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I had a lovely day scrapbooking with my mum yesterday while my youngest was at daycare. A perfect birthday present for me.

I have a few layouts to share, all using my June Counterfeit Kit of course.

The first layout is also my entry for Aussie Scrap Source Style Lounge challenge. This week the style was Graphic Colour blocked.

A layout with my now not so little boy, sigh

Using some more of my homemade felt flowers here:

And a double layout with my cousins super sweet baby girl Abbey.



When I made this kit I really thought I would struggle to find photos to use. Turns out I have heaps and the kit is a lot more versatile than I first thought.

I am still loving the kit concept and I may have converted my mum too. She couldn't believe how much more productive I was just because I was using what I had in my kit instead of searching all through my stash and basically overthinking everything.

Hope you are having a scrappy day.

Lisa

Style Lounge - Detailed Whimsy

This week the challenge at Aussie Scrap Source was to create a layout in Iris Baboa Uy's detailed whimsy style.

Here is a close look at the photo. These cousins were born 4 months apart.

My favourite part of the layout is this little stitched on banner with flowers either end.

I have used my June Pretty Counterfeit Kit for this layout (as opposed to my "boy" kit). Maybe my kits need names to save confusion lol. The Butterflies came from my new Stampin' Up! Embosslit. Cute hey.

I wonder what style the challenge will be next week at Aussie??

Happy scrapping

Lisa J

June Counterfeit Kits (Yep Kits!!)

This month the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog have chosen to counterfeit a new kit company Burlap and Buttercups. Their June kit was very pretty with pinks, yellows and greens.

My first thought was a Basic Grey Colllection Kit I had that was not even open. So out came the Two Scoops collection and my counterfeit kit was born.

I have added in some ancient Chatterbox wooden frames instead of the chipboard frames and some frames from Grace Taylor.

I have made some of my own felt flowers and added in some heart pins and a butterfly pin.

So  there we have my first very pretty June Kit.

My second kit came about as I was searching my paper stash I found this cute doily style paper from Sassafrass Lass that tied in with the doily paper in the original kit.

Of course the colours were all wrong for the original kit so I started a second kit with this paper and a couple of others from the same collection to get to this...

I added in some chipboard frames from Heidi Swapp, Lil Davis and Maya Road and swapped the butterflies and flowers for denim gears and hessian lollipops.

The diecut paper is from Grace Taylor. The blues and browns in this kit will be perfect for some boy pages but I am not really sure what to do with the pretty kit...maybe some baby photos???

Hopefully inspiration will hit when the mini challenges are announced. There is some very old product in both these kits so if I get these used I will be one happy scrapper.

There was also the option of creating a Summer kit which I have done as well. I will share mine later this week..the bright summer colours will brighten up these dreary winter days.

Happy scrapping

Lisa J

Hippity Hoppity Counterfeit Kit Challenge May Blog Hop

Hi and welcome.

The challenge for this month's Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Hop was a great one. Visit your favourite manufacturer's blog for inspiration and create. Now my list of fave manufacturers is huge and I had no idea where to start so I just quickly scanned a few blogs until something caught my eye. I ended up choosing projects from Studio Calico and Pink Paislee.

My first project is based on this layout by Barb Novak that was featured on the Studio Calico blog. The punched circles and pops of colour really stood out for me.

And here is my version:

And a closer look at the sweet denim cog and heart pin.

The second project that really appealed to me was by Piradee on the Pink Paislee Blog.

I loved her use of circle punches (can you see the theme going on here..yes I seem to have a thing for circle punches this month!!).

Here is Piradee's project:

So soft and pretty. Of course my version is neither soft or pretty lol but I did use lots of strips of patterned paper and those groovy punched circles.

A closer look at the journalling:

Circles and splatters make me happy...

Thanks for hopping by and please leave a comment so I know you have visited.

You next stop is Julie Ann.

Happy Hopping

Lisa J

Mini Challenge 3 - embellishments

The third challenge at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge this month was to plan a layout or project around an embellishment.

My whole kit this month was designed around a sheet of Cosmo Cricket Snorkel chipboard embellishments so I chose from them a life preserver and then searched for photos. My 7 year old was scrapping with me at the time and had a box of old photos and that was when I spotted these pics of Ben that were taken in 2003...perfect for this challenge.

So with embellishment and photos in hand I created this

I created the wave effect on my paper with my trusty circle punches. I have also misted my background paper with some Smooch Spray. It looks pretty irl with a blue shimmer.

I was happy to get these photos scrapped and finally use those chipboard embellishments!!

Happy Scrapping

Lisa

Playing catch up....

I am catching up on some of the Mini Challenges over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge this month.

The first mini challenge was to create a project using this sketch from the Sketch Support site. I hadn't visited this site before and I have to say I am now in love. The double page sketches are amazing. I will definately be adding Sketch Support to my favourites.

Here is my take on the sketch using of course my May Counterfeit Kit.

I have added in some stamping with one of my new Stampin' Up! "Extreme Elements" stamps and the Happy Birthday came from "Grunge Rock". So nice to finally have some boy stamps that aren't baby boy.

The stars were cut with my Big Shot and different size star punches. The border was cut using my Curly Label punch and sliding it along. It makes a really cool edge.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Smile

The Aussie Scrap Source style challenge last week was "Artsy Grunge" inspired by Leeann Pearce.

I expected this challenge to be hard because this is not my usual style...but I loved it. I had so much fun adding bits and creating my background and I am really happy with the end result.

I have used my May Counterfeit Kit plus some cotton doilies from The Chip Chop Shop, rubons from Cherry-Arte, corrugated board, felt, denim, paint, mists, smooch inks and anything else that was on my desk.

A little close-up of some of the details:

I cut a felt star for another layout using my Big Shot and decided I liked the negative shape so a little stitching and taa daa..

Hope you are having a scrappy day.

Lisa