September Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop

 Welcome to September 2025 Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop You should have arrived here from Brandi's Instagram. I will have the hop listed below.. Vickki has chosen Life Captured by Simple Stories. Our Guest Designer this month is Stephanie Olson. Stephanie can be found on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/mamabear1900/.  Please be sure to welcome her.

Here is a look at Life Captured -   https://www.simplestories.com/collections/life-captured .  

It's a beautiful collection we can use for just about any type of scrapbooking. 

Now for my kit - CKC September 2025 - Life stories. I did not match the pattern papers to what the kit had. I pulled in papers based on the colors though out the kit. I made page kits and matched them up to the pictures I am going to scrap. 

I am also including quite a few scraps in my kit this month. Then I made a page kits with scraps on from left over collections. I included some foil and glitter. I picked three main colors - Green, orange red and pink. 

As for embellishments, since the kit had a ton of journaling cards, I am going to pull from my Stories of the Month by Ali Edwards. Included in the kits are 4x6 and 3x4 cards, stickers, chipboard, stamps, wood veneer shapes, vellum, and word stickers. It just depends on the year. I am using years 2021 to 2025. 

I have sheet of My Minds Eye punch out shapes, I pulled in my elephant stamp for some of Darcy's monthly layouts, and several border punches. I have several Unity Stamp KOTM that I have included as well. I will add alphabet stickers when I need them.

Your next stop on the hop is JoJo and she can be found here: - https://www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions

The full hop is here.

• Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/
• 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

Thanks for Stopping by. 

Challenge #2 - Dog Days of Summer

Challenge #2 at the Counterfeit Kit is Dog Days of Summer: Create a Layout featuring pets, summer fun or lazy days.

I don't know about you, but I am definitely not having a Lazy summer or time for fun. It has been a very hectic summer for sure.  I'm using page set #2 from my August CKC - The Country Kit. 

I included this house paper, the stripes and gingham in my kit along with some flowers and ribbon. I added the white cardstock, wood veneer and a stamped flower. The orange ribbon is the only scrap I had. I did not use the gingham paper.

I have a couple of photos I need to scrap for myself and my youngest of Ms. Izzy and her last Halloween Costumes. We would always dress her at Halloween. She loved greeting the kids at the door when we handed out candy. 

I stamped the white flower added the wood veneer into the flower center 

Thanks for stopping by

August Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop

 Welcome to the August Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop. You should have arrived here from Christine's YouTube channel. I have the full hop listed below.  Laurie has picked the Farmhouse Summer by Carta Bella, 

Our Guest Designer this month is Nadine Michelle, known as Paper Route Scrapbooking on YouTube. Please give her a warm welcome.

Now for my August 2025 CKC - The Country.

I went with bicycles instead of barns and doors, watering cans instead of pots and flowers. I substituted in a bit of orange coral for the golden rod color in the inspiration kit.

I didn't quite finish of the Jen Hadfield 6x6 paper pads, DIY Home and Heart of Home so I'm including them again. 

I'm also made a little mini kit from scraps of the DCWV "The Guy Stack". 

As for embellishments I'm including a few ephemera from Jen Hadfield "Home Made", bicycle clips, and of course a few different stamp sets.

Your next stop on the hop is JoJo's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions/

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop

• Counterfeit Kit Challenge - http://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=j3Ed1pSbf7Wm3DF

Thanks for stopping by. 

Scrap lift Challenge - Helping out

 I'm using my July CKC Kit - Waiting for Summer for the Scrap life Challenge at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge.

We were to Scrap lift Julene's layout from 2014 

and her blog post is here: Julene By Design: July Counterfeit Kit for her kit and here Julene By Design: Stuck on U sketches for her layout.

I pulled in this paper from DCWV "Taja Mahal" from 2009. I thought the circle design was a good representation of Julene's paper. I also had no ideas of the photos I would scrap when I pulled my kit together. I found a few pictures of Derek helping out when we were shoveling snow. I thought the circles made excellent snowflakes. 

I added a few things when it came time make my layout, Dark Blue, white, orange and red cardstock, 3 snowflake punches, alpine snowflake, crystal and large Fiskars snowflake punch, I am using the Martha Stewart Cherish border punch.

I matted the paper with the dark blue cardstock along with the photos. My photos are a different size than Julene's 1 4x6 and 2 4x4. I added the punched border to the bottom of my 4x6 photo and the top of the page. I found a mitten ephemera and added that to the circle. The snowflakes are punched in the orange, red and white cardstock. I love how this layout turned out. Thanks for stopping by. 

The Dance

 Today I'm using papers from Capture Life that was in my CKC July 2025 - Waiting for Summer. I am also scrap lifting Shannon Keith at Creative Chaos in TN Fun in the Sun Challenge.

 

I made my template and cut my pieces for the layout. I did have to pay attention to the patterns in this set of papers.

I roughed up the edges of the papers, inside borders only. I used a gray cardstock for the mat behind the photos. I stamped the flowers and fussy cut them for the corners. 

For page two I used a few of the cut a-parts and left plenty of room for her journaling and her pictures. 

Thanks for stopping by.