As a design team member over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge group I play along with as many of our monthly inspiration challenges as I can. The Forgery on the Fourth project is definitely one I enjoy! That is where we see a scrap product we like and set out to recreate it with supplies we already own. So let’s go ahead and dive in to what I have for you this month.
We are being inspired by this kit from [fill in blank here].
Did you notice the die cut ephemera pack in the bottom center of that kit? Well that is where I got my idea. I chose some of the homey icons included in that set and added in some woodland critters that matched my theme from my kit build. With a bunch of stamping, punching, die cutting and even some diy tag creation, I made a full set of ephemera.
This project is great for a spending freeze or supply hoarders collectors like me. It is even great for those who just run out of favorite pieces in store bough collections. Whey you diy, you can always make more of those favorites.
For more creative ideas, the CKC blog has more forgery examples to check out. I hope this gave you some ideas on how you can recreate your favorite products with supplies you already have on hand. Don’t forget to show off your stuff over on the CKC Facebook group, or tag us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge or use #counterfeitkitchallenge.
^^ Disclaimer: I offer affiliate shopping linked products when possible. This shopping won’t cost you anything extra, but I get a small kick back from the companies for sending business their way. It is an easy way to tell me “Thank You” for the content I provide. I appreciate you using my links!
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.
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!
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😉 ).
We have arrived at the final CKC kit of 2023. I can’t believe the year is almost over. I’m feeling it in my bones though. It has been a long, tiring year, but I digress.
Before we move into this final kit inspiration let’s welcome… Silvia Jorke! Silvia is a scrappy friend of our fearless leader, and November hostess, Lisa. You can find Silvia on her Instagram account. I hear she is a prolific project maker so you should be able to find lots of inspiration!
Now we can get to the inspiration kit for this month. We have the November ’22 kit by Hip Kit Club. Hip Kit is a big, popular, original product club company with a big following and lots of product and inspiration. The November kit is always Christmas Holiday inspired.
I don’t prefer my kits to be highly or specifically themed since my heart is in everyday moments scrapping. That is the beauty of CKC! I can be inspired by a lovely kit to pull together my own fresh prettiness and collate what works so well for me. So let’s dive in.
Notice that there are a few holiday specific papers, but many of the papers are just highly patterned paper in a holiday color scheme. So my shift in kit will keep the pattern, focus on cozy colors and ditch the Christmas. I’m not anti-Christmas here, mind you. I will just go to my holiday file when I need the theme. LOL.
So these are the papers I came up with. I pulled lots of blue, a teal sweater style print, plaids and a couple of light & bright yellows, and pinks to replace the reds. All have great pattern to them. All papers are by Pink Fresh studio since the Hip Kit work often reminds me Pink Fresh.
Here is a look at the embellishments. I did far less planning with the embellishment and just went with my gut. I sorted through a pile of Pink Fresh embellishments and just grabbed anything that grabbed me! I found texture, color and any little phrases caught my attention the most. As for alphas I *think* the inspiration kit had a woodgrain alpha (hard to tell from the pic), so I started with that and then added in blue, and neutrals for a variety. Also included is a small scale alpha book for my mix-and-match font titles. As a final touch I have a jar of Lunar Paste since HKC always offers a mixed media add-on.
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.
There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine…
Winter Peace
If you want more details on my kit building thought process, check out my kit build video. However, again this month, my thoughts were captured pretty well here in this post!
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’m not on the official hop this time as I’m taking on the mini-kit role this month. However, I always do the main kit no matter what my role is!
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!
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😉 ).
I’d like to start by welcoming Laurie Crouse Winiarski as our guest designer for the month of October. She’ll be sharing her work over on the CKC Facebook group, so be sure to follow along over there.
To start our kit this month, here is our inspiration kit. It is the October ’22 Limited Edition kit by My Creative Scrapbook. I don’t know much about their company. I do know that they have these simple compilation images of their previous kits. Finding more details is a bit challenging. However, our CKC team hostess this month, Leslie, was able to get us a breakdown of kit contents. She also linked us up to CityScrapper’s YouTube channel where she unboxes the entirety of this kit, if you want all the details. Below this overview photo is a sample of some of the papers and products, but not the entirely of the collection.
