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Our second challenge this month at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog is to make a layout and then a card inspired by our layout. Our kit this month was all primary colors that would normally lead to a childrens layout for me. For some reason I was drawn to these pictures of Cassie the morning we went to the hospital for her to have Ben. Her shirt was black and pink so it really didn't match my kit at all. When I looked through my kit I found that the blue flowered paper had small pink dots in the centers of some of the flowers. I originally chose this paper for my kit because some of the centers are red. I am going to add a little story about her delivery on the white tag. I am so happy that I added the chipboard letters to my kit. I never use chipboard letters anymore even though I have dozens of sets here. I am going to make more effort to use them. My card is simple. I used a popsicle stick because I had them out from making the layout. The pink frame matches the br...

Welcome to my stop on the Hop. This month at the CKC blog we are counterfeiting a digi-kit. Here is the link to the original kit. I like the primary colors of the kit and the summery feel of the embellishments. I started with the same colors but switched up the patterns. Some of these papers have been in my stash for about 10 years! I added a lot of primary colored embellishments. I am sure I won't use many, but these are the ones that jumped out at me. I added four sets of alphas and I found these two sets of chipboard pieces that each had a few pieces that looked good with my papers. Your next stop will be Julie Ann If you decide to make a kit be sure to link up so we can see it. Thank you for Hopping by..

This month at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog our first challenge is to make a travel inspired layout. I decided to do a layout about my favorite vacation place. Disney. We haven't been there in two years and I am hoping that we will be able to go back later this year. In my kit I had a pack of fairy tale die cuts from Stampin' Up. They have been in my stash for years so this was a perfect chance to use them. The aqua colors in the die cut pieces were great with the colors of the castle. I used a blue cardstock to match the sky. I used the Magical Memories ribbon and some Elle's Studio tags to include the date, place and people. Since all of the Disney layouts go into albums by visit I don't really need to add too much information. The whole album ends up telling the story without a lot of repetition. This layout was made in minutes. It isn't fancy, but it is a good feeling to use an old supply and have a layout finished. I think I will be able to...

June is Build-Your-Own-Kit month at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. You should have arrived here from Jemma's blog. If you did not and would like to start at the beginning you can go here . When I first saw that we were making our own kits I was a little worried. I like having an example kit. I like knowing what colors and patterns to start with. I like direction. Then I started looking through my stash and found some things that have never fit well into any kit. I decided that building my own kit was a great idea. Here is what I came up with. 10 patterned papers and four journal spots. My main colors are purple and green. I also have black, aqua, pink and white. Eight cardstock and two alphabets.  Three types of misc. embellishments: I chose ribbon, die cuts and little tags.  Something messy:stickles/perfect pearls. Something old: brads. And a roll of old MM tape in place of the Washi. Two stamp sets and one surprise item: I can't find the ...

Our challenge at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog was to use fabric on our layout. My daughter Cassie and I are currently decorating a new room for her son Ben. He is going to have a robot theme. The fabric tag and square were made with the fabrics that will be his blanket and valance. The little striped scrap is going to be the print for his curtains. You can't really tell from the picture but his room is a bright lime green. I call it alien-slime green. When Cassie asked Ben what color he wanted his big-boy room to be he said orange green. There wasn't much chance of painting his room orange, so green it was. We took our fabrics and went off to Home Depot to pick a paint color. When we started painting Ben wanted to help. He only did a little bit but it was nice for him to feel like he was helping.

I was looking back at my blog and realized that I never posted a winner for my NSD challenge. My challenge was to show me a layout using stickers or die cuts. It did not have to be a new layout. I had a few people enter and I loved the layouts that they showed me. I had my grandson choose the winner. He is only two so he just pointed on a paper with all of your names. The winner of my challenge is: jjabauer who entered this cute layout. The prize is an assortment of stickers. Please send me a message with your address so that I can mail you your prize. Thank you for playing along. mytwoandras@yahoo.com

This month at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog we are counterfeiting this kit from Studio Calico. It was their April kit and sold out quickly. I did not have any of the original papers from their kit. I tried to match as closely as I could either the color and pattern size or the pattern in a different color. Here are my papers from their main kit. I also added a few alphabets. And then I decided to make a paper add on since I liked their paper add on kit so much. I love my kit! I decided that since my NSD challenge was to use stickers and die cuts that I am going to try to use some of my stickers and die cuts this month. I have a huge stash and I didn't choose them ahead of time because I want to try to use a lot of them. Your next stop on our HOP is Julie Ann . I am sure you will be inspired by her kit. I will try to get better pictures tomorrow. This camera is not the best in artificial lighting.