September 2025 - Challenge #2 Everyday Life

Hello!  Can you believe we're almost half way through September already?  It's time for our second challenge and I want you to tell us about your every life.  Create a layout documenting something about your everyday life.  Think about something from your everyday that you want to cherish for years to come.  Is it cuddles with your favorite person or pet, a favorite restaurant, a movie or book you can't stop talking about?  It's time to document these little things so years from now, you can look back through your albums and remember what life was like today.

 Here's a little reminder of our inspiration kit, Life Captured by Simple Stories.

Just look at what our amazing Master Forgers created for this challenge!

Master Forger Tara

I created a layout about reading my bible on a daily basis. The photo I used was taken in January 2017 and features the bible that I taught my kids from during our homeschooling era.  This layout is super simple but has a big title and a small amount of journaling.

 

Here are some close-ups:

 

 

Master Forger Amanda

I chose to create a layout with a candid of myself (taken by one of my kiddos on the sly) working in the evening lesson planning, which is definitely part of my everyday life from September to end of June. I used some old stash from Studio Calico, and Hip Kit Club pattern paper, and the brads and most of the chipboard is from a school line from Simple Stories. The stamping in the long title was created with the packaging technique first, and then stamping a Dylusion calendar stamp and a Close to My Heart alpha stamp. It's so great to include yourself and your own everyday life moments in your scrapbooks! 

Master Forger Cindy

I pulled out the two pictures of Derek and Darcy 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. 

 

 

                                     We still have a lot to come this month.  Be sure to check it all out!

• September 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy
• September 28th - October Sneak Peek (FB Community & Instagram)
• September 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps
  

We always love to see what you are working on!   We often choose our Guest Designers by looking at the work you show us.  Share your projects on our Facebook Community Group and be sure to tag us on Instagram at #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2025 

Happy Scrapping!

Master Forger Vikki

September 2025 - Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop!!!

 Hello and welcome to September!  It's the first of the month and time to reveal our inspiration kit.  I'm Master Forger Vikki and I'll be hosting the blog this month. Our goal here at CKCB is to curate a kit using our stash, without having to buy more product.  Let's dive right in and take a look at this month's inspiration kit!

This month I chose Life Captured by Simple Stories.  I absolutely love the colors in this kit. I also love how versatile it is by including the months of the year, so you can use it for any season that you happen to be documenting.  

Here are some photos of the inspiration kit:

I am happy to introduce this month's Guest Designer, Stephanie Olson.  She is super talented and I am so happy that she is joining us this month.

"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."

I'd like to share Stephanie's kit with you.  I can't wait to see what she creates with it.

The Master Forgers are sharing their Counterfeit Kits on our Social Media Hop.  Make sure you check them all out!  I'll see you back here tomorrow!

• 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

                      Be sure to check back in with us. There's a lot more coming up this month:

• September 2nd - Just the Gist of It
• September 4th - Forgeries on the Fourth
• September 6th - Mini Kit and Project Reveal
• September 12th - Challenge #1
• September 18th - Challenge #2
• September 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy
• September 28th - October Sneak Peek (FB Community & Instagram)
• September 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps
  

We always love to see what you are working on!   We often choose our Guest Designers by looking at the work you show us.  Share your projects on our Facebook Community Group and be sure to tag us on Instagram at #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2025 

Happy Scrapping!

Master Forger Vikki

August 2025 - Challenge #2 Dog Days of Summer!

 Hello! It's time for our 2nd challenge of the month. Let's take a quick peek at our inspiration kit:

 August is commonly known as "dog days" of summer, which refers to the hottest, most humid period of summer. Keeping this in mind,your challenge for today is to create a layout featuring pets, summer fun or a lazy day. Let's see what our Master Forgers have come up with for this challenge.

MF Tara

I am scrapbooking a photo of my daughter with her friends on a trip with friends.  They were playing in the pool.  I used my kit-mostly the papers that were from the Inspiration Kit.  I flipped over the red gingham and fussy cut five flowers from that side.  From the blue plaid I flipped it over and fussy cut out a label for my journaling.  The yellow sun was cut with my Cameo out of another paper from my kit.  I added some mixed media onto my white cardstock to add some more color.  

Here are some close-ups of my mixed media and the details I put onto my layout. 

 MF Cindy

I'm using page set #2 from my August CKC - The Country Kit.  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.

MF Julene

Here's  what's coming up for the rest of the month:

• August 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy
• August 24th - Follower Showcase
• August 28th - August Sneak Peek
• August 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps

Want to play along? We'd love to see your kit! Please share in our Facebook Community Group or tag us on Instagram using #ckcaugust2025 #counterfeitkitchallenge

 

Remember if you'd like to be chosen as our Follower of the Month, share your kits and projects.Stay tuned for more inspiration, and happy scrapping! 

