030616 CKC March Challenge #1

This month the CKC challenges are based on challenges that our newest Master Forgers
(Clair, Susan and Kelly) set for  themselves when they applied for the Design Team!
Good practice for those of you thinking of answering our next call...

Well, last month I did this page for LayoutADay challenge:

I spent an inordinate amount of time creating that little "Pinspired" word art
by dissecting the Pinterest graphic art & rearranging it to suit.
(I really wanted that font with the swirlie "sp".)

So! This first challenge is to be

Base a project on something spotted on Pinterest, with a TWIST.

 No craft projects, layouts, minis, mixed media inspirations!

 What's a girl to do?
I have studiously avoided falling down the time-suck rabbit hole of Pinterest,
BUT I do have "a few" boards so I decided to limit myself to those which, yielded this little gem.

Link HERE

Now let me take a look at my kit...

Well, lookee there! Light bulb moment! (hehe)
I'm not even foresighted enough to have planned that, lol.
Serendipity wins the day.

A little search through some printed photos and voila!

Stamping & mist splatters add a little interest to the plain white background.

As you may remember, I had no patterned paper in my kit.
Necessity is the mother of invention!
Flip your PL cards to find hidden treasure...

Time for YOU to be Pinspired.
Yes! You have PERMISSION to head on over to the land of your crafty little dreams...

Thanks for stopping by!

 

030416 LOAD Wrap-Up

 
The last two weeks of LOAD were a whirlwind.

Day 15:Color - Australian flag red/white/blue 

+WM#169 spring Starbucks cups & WM#129 blurry photo 

This flag includes some stars whose shape reminds me of star quilt block patterns. 

 Okay - I will grant you - my "red" & "blue" are not the same as the Aussie flag :D

I had begun this background long ago for WM#169 & the blurry photo is a total fave.
I have the perfect cut-out diamond embelli that has been lurking for MONTHS... now hiding.

Day 16: Transportation/Car

I have had these pics ready to scrap for a long time. 

I used mostly the February Felicity Jane kit, including the stitching template to make those arrows.

I'm looking for an old car key to add to that tag!

Day 17: Culture/Museum

+ WM#179 Use a navy, mint, pink & gold color scheme

I struggled a bit with this, but finally decided to showcase my collections in my studio.

They provide me a lot of inspiration & are quite the chronicle of my life.

Not my favorite result, design-wise, but happy to have it scrapped.

 

Day 18: Language/used a German phrase

"klein aber fein" - small, but lovely

The perfect title for this page about our little miracle. When Chloe celebrated her first birthday, 

my daughter wrote the heartfelt words in the journaling on a Facebook post with this photo.
The floral is simply washi tape, and the tiny photo has tiny patterned papers matting it.

Day 19: Landmark/ Clingman's Dome, highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains.

I loved having this topography paper for the background!

This trail seemed almost vertical, and many other hikers were struggling.

It was with a great sense of accomplishment & relief that I reached the top.
The tobacco stick walking stick we got in Gatlinburg was essential to that success.
I put all the details in tiny type letters & part of the title in ghost letters right on the photo.

Day 20: Geography/a visit from a friend from a great distance

+WM#201 hearts 

Used vintage Basic Grey on here with a few Maggie Holmes bits that Lisa D. brought me.

The title is a little twist on a Whimsical Musings inside joke.  
The perfect green button on the tag is for Jemma!

Day 21: Food/Dutch pea soup

Alaska again. I loved finding that perfect map paper for the background, and the chip frame

which seems a perfect match but is new from some goodies won on Susan's blog.

I used the daily cruise schedule brochure behind the title photo & as a journaling block arrow.

That wraps up Week #3...

Day 22:  Color/flag
WM#201 Hearts
Music link HERE

This ornament on our door appears to be hanging on the cross (door panels) & reminded us that 
On the cross, Jesus died for our sins.
On the cross, God poured out his heart of love for mankind.
On the cross, He brought peace between God & man.
On the cross, God poured out his blood, a spring of living water, that you might have eternal life.

 The work is already finished.Will you accept that gift?

Day 23: Transportation/Boat

Alaska again. I will be adding pocket pages to each day's 12x12" highlight page.
Love how the Tim Holtz metal letters stand out on the black.

Day 24: Culture/Sports

Nothing more athletic than dancing!
This is a photo-less memory I have wanted to scrap forever, 
especially after I found the Authentique "Nutcracker Sweet" paper line.
The leaping peachy pink ballerina forms my title with the Nutcracker Sweet emblem
mounted on an embellished punched snowflake with the music wafting across.
I even gave her a little punched snowflake "crown". All mounted on a Glitz ballerina 
transparency with snowflakes tucked behind & in front.
I carefully cut the bottom strip of ballerina paper to suggest movement to reinforce my story,
and included a family Christmas photo from around the same era that the story took place.

