CKCB LAYOUTS 6 AND 7

Morning all, well this week (unlike last week) is simply racing along at a merry old pace!  Not that I'm complaining, so without further ado.  First up I finally and I underline that finally got these photos onto a layout, when we were at Coventry Cathedral last year there was an offset piece near the back of the church which had these amazing hanging embroideries which I subsequently photographed and had printed, I've tried on numerous occasions to get them on a layout to no avail so I'm grateful that I finally got them onto paper once and for all!

And then a wood grain based layout, using paper from Jen at the wonderful Wear Crafts, I didn't actually think I had any wood grain papers and then I found this one.  Documenting said 13 year old who had had a splendid time in a sweet shop and before you ask, no he didn't eat them all at once!

I've still to put the next CKCB kit together (seen as I've run out), I'll see what I can do on that front.  In the meantime happy scrapping!

CKCB COLOUR CHALLENGE #4 - RAINBOW

Now I've been working my way through the challenges on the counterfeit kit blog linked with national scrapbook day, it's been great fun.  Lesley's challenge was rainbow - yes that's right folks using every colour of the rainbow on my layout, now although I had a couple of papers in my kit this month that would most definitely have met most of the colours and therefore could have been used with a couple of additions, I fancied having a go at a technique in the Scrap365 magazine this month and I must admit I'm really rather pleased with the effect.

It started out as sheet of white cardstock, 7 acrylic paints were dragged out, as was mini brayer and away I went, I put the colours together that seemed to be more pleasing on the eye (I was tempted to go with the song, but thought there might be some significant colour clash).  Then I waited for it to dry, used some white gesso, a few stamps on the background in black, a few ink splats and it was done.

I've used a photo of the fantastic window at the new Coventry cathedral that we were lucky enough to visit last year.  My journalling is hidden behind the photo, which I matted up on purple and white to make it stand out.

Hope you've had a fabulous scrapping day!

CKCB LAYOUTS 19 + 20

Good morning, well it's Saturday morning and I thought no finer way to start it than to share more layouts.

Both of these were inspired by the sketches the counterfeit blog design team shared recently. Now I've had the paper in the background forever and never thought it would get used up, it was part of a blue paper pack which I loved so much I ended up with two packs, but there were a couple of pieces in the pack that I struggled to use, strangely enough when I came to putting this layout together I found it easy!

I hand cut the tags out of spare items in the kit and used up some of the metal brad type things in the top of each one, I don't have the tool to actually put these  through properly so tend to use a hole punch to make a hole big enough and then I used a little hammer on the back to flatten the pins.  

A couple of hand stitched buttons and it was coming along.  I used a circular die as a template to punch holes around and did a circle of stitching on the bottom right and then I wrote the journal above that stitching and on the left hand side. 

The picture is of Aslan from the Narnia tales and was at Chatsworth last year in their Narnia themed Christmas event.  The actual item had little mechanical mice biting at the ropes as well as Aslan appearing to breath.  

This sketch came from the guest designer Maggie this is the sketch and this is the original design source if you click here

Next up a layout  shared by Jemma which comes from the Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch challenge - which can be found here

The photo documents our first visit to Coventry Cathedral, I wanted to see the statue on the outside of St Michael and the Devil for an age and as we were holidaying nearby it seemed like the perfect time.  We took plenty of photos of the statue and I have in fact up to now scrapbooked two photos of it, one with me and said 13 year old in front of it and the other of just the statue.

This is the sketch in question, I loved the swirly title element on the sketch but was feeling lazy so I hand drew the word on my layout and then punched holes and stitched it and overall I'm quite pleased with it!

I've loved all the layouts shared on the blog post over on the counterfeit kit team - if you want to have a nosey yourself click here