November 2025 Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal & Social Media Hop

Well hello scrappy friends!  It's the first of November and that means that it is time for the CKCB Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop.  This month, Master Forger Brandi is taking over the blog for us.  She has chosen a kit from Cocoa Daisy, called October Glow, for us to use as inspiration to curate a kit from our own stash.  Here are some photos of the kit:

 

As you can see, it's full of fall goodness!  Before I show you my own kit, let me introduce you to our Guest Designer for November! Meet Lisa:

 You can find her here:

YouTube 

Instagram 

 

I really pulled out the fall stuff from my stash this month!  Fall is one of my fave times of the year to scrapbook and I love all things fall in the scrappy world!!

 My papers, which include a 6x8 paper pad:

I also threw in quite a few embellishments and alphas:

My patterned papers are mostly Simple Stories this month with two sheets of 49 & Market patterned papers from their older collection called Take A Hike.  I felt like those gave me some premade backgrounds so that is why I included those!  My embellishments are a mish mash from Simple Stories, Elle's Studio, and Hip Kit Club.  I think there is one pack of ephemera from Fancy Pants.

Make sure you check out the rest of the Master Forger's kits this month by hopping along with us!

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

• Guest Designer Lisa - https://www.instagram.com/lisa_cuneo_scrapbooking/

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

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

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

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

• Misty - https://craftysoup.com 

• Amanda - https://youtube.com/@amandacreates1980 

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

   

  Thank you for stopping by my blog today and I hope you have a scrappy day!!!  

 

September 2025 - CKCB Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop

 Hello Friends!  It's the first of the month and it's time for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop.  This month, Master Forger Vikki is taking over the blog and she chose this beautiful Simple Stories kit for us to use as inspiration to curate a kit from our own stash!

Before I get started on sharing my personal kit, I'd like to introduce you to our Guest Designer for the month of September.  Meet Stephanie, you can find her HERE.

 "Hello, my name is Stephanie and I am a single mom to one son, a dog and two cats.  I have been scrapbooking for 25 years and I have just started teaching classes at my local scrapbook store.  I love to travel and spend time outdoors so a lot of my scrapbooking is centered around that.  You can find me on Facebook under Scrappy Adventures, and in The Scrappy Square group I admin with my bestie, or on Instagram @mamabear1900."

 

You can see her kit both on the CKCB blog link and the FaceBook Community.

 

So, I took the "lazy way" out on creating my kit this month.  I have that collection in my stash.  So, I pulled it and then added more embellishments from my stash to round it out.  Let's take a look at my papers.  I did add a couple of other papers from another Simple Stories collection:

 

 

You can see my additional papers on the bottom row, the two are the far right. 

 

I had the 12x12 sticker sheet, the page pieces, and foam phrase stickers in my stash as well.  I added those plus a few other things.

 This is a smallish kit for me and may be just what I need to finish it off.  Maybe.  No promises! 

 

Make sure you check out our social media hop:

 

1st - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop

• 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

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! You'll be able to see what I create with this kit both on my YouTube Channel and CKCB FaceBook Community group!  Have a great month! 

August 2025 - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop!

 Hello!  It's the first of August and that means that it is time for the August Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Kit Inspiration Kit Reveal.  Master Forger Laurie is in charge of the blog this month and has chosen a collection for us to counterfeit!  Here's a photo of the collection from Carta Bella:

Before I get started with sharing my kit and thought process behind what I chose, I want to welcome our Guest Designer, Nadine Michelle.  You can find her on YouTube here. 

       I always start with the patterned papers for my counterfeited kits and this month, I checked my Carta Bella stash to see if I had any of this collection and I did!!! Here are the three papers from the Inspiration Kit that I had in my stash:

 When looking at this collection, I looked at the flowers on the far left hand patterned paper in the photo above.  They reminded me of a Paige Evans collection that I knew that I owned a little bit of so, I added some of those papers and the embellishments.  That collection is called Turn The Page.  Here's a photo of the inspiration I got from this collection:

And here's the floral pattern from the Paige Evans collection that those florals reminded me of:

 

It's not a perfect match but I am sure you can see why it reminded me of the original pattern!  Here's all of my papers for my August kit:

 I genuinely tried to keep the paper down to a minimum but I kinda failed since there are quite a few pieces in there.  Three of those sheets will be fussy cut because I didn't put many embellishments into my kit this month:  

 My kit is sort of small but still has choices in it.  I hope to use my Cameo or metal dies to create additional embellishments. 

