My Latest Obsession: Foxy Fix Review

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Hello! I have fallen down the rabbit hole of a new obsession: notebook covers from Foxy Fix! I love these so much because you can personalize them by choosing the leather type and color, stitching color, elastic color, size, pocket configuration, width of the spine, and you can add embossing to the spine and/or cover. Lots of choices!
For my first order, I chose to get two of the smallest notebooks: a size 0 Sugar Lemon Drop – this leather was just discontinued! – and a size 1 Moccasin Tiger Lily.

I am now using these two notebooks as my wallet (more info below)!
These are both “couture” notebooks – currently Foxy Fix is facing high demand so they limit how many they put up for sale (so if you go see their website it’s likely you’ll see all couture items sold out – but no fear: check back on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 AM PST and they will be back in stock).

I placed my order on February 17th. The production window is 10-20 business days, and mine were in fact shipped on the 10th business day. The notebooks come wrapped up in fabric bags, and they also include a leather sample with your box.

I got this Sugar Pink Grapefruit sample… which I took in fact as a sign, because I have placed a second order for a notebook in this color even before getting this box. I love this color already!

I chose not to have any writing / design on the front covers, but I had my initials added to the spine (in silver foil on the turquoise notebook, and in gold foil on the yellow one).

For size comparison, you can see the “passport” notebook cover I handmade a while back (you can find the details here). What I find unique in the Foxy Fix notebooks is the reinforced spine (it comes automatically with some types of leather – including the Moccasin and Sugar I bought – and is optional on others). They also offer two widths: 1.5″ (wide) or 1″ (compact). I chose compact for both and I think this is already chunky enough for me.

I had fun adding some charms to my notebooks! I made most of these using this clay charm kit (I had lots of fun with these!!).

I also chose to also get a pen loop with both notebooks. I like to position it on the side as you can see here).

And here you can see the difference in sized between the #0 and #1.

I’m using these as wallet, and bought these credit card holders on Amazon to hold all my credit and rewards cards.

I’m so happy to have these colorful notebooks in my purse!

If you want to make a purchase at Foxy Fix, you will get 10% off your first order (above $50) if you use my referral link.

March BYOC at The Lilypad

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Hello! It’s time for the newest BYOC collection from The Lilypad – and I had so much fun with this one!

Credits:

Lovely Angles Templates by Scrapping with Liz

Duly Noted Papers and Duly Noted Elements by One Little Bird
I just love the pops of yellow! I am loving yellow lately!

 


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Lovely Angles Templates by Scrapping with Liz
 
Cloud 9 Paper Pack and Cloud 9 Element Pack by Sabrina’s Creations

Have a great end of the week!

Hello March!

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Oh goodness, how is it March already?! It is also Wednesday, which means select products are on sale for 50% off at The Lilypad. I used a template set from the sale to make these two pages.

Credits:

Press Play 04 Templates by Lynn-Marie ***50% off for SOSN***

Mixed Media Monthly main kit- Apr. 16 from The Lilypad

Rainy Wordart by Lynne-Marie

 

 

Credits:

Press Play 04 Templates by Lynn-Marie *** 50% off for SOSN***

Sweetness Papers by Paula Kesserling

Stand Tall Alpha and Stand Tall Numbers by CD Muckosky

Such a fun design!
Have a great start to the month and a great rest of the week!

Memory Pockets Monthly: Roar

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Hello and happy Friday! Today is release day for the latest Memory Pockets Monthly collection from The Lilypad, and I had so much fun with this one!

Credits:

February Month in Review ’17 Template by Scrapping with Liz

Memory Pockets Monthly: ROAR from The Lilypad

I really enjoyed making monthly recap pages last year, so I did one for February.

 

Credits:

High Five Digital Scrapbook Kit by Paislee Press

Memory Pockets Monthly: ROAR from The Lilypad

Still scrapping about our trip to the West Coast from earlier this year. Oh the memories!

Have a great weekend!

Mixed Media Monthly – Feb. ’17 from The Lilypad

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Hello and happy almost Friday! I’ve been feeling a bit blah lately, but the latest Mixed Media Monthly collection (M3) from The Lilypad lifted my spirits right up! I just love all of the papers in the kit so much… I only made 2 pages so far but there are so many more awesome backgrounds I want to play with! I think this is why I love the M3 so much – it is so easy to just use a ready-made background or add a few brushes to it and make it yours, and it will always look so pretty!

 

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I still have loads of vacation photos to scrap (plus I haven’t been taking any pictures of us at home – winter weather doesn’t help as it’s always dark!).

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Have a wonderful weekend!

Valentine Page and Card

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I made this page for the Sketch+ challenge at Freckled Fawn – what better way to use up some of the many washi rolls I own? I love washi!

Sadly the colors didn’t photograph too well – these tapes are so pretty in real life!

I also made a card + gift wrap for Valentine’s Day. The paper is from 14 by Crate Paper – I had never noticed there is a typo repeated several time on the page (“Februrary” and “Februray”!!) so I covered it up with stamped images and phrases.

I love this tall format!

I used a sheet of scrapbook paper as the gift wrap, and added a couple of rectangles of paper to the envelope. So I’m all set for Tuesday!

