Fröhliche Friday #3

So, I missed out on Wednesday Wonderland this week. How did that happen?

Instead, I'm here to share Fröhliche Friday instead.

This and last week at Jingle Belles we've been given a super cute card sketch by Stephanie herself.

With those chunky banners, you know I'm going to love it and I followed it pretty closely apart from turning it 90° to make it a landscape card instead. I added a few foam snowflakes and some vintage wire words (vintage as in OLD) to finish off these - once again - quick and easy cards.

Another two hitting the pile and a few less scraps in my stash.

Hello Summer blog hop with Little Blue Button Stamps

Hi everyone!

If you came from Ameila, you're on the right track so carry on reading to catch all the fun in this blog hop where Little Blue Button Stamps have teamed up with the Counterfeit Kit Challenge.

Summer is already here! Do you smell it? Do you hear it?

Hello Summer!

We're so happy to welcome you on our fantastic blog hop with triple celebration!

First one - is we finally started producing Rubber Stamps!! Yey!!! We are partners of C.C.Designs and now they have our own rubber stamp line - image stamps and VINTAGE stamps as well!

Second - is to encourage our DT friend Steph! She had started her own blog Emchantedsteph ! Steph is a very talented young lady who amazes us with her famous scene cards and other wonderful projects! Go girl!

Third - summer is here!!! Isn't it enough for celebrating?

We gathered two design teams - Little Blue Button Stamps and Counterfeit Kit Challenge! Each DT member prepared a wonderful project using new released in June summer digital stamps from LBBS! Isn't it fun?

Be ready to get inspiration and new ideas!


Little Blue Button Stamps - is a company that produces and sells  beautiful and fun digital image stamps, sentiment stamps and printables of high-quality!


Counterfeit Kit Challenge - is a fun challenges using Kit Clubs as inspiration, but your stash as the base.

So letís start!

There will be four winners:

1st prize: $20 for purchase digis or printables in LBBS store + two rubber stamps from LBBS

2nd prize:  $10 for purchase digis or printables in LBBS store + one rubber stamp from LBBS

3rd prize: 3 digital stamps or any printable designs from LBBS of your choice

4th prize: 40% discount for purchase digis or printables in LBBS store!

What you need to do to enter:

1. Here is a list (down below) of all dt members blogs which you should visit

2. Visit each blog and leave a comment on a blog hop projects of each designer.

3.  Your last stop is Little Blue Button Stamps blog where you must leave your last comment telling what you have done: commented on each blog hop post and maybe subbed to someone?

Also you could get additional  entry if you subscribe to each blog (if you're not subscribed)!

Simple? Of course there are a lot of stops you should make but there are not enough of inspiration!

You have the whole day and night starting 

June 12th midnight PDT(Pacific Daylight Time) and ending June 13th midnight PDT!
So please set your alarm!=)

Winners will be announced June 15th in both blogs - Little Blue Button Stamps and Counterfeit Kit Challenge!

Anyway, if you've got this far (!), I'd like to share my project with you. I thought the cute little diver would make a sweet embellishment to a layout about my niece having some water fun.

I printed the digital stamp onto cardstock and then got happy with some glitter pens, coloured pencils (I was back at school again!) and some stickles. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would ;-)

I used my March Counterfeit kit, Disconnected (LO#5) for this bright and happy layout.

And your next stop is Steph. In case you get lost along the way, here's the longer than usual list ;-)

Line up:

 Counterfeit Kit Challenge

 Valou

 Andrea 

 Tracey

 Angela

 Dawn

 Jemma  

 Marla

 Jennifer

 Amelia

 Lisa H.

 Steph

 Milissa

 Guest Designer: Sherri

 Little Blue Button Stamps

We wish you fun and luck during hopping!

More from my June Scrapabilly kit

As you might have caught on yesterday's post (here) I am thrilled to be able to announce that I've been asked to join the Design Team of my *favourite* on-line - as well as bricks and mortar shop -  Scrapabilly!

I also shared two of the layouts that I made and am back today to share the other two which I hope will showcase how great this kit is for a variety of different style layouts.

I decided to get happy with the scissors and cut out some gorgeous flowers from one of the sheets. Then I had the vision of using all the clocks with the title and the rest of the layout came together really quickly. I made up the whole layout before going off to find some suitable photos.

