June 2020 Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings Scrapping Kit Usage Review

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! In June 2020 I had the great honor for being asked to serve as Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog. CKC's Master Forger Tara served as the hostess. She picked the inspirational kit that I based my copy-cat kit on as well as the main Challenges for the month. I participated in the first of the month reveal to show my kit of papers and embellishments. I had my forgeries made at that time too so they were included in that first posting and again for June 4th Forgeries on the Fourth posting. Then I participated in the 1st challenge titled "Wonderful World".

Encouragement card for a young niece

This card will also be seen further down in the posting. I'm using it here as a featured photo because I used 3 washi tapes, 1 patterned paper section, 2 foil butterflies, 1 pink fabric flower, and 3 puffy heart stickers from my June kit for CKC!!!


This is what started the very creative month for me:
Here's the collage photo for the selected kit for June 2020 at CKC=

These are a few of my paper and embellishment snapshots for the compilation I referred to as "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings" which is a nod to lots of flowers and butterflies I included in my kit.

These are my kit projects for the month:

This will be added to a chronological notebook binder and the flowers and bushes are from house #3 (as are the lilacs shown next). 

Above: an 8.5" x 11" layout for Challenge 1
Below: a TN size layout for the Forgeries on the Fourth using my copy-cat floral stenciled and embellished cardstock

Traveler's Notebook (slimline style) in a new TN featuring properties where we've lived in our 24+ years of marriage. We are on house #5!!! These lilac snapshots were from #3. 

LOTS of CARDS=

I love the roses washi tape paired up with the papers and accents! Another Christmas card for my growing stockpile!

Above: the checkered paper added as a neutral to the kit was used for the Christmas card PLUS the pinkish cardstock circle that is the 2nd layer below the script/text cardstock is the 2nd or B side of the pinkish mauve cardstock seen in the next Christmas card

Below: the gem dots from both cards were part of the embellishments and the white with pink dot patterned paper scrap I think was in the bottom of the stacks but isn't showing in the pics I selected up above; and the pinkish mauve cardstock was mentioned for the above card

A sketch based Christmas card challenge for my December stash.

Another Christmas card for a snowflake theme challenge and it will wait in my stash pile until December.

Both of these cards have a dotted paper included in the stack.
Below: the cardstock scraps were leftover from other cards; the gold serrated edge circle and the reddish-purple circles along with gem dots, acrylic bits, and stars are from the massive amounts of embellishments

A slimline non-traditional Christmas card for my growing stash for this December.

high school graduation congratulations card for a niece

Above: the cream and floral cardstocks were already cut and applied to the honeycomb gold cardstock card base; the card was finished with a recycled strip of packaging, washi tape, foil butterflies and lots of crystal gems from the kit

Below: The Moroccan tile cardstock scrap, the large love print cardstock pieces, and the small text heart are papers included in the kit along with the the light pink and rose acrylic bits, puffy hearts-stars-and-hexagons.

Anniversary card for a nephew and his wife; I added a #4 to the small text print heart before I mailed.

not finished on the inside yet; I'll either use for an upcoming birthday card or as an encouragement card

Aoove: the dotted 'sand' paper was perfect to make a summertime theme card; the glitter flowers and 2 washi tapes that are layered with a micro thin laid on top of the wider dark green are from the kit; plus the gem dots used as flower centers

Below: Oh, my! This card has more of the Moroccan tile print and small text print cardstocks from the kit along with glitter flower, puffy stars-heart-and-hexagons, and glitter black laid on top of a glitter white decorative tapes, plus a gem dot as flower center all from the kit.

Expectant Mommy card sent to my god-daughter

Encouragement card for a young niece

Above: from the kit: butterflies, washi tapes, large love text cardstock, puffy hearts, bright pink flower

Below: another sheet of the dotted 'sand' patterned paper and a strip of the checkerboard patterned paper; glitter flower, gem dots,

Encouragement card

Wow! Lots and lots of variety in occasions, digital images, lettering, and some additional embellishments along with solid color cardstocks for either card or layout bases or for printing the digital images on.

And guess what????!!! There are still scraps and full sheets left as well as embellishments from this compiled kit however I did put a dent into the piles!!! And it was a lot of creative fun seeing how I could use everything for so many different situations.

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Sharing with the CKC blog community group on Facebook

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Guest Designer for June 2020 for Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog

July 2020 Week 1 Sketch Challenge for 52 CCT Blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart is nervous about this card. In person, I love the color mix of this card, however some of the supplies are from my June 2020 scrapping kit and others are from my Christmas embellishments box. But more on those details later.

