This Week - Happy Birthday

Last month was my first month of actually making a Counterfeit Kit and scrapping from that kit.  This month I told myself I would participate in a few of the challenges as well.  My mini album is done and waiting for the day I can reveal it.  So I thought I should do more than one challenge and the second is the Counterfeit Kit Challenge #2: Color Change.

 

  Well I've changed the color of two things on my layout - the circle and the alphabet "happy birthday"   I used Design Studio to size and place my elements before I cut them out. 

 

While my elements for the layout were cutting I altered the colors of the circle on my layout.  I spread a few of the distress inks onto may mat and spritzed them with water then ran my circle through it a couple of times until I was happy with the coverage.  The paper is the same paper as the photo mats.  I do not know the color or where it is from as it's from my mom's stash.

 

The second thing I altered was the "happy birthday". I cut this out of chipboard from the back of a paper pad.  I used embossing ink and then embossing powder to make them the bright orange. 

My oldest has a birthday this month I thought this would be perfect for his pictures.  As I was writing this post I decided to check out the pre-made envelopes I have and added one behind the two smaller picture photo mats. 

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Counterfeit Kit Challenge -  November
7 - 12 x 12 layouts
4 - 8 1/2 x 11 layouts
1 - Altered project
1 - Mini Album ( have to wait to see it on the blog hop, November 24th)
 
Recipe: 
Cardstock: The Paper Company - Color Connect Diamonds White; Added to Kit: DCWV - olive green, blue and silver glitter paper; Stampin' Up - Vellum; Unknown scraps of pattern paper and tan for photo mats ( this is the same paper used for the challenge - circle on my layout; Chipboard - back of a package of 12x12 paper
Ink: Distress Ink -  Scattered Straw, Peeled paint, rusty hinge, dried marigold, broken china; Martha Stewart - stem green and leaf bud; Embossing Ink
Embossing Powder: Stampin' Up - Tangerine Tango
Cricut Cartridges: Martha Stewart Elegant, Martha Stewart All Occasions, George and Paper Lace II
Printables Tickets - Uprintables.blogspot.com; Labels -  Free print and cut from Happy-ness blog
Punch: Fiskars 1/8: circle punch; Stampin' Up - mini punch set.
Misc.: Adhesive, pop up dots, liquid adhesive, zots, toothpicks and leaf branch tape, mini envelope,  Pre-made bird from the Bird and bloom die,

We Fest

For my layout I used Shimelle Laine's Sketch to Scrapbook Page to create today's layout.  My oldest went to We Fest a couple of weeks ago and here's a layout for a few of his pictures.  I used the sky and grass background paper since they camp out and the music notes because it's a music festival. I wanted to see more of the background paper so I used vellum instead of card stock for the vertical paper in Shimelle's sketch.

I made a second page with my leftover piece of vellum going the center of the page and used my Cricut to cut a larger overlay of music notes.  For both layouts I added a few of the punch photo labels for him.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cutting Instructions:
Paper Lace II: Page 1-  button 23 sized to 10.86" x 5.335"
Paper Lace II: Page 2 - button 3 cut at 11"

Recipe:
Paper: DCWV - The Photo Reel Stack 3; Recollections - white, black and dark blue; Stampin' Up Vellum
Printables: A Vegas Girl at Heart - photo labels
Punch: EK Success- Photo Labels
Cricut: Paper Lace II
Spray Ink: October Afternoon - Sprinklers - Set Sail
Ink: Inkadinkadoo - Navy Blue
Alphabet Stickers: Basic Grey - Sultry
Misc.: adhesive

You're Invited

Hi everyone! Today I'm the Designer at the Card A Day Blog and our theme this week is Invitations. 
I kind of cheated on my card today as I have no stamping.  I used my Cricut to cut out my elements even the sentiment, you can easily substitute your dies to achieve the same look.

I started with a black card base then added a bright pattern paper with the ribbon wrapped around it. The red base is added to the back of the black mat. From there I layered the green frame and white mat with the "you're invited" sentiment.  I then tied a bow and attached it to the side of the mat.

For the inside I used another piece of the dark orange card stock and a piece of white card stock. At the bottom is a 1/8" by

Tomorrow Shirley Ross is the Designer starting the week off with a new theme. Thanks for stopping by.

Cutting Instructions:
Card Base: Black card stock - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"; scored at 4 1/4"
Background paper: 4" x 5 1/4"
Red mat: 2 1/2" X 3 1/2"
White mat: 1 7/2" x 2 3/4"
Fancy Frame base and frame cut at 3 1/4"
Paper Lace II - You're Invited cut at 1 1/8"

Inside:
Orange mat:4 1/8" x  5 3/8"
White mat: 4" x 5 1/4"
Pattern Paper: 1/8" x 5 3/8"

Recipe:
Paper: Card stock - Recollections - black, white, red and dark orange; Pattern Paper -  DCWV - The Stack 6;  Thumbelina Collection "Twelve Shillings" -Green polka dot (green frame)
 Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
Ribbon: Celebrate It 5/8"
Misc: adhesive