Tag: kit-building

CKC Kit Build, January ’26

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 2026. Not only is it a new month, but is also a new year. Are you ready to get back to kit building? Honestly, I still feel like I have a December “hangover”. LOL. But here we go. Sometimes the best thing to do is just get right back into the flow.

Team member Vikki is our hostess this time. She chose the Curiosities in Willow Grove* collection from Vicki Boutin and 49 & Market to inspire us. Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month, Melinda Barkman. You can check out her own Facebook group, Busy as a Bee Designs, to learn more.

Now we are ready to take a lookg at our inspiration! Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around.

This is pretty classic Vicki Boutin. What drew me to this kit are the same things that draw me to all her work: nature, good color, pops of black, mixed media and word phrases that matter to everyday storytelling. Let’s see how that played out in my kit selections

So these are the papers I came up with. I have just one VB paper in there, but found plenty of other manufacturers to vibe with. That bold floral is something I picked up at random on one shopping trip. I have no idea what I’ll do with it, but it is stunning. And VB does love some florals!

Now, with the embellishments I did dive heavily into my VB stash. I found similar icons in many of her previous collections. From typewriters to thistle, there is a bit of everything in my embellishments. I will never use all these pieces, but I find it easier to grab the entire package even when I only want one or two elements.

Can’t forget elements for mixing the media. So I have stamps and dies as well. My alpha and rubons ended up here since I forgot it in the above photo!

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 have simple, but completely DIY friendly ideas.

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

Nature’s Whispers

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

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 where I create those DIY elements. Until then, have an artful day!

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CKC Kit Build, Nov ’25

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 is time for the final kit build of 2025! Our CKC group takes a kit break in December (don’t worry, we bring other fun instead). So, let’s get to this new month of kit building. Brandi is our hostess this time. She chose the Cocoa Daisy’s October Glow collection to inspire us. It is a kit full of atumnal colors and icons. Before we dive into the details, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month, Lisa. I hope you’ll cheer her on in our FB community group as well as on her YouTube channel.

So let’s move on with our kit. Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around. We’ll start with some details and then look at the overview.

I am certainly ready for a fall vibe. The season finally changed where I live and I welcome it. (I know for our souther hemisphere friends, heading into spring must be a welcome change also!) While I’m ready for fall, I still need a broader color palette for my stories since my layouts often feature photos from other days of the year. So I will add in more color as I kit build. As always, I start with the papers.

I had some good options to go with many of the inspo papers. I did swap in a more colorful stripe in place of a plaid paper. Then I just added one more bold color stripe from Vicki Boutin. Using those two items, I brought in more yellow, blues and green in cardstock. This will help me feel flexible in my story options.

Moving on to embellishments… I found some great items that worked with the kit. I do have a bit more color with my chipboard, cutaparts and enamel dots. I also tucked in many stamps that I will put to use when I make my own supplies for this kit. Over at CKC we call that our Forgeries on the Fourth. For me I call it my Monthly Makes. I hope you’ll come back on the fourth to see what I do with those stamps. I have been wanting to do this for a while now! Plus I have more ideas to play with!

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

FALLing for stamps

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

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!

CKC Kit Build, October ’25

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😉 ).

Hello, hello, hello. This is the first time in a while that I am officially creating a full scrapbook kit for the month. Over at CKC we share duties and I was on other tasks the last few months. It feels good to be back to my full kit self. With that…

Welcome to a new month of kit building! Team member Tina is our hostess this time. She chose the Not Just for Boys Kit Club kit called Journey the World to inspire us. We’ve got more travel theme to work with this month and a very neutral color palette. But before we take a closer look at that, let’s welcome our guest designer for October.  Lori Stroup, a prior forger, is joining us. You can find her on instagram or her blog, My Happy LIfe.

And now for the crafting! Here is what is inspiring us this time around.

While I DO have travels to document, there was a time when travel scrapping was not my thing. I just didn’t go anywhere. So if that is the case for you, remember that travel and easily slide over to “Advendure”. You can have adventures anywhere at any time, big or small. Keep that flexibility in mind as you build your kit.

For me I will still with the solid travel theme. I’ve included several map prints, as well as a few other travel related ideas: geotags, luggage tags, camera. I’ve also added bright pops of color with a handful of scrap papers. This helps me shift a neurtral color palette more to my style.

