February 2026 Challenge #3 Let's Get Sketchy!

Here is a reminder of the kit we are counterfeiting this month - The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024.

 

Next up for Challenges in February is a Sketch Challenge!  Our Guest Designer, Kathy, made the Sketch for us to use this month!  Do you like using sketches?? I love them -- you can take just one small piece of a sketch or the entirety of the sketch and create something completely different than someone else, and sometimes not even realize that  it was from the same sketch!  Flip, rotate, shrink or stretch a sketch to make it work for you!  Don't have a banner to use -- add something else or delete it altogether! Use a sketch as a jumping off point -- or if you are new to scrapbooking use it like a recipe to create something! Let's see how our Master Forgers have adapted the sketch for their memory keeping! 

Guest Forager Kathy Price

Kathy created a layout using her sketch. She has a lot of little details on her page such as the doodled stitching and a fun circle wood veneer title!  Kathy shows that you can mix and match patterns and have a great layout!   Be sure to follow her on Instagram and YouTube!

MF Brandi

MF Tina

MF Amanda 

I tried to stay pretty close to Kathy's sketch this month and used up some of my gorgeous winter papers, and even made a couple of  penguins with my metal dies! 

Look at those blue eyes! At that penguin! 

If you want to see the process it is here.

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on the 28th to see how the Master Forgers use up their scraps! 

• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass

February 2026 Challenge #2 Birthday Blessings!

 Hey - welcome back for our second challenge! Birthday Blessings -it's my birthday month and I want to Celebrate! For this challenge, make sure your document a birthday tradition in your house! Do you do cake and candles? Presents? Get to choose the meal? Something else creatively different? Show us a tradition that you do to celebrate yours or someone else's birthday! 

As a reminder this is the kit we are counterfeiting this month -- from The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024.

MF Misty

Misty has a tradition of creating slideshows for the birthday person and she documents her latest efforts in this layout.

MF Tara
 
 I am sharing a layout I created celebrating my husband's 48th birthday.  I made his birthday special that year by making him a pumpkin pie instead of cake for his birthday.  Pumpkin pie is his favorite and with his birthday being so close to Thanksgiving, it was an easy choice to celebrate him.

 

 

I didn't have birthday related items in my kit this month, so I made some rosettes from the papers in my kit with a die that I have. I also used my Cameo to cut some balloons out of my patterned papers and a title from orange cardstock.  I did dig into my stash for a matching alpha to finish off my title and add the number 48 to the layout as well.   

MF Vikki

One tradition that I've done since my son was born was taking his birthday photo.  This has proven difficult in some years because he's not one for having his picture taken.  Luckily he was agreeable this year.

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on the 22nd for the Sketch Challenge! 

 

• 22nd February- Sketch Challenge from our Guest Designer - Kathy!   
• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass

February 2026 - Challenge #1 10 Things I love about....

 I hope you are enjoying playing along with the inspiration  The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024 this month! 

When choosing the first challenge this month - I was inspired by that it is almost Valentines day -- but instead of doing the quintessential challenge of memory keeping a romantic love -- I challenge you to take it further -- what are the 10 things that you love about them? Don't have a romantic somebody -- no biggie!! What are 10 things you love about your kid, or dog, or your hobby or even yourself?  

Let's see 10 things you love about someone or something!! 

Guest Forger Kathy Price

Kathy put together this wonderful page about the 10 things she loves about being an educator! She has some beautiful layers, some doodling around her journaling and a great picture of herself!  Be sure to follow her on Instagram and YouTube!

 

MF Julene

Master Forger Julene has used her trip to Costa Rica as inspiration.

MF Amanda

I decided to use 10 random photos about 10 different things that I love about my husband. It ends up be represented by both photos and journaling today! You can see the process here: https://youtu.be/JV6AALmNSAg 

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on the 18th for our second challenge - Birthday Blessings! 

• 18th February- Challenge #2 - Birthday Blessings - create a birthday themed layout that focuses on a birthday tradition
• 22nd February- Sketch Challenge from our Guest Designer - Kathy!   
• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass

February 2026 - Mini Kit and Project Reveal

 If you have new to building kits with Counterfeit Kit Challenge group or just need a smaller kit - this is the perfect post for you! Our Master Forgers Laurie and Christine are here to show you how to build and create with a mini-kit!

For February we are using The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024 for inspiration.

MF Christine

I put together my mini kit by combining two of the inspiration kits...although, I happened to have the Carta Bella Home collection.  So I decided to pull in Vicki Boutin elements (inspired by the Discover and Create collection) and then the Carta Bella Home.  You can check out my kit reveal plus the process videos on my YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@ScrappingHarden 

Here are the 6 papers I chose (one of which I had already cut into as the moth's are great for fussy cutting).

Then here is my fun batch of embellishments.  I snagged the sticker sheet, chipboard elements, and puffy stickers from the Carta Bella collection and then a cardstock sticker and some ephemera from my VB stash.

Project 1 - "Enjoy Every Moment"

My first layout I went with a band design because I really wanted to use the little moth paper from the Carta Bella with the fussy cut moths from my VB paper.  Then I embellished with some of the stickers and chipboard pieces (plus 1 little puffy).

