Lasting Memories challenge

LM #497 - 3 Things

Striped patterned paper

Stars (can be a paper or an embellishment)

Washi Tape (if you don't have washi tape you can use ribbon or paper strips)

I've started working on the "lemon" aspect of my Counterfeit Kit.

I used the busy citrus fruit paper for this layout and borrowed my title from Tina, who did a similar layout about her husband.

I used a striped green paper strip down the left hand side.

I have used 3 purple star brads.

The yellow washi tape with flowers goes down next to the title and across the bottom of my layout.

I have no idea why there are white patches on this post.

Paper Issues Hexagons and Freshly made sketches.

One of the challenges this month at Paper Issues group on Facebook was to use hexagons across the page.
I had a packet of Jillybean soup hexagon stickers in my kit so decided to use them all.

40 years ago I went to Hawaii with a friend, whom I still see.
One of our outings was to the Top of Waikiki restaurant which revolves, so you can see the views.
Here's a link with lots of photos if you're interested. https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g60982-d433919-Reviews-Top_of_Waikiki-Honolulu_Oahu_Hawaii.html

I started with another sheet of pineapple paper.
I matted my photos on a matching paper.
Carefully placing the hexagons around the photos I managed top almost reach across the page diagonally.
I placed my title over the bottom left area and used 2 die cuts around my photos. The yellow face luckily covered a lady's backside. :)

Lastly, I added a blue square brad.

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At Freshly Made sketches they have this sketch



I decided to use an offcut of the pineapple paper to make a card.
Everything on this card is from my Counterfeit kit.

I've also entered this at Cute card Thursday where they want birthday cards

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Seize the birthday wants monochromatic cards.
I've used the aqua colour again with more small offcuts from my kit.
The dirty mark near the brad is on my scanner, I need to buy some metholated spirits to clean it.

Counterfeit Kit Challenge #1

We are asked to do a layout about "Oh Happy day! "
I've used this sketch from Paper Issues to create it.

I've used mainly the lime colours from my kit (they're more aqua really).

My photo is taken from the top of the Empire State Building, which has been on my bucket list since I was a little girl. Dad went up there in 1959 and never stopped talking about it.

As I stood up there looking down at various buildings, it suddenly hit me...I'm really here! I've fulfilled the dream. 

I don't know the name of that building with the copper roof but someone said it was one of the big hotels. Perhaps one of you American people can tell me.

Research tells me it is 40 Wall st or the Trump building. (ugh!)

Challenge yourself and lets get sketchy

I'm taking a break from my kit for this layout.
I'm combining 2 challenges Challenge Yourself and Let's get sketchy.

The theme is Mom or as we say in Australia, Mum.
The 2 colours prominent in the photo were black and purply-pinks.

Searching through my stash I found an older paper that I only ever intended as layering but it works on this modern funky style layout.
I chose a darker purple paper as my strip across in similar tones, then found a pale mauve which worked as my matting layer.
The gingham ribbon was better than plain black ribbon and my black bow went well with it. I added 2 chipboard small tags ,a 7 gypsies circle that says "home" plus a die cut saying hey girl.

I hope you like it!

Scrap our stash

My next layout is for Scrap our stash.
There is also a BLING challenge at the scraproom. I have combined these 2.

I'm starting with an October afternoon "5 & dime "paper from my stash.
There are scraps from other papers that I used as background.

B=bling flourish, butterflies
L=large alphas
I=Ink around wooden speech bubble
N=nephew
G=garland

The wood veneer is holding the word "little" and is a speech bubble shape
The brad is top left and is a red heart with arrow.
The chipboard is the letter T in cute. I used a negative outline and cut it to size.

May Jumpstart challenge

At The Scraproom group they had a May jumpstart challenge.

Here's my finished layout.

I used 2 pineapple papers from my Counterfeit kit plus a couple of other offcuts to construct the layering on this  this layout.

One thing I recycled on this layout was the typed paper for tabs top left and bottom right. It is an old cassette cover where my sister typed the names of the songs. I recently threw many away and thought it might be useful, it was.

Freaky fast formula plus another

This layout is for the Freaky Fast Formula challenge on the scraproom group on Facebook.
I used older brown shades for the sepia photo, some were in my Counterfeit kit for this month.
I also added some tiny Prima flowers and brads plus some bone coloured ribbon.
I like how the outfit on the dressmaking paper matches Louisa's hat.

When I was in Arizona 3 years ago I asked Maggie could we go to Walmart as we don't have it in Australia. So off we went. We didn't see any weirdos much to my disappointment.
My daughter joked that maybe I was the weirdo!!
I used some of the aqua coloured papers plus flowers on this layout.

In hindsight I think the white alphas need inking so I'm using a pale pink just to highlight them slightly.