090418 CKC Forgery on the Fourth

One Canoe 2 "Rings & Crosses" woodgrain paper forgery (minus the crosses!) plus an embellishment based on the Jillibean Soup "Rise & Shine" Mason jar paper, which includes a forged dimensional bow.

I had this great woodgrain paper but decided to forge the brighter version in the kit with this perfect stamp.

My supplies for the Mason jar-inspired counterfeit.

I took a purchased bow apart for a template but HERE is one to print in 3 different sizes.

I really love how this came out!

Choose your favorite part of the inspiration kit & make it happen!
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010416 CKC January Forgeries Tutorials

Well, this was definitely a very fun collection of embellishments to forge!
You may remember that I chose the Scarlet Lime October 2015 Planner Kit.

Let's try the tassels first.

The larger one was made with yarn.
I was blessed to inherit my dear Aunie's craft stash, so yarn I have in abundance.

The smaller tassels were finer, and wrapped with golden thread.
I used a full skein of embroidery floss & I didn't even take the packaging off!

Simply threaded a 7 Gypsies (I think) trinket safety pin through either end,
slid the paper holders to the center, tied off the heads of the tassels
at each end, then simply cut the full skein in half! Couldn't have been easier.

 Next  I made some tabs from the patterned papers.

I used the negative of an October Afternoon sticker for a template.

 

 

I will add an appropriate word or sentiment when I use them.

 

Finally I pulled this stuff to work on some Project Life cards.

Something new from Tim Holtz: Idea-ology Small Talk stickers.

Hope you find something in the inspiration kits
that sparks you to create your own custom version.
We're all about the counterfeits at CKC!

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110415 CKC November Tutorials

This month's inspiration is the "Cedar Lane" collection from Pink Paislee.

This paper caught my eye & I decided I could do a decent forgery.

 I loved the bookpage background of the words & found three OLD sets of alphabets like that.

As you can see below I pulled the word "happy" from them & gently stuck them to some rulers.

I used the "happy" die in my Hero Arts stamp & cuts set

on a variety of papers from my stash with bookpage-style patterns.

I used some smaller stamps (happy, smile, Yay!) to fill in the gaps.

Stamping some of them off the edge of the page helps the counterfeit look more professional.

I had one little booboo near the bottom where I tried to kiss a script stamp onto the "happy" stamp in the Hero Arts set, which barely showed up at all but of course left some little blemishes on my page.

I decided to just ignore it & stamped some sentiments right on top!

My philosophy with stamping is that it's all good...finished is better than perfect.

I have actually used a white pen on a white background to color over these if I just can't stand it.

I really, really wanted to forge these COOL arrows:

 Yes - that's GOLD GLITTER accenting them...swoon.

But I got real & decided to take the easy way out, lol.
From some of the discussion in the background by the Design Team,
I think you may see these counterfeited, and I can't wait!

 

I used my arrow dies with the multi-striped paper & I'm so happy with how they came out.

No arrow die? Freehand fussy-cut some funky arrows, baby!
I used these on one of the cards below.

 I love cut-apart papers!

 

I cut a few card blanks & played around with what was in my kit.

The little sentiments helped me decide what to do with these.

Okay, then!
Go take a look at what's in your kit & choose a favorite item from the inspiration.
Give it a whirl - the forging is almost as fun as the scrapping!

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