"Chuting" Stars - CKC Blog Hop

Welcome to my part of the CKCB Members' Blog Hop!

If you are here as part of the hop, you should have come here from the amazingly creative Julene Matthew's blog, Julene By Design.

If you found your way here some other way, let me share a little about the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.  From the CKC site, "The Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog is a free online resource for scrapbookers and paper crafters who want to make a dent in their stash of supplies.

Have you ever browsed through those great monthly scrapbook kit clubs and admired their beautiful kits … but deep down you knew you needed more supplies like a hole in the head? You know who you are - you're the one with TONS of papers and embellishments in your ever growing scrapbook stash. Well, the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog is for you!

Bethany and the design team are very friendly and extremely creative.  Hope that you decide to play along.  A new kit goes up the first of the month.  You review the kit and shop your stash to "counterfeit" the contents in whatever way works best for you.”

I used Challenge #3 - Title Challenge to join in the fun for the CKC hop. The challenge requirement was to use an unexpected title.  I used a play on words for my title and I used the letters to my title in an unusual way.  In the pictures, Jason and Kurt are riding hay chutes at a farm in Lancaster, PA. I thought that the homograph of shooting, (chuting), added a little whimsy to the page and title. Of course, my children will always be stars in my eyes.  Just to add a little more quirk to the title, I arrange the letters in rounded groupings to imitate the circular chute on one of the slides. 

For additional creativity, I used a terrific sketch from Stuck?! Sketches

I followed the sketch pretty closely but added a header and footer.  :)

and a color challenge from Scrapmuch?

I love the result of the combined challenges.  I used My February Counterfeit kit  for the striped paper on my page.  Fortunately, my Feb. CKC kit had exactly the colors that I wanted for the color challenge. The two blues were in my cardstock; and, the red and green were the backsides of patterned papers from my kit. I did, however, pull a cute gingham paper to more closely connect the page to the photo inspiration.

I added a few more extras to my kit to work with the sketch and color inspiration.  The doily was purchased from a grocery store quite a while back. The notebook journal sheet came from a Fancy Pants line, I think. The acrylic star was clear so I colored it with a Copic pen.  The flourish transparency is a My Mind's Eye embellishment.

I, usually, create my CKC projects with predominately items in my kit but I never limit myself to only the items that I already pulled to match.  Please ask if you want anymore specifics. I could clarify a few more items but don't want to lose all my readers that really just prefer the pictures.  :)

Thanks for stopping by and now you should hop over to the whimsical and stunning Lisa's blog, Recklinghausen Musings.  The full blog hop list will be published on the-CKCB so if you get lost along the way, head over there to find your way back onto the hop. Don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you were here and happy hopping!

Hope that you have a fun-filled day!!