I loved a lot of the embellishment elements in the inspo. From roller phrase stamp, to wax seals, I tucked in plenty of ideas right out of the kit. I’ve also thrown in a few of my own items, such as ribbon, puffy phrases and chipboard. When I finish making some embellishments on the Fourth, that will round out my extras.

Speaking of the Fourth, I hope you’ll join me as I create those 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…

Rainbow Globe

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

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!

CKC Kit Build, July ’25

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😉 ).

July! July? Yes, it is indeed a new month and we are now past the half way point of 2025. If you’ve been longing to slow life down and take a step back in time, then Julene has you covered this month. We are heading back to July 2014 for a throwback inspiration. On the CKC blog you can find the Noel Mignon’s Balboa Kit. We’ll take a look at that in a moment. Before we do, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month Kate Blue. Kate was on or design team for a year, so we are happy to welcome her back for another month of fun.

So let’s move on with our kit. Here is the one big look at this kit. Man, these older kits were packed with FUN stuff like ribbons, mini clothes pins and felt flowers. We just don’t seem to find this variety of elements anymore. Perfect reason to counterfeit our own!

I made my typical list of elements that caught my attention and got right to work. I don’t own many of the bold organes and magentas in the inspo, so I had to make do with what I could find. Let’s see how I did.

Papers

I leaned into the black and white. I pulled coral tones as close to the orange as I could get.Plus there are plenty of geometrics. I even has a special pre-embossed piece for a color resist technique where I can add in my own bolder colors.

Embellishments

I tried to pull in more of the bold colors in my embellies. I have orange washi and some stickers with more pops of color. Are they perfect matches? Nope. But we make adjustments when we are pulling our own kits!

Don’t forget that each month I also create my own elements to add into my kit. I have an interesting idea that I hope works out. 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. Since my colors don’t quite reach the boldness of the originals, I’m calling mine…

Unripe

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

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!

CKC Kit Build, June ’25

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 June. Can you believe we are at the halfway point of 2025?? Yikes! Well, a new month means it is time to kit build. Tara, our community leader, is our hostess this time. She chose the Intrinsic Limitless kit from Not Just for Boys to inspire us. Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give MK Gunn a warm welcome to our guest designer this month. She is the owner of the shop called Some Assemblage Required. You can find her products there and you can check out her YouTube channel as well for inspiration. I know she has something in store for us this month, so stay tuned!

So, let’s move on with our kit. Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around.

This collection made me think of the new Vicki Boutin collection called Flower Market* that is being produced by 49 and Market. They both have very neutral color palettes. So that is where I started my kit build!

So these are the papers I came up with. I tucked in four papers from the Flower Market collection. I wanted more but couldn’t bare to use them all up at once!

And here is a look at the embellishments. Again I focused largely on the Flower Market supply. Luckily the embellishment packs are jammed full so I don’t have to worry about using them all up in one go.

One thing I really focused on when building this kit was the postage/mail theme. Notice I have postage stamps like in the inspo. Now, I also have a mail inspired photopolymer stamp set and a mail inspired hot foil plate. I don’t know how I will use a mail theme on my layouts, but I’m loving the idea so I’ll figure it out. 😂

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 have way too many ideas again this month!

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

Postal Adoration

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

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!

*Affiliate links may be used at no additional cost to you.

CKC Kit Build, May ’25

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 May. I was working a big volunteer job in April and have been MIA here for that reason. I’m hoping through our May inspiration kit to get a backlog of travel layouts done. Before we talk about that, let’s see what our inspiration actually is! Team member JoJo is our hostess this time. She chose the Anywhere but Here digital collection from Traci Reed (available at SweetShoppeDesigns.com) to inspire us. This work was part of the physical paper collection produced for Echo Park called Away We Go. So you just may have some of these same designs hiding in your paper stash.

Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month. Kathy McElfresh, also known as ScrappyKathy in Instagram and YouTube. Kathy and I have been in many of the same scrappy circles for years and I’m happy she is joining us here this month. Her layouts are truly inspiring!

Okay, now we are ready for some inspiration! Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around. As I mentioned earlier I’ll be working on some travel layouts and that is because this is a very travel themed kit! However, there are many everyday icons and phrases that can pulled and taken in different directions. Hot air balloons, florals, hearts, sunglasses and phrases such as “relax” and “this way” are all flexible!

Since I knew exactly what I needed to do with this inspiration, pulling my kit was easy. In fact, it was a bit of a cheat. I pulled out a bin of supplies that I had already started collecting! I’m using my Vicki Boutin Where to Next collection.

