For my second Counterfeit Kit, I chose Little Red Scrapbooks March 2011 main kit, which is essentially the Echo Park For the Record kit with a few accents. I already had the FTR kit, and just added in stuff from my color drawers. At first I was struggling because I don't have a lot of flowers or little doodads, and it finally dawned on me that I was making it harder than it needed to be. Finally I added stuff in that matched in color and "feel" rather than trying to match item for item. This is what I came up with:
Pressed Petals yellow chipboard letters, CI filmstrip border, EK Success button up buttons, MM red twistel, KI Memories word border stickers, a Sonnet's metal rimmed tag, MM felt flowers, Paper Studio Spare Parts black polka dot flowers, an old Colorbok tag and a few misc. doodads.
First up: the not-bluebonnet pics. We waited too long to go this year and completely missed the bluebonnets, but we were able to find a little patch of yellow wildflowers.
It started off as an Allison Davis sketch (Feb 2010 from her website, not Sketch Support), but didn't end up looking like it at the end. The left hand side is pretty true to the sketch, two stacked vertical pics and a pic next to them, but the right hand side got changed up a little. I wanted to keep the background in the pics, so didn't trim them down into squares, which meant I had to overlap the last pic. All of that (and my smaller page size) meant the background paper placement wouldn't work, so I just went with some paper strips. I like how it turned out.
I've been wanting to tell this story for awhile, so I was glad that the pic went with the papers. Added in an old MME frame and some $ stamps from Michaels.
The border on this paper worked well for cutting down and piecing back together, but I thought the 4th side overwhelmed the small area too much, so I left it off. The only thing not from the kit is the baker's twine.
Probably my favorite from this group. There was a day back in December that Jacob just wanted to be cuddled, so Rick took some pics of it. The yellow letters were to big and bold, so I used some green Thickers from my stash, and some of the alphas from the kit. I really liked the rose stickers from the kit and wanted to use them somehow and after I had cut them out from the sheet and set them down, I realized how it looked like a momma and baby, so that's how I ended up using them on the layout. The ruler-look border strip ended up working well, I used a glittery MM ring tag to bring attention to it and use it to show Jacob's age.
Sadly, the only picture from Mother's Day this year. The black alpha stickers are the third style from the kit.
Brandon, ready to head out to one of the scout camps. The letters are big and bold, so I didn't do too much embellishing.
Still had quite a bit of paper left over, but was out of pictures that I had selected, so I started playing with paper and moving pieces around until I came up with this. At Christmas I get to see two friend that I haven't seen in a long time, so I'll probably use it for that and use some little off white shipping tags peeking out from under the mats for journaling.
It started off as an Allison Davis sketch (Feb 2010 from her website, not Sketch Support), but didn't end up looking like it at the end. The left hand side is pretty true to the sketch, two stacked vertical pics and a pic next to them, but the right hand side got changed up a little. I wanted to keep the background in the pics, so didn't trim them down into squares, which meant I had to overlap the last pic. All of that (and my smaller page size) meant the background paper placement wouldn't work, so I just went with some paper strips. I like how it turned out.
I've been wanting to tell this story for awhile, so I was glad that the pic went with the papers. Added in an old MME frame and some $ stamps from Michaels.
The border on this paper worked well for cutting down and piecing back together, but I thought the 4th side overwhelmed the small area too much, so I left it off. The only thing not from the kit is the baker's twine.
Probably my favorite from this group. There was a day back in December that Jacob just wanted to be cuddled, so Rick took some pics of it. The yellow letters were to big and bold, so I used some green Thickers from my stash, and some of the alphas from the kit. I really liked the rose stickers from the kit and wanted to use them somehow and after I had cut them out from the sheet and set them down, I realized how it looked like a momma and baby, so that's how I ended up using them on the layout. The ruler-look border strip ended up working well, I used a glittery MM ring tag to bring attention to it and use it to show Jacob's age.
Sadly, the only picture from Mother's Day this year. The black alpha stickers are the third style from the kit.
Brandon, ready to head out to one of the scout camps. The letters are big and bold, so I didn't do too much embellishing.
Still had quite a bit of paper left over, but was out of pictures that I had selected, so I started playing with paper and moving pieces around until I came up with this. At Christmas I get to see two friend that I haven't seen in a long time, so I'll probably use it for that and use some little off white shipping tags peeking out from under the mats for journaling.
These layouts also mark the begining of my Layout a Day challenge. I'm going to try and complete 365 layouts in 365 days, starting on November 1, 2011. I decided not to wait until the first of the year, since I had several projects coming up and wanted to be able to count them. :) I fully admit that it probably won't be one layout a day, but rather, as this month has proved so far, an average of one per day.
So, 365L total so far: 7
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