Larch Valley Fall Travellers Notebook | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends, this past week at Hip Kit Club we've been celebrating back to school and fall. I've used some of the beautiful warm tones from the August kits today to create this travellers notebook spread documenting our time in Larch Valley, Canada last fall. 

I used Paige Taylor Evans paper #06 behind my large photo and fussy cut the bottom edge of the scalloped chevron pattern to hang below it. 

I added some vellum to the top part of this paper above my photo to mute the colours just a little, and stitched over the edges using my sewing machine.

The chipboard heart from Paige Evans in the August Pocket Life kit is so adorable, and I hand stitched that in a cross-stitch pattern with purple embroidery thread to add to the left page. I also used one of the 3x4 cards from the Pocket Life kit for my journaling. 

A few of the fall coloured leaves from the Embellishment Kit were perfect to scatter across my page, and I love how it feels like they're falling from the trees in my photo. 

Are you seeing signs of fall (or spring) where you are? 

Thanks for stopping by guys! xo

Snapchat Love! | Travellers Notebook for Hip Kit Club

Hi Guys!  Today I have a fun and whimsical travellers notebook spread documenting a recent Friday night Snapchat selfie.  I'm using the August 2019 Pocket Life kit from Hip Kit Club for this spread and my brief is to use triangles or hexagons (you can see that I went with hexagons hehe).

I used a hexagon die set from my stash and die cut different sized hexagons from a few of the project life cards, and also cut two of them from the packaging of products in the kit (the grid pattern is from the Pinkfresh Studio Office Hours puffy stickers, and the pastel plaid is from the Pretty Little Studio Indian Summer frames).  More and more manufacturers are getting on board with making packaging that can be repurposed in your projects, so be on the lookout for those because it can totally bulk out your scrappy purchases!

I placed the hexagons around the page and stitched them all down with regular sewing machine thread.

Then I've used the sweet sticker elements from the Paige Evans Truly Grateful stickers in the kit to embellish my page.  I think the whimsical characters in the sticker sheet work really well with the Snapchat photo in my spread!

I've used one of the 3x4 journalling cards to matt my photo, and I love how it has a washi tape piece at the top.  To make it look like it was overlapping my photo I used my scalpel to cut the lower left side of the washi, and then I could tuck my photo in underneath it.  Love how that turned out!

Some quick strip journalling about how I always seem to take a Snapchat selfie on Friday nights (totally my favourite time of the week!) and I called this layout done.

I also have a process video on my YouTube channel for this layout if you'd like to see how it came together:

As scrapbookers we often don't include ourselves in layouts, why don't you join in with the Hip Kit design team this week and scrap a selfie of you!?

Thanks for stopping by today! xo

March Project Life | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  I'm excited to bring you a project life spread today in my 6x12 album for 2019.

I'm totally loving the purple elements in the April 2019 Hip Kits, and you can see I haven't held back on them in this spread.

I really didn't have enough photos to fill a whole spread from each of two quiet-ish weeks in March, so I decided to combine two weeks into one layout.

When I put together my title card I tried not to focus on the fact that this was more than one week, so I typed out the days of the month separated by some forward slashes.  

I typed up some journalling on this 3x4 card and added an exclusive phrase puffy sticker from the April 2019 Pocket Life kit and it fits just perfectly.

I loved the orange ruffled element from the Dear Lizzy layered embellishments and pulled it apart so that I had just the layer I needed, and re-added some extra layers of a Paige Evans flower, a cardstock tag, some tulle and a puffy sticker to finish off another of the journalling cards.

Do you ever try placing journalling on a 90 degree angle?  This 3x4 Hello card was the perfect opportunity to do that and I love how it looks on the overall layout. 

I have a process video up for this spread on my Youtube channel, and you can find it here:

Thanks for stopping by today!

Just Peachy Traveler's Notebook Spread | Hip Kit Club

Hi guys!

Sharing my latest DT project for Hip Kit Club today, a traveler's notebook spread with some mixed media fun!

Traveler's notebooks are so popular right now, but not everyone has used mixed media in their TN.  Here's a simple way to try it out!

The April Color Kit has a gorgeous exclusive Hip Kit stencil designed by Paige Taylor Evans, and three pots of  Lindy's Gang Magicals. 

To create an ombre effect on the right page I mixed texture paste with each of the the Fuzzy Navel Peach and Pink Ladies Pink Magicals, and then a third that I added both colours to. 

Then I applied the pink texture paste through the stencil at the top of my page, the mixed colour through the middle portion of the page, and the peach at the bottom of the page. I love the pretty ombre effect that this created!

The super fun exclusive acetate alpha was perfect for my big title on the left page, and I pulled a lot of the Dear Lizzy pieces from the April Embellishment Kit to embellish my spread.

Thanks for popping in today, and I hope I've given you some inspiration to try mixed media in your traveler's notebook!

Week 8 Project Life | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  This bright and fun project life spread was up on the Hip Kit Club blog over the weekend and I thought I'd pop in and share it here with you as well!

This spread uses the beautiful April Hip Kits, and stays true to my PL style, which is to use a combination of pocket page cards and some elements made with patterned papers and embellishments to really make any spread 'my own' if that makes sense.

 

I love the extra little challenges that we get with each DT project, and for me today that's to use a cut file, and to add some stitching and some sequins.  Can you spot each of those elements in my spread?

Okay, so I might have a slight addiction to shaker pockets.  I made this teeny tiny sequin-filled shaker pocket for one of my 3x4 cards, and added some hand stitching in embroidery thread as well.

