Our Ride LO for Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good morning and welcome to my blog. Summer is still hanging on strong right now, still in the mid 80s here in PA. Today is another throw back sketch over at Sketch and Scrap blog. I chose to do sketch #260 from November 2022 for my layout inspiration. I love the multi-photo sketches: 

I kept to the sketch pretty good: 

This was my ride when we went to Seneca Lake on a bus trip. It's a cool ship with 2 floors of seating. I used some old stash on this layout trying to mimic the colors of the ship and adding some gears too. Lots of variety of stickers on this layout and a few from my current counterfeit kit too. 

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I created and can't wait to see what you create from this cool sketch over at Sketch N Scrap blog.

CKC - September 2025 Kit Reveal - Bits and Pieces

Hello and welcome to my blog, it's the 1st of September (the brrr months) and that means it's time for a new inspirational kit for us to counterfeit and make our own for the month. Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit to challenge us to look through our own stash and choose a kit to play with. 1st you should have arrived here from Tara's blog. I'm looking forward to checking out her kit. But first I would like to welcome our guest Master Forger this month, Stephanie Olsen I had the pleasure of meeting Stephanie in person.. So onto the kit!

 Master Forger Vikki is hosting the blog this month and she says: Our goal here at CKCB is to curate a kit using our stash, without having to buy more product.  Let's dive right in and take a look at this month's inspiration kit!

This month I chose Life Captured by Simple Stories.  I absolutely love the colors in this kit. I also love how versatile it is by including the months of the year, so you can use it for any season that you happen to be documenting.  

Here is a photo of the inspiration kit:

To see more of the kit head over to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. I have a collection similar to this from Simple Stories and I used mine to start my kit and pulled collections that are similiar and almost done. Here is my kit for September:

Bits and Pieces

The kit consists of bits of collections with just a few papers and scraps left except for the similiar collection of the months that I haven't touched yet. I'm looking forward to getting things used up and out of my stash and into my books. 

The papers I pulled have alot of the same colors as the inspiration kit and lots of the same prints, perfect for the monthly paper collection to mix with. 

I came across this when I was looking for foam stickers and thought the yellows worked well and gives me some extra diecuts to play with. 

In one of the pictures of all the extras there was alotof washi tape so I brought in a few to use too. 

1st closeup of the bits I brought into the kit the pack of enamel dots is a full pack. 

Sticker sheets that are almost done. 

More embellishments that are just bits when I seen the plants, office stuff and books in the inspiration I knew that I had a Pink Fresh collection that was perfect for that. 

This collection was another one that matched up well in colors and was almost done perfect to add to the kit. 

That's it, that's my kit for September and I'm looking forward to playing with it. Now off you go and check out what Vikki has put together you can catch her over on her Instagram. The list is below if you want to check out what the other master forgers are doing. 

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. We look forward to seeing what you come up with for the inspiration, your always welcome to post over at the CKC communly facebook group 

The Master Forgers are sharing their Counterfeit Kits on our Social Media Hop.  Make sure you check them all out!

• Guest Designer - https://www.instagram.com/mamabear1900/
• Brandi - https://www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama/
• Cindy - https://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/
• JoJo - https://www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions
• Julene - https://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/
• Laurie - https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookingbits/
• Ryann - https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey/
• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/
• Tina - https://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/
• Vikki https://www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking/
• Amanda - https://youtube.com/@amandacreates1980

Keep Life Simple LO for a Counterfeit Kit Challenge

 Well it's the end of August and the last challenge that we have over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog the Baby Use Those Scraps! Still have lots of full papers to play with yet but I do have a bunch of scraps to play with too. 

Cutfiles are a cool way to use up some scraps. Playing along with 31 days of cutfiles I did back this cutfile with the red and blue paper I used this month along with the scraps from 49&Market's Krafty Garden collection. 

Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I hope you join us over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for this fun challenge. 

This Day LO for a Counterfeit Kit Challenge

Hello and welcome to my blog! Love doing the sketch challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge and this month did not disappoint! Laurie our host choose this lovely free sketch from Scrapbook.com 

Definetly a fun sketch. The hearts scattered about had me thinking of this photo I took on a recent walk and thought to combine it with a heart stencil from Scrapping Reflections too. My layout: 

Used a bunch of embellishments from my kit and a piece of cardstock too for mounting the hearts circle that I created with the stencil. Even got in the sunny cutfile that I clipped off a recent cutfile to make for the goal this month of cutfiles on my layouts :) Coming across that heart leaf in pure red all by itself the rest are all green just made my day. Love when God shows you signs with in nature. 

Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. I hope you join us over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for this fun challenge.

Cozy Holiday card for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good morning and welcome to my blog :) Made a Christmas card with one of the older sketches over at Sketch and Scrap can certainly be fun. First here is the sketch I chose: 

It's a fun sketch to use. Reminds me of the split designs in scrapbooking. This is the card I made for it: 

A sweet country feel to the card.  Thanks for stopping by today to see what I created and can't wait to see what you create from this cool sketch over at Sketch N Scrap blog. 

Storm Watch LO for Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good morning and welcome to my blog. We are now in tourist season here in my little town with the Little League series going on. My cue to stay home and scrap :) Today is another throw back sketch over at Sketch and Scrap blog. I chose to do sketch #62 from August 2014 for my layout inspiration. I rotated the sketch to work with my photos. 

I had fun playing with my scraps from my counterfeit kit Life is Good for this layout and using a cutfile for my title was a nice touch. 

Been watching this storm all day and now it wants to come in and ruin the boat ride. Yep as soon as we got on the boat then it rained. 

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I created and can't wait to see what you create from this cool sketch over at Sketch N Scrap blog.

CKC - August 2025 Kit Reveal -

Hello and welcome to my blog, it's the 1st of August and that means it's time for a new inspirational kit for us to counterfeit and make our own for the month. Counterfeit Kit Challenge kit to challenge us to look through our own stash and choose a kit to play with. 1st you should have arrived here from Tara's blog. I'm looking forward to checking out her kit. But first I would like to welcome our guest Master Forger this month, Nadine Michelle from Paper Route Scrapbooking.. So onto the kit!

Laurie is our host this month and has chosen Farmhouse Summer by Carta Bella, which captures the heart of country living with a homey palette and timeless design motifs. It's the perfect blend of rustic charm and fresh summer energy. 

Here are a few more photos of this collection.

 

 Love the country vibe going on and when I saw the windmill I knew my kit would start with my last collection I got from CTMH before they closed up shop, The Good Life and makes the perfect name for the kit too. Here is my kit for August:

The Good Life

I will be scrapping my pictures from my Windcreek Market bus trip that also had a boat ride at Seneca lake. That windmill captured my kit well with cutfiles, paper and stamps to do some forgeries too. Lots of 49&Market Krafty Garden in this kit has that country vibe too. Put in a neutral cardstock paper pad to try to finish that up too.

My papers came from a few places in my stash. The CTMH paper, 49&Market Krafty Garden, The Stamperia Vintage Library paper pad has the blues and reds from the kit. Grabbed a few from my plaids paper pad, a mixed media background I made had some similiar colors and papers from a Farmhouse paper pad. 

August is all about 31 days of cutfiles too and if that package of cutfile wasn't enough I added an old monthly kit of cutfiles to the kit because it had the same feel as the kit. 

Close up of the Krafty Garden elements that I brought in the kit for embellishing. 

Washi tape and the stamp and die set that came with the CTMH paper collection that I will be making forgeries with, time to get some ink on those stamps. 

I brought in this one kit from Not Just for Boys the page kit has that blue plaid perfect for this kit and the diecuts are perfect for some of the street art I seen in Watkins Glen for the boat ride.

This chipboard pack is a perfect match to this kit, a recent purchase at the crop I was at in July caught my eye for some crop photos from March that I need to scrap.

That's it, that's my kit for August and I'm looking forward to playing with it. Now off you go and check out what Vikki has put together you can catch her over on her Instagram. The list is below if you want to check out what the other master forgers are doing. 

Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. We look forward to seeing what you come up with for the inspiration, your always welcome to post over at the CKC communly facebook group 

Now here's the blog hop or social media hop so you can check out our kits.

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop:  

• Counterfeit Kit Challenge -https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/

• Guest Designer - Nadine - https://www.youtube.com/@paperroutescrapbooking4007

• Brandi - https://www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama/

• Christine - https://www.youtube.com/@ScrappingHarden

• Cindy - https://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/

• JoJo- https://www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions/

• Julene - https://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/

• Ryann - https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey/

• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/

• Tina - https://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/ 

         Vikki https://www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking/

• Amanda -https://youtube.com/@amandacreates1980?si=j3Ed1pSbf7Wm3D