The old fashioned reel camera included in the kit reminded me straight away of the Movie Park where I've been a few times with baby baby brother and so this layout came together really easily. I clustered up the elements and didn't need much extra apart from a little mist and a few Mini Market stickers (find them in the shop here).

Like I've said already, I have lots more paper and cardstock for at least another couple of layouts and all I needed to add for these four layouts is a sheet of white and cream cardstock, some small alphas and a length of twine. I love it when products in a kit work so well together!

I'd love it if you went to say hello at the shop or the blog. And I can't wait for the next kit and the chance to get to know the others.

Check in again tomorrow when I'll be participating in a Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog hop together with the girls at Little Blue Button Stamps.

At last - a moment of quiet to share my news...

I am thrilled to be able to announce that I've been asked to join the Design Team of my *favourite* on-line - as well as bricks and mortar shop - Scrapabilly!

Sylvia has a gorgeous array of scrummy scrapbooking products and is just a delightful person! She is a rock 'n' roll fan, hence the funky shop name and I find myself dancing all round the shop while I'm there as she plays all that great rockabilly music. Can't resist! It's a great match for me I'm excited and honoured to be asked to be part of the team.

Please make sure you pop over to the shop and / or the blog and say hello! I will be featuring on the blog from time to time and in the inspiration gallery among her other, very talented designers who I'm looking forward to getting to know.

This month's kit uses a paper line that looks like it was designed just for Sylvia - "Market Square & Barber Shop Emporium" by a new company (to me) Farm House Paper Company. There's a whole lot of funky 50s inspired papers which are accompanied by a scattering of fun clock, film and bag embellies as well as a couple of sticker sheets, a large shipping tag, string, brads and of a really gorgeous set of Thickers (maybe my new fave!).

Scrapabilly June 2013 kit

I shared a card I made with the kit last week in Wednesday Wonderland #17 and here are 2 of the layouts I've made:

I really wanted to do a layout about an American Diner but didn't have any photos :-(  However our time at the Cavorting Chicken as we liked to call it was a good runner-up. The most perfect Canadian breakfast of pancakes or french toast with crispy bacon smothered with maple syrup kept us going all day

The only thing I added to the kit here (apart from the mists) is the small red and cream Mini Market letter stickers from October Afternoon - you can find them in the shop here

I loved the small white paper bag included in the kit and decided to use it to keep my journalling visible but hidden. I so love this technique - not so hidden that no one knows it's there but still private enough to allow me to write a few personal lines without it being too public. 

It's a while since I've done any fussy cutting and the butterflies just seemed to fit the pretty flowers

I heat embossed my tag and then misted it with lots of colour to really add some texture to my tag. I added the twine to the kit for this and you can find it here in the shop

 Such a versatile kit that really seemed to step up to the mark of whatever type of layout I decided to make.

Please stop by tomorrow and check out the other two layouts I made with the kit (and I still have lots of paper left so I'm sure to be making a few more as time goes on).

Wednesday Wonderland #17

We are "Tying Ribbons Round the Christmas Tree" over at Jingle Belles this week (and now I have THAT song going round my head - showing my age) with a prompt to ... yes, you guessed it ... use ribbon on your cards.

I went simple this week, allowing the gorgeous white satin ribbon to do ALL the work for me. (Have you noticed how often I tell you that - I am such a lazy crafter ha ha!)

I used non-Christmas papers as I had been busy making layouts from a wonderful new kit from Scrapabilly (kit here) and just thought that the polka dots were so pretty that it would be lovely against the pure white ribbon.

I really must track a few hundred metres more of this luscious ribbon - it is always the perfect addition to any card and I love how soft it is. Ties a great bow.

I've been promising some kit news on the blog and I will try to get to that this weekend.

However, I'm not promising as we have more visitors arriving tomorrow :-) so expect baby based layouts for the next X months with all the photos I hope to get of my newest niece. Busy times.

June Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit reveal blog hop

Welcome to June! Welcome to the June Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit reveal blog hop! Just... welcome.

If you've landed here from the ever inspirational Jennifer then you will no doubt be full of wonder and amazement so I hope I can keep you feeling that way! Ha ha.

