CKC Kit Build, May ’26

Welcome to a new month of kit building. I’m hosting the activities over at CKC this time around. And I have an announcement. This is my last month being on the team at CKC. I’ve had another opportunity come up and have decided to move on. More on that in a future post. For now I’m happy to share my final month of CKC team work with a final hosting lead.

I’ve invited my friend Debbie Barton to be our Guest Designer this month. She has energy and fun layouts to share so I know she’ll do great! Plus she said she has wanted to try this whole kit building project anyway! So welcome Debbie!

Now, the kit I chose got a little bit of side-eye from my team members. I just had to laugh because I do like to challenge people. I’m a bit of an imp that way. So, we are using the Mom’s Kitchen collection from Echo Park.

At first glance this kit is heavily themed. So many mixers, aprons, pies and so on. Don’t let that stop you though. If you don’t like the theme, you can pull other inspiration from this kit. In fact you’ll see that my own kit largely side steps the theme in favor of color and pattern.

So these are the papers I came up with. I leaned into the checkered print with a selction of cheks/plaids and even some stripes in a variety of colors. I did pull in some fruit imagery as an adjacent theme. I have lots of supporting small scale prints to layer up with everything.

With the embellishments is where I brought in more of the theme. These can be left off if they just don’t fit the stories I’m telling. It is hard to see in the mix of everything, but I have some pots & bowl die cuts toward the left. I’ve got a pouch of “food” embellishments in the center (see that donut toward the top center?). Plus on the far right I have dies for creating pies as well as more bowls & pots.

It’s a nice big versatile kit this month since May is a typical heavy scrapping month for me!

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’m loving my ideas this time.

There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. As my final kit going out with a food theme and I’m calling mine…

Farewell Fiesta!

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

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

I have a free download “worksheet” to help guide you through your own kit build process. It is a printable pdf and there are two worksheets per letter size page. Have fun kit building!

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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