April 2022 - Challenge #2 - Go Large!

The month is rushing along and it's already time for our second challenge so let's...

 Go Large!

This month's inspiration kit has lots of​ scrummy words in the form of script and print font Thicker's words, as well as die cuts with large loopy hand written phrases and this can be such an eye-catcher on a layout.

 

So the challenge is to use large words for your title or embellishments.

Our team have been busy this month so let's see what they have for us:

Guest Designer Helen

When I put my kit together I imagined pairing the green "happy" sticker with the green Basic Grey Floral paper, so I started with those two pieces. I added the other BG paper from my kit, the cloud paper and I just love the way they go together. I included some favorite rubs ons in my kit because I wanted to use them and not just have time sit in my stash. I was worried about how the rub ons would transfer, they are 16 year old (yikes) but they transferred well. The bird from the BG pack took a bit of extra rubbing and a lot of patience, but it was worth it and I'm so happy with the way it looks on the page. I cut the rubs on to suit my design and layered them to achieve the look I wanted. I did add two 49 & Market rub ons that were not in my kit but they were a good match. I'm so happy with the way this page turned out and I'm even happier that I used so many pieces from my stash!  

 

 MF Juliet

This was an easy one for Juliet especially with her forgeries this month being the large words so she put one on a page!  The stickers on this page are seriously like 15 years old or better but they worked! Her precious great grand daughter, looks like a future concert pianist! One could hope as one of her Great Great Grandma's played and even taught.

 

MF Tara

Tara created this layout of her granddaughter enjoying a nap on her great auntie's lap. You can see more about her layout on her blog.

 

 MF Tracey

MF Tracey reversed engineered her layout for this challenge, she started with the photo and title, where normally her first pick alongside the photo would be her patterned papers. 

 

MF Kate 

MF Kate decided to forge her title with ink. Scrap piece of white paper from her kit, Tim Holtz ink on a brush to make the script title in any size you want. Fussy cut when dry. 

We've still got a couple of things to share with you this month so I hope you'll come back:

• 24th April: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 30th April: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box 

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 #ckcapril2022). 

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

Lisa

 

March 2022 - Challenge #1

 Welcome my friends! Master Forger Tara here with you! Today, I am bringing you the first challenge of the month!  First, let me remind you of our kit for March!

 Find Beauty!

Life Unfiltered

Today, I am taking this challenge from the piece of ephemera with the phrase “No Filter Needed”.  I want to challenge you to do a layout of your life unfiltered.  Find the beauty in the mess of real life. 

 Guest Designer - Anna Veach

Our Guest Designer, Anna made a beautiful layout for this challenge!!

Master Forger Julene:

My reading material is often messy. Here on the coffee table are 3 books, plus a puzzle magazine and my glasses.It's what real life looks like here! I made the layout messy and used word ideas as part of it.

 

Master Forger Tracey:

 Just had to use this photo of her youngest daughter Paige on this challenge. It was captured during a candid moment out in the sunshine. Tracey loves how it shows the wild but gentle side of her nature  definitely " no filter needed here."

Master Forger Leslie:  Filter NEEDED! Documenting the daily.

Blog post HERE

Master Forger Tara: 

This particular photo is a screenshot I took of a FaceTime call I had with my husband, who was deployed to Afghanistan at the time (2015).  It was our date night for Valentine's Day!  

Check out my personal blog post here.

Let's see what we have for the rest of the month for you:

• 18th March - Challenge #2
• 24th March - Follower Showcase
• 31st March - Killing the Kit 

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 #ckcmarch2022).

 

February 2022 - Challenge #2 - Repeat Shapes

 This month our inspiration kit is the Denim & Blush Modern Memory Keeping Kit by Cocoa Daisy from February 2021. This kit has the slightest nod to the Valentine’s holiday. I'm letting that lead to our second challenge for the month.

Denim & Blush Modern Memory Keeping Kit

Challenge #2
With hearts being an iconic shape for the month of February, we are going to be inspired by shapes. Use repeating shapes as a design element for your layouts: hearts, circles, squares, hexagons, triangles... any repeated shape counts!

Master Forger Juliet went with the hearts!  She cut out the same heart from her Cricut in two different sizes, even flipped them AND she used the negatives for lots of hearts!  A older pic of her husband and one of her sweet daughters!

Master Forger Tracey Campbell decided to go with the repeating shape of those little banner flags, also can you spot the repeated circles too? 

Master Forger Cindy also used hearts as her repeating shape.

Blog post here 

Master Forger Leslie used her hexagon punches + sequins to repeat the shape 45 times!

More details  HERE

Guest Designer Gretl said this about her challenge, "For this layout I used pink circle paper to the pink heart in the kit. Behind my picture I used Journal for Life page to add a contrast. Down the left side I used my mock flair from Forgery on the 4th. I used circles & hearts as my geometric shapes."

Master Forger Kate decided to go with CIRCLES! She hand cut some Teresa Colins circle papers from her mini kit and also hand punched some blue dotted papers and then mixed all the patterns together!

Master Forger Tina used hearts scattered about the layout using a cut file and stickers in various forms.

 

 

Here is what we have coming next this month.

• 24th February: Followers Showcase - who has caught our eye this month
• 28th February: Killing Kits - an idea or two focusing up the bits and pieces left in your own 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 #ckcfebruary2022).

