Guest designing for the Cut Shoppe!! and a Giveaway!!

Good morning everyone!! I'm so excited to say that I'm guest designing on the Cut Shoppe Blog today!! I'm very thankful that Ashley gave me this chance and I had so much fun with it!!

And stay tuned at the bottom for a great giveaway from the CutShoppe!!

I used the Geo to go cutfile for my background, I did a tone on tone with that cutfile. I grabbed my Dear Lizzy, Serendipity collection and cut the geo to go cutfile again so that I can pop the geos up to add color and dimension. I did a bit of layering with the Serendipity around the funny little photo of our youngest that fell asleep on the boat this last summer. I also used the cutfile Nautical Notions for my title, ( You float my boat) and the cool little wheel behind the photo.

I played with my watercolors for my title, I wanted it to make it look like water, but in pink lol. And then I used my Faber-Castell, Lemon for my wheel. I loved that pop of color up at the top and the cutfiles were so fun to play with!!

Now Like I said at the beginning, I have a giveaway thanks to Ashley Horton of TheCutShoppe. I have the Geo to go cutfile up for grabs, so I will pick a random winner that leaves a comment on my blog by Wednesday and I will get up with you and let you know how to get your cutfile. I hope you enjoyed this layout and Wednesday night I will be getting up with one of you and letting you know how to collect your prize!! Thanks so much!! 

March Hip Kit club reveal

Last night was Hip kit clubs March kit reveal and its fantastic!!

Here is Hip kits main kit:

Hip Kit Club Member Price:  $29.95 (requires a 3 month minimum subscription)
CLICK HERE to join!
Individual Kit Purchase Price:  $34.95

Products Included:

1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Dreamy Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Soar Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Wonderful Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Abandon Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Explore Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – Basic Grey – Urban Lux – Lunette Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Pretty Stripe Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Ombre Wall Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Flower String Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Floral Birds Paper
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Washi Tape Stickers (includes 3 sheets)
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Wood Blocks
1 pkg. – Basic Grey – Saturday Morning – Ephemera
1 pkg. – Basic Grey – Saturday Morning – Printed Cork Stickers
1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Maggie Holmes – Shine – Doll Puffy Thickers


HIP KIT CLUB – MARCH 2016 – EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $29.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

1 pkg. – Basic Grey – Saturday Morning – Flower Kit (cardstock, tissue, tulle & buttons)
1 Basic Grey – Saturday Morning – 6×6 Paper Pad
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Die Cut Shapes
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Puffy Sequin – Stickers
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Silver Glitter Phrase Stickers
1 pkg. – American Crafts – Dear Lizzy – Documentary Cork Thickers


HIP KIT CLUB – MARCH  2016 COLOR ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $22.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

1 pkg. – Basic Grey – Urban Lux – Alphabet & Shape Watercolor Paper Die Cuts
1 Pink Fresh Studio – Clear Stamp (3″x4″)
1 jar – Shimmerz – Aqua Huez Watercolor – Blue Moon
1 jar – Shimmerz – Aqua Huez Watercolor – Crazy Daisy
1 jar – Shimmerz – Aqua Huez Watercolor – Green w/ Envy


HIP KIT CLUB – MARCH 2016 PROJECT LIFE ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $29.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

20 HKC Exclusive Project Life Cards – designed by Kimberly Hutchison (not shown – image to be updated this week)
1 pkg. – Basic Grey – Saturday Morning – Enamel Dots
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studios – Felicity – Studio Puffs Stickers
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studios – Felicity – Word & Phrase Stickers
1 pkg. – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Mini Vellum Alphabet Stickers (3 colors)
1 pkg. – Elle’s Studio – Little Moments – Die Cuts
1 pkg. – Elle’s Studio – Little Moments – Wood Veneer Shapes


HIP KIT CLUB – MARCH 2016 PAPER ADD-ON KIT
KIT

 

Price:  $13.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Dreamy Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Soar Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Wonderful Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Abandon Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – HKC Exclusive – Just Dream – Explore Paper – designed by Kim Watson
1 sheet – Basic Grey – Urban Lux – Lunette Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Gold Foiled Chevron Stipe Vellum
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Pretty Stripe Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Ombre Wall Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Flower String Paper
1 sheet – Pink Fresh Studio – Felicity – Floral Birds Paper


HIP KIT CLUB – MARCH 2016 – CARDSTOCK ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $10.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

6 sheets – American Crafts White Cardstock
2 sheets – American Crafts Light Kraft Cardstock
2 sheets – American Crafts Peapod Cardstock
2 sheets – American Crafts Butter Cardstock

Make sure you head over to the Hip Kit site to make sure you get yours!!!

Hip Kit Club CT/ You spin me right round

Hello everyone, hope your weeks been going good. Now mine is going great since I've gotten my February Hip Kits!!!! There fan-freaking-tastic!!

