April's Counterfeit Kit Challenge Members Blog Hop!

Time for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Members Blog Hop, always a fun thing to do,
where we get to check out what has inspired everyone during the month
 and pick up even more ideas to keep the scrapping mojo happy.

Welcome to my sacred scrap room up in the attic, 

if you're on the hop you probably arrived here from Margie's blog.

 After me please do hop on over to K's place.

Don't worry if you get turned around, or can't finish the hop in one go,

 there's a list of participants at the end of my post that should get you back hopping again.

 The 3 challenges on CKCB this month are

#1 Pick a Challenge

(here's a link to my LO for that)

#2 Sketch Challenge

(I skipped that one!)

#3 Spring Challenge

and that's the one I'm revealing today for the hop.

My inspiration for this page came from the LO below

 which I found on Pinterest.

As soon as I saw it my mind went straight to my forged kit 

"It's a New Season".

I thought that the PL cards and embellies in there were perfect for this scraplift.

Thanks to Eyoung Lee @ Studio Calico 

for making this image available to pinners everywhere.

I hope you've enjoyed stopping by in Normandy today.

Please leave a comment so that I know you were here
then I can hop on over and visit you back.

The blog hop participants list.

CKCB   http://www.counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com

Jemma   http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk

Sherrie   http://sherriesmuddlepuddle.blogspot.ca

Julie   http://jsquaredscrapspot.wordpress.com

Leslie   http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com

Julie   http://spendlesscraftmore.blogspot.com.au

Tina   http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/

Margie   http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com

Maggie   http://maggiebscrapblog.blogspot.fr

K    http://kscraftycorner.blogspot.co.uk/

Lisa   http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de

Counterfeit Kit Challenge # 3 - BIG Title and a Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Normandy stop on the CKCB blog hop today.
You probably came over from Kim's blog "Texas Cattle Ranching and Scrapbooking" and after you leave me Julene's blog "Julene by Design" over in Oz is the place to go.

This is the page that I did for Challenge #3 BIG title.

“Bonjour Printemps”

I was inspired by Stephanie's example @ Skyline Paperie  “Welcome back Autumn” to say “Hello to Spring” with a photo of our neighbour Jacques’ sheep and lambs, in the field at the side of his little village shop, which I took last weekend.

After already doing 7 layouts using my “Indolence Blues” kit supplies were getting pretty low when it came to this challenge.

I had one full sheet of patterned paper which I stamped willy nilly down the left side before layering scraps of my double sided pp’s, vintage sheet music and vellum, then the photo went on as the final layer.

The tag tucked in behind, the buttons, flower and arrow were all from the kit but I needed to go into my stash for the BIG green alpha stickers, PL “to do”card, washi tape, string and greeting sticker.

Here's another layout that I did for the UKS's April House Challenge of me and my Dad in 2005 and there's one other that I did for my Monthly Scrap-A-Sketch group, which I can't reveal until the 1st May!

Now it’s time for you to hop on over to Julene's to see what she's been up to lately and below you'll find the list of blogs participating in today's blog hop just in case you wander off in the wrong direction!

Home, aka the CKCB, is just a click away here

CKCB           http://www.counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com

Jemma         http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk

Tina              http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com

Isbaha          http://isbahashome.blogspot.fr

Lesley          http://ohblogitifyoucantbeatthem.blogspot.co.uk

Annie            http://www.artyfartyannie.co.uk

Elaine           http://chidkids26.blogspot.co.uk

Leslie           http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com

Kate             http://kateblue.blogspot.com

Virginia         http://celtichouse.blogspot.co.uk

Kim              http://texassantagertrudis.blogspot.com

Maggie         http://maggiebscrapblog.blogspot.fr

Julene          http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com.au

Lisa              http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de

February CKCB Members Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Normandy in Spring time" stop, on the CKCB Blog Hop, where hundreds of daffodils are already adding beauty to the gardens.

You probably just left Lesley's UK blog Oh! Blog It and the next stop after here will be Chrissy @ Crafty Chrissie Creates who I think is in New Zealand!

In my last post I revealed my February Counterfeit Kit which I called "It must be Lurve".

Here's another shot of the kit before I started to play.

Despite being sick in bed for 4 days this week, suffering from stomach flu, I have managed to make quite a hole in my kit - 4 LO's and 3 identical tags.

When February's challenge #1 was posted on CKCB those Ugly Sweaters made me cringe, especially when I remembered some of the jumpers and cardigans I'd draped my body with in the oh so un-trendy 1970's.

