April 2025 - Challenge #2 - Hearts, Stars & Gears; Oh My!

 Welcome back to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog! As a reminder, this month's inspiration kit is lil' man by Bella Gypsy!

The inspiration kit features a variety of generic elements as embellishments, hearts, stars & gears in particular. For our second challenge, choose one of these elements and feature it heavily on your layout - at least three different uses of the element! Embellishment, in a pattern paper, stenciled or stamped, anything goes, as long as it’s three different aspects of your layout.

Let's see how the team interpreted this week's challenge!

Master Forger Tara 

This is such a FUN challenge that Master Forger Brandi chose for us as our second using our kits.  I have a ton of papers in my kit that I might have been hoarding FOREVER, so I just took a deep breath and started cutting.  LOL!  Here's my layout.  I chose to use gears and I used them in three different ways-my patterned paper background, gear die cuts, and metal gears.  

Master Forger Christine 

So for my layout, I decided to go with what I thought might be the most challenging element - gears!  I did have to cheat a bit and get into my stash for a gear paper, as that is one way I am using the element.  Then I found a gear stamp in a really old set which I fussy cut to add as embellishments.  Lastly,  I had a gear wood veneer piece I got this past Christmas.  

What a great challenge!

Master Forger Laurie

Since I was scrapping a photo of my grandson I decided to use hearts. I thought it would be fitting for a baby layout. I stenciled hearts on the tags and the blue piece of card stock that I used for layering. I used hearts that I had made for Forgeries on the Fourth by using a heart punch, cutting one heart in half, then gluing the halves together. The third way I used hearts was by sprinkling blue puffy hearts around.

Stop by again next week to see what we have next!

• 22nd April - Challenge #3 Sketch Challenge
• 24th April - Follower Showcase 
• 26th April - April Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community) 
• 30th April - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

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 and #ckcapril2025

"Scrapbooking is a work of heart." 

Happy scrapping! 
~ Brandi ~