Counterfeit Kit Challenge June kit reveal blog hop

Welcome to a fresh new month of creative endeavours and another Counterfeit Kit Challenge share to inspire and delight!

Hopefully you're joining me today via Leslie's blog and her infamous and spectacular Blue Box but if not, you can start at the start of the hop back at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog and hop on from there. When you've had as much as you can take here :-) then carry on over to Lynnette for the show stealing kit presentation she's sure to have. Love my L sandwich! The full list can be found at the end of the post.

Don't forget to head over to our wonderful Guest Designer Emma too who will amaze you with her kit skills - and she's only been Counterfeiting for a few months! This girl is prolific so I'm sure she has an incredible kit to share.

We've been shaking things up recently, and this month is no different. We were given a current manufacturer's collection to forge - but not just one. We were asked to pick one of the 8 recent BasicGrey collections and make it our own.

Now, you KNOW how much I love BG so the only thing that was hard for me was picking which one. And I was surprised to find that I actually only had one of the selection already - Aurora. You can find all the collections in question here at the Basic Grey site under the "What's New?" tab. The list is: Barista, South Pacific, Tea Garden, Prism, Adrift, J'Adore, Vivienne, Aurora.

I ummmed and ahhhhhed about which one to pick - Barista was in the lead for quite some time but in the end, went with Prism because I thought it matched a lot of my recent purchases and we all know that the name of the game is to get those papers getting used up. I bought them so I love them so I should use them and not just gaze lovingly at them. I've created a CKC June Prism Pinterest board with all the papers and elements of the collection here. If I get time later on, I'll add all the papers I've used in my counterfeit kit as there's a lot to take in with 18 designs and lots of paper/veneer based embellishments.

Here's a look at Prism.

And now let me show you Spectrum

Shall we break it down a little to show where all that stuff came from? Yes, it's another mega-kit for June. Wish me luck in using it all up - maybe by the end of the year!

Here's the paper selection laid out in almost the same way as the original paper pack at the top.

I ended up with 18 papers as I matched both a and b sides of the original. This is what I did to tie up papers:

1. BG Medallion a-side pink on pink / Me Echo Park Sweet Girl Lace Damask
2. BG Medallion b-side white background/coloured triangles / Me Webster's Pages #Happy Story Teller Card II
3. BG Aztec a-side white background with triangle dots / Me Studio Tekturek One Way Ticket #07
4. BG Aztec b-side mustard on mustard / Me Simple Stories Vintage Bliss Yellow Grid
5. BG Pyramid a-side white background with triangles in diamonds blue/green/grey / Me October Afternoon Treasure Map Shipwreck Coast
6. BG Pyramid b-side black / Me Webster's Pages #Happy Jazzed
7. BG Weave a-side orange on orange / Me Echo Park Capture Life Arrows
8. BG Weave b-side multi-coloured chequers / Me October Afternoon Treasure Map Moaning Cavern
9. BG Petals a-side flowers on black background / Me Webster's Pages #Happy Good Stuff
10. BG Petals b-side pink on pink / Me October Afternoon Treasure Map Skull Rock
11. BG Spoke a-side blue on blue / Me Echo Park Capture Life Fave Places
12. BG Spoke b-side blue/green diamond floral / Me Webster's Pages #Happy True Blue
13. BG Beaded a-side mustard on mustard / Me Pink Paislee Atlas Compass
14. BG Beaded b-side white background with threaded diamonds blue/yellow/pink etc / Me Echo Park Capture Life Chevrons
15. BG Quilt a-side black background with random line pattern / Me Basic Grey Aurora Lynx
16. BG Quilt b-side black/blue/pink/yellow triangle zig zag / Me October Afternoon Treasure Map Dead Man's Pass
17. BG Mod a-side pink/yellow flowers / Me Echo Park Sweet Girl Journalling Cards
18. BG Mod b-side yellow/green circles on white background / Me Scrapperin 31 Wintertage #4

Phew, that's a lot of papers considering every single one is double sided.

Then I added in some alphas and embellishments which matched the original collection. 

Behind two sheets of vellum here, you can see several alphas, both large and small to copy the large 12x12 alpha sheet in the original - in black, yellow, pink, aqua, mustard - all colours which will match my papers.

There are some die cut labels which I hope to decorate to mirror the kraft labels in the Prism collection (and some flair just for good measure)

And some veneer shapes with lasered designs

Prism has a pack of die-cut shapes so I used my Cameo to cut some gold and white cardstock shapes which seemed to fit the style of the papers - geometrics, ampersands, feathers, sunbursts etc

Those two Valentine postcards were freebies for a shop - I think they are perfect here

Some fabric frames are also in this die-cut category for me.

And then I just layered up some more embellies to make sure this mega-kit is bigger than ever...

Some journalling cards in both 6x4 and 3x4

Some washi-tapes and star enamels

Some extra veneers and a speech bubble clip

And a few tiny paper bags

So let's finish off with a few more detail shots in case you haven't seen enough...

And one last shot of the full kit to sign off

In real life, I feel this is quite a good match for the original Prism collection and was a very interesting exercise! I love BG so much but can't always justify getting every new release. This just proves once again that we all have stash that can be used to replicate kits that work for us.