 

Master Forger Laurie

 

 

August 2025 - Inspiration Kit Reveal and Social Media Hop!!!

 Welcome to August, our new Counterfeit Kit is here: It's the first of the month, and you know what that means....time to dive into a brand new Counterfeit Kit Challenge! Whether you're a long time participant or just discovering us, we are thrilled to have you join us as we kick off another inspiring month of creativity, inspiration, and kit creating.

For this month's inspiration kit, I have chosen Farmhouse Summer by Carta Bella, which captures the heart of country living with a homey palette and timeless design motifs. It's the perfect blend of rustic charm and fresh summer energy. 

Here are a few more photos of this collection.

 

As always, your challenge is to counterfeit or recreate this kit using your own supplies.

 

Now, I'd like to introduce you to our Guest Designer, Nadine Michelle from Paper Route Scrapbooking. 

 

Hi! I am Nadine, and I am honoured to be a guest designer for the Counterfeit Kit Community. I have been scrapbooking for over 25 years now, and I love how this creative outlet helps me to focus on all of the best parts of my life. I’ve been married for 28 years, have three grown children, and two amazing grandchildren. I enjoy sharing my love of scrapbooking on my YouTube channel “Paper Route Scrapbooking” as well as by teaching at my local scrapbook store. Happy Scrapping Friends!

Here is Nadine's Kit 

 

Wow! Great kit Nadine!

Be sure to check out the Social Media Hop below. Let's see what the other Master Forger's created from their stash!

1st- 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=j3Ed1pSbf7Wm3D

Here's  what's coming up for the rest of the month:

• August 1st Counterfeit kit reveal and blog hop
• August 2nd Just the Gist of It 
• August 4th Forgeries on the Fourth
• August 6th Mini Kit and Project Reveal
• August 12th - Challenge #1
• August 18th - Challenge #2
• August 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy
• August 24th - Follower Showcase
• August 28th - August Sneak Peek
• August 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps

Want to play along? We'd love to see your kit! Please share in our Facebook Community Group or tag us on Instagram using #ckcaugust2025 #counterfeitkitchallenge

 

 Remember if you'd like to be chosen as our Follower of the Month, share your kits and projects.

 

Stayed tuned for more inspiration, and happy kit making! 

 

 M

Master Forger Laurie 

July 2025 Challenge #3

 Welcome back to Flashback Month.  Here's a reminder of our kit which,hopefully by now, you have created your own version.

Now for our 3rd Challenge.

Here is a layout I did back in 2014 when we had the original kit

Appropriately the title is "This place makes me so happy."  For this challenge I want you to scraplift it. In case you're curious we were looking around Vancouver.

The Design Team have created some ideas for you.

                                                

Master forger Cindy

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 did not use any of the embellishments that I included in my kit. 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.

Master forger Misty

I kept close to the basic structure of the lift, but I was able to add more photos by replacing two 4x6 pics with four 3x4 pics.




Master Forger Christine

I used the same structure as the original layout as it worked perfectly with these 20+ year old photos.  I also loved the "happy" so made sure to use that in my little title under the right side photo.  I also loved using the chalkboard elements on this one!

Now it is your turn. Make sure you add it to Facebook in the appropriate post.

Here's what is upcoming for the rest of this month.

• July 24th Followers showcase
• July 28th August sneak peek
• July 30th Baby use those scraps! 

Make sure you pop back here to see what is happening. That's all for now.

    Julene

June 2025 - Challenge #1 - Let's Get Outdoors!!!

 Hi and welcome back!  Today, I am going to give you our very first challenge!  First, let me remind you of our inspiration kit:

NJFB "Intrinsic" Limitless Kit

 

 

Today, I am challenging you to get outdoors!  Create a layout using some of the nature inspired icons in the inspiration kit to create an outdoors layout….hiking, mountain climbing, bicycling, running, walking, et cetera!!!  

 

 Let's see what our Guest Designer, MK, has created for this challenge.

 

 

Guest Designer MK created this beautiful layout for this challenge:

 

 

 

 

You can watch her process video here. 

 

MF Laurie

 

Master Forger Laurie created a layout that captures a peaceful moment in nature, centered around a cozy campfire by a lake. She used earthy tones and a distressed background to create a rustic, outdoorsy vibe. The mushrooms, butterflies and botanical embellishments from her kit add a whimsical charm. 

 MF Tara

 

MF Tara created a two page layout using her kit and photos from 2019 of her family's break during a day filled with homeschool field trips.  She also used one of her forgeries on this layout.

 

 

 Let's check out what we have for you for the rest of the month:

June 18th - Challenge #2

June 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy

June 24th - Follower Showcase

June 28th - July Sneak Peek

June 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps

We love to see what you are working on!  Drop in your projects to our Facebook Community Group and of course tag us on Instagram at #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcjune2025 

 

Master Forger Tara