If you are here direct, then you should make sure you don't miss out on anyone on the hop and pop back to the Counterfeit blog (here) to start at the beginning. I really recommend you checking out the whole hop this time around as this amazing team of fellow forgers will undergo some changes at the end of the month and this is the last time some of the incredible talent will be sharing on the hop.

Another piece of news before I start to introduce my kit this month is to let you know that Little Blue Button Stamps will be the proud Counterfeit sponsor this month and there will be a combined blog hop with their team and ours on 12th June that is sure to be a lot of fun.

And now on to the kit which is, after all, the main reason for your visit - or so I'm guessing.

This month, we were given four possible kits to be inspired by over at Scraptastic! All four of their May kits are just wonderful and even though they are sold out, I am sure you will be inspired by the hop to try making your own.

I settled on the Destination Unknown add on kit which seemed a good contrast to the kits I have made over the last few months. And this is a smaller one than usual because I still have 5 partial kits sitting on my shelf waiting to be used up.

Destination Unknown at Scraptastic!

I managed about half the daily layouts for May's LayOutADay (LOAD) challenge and all but one used one or other of my kits. I know they are all seriously depleted, but more than enough still in the box for me to think about keeping them going a bit longer. But my June kit will add some welcome difference to colours and papers with its character.

Which brings me to present to you... "Personality".

I've had both my (much) younger brothers staying with me over the last ten days and just before they walked out of the door to catch their flight this evening, I asked them to look at my kit and suggest a one-word name. There were some good suggestions which will no doubt see the light of day in coming months, but baby brother 1 suggested this name because of the words on the Simple Stories paper and die-cuts that just seemed to give the selection a real personality. Done!

Whoops - forgot to add the name onto the photo! Anyway, I proudly present: Personality

I was lucky enough to have one or two of the papers in my recently purchased stash so I did what I never do and broke open the collection packs to fish them out and form the basis of my kit. (American Crafts Dear Lizzy and Amy Tan)

From there I added in a few (MME, Teresa Collins) that filled in the gaps more or less with the other papers and added in a cut apart sheet from Simple Stories as well as one from MME. All of the papers are double sided so this will give me more flexibility if all that red/pink gets too much (yeah right!). The sheet of alphas from BasicGrey matched the inspiration kit so in that went too

Next up were some tags, some flairs (Simple Stories), some die cut words (Simple Stories), some die cut shapes (Pink Paisley) as well as a few journalling cards from MME.

Instead of the coloured twine, I added in some MME washi tapes in the same colours plus an extra one - just because.

The inspiration kit had white and red sequins which were not in my stash so gold and aqua will substitute nicely.

Knowing that the large alpha would not be enough, I also added in cool grey and warm yellow Mini Market stickers from October Afternoon which will be perfect as a smaller contrast to the big, funky BG letters.

Then I was happy to remember I had the Prima clips and added the tags as well as the cameras.

The flairs from Simple Stories are so new I just picked them up on Wednesday and was happy to see that they matched the papers I've selected.

I don't have a Cameo and can't get to grips with my Cricut like some of you experts out there so the die cut negatives from Simple Stories were perfect for the inspiration kit die cut exclusives.

And lastly, instead of the Jenni Bowlin feathers (I should make some again this month), I added in some pins.

I will add in cardstock (and other basics such as ink and neutral twine) as I go. I am using less and less coloured backgrounds so it seems silly to take a photo of 5 sheets of white and two of kraft! I'm sure you can imagine that and you never know, a few sheets of colour might sneak in there from time to time.

I am already ♥ in love ♥ with my kit and can't wait to get stuck in. It's totally different to more recent creations as it consists of ONLY new stuff (apart from the three tags and pins) so it feels fresh and inviting.

I have more news to share on the topic of kits but I'll save that to tomorrow. All I will let on right now is that it has something to do with the amazing online (and real, live, touch the paper) shop Scrapabilly which is where I picked up 95% of the products in this months Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit.

Now off you go to say hello to Lynette who has no doubt, once again won the award for the most amazing kit presentation - evah! Have fun over there, I know I will. And don't forget to say hi and let me know you were here - it's always lovely to hear from you.

