Hey...I can make THAT!

March Tutorials

Welcome to "Hey...I can make THAT!"  A monthly post to help you truly counterfeit many of the components of the current month's kit.  No need to go out and purchase...just use the supplies you already have to create some of the freshest and trendiest products out there.  Here you will find links to our amazing design team members' blogs and/or links to other craft sites on the web showing how to make these amazing products.

This month we have a multitude of choices from the February Cocoa Daisy Kit as seen here.  Are you a traditional scrapbooker?  Do you like to art journal?  Project Life more your thing?  There's a kit for everyone!  And lots of kits mean lots of forgeries going on over at CKC Design Team Central.  Let's see what our lovely Master Forgers have up their sleeve this month.
 
Angela's been rooting around for objects to make marks similar to the Crafter's Workshop Stencil included as an addon for the Cocoa Daisy kits. See what she found on her blog here.

Or how about making your very own dotty stencils using acetate and a hole punch?

Are you running out of Mod-Podge? Angela's art mentor, Cilenia Curtis, shared some tips with her on how to make her own.

DIY Mod Podge
 

Meanwhile, Jemma's been stitching again to create those Studio Calico Stitched Journalling Cards:

How did Angela transfer that magazine cut-out onto her watercolour background to get this arty look?

image transfer technique

Milissa has a trio of quick, easy tutorials for you here and here.

Kudos to our guest designer, Elaine for jumping right in to show us how to make a copycat version of the yellow and raspberry brick inspired paper in the kit.  Check it out on her blog here:

Lesley has some printables for you over on her blog,

she doesn't do stitching!

Leslie tackled a few of the papers

Now, all of these tutorials should keep you busy to complete your kit.  Remember to keep us in mind for your future forging needs.  I've added labels to the post so that you can reference and search for tutorials in the future.  Think of us as your one-stop resource for inspiration AND tutorials!

Hey...I Can Make THAT!

January Tutorials

Welcome to "Hey...I can make THAT!"  A monthly post to help you truly counterfeit many of the components of the current month's kit.  No need to go out and purchase...just use the supplies you already have to create some of the freshest and trendiest products out there.  Here you will find links to our amazing design team members' blogs and/or links to other craft sites on the web showing how to make these amazing products.

If you haven't seen this month's inspiration kit, Hip Kit Club's December kit here  & Freckled Fawn's December 2013 OHDEERME Kit here!  So much wonderful inspiration!  But what if you feel like you are missing key components to a kit and you have no suitable subs from your stash?  No need to place a rush order to your favourite online store, just check out your Master Forgers' renditions of these scrappy items.

Leslie has these to offer:

Lesley had a go at the chipboard shapes

Julene has made her own flair buttons

Here's the link to her blog.  

Our lovely guest designer Tara has come up with a small tutorial to counterfeit the Studio Calico Print Shop scripty transparency words.

  Check her blog for more details here.

Thank you so much, ladies! These are sure to put the finishing touches on some fabulous kits. Please show us your creations over on January's Mr. Linky. We love to see where the inspiration takes YOU!

P.S. Here's a little extra tutorial that might help you with Challenge #1 from Jemma:

No More Floating Flair!

Here is a gem of a blog series.

I adore flair - the cute metal badge accents that you see everywhere.

But I confess that I am a hoarder & not a user :~(

Here's the proof!

Technically, they are NOT all flair, 

but I consider any round dimensional accent in the same category.

Well, I am happy to turn you on to a terrific blog series at A Flair for Buttons.

No More Floating Flair by Ashli Oliver will give you 

all the answers for using flair in an integral way.

There is a new episode every two weeks. 

Here is an excerpt from the introduction:

"Hi there! Ashli Oliver (soapHOUSEmama) here with my first post as a DT member at A Flair For Buttons. I am excited to be here and even more excited to share a new mini series that we will be bringing you twice a month!

Let me give you a little background information first. When I brought my first package of scrapbook flair home, I had a little trouble getting those adorable shiny circles on my page. Most of the time, they just seemed to be floating there. In the odd chance that I actually was able to "ground" my flair, it still seemed a bit random. Well, I am pleased to say, that I have long since crossed that bridge! Hooray! In fact, I can hardly scrap without flair these days. And that brings me to our new mini series...

"No More Floating Flair!"

Twice a month, we will take a look at different ways to incorporate flair into your scrapbooking. We will discuss using clusters, handmade embellishments, banners, and more! Also, if you have any questions or a special request, please leave a comment letting us know."

(Here's a look at one of her pages.

Follow those circles of green twine to find the flair!)

 

(link here) 

A Flair for Buttons also has an Etsy shop!

Just in case you haven't hoarded collected enough flair yet :~)

Tutorials: Flair

Those little "flair" buttons are just so popular they seem to be popping up everywhere...even in this month's inspiration kit!  To recreate "flair" from this month's Inspiration Kit, check out the following 3 tutorials by our own Master Forgers...

Lynnette's Flair Tutorial
Angela's Flair Tutorial (towards the bottom of this post)
Milissa's Flair Tutorial

And one more link, just for good measure...

Brigit's Flair Tutorial

Thanks for looking, let's see what "flair" you can design!