January Counterfeit Kit Challenge

What a lovely weekend! In between my cousin's Baby Shower, my friend's Black Tie 40th birthday party and a rare child-free pub lunch with my husband , I also had time to make my January Counterfeit Kit. 

My camera phone is not the best quality, but I really want to get more photos of P and myself this year, so this is a good start.

I took part in the Counterfeit Kit Challange for the first half of last year and then tailed off a bit, but I decided to come back to it this month. The kit revealed  this month is Amber Snowflake by Cocoa Daisy. There were 3 others to choose from but they were all a bit wintry / Christmassy and I've had enough of that. I liked the vintage feel and masculine colours of this one:

This Spring I have 2 40ths, a 70th and a 90th birthday coming up, as well as several other non-milestone birthdays and a have a very sparse card stash at present, so with that in mind I created 'Vintage Amber for Men (which sounds more like an aftershave than a papercraft kit!)

Here are my papers:

The embellishments are fairly loosely inspired by the original kit, but they fit with the projects I have in mind.

I'll probably create some bunting with the scraps as I go along. Visit the Counterfeit Kit blog for some more homemade versions of this lovely Cocoa Daisy kit.
I'm looking forward to some time to play with it, but I'm not sure how much I'll get now we are back into normal school routine.