Hi again. I've been looking at all your fabulous kits and pages. It is hard to choose just one!
Here's the original kit
Julene
Welcome back to Flashback Month. Here's a reminder of our kit which,hopefully by now, you have created your own version.
Now for our 3rd Challenge.
Here is a layout I did back in 2014 when we had the original kit
Appropriately the title is "This place makes me so happy." For this challenge I want you to scraplift it. In case you're curious we were looking around Vancouver.
The Design Team have created some ideas for you.
Master forger Cindy
I pulled in this paper from DCWV "Taja Mahal" from 2009. I thought the circle design was a good representation of Julene's paper. I also had no ideas of the photos I would scrap when I pulled my kit together. I found a few pictures of Derek helping out when we were shoveling snow. I thought the circles made excellent snowflakes.
I did not use any of the embellishments that I included in my kit. I added a few things when it came time make my layout, Dark Blue, white, orange and red cardstock, 3 snowflake punches, alpine snowflake, crystal and large Fiskars snowflake punch, I am using the Martha Stewart Cherish border punch.
I matted the paper with the dark blue cardstock along with the photos. My photos are a different size than Julene's 1 4x6 and 2 4x4. I added the punched border to the bottom of my 4x6 photo and the top of the page. I found a mitten ephemera and added that to the circle. The snowflakes are punched in the orange, red and white cardstock. I love how this layout turned out.
I kept close to the basic structure of the lift, but I was able to add more photos by replacing two 4x6 pics with four 3x4 pics.
Master Forger Christine
I used the same structure as the original layout as it worked perfectly with these 20+ year old photos. I also loved the "happy" so made sure to use that in my little title under the right side photo. I also loved using the chalkboard elements on this one!
Now it is your turn. Make sure you add it to Facebook in the appropriate post.
Here's what is upcoming for the rest of this month.
Make sure you pop back here to see what is happening. That's all for now.
Here is our second challenge for this month. It is a 1,2, 3 challenge.
In fact, I got the picture from a challenge that used to exist called 1,2,3 challenge. (Now defunct.)
First another reminder of this month's kit. Noel Mignon Balboa.
When you have completed your layout add it to Challenge #2 post on Facebook.
Here's some ideas from the Design Team.
Master forger Laurie
I used the lime green polka dot paper from my kit and paired it with some red scraps, also from my kit. I decided to add some mixed media using a lime ink to add more bright colors. I didn’t want my title to just float, so I made the arrow to place my title on. If you look closely on the left side, you’ll see another black arrow. I thought ‘Awesome Day’ would be a great title since it’s always an awesome day when you spend it with a friend.
Master forger Ryann
Following this post, here is what is coming up for the rest of this month.
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| Julene |
Welcome back and now for the first of our challenges.
As it is a flashback month, I am using the challenge that we used back in 2014: Use triangles. It can be any size of triangles you like or a combination of sizes. The triangles must be obvious on the page. We have lots of bright papers this month so make the brights work for you in smaller amounts.
Here's another reminder of our kit
Here's my initial one from back in 2014
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I'm back again to look at the idea of making a mini kit. First a reminder of this month's kit.
Noel Mignon Balboa.
It's mid-summer there in USA and some of you will be heading out on holidays. If you don't have time for a full kit maybe you could do a mini kit.
It can be as small as you like. Traditionally with CKC it used to be 2 or 3 papers and some embellishments that go with it. Enough to create a page or two, or some kind of mini project. As an example, I found this from an old mini kit of mine. I chose black papers plus a bright floral and a neutral. (You can do similar from your kit) Use the recipe one dark,one light, one colourful.
Next, I found a few embellishments to match
Pack them in a 12x12 bag and there's your mini kit! It can be taken away with you and made during your vacation.
For example, the above produced 2 layouts.
Master forger Tara
I created a mini kit-well, a not-so-mini-kit for most of you, but for me, it's definitely a mini version of what I normally curate each month! I always start with paper and so I went through my stash of papers and chose a bright Basic Grey collection. I had three pieces of patterned paper and a set of stickers in my stash. Then, I found papers from other Basic Grey collections that went with it and a few from other manufacturers. My next step was to add alphas and phrases. I really didn't add any other embellishments because I made a couple of forgeries, which you can view on the July 4th FoF blog post. Here's my full kit with a couple of close-up photos as well:
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| This shows the cutfile she already owned in her Silhouette Design Studio library! |
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| Here's the design opened up on her software. |
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| She opened a cutfile of a polaroid and then created the word in her design software. |
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| Then, she rotated the word in the design software and welded it to the frame. |
Master Forger Misty
She is here with three forgeries for you. She is really pleased with the faux hat pins idea! These actually are better than the originals since they containless bulk and less pointy danger! These were made with twist ties (stripped of their paper) and enamel dots. Easy!
