Kit-Centric Challenge March 2025

The Kit-Centric monthly challenge is all about using one kit or collection to make your layout. Even when you don’t think you have photos for the challenge, it’s amazing how many totally different layouts are created for the challenge. Whether you turn your photo(s) black and white or use them in full color, the kit/collection has enough variety to scrap them. There’s no rules or themes your layout needs to meet — just use only the kit or collection on the majority of your page. And the bonus? Katie provides a 50% off coupon for the kit or the collection that’s valid through the end of the month. So be sure to jump in and super charge your creativity.

March’s challenge uses the Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle. This month the team found this bundle to be very versatile with layouts ranging from family members to nature to a restaurant. There’s even a layout with no photos.

Katie has provided a coupon code for 50% off the Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle. The code is KPDVA50E and it is valid through March 31st.

First up is Creative Team Member Sharon (shannamay) with her beautiful layout about a child who’s ill soon after school started. I’m sure we’ve all had that experience at one time or another. Her diagonal design adds interest to the page, and her journaling is split between photos. Sharon hosts the monthly Sketch Challenge, and comes up with the most intriguing sketches. Be sure to check out her challenge.

Sharon used the Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle, Vintage Artistry Essentials Epoxy Stickers, and the Apple Orchard Element Pack.

Next up is Creative Team Member Erin (ErinR) with this layout of two of her children cuddling. The black and white photo is gorgeous with the monochromatic design of her page. Using the black and white photo helps to keep any potentially odd colors in the photo from being distracting. Erin and I both host this challenge, rotating each month, so be sure to check out our challenge monthly.

For her layout, Erin used Big Bottom Lift Classic Photo Frames 02, Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle, Vintage Artistry Essentials Ephemera, and Color Swatch Combo Ocean Breeze Element Pack (bow).

Creative Team Member, Lori Ann (lmaggs) made this beautiful page about young love — two people becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. It’s such a sweet photo and a milestone for most teens.

Lori Ann used the Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle for her layout.

Shannon (shannonr) made this lovely page about a dining out experience. The large blended photo of part of the restaurant’s interior is perfect with the framed photo of the table setting. It’s such a lovely layout, and even without any people in the photos, it beautifully captures a memory. Shannon hosts the first Saturday Scraplift Challenge of each month. She finds vary different layouts to use as the inspiration for a scraplift. Be sure to check out her challenge.

Shannon used Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle, Vintage Artistry Essentials Remnants, and Partial Page Masks.

Creative Team Member Brenda (bbe) created this amazing page that doesn’t use any photos, and yet it is so striking.

For her layout Brenda used Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle.

When it came to my own layout, I, Valerie, (nana_vg) found this bundle perfect for a page about the alligators we saw when visiting the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades during a visit with our daughter and her family at their second home in Florida. I found the Vintage Artistry Essentials Bundle perfect for a nature layout.

For my layout, I used the Vintage Artistry Essentials Scrapbooking Bundle, the Vintage Artistry Essentials Remnants, and Arctic Whites Paper Pack 04 (for my photo mats).

My favorite part of any challenge is to see the variety of layouts that can be created from a single collection or example. I’m looking forward to seeing yours grace our gallery. I’m sure they will show many more ways this kit/bundle can be used.

I hope these pages have inspired you to make a page with the Vintage Artistry Essentials Bundle. Dig it out of your stash or purchase new with the coupon code above (expires March 31, 2025.)

Remember to post your page in the Kit-Centric Challenge Gallery as well as in the March Challenges sign-in thread in the forum.

I look forward to seeing your creativity fill the gallery. Happy scrapping! — Valerie (nana_vg)