Check out the social media hop with our Guest Designer and the rest of the Master Forger team!

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=j3Ed1pSbf7Wm3DF 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you have an amazing month creating awesome layouts for your family's memories!   

June 2025 - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop

 Whew!  It's June and I can't really believe it.  May was a whirlwind for me.  My husband came home on leave and that meant I had to have all design team obligations completed and uploaded to their various places before he arrived.  I worked hard and got them all up PLUS a few extra!  Now, that he's back at his deployment location again, I am slowing down a little bit.  BUT....it's time for our Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop over at CKCB.  I hope you'll check out the full hop!

For the month of June, I am in charge of the blog and I chose an older kit from Not Just For Boys kit club. I chose their August 2023 "Intrinsic" Limitless Kit. I love that this kit is travel related but very neutral so that you can make it your own easily!!!  Here's a photo of the full kit but without the add-ons.

There were a few add-ons available when this was first put onto their website so here are some photos that I grabbed of those from unboxing videos.

 There was also a cutfile add-on.

Before I share the photos of my kit, I'd like to introduce you to our Guest Designer for the month of June.  I want to welcome MK Gunn who is not only a friend but a fellow YouTube content creator and owner of Some Assemblage Required.  

 

I cannot wait to see her layouts for the gorgeous kit that she curated.  Go check her kit out in the social media hop listed below!  

Now let's talk about my personal kit.  I always look at the papers first in a kit that we are using to shop our stash and recreate.  This month is no different.  I started with the woodgrain paper.  I didn't have that exact sheet but chose two sheets of Echo Park woodgrain that is very close.  I also dug through my Simple Stories Stash and pulled out that Boho Baby rainbow paper plus two coordinating sheets from that collection to add into my kit.  I also looked at the grungy, rusty looking papers and found a couple that matched closely.  After that, I rounded up my papers with other papers that were close.  Here are my papers. I tried to make sure I had some of the blue from the original kit in my own so improvised a little since I don't have a sheet with an airship/sunburst on it.

 Normally, I have a lot more papers than this but I expect it'll be hard enough for me to use all of these so I kept it small this month. 

My next step is to look through the embellishments in the kit and add some that are similar.  I also added quite a few Thickers and acrylic title pieces to my kit.

My kit isn't small but it isn't as large as I normally curate but I think that I have a chance of killing this kit if I work hard on some photos that need scrapped this month!!  

Please take the time to go through the social media hop and see what MK and the rest of my Master Forger team have come up with for their own kits.  

1st  - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop

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

• Guest Designer - MK Gunn  https://www.youtube.com/@SomeAssemblageRequiredMKGunn

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

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

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

• Jody - https://www.instagram.com/floppyearedfarm

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

• Laurie - https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookingbits/

• Misty - https://craftysoup.com/

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

• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE!!!!

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

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today and I hope that you have an awesome day!

April 2025 - Inspiration Kit Reveal & Social Media Hop

 Welcome April!  It's springtime in most of the United States right now or at least showing the beginning signs of it!  I am ready to not worry about snow and ice, are you?  

Today, I am bringing you my April Counterfeit kit but first let's take a look at the Inspiration Kit that Master Forger Brandi chose for us this month.  She chose the Lil' Man digital collection from Pickleberrypop created by Bella Gypsy.

 So, I will tell you right now, I adore this kit.  I wanted to purchase it but didn't.  LOL!  I did a pretty deep dive into my stash for some really old papers but printed out some digital embellishments to round it off from Cocoa Vanilla Studio.  Let's take a look at my kit!

