The Times They Are A-Changin'

Welcome to the November Blog Hop from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Master Forgers.  Hopefully you popped over from Crystal, but if not, the hop started here, where there's a full list of participants so that you don't miss any inspiration.

As this post title suggests you won't be getting the normal CKCB MF Blog Hop because this month there is NO kit-to-copy!  There won't be one next month either {but that's another story, and if I told it to you I'd have to kill you LOL}  Instead, what we have been asked to do is counterfeit any collection that we have coveted from this year's releases.

I chose Crate Paper's Storyteller collection from last winter's CHA, released in February 2012.  Part of the reason was that I already had a few Storyteller sheets and stickers in my stash from a prize.

So that's: Phrase stickers, Lifetime (yellow graph & hideous flowers), Document (R,W&B diagonal stripes & blue plans/ledger), Tag Cuts sheet (which sadly has a lovely grey/white pattern on the reverse - why couldn't those flowers be the B side of the tags?), Border stickers and a 12x12 Alpha sticker sheet (which already featured in my August Counterfeit kit)

I set about investigating what else was in the collection:

Some red chevrons & pennant outlines, yellow/white letters & plain-ish dark grey/navy, more hideous flowers and pink plans, white plans & cork, orange & green dots, red pattern & blue chevrons & grey pattern & woodgrain for the papers and a large sheet of die-cuts.

Now there are no rules to counterfeiting; it's about using up your stash, so I refused to include any pink and certainly had no intention of trying to match the floral sheet!  Nor do I use many shaped die-cuts on my pages.  Instead I pulled the following:

Dots = Lily Bee Design Double Dutch Lemonade plus Portobello Road Polka Dot Blue
Chevrons/cork = MME On The Bright Side Brown Stripe
Navy/Grey plain-ish paper = B side of MME On The Bright Side Polka
Red papers = B side of Prima Animal Bash (the A side of which which I will NEVER use)
And together with some trim, buttons, blooms and a couple of fancy paperclips, my November Kit was born:



The next Master Forger to share her counterfeiting is Lisa so please hop over there to see what she's been up to this month.  In the meantime, if you fancy it ... here's a musical interlude :o)

P.S. Last few days to submit to the CKCB Master Forger call ... details here!