Yep, it is that time again. I’m here with my Counterfeit Kit build for October. Joining us as Guest Designer this time around is Machelle Willing. Let’s give her a big welcome!
Diving in I expected our inspiration piece to be fall themes, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was more home and connection themed with a color palette right up my alley. This is the May ’21 kit + add-ons by Hip Kit Club. Let’s take a look…
Add-on embellishments 
Add-on “color pack”
I ended up ignoring the inspiration kit theme altogether and built my kit around specific designers/companies that caught my attention! Ha! I was inspired by PinkFresh, Jen Hadfield and Paige Evans in the inspiration kit to pull from my own stash of papers from those designers/companies. And along the way Vicki Boutin made an appearance as well. The theme I ended up pulling together became the title of this kit build called Nature Study. You’ll see how it got that name and theme as you follow along here.
First up the video version. Keep reading for the short version…
As I was pulling all manner of anything that caught my attention I realized that I had two different feels going on in my choices, which you may notice above. To get specific, in the photos below you will see that I have a bold and graphic office/school vibe (photo directly below) and then a soft and flowing nature vibe (2nd photo below).
I am perfectly okay with that! This is my kit and I can do what I want. When you build your kit you can do what you want as well! That is the beauty of CKC. I did, however, make some choices that do help tie things together. My “solid” color paper choices are flexible enough that they can work with either vibe. And giving this kit the title Nature Study is a sneaky way to justify my disparate choices! LOL!
For embellishments I pulled some items directly from the kit inspiration and some items from designers, and tried to keep my newly developed theme in mind.
This kit is jam packed with embellishments which I know I will NEVER get to use all of this month. But choices are really nice and I will be doing quite a bit of scrapping this October as I’m playing along with the LayOut A Day challenge (aka LOAD) over at ScrapHappy.org. So we shall see how big of a dent I can make in these supplies.
Don’t forget that this kit reveal is a hop and you can go check out the other Master Forgers to see how their minds work in approaching this inspiration. And if you want to join in and play along, CKC is totally free and welcoming you can follow the blog below and join the Facebook group to share your work.
- Counterfeit Kit Challenge – http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/
- Guest Machelle Willing – https://www.smalltownscrap.com/
- Julene – http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com
- Juliet – https://www.instagram.com/julesd/
- Kate – https://kateblue.blogspot.com
- Leslie – http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com
- Misty – {{{ YOU ARE HERE
- Tina – http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com
- Tracey – https://3obsessions.blogspot.com
- Cindy – http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com
- Tara – http://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/
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Such a lovely kit! I think the colors tie everything together nicely. I do lean toward the softer nature side of your kit though, such pretty papers!
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The kit looks great and also very big. Lots of colours there to inspire you. Enjoy your kit this month.
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I’m not mad at ya for going rogue, that’s what makes this so AWESOME!!
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Fascinating & very clever how you’ve managed to integrate your double vision from the inspiration into a cohesive kit! I rarely use up my kit but like the multiple options of a robust kit, as you said. Beautifully done – off to view your video reveal!
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Forgot to say how much I love your clever double entendre title! 😀
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I definitely like the softer side of your kit better, but it is all great. And those embellishments are going to be, without exception, fabulous fun.
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