Showing posts with label A Beautiful Mess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Beautiful Mess. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2015

041615 CKC April Challenge #3

And the inspiration just keeps coming over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog!

April Challenge #3 Spring Inspired: 
Let Spring help inspire your project

Living in a state at the top border of the U.S. makes me delight
in those first signs of life after the blanket of Winter begins to recede...

This moodboard at S.W.A.T. Challenge #53 was a great inspiration!


I began with the Messy thought of mimicking a pocket page with a grid.
I chose some elements & dressed them up with some vellum & stitching,
then made a simple title block with plans to add a little strategic stamping.


As I began to add the photos there was still a lot of empty white space.
Mounting the page on a grey & white polka dot helped add a border, an idea I got
from Susan's page HERE, but there was still an especially large space at the top... ugh.
I tried adding some stitching but it looked dreadful & now I had a row of holes!


I thought perhaps adding some washi, but couldn't get that to work either.
Eventually I cut strips of the script card from my kit to work in here & there.
I added some polka dot washi tape to them as an accent, covering the top corner with it.
Getting happier! Finally fussy-cut a little bee for that corner & it's done.


I also added some flowers made from the vellum circles & brads,
just like the ones made by Elsie at A Beautiful Mess!


One last change was mounting my title on a photo overlay with a big heart,
another subtle layer that adds the perfect sentiment about Spring.
It also gave me something to attach the title letters to with a tiny attacher!


I think I'm drifting further & further from the messy vibe!

Go ahead - celebrate Spring with a page from your counterfeit kit 
& a little Spring mood from S.W.A.T. Challenge's gorgeous inspiration board :-)

Thanks for stopping by!



Thursday, April 2, 2015

040215 CKC April Kit "Sweet & Silly Together" layout

Our CKC kit to counterfeit this month came from A Beautiful Mess.
It was their very first "Messy Box" kit, released in March, so I didn't have any of the elements.
I do have these totally adorable emoticon stamps of theirs, though.
I created a subtitle strip with the two girls stamp to use below the photos.
The pink ink color was actually too bold so I went over it with white Distress stain. 


I used the tiniest microscopic dot of Zig blue glue on the vellum elements.


The title portion makes me so happy!
All the transparent/translucent elements on the white get a chance to shine.
The photo punched as a heart makes me smile.


This was a great page to use up random cute photos of the girls in younger years.

Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

040115 CKC April Kit Reveal

Another exciting first of the month CKC kit reveal!
The blog hop can be always be found on the April 1st post at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.

Please be sure to welcome Sharon, our featured Guest Designer this month!
Known as Scrapping Granny she definitely has a way with sketches.

This month I decided NOT to forge a kit...



I'm sure I'll be fired from the Design Team... :~(
My only excuse?

Photo credit
APRIFOOL'S!

April's kit is the very first Messy Box from the uber creative prolific blogger sisters, 
Elsie Larson & Emma Chapman at A Beautiful Mess aka ABM.

 And here's mine:

Let's take a closer look inside the Magic Blue Box!


This kit was probably the farthest possible from anything I own.
I challenged myself to come as close as humanly possible to the original. 

 After sharing that with the rest of the Design Team a friendly ribbing
 ensued so it may be on in April for a Master Forger's  throwdown!
Hence the name “Messy Throwdown”
I think I've come pretty close - check out the pocket page card assortment.
Theirs...

Mine!

I detail more about my kit forgeries in the tutorial post at the CKC blog on the 4th.
 (If you've ever been here with me before, you must have known there was more!)

Of course, there has to be some Leslie in there...
so I made my "Les the Mess" add-on.
This was my nickname from my childhood BFF's dad :~)

I tried to keep to the feel of the original by adding more translucent and black & white
 pieces, plus some extra gold alphas and three alpha stamp sets.



The little bag of vellum punched shapes & the conversation bubbles were earlier forgeries!


 One of the fun things that I included is this ABM emoticon stamp set.
Can't wait to see where these pop up this month - keep your eyes open!
I might have to give a little prize at the end of the month
for the closest guess as to how many there were on my blog this month...

 Okay, now get busy - your kit is only as far away as your stash.
And don't forget to visit the Forgeries on the Fourth tutorial post 
for good advice on how to counterfeit some of the kit elements. 
DON'T MISS IT!
Enjoy the rest of the hop!

Guest Designer: Sharon  Scrapping Granny


YOU ARE HERE: Leslie:  http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.ca
GO HERE NOW:  Lisa:  http://lisahausmann.blogspot.ca
Lynnette  http://www.sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com




Thanks for stopping by!