Kill a Kit for March 2016 Counterfeit Kit

Would you like to see what I got done with my March kit? I feel pretty good about how much scrapping I got done in March, and I pretty much used it up! Here's a quick video showing what I made, and what I had left.

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Kill A Kit: January Edition

With the addition of the pages that I shared yesterday, I have used up all of the full sheets of paper from my January kit. When I get to that point, I basically consider that kit to be "killed". With the massive amount of stash I pulled for myself for my (3) January kits, I felt quite proud of that accomplishment!

Here's a reminder of my January kits:

Here's another look at the layouts that I made from these kits:

So got 9 layouts out of these kits, and I was happy to use up some really old or previously ignored stash, such as those huge letters (the white metal ones and pink chipboard ones). I used the stitching template on a couple of the layouts, lots of the Studio Calico woodgrain chipboard cameras, several of the old Upholstery brads from Making Memories, some washi tape (at least some from each roll!), at least a few stamps from each stamp set. most of the Shimelle layered chipboard and some of the Shimelle cork stickers-I struggled with these a little bit, because some of them are just so big, they are harder to use for me. I'm not giving up on the though, I love the look of them, so I will look for some inspiration on her blog and Pinterest to hopefully give me some inspiration for using those bigger cameras and phrases up. I only used one of the Heidi Swapp arrows with the blue Distress Stain. I actually threw away the Spun Sugar Distress Stain, because I tried to color something with it, and it didn't look or smell right. It had almost a sour smell, and didn't color the item I was trying to color. I didn't know that stuff could go bad, so I am curious if any of you have had Distress Stain go bad on you before?
I didn't use any of the rub-ons this time around, but did use up most of the little plastic pieces from Heidi Swapp, a few pieces of the embossed chipboard, most of the Teresa Collins die cuts, most of the canvas stickers from Dear Lizzy, most of the October Afternoon pop drops, most of the Studio Calico brads...and none of the colored Studio Calico cameras, as they seem to have disappeared, and I forgot about them. So that's 2 kits in a row with a disappearing item. There must be a crafty bandit in my house ;-) . Or I am putting them up in the wrong kits...Oh well, tomorrow will be cleaning day at my house, since there are always piles of laundry and floors that need scrubbing after several snow days. Perhaps I will find them then.

Kill a Kit: February Stash Kit

From time to time, I like to share everything that I made with one of my Counterfeit Kits, especially when I use up alot/most of it. If you remember, this is the kit of supplies from my stash that I started with:

I finished off four layouts with yesterday's snow day:

(The last layout was a Disney layout, so of course it has a Mickey):

And, when I was all finished, this is what I was left with from my February kit:

As you can probably see, I have 2 sets of letter stickers that are basically untouched, along with the package of Dress It Up Flats, brown/cream flowers from Petaloo, and almost all of the package of wood veneer stars. But, I used up a LOT of the stash in my kit. There are no full sheets of paper left, almost all of the Glitz giant rhinestones are gone, I used several of the journaling cards, more than half of the package of chipboard hearts, a lot of the gold letter stickers are gone...my red letter stickers vanished...no idea where they went! I used the flair, the white flowers, a bunch of the wood dots, cut out some of the printable pieces and used them, and a fiew small scraps and bits from my stash were added in.

As a reminder, here is the other page that I made with this kit:

After I put the nearly unused products back in my stash, the scraps did not look like much at all, so I snapped a quick photo with my phone to show you:

I may make a few cards or something, but we'll see. I am basically ready to move on to my March Kit! I do have one more layout from my January Kit to share with you, but maybe tomorrow. I am going to go play in the snow with my girls, since it is very rare to have 6+ inches in West TN. Ice...we get that almost every year. But I can't remember the last time we had 6 inches of snow!