INSD layouts

 My next layout is a scraplift of Laurie's Halloween layout at Counterfeit Kit.

I'm please because I recycled a corrugated card piece as one of my frames plus the circle under "enjoy" was a dress tag. The knife and fork were good to find a home for as well.

I used paler colours to emphasise the photo of course.

This next one is for Counterfeit Kit again. Some of the things on here are from my kit.

The cupcake paper is vellum.

Also I just discovered 

First 2 layouts

 My first layout for the new kit is this one.

I turned the sketch sideways to accommodate my landscape photos.

We recently went to the Royal Easter show and one of my favourite parts was the district exhibits where the farmers display their produce. These 2 photos show it well.

My second layout was for a challenge at Paper Issues.

May Counterfeit Kit 2026

 The kit we are counterfeitting is this

.Mom's Kitchen Mega Bundle - Echo Park Paper Co plus the add ons.

https://echoparkpaper.com/new/new-collections/moms-kitchen/

This reminded me so much of a kit we did in May 2021. I guess what goes around comes around.

My Kit

KITCHEN CAPERS

That fact made me start in a weird way. I had some brads left from that previous time, so started by finding those.

There are teapot, cup, measuring jug, cookie jar. Plus, several red and black round or square brads.

Next, 

 I looked for papers

I matched as best I could. There's papers with lobsters, carrots and pineapples!

I also had some fruity 6x6 papers

There are strawberries, raspberries, apples and cherries.

My embellishments contain quite a mixture.

I include the Simple stories stickers "Hello Summer" as I'm still scrapping cruise photos.

There are some journal tags I made using the fruit papers, red lolly bags, a darkroom door lolly strip, old fashioned lace with ribbon threaded through it, a cupcake sticker and doileys.

It should be an interesting month.

A big welcome to our guest designer, Debbie Barton.

I am very honored and excited to guest design for May’s Counterfeit Kit Challenge! Scrapbooking, to me, is not only a challenge and stress reliever, but a happy way to remember and put on paper the joys, challenges, and fun in my daily life.

When I began scrapbooking, in the 70’s & 80’s for school memories, the big thing was cutting out pictures and gluing them into photo albums. I then thought that adding stickers and cutting out frames really made my books super special. Putting as many pictures and stickers as possible on a page was the best. And who didn’t love a collage! ;0

I stopped scrapping while raising 2 kids, getting my Music Education degree and my Masters in Music. I taught choir and music for quite a time and just loved my students. After retirement, my hubby and I moved to SC in 2016. We played at living on the lake with swimming, boating and just relaxing for a bit along the way. We traveled when we could and enjoyed the “big” (boring?) retirement life, esp in 2020. I was blessed to discover several online scrapping groups which were actually not only sanity savers but life savers. When I was able to travel to crops and classes, I jumped on board and now have to remember to stay home. I have taken classes with so many amazing teachers. Totally crafty heaven! Recently I have been given a chance to be on a creative team with the wonderful ScrapHappy Team. Great ladies. So many ideas and talents.

I enjoy working on both new and old mixed media techniques and learning new ways to work with my paper products. I recently realized that I do not need every new & sparkly thing. I can make my own papers and embellies! What a fabulous discovery! I hope you are enjoying this month’s challenges! 

–Debbie

 Counterfeit Kit Challenge Reveal and Hop

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

• Guest Designer - Debbie Barton -ScrappyDebB - YouTube

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

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

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

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

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

• Misty - https://craftysoup.com/

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

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

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

That's all for now,  enjoy your month,

Lasting Memories SCRAPS challenge.

 

Lasting Memories newest challenge is to use scraps to make a layout. This one is a Christmas layout and features Annabelle my great niece.

On here I used scraps of patterned paper, some vintage laces that I only had a small pieces of. I also had a couple of random flowers to finish off a set so put those on as well.

The scrapmatts chipboard and music stamp weren't scraps but add to my overal look of the layout.

Lasting memories stars or hearts challenge.

 The challenge at Lasting Memories is to use stars or hearts.

My daughter had this photo of Tiffany's store in New York so I went with the sparkly idea and chose stars.

I decided to make a shaker box using glitter (my pet hate). After constructing it and adhering to the background layer, I stamped stars around the frame. I kept my other embellishments to a minimum so the shaker box would stand out.

Alphabet challenge and Snarky stampers.

 Today I have made this card for Alphabet challenge.

We could use any animal, so I chose a kookaburra.

I fussy cut out the bird then adhered him to the background. I used 2 different papers on this as I'm using scraps

While I had the scissors out I made a second card. This one is for The sisterhood of snarky stampers. .

They want a Happy Birthday card. I used a platypus picture on this card and framed it with a darker blue.

Bash those scraps at Sketch and Scrap.

 At Counterfeit Kit challenge I have finished my kit. I only had a few small embellishments left over.

 I made some white tags.

Then I turned them into tags using my embellishments.

From there I made 2 cards. First one is for Sketch and Scrap.

Here's the other one.