October 2023 - Just the Gist of It

Welcome back to our Just The Gist of It post where we hope to offer you a possible starting point for creating your kit. 

Sometimes, we just don't know where to start or there is something about the kit that doesn't feel like us, but we still want to bring a selection of items together to form your own monthly kit. This is the post for you! Hopefully, you will find some inspiration to get you going.

Let's just remind ourselves about our inspiration kit this month:

My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club - October 2022 Limited Edition Kit

Lots of watercolor & mixed media layered looks to the papers & a slew of ephemera & cut-aparts in our inspiration kit. As I said yesterday in the reveal, I wanted to use another kit site than the usual plus a color scheme that will work for both ends of the globe in October :-)  

Spring might take you lighter & brighter and Fall might shade the peachy/orange to a slightly deeper red on some of your selections. You can trade the flowers for leaves or butterflies for mushrooms! Both seasons bring a lot of outdoor activity so the nature theme should suit everyone. 

Perhaps a look at some of the work produced by the inspiration kit club team will spark the direction you take your kit? Layering seems easy with the kit contents.

Some stenciling on the background...

Stitching adds so much + the matted page

Gorgeous beach page using the b-sides for mats & background

Some paint splatters in the background...

The stencil made an appearance in the background...

 Here is what the rest of October will look like - don't miss a thing!

•  4th October - Forgery on the Fourth - Master Forgers share simple ideas for creating kit elements.
•  6th October - Mini Kit Reveal and Project Showcase - Inspiration for a smaller kit or project ideas.
• 12th October- Challenge #1 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 18th October - Challenge #2 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 24th October - Follower's Showcase - who has caught our eye this month.
• 31st October - Killing the Kit - focusing on using up the bits and pieces left in your kit.

You know that we always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. You can post them in our Facebook Community or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2023).

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

October 2023 - Counterfeit Kit Reveal and Blog Hop

 

Spring/Fall? Depends on your half of the globe!

 Before we take a look at our inspiration kit I'd like you to meet our Guest Designer - a familiar face in our community! 

 Hello, I’m Laurie and I’ve been scrapbooking and enjoying this hobby for 30 plus years. My favorite stories to scrapbook are about our grandchildren and our travels. I live in Central NY with my husband, Henry, of 49 years, our cat, Harley and our Shih-Tzu/Maltese mix, Zoey. We have 3 children and 6 grandchildren ranging in ages 7-21. I joined the Counterfeit Kit Facebook group this past summer and am so glad I did. Everyone is so kind. I truly am excited to have been chosen as the Guest Designer for October and cannot wait to see what everyone else will be creating with their kits.

Now for the inspiration kit reveal! I normally prefer not to chose an older kit, but I wanted to use another kit site than the usual plus a color scheme that will work for both ends of the globe in October :-)  Spring might take you lighter & brighter and Fall might shade the peachy/orange to a slightly deeper red on some of your selections. You can trade the flowers for leaves or butterflies for mushrooms!

 Inspiration Kit: My Creative Scrapbook October 2022 Limited Edition

Unboxing video LINK

Here are the elements: 

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Dramatic

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Garland

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Flirty

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Exquisite

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Peek-a-boo

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Full Bloom

 

 

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Happy Dancers

49 & Market Art Options Aleena/Alluring Moments

49 & Market Art Options Alena/Laser Cuts

49 & Market Art Options Alena/Ephemera Bits

       

Echo Park Designer Stencil/Wedding

Prima flower assortment

Prima Happy Flowers chipboard

Check back tomorrow on Just The Gist of It for some links to the My Creative Scrapbook team pages!

I hope you are excited to make your own version from your stash & perhaps some "forgeries? Our Design Team of Master Forgers will inspire you as you hop through their kit reveals below. Come back tomorrow for our "Just the Gist of It" post that gives an insightful break down of the inspiration kit vibe. "Forgery on the Fourth" shows ideas to craft your own version of kit elements.

Don't miss a stop on the hop!

• Counterfeit Kit Challenge - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/  

• Guest Designer - Laurie Crouse Winiarski will be posting on the

  CKC Community Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1336271363079421 

• Brandi - https://www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama/ 

• Christine - https://www.youtube.com/@ScrappingHarden 

• Cindy - https://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/ 

• Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/

• Misty - https://craftysoup.com  

• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/ 

• Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/ 

• Brandi - https://www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama/

 Here is what the rest of October will look like - don't miss a thing!

•  2nd October - Just the Gist of It - to help you find an easy way to create your kit.
•  4th October - Forgery on the Fourth - Master Forgers share simple ideas for creating kit elements.
•  6th October - Mini Kit Reveal and Project Showcase - Inspiration for a smaller kit or project ideas.
• 12th October- Challenge #1 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 18th October - Challenge #2 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 24th October - Follower's Showcase - who has caught our eye this month.
• 31st October - Killing the Kit - focusing on using up the bits and pieces left in your kit.

You know that we always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. You can post them in our Facebook Community or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2023).

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

September 2023 - Kill that Kit!

Wow wow wow where did September go! Oh my the month seem to just blew by like the leaves are doing now blowing off the trees. Today is our Kill that Kit post and I did not even get close to using up my entire kit, but I came close with 9 full sheets left and a bunch of scraps I'll get used up in October. I do have a tip for some scraps though. So from a double page layout I made this past week I used up those scraps and made pocket pages. 

This is one of many walks I took throughout the Spring and Summer this year and thinking this maybe the way to document these days is through pocket pages.

The left side of the pages I used the scraps for the triangle that to me looked like movement and I used some of the scraps to make the border punched strips.

For the right side of the page I did the same mimicking what I did from the left side just changing up the triangles. So scraps through the pocket pages could be used for photo mats and embellishments in so many ways. 

