Powder Puff layout for Stick It Down challenge

Good Morning and welcome :) Today I'm featuring a 2nd layout for Stick It Down blog using their fun single sketch and also some fun sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps our sponsor this month. I received the SMS sequin mix called One in a Melon and wow what a punch of pink and green with some black too :) yep looks like a watermelon mix :)

One of the layouts that I created from the Demolition Derby at the local fair we attend was the Powder Puff competition and we have a variety of cars in this layout but there was that bright green one and a variety pink featured too one being that black with pink car so these photos were perfect to feature those fun sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps 
Here is the single sketch this month from Stick It Down that I used for inspiration for the layout:

 

 Very busy sketch which the Derby can be very busy too :)

 My journaling and to keep the pink going I used a pink pen too

 Close up of the pictures. For the layout I used old school technique torn pattern paper in strips to mimic the strips in the sketch. There were stars all over the place in the sketch so used the sequins in places where the stars were.

 I used a variety of counterfeit kits for this layout: The torn pattern papers came from this month's kit Falling For You. The pink matting I used for the photos was from my August kit Summer Life. The Alpha's came from June's kit Adventure Awaits and the background paper came from May's kit Geometric Beauty. I will usually have a few current counterfeit kits floating around my craftroom like this to grab from when I'm looking for certain things to combine to make a fantastic layout.

Thank you for stopping by today, still have a few days in this month to play along with this challenge. Check out Stick It Down blog for other creations my DT sisters are making this week with SpiegelMom Scraps sequin mixes.

Happy Birthday 3rd Birthday LO for Stick It Down challenge

Good Morning and welcome to the blog :) Today is the reveal of the double page team's take on the sketch over at Stick It Down.  We have a great sponsor this month.  White Rose Crafts owner, Kay Barnes, is a paper-crafter of many years' standing, who hails from Yorkshire, England. The White Rose is the heraldic symbol of Yorkshire, and dates back to at least the Fourteenth Century - possibly even before that! And it's well known in the UK that Yorkshire people are proud of their roots! You can visit Kay and White Rose Crafts store at their BLOG, Facebook page, and Instagram.
Here is the sketch:

This is an awesome sketch for those event photos where you usually have lots of pictures from Birthdays, Graduations, Vacations, Wedding and the list could go on and on! This one you just may see used a few times this month :) This is the layout I created with the sketch:

Just loved that there was spots to put loads of photos. This was Waylon's 3rd birthday party and this layout was of the presents being opened. Used a few of the papers from my 100 pattern paper challenge pile, some really old cutaparts :) some chipboard and that Happy Birthday Title that I got in my swag bag from paper issues.

Close up of the right hand side of the layout. I brought that green star paper over from the other side to do some grounding of the photos and to tie the two layouts together.

 Close up of the journaling and the title. The 3rd came from my alphas that I had in last month's counterfeit kit: Adventure Awaits

 Close up of the cut aparts I found and added some wood veneer stars too

The boots came from a farm sticker pack in my stash. The card that Sabrina is showing him is the one I made for him :)
Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to seeing your creation for this fun sketch.
You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Just post a link to your creation in our sidebar. If you share on social media, be sure to tag  #StickItDown. One winner from each sketch will be invited back as a guest designer.

White Rose Crafts is offering a coupon code for $25 worth of products to one lucky winner. Please note, at this time shipping is available only to the US.

Our Home LO for Challenge #2 - Midsummer Madness!

Good Morning and welcome to the mid-month challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.  Lisa has chosen a fun prompt for this 2nd challenge of the month.
It's almost midsummer's day here in the northern hemisphere and I for one, love this turn of the year. Watching the days get longer until they reach this high point before the sun starts to head south again and days get shorter again is part of the year's rhythm that I particularly note. And we all know just how much the Scandinavians mark Midsummer's Day with parties and celebrations. Celebrate the summer solstice (or the winter solstice if you are south of us!) for yourself with your project. 
So that is the challenge for us and I did a layout of some pictures I took over the Spring that we prepare, we watch and we have fun leading up to summer. Summer here can get a bit warm and very humid so I enjoy the outside as much as my allergies are going to let me before heading back into the house.

 Us preparing, Us having fun and Us watching. I used a fun sketch over at the Summer Haze crop for Sketch N Scrap, adding my fun take on the sketch. Everything on my layout is from this month's Counterfeit Kit challenge: Adventure Awaits

 The pretty pastel colors of the kit help bring out out more of the photos and the embellishing,

 I used all stickers on this layout except for the & signs that were acrylic (almost done with that old pack of beachy acrylic pieces from making memories 2007, thinking this is one of my oldest things in my kit this month :)

 it was fun to add journaling with each photo besides the date too :)

Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your link up of this fun challenge over at
Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. 

