October 2024 Challenge #1 Favorite Fall Activity

 Hello! Welcome to our first challenge of the month! We'll be using this image from our inspiration kit,

                                                        An Autumn Tale : Chilly Breeze

  

                                                                                        

      For this month's challenge #1 to document your favorite fall activity. Guest designer Liz  

played along with us by scrapping a  fall sports photo. Here's what she had to say about her layout,

"I love JoJo's challenge of scrapping a Fall activity that you love to do. My husband and I really enjoy watching our kids participate in their high school sports activities. We both look forward to the Fall as that is when high school sports started up. This is a photo of our youngest after he competed in a Fall swim meet. Those days are over for us now that our children are grown ,but we love to look back at old photos and reminisce about those times."

                                                                            

     

Master Forger JoJo here and since Fall and October are my favorite season and month, I have plenty of favorite activities that we do, but I think my very favorite is to go to the corn maze on a cool fall afternoon. Here is my layout documenting a fun day at the corn maze. Where I live in Las Vegas ,Nevada we really do have a long fall, just a few short weeks, so I love to take a hour and 20 minute drive to Moapa Valley Corn Maze, close to the Utah border and spend a cool and breezy afternoon there, its just so refreshing after a long hot summer.

 

Master Forger Tara created a layout with her kit based upon the October 12 30 Days of Sketches for Day 12.  The sketch was created by Lisa Marie. Tara has a process video on her YouTube channel if you'd like to watch it.  She tells you how she adapted the sketch to fit her story and photos!

Master Forger Brandi played along by using the challenge theme as her title! "A Fall Favorite" - She's scrapping a lot of Fall farm/pumpkin patch photos this month, which happen to be a family favorite with two little boys!

The fun continues next week! Here's what's on tap for the rest of this month:

• 18th October - Challenge #2
• 22nd October - Challenge #3 Sketch Challenge
• 24th October - Follower Showcase 
• 28th October - November Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community)
• 30th October - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

Show us what you've got! We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcsoctober2024

Happy Scrapping!

                                                                                

                                                                             JoJo

October 2024 Mini Kits and Projects

  Are you short on time or do you just need to scrap a few photos or are you a beginner scrapbooker? Then a mini kit may be for you.  A mini kit offers simplicity. It's perfect for beginners or those with limited time. It's also portable and budget friendly, allowing you to create without have overwhelming choices. Two of our Master Forgers are going to show you how they build a mini kit and how they use them. 

Let's take a look at our Inspiration Kit:

Autumn Tale: Chilly Breeze

Master Forger Misty

I went with a project other than scrapbooking! I wanted to mix it up a bit with some Thanksgiving table decor. Yes, it is a bit early, but if I start now I will have time to actually get them all done. For this post I finished just three. Check them out!

Now let's briefly walk through the process. Here is the kit I put together. I grabbed three pattern papers, three solid-ish paper, a phrase stamp set & a die set to cut them out, and a layering die set to create some labels. Included are a few of the supplies I pulled out during my FOF project (see it here). I didn't remake those items, but just used the ones I make for that blog post.

 

Notice those white pieces in the middle? Those are from a cut file I created for this project! This is free over on my blog if you want to give this a try. It cuts a small notecard with a pocket to layer on the front! Plus if you have scoring/embossing options on your cutter, you can get the added embossed detail! (Video tutorial)

I cut a bunch of the cards & pocket layers out of all my pattern papers. I mixed and matched pockets with cards to maximize contrast between the layers.

The cut file includes these small notches to align with your score tool for scoring and folding the notecard.

I added pen stitching into the embossed lines for more detail! It is easy when you can just follow the guide lines.

I used my phrase stamp & die to cut out some fitting words for the occasion.

After inking the edges with a bit of white pigment ink for a bit of pop, I layere them up on my project with foam tape.

I cut some scalloped shapes from a nested layering die. I used leftovers of the pattern paper as well as the craft to make these name tags. Using those felt flowers from the FOF project I glued them to the very edge of the name tags. This will allow the flower to overlap the pocket edge.

So here they all are tucked into their pockets. Guests can have fun peeking in the pockets to find their name!

Just one more view of these table name tags!
(I do have a process video if you want to see more.)

Master Forger Jody

Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year! Cooler temps and the leaves colors changing are good for my soul! As soon as I saw the inspiration kit I immediately thought of Simple Stories' Acorn Lane.  After I pulled what I had from that collection I looked through my stash of 12x12 papers and found several patterns that coordinated nicely.  I grabbed a few different size alphas and of course all the bits and pieces are last to get gathered.  I did grabbed some mixed media elements but sadly I did not use them on my project.  

