Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit reveal blog hop

Great that you're here again for the beginning of June for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit reveal blog hop!

Hopefully you've arrived here via the delightful Leslie and her amazing Blue Box full of goodies, and next up is the lovely Lori who is bound to have brough together some fabulous scrummies for your inspiration! And of course, you must make sure that you drop by at our Guest Designer Alice's blog,

I'm so thrilled to have her with us this month as the Counterfeit Kit Challenge and the LOAD challenge are surely the perfect combination!

The full blog hop list is at the end so make sure you don't miss a stop.

I picked out the kit this month and just couldn't resist the Hip Kit Club's May kit  - see here https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-main-kit.. Full of the feelings of summer and long sunny days.

Here's the main kit and there are a bunch of add ons too if that's more your thing.

May Hip Kit Club kit

You can find the add ons here:

Paper https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-paper-kit 

Pocket page https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-project-life-kit 

Embellishments https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-embellishment-kit 

Cardstock (for colours) https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-cardstock-kit 

Colour kit https://www.hipkitclub.net/may-2018-color-kit 

Her's my kit, "Sunkissed"

The photos aren't as good as they could be even though I've tweaked them a lot! I took them early in the morning so they are a little on the cooler side of things - they are warmer in real life.

I really just look for colour and feel with a few items picked out to match the inspiration kit. I love this combination.

Some My Mind's Eye and Pinkfresh Studio as well as Simple Stories, Crate and a few more!

Lots of 6x6 and scraps as well as a couple of extra items such as the tissue and the vellum.

And oodles of embellies - word items, lots of bits and pieces from the two My Mind's Eye collections and anything else that caught my eye while I was shopping my stash.

Alphas and words and die cuts as well as a nearly full 6x6 pack.

I think that's enough to keep me going, don't you?

It's going to be a good month for photos with trips and events so here's to lots of scrapping in my future.

Here's the full blog hop list in case you get lost along the way and don't forget that we love it when you share. You can find out how over on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog!

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

Guest Designer Alice - http://scrapbookwonderland.com

Cindy - http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com

Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com

Leslie - http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com
Lisa - http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/

Lori - https://loriannie670.blogspot.com

Margie - http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/

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

Counterfeit Kit Challenge May member blog hop

Welcome to this month's Counterfeit Kit Challenge member blog hop.

I'm right at the end of the hop so hopefully you've reached me via Natalie but if not, why not pop back to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog to start at the beginning so you don't miss out on the fun.

As always, we are here today to share anything we've made with our kits - Challenges, Forgeries on the Fourth or in fact, anything new. Here are the challenges we have to choose from in May:

• Challenge #1: Quebec Kilo - feature Q or K
• Challenge #2: One of our Two Sketches
• Challenge #3: Escher Effects

I'm doing LOAD516 at the moment so I combined one of the prompts about what was making me happy or excited along with the CKC challenge #2 - sketch #1.

As usual, there was a bit of free interpretation of the sketch but I think you can see the original in there if you look close enough.

Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit, Sprinkle #5

I see there's a little bit of stuff along that white cardstock edge - I'll have to erase that off. Can't imagine how I missed that.

I added in a little paper from my November 2015, Remembrance kit, which is still going strong

I misted these letters and then used my heat gun which gave it this really intense gold surface

While the photos were taken in March during my trip back "home" to the UK, I was totally excited to get to meet fellow Master Forgers Jemma and Lesley! We chatted and laughed and shared experiences over a delicious lunch and became real friends rather than "just" internet friends! That brings my tally to a grand total of FOUR MFs met in real life. Love that I've had that chance and later on in the summer, Julene and I also have plans to meet up here in Germany.

I also have these two layouts which I made using my May kit.

It's not a perfect photo as it was taken at night but I think you get the idea - Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit, Sprinkle #2

I love these little veneer hearts so much - I could have used dozens!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit, Sprinkle #4

Thanks for dropping by today. Here's the full hop list in case you get lost along the way.

CKCB    http://www.counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com

Jemma    http://just-jimjams.blogspot.co.uk

Tina    http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com

Jane    http://alittlescrap.blogspot.com/

Julene    http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com.au

Elaine    http://chidkids26.blogspot.co.uk

Natalie    http://thebigdills.blogspot.com

Lisa    http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de

Scrapabilly December kit shares (part 2)

Yesterday I shared part 1 of my Scrapabilly December kit creations. 

