Planning For Perfection! {January's Counterfeit Kit Reveal & Blog Hop}

Hello & Happy New Year! What better way to celebrate the beginning of a fresh, new year than with a brand new kit to counterfeit from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge?

Your inspiration this month is a choice of the fabulous kits from the Planner Society Kit Club by Scarlet Lime and, if you've been following the Counterfeit Kit Challenge reveal blog hop (which starts on the main blog) you will have arrived from Susanne at Snaps And Snippets, and will already have seen lots of amazing kits! (I can't wait to have a look at them all!)

I had ordered a rather lovely Color Crush Planner in Dark Pink, from Webster's Pages (which has now arrived!) so decided to work with the September Planner Society Kit which contained a small sized portfolio in a similar colour and a whole host of co-ordinating loveliness!

I started with the inclusion of some beautiful papers from American Crafts, Dear Lizzy, Sodalicious and Elle's Studio. The 'A' sides are mainly Black and Grey, but I have a little touch of Hot Pink, Yellow and Aqua - and the 'B' sides are a riot of colour, so  I should have a lot of choice. I also included a 6x6 stack from Dear Lizzy's Serendipity Collection (which is a fairly recent addition to my stash) because it's delightful. And I couldn't resist :)

Also in my main kit are some Thicker Sentiments, some smaller alphas from Sodalicious, an Amy Tangerine Stamp Set, pocket cards, binder clips and a circle punch. I've included a beautiful calendar from Blooming Homestead which, I thought, perfectly combined the colours and florals from the inspiration kit. I've printed two months on each page, so that the calendar will be A5 sized. It will be the perfect addition to my desk in 2016!

There's usually only a small selection of 'chunky' embellishments in the Planner Society Kits (as too much bulk isn't ideal in a diary) and this is fine with me! I'm the Queen of Restraint when it comes to choosing a small selection of embellishments! I focused mainly on some charms, small stamps and cute buttons, including a teeny, little pencil!

My 'forgeries' this month include a stack of Pocket Style Cards (all from my Printables board on My Pinterest) which have a 'Planner' or 'Goal' related theme, like these beautiful Planner Cards from Digital Design Essentials. I also included some home-made Planner Clips (e.g. buttons on bobby clips) and there will be a tutorial over on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for Forgeries On The Fourth.

Although I'll be using a substantial selection of my kit for scrapbooking, I'll also be using quite a lot of it this month as I 'set up' in my Color Crush, so I hope that you'll pop back throughout the month to see how I'm using all of my little beauties!

Now, I'm excited to see which kits the rest of the team chose, so my next stop (and maybe yours?) will be Jemma at Just Jimjams!