off my kits by taking a good look at the kit that we are to forge and write down what I see:

Then I will try to find things in my own stash that are similar to what is in the counterfeit kit. Here is what I came up with: This is Out and About

I did both A and B sides of each paper and 3 papers I will be forging. The rest of my kit comes from these answers:

2.  Tools a. stamps, 3.  Embellishments b. washi tape, 4.  Materials a. metal, 5.  Tiny bits c. enamel dots, 6.  More Embellishments a. layered embellishments, 

7.  fun extras b.  something that spins: I created something that spins on a layout:

This is going to be the title page to a day trip we took to Altoona, PA. I've got lots more layouts to do to tell the story of that day. I decided that the view reel would be a fun way to add bits of pictures of the trip. The view wheel is a silhouette cut for my cameo and I attached it to  the layout with a brad from the kit

 This is where I started. I used a square punch to punch out the pictures I wanted in the window of the reel. I then added tape to both sides of the middle hole since it was bigger than the brad I was using and added the brad and attached to the background paper loosely enough that it would turn.

 Added a cover paper like a pocket to house the bottom part of the reel so it has to be turned to see the pictures. I added metal triangle studs to the top of the layout with the intention of the flow of the triangles looks like your to turn it that direction.

 On the cover paper I added the rest of my layout: A picture of the museum when we arrived, a picture of the train sitting out in the park part of the museum and a picture of my better half as we were looking through one of the engines. (I learned for another scrappy friend about doing the title pages, she does them for her on going vacation albums and I thought that was a great idea to house all our vacation layouts in an album by itself, so I decided to do the same :)

I did 3 forgeries. 2 were very easy I got to enjoy being a kid and did some doodling

 I just used a marker to draw circles around the circles and added some happy faces about the page too I've got the perfect pictures to go with this paper (a layout coming next week) The other dotted paper I added lines with a pen, added gold lame smooch to the center and also added silver smooch lines scattered about the layout. 

Since I'm not much of the City Nights person and I have no city scenes in my stash I decided to use the starry paper for my back drop for my city nights paper. Now the city building paper was a bit harder to forge and it took 2 tries to get a look that I wanted. First try was a stamp and embossing powder:

I didn't care much for the final set of embossed stamped images so I went back to the drawing board and used my cameo to cut out some city views:

 As I was putting these together I realized I didn't cut enough so while I was looking at the 1st set of embossed ones, thought I would fussy cut some and use both to make the forgery and I also decided to go with the black greyish paper instead of the starry paper, so this is what I came up with:

 The last thing I needed to do for this challenge was: 4.  Issue a challenge and create one project based on your challenge.

For my challenge, I issue would be pick an element of your page and repeat it (ex: photos, embellishments, paper, a shape or a design) as many times as you'd like. I would suggest at least 3 times to establish a clear pattern of repetition. I used washi tape for mine and this is what I came up with:

 The washi tape I chose to use. Some from my kit and some more to add more variety and color.

 This is what I did to create the background I used one of the grey card stocks and just started adding washi tape varying where the different colors and designs where going on the paper. I used clear wet adhesive to layer of the tape to make sure it didn't peel off after the layout was completed. Majority of the repletion was 4 times but there are some 3 times in there too. From there I then did my layout:

I grabbed my 2014 pictures left to scrap and dug out these 2 of my DIL and our grandson having fun taking selfies. She posted these on facebook and I saved them just for a layout like this. I also included our facebook conversation in the journaling :)

A close up shot of the layout and I also added repetition on the layout with the red and silver brads and the enamel dots. Added the dymo created words on the frame with a cluster that also included a metal flower.

 I love this fun selfie they did. I added the metal heart charm here and added a enamel heart to that. I used some chipboard pieces from Simple Stories 24/7 line for the title: Today Snapshot and another cluster there by the word and camera.

The journaling spot was fussy cut from a project life card and added the lines with a stamp. Distressed it with SU Brown Sugar ink so it wasn't so bright white on the layout. That is what I have for you today :)
I enjoyed this journey to create all the things needed for this post it was a fun process forging so many pieces and in some fun ways that I would not have considered if not challenged to do so. For me to make my kits work I keep them next to my craft desk so I always have it available at my finger tips and mosts months I use my counterfeit kit exclusively for my carfting needs. I enjoy scrapping, making cards, the occasional smash book page, some project life and December dailies (lots of UFIs floating about my craft room that I need to finish up) and I like to make tags for my Christmas Gifts. I have occasionally made minibooks for myself and for gifts. Thank you for letting me try out for The Master Forger Search :)
To all thank you for seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)