July 2025 Challenge #1

 Welcome back and now for the first of our challenges.

As it is a flashback month, I am using the challenge that we used back in 2014:  Use triangles.  It can be any size of triangles you like or a combination of sizes. The triangles must be obvious on the page.  We have lots of bright papers this month so make the brights work for you in smaller amounts.

Here's another reminder of our kit

Here's my initial one from back in 2014

Guest designer Kate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Master Forger Tina

I used both the cutfiles and cut some pattern papers into triangles for my layout

 

Master Forger Brandi

I used several triangles to help design a background for my layout. & used one of the cut off pieces for a journaling blocks! 

Master Forger Jojo

I cut triangles out of different colors and patterns and placed them on a circle to form a sun, I really like how it came out, I wanted to make this a double page layout, but did something entirely different for the other half. I cant wait to see what every one does with their triangle layouts, there is so many fun triangle layouts on the web, I would love to try them all.

Master Forger Amanda

 

I used two different pattern papers and a core-dinations cardstock which I sanded, which gives the triangles for the layout. I picked the colors to specifically match with my kids eyes and shirt. Embellishments are mostly Jen Hadfield's "The Avenue," and I added more dimension by layering the orange flowers on top of the clustered embellishments with the orange. I finished my page off with some blue dots, and a mixed font title to emphasize those blue eyes. 

Here's what is coming up for the rest of the month.

• July 18th Challenge #2
• July 22nd Challenge #3
• July 24th Follower showcase
• July 28th Sneak Peek (on the FaceBook Community Group)
• July 30th # Baby use those scraps.

Have fun doing your first challenge using triangles.

Julene

July 2025 Mini Kits

 I'm back again to look at the idea of making a mini kit.  First a reminder of this month's kit.

Noel Mignon Balboa.

It's mid-summer there in USA and some of you will be heading out on holidays. If you don't have time for a full kit maybe you could do a mini kit.

It can be as small as you like. Traditionally with CKC it used to be 2 or 3 papers and some embellishments that go with it. Enough to create a page or two, or some kind of mini project.  As an example, I found this from an old mini kit of mine. I chose black papers plus a bright floral and a neutral. (You can do similar from your kit) Use the recipe one dark,one light, one colourful.

Next, I found a few embellishments to match

Pack them in a 12x12 bag and there's your mini kit! It can be taken away with you and made during your vacation.

 For example, the above produced 2 layouts.

Enjoy your kit. Make it work for you.

Master forger Tara 

I created a mini kit-well, a not-so-mini-kit for most of you, but for me, it's definitely a mini version of what I normally curate each month!  I always start with paper and so I went through my stash of papers and chose a bright Basic Grey collection.  I had three pieces of patterned paper and a set of stickers in my stash.  Then, I found papers from other Basic Grey collections that went with it and a few from other manufacturers.  My next step was to add alphas and phrases.  I really didn't add any other embellishments because I made a couple of forgeries, which you can view on the July 4th FoF blog post.  Here's my full kit with a couple of close-up photos as well:

 

 

Here's the first layout that I created with my mini kit:

 

 I used two sheets of my patterned paper and tore the edges to create a patterned border on the left hand side.  The text pattern is the B side of the polka dotted paper.  I cut a few stars out of the icon patterned paper, using both the A and B sides to cut them.  I cut my title with my cameo and did some stenciling on my kraft background.  I used a journaling block and a phrase from the sticker sheet.  

 

My second layout I used my tag forgery embellishment as a base for my title.  I used some of the papers from my first layout to create this one as well.  I had five sheets of the polka dot paper in my kit because it seemed like a versatile paper with the text on the back so, I used the text as my base paper.

 

 

 My third layout I used a sketch from Janet that she created for the March 30 Days of Sketches With Christy's Beautiful Life, Series 17. It was perfect for these folders of my oldest son wearing an old (CLEAN) cloth diaper as a Batman cape.  

 

I used lots of cardstock to create the splats with my Cameo!!  I backed my white cardstock background with the star paper from my kit.  I used one of the yellow frame stickers from my sticker set as a frame on my larger photo and matted all three photos onto one black mat.  

 

  

Here's what we have left for you for the month of July.  Please come back and check these upcoming posts out!  

 

July 12th - Challenge #1 

July 18th - Challenge #2 One,two,three

July 22nd - Challenge #3 Scraplift

July 24th - Follower Showcase

July 28th - July Sneak Peek

July 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps

 

July Forgeries on the Fourth

 

 Welcome back! Today our Master Forgers are giving you some ideas to create your own elements for the kit by using items from our inspiration kit to counterfeit embellishments and/or papers to use with your own kits.  Let me remind you of our inspiration kit.

 

Let's see what our Master Forgers have come up with.

Master Forger Tara found a few things to counterfeit this month from our Inspiration Kit!  

 

She found that she could make this tag embellishment using her Cameo and a shipping tag.

 

This shows the cutfile she already owned in her Silhouette Design Studio library!

 

Here's the design opened up on her software.

Here's the finished tag embellishment:

 

 

She also decided to create her own poloroid frame with her Cameo.  

 

 

She opened a cutfile of a polaroid and then created the word in her design software.

 

Then, she rotated the word in the design software and welded it to the frame.

 

 

Master Forger Misty
She is here with three forgeries for you. She is really pleased with the faux hat pins idea! These actually are better than the originals since they containless bulk and less pointy danger! These were made with twist ties (stripped of their paper) and enamel dots. Easy!

                                                                     Master Forger Julene

I made 5 altered paint chips to add to layouts this month.

                               Choose a contrasting coloured flower to make it stand out.

The finished cards 

Pop back to see what is happening for the rest of this month.

Master Forger Laurie

 

Looks like Master Forger Tara and I had the same ideas this month. To make the tag I used an already made one. I cut a piece of patterned paper and used an XOXO punch, glued both to the tag and then machine stitched through the center. For the frame I cut a piece of card stock 3x4, then cut a piece of white card stock using a square die. I applied puffy letters to the side. The white card stock is 2-1/2" x2-1/2".

For the last embellishment I used a scallop die and 2 smaller circle dies. The center is a large brad. I used a white gel pen to make hash marks around the edge of the black circle.

 

                                                        GUEST DESIGNER KATE

Kate also made the Xoxo tag.

 July 6th - Mini Kit and Project Reveal

• July 12th - Challenge #1 
• July 18th - Challenge #2 One,two,three
• July 22nd - Challenge #3 Scraplift
• July 24th - Follower Showcase
• July 28th - July Sneak Peek  (FaceBook Community Group)
• July 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