There are monthly kit clubs offered by several companies, and they intrigued me. Boxes of goodies, the latest and greatest products, picked to coordinate and delivered straight to your door...what's not to love? Well, some of them cost up to $50. A lot of them, you have to subscribe for multiple months. And, just because you love what they've come up with the last 2 months, there's no guarantee you're going to even like the next 3 months. And therein was my problem. Enter the idea of counterfeit kits (which was totally not mine). Basically, you find inspiration from a kit, and then go dig through your stash and come up with your own, and you don't even spend a penny.
I have to admit, though, that this is backwards for me. I usually choose pictures, then product. Choosing a bunch of paper and embellishments and then finding groups of pictures to work with...I haven't done so well with it in the past, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying it, and liking the layouts a came up with.
I went to several different kit club websites and found 40 or so that I liked, and then took the 10 that looked the most interesting to me, and made up my kits. First up:
Little Red Scrapbook's May 2010 kit. Look at all the happy colors! And, if you look closer, it's all October Afternoon paper. Is it any wonder that I was drawn to it? And is it all that shocking that I had most of it? No. (And that is something that I discovered about a lot of the kit clubs, upon closer inspection, most of them aren't mixing and matching manufacturers anymore). And here's my kit:
Since the bottom row of paper from the kit club papers is the flip side of the top row papers, I had to actually get creative, since I usually just buy one sheet of each design. Not a lot of embellies, since I don't own a lot of birds and such.
I would have never chosen these papers for these pics, but I really like how it turned out.
extra project: a cleaned out container from the Target bakery that was filled with packets of nuts as a gift for Terri. The paper also rings the actual container.
I don't usually use blue cardstock for backgrounds, but since it was part of the "kit"...Inspired by an Allison Davis sketch.
One of my favorites. I've had these metal letters for awhile, but since there is only one of each letter, I had to get creative. The second E is actually an F and an L layered together.
I like how this turned out. The paper on the top half has been a favorite, even if I didn't know what to do with it for a long time.
Some old scans of one of Brandon's books. He declared that this was Rick and me (always cleaning/always causing mischief).
Eh.
Pictures I took of one of Terri's sons while I was watching him. The colors fit perfectly with this kit,which is good, because I have an appalling amount of pink paper for never using it.
I have no idea what I'm going to do with this layout. I was putzing around with the pieces I have left (which is actually a lot) and ended up with this, and liking it, but having no pic to put on it yet. It will eventually find a home.
I should have had plenty of cards from the rest of the leftovers, but my creative mojo for cards is currently hiding. So, that's it for now.
100 projects total: 37
