Hip Kit Club: Fall Goodness with the October Kits!

I am always inspired by the bounty of Fall with it’s rich colors and textures. The October 2023 Hip Kits makes adding texture to your projects fun and easy. Watch the process video for this layout below!

FALL SEASON

I used the Caulk Cardstock (Cardstock Kit) for the base of my layout. If you look closely you can see that I stamped the background with the Leaf Background stamp using white paint before designing my layout. A few of the stamped leaves are peeking out along the left side by the journaling.

Whenever I have a little spot to fill, I love to go to the Pocket Life Kit to look for smaller-scale patterns. I used a few of the patterns from the 6×8 papers and element cards to create the banners for the top left corner of my page.

I couldn’t wait to use one of the Oversized Chipboard Titles from the Embellishment Kit. I handstitched this one for additional texture and pizazz!

Creating embellishment clusters is my favorite part of the scrapbooking process. I love to combine materials and textures for added interest. The Hip Kits always makes that part of the process so much FUN!

I used the wood veneer houses from the Embellishment Kit, then added layers of vellum leaf die-cuts (Main Kit), and leaves and branches cut from white cardstock using two of the die sets released this month (Layered Fall Leaves Die and Frame, Tag, Clipboard & Leaves Die Set).

I filled in any extra spots around my clusters using the floral stamp from the Pocket Life Kit.

To balance the wood texture from my two larger embellishment clusters, I added three wood hearts in a row in the bottom right corner.

Finally, a little sprinkling of the Cape Cod Coral Magicals (October 2023 Color Kit) visually ties everything together in a soft, pretty, subtle way.

What Autumn memories will YOU be scrapbooking with the October 2023 Hip Kits?

OCTOBER 2023 HIP KITS USED IN THIS PROJECT:

• October Main Kit (Patterned Paper, Cardstock Die-Cuts, Vellum Leaves, Cardstock Stickers)
• October Cardstock Kit (Caulk)
• October Embellishment Kit (Wood Veneer, Oversized Chipboard Titles & Accents)
• October Pocket Life Kit (6×8 papers, Cut Apart Cards, Stamp, Phrase Strips)
• October Color Kit (Cape Cod Coral Magicals)
• October 2023 Leaf Background Stamp
• October 2023 Layered Fall Leaves Die
• October 2023 Frame, Tag, Clipboard & Leaves Die Set

Hip Kit Club: Explore the Outdoors

I am loving the way that the June 2023 Hip Kits go with so many of my photos. The June Embellishment Kit included a pack of LARGE 12″ wide die-cuts that piece together to form a mountain scene. I couldn’t wait to use them on this layout of my husband and son on a scouting trip to Flaming Gorge, Utah. Click on the image below to watch the process video!

EXPLORE THE OUTDOORS

I began this page with the woodgrain ‘Family Life’ paper as the background. The soft peach color goes perfectly with the mountain die-cuts and adds to the outdoorsy theme of the layout.

I decided to try my hand at the gold rub-ons that were included with the Embellishment Kit to create rays around my orange sun. In retrospect, I wish I had taken more time with this. I cut each line from a sunburst design and then applied them individually. I wasn’t as careful as I should have been, and it shows. Oh, well. We gotta get out of our comfort zone from time to time, right?

Since I had used the gold rub-ons around the sun, I decided to repeat them in a couple more places around the page. I added a coyote to the mountain on the right, and then the strip of pine trees to the blue layer above the small photos.

The dark pine trees came with the Mountain Die-Cuts. I added additional die-cuts (Main Kit) and chipboard pieces (Embellishment Kit) to create three clusters around the photos.

The title was created using the chipboard script ‘Explore’ word (Embellishment Kit), the tile letter stickers (Embellishment Kit), and the puffy alphabet letters (Main Kit). I love mixing up fonts in my titles. I think they make them so much more interesting to look at!

JUNE 2023 HIP KITS USED IN THIS PROJECT:

• June Main Kit
• June Embellishment Kit 
• June Cardstock Kit

Thank you for visiting me today! I hope you are having a great summer!

