So excited!! Clique kits Guest designer!

Hello everyone!! I hope your week is going good, its almost Friday, So that has to be a plus!! lol.  I cant believe I'm guest designing for Clique Kits!! and oh man is this months kit so great!!

I created this layout with Aprils Origins kit. It is slammed pack  with the beautiful Simple Stories: Life in color!! There are bits and pieces from Carpe Diem.

I started this layout by choosing my photo.

This photo is a few years old and has actually had a little bit of damage to it, but I love it! Our daughter use to love it when my husband would hold her life this, she was so small! 

I knew I wanted to use some of the softer colors on this layout and I was going to keep the photo in color and for me that might change my paper choice, but in this case, the colors in this kit worked so well with the picture it wasn't an issue. I started with the pretty Simple Stories: Carpe Diem, make it happen. That paper had all the colors I wanted to use in this layout, so for me it was the right place to start.

I grabbed one of the pages that with cut a parts on one side and cut them down and into strips to add as layers. I wanted this to be a part where I could create a little cluster with the title. I didn't make the title really bold here and did that on purpose. I didn't want to put something large on here and draw away from the photo.

I decided that I didn't want the background to be all white, so I decided to add some circles in a light pink. After I did the sewing, I actually started to stick things down. And for me that usually means I add more then what I thought I was going to, lol. I didn't add to much but I did change up some of the embellishments that I was going to add because it made the layout a little to heavy for what I wanted.

When I thought I was done, it still looked like it needed a little something. I grabbed that pretty diagonal stripped paper and cut a little off for the top and bottom and that did it for me. This layout came together pretty easy for me, I think my sewing machine was the hardest thing, it didn't want to co-operate with me! But I won in the end! lol

I am happy to be here and be part of the Clique!! :)

Hip Kit Club CT Layout/ Ooh Lala

Good morning everyone!! I hope your having a great morning and see so far. We had a bit of a long week last week and going into this past weekend. Our youngest daughter had to have a procedure done and we've been trying to get back to normal since then. Its always hard when one of your little ones is sick though, but shes doing better now so I'm happy.

But in the midst of everything this past week, I did get a chance to sneak in a little scrappy time while she was napping.

The layout I made for this week is about my sister. She moved this past year and its been hard not having her close, but I ran across this pic from a few years ago. its a little yellowed and a bit grainy but I love it. Its so her! I love my big sister! lol 

I dove back into my February kits and grabber my Pink Paislee, C'est La Vie patterned papers and that beautiful gold title. Thats more so what started this layout for me. I love those gold words, there are silver ones too but I thought the gold went so well with the photo. 

I added the fringe heart from Maggie Holmes Bloom collection and some little enamel dots from Simple stories, but that was about it. I wanted to keep this layout pretty simple and just focused on my sister. I dont always journal on my pages and when its a bit more personal like this, I'll journal on the back of my layouts. I didnt show my journaling because it was personal to me, it came out more like a letter to my sister about missing her, so kinda sappy lol. 

But I hope you enjoyed this layout and make sure to head over to the Hip Kit website and check out the Mark kits and grab one before there gone!! Marchs kit has so many pretty exclusives in it, you wont wanna miss it!!

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!