It would be lovely to hear your thoughts on my kit (and how many layouts do you think I'll manage to produce with this enormous collection of stash) and now don't forget to hop on to see Lynnette. I had a sneak of her kit the other day, and it's another winner.

Here's the full list in case you get lost along the way.

Guest Designer Emma  https://www.flickr.com/photos/64255593@N06/

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

Lisa:  http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de

Lynnette  http://www.sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com

Margie:  http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com

Stephanie:  http://skylinepaperie.blogspot.com

Susanne:  http://snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com 

Julene:  http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com 

Counterfeit Kit Challenge May member blog hop

It's Counterfeit Kit Challenge member blog hop time again!

I'm kicking off today so when you are done, please hop over to this month's wonderful Guest Designer, Susan (links to her Flickr feed) and the full list can be found at the Counterfeit Kit blog or at the end of this post.

This months challenges were:

Challenge #1:  Roll The Dice:  Bethany rolled the dice back in 2012 and chose a challenge to make a fashion inspired card
Challenge #2:  Back To School: School supplies, school photos, school memories ... you choose
Challenge #3:  No Photo Challenge: Forget the photos on your layout!

And we were also offered a whole lot of inspiration over InterNational Scrapbook Day weekend which we were encouraged to dip into for our pages today.

I decided to revisit the Back To School challenge for a second time and also Susan's 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 challenge (you can find it here)

I came across this close-up shot of my nieces uniform socks just before she started school and thought what a lovely little detail it was.

I was really lucky that this month's kit, Rejuvenate had some aquas which seemed to match up with the uniform and plenty of pinks to match her very girlie character. A Kelly Purkey sketch from the Sketchbook class and I was good to go.

Counterfeit Kit Challenge May kit, Rejuvenate lo #3

Next up is May's Guest Designer Susan who you can find over at Flickr. It would be lovely if you left me a comment to let me know you were here before you go!

Be sure to share your own creations over at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Mr Linky page.

Here's the full list of today's hoppers in case you get lost along the way.

Happy hopping.

CKCB         http://www.counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com
Lisa           http://lisahausmann.blogspot.de
Susan       https://www.flickr.com/photos/102444136@N07  leads to her Flickr gallery - check out the first layout in her feed!
Tina           http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com
Leslie         http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com
Solange     http://isbahashome.blogspot.fr
Susanne    http://snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com 

Scrapabilly May kit shares (part 2)

Glad you've come back for part 2 of my Scrapabilly May kit shares. You can find my first shares here.

A reminder of the Jillibean Soup filled kit using the Summer Red Raspberry Soup collection.

This layout started off with the small cluster as a centre point and just developed from there. 

And this last layout used up a whole lot of scraps and plenty of little bits and pieces left in the kit such as the die-cuts and stickers. My Big Shot served me well with the nested star die - this has proved to be the most versatile and well used die I've got and I use it all the time. I really liked the idea of piling up the different sizes and colours to give different effects. I was happy to use up five photos taken just recently too. I love capturing the colours of spring.

I wonder if the red banner is a little bright for the page? I might consider changing it out - what do you think?

Don't forget to check out the Scrapabilly gallery where you can see all the Design Team creations and the kit is still available here. Such a lovely kit - why not treat yourself?

Scrapabilly May kit shares (part 1)

Back again for another month of Scrapabilly kit shares.

The Scrapabilly May kit features the pretty, summery Jillibean Soup Summer Red Raspberry Soup with lovely fresh colours and lots of cute designs - fruity and delicious!

Seven of the collection papers including cut apart sheets, Jillibean Soup mini-alpha, label stickers and  die-cuts, washi tape, a set of Thickers, a Scrpabilly exclusive flair, cardstock and Simple Stories Colour Light Vibe papers all combine to make a really super kit that was perfect for scrapping warm days, happy colours, cute girls and random art.

Several of the papers were so gorgeous on both the a-side and b-side that it was really difficult to make a choice of which one to use. The green paper below was one of those - pretty doilies on the a-side and then this gorgeous green geometric on the b-side. The green won out although I did manage to salvage many partial doilies from the piece I cut off.

When I first looked into the kit, I just saw those happy colours and that reminded me of colouring as a child which in turn reminded me of these photos. I need to remember to play with colour more - this layout is a reminder for me.

The doilies I fussy-cut from the green paper off-cuts were used as trimmings for this little cutie. The butterflies and doilies from the die-cut pack, mixed in with those I cut from the papers seemed the perfect decoration for my little ballerina niece.

Last share for today is the random art I was talking about at the beginning of the post. I took inspiration for this design from Pinterest - nothing in particular, just the look of several pages I've admired recently. And the gentle, fresh coloured papers seemed the perfect ruse for this enormous, impressive statue that I used to admire every week at one of the companies I worked for. I think it must be two or three meters long. I loved that rhino and got several sneaky photos of it while I worked there. Happy to have this memory captured. The blocky design seems to match the solid form of its body.

I'll be back again later this week with the last two layouts from the kit but in the meantime, why not go over to the Scrapabilly gallery to check out the Design Team creations.