I can't even tell you how much I love the Maggie Holmes charms in the April Embellishment Kit, and this one sits just below my shaker pocket, and is tied with some twine from my stash.

This awesome 3x4 journalling card from the Pocket Life Kit has journaling spaces from 1 to 7.  You could totally use that for the days of the week, but instead I used it to document our adventurous morning trying to see the effects of TC (Tropical Cyclone) Oma on our coastline.

My title card came together easily with February spelled out with the exclusive alphas that come with the Pocket Life Kit this month.  I also printed the days of the week out on my printer in an old fashioned typewriter font.

My favourite trick with Snapchat photos in a 3x4 card (since they're totally not 3x4 size) is to print them in their original ratio, which leaves a small strip on the side to add some journalling and/or embellishments.  The 'ta-dah' flag from the embellishment kit was perfect to make my home made pizza look pretty special ha!

If you're counting, the only challenge I haven't covered yet is to use a cut file.  But this rainbow and couple of clouds from the April Rainbow Kites freebie cut file was perfect to fit into a 6x4 custom card.

I cut the rainbow on my Silhouette in three coordinating colours, and then cut the clouds in white cardstock before backstitching just inside the edges with sky blue embroidery thread.

And that's my weekly spread done!  Thanks for stopping by today, and I'd love to hear if you ever incorporate any of these three elements onto your pocket page spreads.

Paige Evans May 2019 Guest Designer!

Hi friends!  I was so excited and honoured to be asked by the amazing and very lovely Paige Taylor Evans to be her May 2019 guest designer recently.

I'm up on her blog today with three projects created with several of Paige's gorgeous cut files from the Silhouette Store, and of course her latest collection, the super sweet Horizon collection with Pink Paislee.

Here's some sneak peeks at:

My wall art piece that uses an entire packet (!) of floral ephemera.

A traveler's notebook spread with embroidery, fussy cutting and a large photo.

And a super fun, rainbow and tone on tone mini album documenting our vacation in Hawaii.

You can see the full projects on Paige's blog and my Instagram and Facebook today, and I also have a walkthrough of the mini album on my Youtube Channel.

 

 PS my husband and puppers even make an audio appearance at one point ;) 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sweet Mother's Day Mini Album | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends, all this week the Hip Kit Club design team are sharing beautiful Mother's Day projects in honour of those that mean so much to us, our Mums!

My kids are in their early 20's and the first few years of their really adult lives have brought me so much joy and admiration for the people they've grown into. So I decided to make a mini album using photos of just them and me (since the theme is Mother's Day), and add some meaningful quotes from Pinterest, and also use some of the Paige Evans 2x2in phrase tags from the April Pocket Life kit throughout.

Just a quick note before we go any further that the ribbons, lace, embroidery thread and sequins in this project are from my own personal stash. Everything else is from the beautiful April 2019 Hip Kits, and yes that does include those exquisite charms from the Maggie Holmes Sunny Days collection!

Since my photos were all taken at different times and in different situations, to create cohesiveness throughout the album I printed them all in black and white. I also printed them all at 1.5in wide on their shortest side, and layered vellum behind nearly all of them. Because my mini is well, mini, this creates a soft layer without being overbearing on such a small scaled project.

There's a lot of photos from here on in, so I won't talk too much further, but if you have any questions please leave them in the comments and I'll come back to you!

One of my challenges for this project is to use the negatives of cut files. These sweet clouds are part of the April Freebie cut file, and I separated them out from the rest of the cut file and moved them close to each other. So that I could make a shaker pocket out of them I duplicated the clouds then flipped the second set horizontally. Then I spaced them far enough apart so I would have enough room to die cut the heart pages. 

Once the clouds were cut on my Silhouette I placed my two pieces of card together, aligning the clouds (this is the tricky part which is why we flipped one set horizontally!) A little piece of washi helped to hold them in place while I ran them through my Big Shot. Then I pieced them back together in the usual shaker pocket-making method. I think they turned out pretty cute in the pink cardstock!

This is another negative of a cut file and it looks just as pretty as its positive! I trimmed the cardstock I cut it from into a strip and placed the very middle of the letters back inside. It didn't quite fit into the heart but that's okay, I just trimmed a little extra corner piece around the 'H'. That's what's so great about mini albums, the little bits and pieces sticking out from the edges!

To make this interactive element I folded some patterned paper in half horizontally and ran it through my die cut machine so that it didn't quite cut the entire heart out on the left side. This is important to make the flap to hold it together. 

There are some papers from Shimelle's Sparkle City collection in this kit, and Shimelle does the most ahmazing branding strips!! The pink and purple polka dot in the photo above and the tiny bunches of flowers in the photo below are both branding strips from Shimelle's papers.

I tucked in the photo for this page with a few extra pieces and held everything in place with a paperclip.

I created a little pocket for this page to place a few bits and pieces into. I cut strips from one of the 2x2in Paige Evans swatches and folded them in half to make tabs to pull out each of my two photos.

I also trimmed down two cards from the Pocket Life kit as fun elements. I stitched some pretty lace onto the end of one, and will add some journalling onto the 'afternoon' tag (both of these photos were taken in the afternoon of their given day).

I thought this was such a great quote to finish off my album. It's so true that raising children is a busy, crazy, frustrating, rewarding, fun, challenging time. But by the time they get to be adults you'll look back and wonder where the time went.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope if you're a Mum you have a wonderful Mother's Day this Sunday, and I also hope you have someone in your life who is a Mum that you can make feel special too!