October 2025 - Forgeries on the Fourth

Welcome back!  Today our Master Forgers are going to show you how you can take products from the inspiration kit and create your own version, using supplies from your stash and some imagination. 

1st let's take a look at the kit again

Master Forger Misty

Misty is here with multiple ideas as usual.
They are pretty straightforward, but also just pretty!

Wax Seals decorated with gold a Sharpie marker and a white Posca paint pen. (She liked the black one in the inspo kit but didn't have black wax.)

Faux Metal photo corners. By adding gold Sharpie and then clear Nuvo Drops to ordinary paper photo corners, they take on the look of patinaed metal.

Vellum Tickets: She is a fan of vellum and had to recreate some of the tickets. She had more ideas than time for decorating. But more can be done later.

Bonus Arrows: She loved the idea of the arrows in the inspo sticker sheet. Using her fav Nuvo drops, she hand drew these images on a silicone mat, then them dry over night and now has "puffy" embellishments ready for a project.

Master Forger Julene

See that white paper with the circled plus signs?  I decided to forge it.

I had this paper in my kit.

Using my journalling pen I drew a circle around each plus sign.

It now looks like this.

Master Forger Jojo

I used the stamps in my kit and stamped some tickets,claim baggage tickets and other travel journaling tags. I stamped them with black so they will match any layout. 

Master Forger Laurie

 

I took inspiration from the sticker sheet that was in this month's inspiration kit. I noticed there were postage stamps and word icons related to travel. I recreated these embellishments by stamping travel themed words and icons onto white cardstock. I had to fussy cut them since I don't have a matching die. I do have a postage stamp punch so I used that to punch "postage stamps" from a piece of travel themed paper. This is a great way to stretch your supplies by using what you already have.

Master Forger Amanda 

I had a couple of ideas for this month. Since I have quite a few Spellbinders wax seals that I can make (and should more often) I made a few of these. I played with some leftover pink wax that was cooled in the heat tool, and added some white pearl wax beads. I also used midnight blue and then some burgundy, gold and green! This was a ton of fun to do. 

Next I made some globes to mimic the wood veneer globes in the kit. These were a Stampin Up! World Map dies, and Beautiful World stamps which I did on some brown pattern paper.  

Lastly I was inspired by the typewriter key paper, and since I have a close to my heart type-writer key stamp, I thought that would work great! Instead of doing random letters, I repeat stamped Happy Life in “off the rails” 49&Market ink on grey card stock. Can’t wait to use this!! 

Come back in a couple of days and check out our mini kit reveal.  Don't forget, we still have a lot more to come this month.

• October 6th - Mini Kit and Project Reveal
• October 12th - Challenge #1 (globes)
• October 18th - Challenge #2 (memorabilia)
• October 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy (2 photo sketch)
• October 28th - October Sneak Peek (FB Community & Instagram)
• October 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps

 We always love to see your work, so please share your kits and projects with us. Post them in our Facebook Community, or share them on Instagram (we are @counterfeitkitchallenge or tag us using #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcoctober2025).

 Thanks so much for stopping by! We can't wait to see your kits and projects this month! 

Have fun scrapping!

Master Forger Tina