February Fun

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Hello there! I have been quiet lately because I was traveling to the West Coast last week. Now I am back, and back to scrapping! Today I am sharing some pages made with the latest releases from The Lilypad.


Credits:

Mistral kit by Lynn Grieveson

We’ve had a very mild winter so far, with this being a rare – and pretty – exception. To be honest, I don’t mind snow at all, and I love the sight. It just bothers me when I cannot get out of the driveway. 🙂

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And here’s my first travel page! I cannot resist scrapping the latest photos, and especially this time since it was such a lovely trip.

February BYOC at The Lilypad

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Hello and happy February! I have been traveling so haven’t had time to make more than one page with the BYOC collection released today at The Lilypad. But I love how this one turned out!! I dug out some photos from our trip to Hawaii since the lovely colors in this collection reminded me of this place. 🙂

 

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New Chapter Papers and New Chapter Elements by Sabrina’s Creations

The watercolored paper I used on the heart is so gorgeous!!

Kill My Studio Calico Kit – Jan. 2017: Roman Holiday

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Welcome back for another installment of this Kill My Studio Calico Kit series: this is the 10th kit I have killed (I took a break after killing Homespun), and in total I have made a whopping 122 layouts. Yay me!

Kill my Studio Calico kit is a monthly series I started on my blog to hold myself accountable and use up my kits. You can subscribe to the Studio Calico Scrapbook kit here.
I considered a kit killed when I don’t have enough paper to make another layout.

This month I am using the Studio Calico scrapbook main kit, Roman Holiday.

 

Notes:  I really love the look of this kit! Pretty colors and fun embellishments. I was a bit unsure about the chipboard pencils (they had chipboard paintbrushes in the Film Club kit and those stumped me, because I tend to use elements in a literal way). The stamp is small and the sentiments aren’t all that useful to me, but I still managed to use it on several pages. The puffy hearts and puffy stickers are always a favorite of mine, and I like the touches of gold on the phrase stickers and die cuts. The floral paper is my favorite, along with the specialty paper.

Status: Not totally killed, but close!
I made 10 layouts (9 12″x12″ and 1 8.5″x11″), for a total of $39.99, or $4/page. I supplemented the kit with some embellishments from my stash, since after my January craft room reorganization I challenged myself to add a little bit of something old to every page I make. I also used some bits from the Roman Holiday Documenter kit. I also used and cardstock from my stash for a couple pages. Here’s a roundup of all the pages I made:

And here is what I have left:

Leftovers: the kit is rather killed. I could have kept going with this bits and pieces and probably made 2 more pages, but I wanted to wrap this kit up, and I am going to be hoarding that floral paper a bit longer. I love it so! I will use it up in bits and pieces here and there. 🙂

And here’s a look at all the projects I made:

This is the first project I made, and I stuck to a pink and gray color scheme, with gold accents. Usually  I am not a big fan of the washi strips, but I really like how this one looks on the pink background. I added some watercoloring on the “twenty seventeen” die cut. And the gold “cheers”, flair, sequins, pink hearts, rubber banner, gold label, star stickers and the tiny alpha stickers are all from my stash. The “anything is possible” stamp is from the same month’s Documenter kit, while the “You + Me” is from the scrapbook kit (I didn’t ink up the “= OUI” part since I have no use for that part of the sentiment).

Next up, one of my favorite pages of all times. It’s a two-page spread, in fact. I made it to recap what happened in 2016.

The left page was made to use up this lovely letterpress calendar. I thought about cutting it up to use the “it’s your year” part, but then I really liked the whole page, and the idea for this spread was born. The background paper (Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper) and alpha stickers (A Beautiful Mess) are from my stash.

The right hand side really makes me so happy. I started out with the pencils and the washi strips (the ones without the words are from the Roman Holiday Documenter kit). I spaced them out on the page, then calculated how many photos I’d need to fill up the space. It was so hard to narrow it down to only 16 photos!! That’s what I love more about this page – as I was putting it together, I looked through all my photos and thought back at all the good things that happened this year.
I used the puffy stickers from the kit to mark the months of the year corresponding to the photos, which I arranged chronologically. The only thing I added from my stash is the gold chipboard alpha and some sequins.

Totally switched up the color scheme for this page! 🙂 Once again, I used the pencils to create the design of this page, which is based on a grid. I pulled out some yellow stars, washi and sequins from my stash, as well as some cork asterisks and chipboard alpha.

Here I added some chipboard hearts, puffy stickers, flair and wood veneer from my stash, as well as a couple stamped phrases.

The leaves are from my stash, but they were just perfect for this page! I kept it simple and I love it just the way it is!

I just added a doily from my stash for this page.

The background cardstock is from my stash. I painted some watercolor circles in the color of the heart stickers from the kit.

On this page I documented a few favorite things from this month. I love the neon refill tape for my Dymo label maker! It doesn’t photograph well but it’s truly neon, so pretty!

Cardstock and chipboard embellishments from my stash. I wanted to use black cardstock for the background, but since I didn’t have any, I decided to paint some. I love the effect!

This was so fun to make!! Totally inspired by a template by Scrapping by Liz that I used in this digital page.

And that’s it for this month! If you have any questions, please leave a comment and let me know!

You can subscribe to the Studio Calico Scrapbook kit here.

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