I’ve got the paper pad from the collection. This pad contains only some of the open stock paper from the line. It also has some unique papers to the collection. I don’t generally like when paper pads are the only way to get unique items. In this case they are pretty mild papers so they will work well for backgrounds. As you can see I also have a range of embellishments from die cuts to frames to stickers. The only thing I added in was an alphabet die set (a current favorite upper and lower case duo!)

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…

Lazy Wayz

I did not create a video this month since my kit building was so, well, lazy. But you know, sometimes that is just what I need. I will focus on using it to scrap with!

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!

CKC Kit Build, April ’25

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’ve been saying this more and more often, but I can’t believe it is a new month already. The speed at which months fly by continues to stun me. You may have noticed that my only blog post last month was my kit build. That is how fast things are passing by! At any rate, a new month means a new kit build. Let’s get to it.

Brandi is our team hostess this time. She is a big boy mama and chooses kits that can fit those scrappy needs. This time around her choice actually includes flowers and pink! It is the Lil’ Man collection from Bella Gypsy. You can find this digital kit over at Pickle Berry Pop. Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month, Briana Spors!

So, here is our inspiration kit.

Scrapbook kit inspiration

I was inspired by all the geometric prints, the cork embellishments and the sweet alphabet sets. I managed to come up with pretty good options for the pattern papers. I even have one veeery old pattern paper in my kit: that square print second from the right. I wonder if it will make it onto a layout this time?

I also decided to add in some solid cardstock this time as well. As I was looking at all the patterns nestled together I felt like some solid cardstock was needed to break up the layers. Here is where I found room for a bit more pink and even some purple!

Now let’s turn to the embellishments. I’m relying heavily on tools this month. I’ve included three 6×6 paper pads to put those tools to use with. I like the smaller scale of the patterns in these pads. In fact, the small scale of the patterns on the inspiration alphabet set is why I pulled out these paper pads! With the addition of some metal in the form of brads, and some wood and cork pieces, I’ve got a pretty good supply to keep me busy.

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. Since I really started this whole kit build with the circle prints, I’m calling mine…

Circular Thinking

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

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!

CKC Kit Build, March ’25

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 a new month of kit building. Ryann is our hostess this time. She chose the Beach Tale Collection by Kristin Cronin-Barrow from Sweet Shoppe Designs to inspire us. Ryann chose this kit in honor of her first-ever trip to Hawaii! There is a lot to work with here.

Martha

Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month, Martha Saenz. Martha loves to scrapbook her family and has been at this craft for 27+ years. Be sure to read more of her story on the CKC blog.

Now for a look at this digital kit — or actually, two kits! This inspiration is a bundle! They have the same tropical vacation vibes with different color palettes. You could take inspiration from everything like I did, or focus on just one kit.

I don’t have a need for tropical or vacation vibes so I had to take this kit in my own way. That is what is great about CKC. It is inspiration. Just use what sparks your ideas for how you scrapbook! I chose elements I appreciated from all the imagery and came up with one giant kit. Well, at least one giant collections of papers, and some reasonable embellishments, LOL.

So these are the papers I chose. The bottom row captures some of the vibes of the kit in color or motif. I did have a couple of sheets of tropical paper (bottom right) but mainly I stuck with the color vibes. I swapped out the inspo Tucan for a bird print (bottom, center left). From the orange slices in the inspo I pulled out several fruit papers. Then I went wild with support colors from hot pink down to deep blues. Some of my solid cardstock pieces are even glittery to pull in some of the inspo kits’ sparkle.

That is way too much paper for me to ever use in a month, but maybe I can try a more layered style this time. That is likely to be a good idea anyway as many of these papers are from JoAnn and they are the single sided light weight papers. I’ll need to layer them up to be sturdy enough to handle embellishments.

Speaking of which, here are the items I included for embellishing. I have a wood grain alpha (plus, not pictured, a die set and scraps of woodgrain paper since this alpha is at the end of its useful life). I found some colorful rubons and enamels. Then I took on some of the more neutral elements with twine, buttons and wood grain phrase diecuts. I also made some of my own flowers, but I’ll show you more of that process on the fourth!

There is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. Because of the bright colors and the overwhelming amount of paper, I’m calling my kit…

Fruit Punch

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

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!

