January 2023 - Mini Kit Reveal & Projects

 

Sometimes, you just don't have the time or motivation to make and use up a full kit. Maybe you need to replenish your card supplies, or have a small mini-album in mind to make.

This is where we show you mini-kits that we've made up as well as the small projects that we made with those supplies.

Today Master Forgers Lisa & Laura share their ideas and we hope that you will also feel inspired to give this a go if you need to take a slightly different direction this month!

A quick reminder of the inspiration kit in January to kick-things off:

Hip Kit Club December 2022 Main Kit

MF Lisa - I pulled together a small kit full of Pinkfresh Studio products after the original kit gave me that Pinkfresh vibe (check out the "Just the Gist of It" post here for more info on that direction) and decided to make some quick and easy cards. Let's face it - cards are always quick and easy when I'm in card making mode! But I needed a small kit to take away on a short trip so that I could finish off the assignment on the road and therefore, quick and easy definitely fulfilled the scope this time around. 

So here's the kit with lots of products from the "Let's Stay Home" and "Keeping It Real" collections as well as a few random items that caught her eye when I was pulling the mini-kit together. (The photos have that winter daylight blue tone giving those blues and lilacs prominence in the photos but in reality, this kit is softer and pinker - you will have to take my word for that!!)

It looks like a large kit but for card-making, you generally need a mix of embellishments to add to the card fronts and there is no need to be thinking along the "Kill the Kit" lines.

Then it was just a matter of deciding what elements on the cut-apart sheet I might want to use on the cards and then cutting background pieces and elements to layer up in different ways. The floral die-cuts proved useful for adding dimension and colour on several cards and the other elements of the kit were dipped into as and when they seemed to fit.

If you've seen other card posts from me, you will see that the designs are always pretty similar but that's ok as different cards go to different recipients and no one notices these similarities anyway! 

You can find more details and photos over on my blog here.

MF Laura - I based my mini kit around the 12x12 paper. I added in some scraps of patterned paper and an alpha, but no embellishments as I really wanted to fussy cut the flowers and birds from that paper!

I created a traveller's notebook spread, and did end up adding in a couple of little extras just to finish it off, but it's fun to see how you can stretch 1 sheet of paper!

You can check out Laura on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mrsp_scrapsandtea/

And of course, as always, we have a full month of inspiration to keep you inspired!

January is only just beginning and there is plenty more going on round here:

• 12th & 18th January: Challenges #1 & #2 - to inspire you to get creating from your own kit 
• 24th January: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 31st January: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box 

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 #ckcjanuary2023). 

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

Lisa!