CKC Kit Build, January ’24

I love kit building and that is why I am on the design team for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge project. We take an inspiration kit each month and proceed to replicate it, or as we say, counterfeit it. This is a free, friendly group that helps inspire you to use up supplies you already own. We are not about needing to buy the latest and greatest thing (though we won’t stop you if you enjoy new crafty goodies😉 ).

Welcome to the new year. There are just a couple of changes happening over at CKC that I want to tell you about. First, we’ll be including extra inspiration for you every month! Second, our team has had a few people need to step away and we need a few newbies to take their place. We have a design team call open and if you’re interested, we are a relaxed crew of scrappers who just like to share ideas and inspiration.

With the business out of the way we can start the new year of inspiration with a scrapbook kit build! I do want to take a moment to welcome our guest designer right away. Kristen, aka Scrapping on the Fly on both YouTube and Instagram, is joining us this month. Kristen shared this little info about herself

“Hello! My name is Kristen, I am the proud mom of two, mostly, grown kiddos and a lover of all things scrapbooking! Making the memories to scrapbook, buying the collections and crafty tools, organizing all the fun stash and, of course, using all the different craft things to make a layout! I started my fist official scrapbook in 1996 and have been creating ever since! ❤️“

Give Kristen a big welcome on her socials or over on our Facebook group! Now we can get to the pretty paper. To start, here is our inspiration kit. It is the very recent December 2023 kit from Hip Kit Club. Take a look at what we have to inspire us.

I was inspired by a few things in this kit. The tree trunk paper with the birds was a starting point for me. I knew I wanted something nature leaning. The next stop in my thinking was plenty of plaids based just on one single print. I also wanted to include some snowflakes without getting too wintery. I did like a lot of the wintery branches and foliage so that got added to the kit as well. With those icons included, I next turned to the color inspiration. I used a palette of light & dark blues, yellow, and pops of red and green.

So these are the papers I came up with. Notice the left side is plaid heavy. That just felt so cozy to me for the season.

For the embellishments I leaned heavily into cozy and homey icons, as well as the woodland critters. Since one of my papers had a bit of gold I also added that into my embellishments. What I forgot to make sure was in my picture was a sticker book from Simple Stories that has homey icons I want to use. It also include some alpha stickers. Which, leads me into the second thing I didn’t photograph — the plain black foam that I’ll be die cutting with an alpha die set for my titling.

Don’t forget that each month I also create my own elements to add into my kit. I have much of that done but don’t have the photos edited just yet. You can join me on the 4th for the full reveal of those items.

There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine…

Comfy & Cozy Are We

If you want more details on my kit building thought process, check out my kit build video. [[Coming soon!]]

I hope you can follow along with the other designers and see how they interpreted their own kits.

Here’s the full hop link list

Have fun kit building and don’t forget to show off your stuff over on the CKC Facebook group, or tag us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge or use #counterfeitkitchallenge.

I’ll be back on the 4th, for our Product Forgeries. Until then, have an artful day!

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