Showing posts with label good news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good news. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Welcome to the team!

I love these kind of posts!

I'm delighted to welcome Brandi and Christine as new Design Team members!

The Design Team call was a tough one with some great applications and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who applied. But Brandi and Christine shone through and we are happy to have them join us as of May! So watch this space and check out their first Counterfeit Kit Challenge kits on 1st May, right here on the blog and of course, in our Counterfeit Kit Challenge Facebook community.

Hi! I’m Brandi, a full time mama to two little boys! I squeeze in as much time in my scrappy space as I can, they love playing with paper and stickers too, so we have lots of craft time! I’ve been scrapbooking since I was very young, late elementary school to be exact, and I just love having a creative outlet to store my photos and memories! You can find all my work on Instagram @scrappy.boymama 

Brandi: https://www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymomma

I started scrapping about 22 years ago (almost 23 I guess now) when my daughter was small.  I fell in love with the creative process and while I document our lives, I do not scrap chronologically.  I enjoy working from inspiration - either a kit or a photo that strikes my fancy.  It's also fun because then I get to relive memories in no particular order.  My most common subject is my daughter, but I toss in a few of my cat and hubby.  (although the layouts I shared below none of them really feature my daughter!)  I live in Texas - born and bred, with no intention of ever leaving.  However, I do love to travel and we typically travel at Christmas every year.  I am not currently on any other design teams, although I do participate in 30 Days of Sketches with Christy's beautiful life and had a sketch featured this last round.  I work a full-time job and own a nutrition club, so my normal scrappy time is 4 am during the week.  If I'm lucky and there are no house chores, I "get" to scrapbook sometimes on the weekends.  :-)

Christine: https://www.instagram.com/scrappingharden/

https://www.youtube.com/@ScrappingHarden/featured


Let's give these ladies a warm welcome and don't forget that MF Misty has one more post about Killing the Kit and then we are ready for a new month of inspiration, headed up by MF Julene! 

See you in the community! 😀

Monday, October 31, 2022

Some goodbyes and a welcome!

 Just a quick post to let you know of some goings on behind the scenes here at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge. As with any team, there is always some flux and as sad as it is when our friends leave us, we treasure the times we had with them all the more!

Image by rawpixel.com

Some months ago, Tracey decided to move on so that she could concentrate on life and other creative activities. We have been missing her but are so happy to have had her with us for as long as we did!

And, at the end of the year Kate is stepping down from the team but hopes to continue kitting with us as part of the community! I hope that's a promise Kate! 😉

Many heartfelt thanks to BOTH of you for being with us and for delighting us with your kits, your creativity and your contributions. We are sorry to see you go but look forward to seeing what you create in the future.

Image by rawpixel.com

Now onto some happier news. 

As of November (yes, that IS tomorrow!), the wonderfully creative Anna Veach (from Piece Craft Love) will be part of the Master Forger team and we are simply delighted

She will be jumping right in with a November kit which she will share over at her YouTube channel. You can find her at YouTube (https://youtube.com/c/piececraftlove) and Instagram (@piececraftlove) as well as in our own Counterfeit Kit Challenge FB community here

"Hi, I’m Anna V, known as Piece Craft Love online.

Piece is a nod to my quilting roots and I love everything fiber art and texture! Craft refers to the fun I have playing with paint and paper and glue and stickers! Love is for my love of sharing my joy of creating with anyone who will listen!

I can be found on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram under the name Piece Craft Love and I hope you come by and say hi!

I’m so excited to be part of the CKC design team! I’ve never been on a DT but I love to create so it should be fun!"

Make sure you head over to say hello! We couldn't be happier to have her join us.


Thursday, May 20, 2021

Musings, news and a Counterfeit Kit Challenge Master Forger Design Team Call – July to December 2021

I’ve been part of the Counterfeit Kit Challenge team for a loooong time. I first joined in during March 2011 and joined the team that September. 10 years in the scrapbook challenge blogging world is a lifetime! I’ve seen a lot of changes here but it remains a constant in my scrapbooking life and I’m so happy that we are still here. Still making kits from products we have in our own stash that we love, still making layouts and projects, still finding inspiration in our photos and still here on the blog and in our FB community (here).  