CKC Kit Build, February ’25

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 a new month of kit building. I have the duty of hosting our kit inspiration this month. I’m excited about the kit I picked. It has some elements I love and some looks that push me a bit. Perfect! Before I talk more about that I want to welcome Sheryle Thomas as our guest designer this month. She is a retired nurse and loves to tell stories of her lovely cats. That has my heart for sure! Sheryle is sharing all her work over on our Facebook group so be sure to leave her some love over there.

So let’s move on with our kit. I chose the May ’24 kit from Kitaholics Kits in Australia. Sadly after choosing this kit, it has vanished from the website. Luckily I saved some kit photos before that happened, so we are good to go with our inspiration. Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around.

Screenshot

Be sure to take a closer look at the Cedar House papers by American Crafts in this kit. Many of them have gold foiling. I did not realize that at first! I was drawn to the kit for the earthy vibe that reminded me of a cabin in the woods. Yet some of the embellishments are just the opposite, with young energy popping off the page. However, there are more of those nature vibe embellishments also. Finally, while I adore woodgrains I don’t often stick to monochromatic scrapping, so that is another challenging part of this kit for me.

With all that in mind, these are the papers I came up with. I did pour over both the A and B sides of the inspiration and made one-to-tone choices when I could. There are some interpretive substitutions but I am super happy with my kit.

Now remember when I said monochromatic scrapping is hard for me? This is where my kit building started ballooning into a massive kit. We’ll get to all the extras I ended up adding but let’s start with the extra pattern papers. I wanted more color so I took that striped paper in the photo above as a jumping off point to bring in more color. Not only more color, but also more gold foiling. The three papers on the right end do just that. Plus it doesn’t hurt to add hearts to a February kit, right?

Let’s take a look at the base embellishments next. I’ve got a little bit of everything from the inspiration in here, from the kid energy to the nature vide.

The inspiration also included some mixed media elements. I stuck really closely to the inspo color palette. I did choose a lot of extras in the stamp category in the woodland animal theme.

I didn’t stop there. I needed more stuff in my kit, including tons of embellishments along the nature/outdoor theme. I have all of the Simple Stories Trail Mix line, some 49th and Market, plus a bit of Jen Hadfield with gold foiling.

Okay, one more thing and then I am done. I adored the burlap ribbons in the inspiration kit. Not many kits include those details these days, so that is very much one thing that drew me to choose this inspiration. With that I added lots of texture in the form of trims, burlap paper and corrugated cardboard papers. I’m looking forward to using up these old stash items.

Whew! Now that we have seen everything, there is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits. So I’m calling mine…

Cabin Adventures

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

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 where I’ll be adding even more to this kit. Until then, have an artful day!

CKC Kit Build, January ’25

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😉 ).

Happy New Year everyone. January is always a big shift for me as I move from largely die cutting and card making back into scrapbooking. I often feel a bit rusty switching gears again. I’ll shake off that feeling and get right back to it. So… Welcome to a new month of kit building. Christine is our hostess this time. She chose the September 2024 kit from Hip Kit Club to inspire us. Before we dive into the details of this kit, let’s give a warm welcome to our guest designer this month. Jennifer Cain. You can find her on Instagram and on YouTube.

So let’s move on with our kit. Here are a few looks at what we have in store this time around.

It is a bit hard to get a closer look at all these goodies so you’ll have to trust me when I say I saw something sepcific that caught my attention, LOL.

For the papers, I only used items that sparked some interest for me. There was no specific reasons I included some papers and not others. The funniest thing about building out my papers was that I completely forgot I had this split-heart print in my stash. It was such a fun match to the inspo! Some other paper choices were more on the interpretive side, but that is how I roll.

For the embellishments I was super inspired by small little images in the kit pack. That lead me to pulling a lot of die sets and stamps sets to mimic those images. From roller coasters, to owls, to shoes, I packed in a bunch of little imagery. It’ll be a month of making embellies for each layout! Yet, I still do have my FOF (aka Forgeries on the Fourth) project coming, so perhaps I can get some work in ahead of time to pre-make some elelements.

Hope you will come back on the fourth to see what I made ahead and what I left to do in real time!

Before we go, there is a tradition over at CKC of titling our kits just like companies do. So I’m calling mine…

Sky High

… in honor of the stars and rollercoasters and hot air ballon images.

If you want more details on my kit building thought process, check out my kit build video. (This will go live 6am PST. To keep our team coordinated, our blog posts go live at midnight EST.)

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!