You Make Me Smile - Counterfeit Kit Challenge - Challenge #1

Hello and Happy Wednesday! 

It's time for the first challenge of the month at Counterfeit Kit Challenge. Here is a reminder of the inspiration kit that I chose for June:

Since June is my birthday month - in fact, today is my birthday - we are going to be using some of my favorite things on our projects. For the first challenge, I want to see scallops on your projects.

Here is what I came up with:

I have been going through older photos of my kids with good intentions of getting them organized, but I keep getting sidetracked with photos I want to scrap. So instead of putting them in a pile on my desk, to surely be forgotten again, I have decided to try to scrap them immediately. This is one of those photos. I know this picture was taken on one of Abby's birthdays - I just need to do a little more digging to find which one! 

I've used some of my favorite papers from my kit for this layout and that little 4x6 plastic box full of goodies that I included...it has been so much fun going through it and finding all sorts of things to add to my projects!

I've added two rows of scalloped borders to my layout. I kind of wish I had reversed them and put the darker pink on the bottom, but it's too late now! I even made a few more foam backed hearts to match. These little guys are my favorite embellishment to make right now!

Here are a couple of close-ups:

I will add my journaling onto the lined banner piece once I know for sure which birthday this is.

These chipboard frames have been floating around in my supplies for ages, so it was so nice to get them on a layout!

Now, head on over to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to see the projects from the rest of the design team. Be sure to follow the link to our guest designers Youtube channel to see her project, too!

I would love to see your kit and your creations that you make using it, so be sure to link up over the blog!

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

TN Time With Lisa & Lori June Edition

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my blog - I am so happy that you are here today! It's time for the TN Time With Lisa & Lori June Challenge - are your ready?

HERE IS HOW OUR CHALLENGE WORKS: This is a monthly challenge that launches on the 10th of each month  You will have until the 9th at midnight CDT to link up your entries. If you complete my challenge link your spread below. If you complete Lisa's sketch challenge link your spread on her blog - My Creative Endeavors. If you combine my challenge with Lisa's challenge link up your spread here on my blog AND on Lisa's blog. You will then have a chance to win my prize as well as Lisa's prize!  That's a chance to win TWO times with ONE layout!!

You can always find the rules to our challenge under the TN Challenge Rules tab at the top of the page.

Now, let's get started - here is my challenge for June:
(Challenge open June 10th - July 9th at midnight)

Create a TN, Bullet Journal, or Planner spread and include items on your spread for each letter in the word "HOT". Need some ideas? Think not only of certain types of items but themes and manufacturers names, as well:

H - hearts, hexagons, Heidi Swapp, home, Halloween, etc.
O - orange, oval, owl, overlay, outdoors (as in photos taken outdoors), etc.
T - tag, tab, Thickers, travel photos, photos of teens, etc.

Be sure to tell me what the items are that you used!

Here is the sketch that Lisa has created for us:

Here is my TN spread based on the sketch and my challenge - I used hearts, outdoor photo, and a tab:

I am back to working in my 52 Favorites TN. It is getting so fat that it is almost impossible to take a good photo with the pages actually in it. I will definitely be keeping that in mind when I start my next TN! I will with either use more of the pages in the notebook and be more careful about what can be seen through the papers to the other side - or maybe skip a page now and then to help keep it from getting so bulky!

This layout is my Week13 favorite. I had a lot of favorites from this week and it's always hard to choose just one, but I do know that those other favorite photos will go in my Project Life album and a few may get their own traditional layout. This photo is of Ada showing off her new jelly shoes. She couldn't wait to pull them out of her bag and put them on and model them for me!

Here are a couple of close-ups:

Everything for my spread came from my June Counterfeit Kit. You can read all about my kit here and you can see how I made the foam backed hearts on my layout in this post here. 

I felt like my journaling strips got a little lost on the background, so I outlined each strip with my black marker and I liked it so much better!

How about a winner for May? I had 3 beautiful entries and I loved seeing every one of them! My winner is:

Congrats, Sandi! You are the winner of the alphabet stickers and die cut pack! I still have your address and will get your goodies mailed out later this week!

June's prize has not arrived yet, but I can tell you that it is some goodies from Freckled Fawn! I will get a photo added when they arrive later this week!

I would love it if you played along with my challenge! Just link up your project below by July 9th at midnight! Be sure to stop by Lisa's blog to see her take on the challenge!

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

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Counterfeit Kit Challenges Forgeries on the Fourth

Hello, hello! Happy Tuesday to you! It's time for Forgeries on the Fourth at Counterfeit Kit Challenges and I have a couple of quick ones for you!

Here's a reminder of our June inspiration kit - Hip Kit Club's May 2019 scrapbook kit:

The inspiration for my first forgery actually came from the May 2019 Hip Kit Club Pocket Life Scrapbook Kit. I really liked the foam backed silver glitter hearts that were included in the kit. I really didn't want to make silver glitter hearts, so I used some scraps and papers from the 6x6 paper pad that I included in my kit to make my version of the foam backed hearts. 