My June hostessing duties for 52 CCT blog are almost over. I've got to compile DT voting for the challenge ending 7/3/2020 and post the winners on Wednesday, July 8. So that means with July Week 1 sketch that it's now time for a new hostess, Fabiola. The sketch will be featured after my card photo.

Happy Christmas card for #25-20 =

link for #25 at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown=

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/07/july-sketch-challenge.html

Design notes:
a. text Christmas patterned paper = The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby
b. rose washi tape and mauve rosy paper (circle) = My Mind's Eye
c. white A2 card base, gem dots, green glitter foam trees = my stash
d. Happy Christmas die-cut =
e. checkered patterned paper, mauve paper, rose washi tape, and gem dots were part of my June 2020 scrapping kit for CKC blog PLUS the checkered paper was part of a paper pad that I'm trying to bash that was a decision in mid-May 2020 for Bash Your Scrapbook Stash

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links for challenge blogs and Facebook groups where I'll share the post or card photo=
a. CKC's last posting for June's inspiration kit can be found here=
http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-killing-kit-series.html

pics of my compiles copy-cat kit for June 2020=

Above: the rose washi tape can be seen near the pink flowers; the gem dots are just to the right of that and got cropped out of this pic
Below: Most of my papers were yellow/buttery cream, pink, light blue and light green but I wanted to have some neutrals to help ground all those other pastel hues; I included 2 sheets of the checkered paper in the kit but used a half sheet for the Christmas card featured up at the top of the post

b. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge blog; #75;
 http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-75-anything-christmas-goes.html

c. Bash Your Scrapbook Stash group in Facebook

pic of the paper pad cover:

d. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook

e. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group in Facebook

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Design team member for these 3:
1. 52 CCT
2. MTTC
3. APTS

MTTC blog no 435 Coloring on Kraft Paper technique challenge starts 26 June 2020

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh, mylanta! This new challenge had me a bit stumped and I procrastinated almost too long! ugh...I've printed on kraft paper a few times before but I think it has been for autumn harvest themes. However I'm way overdue to send an anniversary card to my nephew so that started a search before suppertime to look in my saved freebie images folder for something appropriate for a wedding anniversary. #435 Coloring on Kraft Paper technique challenge at My Time To Craft challenge blog starts on June 26 for a fortnight.

Hence this jigsaw puzzle heart filled with coloring pencils in 3 shades of blue, gray, and several variations of pinks and mauve/raspberry tones. The 3 patterned papers were part of scrapbooking kit for June 2020 for CKC as well as some of the embellishments.

I'm debating about personalizing this before I mail it. But enough analysis, here's the debut of:

You two fit together like pieces in a puzzle card:

#435 MTTC blog post link= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-435-colouring-on-kraft.html
*Note: another DT member prepared blog post an hour earlier or so than our deadline; so my card photo should get edited in sometime on June 26th. There are time zone variations within the team. I'm in the central USA and others are in England and elsewhere.....

Isn't this such a lovely card?!!?! It's a one base layer card (sky blue cardstock 5" x 7") and I love the haphazard placement along with the color repetition!!!

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the scrapbooking kit that I put together for CKC blog for this month of June had the 3 patterned paper:
*mosaic tile print and the small text print papers are from My Mind's Eye
*the large love text print paper is from Webster Pages
*the puffy hearts and stars were put into my kit (and I think they are from CTMH) and are visible in the first photo shown here:

The mosaic tile looking patterned paper is just visible in the above photo between the black and white buffalo check paper and a solid mauve/dusty rose paper on the right side.

The small print text patterned paper and large love text patterned paper are very visible in these different views of the papers I selected to be in my copy cat kit. I've made 1 notebook size layout, 2 traveler notebook layouts, and I think at least 4 cards with my June kit! And I've still got papers and embellishments left!!!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog June's Just for the Gist of it posting=
link=
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-just-gist-of-it.html

and CKC's Community group on Facebook

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other blogs and Facebook groups where you will see this card:

a. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; #474; Anything Goes as long as its paper-based
link= http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/pennys-challenge-474.html

b. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook;

c. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook;

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Design Team member:
1. My Time To Craft
2. A Place To Start
3. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for June 2020

CKC Blog June 2020 Kit Challenge no 1 Wonderful World contribution as a GD

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart is overflowing this month! Not only is it my birthday time but I'm having the honor to be the Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog!!! As a GD I've had an early alert to the inspiration kit and what this challenge #1 entails.

