October 2023 - Forgery on the Fourth

Here's a reminder of our inspiration kit:

My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club - October 2022 Limited Edition

 This feature is all about the fun of having a go at making up your own embellishments or re-creating the papers as a way of getting the same look as the inspiration kit even if you don't have any of the original items. 

These tutorials are often so simple and easy that it really is a perfect chance to try out an idea or two. Make sure you share if you do, we love it when are motivated to give it a try!

Now it's time to see what our talented team have come up with - this is always such an inspiration for me. The Master Forgers often create things that would just not have crossed my mind.

 So talented, so resourceful, so inspirational!

Lots of watercolor & mixed media layered looks to the papers & a slew of ephemera & cut-aparts in our inspiration kit. 

Let's see what the Design Team has come up with!

Guest Designer Laurie created tickets, library cards and butterflies using stamps, punches, dies and inks.

 Do you love the stuffed full ephemera packs from 49 & Market like the one in this month’s inspiration kit? Try this!!! Make Your Own Ephemera Pack!    

While going stash diving for this kit, Master Forger Brandi realized was that a lot of collections have these colors in them, but nothing seemed to fit the kit as a whole pack … so she went through a dozen or so embellishment packs and pulled the pieces that matched her papers! To make this process a bit easier, pull aside a piece of paper to represent each color of your kit to quickly compare the ephemera, chipboard etc before adding it to the YES pile! This would also work if you wanted to use punches, dies, or even fussy cut elements out of pattern paper! 

Of course, MF Lisa turned to Pinterest where she tracked down a couple of interesting tutorials and links!

Fred, She Said  - Digital Designs has a great step by step tutorial for making your own distressed Prima style flowers!  You can find the blog post here

Fred, She Said - Digital Designs tutorial here

Jennie at "Live The Dream" blog created stunning cabbage roses using a Tim Holtz die. You could use any die for this or even cut your own freehand! These look great. You can find the blog post here.

Jennie at Live The Dream - tutorial here

The Shabby Horse has a great blog tutorial for making realistic, distressed leaves. You can find the blog post here.

The Shabby Horse tattered leaf tutorial here

The Graphics Fairy has the most gorgeous set of free printable postage stamps along with all sorts of ideas for making them look authentically vintage and stampy for your paper crafts! 

You have to check this out - just lovely! You can find them here.

Oh! My Fiesta In English! has a selection of free printable frames that could be a great stand-in for the frames in the original kit. All sorts of colours and designs, print them out, fussy cut and off you go! You can find the printables in this blog post here. Here's just one of many in the post.

Oh! My Fiesta In English printable frames here

Master Forger Misty got some watercoloring done, from the very simple coloring of die cuts...

To the very complex full pattern paper painting.

Inspiration image on left & my rendition on the right. It isn't perfect but I'm definitely proud of my accomplishment.

Here is what the rest of October will look like - don't miss a thing!

•  6th October - Mini Kit Reveal and Project Showcase - Inspiration for a smaller kit or project ideas.
• 12th October- Challenge #1 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 18th October - Challenge #2 - To inspire you to get creating from your own kit.
• 24th October - Follower's Showcase - who has caught our eye this month.
• 31st October - Killing the Kit - focusing on using up the bits and pieces left in your kit.

You know that we always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. You can post them in our Facebook Community or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2023).

 

Thanks for stopping by!