Day 25: Language/Funny Word

This is the point in LOAD when I realize I am beginning to get "prompt-itis". 
I am not telling my story, I am not even showing off a photo(s), but merely 
falling down the prompt rabbit hole & producing something in response. 
It is a fun word, though! 
And obviously I thought it interesting when I saved it from Rachel Ray's magazine :-)
(More to the point, I couldn't find the ice cream cone photo I was looking for... sigh)

Day 26:Landmark: The Mackinac Bridge

"We are commonly know as 'trolls' in Michigan, since we live under the bridge :) "
Had to laugh - these letters are from 2006! The adhesive was completely dry. 
Makes me VERY AFRAID to look at some of my older albums... =8-O
Here is the link for the live Bridge-cam. Have added it to my page.
There may be a companion page as we visited up there Christmas Eve.

Day 27: Geography: Bampa's lap 

That's a geographical place, right? ;-)
An assortment of photos I just wanted down on a page together.

Day 28: Food: first cereal, 6 months old
+ CKC March kit

I used my kit & after I printed out the photo, I only had 20 minutes. 
This was a great stretch of my scrappy muscles!

Day 29: Color/Red, black & gold + The Wrap Up Stack photo

 33 pages this month! (not all for LOAD, but they count!)
Hit every prompt!
Didn't upload every day but very satisfied with my pages :-)

 Journaling: I look around at the happy scrappy aftermath & wouldn't have it any other way. 
So many dear, dear friends from around the globe. 
How well we know each other from our pages - better than most we know in "real" life. 
Scrap on, sistas! May your glue gun never run out & your ink pads never dry up. :-)

 

I bid a bittersweet but fond farewell to Lain Ehmann's LayoutADay challenge.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

030116 CKC March Kit Reveal

A dear friend from the Design Team is rejoining us this month as our

Guest Designer, Lesley Graffham!

So happy to have her back to share her own brand of forgery & creativity.

 

Another unorthodox inspiration this month at CKC!

Ali Edwards April 2015 Story Kit "Click"

This kit is, in many ways, the antithesis of what would normally "float my boat" - 

I'm no fan of orange, and there is NO. PATTERNED. PAPER.

ACK

Of course, this is my version, so I can make whatever decisions I like about what goes in.

I must say, though, that I do enjoy rising to the challenge...

So I had a bit of a troll through my things, keeping focused on just the elements as presented.

A stamp set, a large embellishment, a plastic word, some phrases & Project Life-style cards.

I chose not to follow the camera/photo theme but otherwise stayed on course.

Let's get to the official reveal of 

No forgeries this month as my stash yielded up what I needed.

I will just use white card for my pages.

Be sure to create a kit that you will USE, as the whole purpose is stash-busting!

You can go rogue & toss in your favorite go-to supplies & products.

Create your own embellishment add-on kit with all the bits & bobs that make your scrappy heart sing.

Make sure to post it on the Linky so we can stop by & be inspired.

Now hop on to get a gander at Lisa's creativity.

Guest Designer Lesley
Susanne
Clair
Jemma
Julene
Kelly
You are here:  Leslie
GO HERE NOW: Lisa
Lynnette
Margie
Susan
Stephanie 

Thanks for stopping by!

030116 Archi-scraps March Challenge

Time to play again over at Archi-scraps!

Gesso or texture paste & yellow

Oh, how I wanted to do something over the top & elaborate with this inspiration,
 but the right combination of inspiration & photos never coalesced.

I did, however - at the eleventh hour - take this photo & couldn't resist scrapping it right away.
The yellow cookie frosting convinced me! I have a very masculine take on  this challenge.

I initially tried texture paste but it really soaked under the edges of the stencil.
The gesso left a somewhat crisper image but kraft is definitely NOT a wet medium base!

I chose each man's star paper based on the teal papers I had plus in general on their taste in ties.
Other papers were chosen with men's garments in mind & I also included a stitched border.
That shirt paper was a must-have without ever thinking I would have a use for it, lol.
It is definitely perfect here!

I hope you will join in with us this month.
I always love the different directions the AS prompts take me!

Thanks for stopping by!

021516 Second Week of February LOAD

Week Two - so far, so good.

I missed uploading due to internet issues but

I'm actually happier with daytime photos of the layouts.

Still 14/14!

 Day Eight: Color/Based on the flag of Canada (red/white + maple leaf)

+ WM#192 Stars

Perfect for more Alaska trip photos as we went to Dawson City.

I remembered that I had photos with the Canadian flag.

I saw that journaling down the side on the Prima blog, I believe.

Day Nine: Transportation/Train

More Alaska! Chuck wagon breakfast excursion at Denali.

I could not find my travel journal for some of the 

journaling details but have left room... 

There was another couple from our tour that we met this morning

& became fast friends with them - Mike & Marge.

Day Ten:  Culture/Recreation

Thought this would be fun to document some time with our granddaughter in Georgia.

She loves her Bampa! They had a little  teasing game with those pompoms. 

He would ask for a grape & she would give him yellow (lemon). The giggles were thick!

