Hey... I can make THAT!

July 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.

By now I'm sure you've had the chance to play around with this inspiration kit from Scrapbook & Cards Today.  It just screams "Summer Fun" and that's good because that's its name!

If you haven't started counterfeiting yet, you still have plenty of time to get going.  Check out the July Reveal post here to find out all the ins and outs.

Have you found your "angle"?  Are you going for a direct copy or are you going "rogue" and running off in your own direction?  Or, if you've already assembled your kit, you may want to fill in some gaps with some of these fun products you may not have by making your own.

First up, we have those fantastic black and white Thickers.  Several of your Master Forgers have given them a try.  Whether it's using a Cricut, some old chipboard letters or even some stamps, you are sure to find a way to make them with what you have in your stash.

Here's a link to Lynnette's version plus a close-up look at the way she copied the Glitz Bits and Pieces paper.

And here's a link to Lisa's version (as well as several other easy counterfeits of a few of the kit items):

Next we have some paper counterfeits.  One of our new design team members Leslie, created a variety of knock-off papers from the kit.  She is a pro at creating true-to-life, honest-to-goodness replicas of the real deal.  Here's just a teaser of one of her creations:

Simple Stories Urban Traveler

Leslie's version!  Wow, I'm impressed!

      

Check out her reveal post here where she shows you this and many other counterfeits that will amaze you! 

The other Lesley (another awesome newbie to CKC) has created a tutorial over on her blog to create Bingo Cards using Microsoft Word

- why not pop over and try it out...

Check out Ashley's fresh take on those bright clothes pins.  I love that our new design team members are showing off their stuff!

 Ashley says...Recreating the Pebbles Mini Clothes Pins from the inspiration kit is a breeze. All you need is Mini Clothes Pins and Fingernail polish. It does take a couple of coats for the colors to come through bright, but this way you can customize them according to your page!   Check out her blog here to learn more about how she recreated these Elle Studio labels.

I mean who couldn't use more of these in her stash!

So, what are you waiting for?  Go get busy and build MORE stash from your stash!  Be sure to link up your creations on our July Mr. Linky so we can ooooo and ahhhhhh and say, "WOW, it's so cool that you made THAT!"  

Tutorial: Vintage Thread Spool Labels

Ruby Rock It "Nostalgia Collection"

Here are some FREE pink and red vintage thread spool labels for you to download and print from "Just Something I Made"

And here are some more in deeper, muted colors from "Call me Victorian"

I see old wooden spools of thread all the time at thrift stores.  I think I should buy some the next time I'm out, and scan them to create .jpg images to share here :)

Tutorial: Free Downloads

There were lots of ideas for printable this month.  Here are a few that I thought matched pretty well!

Speech Bubbles

Printable Mini Flags

Vertical Journaling Cards

Horizontal Journaling Cards

Graph Paper Journaling Cards

Cool Journaling Cards

Red Bingo Card

Bracket Journaling Cards

Labels

Valentine's Mini Flags

Tutorial- Halloween Printable Journal Blocks and Labels

Here are some great downloads to Counterfeit these cute tags/journal cards in this month's Halloween Inspiration Kit...


Echo Park Paper Co. Halloween Scary Story Cards

Scroll down a bit to the "Halloween Labels" on this Halloween Printable Site.

A few more Halloween Printables from Catch my Party.com...I really like the round labels here.

And these are just pretty cool, sort of a more spooky look, and not so "cute" looking. Halloween Journal Blocks.

These tickets aren't specifically Halloween, but they would work on a spooky layout!  Vintage Tickets

If you know of any other Halloween Journal Blocks available for download, feel free to share the links in the comments section below :)

Tutorial-Free Printables

In this month's inspiration kit(s) there are lots of journaling blocks, a chipboard bird cage, and some patterned paper with die cuts printed on it.  Your computer can be useful for recreating these embellishments...

Photo Credit...Graphics Fairy

• Bird Cage Embellishment...the following tutorial suggests printing out a picture or clip art image, then heat embossing the image with embossing powder. To find a bird cage image you like try searching "google Images" for 'bird cage clip art' Embossing Tutorial
• Ledger and Graph Papers...Printable Antique Ledger Pages
• Quotes...Printable Quotation Cards
• Collage Sheets...LOTS of pretty printable Collage Sheets, I'm sure you will find one to match your Counterfeit Kit!  And a few more Collage Sheets
• Birthday/Celebration Journal Cards...Printable Journaling Cards
• Vintage Labels...These beautiful Vintage Labels can be used as journaling blocks

Tutorial- Chipboard Frames and Label Stickers

Here are a few different tutorials and inspiration for using the Maya Road Chipboard Frames and the Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe Phrase Stickers in this month's inspiration kit...

Layouts with Chipboard Frames

Labels to Print and Cut

Round Printable Labels (these would look great printed on different colored cardstock)

Printable Vintage Labels (if you are having problems with this link, go to the blog http://www.barij.typepad.com/, scroll down on the right hand sidebar and look for a small green icon with a link called  "Vintage Detail Labels")

Stamped Journaling Label Tutorial