CKC Kit Build, July ’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😉 ).

It’s July and no matter how you cut it, in the norther hemisphere it is true summer. No wonder this month’s inspiration kit is jam packed with summer vibes. Before we get to that though, let’s welcome our guest designer, Lacy Stockton. Lacy is a Creative Memories scrapper and she is surrounded by the boys in her life. You can read more about Lacy along the blog hop. She’ll be sharing her work in the CKC Facebook group, so be sure you join us over there.

Now we can get to the pretty paper. To start, here is our inspiration kit. It is the Moonlit Collection kit by Traci Reed. Traci is a prolific and talented digital and physical paper designer in our industry! This kit is a big color punch from her typical work. But what a way to show off so much color by grounding it in black!

The picture above represent the digital kit and the thumbnails below show off some of the printable side of her work. I love that she does both!

I must admit that my mind was all over the place when I was kit building this time. Let me walk you through it.

At first I had the idea that would I print and cut the “sticker” elements from the Moonlit collection as I own them already. The plan was to pair them with just cardstock. Yep, just a bold rainbow + black selection of cardstock. I’ve done a couple of pages along those lines in the past and was curious to try it again. Also, I wasn’t so sure I would have papers in my collection that would go with Moonlit since I tend to be a soft color scrapper.

But wouldn’t you know as I started looking through my stash I started pulling. And pulling… and pulling. I ended up with 24 papers. I leaned into the orange, yellow and purple. As you can see my purple is pretty tame compared to Moonlit, but you work with what you’ve got, right?

But the papers didn’t stop there. At this point I had to create subsets of papers. We’ll get to that soon! First let’s cover the main embellishments.

I focused on the embellishments from the digi kit. Plus I added gold. Why gold? Two reasons. Traci Reed talked about the glowing quality of the Moonlit colors. I didn’t have that property to my kit so I pulled in some shine. But that shine idea came by accident from the papers below. Notice the sky print on the far left? That paper was one of the very first I pulled while I was kitting. It didn’t make the main kit, but instead it joined some companion papers and embellishments to become an add-on. All featuring gold, which did spill over into my main kit.

Oh, you would think I was done, but you’d be wrong. Boy I just kept going. While I was looking for yellow papers that far left lemon paper below caught my attention. It just made me crave summer food, especially fruit. So another add-on was born.

Was I done yet? Yes. Yes I was. LOL. I had to stop at some point, right? I have a scrapbook retreat coming up so this kit will be in my luggage. I’m hoping to make a dent in this massive-for-me kit.

There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. Since I’ve got so much going on, let’s do a little recap, and give these pretties some names.

Hot Summer Nights
main kit papers

Hot Summer Nights
main kit embellishments

Rainbow Lights
add-on

Shooting Star
add-on

Midnight Snack
add-on

If you want more details on my kit building thought process, check out my kit build video.

Don’t forget that each month I also create my own elements to add into my kit. Of course these are inspired by the original kit, but often have a twist of their own. So don’t miss what I will make in just a couple of days.

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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