030417 CKC March Forgeries

My counterfeit kit this month, Inky Fingers Again, was named for the fact that I 

made some forgeries. I have really missed working at the counterfeits & had a lot of fun.

First up is that bold blue & white stripe paper.

I made my calculations & cut my blue strips.

The "oops" is the fact that I had an extra stripe left!

I rarely sort out the math in paper crafting with any success.

I simply flipped one of the stripes over to create a spacer that would reveal the white

background between the blue stripes, which were adhered down with a line of tape runner. 

Next is the ombre circle paper.

At first I thought I would use these circle stamps, but by the time 

I got to forging I'd forgotten all about that idea, lol!

So I used a circle punch to make a template for drawing the circle grid.

Then painted it with watercolours.

The last paper I tackled is the butterfly paper,

using two extremely old stampsets.

My thought was to mix a puddle of a variety of colours & use it to stamp,

but the images were muddy & blotchy & obscured the detail of the stamps.

I grabbed my set of cheap ink pads which worked great!

I plan to fuzzy-cut some of these elements for embellis.

Finally I made a gold stuffed heart.

I used a scrap of kraft paper for the base & punched a heart for the felt stuffing template.

I overlaid a piece of gold metallic vellum & stitched around it.

A very successful set of forgeries this month!

Give one of the elements from the inspiration kits a try, or use one of the tips

or links on the Forgery on the Fourth post to add a little something to your kit this month!

Thanks for stopping by!