March Counterfeit Kit: Early Morning

Time for my March Counterfeit Kit reveal.

CKCB's inspiration for this month's kit comes from the February Kits created by Cocoa Daisy. 

The main kit is Colour Swatch and there are some great papers and embellishments in it.  

Sunshine Kit from Cocoa Daisy

There are lots of add on kits to choose from too and Mood Board caught my eye straightaway. 

Mood Board Kit from Cocoa Daisy

I've been dying to use some fab chalkboard stickers and tags from Toga that I found recently so I mixed and matched from Mood Board and Colour Swatch to create my kit. 

Forged Sunshine Kit #1

I’m calling my kit “Early Morning” because the colours all remind me of the view from my bedroom window this month, slate grey/blue skies layered with streaks of pinky sunrise and wonderful yellow daffodils growing beside the stone walls which make such a striking background.

Forged Sunshine Kit #2

Embellishments:

Assorted washi tapes and PL style journalling cards; Tim Holtz ideaology alpha cards; cardstock photo frames from Toga; transparent die-cuts from Studio Calico;  a variety of bold black alphas and chipboard elements from stash; stickers from MME; coordinating brads & buttons from stash.

Forged Mood Board Kit

Double sided papers:

Crate Paper - Market Curio (Cocoa Daisy includes this in the Sunshine Kit); Aperature; Happy Day.

Adorn it –- Misty Collection – Graphs.

BoBunny – C’est La Vie en Rose.

My Minds Eye – the sweetest thing.

Echo Park- Beautiful life/Floral

We R Memory Keepers – Chalkboard Black/Grey

I've included just one piece of winter white cardstock but will probably use some from stash, too.

Happy Scrapping

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.

Just a quickie.................

I've been prepping my CKCB blog hop post today and there's lots to be revealed on Monday so be sure to come back then for a look.
But...............I really did want to share this LO that I did last weekend (before I got sick and "took to me bed") for The Green Buttons House February Challenge.

The GB's chose a gorgeous colour palette from Design Seeds for us to use and I had some great snaps of the Senior Partner that I'd wanted to scrap for a few years(!) but never had.

the back of the T shirt announces to the world that
"Old Guys Rule" but most importantly labels him as a
"trophy husband".
It may be almost 5 years since he bought it down in Harbour Town, HHI but it's still his favourite T.

I broke open some new stash from the "He Said, She Said" range by Teresa Collins added some old stash bits and pieces et voila!

C'est pret.

Bon weekend.

Counterfeit Kit - February. It must be lurve!

The ladies on the CKCB have chosen three Kits de Somni for this month’s challenges and I chose to base mine on choice #1.

See how prettily they set out the kit

It wasn't until I began to pull my February Counterfeit Kit together that I realised how many stash items, I had forgotten  saved for a rainy day, that I could use.

I tried to make it look neat, honestly!

Red/White/Black and a touch of turquoisey  blue, hearts & lace, perfect for the month of lurve!

Loving the "He Said She Said" pp's & embellies from Teresa Collins

This month it’s not only about the amazing Theresa Collins papers that I bought recently, more of an embellie stash blast!

Besides the aforementioned TC papers I’ve included pp’s from lilybee, fancypants, basic grey, american crafts, studio calico and hampton art.

so many embellies, so little space!

The embellishments are from bobunny, TC,  jenni bowlin, ikea (!) plus lots of odds & ends.

I’ll be adding cardstock & part used alphas from stash, and inking & stamping a bit too.

"it must be lurve"

I’m hoping to have a go at the chalkboard papers that Jemma talked about in her blog post, here, 

I have the paint just not the nowse!

Boy! doesn't time fly!

I can't believe how long it's been since I blogged on here, or blogged at all come to think of it.
I did finally manage this week to do a couple of posts over on my Normandy Life blog about our trip to Derbyshire, in September, which you might enjoy so just click on the sidebar link and hop over to Normandy for a visit.
Anyhoo...........................
I have done some scrapping this week a couple of circle journal pages for the Flyers CJ which is coming to an end soon and also this LO for the Simple Recipes challenge on the UK Scrappers site.
The criteria set for this month were the following.

Colour palette: Vintage Coral, Burnished Gold & Old Navy, use a poem as inspiration or as part of the page embellishment; use woodgrain or wooden embellishment and make a garland or use garland pieces on the page.

It was a top tip from Leo though that brought everything together on this challenge for me.

The idea of creating an introduction page to show what type of layouts an album contains was a revelation because although I keep my pages in scrapbook albums I never themed them.
I do now!

Memories of Kos.

As promised some LO's showing just what a fabulous time we had on our Kos vacation last month.

poolside shadows, Michelangelo Resort & Spa
my take on the UKS September week 4 challenge

ancient statues & fountains beside the
Tree of Hippocrates, Kos Town.
My LO for the UKS September House Challenge

My LO for the September Scrap a Sketch challenge
newly retired and loving it!

The Flyers cj - final pages

First of all I can't believe it's been almost 2 months since I posted, the weeks have just flown by. 

I have been scrapping on and off , gardening a lot and we've also been away on holiday to the wonderful island of Kos. 

There'll be LO's of stunning views and ancient monuments appearing on here soon but for now I wanted to share some pages from my cj that I did for Heidi.

in pensive mood

The subject she chose was "self portrait".

I called it "me myself & I"

with my girl Fleur

strolling along Blackpool Promenade with Nana

That's me!