Here's a look at the supplies I used:

I die cut several different sizes of hearts out of the fun foam and again out of the paper I wanted to use:

Here they are all put together. The hearts in the Pocket Life kit looked to be really thick. I don't like too much dimension, so I just kept to one layer of fun foam, but you could easily add more layers to get the thickness you want

And a close-up:

Next, I really liked the rainbow-colored plus sign paper in the inspiration and I knew I had a small background stamp of a plus sign. I pulled out my inks -in rainbow order and went to work:

Is it perfect? Not even close, but that doesn't matter to me! This paper will either be used in my Traveler's Notebook, or as a layering piece, or even cut up for embellishments.

Be sure to stop by the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to see the forgeries from the rest of the design team. We hope that you are inspired to make your own forgeries this month!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge June Kit Reveal and Blog Hop

Hello, hello! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my Sketch N Scrap reveal, please scroll down.

The start of a new month means we have a new inspiration kit at Counterfeit Kit Challenge. I am the host for June and I have chosen the May 2019 Hip Kit Club kit for us to counterfeit. Here's a look at the kit:

You can get all of the details about this kit here. I loved the colors and patterns in this kit.

Here is what I put together for my kit which I am calling "June Splendor":

When I saw the pink flowers on the blue background it reminded me of the blue floral paper in the Dear Lizzy collection - Lucky Charm - and that is the paper I picked for my inspiration piece for my kit. In fact, my kit is full of the Lucky Charm collection and a few miscellaneous pieces from the Dear Lizzy Neopolitan, and Pink Paislee's - Whimsical - collection.

My kit started out as pretty manageable but quickly turned into a mega kit! I decided to keep close to the same number of papers as are in the kit. The kit includes 11 papers and with the "B" sides that was 22 papers I could pull.

Here are the papers that  I started with - 18 papers all with a somewhat resemblance to those in the inspiration kit. These are the papers I plan to focus on using this month:

I have a few Dear Lizzy "Lucky Charm" papers, Dear Lizzy "Neopolitan", Shimelle's "Little By Little", Pink Paislee "Whimsical", and the strawberry paper is from an American Crafts collection, but I'm not sure which one since it came out of a "Best Of" paper pad.

I couldn't stop there because I need choices when I scrap! I pulled another 21 papers - all but 3 are from the Dear Lizzy "Lucky Charm". I have a blue gingham paper from Jillibean Soup, a pink grid from Dear Lizzy "Neopolitan", and a mint with silver dot paper from Amy Tangerine that I pulled for my "specialty" paper. This is what I am calling my paper add -on:

As you can see, I have a lot of the Lucky Charm collection in my supplies. I love this collection but have used hardly any of it. Along with having several single sheets - and multiples of those - I also have the American Crafts "Best Of" paper pad that included several of the papers from this collection, so there are some papers that I have 3 or 4 of. It's time to see if I can get some - hopefully, most - of these papers used!

I also pulled a few cut apart papers and papers with an all-over design to maybe do some fussy cutting with. I thought the cut aparts from the Shimelle "Little By Little" collection were similar to the polaroid paper in the inspiration kit and could be used as embellishments:

I also pulled a couple of scraps - from the same Jillibean Soup collection and the "Little By Little"  6x6 paper pad:

For my embellishments...where do I start! I pulled the Simple Stories "Oh Happy Day chipboard stickers and 4x6 sticker book - which are featured in the Hip Kit Pocket Life kit. I also pulled die cuts that have been floating from kit to kit the last few months:

I also found this 4x6 box of die cuts from several different companies, so I pulled those to see if I can put some of them to use:

Here is a sampling of what's inside:

I didn't take all of them out of the box because there are a lot of die cuts in there!

I pulled the sticker sheet and die cuts from the Jillibean Soup "Healthy Hello" collection - the same collection as the papers above, and a few alphas from Pink Fresh and Elle's Studio that match the colors in the papers:

I also included a few stamps sets again this month. Hopefully, I'll get some use out of them this month!

I also pulled a couple of punches that I plan to leave on my desk for the month to remind me to use them:

As an afterthought - meaning I forgot to get a picture of it - I also pulled the Dear Lizzy sticker book to use.

So, my manageable kit is now a mega kit and I can't wait to get started! I am planning on getting back to my Project Life albums and continuing to work on my Traveler's Notebooks along with my regular scrapping. I know this kit is going to help me get a lot done!

Here's the list for the blog hop. Be sure to hop along and see the beautiful kits from the design team.

Counterfeit Kit Challenges - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/

Guest Designer - Kathy Feigl - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC89lApHWcee6yADLOLLBREw/videos

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

Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/

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

Lori - https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/

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

Laura - https://www.instagram.com/mrsp_scrapsandtea/

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! If you create a kit I would love to see it so be sure to share!

I'll be back soon with another project to share with you. I hope you have a great day!