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

October 2021 - Challenge #2 Tags and Labels

October the 18th and it's time for Challenge #2, here at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge and I'm excited to see how you interpret it. As a reminder, Master Forger Tracey chose the May 2021 Hip Kit Club kit as our inspiration for this month.

In the May Hip Kit kit there are a few patterned papers that have labels, tabs and tags on them (American Craft Amy Tangerine Brave & Bold, Pink Fresh Keeping It Real Big Mood and American Craft Jen Hadfield Reaching Out) so for Challenge 2, I want you to use as many tags and labels are you can on your creation. The minimum is three...... the maximum is ???? whatever you can humanely get onto your creation, let see who can get the most!! 

Guest Designer Machelle Willings created this lovely layout using 4 tags.

The Master Forgers have come up with these beautiful layouts to kick start your imagination for the challenge: 

Master Forger Tracey used only 3 tags but has gone over the top with labels and a few tabs.

Master Forger Tara created a layout with 5 large tags on it! 

Master Forger Juliet  Had a lot of fun with this challenge! Looks like only eight tags but it is actually twelve and she threw in a few labels for the fun of it!

 

Master Forger Leslie has a total of 34 tags on her spread!

 

Blog post HERE

 

 Such great inspiration on how to use tags and labels for this challenge!

 The rest of October is going to look something like this:

• 24th October: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 31st October: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box 

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 #ckcoctober2021). 

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

Hugs

Tracey

October 2021 - Forgery on the Fourth

FOF is back again today to show you how it's possible to look at the inspiration kit, see if there are any elements which you would love to incorporate into your own kit but that you don't have in your stash right now, and then take the idea forward to make your own version! 

Let's see what our Master Forgeries have come up with this month:

Master Forger Tracey has been busy and has three different forgeries to share with you; the first is how she created the stencil that is in the Colour Kit:

Her second and third forgeries were from the Embellishment Kit, the cute rainbow in the chipboard Thickers and the gold hearts.

Here are the step by steps on how she created her forgeries:

Sun Stencil

First she used a small bottle to trace circles randomly over a 12x12 piece of cardstock, which she then used a craft blade to cut them out.

Using a dauber she dabbles some colour spray through the cut out circles.

Once dry she used a yellow pen to draw the sun rays radiating out from the circles.

Here is the final design. Simple and the stencil and be used again.

Rainbow Embellishments

For this one Tracey simply used thick markers in similar colours to the Rainbow on the Thicker sheet to draw a rainbow on some scrap cardstock.

Then it was just a matter of fussy cutting them out. Tracey will use some 3 dimensional tape to give them some depth when using them on her layout.

Gold Hearts

Tracey had a stencil in her stash that hearts of various sizes so she spread some Colour Blast Colour Paste in Bling through the stencil on to some white cardstock with a palette knife.

Leave to dry, with the Colour Blast Colour Paste the gold deeps as it dries and looks stunning.

Once dry it was a matter of just fussy cutting them out separately.

The gold hearts also caught Master Forger Laura eye and she decided to forge them too. 

Glitter Gold Hearts

Laura used gold glitter card, gold foil card and her heart punch to recreate the glitter hearts.

She punched the hearts from the glitter and foil cards, put some foam tape on the back of each of them and stuck them to a piece of backing from an old alpha set. Voila, hearts ready to use!

Master Forger Juliet  has a couple forgeries this month. 

First she loved the Wonders Stickers.  At first she thought she would use her Cricut to cut the letters out of foam but that didn't go as planned then she remembered she had some small alpha dies. It took a bit and thinking back she would have just cut them as she needed them but here is the end product.

She used some repositionable adhesive to stick them all to a transparency sheet for use as she needs them. This was an inexpensive forgery but it did take a bit.  Some of the letters she didn't have the color she wanted so she cut them out of white foam and 'colored' them with a copic marker.  So fun to know that with white foam, alphabet dies and her copic markers she can make alphas for any project!

She didn't stop there...she loved the dimensional stickers too...so she pulled out her cricut, made the frame cuts with the gold paper, the clear using the transparency film, and then the backgrounds with some thick white cardstock.  Added some of the ephemera flowers she had, a little foam to give it dimension and viola....

Master Forger Leslie had the perfect stamp set to forge some banner embellishments, plus she crafted a simple washi paper to counterfeit the Amy Tangerine b-side patterned paper in a little bolder vein to coordinate with her Be Colorful October kit!

Blog post HERE

As always, MF Lisa headed over to Pinterest and found some gorgeous free ribbon banners from Free Pretty Things For You  - a log in is needed but there are so pretty! You can find them at the site here

Master Forger Misty kept things simple by grabbing some inks and some cardstock to create her own versions of two of the sheets of paper from the original kit. She liked the butterfly print and the stripe print but didn't have anything in her stash like it. Her version takes on the color palette of her kit.

If you are inspired by the forgeries and end up making some yourself let us know so we can check them out.

We are just at the beginning of the month and we have so much to share with you! The rest of October is going to look something like this:

• 6th October: Mini-kit Reveal and Project Showcase - inspiration for a smaller kit or project idea 
• 12th & 18th October: Challenges #1 & #2 - to inspire you to get creating from your own kit 
• 24th October: Follower Showcase - who has caught our eye this month 
• 31st October: Killing Kits - an idea or two for using up the bits & pieces left in your kit box 

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 #ckcoctober2021). 

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