Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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!

Thanks for stopping by!

6 comments:

  1. Great forgeries as usual Leslie! Genius idea to use text letters to form the basis of that paper and thanks to you I think I've found another die/stamp set to add to my wishlist. The arrows are great too. I caved and bought the actual set - just couldn't resist them but I was thinking the whole time that I should be trying to forge them myself. Oh well...

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    1. Just call me Leslie "The Enabler" Smith, lol! ;)

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  2. You're a counterfeiting genius! Love the way that you recreated that patterned paper and it looks stunning!

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    1. Thx, Claire - couldn't believe some of those alphas were from 2002!

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  3. You are so patient and dedicated at the art of forgery! I know you get such a thrill out of making the replicas. They are fabulous! Thanks for your contributions to FOTF!

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  4. the paper is awesome as always and you still have that Forgery crown! Wear it with pride :-)

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