September Counterfeit Kit wrap-up.

The story so far . . . 

Way back in August, I put together a Counterfeit Kit which included LOTS of  off-cuts.  When September rocked around, I knew I had a pretty busy month ahead, and also that I didn't feel like my August kit was "finished".  I therefore decided to do a smaller "add-on" kit, and see how I went.  I actually had ridiculously high hopes of that stack of off-cuts whittling away to nothing, but life kind of got in the road of that particular plan, as it has a habit of doing . . .

Here's one page I did finish but hadn't posted yet:
 

 Here's what I guess you would call a "page kit" I've kept out for a skateboard-themed page for Rohan.  I'm still undecided about that misted shape - whether to keep it, ditch it, or alter it somehow (ahh, the randomness of home-made mists, especially if you forget to test it first!)

Finally, Maddy and I had a bit of fun making some mini-notebooks.  I'd first gotten the idea from Elsie at A Beautiful Mess, here, although there are plenty of other versions out there. 

For the pages, I used some old half-used exercise books that came home from school last year.  I like to keep a few around for notes to school etc, but thought this would be a fun way to re-purpose them. All the larger pieces of cardstock and thicker papers were fair game to be used as covers.  All the die-cuts I used were either left-overs from previous projects, or cut from the scraps in my kit.

  Like Elsie, I used embroidery cotton to hold my books together.  I added washi tape as seam binding to some books and left the others plain.

I loved both sides of this paper, so I used both positive and negative of this shape!

Yes, a few butterflies did flutter on down!

Maddy took the "mini" in the mini-notebook idea very seriously.  I couldn't find hers to take a photo, so check back in a couple of days and I'll hopefully have updated with a picture of her gorgeously tiny creations.