This kit was LOADED up with 49 & Market papers and embellishments. I honestly was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of florals in this collections and I really wasn’t sure where I was going to go with my kit. I thought I would just take inspiration from the mixed media painterly effect. However, the very first item I looked at in my stash was a floral that worked perfectly. Plus, it was a floral in an entire paper pad of florals. So, boom. Paper choice done. What will I do with all the florals? I’m not sure yet, but I know the b-sides will play a big role in my crafting this month.
This is the DCWV Wildflowers pad and not only do the watercolor elements work with the 49 & Market inspiration, but the color palette is pretty good too..
With that choice done, I grabbed just a few embellishments to add in. I wanted to keep things easy. I had a busy September, ending with a recently sick kiddo, and I’m moving into a mad October. So, yeah, easy is required.
I added in kraft cardstock since there were some raw chipboard embellishments in the original kit (there is a peek of that in the overview picture). Dies will be used to create faux chipboard pieces. The embellishment pack was full of frames, florals, words strips, tabs and more. I narrowed that down to a floral die, a tab punch and some Tim Holtz word strips. I threw in a stamp set that will work well for some easy mixed media techniques, plus three stencils for more mixed media and I’m done. See, kitting does not have to be hard.
There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine Easy Peonies. (Okay this is my very bad attempt at making the Easy Peasey phrase floral related. Tell me, do you have a better one?? My tired brain isn’t figuring it out!)
If you want more details on my kit building thought process, check out my kit build video. But honestly this blog post really says most of my thinking already. 🤪
I hope you can follow along with the other designers and see how they interpreted their own kits.
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 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😉 ).
Before we dive in let’s give a warm welcome to Jennifer Croasdale as our guest designer. You can find Jennifer over on her Instagram account.
Now we can get to the pretty stuff. To start, here is our inspiration kit. It is called Aurora and it is put out by the Not Just for Boys kit club. Our CKC team member hosting this month, Tina, appreciated the fact that there was NO pink in this one and contained some of her other favorite colors. Plus there is enough masculine options to make it flexible for any crafting.
I was inspired by the color palette of green, teal and purple. And yet… August was a purple month for me so I wanted to go in a different direction. This was the perfect chance to substitute in a color that I have been hoarding for a while now: Magenta! All shades of magenta, from plum to burgundy. Check it. The four papers on the right were the keepers and the other four will go back into my stash. Will they stay with their magenta buddies, or will they be split up for other categories? Oh the mystery! 😉
With those magenta papers sorted and narrowed down I was able to add in the greens and teals to round out my kit. I also have a pop of black as the inspo kit had a black and white polka-dot print.
So these are the papers I came up with. Notice I also found a plaid magenta and a Pinkfresh floral with magenta to buddy up with the other papers. How did those sneak by my magenta radar?
Not only was I hoarding the papers in that color, but some embellishments in that color as well. Plus I found a few extra that I happened to have from a Paige Evans collections. Puting those together, adding in a whole slew of alphas and throwing in come colorful sprays (in place of the brown spray in the inspo kit) and my kit was (almost) done. Take a look at the embellishments.
Notice the third photo? This was my “add-on embellishment pack” that I included in my kit after I pulled the main embellishments. Some of these beauties were too good to put back right away. Will I have a chance to use all this? Probably not. But I think I’ll need this kit to stick around for a while so I can get through this hoarded color collection!
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.
There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine Hoarded Delights in honor of my focus color.
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.
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!
As a design team member over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge group I play along with as many of our monthly inspiration challenges as I can. The Forgery on the Fourth project is definitely one I enjoy! That is where we see a scrap product we like and set out to recreate it with supplies we already own. So let’s go ahead and dive in to what I have for you this month.
We are being inspired by this kit from this June kit by Pink and Paper. This is a European company and their kits are built to accompany bi-monthly lesson plans. They are all about education, and not just hoarding! But I tell ya, I was so in love with several of these items and couldn’t narrow it down to just one. So today I four forgeries for you in a bit of a compilation as I’ve done many of these techniques before.
Let’s take a closer look at the items I’ll be recreating.