CKC's Master Forger, Tara, is the hostess this month and she selected CLIQUE Kit's March 2020 "Wonderful World" curated collection for the inspirational kit for participants to copy-cat from their stockpiles! When I think of wonderful world my mind always goes first to God's beautiful earthly creations, especially to flowers and butterflies. These are two of my favorites and are seen in my layouts and cards quite a lot!!! Even my June kit I've titled "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings" as a verbal nod to flowers and butterflies.

Luckily CLIQUE also put a lot of floral print papers and gorgeous embellishments into the kit along with lots of butterfly die-cuts.

My Challenge #1 layout is titled "Splendor". It turns out that several of the papers I included in my kit were from My Mind's Eye "Splendor" kit collection from a couple of years ago. I saved the marketing/cover page and their title got fussy cut out to become my title! :) Ingenious!! And then the far left strip on the layout is part of the sample section off that marketing cover page that can be seen in one of my kit photos I'm including in this post. Isn't that brilliant??!!!

The base is one of my forgery pages that started out as a pale yellow cardstock. Since doing the stenciling and outlining, I applied some eye shadow makeup (YES!!) with a sponge dauber to tone down the yellow a smidgen. The multi-shade palette had mica powder/glittery teals, amethysts, and metallic golds and bronzes, so I combined those to fill in some of that open space. Also the inspirational kit had lots of artist watercolor painting like papers, so I was hoping the make-up swirls would give my attempt at a forgery some of that look....

"Splendor" layout from "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings"--

Some of my June 2020 copy-cat kit photos (go back a week or so in my blog archives to find the posting about making the kit and see photos of the inspirational kit)=

Above: from some of my embellishments seen in the above photo, I pulled out 2 washi tapes to use, the foil butterflies, used the right half of those cut-apart images (Webster Pages), and the pocket/journal card in black and white is seen above those cut-apart panel.

Below: the marketing cover page from My Mind's Eye's "Splendor" was included in my kit and is seen next to that large "love" text paper ANT the yellow forgery floral paper is seen in the right corner of the photo tucked in between the green and pink versions.

I love re-purposing and recycling so using parts of that marketing cover page is like a huge WIN!

I was anxious to get the layout scanned and forgot to add in any captioning or journaling. But I did a TN layout for this same blog using the same kit for June 4th and the tulips/flowers were photographed  at the same time as the lilacs seen in the TN. Most of these flowers were already part of the landscaping of a foreclosure property we bought in 2005. Due to some structural work needed in the basement, we didn't move in until Summer 2006 and lived there until Fall of 2011. The landscaped beds hadn't been touched for several years, so when my hubs didn't need my assistance at the basement, I spent a lot of hours raking and weeding as well as analyzing what I could identify that was already there. These flower garden photos were probably taken sometime after 2007.

The columns of gems and butterflies are not quite a rainbow but the inspirational kit had several versions of rainbows included so I wanted to get this aspect of the kit onto my layout page. They've almost overwhelmed the cropped snapshots but I'm thinking these just reinforce the meaning of "Splendor" and "Wonderful World"

Oh! What a beautiful world God has given us! I know there is a lot of ugliness in the world but it's not due to the Creator. It's due to the disrespect and abusive actions of some humans. Let's focus on the beauty.

Two different locations for the purple tulips planted on the west side of this featured property we used to own are the focals for this layout. They are the beauty I wanted to share from this Wonderful World's Splendor!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog=

June 12th link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-challenge-1.html

June 1st link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-counterfeit-kit-challenge-kit.html


This blog post will also be shared at these:
a. CKC's community group in Facebook

b. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook

c. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group in Facebook

d. additional possibles: Bash Your Scrapbook Stash and/or 100 Pattern Paper Challenge groups in Facebook and/or Scrap Academy

e. The Paper Funday Challenges blog; June anything goes w/ optional twist of masculine; this is just an anything goes paper-crafted creation
link= http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-challenge-18-anything-goes.html


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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

CKC Blog June 2020 Kit Reveal and Blog Hop with me as GD

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh, my artsy-crafty heart is so excited to be the Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for June 2020! My heart is also anxious! The kit came together with a few speed bumps like not enough solid color CS or paper in the mix and probably way too much of the razzle-dazzle pretties, but I'm happy with the overall color palette and pleased with the shapes like flowers, butterflies, and tags.

So let's get started with some of the details. Warning this will be a very long post but if you love scrapbooking then you will want to soak up every word and picture.

My June copy-cat kit for CKC is titled "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings":
Photo 1: Papers en mass=

Photo 2: Embellishments en mass (left side of the group)=

Photo 3: Embellishments en mass (right side of the group)=

Before I show my sorting of the masses, let me show you the inspirational kit picked by this month's Master Forger hostess Tara.
Here's first opportunity to visit CKC's June 1st Reveal and Blog Hop=
link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-counterfeit-kit-challenge-kit.html

Isn't this so pretty?!!?! I wasn't able to capture the light delicate watercolor strokes on many of the papers so my focus went to colors with ranges in pinks, blues, a few teals, some greens, and yellows with black as my major neutral.

