Forgery Paper for August Counterfeit Kit Done

Good day, it's a bit warm here so being in front of the computer isn't to bad and I'm not sweating at all at the moment :) There was s sheet of paper in the August Counterfeit Kit challenge that I was planning to forge and got some free time last night to do it. This is what it started out to be:

This is what the original looks like:



 and this is what I did last night:

I used washi tape and a star stamp for mine. Didn't turn out to bad, but I think that the strips of paper would have given the points a cleaner edge. I started in the wrong spot for the 1st set of stars, but other than that doing it free hand it didn't turn out to awful bad. I'm looking forward to using the paper this coming week with a layout.
Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world :)

It's Sketch Time for Funday Friday

Hi all, thank goodness it's Friday :) You all have any big plans for the weekend? Us, maybe checking out some local tourist spots, maybe some yard sales and definitely some crafting. I've got pictures that came in that need sorted by story and scrapped so plans are in the works for that this weekend and next week. But first I'll show you what I did last night for Funday Friday challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack. This week is Sketch week and our sponsor is the Cutting Cafe. This is the card I made with one of their digital files and their sentiment file:

here is the sketch:

I had fun coloring the digi file:

I used my Spectrum Noir markers for the pumpkins and my Bic markers for the leaves. I added Orange Peel Ice Stickles to the edges of the pumpkins and the edge of the cut to give it some glitter. The background paper and border paper came from my current counterfeit kit. The tag section is from the Simple Stories Harvest Lane collection.
I brought in the same background elements to the inside of the card

I brought in another one of the cards from the Simple Stories Harvest Lane collection for my note when I decide who get this card :)
That's it for me, I look forward to seeing what you create with this sketch and hope to see it linked up over at Jo's.
The challenge starts Friday, August 14th at 12:00 AM (eastern time) and ends Friday, August 21st at 6:00 PM (eastern time).

What do you need to do to enter? The rules are simple…

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 (3) 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
the top 3 or random/monthly wins.

The monthly prize drawings will only be mailed within the US and Canada only

You have until August 21st at 6:00 PM (eastern) time to link up. All winners will be announced on Monday, August 24th.

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

Sketch Challenge with Wings for Lasting Memories

Hi you all, how has your weekend been :) We've been quite busy with it being Dave's birthday weekend. Dinner out on Friday to a new restaurant to us here in town, shoot no camera with either of us to take a picture, but the food was fantastic and now another place to go. They had so many choices on the menu, even if you went once a week for a year I don't think you would try them all. Yesterday we spent the morning and part of the afternoon checking out yard sales, yep that is what my husband enjoys to do the most I think other than his tractors, so that is how we spent the day. Now on to the challenge for this week at Lasting Memories.
This month's theme at Lasting Memories is Sky High and this week's theme is:
 SKETCH challenge AND add anything with WINGS onto your layout.
This is the layout I made for this week's challenge:

This layout is about the day I saw this Pileated Woodpecker in our yard. This is not one of the birds we normally see at the feeder so I was rather surprised when I seen it that day.
The sketch that we are to use this week:

I'm really starting to like these grid style sketches to tell stories and the extra empty spot on the bottom right is perfect for the journaling.

Here is a closer picture of the pictures in the layout of the Pileated Woodpecker. It's a very large bird and from the research I did online I think it maybe a female. I'm also putting this layout it the Scrap Our Stash Challenge a letter challenge: P/A/P/E/R
 P: Pileated Woodpecker A: American Craft Thickers, American Crafts paper (grid paper) P: Pearls E: Embossed (heat embossed stamped tree) R: Rhinestones (for the birds eyes on the chipboard pieces)

P-Pat

A-American Crafts, Arrow

P-Pear, Pink Ink

E-Enjoy, Enamel Dots

R-Ruled Paper 

- See more at: http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/#sthash.arJQgfj8.dpuf

P-Pat

A-American Crafts, Arrow

P-Pear, Pink Ink

E-Enjoy, Enamel Dots

R-Ruled Paper 

- See more at: http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/#sthash.arJQgfj8.dpuf

P-Pat

A-American Crafts, Arrow

P-Pear, Pink Ink

E-Enjoy, Enamel Dots

R-Ruled Paper 

- See more at: http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/#sthash.arJQgfj8.dpuf

I used the papers from my current counterfeit kit, I pulled out this bird paper and added it to the kit specifically knowing I was doing a layout about the bird. I also used one of the frames from the kit the rest of the items came from my stash.

