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This month I made 22 layouts. It's a great start! The first nine were made with my November Hip Kit.  The next four are from my December Hip Kit.  Seaside Cuties was my Scrap the girls entry.  This one was the HKC weekly sketch challenge. This one is my entry for Scrap the Boys.  This one was for White...with 1, the color was buttercream.  The last four were for the 52 week challenge at the Scraptacular Cropping Club. Week 1- Use up alphabets Week 2- wood veneer  Week 3-ribbons and buttons  Week 4-flowers  All of my layouts are posted on fb in the Bash Your Scrapbook Stash group. We have a lot of challenges and inspiration there so come join us if you want to play along. Thanks for looking.

The challenge this month at White with 1 was buttercream. There was also a mood board. I don't have a lot of buttercream supplies. The alphabet I found was vanilla which looked pretty close to me, so I based my colors on that. Here is my layout. I had these cute pictures from my grandson's birthday that had very little color, so they went really well with the buttercream, as did the cake.  I added a doily inspired by the fluffy flower and used a stencil for the dots in the background that brought in the circles from the cookies. For the buttercream color I mixed yellow and white paint with gold texture paste.  My neutral is navy and just now I realize part of my balloon came off and I need to fix that. The banners were made with a punch and I just layered them up for a little bit of extra dimension.  Thanks for looking.

I decided to join in on the Scrap the Boys challenge this month. I haven't played with them before, but with two grandsons I have plenty of boy pictures. This month they are having a Summer challenge and I love bright Summer pictures. I had a cute picture of Ben on his Slip and Slide that really shows the fun of Summer so I came up with this layout.  I was happy to use some old papers and embellishments because I am trying to mix old and new. Honestly there isn't anything new in this layout, but it's ok. Using up is using up. I added the water splashes because the background looked a little plain. I struggle with solid backgrounds which is why I normally use patterned papers. I used this flower stencil because the petals looked like water drops to me. The gel medium dries glossy and clear so it really looks like water on the page. Thanks for looking!

I saw this month's challenge at  Scrap the Girls and loved it. I haven't played along with them before, but the third picture on the top row reminded me of an Easter picture of my girls back when they were little and let me dress them up. I had my December Hip Kit sitting unused and even though it's a Christmas kit it had a great mix of red patterns and a navy blue that worked well with my sailor theme. I am happy with the layout and I was pretty excited to use a picture from almost 25 years ago. Thanks for looking.

Hi. Thanks for visiting. I decided to try posting my layouts here again., I have only been posting in FB groups. This month I decided to join in with the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog and make a kit from my stash. Their inspiration kit was the October 2018 Citrus Twist kit. I chose a paper to represent each side of the papers that came with the kit., except for the black word paper and the woodgrain paper. I chose some black and white patterned scraps and some woodgrain scraps to use in place of the full sheets. I chose die cuts, large words, some puffy stickers and wood veneer because those were all include in the inspiration kit. There is plenty here to keep me busy for lots of layouts. Instead of choosing one alphabet, I chose eight well used alphabets in hopes that I can get them used up a little more. That's the great thing about making my own kit. I can do it my way. I hate that kit clubs only give you one alphabet. I like variety. I also included some fl

I am so excited to share what I got done with the March Studio Calico Kit. I decided in January that I will try to use some old supplies along with my kits. I didn't manage to use old supplies on every layout but I did work some really old stuff in there. We don't normally get much snow in South Jersey but this has been a lucky year for us. I have tons of great snow pictures this year. We were blessed with a new nephew in January. I had that frame and vellum sticker forever. I am glad they never made it to the trash bin because I like how they look with the black heart paper. Prom 2009. I didn't add anything old to this layout. The Heidi Swapp words were on clearance at M's. My birthday. Remember those old MM definition stickers? They have to be ten years old. Another snow pic. I love this one. The whites are the same in person. This little cutie did not want to be serious. Taking these pictures is how I found out that my camera has a bac