052623 Piece Craft Love Iron Crafter Challenge Hop - Wood Veneer

 

Join a fun group of crafty peeps each month as we take on the Iron Crafter Challenge! Each month Anna from @piececraftlove will select a challenge ingredient to use on a layout. On the FINAL FRIDAY of the month, we will have a hop on YouTube and Instagram to show how we used the challenge ingredient(s) for the month. If you want to learn about the mystery item and play along, come over to the Piece Craft Love Facebook group!

May's ingredient is WOOD VENEER. Here's my stash:

(an embarassment of riches!)

 My first thought was a layout I had saved long ago that began with a background made entirely of wood veneer pieces covered with white paint! I can't even remember the rest of the layout's details - that background treatment was definitely worth a scraplift. I began to pull pieces from my stash...

In the meantime I had decided to scrap about a favorite part of my morning routine - Wordle! - using a screenshot of my best & worst games.

(you can guess which is which)

 

I began to build my layout & chose to fill the left & right sides of the page with wood veneer. As I arranged them I realized that it would be really fun to chose only those things that could be named/described with a 5-letter word, Wordle style. That tied all of my page elements together.

Then I built my title, wrote my journaling, and put my page together:

BONUS: Identify all 22 5-letter Wordle words represented on the page. 

Whoever gets closest will receive a snail mail packet of assorted wood veneer! 

You have until Friday, June 2nd to respond by email to lcsmithsaved@juno.com

Don't forget to visit all of the other Iron Crafters who responded to this challenge: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCfSqErOPJorTS9OOJFOdC5iuC8t7mBS_

YouTube:

 Anna    / @piececraftlove                                                                                                                       Tara    • Iron Crafters - W...                                                                                                                   Stacy    / @scrapstuffwithst...                                                                                                               Ashley    / @thescrappingnerd...                                                                                                               Mel    / @melwscrapping                                                                                                                       Nikki    / @nikkisscrapbooki...                                                                                                           Briana    / @lovemylifeonpaper                                                                                                           Misty    / @craftysoupvideo                                                                                                               Kristen    / @scrappingonthefl...                                                                                                       Christine    • Scrapbook Process...                                                                                                   Amanda    / @ajoyfulscrapper                                                                                                               Lynda    / @thescrapbookingp...   

 Instagram:                                                                                                                                                 Anna: https://instagram.com/piececraftlove                                                                                             Tara: https://instagram.com/kryptonite_72                                                                                             Kristen: https://instagram.com/scrappingonthefly                                                                                     Brandi Jo: https://instagram.com/scrappy.boymama                                                                             Ashley https://instagram.com/Ashley                                                                                                      Leslie https//instagram.com/lcsmithsaved                                                                                                 Tina https://instagram.com/tinamcmmvr  

 

Happy scrapping!

Thanks for stopping by!

052223 LOAD 523 - Frogs, Pigs & Fuzzy Bears Part II

 

RECAP: Yes, it's that glorious month of May, delightful not only for the changing seasons & the end of the school year fast approaching, but it is our second Scrap Happy LAYOUT A DAY challenge of 2023! 

Alice's genius theme this time is inspired by The Muppets: "Get ready to create the craziest felt and fun-fur inspired layouts all about your life! Two daily prompts, one story-based and one technique- base, make it easy to succeed!"

Here are days 12-22 of my pages:

Day 12 - off-prompt

Day 13- off-prompt

Day 14 - off-prompt

Day 15 - off-prompt

Day 16 - b/w technique

Day 17 - include a list

Day 18 - off-prompt + ACOT weekly sketch

Day 19 - off-prompt

Day 20 - off-prompt

Day 21 - something that didn't turn out as planned

Day 22 - cultural (baseball) & technique stars/stripes

It's been a LOAD of fun so far - pun intended. It's not too late to join in, or better yet? Get a Scrap Happymembership & enjoy three different LOAD challenges each year!

Happy scrapping!

Thanks for stopping by!

051823 CKC May Challenge 2 - Numbered Background

Master Forger of Ceremonies Julene says: Welcome back to CKC. Today we look at Challenge #2. 