Lasting Memories monthly theme made for the perfect title for this layout, so I used my thickers and my dymo for the title. I like how the black draws in from the black of the bird. This is where I had also added my journaling. I did tape the scrap paper that I first wrote the story on on the back of the layout if anyone wanted to read it in bigger type. I was surprised I could right that small.

For the corner element in the sketch I added another of the chipboard birds from a package of Studio 18 chipboard shapes and the 3 sunflower yellow Pearls. I'm so glad I was able to document this story in such a fun way. This is just one of the many reasons I do enjoy to scrapbook, yep you wouldn't find this kind of story in just a plain photo album. I look forward to seeing what you create with this sketch and don't forget to add the wings to the layout too. For more creative ideas for this challenge check out the Lasting Memories blog to see what my DT sisters have created.
Also, this month I'm hosting the prize for Lasting Memories for one lucky random winner so that is another reason to get your layouts linked to Lasting Memories:

Have a fantastic day..........

Happy Birthday for Funday Friday

Hi :) Today is my husband's birthday, so I guess that is what drove my card selection this week even though it's not his card. This card is made for my one DIL birthday that is on the 16th and I had that in mind when I was making it. Jo's Scrap Shack is celebrating her 100th Funday Friday challenge!!!! So the theme for Funday Friday this week over at Jo's Scrap Shack is Anything Goes and we have 2 sponsors this week: Little Blue Button Stamps and Bugaboo Stamps. I used Little Blue Button Stamps: Wishing Charlie for my card today:

I used the sketch over at Mojo Monday this week for the layout of my card:

I used lots of scraps today for my card, but that red bottom mat comes from this month's Counterfeit Kit from that Paper House american road mini paper pad. 
For the inside I kinda flipped the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by today :)
So that is it, I hope you join us this week over at Jo's here are the details:

Our Sponsors this week are:

  The winner will win 4 digital stamps of their choice!!!!

and

 

The winner will win 7 digital stamps of their choice!!!! 

 

 So make sure to play along this week~

    Starts: Friday, August 7th  12:00AM

Ends: Friday, August14th 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 August 14th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of August 17th.

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

My August Forged Kit playing along with CKC

Hi you all :) Yep it's the beginning of the month and that means the Counterfeit Kit Challenge has a new kit for us to forge this month for my monthly crafting. They decide to use the kit from Scrappy Canary for us to interpret it in our own way:

So when I get a chance to check out Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog to see what the new kit is I make notes about the kit:

 My kit for the month is called: On The Road Again

These are the papers that I matched up to the papers that were in the kit: Their papers:



My papers:

Lots of odd and ends of my stash, but then I went a little further and added what I had in travel papers for the travel photos I have taken over the last couple of months:

I pulled the rest of my Simple Stories: Urban Traveler paper, Crate Paper: Open Road, Some odd travel paper, and my Simple Stories: I (heart) Summer paper (really trying to get this used up :)

Oh and 1 last paper will come from this:

When I seen that page with the asymmetric chevron pattern I knew I could easily forge that with washi tape and a stamp. So I found the tapes I wanted to use and the star will be stamped for one of the 2 stamp sets I have in the picture just not sure which way I'm going with it yet.
The Alphas:

The embellishments which there is alot of. Since we take lots of Road Trips I have a large collection of things just for traveling layouts:

I pulled flair, stickers, stamps, veener, cut apart bingo cards. I also pulled:

