Counterfeit Kit Club Blog Hop

Thanks for joining us for the 2nd Counterfeit Kit Club Blog hop! I am always excited to see what they have for us-there are always so many great challenges, and it is so inspiring to see so many people using their stash and making the supplies they already have working for them! The sketch below was taken from Scraps Of Darkness kit club, which was also our inspiration kit for the month. My layout was made up almost entirely from my February Counterfeit Kit. My favorite part of this layout is the photo of my mom and my girls, because I really think that it showcases the sweet and precious relationship that they share! For the layout, I used the Making Memories Love Notes red glitter printed cardstock, the backside of one of my GCD Studios sheets, cut the circle out of the center of the red glitter sheet, made my own roses out of burgundy cardstock, an svg file from Dan's blog (mycraftylife), the little golden frame, the "love" sheet from Making Memories Vintage Findings, the key and lock grungeboard, which I heat embossed with gold ink and embossing powder, and attached the lock with a couple of Basic Grey Painted Brads.I also used a grungeboard flourish, which I painted with Barn Door Crackle Paint by Ranger, and inked with red and black ink. The label is an American Crafts Remarks sticker, and I used a strip of the polka dot side of the GCD Studios paper in place of the fuzzy trim. I thought it all was lacking a tiny bit of "special something", so I put Glossy Accents on the edges of the rose petals, and added two sizes of red glitter.

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Just a quick post to share some more layouts that I have made with my February Counterfeit kit!

Flower Girl: The photo of my beautiful daughter was taken by Churchill photography.

almost everything I used was from my kit: light purple cardstock and silvery patterned paper from SEI, along with pale pink cardstock, pale pink tiny flowers, Jenni Bowlin journaling cards, Making Memories letter stickers,pink tiny pearl strands,pink glitter puffy paint for the "bling" around the title circle. The one thing I added from my stash was the flower ribbon along the center of the layout. I had the Heidi Swapp felt butterflies from my kit along the center of the layout, but I couldn't get it to look the way I wanted, so I scrapped them and put the flower ribbon there. I like the way that looks alot better!

Bridesmaids: a layout with a photo from my sister's wedding this past summer (taken by Churchill Photography). All supplies were from my kit: lavender cardstock, white cardstock, I flicked droplets of my homemade glimmer paint across the layout, mounted the photo on a deep pink cardstock from SEI, added the ZVA bling flourish, the green Prima flower, and tiny white flowers, tying the ones by the title with a sheer lavendar ribbon from my Romance Add-On. The title is a combination of the Making Memories letter stickers and white glitter Thickers. I didn't get the best photos of this layout, but oh well...

Eleven: a layout about my oldest daughter's eleventh birthday, using only supplies from the kit: pink cardstock, Wild Pansy Glazed Bazzill, pink shabby seam binding, glitter white chipboard Thickers, pink primas that I dry brushed with my Homemade Glimmer paint, and one of my Homemade Page Pebbles, along with Prima Say It In Crystals.

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Handsome Guys All In A Row...

My little man, of course, is the handsomest (is that a word?) ;-) The wedding photos were taken by Churchill Photography (aren't they wonderful?). For the layout, I used my February Counterfeit Kit: black cardstock, silver SEI patterned paper, the Grungeboard flourish that I inked with a black Momento ink pad. The journaling tag is the chipboard backing to the pink primas, tied at the top with red shabby seam binding, and layered scrapof the GCD paper ( I used the pearlized back, and an American Crafts Remarks journaling spot, all from my kit. I finished the page off with a piece of an Anna Griffin journaling spot (left over from this layout

), and my Homemade Page Pebble (see how I made them HERE )

I just loved the pocket watch digistamp that I used from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Steampunk digistamp set. It's just so perfectly vintage and masculine, and it can be resized to whatever size you like, so it's a great image for a guy's birthday card! Thanks for looking! For more crafty inspiration, drop by the rest of the Lindsay's Stamp Stuff design team's blogs and see what they have been up to this week!

Lindsay Weirich (Owner & Stamp Designer)
Cindi Hooks
Diane Bove
Jennifer Bliss
Karin Martin
Leanne Garner
Margie Visnick(me)
Micki Harper
Rhonda Walker
Shannon Neparko
Tracey Allen
Tamara Bennett

Counterfeit Kit Paper Piecing Mini Challenge

This challenge was the perfect opportunity to pull out my Preserves cartridge and use my Cricut, along with my February Counterfeit kit! I used the burgundy Swiss Dots Bazzill, black grosgrain ribbon, American Crafts Remarks journaling spot, which I decorated with one of the Prima Say It In Crystals, the word "blackberry", and the berries, which were actually the raspberries in the Preserves cart booklet, but I wanted 2, so that is what I used. I also used the "faux embossed metal technique" for one of the Basic Grey chipboard pieces in my kit, used Basic Grey Painted Brads, and I used the swiss dots Cuttlebug folder to emboss the Blackberries, and inked and coated them with Glossy Accents to get the effect I wanted.
I also used my color kit to color the Grungeboard swirls at the corners of the layout, and added a couple of the Maya Road flower rub-on's to the red leather photo corners.Thanks for looking!