March 2026 - Forgeries on The Fourth

One of the most fun things that we do around here at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog is to counterfeit items from our Inspiration Kit!   Let me remind you of our Inspiration Kit:

Cocoa Daisy February 2026 Kit - Inklings

 
Guest Designer Neyla created some wonderful paper forgeries for her kit this month!  

 

She dragged ink pads on their side to create striped paper.

 

She made lots of drips and splatters

 

She stamped polka dots. Though she admitted a stencil would have been easier, LOL.

 

These past two were all about texture paste and watercolor.

 

By priming her paper with gesso she was able to drop on watercolor and then blow it around with a straw. The gesso slows down the watercolor dry time to make this technique possible.

MF Misty 

Misty also created some mixed media, but in a smaller (less scary??) format. She altered washi tape with acrylic paint products. This was inspired by an add-on item from the kit. 

 MF Julene

I had nothing resembling the kit so decided to forge most of it.

Using coloured pencils I copied 2 of the papers

 

I used paint for another two adding water to make it runny, so I got the splatters

Another involved multi colour streaks of paint.

I then stamped and doodled paintbrushes. I added dobs of paint as needed.

Here's my forgeries. These form the basis of my kit.

 Master Forger Tara created two of the patterned papers from the Inspiration Kit:

There’s a process video on her YouTube channel showing how she created these:

https://youtu.be/cgD-W6-ELvI?si=a74ZiLbJN13OTrpM

MF Amanda

I also forged papers from the kit -- the create alpha was a cute addition to the rainbow pattern paper, and gave me a chance to use my alpha stamps. I used a white pigment ink. I also took a leftover scrap paper in the same pink as one of the pages and added some word bits and stamping to make another forgery.

Here is a closer look at the letter stamping

I also took inspiration from all the paint palettes in the kit and decided to create this stitched palette.

You can see the process on my channel.

 

Master Forger Tina

There was that one paper that I didn't have but knew it was easy enough to do with a few mists

 

  

Here's what we have in store for you this month:

• March 6th - Mini Kit and Project Reveal
• March 12th - Challenge #1
• March18th - Challenge #2
• March 22nd - Challenge #3 Let’s Get Sketchy
• March 28th - July Sneak Peek(FB Community & Instagram)
• March 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 and #ckcfeb2026 

 

 

 

Master Forger Tara