Let’s take them one by one. First up is the scalloped paper. I simple punched circles (well, actually, half circles) from paper and glued them down into straight lines. This takes some time but zero brain power! It could also be done with stamping (mask off a straight line with tape and stamp half of a circle onto the paper). However, the paper version gives you a bonus… Notice in the final photo the little lift I gave that second row of circles? A layout with tons of dimension is in my future!
Up next is the puffy words. Now, I do have some puffy words already in my kit, but I could not resist pulling out my Nuvo drops for a favorite technique. I created these words and images by drawing with my squeeze bottle onto a non-stick sheet. Let dry for 2 days and these embellishments are ready to go. Nice thing with this technique is that you can use whatever colors and words work for YOUR project!
Want more Nuvo/dimensional drop techniques? Check out this video for lots of ideas!
Third up I have another sheet of pattern paper. I really liked the piece of paper but I knew it would take a while. So I increased the size of my text to reduce the time it would take to get everything done. Now I could have copied the original word for word, but again the beauty of DIY is making it your own. I’ve done my own word art before, and this watercolor piece shows how to get these letters looking good.
Finally I took a flat paper embellishment and recreated it in full real life 3D! I’m taking about the tassels in that ephemera pack. I’ve done tassels more than once over on my YouTube channel because they give so much texture and they are just plain fun to make. If you enjoy fiber based embellishments I have an entire video for that as well.
You could go watch the previous videos I’ve linked up for you, or see all these projects in this compilation video.
Okay, that is my share of forgeries for this month. For more creative ideas, the CKC blog has more forgery examples to check out. I hope this gave you some ideas on how you can recreate your favorite products with supplies you already have on hand. Don’t forget to show off your stuff over on the CKC Facebook group, or tag us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge or use #counterfeitkitchallenge.
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😉 ).
Let’s welcome our guest designer before we dive in. Clair Rigby will be joining us this month! I enjoy seeing when she posts over in our Facebook group, so it’ll be fun to watch her all month long!
Our kit is from a newcomer on the European kit market: Pink and Paper. We will take inspiration from their June 2023 offering. Lisa, our CKC leader is also our hostess this month and she chose this new-to-kits company for their position in Europe (where Lisa lives), and for their education-first approach. (More information on their subscriptions can be found here.)
This kit is bright and flowery with plenty of pink. While I love all those things on their own, I do find it a bit hard to use in my own layouts. So I’ll take inspiration from many things in this kit but shift the color palette just a bit and keep my florals on the calmer side.
I leaned into the purple marbled paper in the inspiration as well as the more peachy pinks. After replacing the teal with just a bit more green, I felt like my papers were ready to go.
Embellishments in the inspiration felt pretty straightforward with some ephemera die cuts, puffy hearts, and puffy words as well. I followed along with much of that, keeping my color palette in mind. A few partially used sticker packs hitchhiked along to complete my embellishments.
Since there were no alphas in the inspiration, I took free rein to use a variety of fonts and styles in colors that coordinated well with my papers.
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.
There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine Lavender Bliss for it’s lean into purple and the calm florals I included instead of the bold inspiration florals.
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.
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!
As a design team member over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge group I play along with as many of our monthly inspiration challenges as I can. The Forgery on the Fourth project is definitely one I enjoy! That is where we see a scrap product we like and set out to recreate it with supplies we already own. So let’s go ahead and dive in to what I have for you this month.
We are being inspired by this kit inaugural, Feeling Groovy, by Mercy Tiara. Mercy Tiara has a large online presence and audience and she is now offering kits!
While there might have been more obvious things to counterfeit, I was drawn to this little popsicle sticker on the Jen Hadfield sticker sheet.
I was drawn to this image because I have a new stencil from Concord & 9th called Sweet Summer. It was a good excuse to break out my inks and embossing powder — yes, some of these are embossed — to create some sweet treats.
While that popsicle icon on the Jen Hadfield product may be Neapolitan flavor, I made my popsicles in a wide variety of flavors like strawberry lemonade, blackberry, and my favorite, lime punch! Plus there is a bonus popsicle at the end of the video if you want to check it out.
