Pages In Time Interactive Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pages In Time Interactive Blog Hop! We call it an “Interactive Blog Hop” because you do more than read a blog, you actually get to create a layout along the way! At each stop you will collect steps for completing a layout!

The Interactive Blog Stop starts at the Pages In Time blog with the Pages In Time Weekly Sketch. From there, you will hop from blog to blog to collect the steps to create your layout! You should have arrived here from Jessie's Blog where she showed you how to make one cool flower. If you stumbled upon the hop by accident, please play along (just make sure you hit all the blogs)!

The step you are collecting from me is adding bling. I'm going to walk you through adding faux bling and with a little creativity I think you can see you can make the bling with about anything. I love the beautiful bling that scrappers incooperate on their page soI ran out and bought the latest and greatest products Smooches so I could make by own blingy pages. Here's my dilema: I don't trust myself to just apply random dots perfectly to a page.

I heard and read and did some research on faux bling. Go ahead run in through google and you'll find plenty of hits- mostly someone try to sell their rendition of faux bling. I personally love transparency and a dimension fabric paint. Bad part is fabric paint in not acid free...good thing it goes ON the transparency.

Well what do you do if you don't have transparencies? Look at all your package wrap and ask yourself if it would work in place of the transparency. I saved the box my son's chocolate bunny came in to use as faux bling. I also used sheet protectors and that's a great alternative because they are cheap and you can create on double the space.

Then decided on your flourish style. You can photo copy store bought flourishes, use any cool flourishes you have in your stamp collection, find interesting patterns on the Internet, or make your own designs.

Simply slide your design inside your sheet protector, lay your transparency or packaging material over it and make the dots.



Now, if you don't have liquid pearls, smooches, or fabric paint, you could consider paint or permanent markers. Have fun bling. When it dries cut carefully and closely around your pattern. The excess can be slightly noticeable so that is why I recommended a close cut.
Dragon fly flourish:

Sometimes I'll add gems and random tiny flowers into the pattern.

Be certain to write down the steps along the way of the blog hop, because you will need to incorporate them into your layout to be eligible for the overall prize! Speaking of prizes, take a peak at the grand prize:



To be eligible for the prize you must incorporate the sketch and five additional steps from the hop. The order of the hop is as follows:



Karen: http://fablady.blogspot.com
Becky: http://manyminimemories.blogspot.com/
Lisa: http://theshabbyhorse.blogspot.com/
Anna C: http://picturesnpapers.blogspot.com/
Jessie: http://disasterouscrafting.blogspot.com/
Stacey: http://ohschwietscrap.blogspot.com/
Andrea: http://dreasscrapsofinspiration.blogspot.com/
Traci: http://scrapsofwhimsy.blogspot.com/
Lili: http://pagesintimestoresite.ning.com/profiles/blogs/pages-in-time-interactive-blog


Finally, you will need to upload your completed layout at Pages In Time. If you are not already a member, you will need to become one. Once you are there, you will find a Forum entitled “June 30 – July 6 Thursday Sketch”. You will have until midnight on July 6th to upload your layout. All layouts that are based upon the sketch and have incorporated at least five of the steps from the blog hop will be eligible for the prize. A winner will be chosen by the Pages In Time Design Team.

You can earn two extra votes!!! If you follow all the blogs listed in the hop and leave a comment on each blog, you will be eligible for an extra vote. You can also earn an extra vote if you incorporate the step listed at each stop in your layout. That means, if you do your layout based on the sketch and include all of the steps, you get an extra vote! Be sure to stop by the forum to see my completed page.

One more surprise!!! I am offering a personal RAK to a random person that is a follower of my blog, leaves a comment, and loads a completed page at Pages in Time. This RAK will include the items needed to make faux bling PLUS a few pieces of faux bling made by yours truly.


Now hop on over to Andrea's Blog to get the next step. Get to collecting those steps. I look forward to seeing what you make and you can check out my completed page in the forum at Pages In Time. But in the mean time here's a few close-ups plus some hints at the remaining steps!!!!





Thanks for hopping by....

June counterfeit kit blog hop

For the Girls



Here we go HOP again. It's that time of the month. The good time of the month for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog hop. You should have arrived her from Rinda-if not you might want to start at the beginning at the Counterfeit Kit Site. Again another incredible month of inspiration and fun playing with my knock off kit. Like I said before, I believe the Counterfeit Kit is better than any kit club you could subscribe to because you build your personalized kit with the supplies you already have on hand; those things you obviously liked enough to individual pick out in a store. This month our "kits" were inspired by Burlap and Buttercup.