Here are my papers:

 I pulled patterned papers from My Mind's Eye (3 different collections), Close To My Heart, Cocoa Vanilla, and Jillibean Soup to round out this 35 patterned paper plus a few scraps kit.  

Next up are my embellishments and Thickers/ABCs:

 There are a lot of print and cut embellishments from Cocoa Vanilla-several older collections that you can get digitally now on their website. I have a TON of old Ali Edwards Story Kits embellishments plus some Elle Studio pocket cards and Thickers and Hip Kit alphas and phrases sets.  I have a lot to choose from in this kit, which is how I typically curate a stash kit. I love choices.  I had to make myself  STOP looking at stuff to put in here or I would have never finished this kit! HAHA! 

Next up, I want to introduce you to our Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog for the month of April.  She is a friend of mine and a fellow YouTuber!  Welcome Briana from My Life On Paper!  You will be amazed at what she comes up with this month for her kit and layouts. 

Here's what Briana has to say about her scrapbooking style: 

"I have been passionate about scrapbooking for 25 years — and my extensive stash is proof of that journey. I have 3 young adult daughters and a husband that are the subjects of my scrapbook layouts.  Over the past 2.5 years, I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with amazing new friends through my YouTube channel. My style leans toward simplicity, but I also have a deep love for mixed media. My layouts often reflect a blend of old and new, bringing together timeless supplies with fresh finds. Lately, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the process of creating counterfeit kits, which allows me to rediscover and combine my favorite products in exciting new ways."

 

Social Media Hop:

 

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

• Guest Designer, Briana Spors - https://www.youtube.com/@lovemylifeonpaper

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

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

• Misty - http://www.craftysoup.com

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

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

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

• Laurie - https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookingbits

   

   

  So that's it for my first of the month post! Thank you so much for stopping by today and enjoy the rest of your day!! Happy April thoughts! 

 

 

October 2024 Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop

Hi!  Welcome to October!  It's the first time of the month and that means that it is time for the reveal of the inspiration kit over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog!   This month, Master Forger JoJo is taking over the blog and has chosen a beautiful fall kit for us to use as inspiration to curate our own kits from our stash. This month, she chose An Autumn Tale:  Chilly Breeze by Sweet Shoppe.  It's a lovely digital kit. Here's a sneak peek of it:

I have always loved orange and blue together!  So, where did I start this month while building my kit? I actually purchased this kit while it was on sale a few months ago so I do own it.  The first thing I did was create a collage of all of the papers so that I could view them all in one place.

I feel like this made it easier for me to dig through my stash and find the papers that I already own!! After I dug through my stash of papers, I did round it out with a few that I printed from this collection.  I didn't have a stripe or the multi-color plaid that were quite right so I printed both of those and couple of more pieces.  This month is 30 Days of Sketches so I also made sure that I had two of each of some of the papers!!  Here are my 12x12 papers:

These papers mostly came from various paper pads plus a few sheets from an older Hip Kit.  

I also added some 6x6 papers to my kit to help me with a Mad About Mini Paper Pads hop on YouTube that I participate in every month!  There are also two pieces of scraps:

These are all from Felicity Jane with the exception of the scraps, which are from Hip Kit.  These papers brought in green for me to use. There are several solids which will be great for matting photos!

Let me show you my embellishments now:

I started with a ton of alphas first.  Some of these have been in previous kits but a few are new.

A couple of more alphas and phrases plus wood veneer and cork embellishments!

Many of these embellishments were definitely robbed from previous CKCB kits!! 

This month our Guest Designer is Liz Ketter!  Here is her Instagram account:

Liz's Instagram

Here's the social media hop!  Please check out the Guest Designer and the rest of the Master Forgers to see how they designed their own kits this month.

• 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 
• Brandi - www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama 
• Vikki - www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking
• Ryann - www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey
• Jody - www.instagram.com/floppyearedfarm 
• JoJo - www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!  I hope you will come by the FaceBook Community Group and see all the challenges and layouts that our Master Forgers and community members share all month long!  You will definitely be inspired!!  If you aren't already a member there, go ahead and apply for membership but make sure you answer the questions for membership and agree to the group rules. Have a GREAT month!