And that breakfast picture was the worst quality but my total FAVE.

The vintage girl with the "Fun" banner was from a Smashbook page.

Lynnette gave me some design advice for the little striped banner.

Could not believe that I found the little Prima clock button - Bampa TIME!

Day Eleven: Language (he spoke to her heart)

 + WM#127 Design Seeds color palette

Another one of my favorite photos of Chloe.

I love the dreamy quality of this page, including the star vellum strip. 

Day Twelve: Landmark

+WM#105 the Midas Touch

Had to add that touch of gold in the title!

It took awhile to get the photos arranged & I added a simple skinny washi border top & bottom.

I stamped a contour map stamp from an Inkadinkadoo set onto the large wood veneer numbers

for a little texture, plus the black splats of Black Velvet Colourshine.

Day Thirteen: Geography

+WM#159 What makes me happy

A very happy day spent with the lovely & generous teacher, Finnabair.

Took myself out for the day & got to play!

The left side of the spread was inspired by THIS from Alison Day with three large photos.

Day Fourteen: Food

Alaska, again.

That antler embelli is from a Felicity Jane kit & couldn't have been more perfect.

Although it's difficult to see I punched a semi-circle in the "reindeer sausage" raised

portion of the title so that the ampersand flush with the background could be seen.

I included a portion of the Anchorage city map to show the hotel, tram stop & visitors center.

I'm late posting this but mostly this is for me to enjoy down the road!

Hope it was fun for you, too :-)

Thanks for stopping by!

021616 CKC February Challenge #3

Challenge #3:  Say What Challenge...

Pick a quote or a fun family saying and base your project on that!

My daughter sent me a funny video of my grandson the other day.
I couldn't quite understand what he was saying at the end.
When she told me,  a scrapbook page was born!

I used a few of the journaling cards in my "International Romance" February CKC kit.
The photo mat "love this love this love this" is a 3x4 journaling card cut to stretch it across.
I think Master Forger did this on a page, so I guess I've counterfeited her, lol ;-)
It's a great way to use up all of those cards that accumulate so rapidly. Layers, people!
I fussy cut some items from October Afternoon's "Library Card" paper in one of my spare 8x8 pads.

In this "Time Capsule" episode of Peppa Pig they create a video for posterity.
She says, "Hello to the future! hee hee", so now whenever they videotape Lincoln, that's his line!

The grandkids just crack. me. up.

Thanks for stopping by!

020816 First Week of February LOAD

Through the first week of LOAD!

I prepped a little differently this time.

I browsed through my digital photos & collected some stories.

Alas, I forgot to get adhesive!

Finding creative solutions with that, lol...

Day One: Color/Based on the flag of The Netherlands (red/white/blue)

 I scanned in the 1988 photo of my daughter & paired it with the 2012 photo of my grandson.

Don't you love it when you find the perfect Then & Now photos?

Not a whole lot to say beyond the whens & wheres.

The red interior border is washi tape plus I stitched down those small letter stickers.

 Day Two: Transportation/Airplane

What else but a page about our flight above the Arctic Circle?

A little airplane paper clip starts your eye across the line that I stitched for emphasis.

I scanned a hand-beaded keepsake I bought there & fussy-cut it for an embelli.

The coordinates as the title was an idea I had seen a long time ago - so perfect here!

Day Three: Culture/Music

I kept these ticket stubs since 1986 (!!!) but had no photos from

back in the days of film & developing costs & no cellphone cameras, lol. 

The venue has changed completely since then from 

a wonderfully intimate setting to an arena so no help online with that.

The title is a play on the name of a collaboration of the two artists.

Day Four: Language

 Our favorite restaurant closed last year - bye bye in Italian.

Day Five: Landmark

Throwback to my days of working in a high rise in San Francisco.

The original photo of Patty & I had deteriorated into a mostly orange print.

Add to that the backlighting problems & this was the best save I could manage.

I should call this, Ghost of Basic Gray, as the background is vintage BG & they have closed.

Added just a tad of stamping to fill in those awkward empty spaces...

 Day Six: Geography (+ Whimsical Musings prompt #199 Women Power)

Greg's Aunt Iva is a legend in the family.

The homestead is still owned by family & we hope to visit it one day.

I rarely use a collection but this is mostly Carta Bella's 2013 Happy Trails.

It's a nice heavy weight paper which allowed for a lot of distressing.

I couldn't resist using that perfect petticoat lace!

For anyone who saw this elsewhere, yes - I added a cow... & changed the title...

Day Seven: Food

SO enjoyed a troll through my stash to find the perfect elements for this page!

I think I got away with the pink because of the kraft's testosterone ;-)

That starburst paper was a forgery in one of my Counterfeit Kits.

I toiled in PSE for far too long to create the "Pinspired" word, but I think it was worth it!

So far I'm rumbling right along & ENJOYING the daily creative play that only LOAD brings.

Have had a chance to visit a bit in the gallery & found some new inspiring scrappers to check out. 

 Stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!