Fabulous Kauai | Travellers Notebook for Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!

Popping in today to share a tropical fun-filled traveller's notebook spread made with the July kits from Hip Kit Club. I love the exclusive Hello Summer elements in the kits this month and they're perfect for documenting one of my favourite photos from a holiday in Hawaii. 

My brief this week is to include cut files, mixed media and punches/dies. Since this is a spread about Hawaii my cut file decision was made easy, with the beautiful July Tropical Background. I cut it in white cardstock and highlighted some of the leaves by hand stitching along their stems. 

I created a mixed media background for the cut file by adding layers of Lindy's Gang sprays and Magical Shakers to some white cardstock that I had primed with clear gesso. 

The tag on the right page is repurposed packaging from some of the Pinkfresh Studio products in this months kit. 

To embellish my page I used so.many.flowers. from the exclusives, and fussy-cut a cluster from one of the pocket page cards in the pocket life kit. I used circle dies to add layers to the sub-title on the left page and an edge punch for more layers on the right page. 

I just love how summery & fun this spread feels, especially since here in Australia we're still in the middle of winter. Have a wonderful day everyone!

Sketch Challenge Card Version for Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  This week over at the Hip Kit Club Facebook Group there's a sketch challenge with a twist.  We're creating cards for the weekly challenge, and incorporating cut files and fussy cut pieces. That's a lot going on right!?

This is the sketch, and I'm creating with the July kits.  The layered circles are a strong design element on this sketch, so I've searched through the back-catalogue of exclusive cut files to find some that are circular, or very similar to circular.

This beautiful geometric heart is a subscriber cut file from March 2019, and is part of the word 'Magic'.  In Silhouette Studio I separated the heart from the rest of the word, cut it once in white cardstock and then used the offset tool and cut it again in purple to create a kind of drop shadow or border for the white heart.  I fussy cut flowers from the black and white floral paper after colouring a cluster of them with the Lindy's Gang sprays from the July colour kit.  I simply mixed the Blue Hawaiian Blue and Hibiscus Rose sprays together to create two pretty shades of purple.

My second card features the Doily cut file which is a freebie cut file from March 2019.  I love a doily any day of the week, so I was excited to be able to use this one.  I resized it from 12x12 to just under 5 inches so that it would work for my card, and added some layered cardstock and patterned paper die cut circles to represent the layers in the sketch.   I again painted the black and white paper with sprays from the colour kit. 

The final card in the set uses the beautiful Laurel Wreath subscriber cut file from January 2019.    I first cut it in white cardstock and adhered it to the card, before stitching around it a few times in regular white thread on my sewing machine.

I painted and fussy cut some of the smaller flowers on the black and white paper, and some of the yellow and white daisies from the Echo Park Paper Co sunshine floral paper to adorn the wreath.

I have a process video on the Hip Kit YouTube Channel if you'd like to see how these cards came together.

I'd love to see you join in the sketch challenge this week, remember there's a gift voucher for the Hip Kits ship up for grabs!  Thanks for stopping by today guys xo

Week 28 Project Life | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  Today I have a pocket page spread created for Hip Kit Club, with the July kits.  

I'm especially excited about the July Pocket Life kit because for the first time it includes 3x8 and 3x6 cards as well as the 3x4 and 6x4 that we usually see.

I love to add inserts into my 6x8 project life album, so I've definitely included one of the new 3x8 journalling cards this week.  It's on the reverse side of this insert, and I've printed a photo of our beach at 3x8 for the front side.

I added the 'its a beautiful day' rub on from 1 Canoe 2 that comes in the embellishment kit this month straight over my photo, and I love how that turned out!

Part of my brief this week was to use mixed media to alter the black and white flower paper that comes in the main kit, and also in the paper kit.  I fussy cut some of the beautiful flowers, then pulled out my trusty watercolours and painted them using a colour palette similar to elements in the Pinkfresh Studio Just a Little Lovely collection.  I also fussy cut and painted three extra flowers and layered them above my first flower cluster, popped up with foam tape.

I had two photos of my hubby and I on the beach with our Cavaliers, and to include them on one 6x4 pocket I printed them both at 2x3 and matted them on the Bazzill Wisteria cardstock from the Cardstock kit.  Since I journalled about these photos on the card above I didn't need to add too much detail to this card, and just layered a few ephemera pieces to the right of the photos.

This filler card came together so quickly with some Pinkfresh Studio patterned paper cut to size and an ephemera piece stitched with rose gold embroidery thread. To finish it off I adhered a Pinkfresh Studio puffy sticker from the Main kit.

This is a look at the the full spread with the reverse of my 3x8 insert. Since the 3x8 card had the title 'vacay' I really wanted to use it for the following week in my album (when we actually had a vacay ha!), but the colours worked really well for this spread, so I decided to use it and just cover up the word 'vacay' with some ephemera.  The 3x8 card really gives a lot of room for journalling, which is awesome in a 6x8 album.

I love adding bits and pieces to journalling and filler cards, and it was like this 3x4 card was made for that floral ephemera piece, it fit just perfectly!

Thanks for stopping by today guys!