July Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the July Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop. You should have arrived here from Karen's blog I'm excited to see what marvelous creation she has made :) This month's challenges are:

 Challenge #1:  Picture This:  Use at least 4 photos on your project
Challenge #2:  Old Tool Challenge: Dust off an old tool and get creative
Challenge #3:  Project Altering Experience: Include an altered embellishment

I chose to do Picture This challenge and for me to use 4 photos is really no challenge :) I do it quite often. I tackled this particuliar challenge cause of just receiving my order of photos from Shutterfly and Snapfish so thought best to start scrapbooking as many photos as I can :)

We enjoyed the 4th this year by taking in the local fireworks. This layout holds 6 photos and lots of red, white and blue. I used up alot of cardstock stickers from a Bo Bunny 4th of July sticker sheet throughout the layout. I also used CTMH American Celebration stamp set with CTMH Holiday Red ink and SU Brilliant Blue ink with splatters of Recollections Red spray ink.

This side of the layout holds 6 photos too. The inspiration of the stamping on the layout came from this week's prompt over at Camp Scrap, looking for inspiration for other things. I watched May's video and while she was stamping here layout I decided to play along and stamp mine. So it was just plain fun that started off this layout. I found some border elements that I used for the side pennants from my stash (old swap pieces received) and more from the chipboard sticker pieces. I added SU Candy Dots in various places.

 Found this fun film strip next to me on a shelf so I added it to the layout a perfect spot for the small fireworks photos.

 Grabbed some pictures of me and Dave before the show started and during :) Still working on that selfie thing :) The journaling was put on a PL card that was sitting on my desk and ended up in this month's kit box :)

 Close up of the fun fireworks we saw

Dave and I watching the fireworks, the pennant element on the photo took out some of the man standing there. It was great to get a couple of pictures of the fireworks over the bridge. 

The background looks like it mimics what happens at the end of the show when they just shoot off everything that was left. The sticker sheet I used is just about gone from just adding to this layout and I can see that I can finish up the last few pieces on another layout. Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy the hop. Your next stop is over to Julene's blog I wonder which challenge she decided to do...
If you get lost along the way you can find the whole lineup of hoppers over at Counterfeit Kit Blog

Beach Fun for Funday Friday

Hi you all! Oh it really has been one of those types of weeks! Must be from that long weekend I had last week to cause a really long week this week, but thank goodness it's Friday in fact it is Funday Friday! Over at Jo's Scrap Shack this week's challenge for Funday Friday is

"Nautical Seascapes"

Our sponsors are Di's Digi Stamps and Bugaboo Stamps. I used Bugaboo's stamp: Beach Border: and from the png file I created a cut file in my Silhouette software. It took a bit to figure it out, but it did cut out better than I though it was going to:

This layout was planned for this theme the pictures and the thoughts behind doing the diecut title, but yesterday in my email I seen in the daily bloglovin email the sketch from Sketch N Scrap and knew that was the one I wanted to use for my layout:

It's their Twistback Thursday Sketch and besides using the sketch you have to use the twist too which was Old/Vintage photos. These are definetly photos from an earlier time in my life and the prints came from old slides (really need to figure out how to clean them up before scanning). 

I'm also doing May Flaum's Camp Scrap this month and this is this week's challenge to do monochromatic. So I chose to stay in the blues other than that neutral tan for the diecut . I used one piece of paper from last month's counterfeit kit and went to my blues paper drawer to find the rest of the blues needed for the layout.

Close up of the diecut I created. Will have to play around more with this new found knowledge of making diecuts :)

This little bottom block was fun to create, I used the stamp from the CTMH Seaside workshop on the go stamped in Brilliant ink from SU, I used the waves stickers and enamel dots from a Jolee's dimensional sticker pack for the circles in the sketch. The starfish came from a K&Copany chipboard sticker collection and the playing in the waves and the word spots came from a Recollections dimensional stickers.

The misting came from Heidi Swapp's Teal color shine, flicking it around the layout for texture.

I figured that one open spot with nothing in it was perfect to use for m journaling. Not much to add other than the who, what, when, where type of  thing in paragraph form. So glad that May Flaum challenged us this week with the color challenge and so glad that sketch showed up in my email cause both really made this layout work :)
I'm also linking this up to Scrap Our Stash stash challenge with the word : PHOTOS:
P: Pattern Paper, Pennants
H: Heidi Swapp Teal color shine mist
O: Ocean theme
T: Thickers
O: odd number of photos
S: Starfish, stamp, sketch

To complete the stash challenge, I used the following items:

P ~ Punch, Pink Sticker

H ~ Hashtag

O ~ Orange Sticker

T ~ Twine, Tag, Tab

O ~ Oval (camera lens in patterned paper)

S ~ Stitching (faux zigzig), Selfie sticker, Sequins"

- See more at: http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-07-04T06:00:00-07:00#sthash.10niwh3F.dpuf

So now it's your turn to create a card, layout or project with that Nautical theme :) I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Our Sponsors this week are:

   The winner will win a $12 gift voucher to Di's online store!!!!

and

The winner will win a 7 pack of digis of their choice!!!!


 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, July 10th 12:00AM

Ends: Friday, July 17th 6:00PM

(Eastern time)

What do you need to do to enter?

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. THREE entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random wins (optional from sponsors prizes)

Any random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until July 17th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of July 20th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!