I love using up leftover bits and pieces on my layouts. So today I'm asking you to use leftover numbers as part of your background.  They can be from sets of alphas or elsewhere. Maybe you actually have paper with numbers on it. You can use paints etc to match it to the kit colours if you need to. Be creative!

I actually created a forgery imitating the inspiration kit's alphabet paper:

 

only with numbers,

 

using the full sheet of numbers stamp set in my kit 

 

 for this layout about all the numbers on our recent vacation!

 

 This will become the final page in the album. I hope this inspires you to make a numbers page!

Remember that we have a couple more features in May for our CKC followers:

24th May- See who has caught our eye this month. 

28th May- Killing the kit-ideas for using up the kit.

We always love to see your work and your kits so please share with us on our Facebook community page or on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcmay2023).

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

051223 LOAD 523 - Frogs, Pigs and Fuzzy Bears Part I

 

Yes, it's that glorious month of May, delightful not only for the changing seasons & the end of the school year fast approaching, but it is our second Scrap Happy LAYOUT A DAY challenge of 2023! 

Alice's genius theme this time is inspired by The Muppets: "Get ready to create the craziest felt and fun-fur inspired layouts all about your life! Two daily prompts, one story-based and one technique- base, make it easy to succeed!"

Here are the first 11 days of my pages:

 

Day 1 off-prompt, Cooper's baseball debut

also Piece Craft Love Clubhouse Monthly Mix It Up Monday hop

 

Day 2 - a day together, Spring Break vacation

also A Cherry on Top Country Song challenge

Day 3 - energetic w/orange & a hint of red

also A Cherry on Top Sara's Sketchy 7 challenge

 

Day 4 - collection, use a grid design

Day 5 - off prompt, spring decor

also A Cherry on Top CAS Clean & Simple challenge

Day 6 - off prompt, Date Day

Day 7 - food indulgences, googly eyes

Day 8 - numbers, featured prominently

Day 9 - off prompt

Day 10 - off prompt

Day 11 - off prompt

It's been a LOAD of fun so far - pun intended. It's not too late to join in, or better yet? Get a Scrap Happy membership & enjoy three different LOAD challenges each year!

Happy scrapping!

Thanks for stopping by!

05082023 MIUM Mix It Up Monday!

 

#scrapbookprocess #scrapbooking #youtubehop #MIUMHOP 

Welcome to Mix It Up Monday – a Social Media hop where we share projects that MIX IT UP! We’re mixing up a traditional scrapbook layout with some different types of media such as texture paste, foil, paint, ink, spray, gesso, thread, stitching, in fact, the SKY's the limit! This hop is a collaboration between Anna from Piece Craft Love and Kimberly from  @IdRatherBeScrapbooking  but anyone is welcome to play along. We post the inspiration 

sketch on the last Monday of the month and then the Hop takes place on the 2nd Monday of the month!

 

 This month's sketch was created by Brandi, @scrappy.boymama on Instagram.  She created this sketch for us to use this month!  Thank you!!!  

 My mixed media elements were:

 

I chose this stencil to mimic the chain link fence.

I chose the red ink to mimic the stitching on a baseball on these 2006(!!!) alphas.

 

You can sign for the next month’s hop over on the Piece Craft Love Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/piececraftloveclubhouse/

Here is the PLAYLIST for this hop! All the videos in one place!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCfSqErOPJorX44WG9T6ACNoZjoPPRE8d

Here are the hoppers for Mix It Up Monday: 

Anna from https://youtube.com/@piececraftlove 

Mel from @MelWScrapping  

Kristen from @scrappingonthefly1217  

Laurie from @cookscrapcraft

Lynda from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-fkozGXJQ0

Christine from https://youtu.be/HQW8A6dFZas

Tara from @thepapersnob 

Karen from @alittlekinder

Amanda from  @ajoyfulscrapper

Nikki from @NikkisScrapbookingAdventures

Instagram:

Brandi Jo https://instagram.com/scrappy.boymama

Leslie  https://instagram.com/lcsmithsaved

Tina www.instagram.com/tinamcmmvr

Thanks for stopping by!