August Counterfeit Kit Reveal - Picnic Parade! - Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog!  Being a newbie blogger, this is my first ever blog hop, so I'm very excited to have some traffic at my little corner of the internet.  Be sure to leave me a comment to let me know you stopped by.  You should have arrived from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.   If not, be sure to check out the introduction here.  I am also super excited to be featured as the guest designer this month and found the inspiration digi kit, Summer Lovin' by ScrapOrchard to be right up my alley.  Lots of bright, vivid colors with crisp ginghams and bold, happy embellishments make the perfect combination to capture fun summer memories (or memories from any season, for that matter).  And while I am not a digi scrapper, this kit is a definite reminder that inspiration can be translated to any medium.

After studying this inspiration kit for a while...

I came up with my version of the August Counterfeit Kit:
 Picnic Parade!

Doesn't it just make you think of lazy summer days with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill, kids on the slip-and-slide, the guys throwing horseshoes and the party-crashing ants?  Come with me in the backyard and let's take a closer look at the spread...

I didn't have any exact matches of patterned paper from the inspiration kit, but found plenty of papers with the same feel.  The Echo Park sticker sheet provides lots of banners, pinwheels, clouds and birdies that are featured in the embellishment-rich inspiration kit.  And that classic gingham tablecloth pattern paper would be perfect in red, but CKC is all about making due with what you have, so blue gingham paper will have to do the job.  I can live with that.

Can I offer you a cold drink from the cooler? Let me just move that washi tape, gingham ribbon, baker's twine and strawberry stamp out of the way first.

Next we have three baskets of embellies to add to the tasty fun. Tickets, ribbons, paper straws, ric-rac, bottle caps, and flowers all make perfect "condiments" to the "meat" of this kit.

  

 

You'll want to be sure to check out all the other fabulous takes on this month's kit by following the list below. Next stop: Jemma's blog.   And after you're finished hopping, you had better get busy assembling your own kit before the ants carry all of your supplies away!

Guest Designer: Lynnette  http://sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com/  YOU ARE HERE!

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

Jen http://mypair-a-dice.blogspot.com/

Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/

Libeeti http://creationswithlove-li-bee-ti.blogspot.com/

Margie http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/

Milissa http://millermall.blogspot.com/

Rebecca http://howiburb.blogspot.com/

Susanne http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/

Bethany  http://inspiredscrapper-bethany.blogspot.com/

Oh and by the way...

CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE PASS THE KETCHUP?!