May 2026 - Mini Kits & Projects Reveal

 There isn't always time in the month to make and use up a big kit. If you wan to keep it smaller, we have you covered. From page kits to small projects you can just take these ideas in a smaller direction. Let's see our inspiration again, and then check out what the team came up with.

Master Forger Tara went a little different way than the themey-ness of the original kit.  She really didn't have photos of baking to scrap so she went with florals and bright colors.  She swapped out the red in the inspo kit for hot pink and came up with this:

There's only 4 sheets of patterned paper, an alpha set, and the matching sticker sheets in the kit.  So, Master Forger Tara created some florals to go with her kit with dies, cardstock, and Nuvo drops.

 Master Forger Tara spent most of iNSD creating layouts using this kit and here's what she came up with:

During the iNSD zoom crop and chat she also played along with our Counterfeit the Master Forgers challenges and created this layout by counterfeiting Master Forger Julene.

 Master Forger Julene created a sketch based upon her original layout:

Master Forger Christine

Christine has a whole organizer full of kitchen/cooking collection pieces!  So as soon as she saw the inspiration kit, that's the little box she pulled.  And decided to go all in with the theme.  Notice the KitchenAid paper??  And how cute are those little aprons?  Most of these papers are quite old (one is from 2017), so this was a great opportunity to use them.  She pulled 3 full size sheets, one almost full, and then a ton of scraps from that little organizer.  For embellishments, she had one sticker sheet with a few stickers, a bunch of 2x2 cut aparts and some tags.  

The full size sheets Master Forger Christine pulled.

The 2x2 cut-aparts, a couple of journaling cards, and a scrap.

More scraps! Plus a tag.

And the sticker sheet.

Master Forger Christine was able to get 3 12x12 layouts completed.  Truth be told, she put a few scraps back in her little organizer.  

The first layout.  Master Forger Christine felt like making a swoosh.  Coz why not??  But, then she decided to flip one of her originally selected papers to the B-side for the more tone on tone dark brown base.  The cute apron paper was a nice contrast.  She fussy cut the mixer from a journaling card, as well as a couple of the other embellishments, and used 4 tags across the middle.  

The second layout turned about a bit more busy.  But it was just impossible to resist using both the mixer paper and the pie paper when the photo has both!  The journaling cards made perfect title/subtitle and the little 2x2 acted as embellishments.  She used the little plate on one of them as a journaling spot.

The last layout, she decided the cut-offs from the first layout's swoosh were just begging to be used.

She also pulled in a couple more 2x2 cut aparts plus some stickers.  She used the red cardstock to make  journaling tag.

And there we have it!  Three full layouts from just this little kit - with some going back into the cooking paper organizer :-) 

Now that we have our kits built, let's use them. Here is the inspo coming up for that!

• 12th - Challenge #1
• 18th - Challenge #2
• 22nd - Challenge #3 - Let’s Get Sketchy
• 31st - Baby Use Those Scraps

We love to see what you are working on so don't forget to show us on our Facebook counterfeit kit community.

Enjoy your time with us this month,

Misty