Joy

This card was created using CPS sketch 225 http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/2011/07/cps-225-part-1.html

and will also be entered into Tuesday Throwdown #56 (Christmas in July) http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2011/07/tuesday-throwdown-56.html

BOF Stash Challenge

The June Stash Challenge at Birds of a Feather is to use a mask or template on a layout. After several failed attempts, I finally found a number die cut page that made the perfect mask for this layout. Using my June counterfeit kit, I only had to dig up the numbers to finish up the page!

Disclaimer: No alcohol was consumed in the making of this picture!

Funny Face

I had to share this picture... Collin "yelling" at Daddy!

My Mind's Eye Sketch Challenge

Since my June kit has lots of My Mind's eye papers, I decided to use it for their sketch challenge this month. In addition to using a sketch, I had to use the theme song lyrics. The title is "you are my sunshine"... credited songwriters are Jimmy Davis and Charles Mitchell, but you can click here for a more detailed history of this song if you're curious.

BOF Sketch Challenge

This is the second layout I did using my June counterfeit kit. I used the sketch challenge from Birds of a Feather using a prima build a page sketch.

BOF Ad Challenge

This is the first layout I did with my June Counterfeit Kit. I used the Ad Challenge at Birds of a Feather as inspiration and created this...

June Counterfit Kit

Since I have reorganized my scrap room to make things easier to find, it seems to be so much easier to have things grouped into kits. So I decided to follow along this month at the Counterfit Kit Challenge Blog to see how I do. This month they are using Burlap and Buttercup's June 2011 Main Kit for inspiration, you can see it here.

They use mostly Basic Grey and My Mind's Eye in summery greens, blues, and pinks. Of course, I don't have any of those papers, and with two boys I really don't have very much pink paper. So I decided to change the colors a bit to blues, greens, and orange, with some yellow thrown in too. I have a big collection of My Mind's Eye Breaking Free line (won as a blog prize), and I added an assortment of Basic Grey papers I thought were summery and coordinated. Then I matched up a few pages of Bazzill. I went through my embellishments and threw in some stuff, along with some brads, ribbon, and alphabets, and here's my kit I put together...

And here's a close up of the papers...

and here's a close up of the embellishments...

I'm hoping to get some good summery pages out of this kit.. let's hope I can do it!