I grabber this picture of my youngest son, from back when he was only 2, oh so long ago! He was out on the back deck with me playing on his sit and spin. It wasn't an amazing picture op or anything special like a bday party or anything but he was just so sweet sitting there with his shaggy hair and cute little laugh. So I snapped more pics then were needed and chose these two to scrap for this layout. I used Ashley Hortons sketch for this layout that she put up on theHip Kit facebook group for this weeks challenge. Her sketch was so great, I can see me using it over and over.

I stick more in the blue tones for this layout, pulling from the Pink Paislee C'est La Vie papers in the main kit with a little pop of bright yellow from the same collection. I did a bit of embellishing from the Pink Paislee C'est La Vie ephemera pack and the pretty 01 paper with all the pretty cut apart pieces. I loved the little bit of yellow around the photo but wanted a bit more, so I grabbed my Shimelle Starshine chipboard stickers from the embellishment kit 

I grabbed some embroidery floss from my stash, a variegated black to light grey and stitched my circles onto my page and to finish the whole thing off, I grabbed my Prima water color pencils from Octobers color kit  and splattered it across the page. 

I hope you enjoyed this layout and I hope you get the chance to grab this months kit and make sure to check out next months kit too!! So beautiful and oh yeah there are some great exclusives in the March kit!! Make sure to check them out! 

Hip kit CT layout/ Oh, snow happy

Goof morning everyone! It is still cold here and we've actually had a really nice snow once, it didnt last long, about a day, but we had so much fun while it was here!! It actually made me think of my pictures from last year. So I went and dug them out and grabbed this one of my 2 daughters. They were having so much fun being pulled on a sled for the 1st time and the colors we perfect!! lol 

This layout came together in about 35 min. My youngest was napping, I had all the house work done, so I figured I would jump in to my scrappy room and see what I could do. I loved the Basic Grey, B-Side paper with those pretty light pink dots, I usually use a plain white background but I wanted to step out of my comfort zone a bit and I like the way it turned out. The light dots made it perfect, not to much for me lol. Then I grabbed some of the scraps I had left over from some of my other layouts and started layering. Oh and I just loved that calendar paper by Crate Paper!! It was perfect for putting the date and it looked cute!

After that I added a few strips from Crate paper  to the top and bottom and outlined everything with my zig pen. After that it was adding the title, American Crafts Crush thickers and one of the great exclusive vellum words. I added little hearts from the great Crate Paper 12x12 chipboard sticker sheet that we got in the main kit and the pretty little exclusive acrylic circles from the Embellishment kit.

We had so much fun last winter and this one was great too!! Not I have some more great memories to scrap! And I love how Januaries kits can work so many ways!!

Well thanks for stopping by today and I hope your inspired to go play with your scrappy stuff today too!! And make sure to head over to the Hip Kit site and check out the New February kits!! They are AMAZING!!! Packed full for tons of greatness from this past CHA!! You wont want to miss it!! And make sure you head over to the Hip Kit blog and check out everything that all the great ladies over there are creating!!

Hip Kit Club CT/ In Grandmas arms

Good morning everyone!! Im here to share a layout that I created with Hip Kit clubs January kits. 

I used mostly Crate paper, Hello,Love and My Minds Eye, My Story. These two collections went so well together and I love it! Ashley Horton also posted this great color challenge over on the Hip Kit Facebook page and I used the colors from it to come up with this layout.

I used the cut file that Ashley Horton created for hip kit this month and actually manipulated it in my silhouette software to where I had two connected together, one a bit smaller then the other. I had already picked my photo so this whole thing came together so easily. 

I layered some of the pretty crate paper behind my cut files and some of the Basic grey behind my photo and another cut file then stated to layer pieces from the crate paper hello love collection and the My minds eye my story collection with bits of gold thread bunches here and there and to finish it off I added some Heidi Swapp Gold Lame and Seafoam color shine.

This layout was a bit harder for me to make, only for the fact that my parents recently moved and I'm use to having them close and so are my kids. I know Im a grown woman, but I miss having my parents so close that I can go see them every day and now I cant and I miss them sooo much, and my kids hate that there gone. Its a big transition needless to say! 

But this picture was taken the night before they moved, well before that finished packing everything. We stayed the last two nights before they left and this night, my youngest son crawled up in his grandmas lap and fell asleep. My mom didn't want to move, she was about ready to sleep in this chair so that she wouldn't lose any of this precious time with him. He doesn't know I have this picture, but Im sure in the future he'll be happy that I do. 

Well I hope you enjoyed this layout and my rambling. If you havent already, you need to head over to the Hip kits site and grab Januarys kit and sign up so you can get February kit too!! Its SOOOOOO amazing!! Packed full of all kinds of new releases from this past release, its great and you wont want to miss out I promise!!