We are a low-key challenge community and I like that! It’s not frantic or frenetic round here. We stay true to our core "mission" which is to create kits and make pages and projects. You might say that we are still a bit old school – posting our kits and challenges over here on the blog but along the way, we have moved with the times a little and now our FB community is where all the interaction is. Where we share layouts and thoughts and a bit of chat! But I still like the fact that the blog remains chronological and that it can be a source of reference that’s easy to manage so the blog posts aren’t going anywhere.

But from time to time, we do have a behind-the-scenes heart-to-heart on where we are going, if we are still relevant, if we still love what we do. And so it happened this week. And YES! We still love what we do and we still want to keep on kitting and challenging and inspiring and creating!

The team at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge is fun, friendly and incredibly talented and I’m so, so grateful to have them as my crafting buddies. I love having them in my life and value each of them for their fabulous crafting, their friendship and their contributions to our community - both “front of shop” as well as behind the scenes. And so it breaks my heart all the more when we lose some of our “family” to pastures new. These team members are stepping down to concentrate on different adventures: 

  • Master Forger Lori stepped down from the group in April and always amazed me with her ability to contribute to so many teams at the same time! Her kits were inspiring and her layouts fun and creative!
  • Master Forger Susan who has worked tirelessly behind the scenes for us on Instagram and our fantabulous monthly moodboards will move on at the end of the month
  • And Master Forger Clair who has delighted and astonished each month with her incredible micro-kits and simply gorgeous mini-projects will be leaving at the end of June.

I miss them already – more than they know. So a warm and heartfelt thank you to you for all that you’ve done for usand I hope you will still hang out here at CKC with us! 

Which brings me to a happier part of this post: 

Design Team Call for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge team in 2021 June to December 2021) 

We are looking for a couple of passionate kitters and paper crafters to join the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Master Forger team for the second half of 2021 (June to December 2021). 

If you would like to apply to join our team as Master Forger for 2021 please apply to thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.com by Sunday 13thJune with the following: 

  • Pick any inspiration kit featured in 2020 on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog

  • Create your own (new) page kit / mini kit using the inspiration
  • Create a (new) project using one of the two featured challenges from the month chosen
  • Send us bright and clear photos of your page kit, your kit project and two other projects (don’t need to have been made in connection with CKC) you have created which showcase your crafting style to thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.com
  • In addition to your kit and project photos – along with a short write up about your choices - your email should include some information about you, any current design teams you contribute to, your crafting story and where we can find you online (social media, blog, online galleries, YouTube etc). We’d like to get to know you!
As a Master Forger for 2021 we’d like you to: 

  • create a kit each month based on an inspiration kit and showcase it in a design Team hop via social media (please state your preferred method - blog, YouTube, IG, FB)
  •  create a project for at least one CKC challenge each month
  • contribute to the Forgery on the Fourth blog post on a regular basis with your own creations or links to ideas or tutorials online
  •  take clear, bright, good quality photos of your kits and projects and/or videos
  • contribute to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Facebook community on a regular basis
  • comment on projects which are linked up by our followers in the CKC FB community and Instagram 
  • organise, be responsible for and coordinate the inspiration kit, challenges and blog posts for one kit month a year
  •  be an active team member and contribute to the smooth running of our small, close and friendly team 

I will contact you and make the new team announcement in the third week of June so that the new Master Forgers can showcase their first kit in July 2021!

We are excited to hear from you and are looking forward to adding you to our team of friendly, motivational, supportive and inspirational crafty peeps! 

Please don’t hesitate to contact us on thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.com if you have any questions or queries or DM me (Lisa) on FB – I’m here to answer any questions you have! 

Good luck!

Lisa


Thursday, November 7, 2019

Some news and a Counterfeit Kit Challenge Master Forger Design Team Call – 2020

The team at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge is fun, active and incredibly talented and I’m so, so grateful to have them as my crafting buddies. I love having them in my life and value each of them for their fabulous crafting, their friendship and their contributions to our community - both “front of shop” as well as behind the scenes. 

Master Forger Susan has decided to step away from the creative activities of the CKC team, which means we will all miss her immense talent and kind words of support. Her projects have me ooo’ing and ahh’ing each and every month and she makes me want to be a better scrapper. But I’m thrilled that she will be staying with us in a support function helping us over on Instagram as well as creating the incredibly awesome mood boards each month for our sneak peeks. 

Ex-Master Forger Clair has delighted us all for many months with her {Killing Kitsseries where she has inspired us all to use up those pesky little scraps and embellishments we find at the bottom of our kit box. Her videos and blog posts have offered simple but effective ideas which were easy to adapt to our own supplies. November will be her last month as she has decided to focus her energies in new directions! I wish her all the very best and hope we will see her over here at CKC from time to time. We miss her already. 

