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!

Celebration Card Set | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends! Today I have a fun celebration card set created for Hip Kit Club, that uses the June 2019 kits.

Whenever I make a set of cards I always try to have a similar theme or use similar products with all of them.  For this set I've used similar products on each one... can you spot them?...

They're the same alphas for the sentiments, the Amy Tan faux suede flowers, a frame, a stitched banner, circles punched from a little mixed media play, a postage stamp element, and a circle sticker turned into a round tag.  Whoa, I've actually surprised myself with everything on that list!

My first card is all about pastel pinks and greys, with pops of pomegranate (is that even a colour!?) I've combined the pretty holographic scripty phrase/word puffy stickers with a candy cane alpha from the Heidi Swapp sticker book to create my sentiment, and I love having a combination of two alphas in the one sentiment.

The grey frame is from Pinkfresh Studio and originally was a layered frame.  Since I didn't need all the extra bits I carefully unpicked the stitching holding the extra layers on, and then used some metallic gold thread to stitch over the holes left by the original stitching.  It doesn't look out of place at all, and  adds a little more sparkle and texture to the card.

My second card uses the same elements in a pastel orange and pink colour palette with pops of yellow.  You guys know I love shaker pockets and I couldn't help creating a shaker element on this one using the sweet green frame.

On my final card I flipped the frame so that it's vertically upside-down on my card.  This draws the eye to the darker colours at the top of the card, following down the cascading ephemera pieces to the sentiment.

I can't wait to give these celebration cards to someone, they're so bright and happy and fun!

There's also a process video for these cards up on the Hip Kit Club YouTube channel that you can find here:

Thanks for stopping by today guys!

Sketch Challenge in a Traveler's Notebook | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends, this past week I was able to play along with the weekly sketch challenge for Hip Kit Club, which is always so much fun!

I totally recommend joining in over on the Hip Kits Facebook Group (did you know there's a $10 gift certificate up for grabs each week!?)

This is the awesome sketch by DT member Christina, and I'm loving all the circle elements to this sketch.

And here's my take on it in my traveler's notebook, using the May Hip Kits.  I used five different sized circles, and placed my photo inside one of them.

This spread is about an amazing breakfast we had at a cafe called Operator 25 in Melbourne.  The food (and coffee) there is so, so good, and their theme is based around an old fashioned telephone switchboard.

I added some very gentle mixed media to the page before I went too far, mixing just a tiny amount of the Alpine Ice Rose Lindy's Magical Shaker with some texture paste, and adding it through a stencil that was in the colour kit a couple of months ago.

Of course I had to use one of the super sweet fabric 3D bows from the May main kit, and I pulled a few embellishments to place around the spread that tied in with the switchboard and cafe themes, like the mobile phone, the hello speech bubble, and a take away coffee cup.

Before I had a chance to even see these sky blue thickers from the May Pocket Life Kit in person, the lovely Shimelle told me she was in love with the dark blue foam that backs them.  And she's absolutely right, they are so, so sweet.

Thanks for stopping by today guys, I hope I've inspired you to use some circles on your layout today, or maybe even to document a recent visit to a favourite cafe!

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!

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!

Sketch Challenge on a Travellers Notebook | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  Sharing my latest Travellers Notebook spread for Hip Kit Club today, and it's based on one of the fun HKC fun weekly sketches.  The sketch is for a 12x12 layout, but you know I'm a huge fan of adapting full size layouts to fit into a TN, right?!

I've used the beautiful March 2019 Pocket Life, Embellishment, Paper and Cardstock kits from Hip Kit Club in this spread.

Here's my take on the sketch, and I've also put the sketch prompt by the lovely Maija below it.

My additional challenges for this project were to include stitching, and also pockets. Stitching was totally going to happen because I stitch on everything ha!  But given the design of the sketch and that it was downsized to a TN size, I had to think for a minute about how to incorporate the pocket.  The first thing I though of was a flip pocket, and that's what I went with!

Here you can see my two left banners... spot that tiny little pink tab at the bottom of the yellow banner?

Voila!  A teeny, tiny flip pocket with some layered embellishments and a fun sentiment.  I used some of the beautiful Doodlebug Designs gold washi tape from the embellishment kit to adhere the top and bottom parts of the pocket together.  You can see in this photo just how lovely and shimmery the gold of the washi is.  

I decided to go with a tone on tone effect for each of the banners, and used the amazing Prima Art Alchemy Opal Magic acrylic paints that came in the February Colour kit for the pink, green and yellow banners.  I mixed a blue shade from my watercolour set to match with the blue banner.  Then I splattered behind where each of the banners would sit.

I fussy cut some butterflies from one of the Maggie Holmes Sunny Days collection papers and layered them together, to represent the large splatters on the sketch.

My title was cut from one of the cards in the Pocket Life kit and follows the placement of the title in the sketch.

All that was left to do then was to play with some tone on tone embellishing.  I had so much fun layering together different elements from the kits here.  There are pieces from the Crate Paper chipboard sticker sheet, Crate Paper stickers, exclusive Hip Kit puffy stickers and the Hip Kit sticker sheet, and they all work just perfectly together.

Be sure to stop by the Hip Kit Club Facebook member group to play along with their weekly sketches, they're a bunch of fun and there's  $10 voucher for the HKC shop up for grabs each week.

I'd love to hear if you enjoy playing along with sketches or not, I definitely have a newfound love for them since I've joined the HKC team.

 Thanks for stopping by today xo

Project Life 2019! | Hip Kit Club

Hi friends!  

I've been so excited to get to share this project life spread with you!  This is the project that I created to submit with my design team application to Hip Kit Club, and it uses their beautiful January 2019 Project Life kit and Paper kit.

Since I applied for the DT, you already know that I love, love their kits, but seriously, how gorgeous are these project life cards!?

Here's a better looks at the full spread.  It was one of those Mondays that went a little bit pear-shaped, with me ending up in A&E for a few hours, but thankfully nothing serious was wrong with me and I eventually got to go home late that night.

I know it's good to record the bad along with the good in our PL albums, and I do, but I still choose to record it in a positive way.  For example my outlook on this hospital visit is that I'm thankful that I actually WASN'T having a heart attack, rather than the negatives of the experience. 

This 6x4 card made it so easy to add just a couple of small details to finish my title card for the week.

Of course I took a couple of photos of my hospital visit (what scrapbooker wouldn't!?) and let the photos tell their own story without any labels, but I did some detailed journaling on a 6x4 card below.

One of my go-to's with my project life spreads is to add a simple strip of patterned paper to the bottom of a journalling card.  It adds just a pop of extra colour.

I love how this spread turned out, and I so love that it led to me being invited to join the Hip Kit Club 2019 Design Team!

If you'd like to keep up with all things Hip Kit Club, here a few links to their website, blog and socials.  They have an amazing community page where subscribers, fans and designers share their projects, so be sure to check that one out:

• Website
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• Instagram
• Facebook 
• Facebook Community Page
• Pinterest

Thanks for stopping by today, and I'm looking forward to sharing many more Hip Kit Club projects with you!