After gathering all my supplies I decided to create a mini album for the month of October.  I used a few different cut files from Hip Kit Club. I created the October title in Silhouette Studio using a fun font. When everything was cut I got to work adding photo mats and so many embellishments! I had the best time and can not wait to fill it up with all things Fall!

I hope you capture all your Fall activities!!!

Click here for a complete process video!

Let's see what we have lined up for the rest of this month:

• 12th October- Challenge #1
• 18th October - Challenge #2
• 22nd October - Challenge #3 Sketch Challenge
• 24th October - Follower Showcase 
• 28th October - November Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community)
• 30th October- Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

Show us what you've got! We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2024 

Happy Scrapping!

JoJo

October 2024 Forgeries on the Fourth

 Today is the time of the month when the Master Forgers share their forgeries of what they have created!  Let me remind you of this month's inspiration kit:

Master Forger Misty

I'm here with fabric flowers for you! I've created both felt and upcycled denim flowers. 

The felt beauties were cut using a die set (no longer available). I layered them up with various colors of felt and circles of cardstock hidden between the layers. The cardstock provides stability for the glue to hold on. Gluing felt isn't a super easy thing!

You can see that dies with embossing details will even emboss those into felt. And this is just cheap craft store felt; it is nothing special!

The denim was cut from a damaged pair of pants. There are two styles of flowers here.

Style A, pictured at the top: I cut rough circles and then spiral cut those circles from the outer edge into the middle. Then using a pair of reverse clamp tweezers, I grabbed the dangling outer edge and started rolling it into the middle. Hot glue it once it meets the end and voila!
(Tip: A looser roll makes for a prettier flower. I'll show you my fail for comparison 😂)

Style B, lower flowers. I just cut strips of denim. Then I used glue on a large circle of cardstock to hold the denim in place as I folded and turned the fabric to get it to form around the circle. I moved inward with each turn. Different sized circles and widths of strips create different sizes and fullness of flowers.

And for funsies, here is my fail!

There is a process video on my YouTube channel if you want to see these step by step!

Master Forger JoJo

For this month's forgeries, I got out my dies and made some flowers, bows and a real jean pocket using a piece of a scrapbook paper made out of real jean material. It will be perfect for my baby granddaughter's first pair of jean short photos. 

 

Master Forger Laurie

 

 To create these embellishments I used kraft paper, dies, white embossing powder, stickers and a chipboard die cut. You could also use a punch. I inked the outer edge with brown to give it a autumnal rustic look. If embossing is not your jam, stickers work well, as would word stamps.

 

Master Forger Tara spotted a video on YouTube where one of our FaceBook community members created her own woodgrain!  Thank you to Michele for allowing us to use her video!  Here's the video:

How To Make Your Own Woodgrain Paper

Here's a close-up of this beautiful woodgrain! 

Be sure to post up your forgeries that you make for you kit this month, we would love to see them.  Here is what we have lined up for the rest of this month:

•  6th October - Mini Kit and Project Reveal 
• 12th October - Challenge #1 
• 18th October - Challenge #2
•  22nd October - Challenge #3 Sketch Challenge
•  24th October - Follower Showcase 
• 28th October - November Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community) 
• 30th October - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2024 

                                                                 

                                                                     Thank you, JoJo

October 2024 -Just The Gist of It

 Hello! Welcome back to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog for October 2024! 

As a reminder, our inspiration kit for the month is the Autumn Tale: Chilly Breeze

Today I am going to talk about how I pick my kits. I first start of with two or three leading papers that have all the colors on them and then I pull several supporting papers to match. Then I pull a few pieces of cardstock, embellishments ,alphabets and any other supplies that I think match. Then I pick my dies and stamps next. I really enjoy the process of mixing and matching different collections and colors together and see them all come together in one kit. Here is my kit for this month.

Be Sure to post your kit, we would love to see what you have chosen. As for the rest of the month. Her is what we have lined up for the rest of this month:

 

• 4th  October - Forgeries on the Fourth
•  6th October - Mini Kit and Project Reveal 
• 12th October - Challenge #1 
• 18th October- Challenge #2
•  22nd October - Challenge #3 Sketch Challenge
•  24th October - Follower Showcase 
• 28th October- November Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community) 
• 30th October - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2024 

 

Thank you, JoJo