Words to Live By

 Over at Big Picture Classes I decided to participate in this year's Big Idea Festival. This year's theme was Words To Live By. There were 12 teachers and each teacher selected a word to inspire us in this challenge. They provided 6x6 printables with the word and a space for journalling. This is what I came up with... 

Papers are from a My Mind's Eye paper stack, and stamps are from various brands.

August Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop

Welcome to the Counterfeit Kit blog hop, and thank you for visiting my blog! If you get lost along the way, or happened to randomly find my blog, you can start the hop here.

Our assignment for the blog hop was to do a project based on this exclusive sketch by Sketch Support Challenge blog.

It's been a long time since I've done a two page layout, so this was a little scary for me at first! I love the sketches at Sketch Support though, because they give you basic measurements for the elements in the sketch. You are free to follow the measurements or get as creative as you want with it! They even give you suggestions on how to change up the sketches on their blog... I think it's great! Anyway, I used green cardstock as the base and scrounged around in my kit to find these Echo Park papers that would work for these dimensions. I added a couple flowers, some buttons, letter stickers for my title, and a circle rub-on to frame the title.

Here's a close up of the first page...

and a close up of the second page.

I apologize for the bad pictures of my layouts... it's been rainy here all day and we've been preparing for Irene to hit us tomorrow so I haven't had a chance to get pictures in good light.

Okay, well thank you again for visiting my blog! Your next stop on the blog hop is Milissa!

Too Good to be True

This card was created from my August Counterfeit Kit using sketch #231 at CPS-Card Sketches.

Precious Sleep

Here is another layout using my August Counterfeit Kit. Challenge #1 on the Counterfeit Kit blog is to do a sketch swap using a sketch from Sketch Support. I used card sketch #8 and created this layout. I am also entering this layout into the 3 is a Magic Number Challenge at Shimelle.com

Cowboy Liam

I made this layout with my August Counterfeit Kit using sketch 132 from The Scrappiest blog. I am also entering this into the Signature Accent Challenge at Shimelle.com - I love using buttons and inking the paper edges!

A Little Birdie Told Me

This layout was made using papers from Sassafrass Lass and alphabet stickers from Jillibean Soup.

I created this project for the color challenge at Birds of a Feather, and using the Sketch of the Week at Shimelle.com

Your Smile Makes My Heart Sing

This page was made with papers from Sassafras Lass and alphabet from Bella Blvd.

At Birds of a Feather one of the August challenges is to pick a subject and take their portrait... it only took me 279 pictures to get two really great ones of Collin! The layout design is from the Starting Point Challenge at Shimelle.com