Visiting Santa

I'm loving this kit for getting some of my old b&w photos scrapped. This is my dad and uncle visiting Santa. I think it would have been 1953. I made the poinsettia: cards stock, Stickles & Glimmer Mist!

 

So far I haven't done any Valentine's Day/Love themed layouts with this kit but I'm working on one!

My Dad!

This is the first layout I've made using my February Counterfeit Kit!

I used the Prima stencils as stamps with the Distress paint. I wanted to use the hot air balloons on this layout because they had a kind of circus-y feel to me. It's hard to tell by the picture here but the front of my Dad's outfit has a little circus bear riding a bike across a tight-rope embroidered on it.

** Please note: I photo-shopped out the journaling on the tag as it contains his full-name, etc.

February's Counterfeit Kit

The Counterfeit Kit Challenge for February has been posted and the kit club featured this month is Scraps of Darkness you can see the main kit and all the add-on kits here.

I love the look of this kit! My kit is going to be a lot like it with the big exception being the lilac colored items. I'm going with blue instead.



My Main Kit Counterfeit!

Paper:


Little Yellow Bicycle - love letters, Black Damask flocked
Chatter Box - artsy.licious, Fine Flocked Paper in Kohl
Little Yellow Bicycle - love letters, Love Song
Prima IOD - Pulse Collection, Tagged
My Mind's Eye - Laundry Line, Flirty "Lil Girl" Smocking Paper
My Mind's Eye - Bella Bella, "Bellezo"
Prima IOD - Coquette Collection, Trinkets
My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found, Portobello Road "Family" Brocade Paper
My Mind's Eye - Laundry Line, Sundress "Heirloom"
My Mind's Eye - Holly Jolly, "Holly Berries"
My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found, Portobello Road "Boy" Dapper Dots
Creative Imaginations - Narratives, Journal Poppy



Embellishments: I'll try to return and list these too. In the meantime feel free to ask!


Prima - Say it in Pearls with Flowers, cream
Jenni Bowlin - Bingo Card, Love
Making Memories - Glitter Deco Brads, Antique Silver Gem
Pins are Fancy Pants pins that I 'fancied up'
Making Memories - Glitter Brads, Black & Silver
Prima - Velvet Brads, Black & Heart
Prima - Leaves and Flowers (Ameruse, Duchess Mix)
Making Memories - Charmed Frames, Square Scroll
Making Memories - Mini Shimmer Alpha, Silver Metro
Heidi Swapp - Playing Card
Flowers - ??? 
Assorted Ribbons
Fancy Pants - 'Ledger'-style tag came from a full sheet of various tags
7 Gypsies - Post Card
Prima - Felt Hearts, partial from a package 
Tattered Angels - Antique Key, Silver
My Mind's Eye - All Other Cards/Tags




And since money is no object when you shop your stash, I've got ALL the add-on kits too, lol!

Cardstock: It's all Bazzill but I don't keep track of the colors.




Color: I just so happen to have those same stencils!




More Embellishments: I'll try to get a list of these put together too.






Now I need to pull some photos and get to work. I can't wait to see what challenges they come up with and what the other participants choose!

Flowers!

Look at the cute box I made to keep my flowers in!

The Kaiser Kraft All Purpose Box.

Stealing and Counterfeiting

In ‘celebrity’ scrapbooking news this week there was quite a brouhaha on some sites about a popular “artist” – that title is questionable at best and her site should be named “Simply everyone I can steal ideas from not Me” - who copied a Fossil purse design and than decided to sell product based on that design.

You can be inspired by another’s work and create your own item based on that but you can’t copy it and then pass it off as your own. Well, I guess you can – but be prepared for a shit-storm!

Anyway, that all led to my discovery of a new blog “Counterfeit Kit Challenge”.


Each month they’ll post a kit being offered by one of the kit clubs and challenging themselves and readers to make up their own inspired kits using that stash you already have. And then they’ll post challenges so you actually USE it!

How cool is that? I can’t wait until they post February!