Thankfully, no photographic evidence of those clothing faux pas remains and I was more than happy to roam around Pinterest to locate someone else's woolly nightmare.

the perfect Christmas gift for the man who has everything?

The patterns and colours are a perfect match for my kit, this is the LO that this Ugly Sweater inspired.

the view from my work table looking out across my very cluttered
attic craft room

as I'd hoped, I was able to use up lots of stash embellies on my page

love the way it all came together so well

The UKS February Tag Swap theme was "Lurrrrve"................ and I had just the kit for it.

and here are my LO's for the UKS weekly challenges - 2 & 3.

week 2
"missus b" (that's me BTW) was our ebay sellers name when we began selling vintage and antique French faience in 1999.
with our 2 dogs Blue & Bess we traveled all over France having the time of our lives for about 5 years

week 3
when an unexpected snowstorm in March 2013 blocked our driveway
the Senior Partner and his dog Fleur were in their element!

That's all I can share for now as the 4th LO that I've made using the kit is part of my Chinese Whispers Circle Journal and I can't, on pain of death, breath a word about it on my blog until all 12 LO's have been completed......I hope to do a full reveal of them at the end of 2014.

I wonder how much they will have changed?

So, thanks for stopping by.

I hope you've enjoyed this visit to Normandy. 

If you get lost anywhere en route you can always check the CKCB where you'll find the full list of blogs participating in today's hop.

CKCB members blog hop - just keeps on hopping!

Whilst hopping around the CKCB blog hop last week, admiring all the great master forgeries, I found this fab one on Jemma's blog Just Jimjams.

She had chosen to forge this gorgeous LO from Leslie @ Out of the Mire.

Well, what's a girl to do but have a go herself?

This is my forgery, of Jemma's forgery, of Leslie's LO, which I did for the UKS July week 4 challenge!
Loved the tags in the corner with the stitching and the fabric, so did several others who commented on my LO in the UKS gallery.
I think this is one LO that will keep on hopping for a long time to come.

What summer means to me.

This is the probably the last LO that I will do using my July Counterfeit Kit, looking forward to seeing the August kit very soon.

CKCB - July Blog Hop

Welcome to my stage of the CKCB "Master of Forgery" blog hop.
If you came over from Leslie's blog "Out of the Mire" you must be really hopping, if you came here just to visit why not hop on and join the fun?

This was the challenge this month:
Challenge #1:  Pick one of our DT members and peruse their blog for a bit.  Find something that inspires you and use that to create a project!  When you blog about it, please make sure to link up to their inspiration as well as to your finished project!

Well, you know the Design Team are all pretty talented scrappers and it was a pleasure to take time out and mooch through their blogs checking out all the great stuff on them.
I originally picked three LO's as possible scraplifts but finally went with this one which I found on Lesley G's blog "Oh! Blog it!" on a post entitled "Peg It".

Although I didn't have any mini pegs to include in my July Kit I liked this LO so much, this is my interpretation.

I used Photoscape to create the collage image of a pink hydrangea taken in my garden last summer, sadly with the heat we're having here in Normandy at the moment the poor hydrangeas are not looking quite so healthy.

Mostly created using items from my July "Fun in the Sun" kit, with added embellies: Dear Lizzy thickers arrows; "pink" basic grey mini monogram stickers; the "Lovely" clear cut shape is from Little Yellow Bicycle.

I hope you've enjoyed your brief sojourn in Normandy, time now to hop off to Greenville, SC and Ashley's blog "Paper For People".

Or, if you want to start the hop from the beginning go to the CKCB where you'll find the list of everyone taking part today.

CKCB Challenge #1- Farmers' Market.

Welcome to my part of the CKCB Members Blog Hop.

You probably hopped over from Lisa's blog Recklinghausen Musings

 but if your arriving here was pure serendipity 

why not stay a while and join in the blog hop with us.

The CKCB #1 June challenge was to create a LO

 celebrating Farmers' Markets and the great local produce which you can find there.

When I first read the idea of the challenge

 I knew it would be a great opportunity to use

some very special papers which I have been "stroking" for some time.

Graphic 45's "French Country" range

and to share with you our favourite stall at the Sunday market

 in Port en Bessin, Normandie

 where you can always find a veritable feast of local artisan cheeses.

I hope you've enjoyed your brief visit to Normandy,

time now to hop off to Julene's blog 

Julene By Design.

If you lose track of just where you've hopped you can find the full list

of participating members on the CKCB blog.

click here for the complete list.