My Mind's Eye Hello World collection I had I totally forgot I even had this until I came across it looking for something else. Also Paper House: american road mini paper pad and my Basic Grey: Capture snippets pads. Lots more little extras:

I also really dug into my old smashbook stash and found these:

Pockets, envelopes and frames. The kit had envelops and so fun insta style cards going on. From master forger Leslie I drew form her a way to use those frames in a fun way. You can see her tutorial here at her blog if you want to check it out.
I know that it is a very large kit, that is one thing I am very notorious for is when to say done! when I'm looking through my stash. I also know I have lots of vacation photos to scrap from the past couple of months and also the month ahead so this kit will very well carry over to next month and maybe even October as I'm finishing up my traveling/vacation/summer pictures. Now I'm off to do some creating and oh yes there is another challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog that I need to be tending too also. You all have a great day :)

Thinking of You Funday Friday Challenge

Good morning and welcome :) Thank goodness it's Friday! Yay! It's been hot and very busy here at the house this past week so not as much crafting as I would have liked to have done. We had a Green Bean weekend last weekend. Saturday we did the harvesting, capping the beans and cutting them (10 hours :) Sunday after we got the new to us Cookstove put in the house Dave and I were back at it with canning the green beans. Spent the day canning all that we cut and we ended up with 23 qts and 80 pts of green beans. So I think that were covered for the year maybe 2 years :) so no green beans to be planted next year. So that is what I have been up to this week.
Today is Funday Friday challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack and the theme is Anything Goes. Our sponsor this week is Sherri Baldy Bestie Shop

I used the sketch over at Sketch N Scrap:
 
This was just a blast of a sketch to work with :)
Isn't she adorable :) This was my favorite in the group of stamps right off the bat when I seen it. It just looks like your best friend talking to you :) It also reminds me my of my granddaughter right now in her style as a teenage right now :) I thought Thinking of You would be a great card for this fun stamp.

I started to color her with the red and then added the pink and blue afterwards. I added crystal stickles to some of the red to give her some bits of glitter here and there. I used my Bic markers to color her.

The pink polka dot paper came from my current counterfeit kit and when I was looking for some glittery stars I came across this chipboard sentiment in an old counterfeit kit box of embellishments that hasn't been put away yet. Found the box of stars too in the box and decided to use these instead. So added the red washi tape and the blue glitter tape to the card.

I brought in all the elements from the front of the card into the back of the card. Found this fun vellum quote for inside sentiment for the card. Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. Looking forward to seeing what you create for the challenge.

    Starts: Friday, July 31st 12:00AM

Ends:  Friday, August 7th   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 August 7th by 6:00PM (eastern) time to link up.

All winners will be announced during the week of August 10th

Lasting Memories Add a Cluster Challenge—Without Music Life Would be a Mistake

Hi you all and welcome.
Today Lasting Memories Challenge is to Add a Cluster to your layout:

This layout came from the 1st prompt of May's Load Music Mayhem. I had used a sketch I found (now I can't seem to find it). I used my May Counterfeit Kit for the layout. the LOAD prompt:
Let’s start the month off slowly, with a Style/Genre prompt.
Are you a country girl or a head banger? Classical or top of the pops? What’s your favorite kind of music? Make a page about it.

 The picture was taken Christmas 1966, I was 3 years old

 My title came from a quote I found searching with Google.

My journaling tells the person that said the quote and also my love of music. From the influences I received during my life and the joy that music brings to my world. You know the fastest way to get through a night at work is to turn on the radio and get a really good station on and just sing along and just maybe you'll catch me dancing to the music. Another layout to add to my album All About Me

This challenge is about adding a cluster and this is the cluster I added to the bottom left hand corner of my layout. I brought some of the banner into the cluster and found these 2 word arts to add to the cluster. I like when a sketch has this type of cluster cause it gets me out of my comfort zone and challenges me to do something more with my layouts.
Thanks for stopping by to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world and I can't wait to see what you create by adding a cluster to your layout.