Beautiful - Counterfeit Kit Challenge - April Showers

Hello, everyone! Happy Friday to you! Are you ready for the weekend? I sure am!

It's time for the first of two challenges at Counterfeit Kit Challenge. Challenge #1 - When we think of April we often think of April showers and the inspiration kit has a lot of weather elements included - rainbows, umbrellas, parasols, and sunglasses. Let's be inspired by the weather for this challenge!

Here is what I came up with:

I am so glad that I included the Pink Fresh Studios - Dream On - 6x6 paper pad in my kit because it was perfect for these photos. The die cuts are from the same collection. I also had this Heidi Swapp stamp set out on my desk and a couple of the sayings in it were perfect. I didn't feel like any of the few alphas that I included in my kit were right for this layout, so I pulled this gold glitter word for my title.

About the photos - we had severe thunderstorms roll through our area in May of 2017. A tornado touched down a mile or so from our house and we had such extreme wind! We lost half of our pear tree - it split right down the middle - and our trampoline was lifted up and blown about 100 yards into our neighbor's tree line. There were multiple trees down in our area - 2 or 3 across the roads. Talk about a scary day! Thankfully, none of us were hurt and there was no damage to the house - and at the end of the day, we were blessed with this beautiful - most vibrant rainbow that you would ever see. The photos do not do it justice!

Here is a close-up:

Stop by the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to see the other design team member's take on the challenge. I hope you have a chance to play along with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day!

The Studio Challenge - Sketch

Hello, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. Ours has been great so far - warm weather, windows open, yard work being done...you can't get any better than that!

It's time for a sketch challenge at The Studio Challenges today! Anna has created a fun sketch for us to work with:

This is what I came up with:

I really liked the big triangles on each end of the photo block, but I just could not get them to look right - they were either too big or too small, so I decided to leave them off and just add a couple smaller triangles in opposite corners.

Everything I used on this layout is from my April Counterfeit Kit. You can read all about it here. It's always great to have papers already picked out and ready to go when I sit down to scrap. I even use one of the cameras that I created for my forgeries.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

When I added in the black and pink splatters I got a big blob of the two together and it didn't look very pretty, so I added a puffy heart on top of it and then sprinkled a few more down my layout.

I love these photos of Ada trying to sneak up on me in the car. She looks so darn cute in her little sunglasses peeking over the seat!

Head on over to The Studio Challenges to see the beautiful layouts from the rest of the design team. I would love to see your take on the sketch, so be sure to share it with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge - Forgeries On The Fourth

Hello, everyone! Happy Thursday! It is almost the weekend - do you have any fun plans? Ours is looking to be pretty quiet and relaxing and I am hoping to get lots of scrappy time in.

Today is the 4th and that means it is "Forgeries on the Fourth" day at Counterfeit Kit Challenges. This month's inspiration kit had a few items in it that I wanted to try and counterfeit. Here's a look at the inspiration kit from Hip Kit Club March 2019. You can find more photos over on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog today.

Here are two of the papers that I wanted to counterfeit:

I love the black and white striped paper with the brighter stripes on the bottom, so I grabbed one of the black and white striped papers and the washi tape that I had included in my kit and went to work.

First, I cut about 2 inches off the bottom of my striped paper and attached it to a piece of white cardstock. 

Then, I started adding washi tape to the white cardstock - trying to keep close to the colors in the inspiration piece.

Here is the end result:

I love the way this paper turned out and I can't wait to use it!

For my next paper, I pulled out a piece of white cardstock, a circle stamp and some ink that matched some of the papers in my kit.

I randomly stamped the circles all over the cardstock - trying to not go overboard because less is more sometimes!

This is what I ended up with:

I can see myself pulling ink pads in all of the colors in my kit and making more of these papers!

Next, I was inspired by the butterflies and camera images in the inspiration kit. I found a few stamps in my supplies that would work and stamped them out in a variety of colors to match my kit:

I then fussy cut them out so they are ready to use when I need them.

Here's a look at my forgeries all together:

I cannot wait to put these forgeries to work! Head on over to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to see the other forgeries from the other Master Forgers. We would love to see what you create, too!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a wonderful day!