I sure do love a challenge ! Some very clever crafty girls named Beth and Meridy have started hosting a Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog. They locate one of the wonderful monthly kit clubs offered by various companies, and select a kit for us to "lift". The premise is that we use the selected kit as inspiration to "shop" our own scrap supplies and get creative in creating our own kit to use. I LOVE this idea !!!
Here is a link to the
January Counterfeit Kit Challenge if you want to play along. The first kit we are "lifting" is the December Jenni Bowling Kit below.
Below is my attempt to "lift" the Jenni Bowlin kit.
Digging through my stash was fun and when I ran across Cosmo Crickets' Hello Sunshine paper, I knew I had found the base for my kit. I just love the happy colors of red, yellow and green with black accents. And I loved adding my own spin to it with some Heidi Swapp Green Bling and some Jenni Bowlin Bingo Alphas.
Unfortunately there were a few elements I didn't own from the Jenni Bowlin kit, so I decided to "repurpose" a few things I did have for my kit. First, I layered some Prima yellow flowers and added a black glittered dome buttons in place of the Sassafras flowers.
I also didn't have any of the Maya Road black doily transparencies but I did have some fun Martha Steward doily tags. Here is how I changed them up to use in my kit. It was so easy to do too!
And while I did have some of the Maya Road pins, they weren't green so I changed those too by using a Green Copic marker.
There were also some wonderful pinwheels from Studio Calico that I needed to replicate too...In my stash I found a great tissue paper with green print on it to use and I had the yellow twine already. They were so easy to make.
And I want to thank Erin Carpas for sharing her file so I could make the wonderful Month Bingo Cards that were a replica of the Jenni Bowlin one's used in the kit.
There was also an Add On Kit of other embellishments in the challenge that I needed to replicate.
Now here is the Add On Kit I put together....I love all the pieces I gathered from my stash.
I didn't have any of those gorgeous silk flowers in the Jenni Bowlin kit but I decided to build my own flowers.
I used some large black felt flowers from Queen & Co. I layered them and then added a red crocheted flower and a domed glitter piece to the center. I love how they turned out.
The other pieces of embellishments are either from Jenni Bowlin, Scenic Route, 7 Gypsies and Luxe Designs. And of course, I did have a wonderful sticker set from Sassafras to use just like in the Jenni Bowlin Add On Kit.
Now, I am ready to start using my newly created kit. I have just the Mini Album project in mind too. Check back later this month to see what I made.
Be honest, over the years many of us have collected so much stuff we could never use it all ourselves. I challenge you all to join us in the monthly challenge. Let me know if you like this idea. Hope to see you posting your kit soon on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog.