Here is the full blog hop list in case you get lost along the way:

Guest Designer: Sherri http://sherrithompson.blogspot.com/

Andrea http://snappingmonsters.blogspot.com/

Angela http://colestoucan.blogspot.co.uk/

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

Jennifer http://jennifergracecreates.com  

Lisa H. http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/ ß-you are here

Lynnette http://sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com/ ß-go here next!

Milissa http://millermall.blogspot.com/

Wednesday Wonderland #16

Welcome again to my weekly attempt at card making!

Personally, I don't think I have the patience for it and this week was no exception - rushing to get these done and off my to do list (sounds worse than it is really!), and the end result? Well.... ok. 

This week over at Jingle Belles, we've been challenged to get ribbons down on our cards.

I have a lot of ribbons that I rarely use to be honest, and had a vision of a design that would use a lot up at once. Hardly scratching the surface of the metres I have but at least it's a start.

So I'll give the Jingle Belles prompt "Tie a Holiday Ribbon Around the Christmas Tree" another go next week to see if I can come up with something that makes me happier.

But in the meantime, Happy Wednesday everyone and I'm about to hit my half way mark for my card pile - how's yours coming along? ;-)

May Counterfeit Kit Challenge member blog hop

Hi again for this month's Counterfeit Kit Challenge member blog hop

If you are here via Molly's blog, you are on the right track, but if you've dropped in here direct, you might want to pop back to the beginning of the hop (here) so you don't miss out on anything.

This time, we have been challenged to use masks - make your own or use one you have, just use a masking technique on your project.

I'm not a big masker but I have a few faves. There's a few vintage ones from Heidi Swapp that I whip out to use from time to time and more recently, a couple from Studio Calico which are smaller but right on trend.

I have to confess to not using my May Counterfeit kit but rather went back to my bright and colourful January kit, Renew, as I wanted to layer up some embellies into a cluster and I knew that I had a whole pile of cluster goodness in that kit!

In real life, the grey misting is not quite as full-on as it looks in this photo but I do love how that came out. The vellum on top of the bright papers sprinkled with white mist really worked to tone it all down so that the brighter, 1970s photo could shine.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you leave a comment to let me know you were here and how you intend to use a mask on your layout. Now, off you go to see Candace's creation! She will be sure to wow you with what she made. Check her out here.

Check out the list below if you get lost along the way because I really recommend you visiting everyone on the blog hop today! So much inspiration.

Don't forget that every link on the Mr Linky page gives you eligibility for a prize from Little Blue Button Stamps (NSD sponsor) this month.

And... also that the Design Team call is still open for applications until the end of the month!

Come on over.

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk/ 
Dawn         http://www.dawnsscrapbookcottage.blogspot.com/

Lesley http://ohblogitifyoucantbeatthem.blogspot.co.uk/
Maggie http://maggiebscrapblog.blogspot.fr/
Milissa http://millermall.blogspot.com
Julie H http://spendlesscraftmore.blogspot.com.au
Molly         http://www.42shadesofpink.com/index.html
Lisa H http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com
Candace http://usthreebythesea.blogspot.co.uk/
Sherrie http://sherriesmuddlepuddle.blogspot.ca/

Wednesday Wonderland #15

Oh dear! I've missed two weeks of Jingle Belles :-( and my weekly posting lost its rhythm.

But not to let this get me down, I've at least created a couple of cards tonight and in fact, there are two cards I made for the last prompt too but didn't post. Therefore, on average, I'm still more than one a week so it's not all bad ;-)

One thing I noticed though is that I really need to make cards regularly to keep the inspiration and the card-making muscles flexed. I'm not in love with the two from tonight, but two cards made and on the pile are still two cards made and on the pile!

First off then, here are two extra cards for Jingle Belles prompt #9 "Flying Home For Christmas".

I made them at a crop I was at but just couldn't get them posted in time but was pleased with the simplicity of featuring this gorgeous paper from MME. I'm always happy when the paper does the work for me!

And now onto the latest prompt "Merry & Bright" which feature, yes you've guessed it, bright colours.

So there you have it, still Jingling, if a little late.

Maybe I'll share a picture of my happy pile of cards next week - just to make you jealous LOL!