Good Day Layout for a Sketches in Thyme PL style challenge

Good Morning to you :) I hope you are having a fantastic day and weekend.
This sketch challenge over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style is a date project life card. The card I created with Emma's sketch is:

Using one of the project life cards from my counterfeit kit: Adventure Awaits in it is the summer 6X8 album project I'm doing, really want to clear out the old Simple Stories I (heart) Summer collection so went there 1st for a card to use then used an acrylic piece for my kit for the circle and a scrap ribbon from my dish of goodies to use up, the rest came from various stickers in my stash.
Emma has created a fun sketch for us to work with once again:

Here is the layout I created:

Using the one paper from last month's counterfeit kit:  Geometric Beauty and the rest of the papers and stickers came from this month's counterfeit kit: Adventure Awaits to create this fun layout.

My title and journaling came from stickers and the clamshell border came from 2 papers from the 6X6 paper pad in my kit

This photo was fun as it showed at the era that the bridge was made what was expect with our own current era sign of the clearance height of the bridge.

My created date card in place

A picture of Dave, Tammy and I that day, the sun was so bright that day. Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation for this sketch challenge over at Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style

You Are My Sunshine LO for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning and welcome to today's sketch challenge over at Sketch N Scrap we had a fun sketch to play with:

I really liked that frame aspect of the sketch and in my monthly kit this month I had a pattern paper similar to the idea except in the round frame so that was how I chose the background paper for my layout with only having 1 photo for this layout I used the other spot to highlight a project life card:

I also framed up my photo like the scallop piece in the layout just reversed it for the photo. Added a die cut I got in a swap years ago for my title and some fun journaling on another project life card to round out the layout.
Closeups:

 My journaling

 Added the date with a roll stamp

A few stickers and some enamel hearts for my clusters. I'm glad to have this picture of the boys scrapped and in such a fun way too.
Thanks for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation linked up over at Sketch N Scrap

CKC - June Kit Reveal - Adventure Awaits

Good Morning and Welcome to June :) It looks like it's going to be a fantastic month full of Adventures for us! We are taking a real vacation the 1st week of June so that is exciting :)
Today is the 1st and that means it's a new Counterfeit Kit Challenge for the month. I'm at the end of the blog hop :) So you should have reached me from Margie's blog. If if you are just beginning the blog hop here then you will find the full hop order at the bottom of this post.
After doing a month of LOAD it was cool to find out that Alice Boll is our Guest Designer this month. You might know Alice from many different corners of the scrappy world - she runs the ScrapHappy community; leads the LOAD challenge (LayOut A Day in case you don't know) at least three times a year; reports from Creativation for all of us who can't be there; has her own blog at Scrapbook Wonderland and a Scrapbook Wonderland YouTube channel here. You need to check this gal out! Did I mention she's an awesome scrapper and memory keeper too?
What are counterfeiting this month you may be asking yourself? Lisa has picked out the May Hip Kit Club kit which you can find here https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-main-kit. I loved the overall summery feel of this kit and it seemed so fresh and modern, full of trendy motifs and funky, fun colours. 

May Hip Kit Club here

There are plenty of add ons to inspire you too. Make them all, combine them into one humungous kit, pick just a single to counterfeit or pick and mix to make up your very own, unique version!

• Paper https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-paper-kit 
• Pocket page https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-project-life-kit 
• Embellishments https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-embellishment-kit 
• Cardstock https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-cardstock-kit 
• Colour kit https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-color-kit 

There is also a lovely unboxing video by Hip Kit Design Team member Irit Landgraf where the kit can be seen here in all its glory! Check it out here.
This is my kit that I created through this inspiration:

Adventure Awaits 

 I've got a little bit of everything in here :) With us on vacation the 1st week I know I'll have lots to scrap when I get back, so need a big kit for that and I just recently got 99 prints that need scrapped too so lots of scrapping to be done this month :)

 My papers, I found inspiration throughout the kit to get out of my stash. Added a couple of 6X6 paper pads too and some bird paper scraps

 I found this old cardmaking kit that peacocks on it in pink thought it would be a good edition this month and get some cards made up quickly.

 Alphas

 Embellishments

 The odds and ends: Date stamps, letter stamps, stencils, embossing folder, lots of stickers in used packs that I would like to get used up and washi tape

For the summer I added this fun 6X8 album to do the 101 Days of Summer with project Life cards and travel stickers so you'll see this occasionally throughout the summer.
I hope to see your kit linked up over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog. If this was your 1st stop then you'll want to go to the beginning of the list and hop along to see what the other girls have come up with.
Here's the blog hop list for this month's reveal:

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/

Guest Designer Alice - http://scrapbookwonderland.com

Cindy - http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com

Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com

Leslie - http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com

Lisa - http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/

Lori - https://loriannie670.blogspot.com

Margie - http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/ 

Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/