Project 2 - "Build a Life You Love"

I had selected a beautiful piece of navy pattern card stock with the Carta Bella collection, and that became my base.  Then I cut into my other two full sheets to create a vertical band and some layered blocks.  I used more of my fussy cut moths, plus some ephemera.  Really proud I used all those moths up!

Project 3 - "Gather Family"

This last project I did have to break into my cardstock stash for a couple of neutral sheets.  They are quite thin, so I used two sheets.  I cut one down an inch and then used a pen to doodle around the outside and scuffed the edge.  It gave the layout a bit of a 3D look. Then I used the little bit of scrap papers I had, plus the scallop border sticker from the sticker sheet.  Oh and one more tag.

All 3 together!

These are the 3 layouts shown together.  I show in my process video #3 what I had left - but basically it was two tiny pieces of scrap paper, a couple of ephemera and then sticker sheet plus chipboard.  Overall I was really pleased with how I "killed" this CKC Mini Kit!

MF Laurie

Since I’m putting together a mini kit using this month’s inspiration kit, I decided to focus on just one of the four kits. Since we’re in the middle of winter, that’s the kit I chose, Simple Stories Winter Wonderland.  Here’s my kit and the layouts I created.

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on February 12th for our first Challenge!

• 12th February- Challenge #1 -10 Things I love about... 
• 18th February- Challenge #2 - Birthday Blessings - create a birthday themed layout that focuses on a birthday tradition
• 22nd February- Sketch Challenge from our Guest Designer - Kathy!   
• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass

 

February 2026 Forgeries on the Fourth

 Welcome back! Today is the 4th which means our Master Forgers show you what you can create to add to your kit for backgrounds, embellishments and more! 

Here is another look at our inspiration kit from The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024.

Master Forger Misty
Misty set out to create two sheets of pattern paper she loved but couldn't represent with her existing stash. First up, the black striped paper from the Simple Stories collection.

Second, she just HAD to have the paintbrush paper from Vicki Boutin.

There is a tutorial on her YouTube channel on how she created both of these.

Master Forager Amanda

I was just as inspired as Misty to create that paintbrush paper! I have a die set that I used with my 49&Market inks, with a more primary color scheme, lots of water for the packaging technique and some water spray for some runs!  Process is here.

If you choose to re-create the paintbrush paper too -- or anything else from the kit - we would love to see your forgeries -- make sure you come share them on the Facebook Group!

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on the 6th for Mini Kit inspiration!

• 6th February- Mini Kit & Project Reveal:  See how the Master Forgers create a smaller version of the inspiration kit
• 12th February- Challenge #1 -10 Things I love about... 
• 18th February- Challenge #2 - Birthday Blessings - create a birthday themed layout that focuses on a birthday tradition
• 22nd February- Sketch Challenge from our Guest Designer - Kathy!   
• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass

February 2026 - Just the Gist of It

 

 

Here is a reminder of what we are using for inspiration this month The Scrap Room's Flavor of the Month and embellishment kits from January 2024.

When I first put together my kit, I take a look at the patterns and colors of the inspiration kit.  I have most of my papers organized by color, and then by pattern. For example looking at the inspiration, there is the paper that is orange and blue striped - to find something similar to this, because of how my paper is organized I would look in blue or orange colors and then in my stripes.  I choose something that is similar but not perfect - because most of the time I don’t have perfect matches!  Some of my papers are not color organized but themed organized - I found a perfect snowman paper in my winter/Christmas iris case! 

 

After I have all my papers picked out - I take look to see if there was anything in the inspiration kit that wasn’t represented in my kit - two things stand out for me - the Vicki Boutin paintbrush page and the Photoplay video gaming are not represented at all - this is when I lean into my stamps, stencils and embellishments to build out the rest of my kit!  I know I have a Wild Whispers stamp set with video gaming as a theme, so I am going to put that in my kit and I have a die set that has paintbrushes in them that I am just dying to use! (Pun intended)  Both would be great to use to make forgeries.

 

 

Then I round out my kit with things that I know I might need and haven’t used much lately - acrylic titles might be fun to use this month, some old hip kit stash fits in well and some winter themed embellishments will fit that snowman paper nicely!  Sometimes, but not always, I choose photos to go along with some of the papers - I know I have a photo of my husband and our youngest gaming while camping in the rain, so that’s a definite with this kit!

Now I have a massive kit to play with all month long! If you would like to see a real-time run through of how I put the winter portion of my kit together - going through the papers and most of the embellishments- you can see that here.

We have a full month of inspiration and challenges.  See you back here on the Fourth for Forgeries!

• 4th February- Forgeries on the Fourth: Creating elements from the inspiration kit using your own stash
• 6th February- Mini Kit & Project Reveal:  See how the Master Forgers create a smaller version of the inspiration kit
• 12th February- Challenge #1 -10 Things I love about... 
• 18th February- Challenge #2 - Birthday Blessings - create a birthday themed layout that focuses on a birthday tradition
• 22nd February- Sketch Challenge from our Guest Designer - Kathy!   
• 27th February- March Sneak Peak (In Facebook Community) 
• 28th February- Baby, Use Those Scraps 

The Master Forgers love to see what you create.  Share on our Facebook Community Find us on Instagram @counterfeitkitchallenge and tag us in your posts #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcfebruary2026.

Happy Scrapping!

Amanda Bass