Counterfeit Kit challenge #2 - Everyday Layout - Around Here - March 2024

 My challenge this month is to make an everyday layout. It's a really easy challenge, but what picture do I use. that was the hard part. I finally decided to pull a couple of photos of Derek and Darcy around bedtime. It happens every day and there always seems to be a lot of antics between them. 

I pulled out the two pictures of them playing before bedtime. Both were taken in March within a couple of weeks of each other. I am using my Stories by the Month for March 2021. 2022 and 2023 (chipboard piece, journal card, and stamp). The I pulled out a Martha Stewart punch to jazz up the page a bit with pink cardstock. pulled a floral spay I had cut a while ago and ran it through an embossing folder for more interest. The butterfly is a left over from a floral arrangement I dropped off at the nursing home. 

It's a cute layout with a lot of different left over elements. Thanks for looking 

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.