October 2024 Challenge #3 Get Sketchy

 Welcome back for our third challenge of the month! This one's always a sketch challenge to help get your creative juice flowing! 

As a reminder, here's our inspiration kit for the month, An Autumn Tale: Chilly Breeze

This is the sketch I chose to work with this month. Remember, a sketch is just a jumping off point, you don't have to follow it exactly, or you can do whatever works for you. Just have fun with it!

Master Forger Ryann is working on her son's Boy Scout Career scrapbook, as he has just achieved Eagle Scout.  This is a layout from one of his first award ceremonies when he was 6 years old.  The denim in the kit really worked with this layout!

Master Forger Tina is working on her 2023 photos and used a walk that she did in the Fall for her layout 

 

Master Forger Julene created this beautiful layout based upon the sketch! 

 

We're not done yet! Here's a look at what's still to come for October. 

• 24th October - Follower Showcase 
• 28th October - November Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community)
• 30th October - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

Show us what you've got! We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcsoctober2024 

September 2024 - Challenge #3 Let's Get Sketchy

 Welcome back for our third challenge of the month! This one's always a sketch challenge to help get your creative juice flowing! 

As a reminder, here's our inspiration kit for the month, Daily Journal by Cocoa Daisy. 

I created a brand-new sketch just to use with this kit this month! Here's the sketch to work with & I of course had to play along! For my layout, I added some texture paste and shimmery sprays to a pre-made Vicki Boutin background piece and I love how it turned out! 

I encourage you to get a little bit messy & creative with the background! Add texture! Have fun! 

Our Guest Designer Amy Jo played along with our sketch challenge and here's what she had to say: 

"I always have a hard time using these graphic background papers but decided to give it a try seeing the background of the sketch. 

For the flower clusters I used up a bunch of small leftover pieces of patterned papers from previous layouts this month…jumpstart on using up the scraps!!"

 

Master Forger Tara used some ink smooshing and stenciling with two shades of Distress Oxide ink for some fast mixed media. She let the black and white floral pattern on her patterned paper do most of the heavy lifting along with two chipboard frames and some ephemera from her kit. It made for a pretty fast but textural layout. 

Master Forger Vikki created this beautiful layout based upon the sketch! 

We're not done yet! Here's a look at what's still to come for September. 

• 24th September - Follower Showcase 
• 28th September - October Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community)
• 30th September - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge

Show us what you've got! We love our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also catch us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcseptember2024 

Stay scrappy!

Brandi

August 2024 - Challenge #3 Sketch - Let's Get Sketchy

Master Forger Jody here with our monthly sketch challenge. Let me remind you of the Inspiration Kit that I chose for August:

This is the sketch I chose to work with this month.Remember, a sketch is just a jumping off point, you don't have to follow it exactly, or you can do whatever works for you. Just have fun with it!

Guest Designer Sarah Rouault created this layout using the sketch! It is so adorable!

Now, let's see how our Master Forgers used this sketch:

Master Forger Julene

I used some chipboard circles that I painted green. Behind my photo is a scrap of dotted paper so I added some sploshes of mist in purple to make my layout dottier. I highlighted my photo of myself and the tamarins using a clear frame (vellum) that says,"You and I". 

Master Forger Misty loved this sketch and had the perfect idea right away. Since mica watercolor paints were in her kit this month, she put those to use creating the circles.

Master Forger Cindy

I used the Hexagon dies that were included in my kit this month for substitutions of the circles. I fussy cut around the birds tail so that I would not cut it off with the dies. I love this bird paper; it makes a great accent for outside pictures.  I also had a hexagon piece that I used on the top right side, with the inside hexagons being used as accents around my pictures. 

Now, let's see what we have lined up for the rest of this month:

• 24th August - Follower Showcase 
• 28th August - September Sneak Peek (on Instagram and the Facebook Community)
• 30th August - Challenge #4 Baby, Use Those Scraps Challenge
  

We really love to hear from our followers! Make sure that you come hang out with us on the Facebook Community Group. You can also hang out with us on Instagram by tagging #counterfeitkitchallenge and #ckcAugust2024. 

Thank you so much - XO Jody