Saturday, March 4, 2017

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!

10 comments:

  1. Fabulous! The Queen of Forgeries is back and I'm happy to see your great ideas this month! So simple and I love that you make it so easy and clear for us! Lovely to have you back with us

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  2. She's baa-ack! And I am so happy to see you creating again. Your easy approach to counterfeiting makes me want to give it a go. Have a great month crafting!

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  3. These are fantastic.
    You have really inspired me to make some more goodies for myself.

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  4. Great! So happy you're our featured Designer this month šŸ˜€

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  5. Oh my these sure are cool and duh didn't think to forge that striped paper :) You did it so easily too

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  6. Always impressed with your forgeries, well done once again.

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  7. Four forgeries - very impressive! Extra points for using older supplies too. I really like the gold hearts - was wondering what would be good stuffing and I like your felt idea. I seem to have forgotten about forging lately and will have to make sure I get to it next month.

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  8. Such a fabulous counterfeiter :)

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