New Recipe LO for a Counterfeit Kit Challenge

 It's the last challenge of the month over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge. I started off my kit with the addition of scraps and when I had time to scrap this month it was a quick way to create a layout with already having scraps on hand. 

Per our hostess this month: Our final challenge for the month of January.   We always like to finish out the month with the Scraps Challenge.  Use the scraps you've accumulated this month on your project.  I’m always impressed with what can be accomplished using just scraps!

I used a hexagon punch for alot of my little scraps to make the border and used a larger scrap for my photo matting. A few embellishments from my kit and the text conversation that my nephew and I had on facebook for my journaling.

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.

Hello card for a Sketch N Scrap challenge

 Good Morning, January it's been a cold month here in PA. Lots of scrappy time then plus some organization time too, more organizing than scrapping though. We are changing things up over at Sketch N Scrap doing some throw back sketches with a twist with the end of month sketches. I chose to do sketch #114 from January 202018 for my card inspiration and the twist is to used either Birthday or Hello/Thinking of You on the card. 

Fantastic sketch for a Hello card:

I used a bunch of scraps for this card including a scrap of pink ribbon 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.

Good Reading Ahead LO for Sketch N Scrap challenge

Good Morning, halfway through January already! It's been a cold month here in PA. Lots of scrappy time then plus some organization time too. We are changing things up over at Sketch N Scrap doing some throw back sketches with a twist. I chose to do sketch #240 from January 2022 for my layout inspiration and the twist was to use paper atleast a year old.

Isn't this a fun sketch by Lisa :) I was able to use the paper from my counterfeit kit for this layout which included some scraps too. I'm using some PinkFresh Studio papers that are from 2019 and 2021 so worked well for the the older paper challenge.

Scrapping about another love, my love of reading and I was so glad I come across the rest of my books when I was emptying out some boxes right before the holiday. Plenty of good reading ahead there on those shelves. 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.

Health Goals LO for a Counterfeit Kit Challenge

Good morning and welcome to the blog. It's been some cold wintery weather here in PA at the moment. It's the 1st challenge of the month over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog. Master Forger Christine is in charge this month and this is her challenge for us:

It wouldn’t be a new year without New Year’s Resolutions.  This challenge is all about documenting the New Year and those resolutions or goals that most of us seem to set.    So the challenge is to create a layout documenting one or more of your goals for 2025!

I had already done my scrappy goals for 2025 so I decided for this challenge to do my Health Goals for 2025. Using my current kit Let's Celebrate plus a themed piece of scrap paper to help enhance my story I created this layout: 

I had started some of these goals at the end of 2024 and thought to continue the goals would make for a great habit to have in my life. The weightlifting will be something new for me but I know I need to build up my muscles for the long run of life ahead :)

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.

CKC - January 2025 Kit Reveal - Let's Celebrate

Let us use each new year to make the most of every day.  Welcome to my blog and to a new year! 2025 starts us off with a New Year of Counterfeit Kit Challenge kits to challenge us to look through our own stash and choose a kit to play with. 1st you should have arrived here from Christine's youtube channel I'm looking forward to checking out her kit. Christine is also our hostess this month. But first I would like to welcome our guest Master Forger this month, Ms Jennifer Cain. I've seen lots of Jennifer's layout and love that she does 8.5" x 11" layouts so it's so cool how she takes a sketch and makes it her own with her style. She is Jennifer ScrappinCain on both Instagram and YouTube. I look forward to seeing her kit. 

 Master Forger Christine on deck to guide us through my first month of counterfeiting fun! Our inspiration kit for the month will be Hip Kit's September 2024 "Good Things Ahead". I chose this kit because I love the unique color palette and hey, it's a new year so there must be good things ahead! This kit isn't your typical "winter" theme, which means you have so much opportunity to work with it!  I know in Texas, we don't see much winter, so this is a good fit for those of us without snow!  For inspiration, I've got the main kit and the embellishment kit images shown here.

I thought this was an awesome choice to start out the New Year and the name of their kit is perfect for a New Year's kit even though this represents September at the time. Whenever we have a Hip Kit it always reminds me of Pinkfresh Studio so I went to my 2 iris containers of Pinkfresh Studio stuff and pulled my kit amongst a variety of collections and with the addition of the Embellishment kit (2nd photo) my kit ended up embellishment heavy. Here is my kit for January:

Let's Celebrate

Isn't a New Year a Celebration?? So a fantastic name for this kit and it came from one of the cutaparts in the papers that I included. As you can see very embellishment heavy. There's alot of embellishment packs that only have a few left I would really like to get used up and some Fall embellishments that have no more paper that need used up too. 

My papers 

I included both full sheets and scraps to use up. I'll be playing along with 
Baby Got Scraps with MK (Some Assemblage Required) and Janet (Galaxy Girl) their January Series using the full sheets here for my backgrounds while most of my scraps will be coming from my 100 Pattern Paper Pile from last year where I accumulated a bunch last month.

From the Best Day collection lots of embellishment packs with just a few left in them, I want to focus on these this month and get them used up and out of my stash. 

From Days of Splendor lots of partially used packs that I would love to clean up this month, these are a Fall them and I still have some Fall layouts to finish up so hoping to get them used there. There is also the puffy stickers from Super Cool for the nod to the amusement items in the kit, perfect for the DelGrosso's Park pictures while we we're there. So that's a definite layout this month

From Some Days collection alot of everyday embellishments that will be perfect for some of the 2023 photos I want to get scrapped one of my goals for this year is to get 2023 scrapped and the blues went well from the inspiration. 

From the Good Times collection another Fall collection to get used up will be perfect for my Jim Thrope day trip with some added train stuff to scrap the train photos from that day. That's it for the close ups of the kit.  Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world. Off you go to Julene's blog if you get lost along the way the blog list is below. Look out for 2 new challenges too this year per month, your always welcome to post over at the CKC communly facebook group

So if you missed the beginning of the blog hop:

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• Counterfeit Kit Challenge - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/
• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/
• Christine - https://www.youtube.com/@ScrappingHarden 
• Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/
• Julene - http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com 
• Vikki - www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking
• Ryann - www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey
• JoJo - www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions
• Cindy http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/