So a warm and heartfelt thank you to both of you for all that you’ve done for us and I hope you will still hang out here at CKC with us!

Which brings me to a happier part of this post: 

First up, I’d like to welcome two new members to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge team – drum roll…. Please join me in welcoming the fantabulous Shannon Allor and Tara O’Rourke who will officially start their CKC team work in January, but no doubt we will be seeing a lot of them until them as they begin to flex their counterfeiting muscles! We are beyond thrilled that they agreed to join us and I know that they will be a perfect fit for the group with their kit skills, not to mention their wonderful craftiness! Shannon will also be offering us ideas at the end of the month for using up our kits as she continues the {Killing Kitsseries as of January
. 

Please join me in welcoming them both to our crafty family! 

And that’s not all… we have space for ONE new Design Team member so…..

Design Team Call for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge team in 2020 (January to December 2020) - as well asGuest Designers for single months during 2020

We are looking for one passionate kitter and paper crafter to join the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Master Forger team to join us in 2020 (January to December 2020) as well as Guest Designers for our monthly kit showcases during the year. 

If you would like to apply to join our team as Master Forger - or for a Guest Designer position - for 2020 please apply to thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.com by Monday 25th November with the following:
  • Pick an inspiration kit from one of the kits featured in 2019 on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog 
  • Create your own kit using the inspiration 
  • Create a project using one of the two featured challenges from the month chosen 
  • Send us bright and clear photos of your CKC kit, your CKC project and two other projects you have created which showcase your crafting style to thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.com
  • In addition to your kit and project photos – along with a short write up about your choices, your email should include some information about you, any current design teams you contribute to, your crafting story and where we can find you online (social media, blog, online galleries, YouTube etc).  We’d like to get to know you!
  • Please state clearly if you’d like to be considered for Master Forger 2020, Guest Designer for a month or both! 

As a Master Forger for 2020 we’d like you to: 
  • create a kit each month based on an inspiration kit and showcase it in a Design Team blog hop (or other social media platform) hop
  • create a project for at least one CKC challenge each month
  • contribute to the Forgery on the Fourth blog post on a regular basis with your own creations or links to ideas or tutorials online
  • take clear, bright, good quality photos of your kits and projects and/or videos
  • contribute to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Facebook community on a regular basis
  • comment on projects which are linked up by our followers on our blog, the CKC FB community and Instagram 
  • organise, be responsible for and coordinate the inspiration kit, challenges and blog posts for one kit month a year
  • be an active team member and contribute to the smooth running of our small, close and friendly team
As a monthly Guest Designer we’d like you to:
  • create a kit based on an inspiration kit and showcase it in the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog hop (or other social media platform)
  • create a project for one CKC monthly challenge
  • voluntarily contribute to other CKC activities during the month such as Forgery on the Fourth or the second challenge 
  • take bright clear photos of your kit and projects and/or videos and share them online during your guest month


We will make the new team announcement in December, before Christmas, and the new Master Forgers will be able to showcase their first kit in January 2020!

We are excited to hear from you and are looking forward to adding you to our team of friendly, motivational, supportive and inspirational crafty peeps! 

Please don’t hesitate to contact us on thecounterfeitkitchallengeblog@gmail.comif you have any questions or queries! 

Good luck!

Lisa

Monday, April 30, 2018

Some sad news and something to look forward to!

You know how much I hate these posts but it's time to officially say goodbye to a couple of our much-loved Master Forgers - Kelly and Clair :-( 

You might have noticed that they have been missing from our little family for some time now but as always, I waited a while to make it official in case they change their mind - ever hopeful! 

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for their contributions to our team over the years and we will miss them. 

Please join me in sending them a virtual group hug and we hope that they will join us in the community when they have time.

However, there IS some good news that I'm delighted to be able to share with you!

Even though Clair is no longer officially part of the Design Team as a Master Forger, she is still going to be joining us twice a month (15th and 30th of each month) with a new scrapbooking video series that she has produced. I'm thrilled that she thought of us and I'm so happy that she is still going to be part of the family. I'll leave it to her to introduce you to the details so make sure you tune in on 15th May for the news!

On that note, I'll love you and leave you. 

Tomorrow is of course the first of the month and I'm excited about our new inspiration kit as well as an awesome Guest Designer. 

See you there!