 

September 2024 - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop!!

 It's September!  Wow!  I think we all blinked and summer was over!  Fall is my favorite time of year so I am looking forward to some cooler weather-eventually.  So far, it's still rather warm here in Colorado so I will be waiting to enjoy that! LOL!!!  This month over at CKCB, Master Forger Brandi is taking over our blog and she has chosen an AWESOME kit from Cocoa Daisy for us to use as inspiration to curate our very own kits from our stash!  So let me show you this beautiful kit!

Cocoa Daisy's Daily Journal kit

I am going to say first off....this kit is gorgeous and it kind of reminded me of Simple Stories Simple Vintage Life In Bloom collection.  I don't have very many 12x12 sheets of this paper but do have the paper pad and some embellishments.  So, those were added to my kit first.  Here's a photo of my papers, which also Feature some Bo Bunny, Freckled Fawn, and Hip Kit papers. 

Next up are my embellishments! I have Simple Stories and Hip Kit Club embellishments in my kit as well as 49 & Market filmstrip frames and Illustrated Faith labels.

I’m really happy with how my kit turned out! I hope that you'll play along with us this month.  Join our Facebook Community Group and you'll meet some new scrappy friends!!!  Join HERE.

Make sure you check out our Social Media Hop!  Our Guest Designer, Amy, will be sharing her creations with us on the Facebook Community Group!

• 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 

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

• Vikki - www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking

• Ryann - www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey

• Jody - www.instagram.com/floppyearedfarm

• JoJo - www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions 

   

  Thank you for stopping by today!  You can also find me on Instagram and YouTube.

August 2024 - Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop!

How is it August?  HOW?  Where is this year disappearing to?  I don't even know.  LOL!   This month's kit is from Sweet Shoppe, which is a digital scrapbooking kit company. They have many designers.  This month's kit is called BEE-AUTIFUL DAY.  Here's some photos of the kit:

I actually purchased this kit and I only printed THREE pieces of the papers for my own kit and NO embellishments because for those I really needed to do a stash dive.  Many of my chosen papers came out of various papers pads I have in my stash-Park Lane and Recollections mostly.  I really loved the Mixed Media part of the collection and I printed two of those and the plaid from the "main" kit. Here are my papers! There are 41 altogether plus some pieces of cardstock that came out of a paper pad.  

I went a little eclectic and slightly rogue with my embellishments, pulling from previous CKCB kits as well as from other parts of my stash.  I think I have enough to play with.  LOL!!  I may make a few flowers for my kit too.

I added some doilies, filmstrip trim (little canister), some specialty paper in gray, fabric and a small piece of yellow trim.

I did add some stamps and dies to my kit.  The alpha dies are very close to the alphas in the inspiration kit but not an exact match.  Here's a photo of those.

Here's the alpha dies that  I own.  

Here's the rest of the stamps and dies sets that I put inside my kit.  One of the sets was a free gift from an order at Scrapbook.com!  I was tickled that it matched this kit.

Make sure you check out our Guest Designer and the rest of the Master Forger team's kits by following along on the social media hop! I've seen some of the kits already and they are AMAZING as always!

CKCB Social Media Hop:

• Counterfeit Kit Challenge - http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/ 
• Guest Designer - Sarah Rouault https://www.facebook.com/sarah.rouault.3
• Brandi - www.instagram.com/scrappy.boymama 
• Cindy - http://cindyscreations-cinmfoster.blogspot.com/ 
• Jody - https://www.instagram.com/floppyearedfarm/
• JoJo -https://www.instagram.com/scrappyconfessions
• Misty - https://craftysoup.com
• Ryann-https://www.instagram.com/scrapbookjoey/
• Tara - https://kryptonite72-rambles.blogspot.com/
• Tina - http://tinasscrapcorner.blogspot.com/
• Vikki-https://www.instagram.com/memoriesandmomentsscrapbooking/?hl=en
• Julene http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com/ 

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today and I hope to see you on the FaceBook Community Group this month with your kits and projects!