There was an extra kit challenge this month at Counterfeit kits. It was to make a card and matching tag.
As I had run out of paper I used scraps.
Here's the card and the tag below. The red is just backing paper and not part of the tag.
I've used a chipboard man as my conductor and drawn in his baton. I also doodled some extra musical notes.
My great nephew has just completed his final high school exams and received a high percentile in music. The card is for him.
Yesterday I did another layout based on this paper issues sketch
It was featuring 2 Christmas photos from when my 2 best friends came to lunch. We ate prawns and salad with fresh bread rolls. Then rum balls for dessert.
I used a Bella red paper plus a random green Christmas paper that I had on this. The felt Santa boots and belt were left from Christmas card making. The alphas are mixed.
I'm enjoying using the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Instafriends paper. In this case it is for a sketch on Paper Issues.
I had another vintage photo to scrap from my childhood.
Using a small red doiley and some green scrap strips I made the background for the photo. I double matted it,also in greens. My title was from a set I had and it refers to our happy childhood.
My smaller embellishments are from a Jillybean soup set I own, which have a retro flavour as well.
For challenge #2 we are asked to use one of the sketches on Cindy's Pinterest page here
https://www.pinterest.com/cindyf2456/ckc-january-2022/
I have chosen this layout to scraplift.
I've used the 2 crate papers from my kit, Maggie Holmes Instafriends. It is actually 2 sides of the one paper.
I kept the other layers as neutral as I could so that the photo stands out. The 3 strips of yellow on the left were hand stitched using lots of embroidery thread.(Another mission I'm on is to use all that).
The flowers are from Autumn Lane. The journal circle is from Jillibean soup cardstock stickers.
I'm also entering this on Challenge YOUrself where the theme is friends working together.
As these are my 2 best friends, I think this qualifies.
We originally met in Rotaract (junior Rotary) where we did many community projects together, everything from painting houses to selling chocolate bars as fundraising.bArbara and I are travel buddies and problem solve when things go wrong,including famously getting stranded in Greece.
Hope you like it.
Lasting Memories have a pocket challenge this month.
Now that my Counterfeit Kit is done, I can do some other layouts waiting in my "in tray", namely my brain.
On Christmas Day my daughter asked me to slice the strawberries and produced this strawberry slicer. I'd never seen one before so decided to feature it on a layout.
I chose reds as my feature colour. My pocket is a red chevron lolly bag behind the last photo. I find them good layering items.
I've done it like a sequence of events layout. Would you believe I had no strawberries in my stash? There's also a lace doiley and ric rac on there as well as 2 red chevron journal tags.
The scraproom group on Facebook has this sketch for its throwback sketch.
I used the last whole paper from my Counterfeit kit to scrap my Christmas gift photos from my daughter. It was a beautiful towel set and matching tray with a leopard on it.
I matched the Kaisercrat dotted circles paper with another non-descript green paper and used black for my mid section. My embellishments are also Kaisercraft.
Taking a scan didn't work with all that pattern ,so I photographed my layout.
I'm nearing the end of my Counterfeit kit so I thought I would stop and use up some scraps or smaller pieces. I've made 4 cards.