A HUGE THANK YOU to our wonderful Guest Designer Jennifer who is just amazing.
 

Thanks for playing along with us in September and don't forget that we're back bright and early tomorrow with a new kit to play with!

Share your creations with us over at the Counterfeit Kit Community Facebook community here or over at Instagram where you can find us @counterfeitkitchallenge (or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge)

 

September 2023 - Follower Showcase

As it's almost the end of the month, I love this post, as now we get to showcase one of our followers. It's great to see throughout the month what our followers has put together and created. Checking out our Counterfeit Kit Challenge FB community here is so inspiring and it was hard to pick out one!

 But one I have to pick and one caught my eye with her creations, Amanda Castle, she joined us just this year, she says: I finally got a chance to participate this month! The colors of this month’s kit intrigued me, and I discovered I do NOT have much purple in my stash. Must rectify this immediately. Here’s my kit! 

Here's her kit :)

It's a beautiful mix of colors from a variety of manufacturers and just goes so well together, I certainly would enjoy playing with it :)

 Here is a couple of creations she made from the kit and love them both!

 "I did a really quick first page with my kit! I only used some scraps and mixed media for this page as I’m also counting it as today’s Scraptember challenge page which was to use a white background."

Love that she used the watercolor with the paper throughout the layout beautiful beach feeling it is.

Page number 2 with my September kit. I actually did a video this time! (Excuse the photo quality. The room I usually do photos in is being remodeled and is out of commission).

https://youtu.be/du1n4m9n3z4?si=5W3NPvTeRPIQy8rK

Just gorgeous this one is! The blues and purple mesh so well with the browns. It was a joy to see all her creations this month.

 September is coming to a close, got one more thing left for the month.

30th September: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box

 We always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. Post them in our Facebook Community, or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2023).

 Thanks so much for stopping by! We can't wait to see your kits and projects this month! 

September 2023 - Challenge #2 - Just Having Fun!

 September the 18th and it's time for Challenge #2 round here at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge and I'm excited to see how you interpret it.

As a reminder, Master Forger Tina chose the April 2023 kit called "Aurora" by {Not} Just for Boys kit club as our inspiration for this month.

Challenge #2 - Just Having Fun!

There are some of my favorite items in this kit especially the cutfile and the mist! So I want you to have fun creating using those items: Cutfile and Mist on your layout, card or project

Master Forger Misty really did have fun using her cut file and sprays! 

Master Forger Christine loves the herringbone pattern so much, she used it as both a mat and in the cut file.  To create the "shadow" of the cut file word, she use the mist on the inner portion and offset it behind the main title.   What a fun color combo this is!

 Master Forger Tara created a monochromatic layout for this challenge. She used the Family cutfile with a photo of her family taken on her wedding anniversary in 2018.  It was rare to have that many of their kids and their spouses in one location, so it was a photo op!!  There is a process video available on her YouTube channel here.

Master Forger Leslie went rogue with her cutfile & spray. I needed a small version of the Paige Evans freebie floral lightbulb cutfile so I printed the jpg version on cardstock, fussy-cut the background out, colored the floral with paint pens, and colored the lightbulb metal base with a Q Tip & my Lost Shadow Distress spray!

Master Forger Tina used both her spray from her kit and 2 of her cut files from her kit, plus a few more sprays from her stash for her layout for this challenge. Using a bunch of greens and browns from her kit.

 The rest of September is going to look something like this:

• 24th September: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 30th September: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box
  

  We always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. Post them in our Facebook Community, or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2023).

 Thanks so much for stopping by! We can't wait to see your kits and projects this month! 

September 2023 - Challenge #1 - Color Combo

It's September 12th which can only mean one thing... it's time for Challenge #1 round here at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge and I'm excited to see how you interpret it.

As a reminder, Master Forger Tina chose the April 2023 kit called "Aurora" by {Not} Just for Boys kit club as our inspiration for this month.

How about a Color Combo Challenge!

 

The basis of this kit is with these 3 colors: Combines green, teal, and purple.

Your challenge is to use those colors on your layout, card or project.

 

 Our Guest Designer Jennifer has created a fantastic layout from her kit for this challenge. Adding a set of tickets for a fun list of what was happening

 MF Julene had used the scraps she included in her kit to create this layout. It is one page from a double she has made. 

MF Cindy created a layout using the colors of pink, purple and teal - she went a bit rogue. She started by making her own background with the colors above, then added her pictures which had a lot of green in them. You can check out the details on her blog. 

Blog post here.

MF Brandi created a double page layout with an Allison Davis sketch featuring the (3) main colors of the kit! See more close ups and additional layouts from her kit on her Instagram here. 

MF Lisa knew this would be challenging for her - purple is not her usual go to. But as the whole kit was full of purple, she knew there would be plenty of choice at least! She sorted out four sheets of paper and set to work fussy cutting large purple and blue flowers (the only blue she could use in this smaller selection) and then layered up the papers so that each of the bright purples was not so overpowering. Four cute dog photos and some story made this layout come together relatively easily once she got going!

She added in the blue alphabet after realising that none of the alphas she had included could create the title she wanted, as well as some more enamel dots so that a little extra blue could be added.

The challenge of the kit was to see if she could make these older papers look fresh and new - what do you think? Did she manage that? 

😉

 

Such great inspiration to get you started on your creation for this challenge!

 The rest of September is going to look something like this:

• 18th September: Challenges #2 - to inspire you to get creating from your own kit 
• 24th September: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 30th September: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box
  

 

 We always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. Post them in our Facebook Community, or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2023).

 Thanks so much for stopping by! We can't wait to see your kits and projects this month!