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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

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.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

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.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Ate this and loved it layout

I pulled the bright circle paper from my CKC July 2025 - Waiting for Summer kit and pared it with a DCWV Old World Stack paper. I am using 30 Days of Sketches Series 18 with Christy's Beautiful life sketch #1.

I used a ribbon and a scrap white scallop edge at the top of the layout. The photo has a paper clip and a chipboard element. I used a camera and circle with one of the "ate this and loved it" stickers from my kit.

For the 8 1/2x11 layout I used green ribbon at the top and changed up the elements on the side.

For my layout I used both the green and orange ribbon at the top.

Thanks for stopping by.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Dream Layout

Today I'm using the 6x6 paper pad I included in my July Counterfeit Kit and following a sketch on Ginger's Corner Facebook group.

I pulled papers from the Crate Paper "Good Vibes" paper pad and a few of the elements from the Pink Paislee "Bloom Street die" cuts.

I thought the pinks in this paper pad were perfect for Darcy taking a nap at Grandma's.

As usual I made 3 layouts with little tweaks on each layout.

Up first is layout one:

I added in chipboard flower and bow from my stash.

My 12x12 layout.

I added in a chipboard frame I just cannot seem to get used up.

The 8 1/2x11 layout.

I used different papers and the other half of the chipboard frame.

Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop

Welcome to July Counterfeit Kit - Inspiration Kit and Social Media Hop. Julene is the Master Forger in charge this month. She has decided to do a FLASH Back - take us back in time - to July 2014. In July 2014 Julene was also Master Forger in Charge and selected a kit from Noel Mignon - Balboa.

Here is Julene's post from July 2014 and the kit she forged here: Julene July 1 2014. Another Team member was Lynette - The Sassy Scrapper and her kit is here: The Sassy Scrapper.

Our Guest Designer is Kate Blue.

"I'm Kate Blue, your guest designer for July! When I saw the Noel Mignon Balboa kit, the first thing that caught my eye was the mix of bright bold colors with a splash of black. The second things were the prints- hearts, butterflies and polka dots. So that's where I started my kit, I was determined to use vintage paper stash as much as possible. I then kept my embellishments add-on kit somewhat small (for me anyway) focusing on butterflies, cards, frames, sparkly bits and lots of various alphas. And there you have my July kit; hope I'll inspire you as the month goes by!"

Please give Kate a warm welcome.

www.instagram.com/kraftyqueenkat

Kate has put together a awesome kit this month.

Here is my Kit - CKC July 2025 Waiting for Summer.

I started with paper from Capture Life both the Black and White and the Colored kits. I've used a few of the pages but I have not used one sticker from the sticker sheets - lots of embellishments there.

Then I have a few sheets from the Pink Fresh "Simply the Best", unknown papers, and 6x6 paper pad Shimelle "True Stories" and Jen Hadfield "Heart Home" and "DIY Home" and Crate Paper " Good Vibes". I have a few stamped images.

Now for the embellishments. I added in from Pink Fresh "Simply the Best" chipboard, stickers and die cuts. Pink Paislee "Bloom Street" embellishments.

Then I pulled in a few more tickets and labels, chipboard, ribbon and twine, a couple more butterflies another sticker book, and 4x6 and 3x5 journaling cards.

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