This blog hop challenge was to created a page about yourself and to use the "I" theme. Considering this month I'm making mini albums for my step daughters the "I" theme was hard. I decided to make them pages using the country song "This One's for the Girls" and give them an "I hope" message.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will come back Thursday June 30th for the Pages in Time's inactive big hop. I'll be doing a tutorial and offering a RAK. Plus there will be many more opportunities for RAKs along the way.

Your next stop today is Helen's blog: http://craftimperfect.blogspot.com

Counterfeit the Design Team Blog Hop

Welcome to the Counterfeit the Design Team Blog Hop. This month the group at the counterfeit team set up a challenge to find inspiration in a member of their design team as a challenge. I mimicked Jessica's "Let it Snow" layout after seeing and loving her use of circles and pock-a-dot ribbon.

This month I am working on gutting an old hard cover book and turning it into an explosion book based on our wedding pics. This is the bottom most page of my book and on the right side is where I put my copy cat Jessica tactics to work. I used plain old card stock plus gcd studio papers from the "Eye Candy" collection.


This is actually the wedding invitation turned into a pocket as a storage spot for the cards from our wedding. I used another part of the transparency to make this bird flourish.

This is the right side. I made a hear shape pocket to store a few tokens from our wedding. I used a transparency so that you can see whatever I decide to store in the pocket. I quilled the key and the flowers are from a swap. I hope to give credit to the maker of the flowers but she didn't label her bag, so when I know I will update this page. I added a little pink H2O glimmering water to the white petals on the flower.

Check back later this month to see what else I have accomplished with this book and the amazing kit the Counterfeit team encouraged me to make. I plan to get a lot scrapped as I scrap until I drop at the Page's In Time On-Line Crop. If you want to have fun and need encouragement using up the kit I hope you'll come and meet me there.

Now I must send you on to your next stop on the hop to see what inspiration Crystal has stolen. Have a great hop and see you around the blog spot.

March Counterfeit Kit Blog Hop

Here we go HOP again. It's that time of the month. The good time of the month for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog hop. You should have arrived her from Marlynn - if not you might want to start at the beginning at the Counterfeit Kit Site.

Again another incredible month of inspiration and fun playing with my knock off kit. Like I said before, I believe the Counterfeit Kit is better than any kit club you could subscribe to because you build your personalized kit with the supplies you already have on hand; those things you obviously liked enough to individual pick out in a store. This month our "kits" were inspired by Studio Calico.

This blog hop challenge was to scraplift ourselves. We all love to lift especially when we need inspiration. It's also fun and easy to lift yourself because you've made the page before so you have experience plus you know what challenges you may have had the first time and could determine a way to avoid those same challenges.

My lift started as a process. First it was a lift originally from the mega-talented Irene Tan AKA "Scrapperlicious" She's on my list of blogs I worship .... I mean follow. She made a layout called "Guilty?" and basic explained piece by piece how to make the page begging me to lift it. I did last month on a layout called "Surreal." I decided to lift this page and I used my March Counterfeit Kit to do it, so I made a layout called "HUSH Little Baby."

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I became so wrapped in the spirit of lifting I decided to use this layout as a bases for my (like) first ever card. This was meant to be a mini-version of the layout so it to was a lift.

This card was inspired by the gals at A Creative Operation. This is the Quad pocket card they described. I decided I would make these for all my card needs since we're a family of four and each member can put a personalized note on their individual tag.

The picture and quote are from a left over daily calendar and I can not remember the photographers name. So if you recognize her work, please let me know her name so i can give the proper credit here. I've been holding on to pieces from this calendar for years now and just the other day realized they are perfect for cards.

Of course I used my favorite elegant flowers and my new favorite soda can butterflies with beads.

Besides cardstock, paint, glimmer mist and stickles, I had to dig out one non-kit item the ribbon and trim. All the ribbon and trim I laid out dealt with Easter. I never pulled ribbon and stuff for the orange part of my kit. The net like trim is actually Christmas ribbon.

I wanted to include an orange in the flourish and as bling but I do not own orange stickle or dimension paint, but I do have Metalic Mango nail polish and that is exactly what I used.

I am so happy I found this challenge. Thanks to this challenge I have completed 4 - 8x8 pages in under a month. Plus I have finished 4- 5x5 pages for a friend's paper bag album and the 1 card.

Here are a few of my other pages created with this kit:

Enjoy the rest of the blog hop. Ang is waiting on you next. If you don't already participate in the challenge come back April 5th when they reveal which kit were forge next.