Hip Kit Club: Let’s Make Pine Trees with a Fringe Die!

I am totally in love with the June 2023 Hip Kits! Although I’m not an outdoorsy person, I LOVE the outdoors! Take me on a drive through the mountains and I am a happy girl. The June Kits feature lots of outdoor phrases and icons, but also include beautiful florals that work well for everyday memories, too.

Today I am sharing my first layout with the June 2023 Hip Kits. I used the Fringe Border die to create pine tree embellishments for my page. Watch the video below to see how!

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH RE-CREATION

While on a road trip through Colorado with his dad, my son recreated the photo on John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High album cover. I thought it would be fun to feature both photos using the June 2023 ‘Free Spirit’ Hip Kits on this layout.

Of course, I had to add a mountain to this page! I fussy-cut the mountain scene from the ‘Let’s Go Walking’ paper, trimming off the pink and purple arches, and then, trimming down the orange arch to fit the space at the top of my page. This took some piecing together, but once the page is under a sheet protector, the viewer won’t really notice all the cuts that I made.

I used the Fringe Border die to create my rustic pine tree embellishments using the Cardstock Kit. (These trees would work great for holiday pages, too!) Below the trees I created an embellishment cluster to the left of the title by layering a couple of Fabric Stickers (June Main Kit) over a die-cut (June Main Kit).

My long title was created using the Puffy Alphabet Stickers from the June Main Kit and the Taylor Alphabet Die with the Cardstock Kit (Vacay Orange, Cave Dive Blue, and Destiny Aqua papers). The right side of the title is adorned with another Fringe Pine Tree and a teepee die-cut accented with chipboard pieces (June Embellishment Kit).

As always, Hip Kit Club knocked it out of the park with the June Kits! Be sure to grab yours TODAY before they are gone forever.

JUNE 2023 HIP KITS USED IN THIS PROJECT:

• June Main Kit
• June Embellishment Kit 
• June Cardstock Kit
• June Pocket Life Kit
• June Fringe Border Die
• June Alphabet Die

Thanks for coming by!

Stashbusting Instead of Purging!

Am I the only scrapbooker who still enjoys their older supplies? While others are happily spring cleaning their studios, I am rediscovering and getting excited about supplies in my stash.

Sure, I pass along items that are no longer my style, or supplies that I have already created with and don’t feel that ‘spark’ for anymore … but there are still many things in my room I haven’t had a chance to play with yet.

Purging, to me, means getting rid of something I no longer like. When I look at my older supplies I think to myself, “I would still buy this TODAY!”

So, instead of purging, I’m going to incorporate more STASHBUSTING in my life. Who’s with me?

Today’s video features supplies from 2012. Yep! They are 11 years old and I STILL love them! Watch the video above to see my process, or check out the still shots below.

HAIRCUT EMERGENCY

This layout was created from a Studio Calico subscription kit (2012) featuring patterned papers and supplies by October Afternoon, Basic Grey, My Mind’s Eye, Authentique, and more. The office-inspired and geometric patterns are still relevant to me today and worked well for a masculine page about my son.

I even incorporated additional items from my stash: a kraft polaroid frame (Park Lane at Joann’s), twine, a tag, buttons, and star dies, to name a few. If I needed something … I found something from my stash that would work, or I made it! (Love how those star embellishments turned out!)

I’ve seen several people run tags and journaling cards through their printer with success by taping them onto a full-size sheet of paper. I’ve been wanting to try this technique; however, it was late at night, I do not own a light table, and I didn’t want to wait until the next day to use my window to line up the journaling.

I opted to print my journaling on manila-colored cardstock that matched the tag I wanted to use. It worked great, and I don’t think you will notice once the page is placed in a sheet protector.

Are you trying to make a title and are out of a certain letter? I was out of lowercase r’s for the word ‘Haircut’. My solution was to mix upper- and lowercase letters within the word. It has a bit of boyish charm, don’t you think?

Give stashbusting a try today! Sure, perfectly coordinated collections are fun and easy to work with, but there is something electric about discovering new ways of combining other supplies together. I’d love to see what you make!

Have a great week!

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