September 2025 - Challenge #3 Let's Get Sketchy

            

Welcome back!  Today is probably my favorite challenge of the month, the Sketch Challenge!  

Don't ever stress about starting with a sketch.  It doesn't have to be followed exactly.  You can change anything in a sketch - the number of photos, the orientation of the photos, or the placement of the title and ephemera.  A sketch is meant to be an inspiration.

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

And here is the sketch I created for this month.

Our Guest Designer is taking part in this challenge along with our Master Forgers.  Here is what they created for the challenge.

Guest Designer Stephanie

Using Vikki's awesome sketch I knew I would be able to use up one of my cut apart cards for the center title, and once I saw the happy happy happy I knew what pictures I wanted to use.  Taking a class with Janene, the owner of 49 & Market definitely made me happy happy happy.  I then picked the background paper with the chit chat bubbles cause all the little sayings applied to this day.  I got to use up lots of labels and a frame in my clusters, helping me move closer to my goal of using up all the ephemera bits from this kit.

Master Forger Laurie

When I saw that this month's inspiration kit was Simple Stories Life Captured, I knew I had to use Simple Stories Best Year Ever as my kit choice. They are similar as they both are designed for documenting a whole year; whether you're making 12x12 layouts or pocket pages. I did add a few background papers, such as this pink ledger paper that I used for my background, and I added a black frame. I'm trying really hard to use what is in my kit. Keeping that in mind, I fussy cut the clouds from a pocket card. Using mostly stickers and a few chipboard pieces, I created my title cluster and two smaller clusters. I chose a photo I had taken some years ago of a flowering crab tree in our yard. It was perfect since it was Spring and was also taken in April. So happy I was able to use the April and Welcome Spring stickers in my title cluster.

Master Forger Tina

Cool that the grid paper was in one of my collections that I pulled for this month that worked for this sketch. Something I do monthly is a Sam's Club run and knew this would be a good theme to document with this sketch.

       Here's what's in store for the rest of the month.

• 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