Happy Memories | Clique Kits design team

​Good morning everyone!! How is your day going? It looks like rain today, so I'm hoping for some scrappy time! But right now I thought I would share with you another layout that I made with the Best day kit from the Clique kits shop. It's still available too!! So make sure to go check it out! I have made so many layouts and projects with this kit, its amazing and I love it! I al trying to use up every last bit of it. And this layout came together so easily.

I had a goofy pic of my son at the store with the peep he picked out and wanted, so I decided, even though my picture is in black and white, I knew that the peep was yellow. So, I decided to grab some of the yellow paper and ephemera pieces from the kit and use those, along with some pretty blues, oranges and greens. I added a small strip of grey down the right side of the layout, followed by a strip of the yellow plaid. This way I had a place where my photo would sit and I could build from.

Once I had done that, I knew I wanted a place to add some journaling about the shopping trip and the peep he found and brought home, but with this being and 8.5x11, I didn't want to take up too much room with my journaling and make it feel crowded, so I grabbed one of the pockets from the kit and a few of the tags that fix easily in it and added them as a layer behind my photo. That itself ended up adding some dimension lol. After my journaling was done, I started to play with the ephemera pieces that I had pulled. Tucking bits and pieces here and there. I wanted to use that happy memories tag as my title, just for the fact that this was a happy memory and the tag was cute!

I tucked in some other tags, floral pieces, word sticker and that cute chipboard BFF piece and moved on. I felt there was too much white space. I pulled some of the pieces of ephemera I had left, from what I had pulled earlier and started making little clusters out of them till I was happy with the way they looked. I added one to the top, with a sticker that said Photo op and a chipboard circle and then another to the bottom with little bits and pieces that were left over and cut off from pieces I had already used on the page. Yeah I like to try and use it all!! lol I decided to use some of my distressed oxide, mix two colors, pumice stone and black soot, and added some platters and that was it for this layout. I hope you liked this layout and make sure you head over to the shop and see all the beautiful kits there are!!

Enjoy Today | Clique kits design team

Hey everyone! I hope you've been able to find some crafty time for yourself. I have managed to do that, even though this layout is pretty simple and the picture is really pretty bad, but I loved the memories that go along with it, so I had to scrap it!

I started with a white background, one cause I like a white background and two, because I had no clue what I was going to do. My crafty juices haven't been flowin to well lol. Anyways..... I really started this layout by going threw my kit and pulling things I liked and wanted to use. Once I had all that pulled out I started with my photo, matting it and adding different layers. A little bit of 3D foam adhesive and making sure there was a place for me to stick a journaling card. (I'm trying to be better about adding my journaling to my layouts, I found a scrappy podcast, its a whole thing! lol you might wanna check it out, AStoryTellersPodcast).

At this point I had my photo matted and my place for a journaling card, did my journaling and slid my card into where it belonged. Then I realized, well hey now I cant add things to that side of my photo so, I think I need to figure out what the background of my layout is going to look like lol. I decided I was just going to use a few of the papers I had pulled, cut a few strips and add them to the sides of my layout.

I did a wider strip to the left so that my photo could be anchored there, so I knew I wanted something on the right side of the layout too, some kind of cluster. I still had a bundh of the pieces pulled out so I started layering them, found a piece I wanted to add so I fussy cut it out and tucked some of it in as well. I used a little bit of everything here lol, ephemera pieces, puffy stickers, those cute chipboard circles. I finally got it to where I liked it and decided that my photo cluster needed more too.

I tucked more florals to the left of my photo, along with a bit of the piece I fussy cut earlier. But I don't know if you've looked at this kit, but it has tons of sentiment strips and sweet sayings, so I decided that I was going to use a bunch of the ones I had already pulled and put them under my photo. Sticking a flower in there too, a chipboard circle to bring the stripes down there too and that cute little puffy sticker house. That was it. I started this layout all backwards lol, does anyone else do that sometimes? My big thing for this one was making sure I got the story down. I hope you enjoyed this layout and we'd all love to see what you are creating too!