You can check out all the details of the kit in that post but here's the kit for you as a reminder of all its gorgeousness.

For these two layouts I added some mists (as usual), a little strip of gold glitter washi, a partial gold doily, some very old but very pretty mint Thickers, the Pinkfresh Studio gold alphas that I showed yesterday and a good handful of sequins and beads for my shaker element as well as a tiny scrap of vellum for the opaque cover.

I love marking my birthday - which can be a bit overrun by Christmas stuff to be honest - with some photos and often, a page and this year was no different. In fact this year, my mum came to visit and I had a bumper crop of presents so it seemed the perfect kit to record a couple of the pretty details and a "this is me - now" photo.

My gold pen seemed ideal for the journalling again so that it wasn't so stand out as it would have been with black pen which is my usual.

I had this frame left over and I've been wanting to do my Whimsical Musings shaker box prompt for some time so it just came together. I filled it with stars, beads and sequins and love how it turned out. I love the opacity of the vellum so you know everything that's in there, but it's a bit misty at the same time!

And last up was actually the starting point for me as I was delighted to see the mint elements to the kit which perfectly matched a page I've been wanting to do for a while.

When I met Kathy in the summer, we talked and talked as if we'd known each other forever and I got her up to speed with all the corners of the scrappy web which I like to frequent including Paperclipping which is a top favourite of mine. I told her about the wonderful April Fool's Day spoof they made about Noel's planner room and we laughed about being "washi'd" in with mint green washi to signal what level of friend you are - mint green is a friend you like and want to see! Kathy had sent me something in the post including the tag you can see here behind the photo which had some mint green washi on it as well as some photos of the two of us and I just knew that I had to make this page. She really is my mint green washi friend and always will be!

And finally, to finish off the kit, I grabbed a couple of the cute die-cut frames and quickly made up two cards. Nothing earth shattering on the design but you know how useful it is to have a couple of cards on hand for those special people in your life!

Two things to remember!

1. All the design team creations can be found at the Scrapabilly gallery here and go here to secure your own kit.
2. There's a giveaway up for grabs over at Whimsical Musings - check the bottom of this post for details! All you need to do is comment and if you make a layout too, that's extra chances to win!

Scrapabilly December kit shares (part 1)

I'm late again.....

I sound like Alice's White Rabbit. But then we did have Christmas and New Year to contend with over the last few weeks...

Excuses I know but here I am to share what I made with the stunning December Scrapabilly kit featuring Pebbles DIY Home collection - which I loved so much that Sylvia gave me the complete 12x12 paper pad for my birthday! I love it.

Here's the kit for you delectation...

It features double sided papers, one design paper featuring gold foil (SO scrummy), a whole pack of die cuts, a sheet of washi tape paper AND a sheet of stickers from the DIY Home collection along with cork Thickers, and matching cardstock. 

I only needed to add in a small gold alpha sheet by Pinkfresh Studio (in shop here), a little gold doily and a little mist for the two layouts I'm going to share today. Oh yes, and I couldn't resist adding in a pink ombre sheet of paper with gold stripes as an extra from the collection - I think I'm going to need another one!

My first layout features the most fabulous birthday present I received from my adorable friend Lynnette. She saw the perfect bracelet featuring star signs and knew I would love it, which I did. Then she realised I'm Scorpio and not Sagittarius so sent me both. What she didn't realise at the time was just how perfect that would end up being because now I have my sun sign (Scorpio) as well as my ascendant (Sagittarius)! Perfect in every way. This girl is such a great present giver. This is now the second page I've made featuring her gifts.

The paper was so pretty that I knew it was ideal for a soft, feminine background to my simple photo.

I particularly love the gold details on the die cuts like this adorable frame and the flowers.

The Pinkfresh Studio gold letters are the right shade of gold to look as if they were made for this collection and the gold doily just added a little something for detail.

I used the chevron paper for my journalling and by using a gold pen, it doesn't look too obvious or detract from the rest of the page.

With Lynnette as my subject, I was on a roll and decided to match up some paper-filled frames from the die-cut pack with two cute photos of us as we said goodbye at the airport when she came to visit me in Germany in the summer. There's that gorgeous ombré paper in the background - I placed the frames so that you could still see all the fabulousness of it!

Come back tomorrow for the remaining layouts I've made with the kit and don't forget that all the design team creations can be found at the Scrapabilly gallery here and go here to secure your own kit - it's so gorgeous, how could you resist?