Hi ladies, I've got a new challenge type for you this time. I'd like you to make a mini kit, but I want you to use templates from a specific template bundle to do it. Templates make it easy to create elements and papers in just a few minutes, allowing you to focus your designing energies on the things that make a kit unique. You'll still need to keep it so that only 50% of your items are from PixelScrapper templates, but I'd like you to come close to that limit in this challenge. I'd like to see you make at least 7 papers and 20 elements total for this minikit. That means I'd like to see about 3 papers and 8-9 elements from templates in this bundle, with the rest being either your own creations or from other CU sources.
This is also a challenge where I'd like to see you thinking outside the box to come up with creative ways to use these templates, which is why I'm assigning this template bundle and then asking you to go against the theme of the original kit. For this first challenge of this series, we're going to use Janet Scott's "No Tricks, Just Treats" template bundle, found here. However, I'm imposing a "no Halloween themes" limit on it. Perhaps you go with Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or spring cleaning, or a nursery rhyme; I can see possibilities to use templates from this bundle for all of those themes, so get creative with them!
Color palette choices are up to you, or you can ask me and I'll pick one for you that's already gamut-checked. Remember, any theme other than Halloween is fine.
A great challenge - Thank you, Holly
great idea!! thanks!!
Available on my Rush Ranch blog, October 27th.
Thank you, Sunny! Very useful.
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I was under the impression that regardless of the licensing you distribute it under, you cannot redistribute a kit containing more than 50% of things from here, whether you have a CU license or not. I think that is why Holly mentioned it in the original post. Holly, perhaps you can lend clarity?
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Aww, Sunny, I'd just add some items of your own to bring it under 50%--that's a gorgeous kit!
I agree with this! Beautiful kit Sunny!
I agree with Holly, Sunny! It is beautiful thus far!
Wow Sunny! Superb job! Love those papers! Thank you so much!
Now that I am looking at this preview in a different way, I need to change my lace color to a lighter cream, I think. It would be too difficult to see on those darker paper colors. Thanks everyone, for the positive words and assistance. Goes to show that even when we have a "fail", you guys are there to nurture and encourage others including me, in order to see everyone prevail and thrive.
Sunny, it's not a fail, it's just something where you need to do a little more to make it fall within TOU. You could absolutely use it as it stands for your own personal use, but with the percentage of PixelScrapper items over 50%, you're in a place where releasing it to others, even under a PU license, could put you in trouble with TOU. It's not the end of the world, but it is something to be aware of as a designer, and wasn't necessarily something I intended to have be a lesson from this challenge--but it's not a bad thing that it has shown up, either, for all of us to keep learning!
The easiest fix to that is just add more items, either of your own design, or from other CU sources (my blog train kits, other kits you've created, public-domain graphics, etc.)... Another possible way to fix it would be to swap some items in your current kit out for similar items from other (non-PS) sources. Usually, I find my best answer to be a combination of the two so that I don't have too many items that are too similar, or an overabundance of elements for the number of papers I have.
The current kit posted above is now well under the 50% rule. The majority of items are my personal design, alone. Thanks everyone for your guidance. (I hope that I was not the only one participating in this challenge - Challenges are one of the best ways to learn)
I am participating! Still need to finish my kit up! I am using the colors from the December blog train to create a Chanukkah-specific mini-kit.
I had intended to participate myself, but having spent the last two weeks with a migraine-level headache due to a lupus flareup, with all the throbbing, sound- and light-sensitivity and nausea that word implies....yeah, I haven't gotten anywhere near as much time to do anything but sleep off the pain meds.
Wow, Holly! Praying for sweet relief for you. I can't even imagine how tough that is to go through. You are a warrior!
Aww sorry Holly! I agree with Sunny you are such a trooper! I have had some migraines that lasted over a week before so I can relate. I know how it throws you off too afterwards as you are so drained. Lately mine have morphed to silent migraines like the one I had two weeks ago that caused dizziness & a burning feeling at the top of my head for 4 days before becoming a mega migraine to follow. Thankfully that migraine only lasted a day but it left me feeling out of sorts for the rest of the week. So I completely empathize with you!
Now we are all sick with a bad cold so its always something 
I also wanted to participate but I'm behind in everything so not this time.
Holly, I hope you are on the mend!
Here is a preview of my mini-kit. It is an add-on to the December blog train.
Laurel, that's gorgeous! I'm not Jewish, but I can find uses for just about all those papers, and at least half of the elements. Good use of the many generic elements in the templates bundle to fill in the kit--I see the tape, the ribbon, the bakers twine bow, the gathered layered rosette, the leaf, the polka dot bow, a label template, a brad template, the button, and then for papers I see the interlocking squares, the chevrons, the damask, and possibly the solid texture...
Sunny, in yours, I see the texture, the leafy print, maybe the other damask, the multiple frame, the single frame, the polka dot bow, the bakers twine bow, the ricrac, the bookplate, the leaf... That's a fair list of templates used, and a very pretty kit.
Thank you, Sunny! Beautiful Kit