The "Wonderful World" kit has been offered by CLIQUE Kits since March 2020. It is curated collection with designs by Alexandra Renke, Vicki Boutin, and Heidi Swapp.

Here are close-up photos from CLIQUE Kits:

I really wanted to do something with the houses but alas that's going to have to be for another time I think. The little envelopes are so darling, too, but I'm not sure at this point if I'll be able to make any for monthly challenges. We shall see! WANT can be a huge motivator! :)

Back to more pics of my assembled kit now that you've seen the original:

Above: some labels like the inspiration kit; some black script and 2 black and white print washi tapes and 1 black glitter washi tape, 4 different green washi tapes, and 1 with roses. There is also a white glitter washi tape; lots of different butterflies; some clear and light pink crystal gems;

Above: lettering sticker sheets are in green, pink, and blue; some journal cards from My Mind's Eye; some puffy shapes that include hearts, dots, stars, and hexagons in several different colors; some other floral 3-D stick-ons; a few laser cut wood shapes (just a couple roses, 'posies', and leaves);

Below: A couple of weeks ago I started a card base with that gorgeous pine green floral cardstock from My Mind's Eye "Splendor" kit. That's as far as I got, so I'm including it to force me to use it. I remembered when referring back to my notes that I took from analyzing the inspiration kit that I needed some tags (notice the stack of little white tags) and thick cording in yellow, blue, and white. I have some blue and white thin cording as well as some yellow and white. I'll try to get those included in a layout or two. My forgeries are already made and included. Some black and white and gray and white scraps are barely seen at the top edge of the photo.

Above: The neutral scraps or small sheets: zebra print and white with gray dot are from The Paper Studio; the dots and checkerboard are from a 5" x 7" paper pad that I picked to "Bash" at the end of May; and there is a scrap of a light buttery yellow and white chevron cardstock from My Mind's Eye

Below: On the left are full sheets: pink w/ white love script CS and the white with love script CS are from Webster Pages; and the text print with scattered pink roses CS and golden yellow and white diagonal stripe CS are from My Mind's Eye.

On the right are scraps or sheets up to about 60% of full: from My Mind's Eye are the pine green floral CS, the blue and pink Moroccan tile print CS, the mauve pink, and the aqua/teal with white dot CS; from Webster Pages is the light teal floral CS scrap; and the large black and white buffalo check papers is from The Paper Studio

These last 2 photos I tried to lay out the papers so that you could see the banding strips. My Mind's Eye papers come from 3 collections: Splendor, Bohemian (that mauve pink), and Find Your Wings and Fly (the aqua/teal with white dot).

Now let's change the focus of the blog back to CKC. The first day of the month always has an enjoyable blog hop that includes the Master Forgers (design team) and the Guest Designer. I'm so thrilled that MF Tara asked me to GD. She's so excited about revealing the "Wonderful World" kit curated collection from CLIQUE Kits.

It is amazing!

June 2020 CKC post with reveal and blog hop details can be found using this link:
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-counterfeit-kit-challenge-kit.html


And I'm also including the blog hop list here to make it easy for you to visit the next person's posting of their copy cat kit for June:

1st June - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop Counterfeit Kit Challenge - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/  
Guest Designer Becca Morris Sadler   https://beccasheartland.blogspot.com/ 
 Cindy - http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/
 Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/
 Lisa - http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/ 
 Lori - https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/ 
 Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/
 Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/ 
 Tracey - https://3obsessions.blogspot.com/
 Laura - https://www.instagram.com/mrsp_scrapsandtea/

For more about CKC, there is a community group in Facebook. I got involved in following and participating most months of the year with CKC about 3 years ago. The first or second month that I participated, I got selected to be the month of August's 'follower to watch' which was a huge honor. And then it quickly was followed by a GD invite for October of that year. I don't do that much scrapbooking compared to cards but I've been dabbling more this past year or so with Bible journaling, Bible Word of the Month journaling, and traveler's slim-style notebooks (TNs). I prefer to use notebook sheet size scrapbook layouts or the same size in mixed pocket format pages or business card pocket pages in order that they can fit in the standard binder size.

Make sure to check CKC blog for their frequent challenges throughout June and also to check back here to see how and what I'm creating from my kit for the different  CKC challenges.

Welcome to the jubilant month of June!

Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S