Counterfeit Kit Blog hop- inspired by

This month the Counterfeit Kit Blog hop challenge was to be inspired by one of the design team

I was inspired by Kim Strother- she made a Lo about her daughter's school project about Sinterklaas (Find her original post HERE)

Sinterlaas is a Dutch tradition (he's St Nicholas but he brings presents to Dutch children on the 5th of December - his birthday) so I took the inspiration to make a LO using some pictures of my daughter in traditional Dutch costume from Marken- the large picture is a close up of her clogs while the other two are pictures of the complete outfit

If you don't know about the Counterfeit kit challenge let me explain- every month they encourage you to make your own version of a current kit and then use it!

So far this month I have made 4 Los using my kit -all of which was old paper languishing in boxes- but last month I mad a lot more- why not get involved its a great way to use up old stash

Hop onto Milissa next at One Happy Scrapper

And in case you were wondering this is the LO by Kim that I was inspired by

I think if you look closely the hats in both LOs are very similar!

Can't think of a fun title- scratch that can't think of any title

I made a couple of LOs based on some sketch challenges I always try and participate in

The first is for Pencil LInes

It wasn't supposed to look like this! I was playing about looking for a good position for the red arrow - it touched down on the photo and when I pulled it up the photo started to rip- so the arrow stayed where is was and the title became larger and went round the corner to meet up with the arrow- then I decided it was too far over to the left of the page so I stuck on the tag with the journalling to take things further across the page- it turned out OK

And why does Arthur have a black eye? Nancy poked him in the eye with an unknown implement!
And this one is for Shimelle

Again it wasn't supposed to look like this! If you look at Shimelle's sketch there is a border further down the LO but I pushed it up as a border under the photos as I liked the colour but not the original position.

The photos are from last summer of Arthur playing jenga with his Grandpa- I love how the son is shining through the window onto his face
the sketches

Twisted Paint

The Twisted sketch this week is my turn to work on- go to the twisted site to see the sketch but the twist is paint

Now i sometimes use paint on my Los but I'm not very confident and it can lead to a lot of discarded paper or card- so instead of using paint I made it the subject of my photos- i used strips of blue and green paper to make the border at the bottom and even went as far as inking the edges of my tags

faces in the crowd

I decided to print off a huge copy of this photo for the sketch from the SEI blog. It's a picture of an outing ( probably to the horse racing) of the people from our village in about 1959- in the picture a large number of faces from my childhood that I can't remember the names of now but also a large number of my family- in there is my Mum, Nan, Grandfather, Great Grandmother, tow of my Nan's Sisters and my Great Uncle Arthur.

I love that the photo is so rooted in the fifties- look at that bus- a real charabanc and the ladies are all in pretty flowered frocks ( please ignore the pint glasses in their hands)

Little Bitty Song

Little Bitty baby- well he's not quite so little bitty really- Stanley was one in this photo- I love the confused look on his little face- This is my design team effort for Scrap it with A song- its from the song Itty Bitty by Alan Jackson. this song has so many options in it this was the first photo that came to hand but I was also tempted by the lines

Big Old City

Pretty little girl

and

Little Bitty Car

I'm sure you'd find lots to inspire you in the lyrics- check it out here

a couple of sketches

This one is for Sarahs Cards

You may have seen the Lo i made of Arthur's face painting a few weeks ago- this time its Nancy's turn- she chose to have delicate flowers painted on her face but it was really hard to photograph

She wouldn't let me wsh her face for two days after this she didn't want to lose her pretty flowers.
here is the sketch

And this one is for Dutch Dares

Yet more photos from the photo shoot in the garden for my large photo canvas- I used mainly Echo Park for the record for this.

Mijn drie kinderen in de tuin- een fotoshoot voor een grote foto canvas

The sketch

Quick this week- but I still cheated!

This week I'm a bit more organised with my LO for Sketchy Thursday but i still don't have any kraft card so this LO is also just posing on this paper until I get some I can stick it down on! ( this paper is a printed kraft that I don't want to use up by sticking stuff on the back!)

Last weekend my husband took part in a 10km race here in Hilversum- we were waiting by the 8km mark and Nancy wasn't very happy about all the waiting- she was crawling round on the floor, sitting on the road, dropping things down drains, running round in circles- anything to make it difficult to keep an eye on her and her brothers. I made this LO using some of the photos I took of her sitting waiting- its called "bored waiting"

this is the sketch