December lits | Clique kits International design team

Hello everyone! I don't know about you, but I love to make lists. I make them all the time, everyday, but I make ones every month too. Sometimes they are just a reminder to pull out my camera and take some pictures, or something to push me a little further. Make me think outside the box. And I like this because sometimes it sends us on little adventures. December was a little different, we had a ton going on, family and health issues, so no real big adventures, but still Christmas fun, so I thought I would share my list and the way I decided to dress it up.

Usually I start out with my list and that's it, btu this past year I have been playing around a little more with how I do things. Why not dress it up and make it pretty? So I do that. I got the beautiful Holiday magic Seasonal kit and oh man was I looking forward to it! I love Pinkfresh Studio and this Christmas/Holiday collection was fantastic! I started by pulling some washi from my stash and running it across the top where I was going to put my title, then pulling the alphas from the kit and putting my title down. As you can see I started writing my list right down the left hand side of my page and then realized I didn't have to do that, I could lay a little with it if I wanted. So, I stopped what I was doing and started digging through the ephemer that came in the kit.

I pulled out everything I thought I would use, well really I pulled out everything lol. I started to layer pieces and play with how I wanted things laid out on my pages and started sticking them down. I distressed the edges and layered paper on paper, along with puffy stickers. And then I went back to writing my list. I'm not big on sharing my handwriting, not a fan of it or the mess ups I make but hey its part of it alot of the time right?

At this point this page was done and I could have left it at that but I wanted to still play with all the pretty thing and I had already taken some pictures of some of my decorations, so I decided to play on the next page too and add a little journaling.

So I moved to the next page, layed my pictures where I wanted them and started digging through my ephemera again. I wanted to have the washi on both pages, another something to bring them together so I pulled that back out and put it on the top and bottom of my page. Once I was done with that, I thought that the washi had made a great anchor for those cute little houses, so I distressed them too and stuck them down. I finished everything off by adding some of the gorgeous sequins that come in the kit and that was it. This really didn't take me long to make and I like how it turned out. I don't know about you, but sometimes I need to do something that is like a slate cleaner. Something that doesn't take much thought and you can just do freely. This, making my lists and decorating them, is one of those things for me. Is fun and relaxing and seems to rejuvenate me for scrapping when I'm having a block. Sometimes it's getting messy with mixed media that helps, other times its making my lists and making them pretty. What about you? What do you do when you have scrappy block?

Crisp Air layout | Clique kits International DT

Good morning everyone! I hope your weeks going good. I wanted to share a new layout I made using the Stitched together kit and the leaves turning add on kit. I know in a lot of places around its already winter, but it still looks like fall here and we actually got to have some fun and go on a hike. I loved this picture of my youngest son and had to scrap it.

I wanted to play with some cut files I had, so I cut out the leaves you see there. But I didn't want to back them with paper, so I decided to lightly trace the outside of the leaves on the layout where I wanted them and then use my distressed oxides, water them down a bit and splatter them where the leaves were going to go. Once that dried I added a little tape to the back and stuck them down. It worked out way better then I thought it was going to! lol

Once I got the leaves down I wanted a few papers behind my photo but I wanted to do something a little different for me, so I decided to go with circle mats. And I also decided to pop the up so there was a little more dimension. After I had my layout centered and knowing where else I had to put little things, I went to fussy cutting out some leaves and deciding what else I wanted to tuck here and there.

I cut out a few leaves and pulled a few from the ephemera pack and tucked them here and there around the circles, but I wanted a little more so I decided to cut a strip of paper and put a small piece on the top and bottom and then tuck a leaf there too. To finish off my layout I pulled some enamel dots from my a little scary kit, they went perfect with this! I placed some of those around my layout and I was done. I love scrapping these pictures of my kids. Really I love scrapbooking them all, but after the last few years, its nice to have some fun and look at how my kids have grown. I hope you enjoyed this layout and I hope you head over to the Clique kits shop and check out all the kits and all the other amazing items in the shop!