For more creative ideas, the CKC blog has more forgery examples to check out. I hope this gave you some ideas on how you can recreate your favorite products with supplies you already have on hand. Don’t forget to show off your stuff over on the CKC Facebook group, or tag us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge or use #counterfeitkitchallenge.
^^ Disclaimer: I offer affiliate shopping linked products when possible. This shopping won’t cost you anything extra, but I get a small kick back from the companies for sending business their way. It is an easy way to tell me “Thank You” for the content I provide. I appreciate you using my links!
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😉 ).
Let’s welcome our guest designer before we dive in…. DawnLyn Litz. DawnLyn is very active in our group and shares lots of the projects, from tags and cards to double page layouts. Leave her some love over there for being our guest designer this time around!
Now we can get to the pretty stuff. Our kit hostess for this month, Leslie, was excited to find a new kit offering on the market! It is a kit offering by Mercy Tiara. Mercy Tiara has a large online presence and audience and she is now offering kits! We are using her inaugural kit called Feeling Groovy as our inspiration for this month. If you want to see her whole reveal of this kit, you can check out her YouTube page.
One of the first things I noticed was the pack of PinkFresh Studio chipboard frames. I love their frame pieces and as it turned out I did indeed own this exact pack. I had squirreled it away when I bought it since I was in the middle of so many other things. I’m glad I was reminded of this bit of goodness in my stash to be a starting point for my kit build. The second thing I noticed was Jen Hadfield and Vicki Boutin, two more of my favorite designers. So that made it easy to pull from those three sections of my stash!
Here are the papers I came up with. I believe I only added in those three designers. I really loved that cassette tape paper from the inspiration and considered adding a Bella Blvd vinyl record paper, but the colors were wrong. Instead I used that bicycle paper from PinkFresh (see below) to replace that cassette tape. That along with the big floral are my focal papers for the kit. Not quite the same vibe as the original, but they have their own groove and lean to specific stories for me.
As I mentioned, my embellishments started with that PinkFresh chipboard frame set. I had the matching die cut ephemera from that collection, but I chose to include a different collection of ephemera since it was a partial pack and I want to use it up. I also had the matching sticker sheet, so in that went. I had a very hard time narrowing down the rest of the stuff I pulled. Most of my Jen Hadfield pulls went in, but surprisingly, most of my Vicki Boutin embellishments did not make it. I did keep the two alpha sets I pulled and the tiny Fernwood puffy stickers. In addition I pulled some chipboard style flair (also happens to be PinkFresh) and some flair-style buttons. Enamel dots were the finishing touch.
This kit ended up being WAY bigger than I intended. I was determined to have a smaller kit this time since I am just not using up my kits. But I have a hard time putting pretty things back into storage! So, my kit is big and full and I will likely have to put away the extra pretty things later instead of now. Oh well.
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.
There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine Peaceful Plethora.
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.
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!
^^ Disclaimer: I offer affiliate shopping linked products when possible. This shopping won’t cost you anything extra, but I get a small kick back from the companies for sending business their way. It is an easy way to tell me “Thank You” for the content I provide. I appreciate you using my links!
I’ve been participating in the Mix It Up Monday hope hosted over at the Peace Craft Love Facebook page. Anyone in the community can participate in the hop on any social media platform you use, not just YouTube.
The last couple of mixed media video’s I’ve done have felt pretty simple, and that is again true this time. But sometimes we just need simple! And if you are at all intimidated by mixed media, having simple ideas can be encouraging. Here is the full video (and don’t forget the video description has links to the other hoppers!!)
But if you want the quick version, here is how my layout turned out.
Notice that I used the pattern paper, photo frame, and speech bubbles I created in my previous post on doodling your own embellishments. All that counts as mixed media too in my opinion. But the main mixed media consists of watercolor penciling in scribbles on the background and to color in the title.
These simple, slightly messy techniques work well for this story. And don’t worry, she was A-OK after a couple of days!
Disclaimer: I offer affiliate shopping linked products when possible. This shopping won’t cost you anything extra, but I get a small kick back from the companies for sending business their way. It is an easy way to tell me “Thank You” for the content I provide. I appreciate you using my links!
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