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? 

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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! 

May 2019 - Just the Gist

Did you catch the new kit this month?  

If not, head back to our reveal yesterday (here) and don't forget to check out all the Master Forgers on the blog hop as well as our wonderful Guest Designer Leanne! 

Here's a reminder of the fun, bright, bold kit that MF Leslie picked out for us from My Creative Scrapbooks. 

My Creative Scrapbooks March Main Kit

We hope that you love this kit. I mean, what's not to love, right?

But there's a lot going on there and maybe you're struggling to find a starting point for making up your own version? I'm here to help or at least offer you a starting point that you could use.

When I looked at this kit and made up my own (which I'll be showcasing on 6th as a mini-kit), these are the things that stood out for me:

• flowers
• girls
• suitcases
• happy days

And the colours jumped right out at me: 

• sunshine yellow
• sky blue
• leaf green
• postbox red

That's a good list to start with but I want to distill it down even further. 

So why don't we take just a single piece of paper and see if we can get the whole feeling of the kit from just that? 

I took the floral paper, "Flower Market" from the Chasing Adventures collection featured in the My Creative Scrapbooks kit  because it seems to sum up those fun colours, as well as the wonderful florals that feature so prominently in the papers and embellishments. 

And it is certainly a happy day design so it seemed a perfect place to bring out the essence of what I see in the kit. 

I made the following colour swatch using the free feature at Coolers.co.

Use this idea or pick a single piece from the collection and distill it down to the purest ingredient to give you a perfect starting point using your own stash. 

Why not give this technique a go and let me know how you get on!

We'll be back throughout the month to give you some tips, ideas 
and challenges as you put together and use your kit.  

Here's what we have coming up this month:

• May *3rd*:  We'll have our "Forgery on the Fourth" post (where the Master Forgers will reveal how they created their own version of some of the items in this month's kit) ON THE 3RD due to International Scrapbook Day! Make sure to be back on *May 4th*!
• May 6th:  We'll reveal a couple of mini-kits and projects, in case you're a little limited for time this month and would prefer a more petite kit.
• May 12th & 18th:  We'll give you two challenges to help you use the kit you've made.

We always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us!  
You can link up in different ways:

• Monthly Link-up page, 
• post them in our Facebook Community
• or share them on Instagram  - we are @counterfeitkitchallenge and you can tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcmay2019

Just a reminder not to forget our {inter}National Scrapbook Day - Saturday 4th May 2019 where we will be collaborating for a fun additional kit and challenge with Bash Your Scrapbook Stash.