Counterfeit Kit Challenge April kit reveal blog hop

Welcome to the April Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit reveal blog hop.

If you've arrived here directly, you might want to pop back to the Counterfeit blog to hop your way through all the participants and if you're here by way of the talented Julie Ann, then you are on the right track (and I bet she has totally wowed you with her use of colour!)

This month we've travelled across the pond to my side of the world and have two incredible inspiration kits from Kits de Somni based in Spain. Now I don't speak Spanish so it took me a while to find my way around their site but to save you the trouble, you can find the details of the main kit {here}. 

We all fell in love with the simpler feel and tones of our March kit with those softer yellows and blues but I can tell you that there were audible gasps across the internet from the whole team as we checked out these wonderfully bright and dramatic kits for April.

Take a look at them - aren't they just gorgeous?

I decided to take the first kit because I fell in love with all those colours and lots of paper and embellishments.

Again, I didn't have a single item that matched the inspiration so I decided to just go colourful. It's funny as I actually went stash shopping yesterday but deliberately didn't take the kit list with me so that I would shop my stash for this kit - the principle of buying some new stash in but feeling virtuous by using older stuff up at the same time rules round here!

I started by selecting some bright cardstock, layered up piles of paper (which I later reduced to 12 sheets) and then lavished lots of colourful embellishments on top. I matched up a few of the item choices from the original such as some doilies, tags, a bit of kraft, flowers, ribbons and tickets. For the tickets, I stamped my own and cut them out and intend to add a sentiment or two to the centre of each one as I use it up. This was a lot of fun, fishing out all the brightest papers I could find and I've included some really OLD stuff in there - LOL. Let's see if it gets used up or not.

My photos were taken early in the morning so the light is a little cold, but take it from me, it's just gorgeous in real. "Blossom" seemed to be a very appropriate name for this vivid, vivacious kit.

The rest of the team have been swooning over these inspiration kits from Kits de Somni so I just know there are going to be some gorgeous creations along the hop so make sure you check them out and then share your own kits over at the Counterfeit site (here). Don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you were here - I love seeing who's dropped by :-)

Your next stop on the hop is the delightful Margie (here) and just in case you get lost along the way, here is the full blog hop list.

Guest Designer: Libeeti  http://creationswithlove-li-bee-ti.blogspot.com/

Crystal http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Glinda http://razzledscrapper.blogspot.com/

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

Jen http://mypair-a-dice.blogspot.com/

Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/ <--- You are here

Margie http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/ <--- Go here next

Milissa http://millermall.blogspot.com/

Rebecca http://howiburb.blogspot.com/ 

Susanne http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/

Bethany http://inspiredscrapper-bethany.blogspot.com/

Meridy http://www.meridy77.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping.