My Unicorn | Clique Kit Design team

Good morning everyone! I hope your week went good. Me, I'm just happy it's Friday! Well I have been listening to A Storytellers podcast and one really made me thing. I have always had an issues with journaling on my layouts. I usually use my memory planner for more of that really. But I realized when listening to one episode, that I'd never wrote down or told the story of my last littles birth. The pregnancy or anything. So, I thought it was time to do that. That's what this layout is.

I used the Happy Blooms kit for this layout. I loved the pretty colors and embellishments, there was just so much to choose from lol. I picked a large picture of my little miss for this layout because I wanted her to be the center of attention. She was so small and cute lol I started by going through my kit and pulling anything I thought I might want to use and setting it to the side. I picked my background, added a strip of that pretty floral paper to the the top and then stuck my picture down. Then I tried to figure out where I was going to put my journaling. I knew it was going to be quite a bit. I decided I needed to write it out to see how much room it was going to take and it tool a lot! At this point I knew it wasn't going to fit on the layout itself, so I cut it down in to strips that would go in a pocket. So that made my decision of how I would get it all in there. Then to make the pocket.

I grabbed two other papers from the kit, it wasn't easy lol, I love them all. I punched a scalloped border out of the pretty pink one and cut a strip of that pretty, smaller floral. I made sure it was big enough to almost completely cover my journaling, than I pulled out my sewing machine and sewed it to my layout. I liked this better anyways, it added more color to the bottom of my layout and gave me a place to put all the journaling I had done. Once I had sewed my pocket down I slid my journaling in and moved on to adding my title and pretty things.

I knew what my title was going to be before I even started the layout. It is private, my daughter will read about it later in her life, but My Unicorn definitely fit. I grabbed the embellishments I had pulled previously and started laying them here and there on my layout, until I got the combo or look I wanted. Making sure to do my little embellishment triangle. I tucked tags and florals here and there, making it look pretty. But my biggest thought was getting down her story. So she could go back when she was older and read the things that happened through my pregnancy with her and read how happy I was she was there. Do any of you avoid journaling on your layouts? Do you hid it like I did? Well I would love to see how you do yours. And make sure to head over to the Clique kits shop and check out the past kits and all the lovely new ones that are there too! Happy scraping!

You are my sunshine | Clique Kits Design Team

Good morning everyone! I hope your having a good week so far. I'm already ready for the weekend here! I want to get some crafting done! But I wanted to share a layout with you today that I made with my Happy Blooms kit from the Clique kits shop. I love this kit!! The colors are amazing and all the pretty things that come in the kit!!

I have this love for yellow. I don't know what it is, maybe that it's such a bright and happy color, IDK. But I had found the little banner piece that said You are my sunshine and that kind of set the tone for my layout. I pulled one of the papers with that beautiful yellow and white and cut that at a diagonal for my background. I stuck that down to some white cardstock and started pulling papers and ephemera to layer behind my pictures of me and my goofy little girl.

I did run some white cardstock through my cuttlebug to add a little more texture to my layout. WHen I did this I really didn't know where I was going to put it but I wanted to have the option to use it if I wanted. Either way it would be used on something lol.I added a white border to my pictures and layered them the way I wanted and grabbed that beautiful blue paper with pretty flowers all over it and cut a square, then layered a piece of the packaging behind that, ruffing all the edges up as I went. That just wasn't where I wanted it though. I wanted more layers and some more color as well. Since I added that floral paper, I could use pretty much any color I wanted. I went through the tags and other ephemera and found this purple tag and added it in to the layers, then cutting my die cut in half I popped that in there too.

Once I did that I really started to like my layout, but I still wanted more on there. So it was time to break out the ephemera, puffy stickers and die cuts. I went through everything, pulled out way to much as I tend to do lol. Then I started to tuck a flower here, put a puffy sticker there and then I found the big teal floral puffy sticker frame and just had to use it. So I added it in under the tag layer and I love the color pop it gives!

Finishing off my layout pretty much came down to adding the pretty little banners here and there that said things about me and my daughter and doing a little journaling on the back of my layout. I hope you liked this layout, I did have fun making it. I'm trying my best not to hoard all the pretty things lol. I think I'm doing a pretty good job of using my pretties though. Make sure to head over to the shop and check out the new kits and hey if you like this kit, it's still available in the shop too! Along with so many others!!

Noteworthy | Clique Kits International DT

Good morning everyone!! I'm playing with my Happy Blooms kit today. I wanted to document one of my littles major haircut. And yes, for this one was major. I kinda didn't want to do it, but she wanted to so bad and it made her happy and didn't hurt anyone, so I figured why not, let her be her. So it happened lol.

I went to an app in my phone and made a photo strip and printed it out. I matted it on white cardstock and started pulling papers from my kit and playing with it. I love all the papers in this kit and it was so hard to decide, but I figured used a pretty floral print that had pretty much all the colors in it so I can use any of the other papers and it would look good lol. So I cut the floral paper down and grabbed the pink tone on tone plaid and punched a strip of that and slid it under the other paper and stuck it down.

There are so many embellishments in this kit too! So of course I grabbed those and stated going threw them, pulling all the little things I wanted to use. I had a huge pile, so everything didn't make it onto the layout lol. I started with that little pocket and placed it at the end of my pictures, this way I could stick a little hair in from her first haircut, Is that weird?

Then I decided to do a quick cutfile in white and pop it on my layout too. But I wanted more than just the white on white below my photos so I added another paper piece at the bottom of my photo and a light blue piece above it too. This made it really easy from me to slide in all the other little pieces.

I cut one of the frames from the ephemera pack diagonally and slid it behind part of the pocket on the left and then slid the other pieces on the opposite side to the pocket too. After that it was just playing with all the florals I had pulled out and tucking them in here and there till I was happy with it. I put one of the pretty butterflies up on the top too, and added a noteworthy tag to the bottom of the pocket that already had happy thoughts on it. and that finished this layout off for me. Thanks so much for checking out my post and make sure to come back and check out what all the other amazing design team members are up too as well. And always be checking out the Clique kits shop to see all the fun goodies that are there!!