It has been a while since I scrapped a digital page (like 3 weeks.. eek!) because I have been doing lots of paper LOs instead, but when I saw the new collection by Digital Designs Essentials I wanted to use it right away!
The bundle is on sale for a short time so grab it while you can. These colors and patterns are so much fun! Here’s what I made with it:
And yay for the weekend, I hope you have a great one!
Fairground is the Studio Calico July kit. The prices have increased, the kit costs $34.99 (up by $5), and I also purchased the Carousel embellishment kit for a promotional price of $11.69.
Notes: The only things I loved in the main kit were the yellow paper (the B side of the one with all the squares) and the stamp set. In the add on, I loved the chipboard hearts and the stamp. I liked most of the rest. I disliked the clock acrylic shapes in the add on and the floral transparency in the main -but I love how I ended up using them.
Status: killed
I made 14 layouts with this kit (10 12″x12″, 3 8.5″x11″ and 1 9″x12″), for a total of $46.68, or $3.33/page. I supplemented it with some card stock from my stash, some hybrid papers (printed out from digital), stamps, and the odd embellishment.
Here are the bits and pieces I have left:
Leftovers: a good chunk of the green paper with crosses, most of the flower transparency (not my favorite), a couple of pieces of the yellow dot paper (my favorite this month!), some alpha stickers (hard to make words with what’s left), some chipboard hearts (love them!) and silver foiled perforated words, most of the washi tape strips (am having a hard time using them), a clip, a few acrylic clock shapes and a few animals (I combined the acrylic shapes in the scrapbook and Project Life kits).
Kill my Studio Calico kit is a monthly series I started on my blog to hold myself accountable and use up my kits. My goal is to use up a kit before the next one arrives.
I am starting this series on my blog to keep myself accountable. I love buying new scrapbooking products, but I don’t want them to pile up, I want to use them and finish them up!
At the end of May I subscribed to the scrapbooking kit at Studio Calico (with a $5 promotion). So my first kit to kill was Galileo (June 2015). My goal is to use up a kit before the next one arrives.
Notes: I loved pretty much everything in this kit. The stamp set is very versatile (I am using it a lot in my Project Life album), I have a weakness for puffy stickers and gold foil, and I love the cork map.
Status: killed*
I made 9 layouts with this kit (7 12″x12″, 2 9″x12″), for a total of $5, or $0.55/page. I supplemented it with some paper and stamps and a couple embellishments from my stash.
I am definitely on a scrap roll these days, and I’m loving it. This is the latest page I came up with. Very simple design, with some yellow and blue touches to tie together the different pieces.
I layered on my photo a digital brush by Ali Edwards prior to printing. I made it yellow to match the plastic balloon and the backdrop of the July cutout.
Here’s to hoping that August turns out better than July did. So far, I’m not seeing much of an improvement.. but at least it’s almost time for the weekend!
Sahlin Studio has a new kit in the store at The Lilypad:
I was really inspired and ended up making a hybrid page with lots on fun colors.
As soon as I saw this paper from the kit, I knew I wanted to print it out and color it. So I did! 🙂
I used a mix of watercolors (Caran d’Ache Neocolor II and Peerless) applied with a water brush to highlight a few phrases.
Then I added some gold mist splatters, chipboard hearts and a die cut vellum paper.
I love how the background acts as motivational journaling!
I added embellishments to match the three main colors of my page: pink, blue and yellow.
I added a pink vellum letter for my initial.
It was so much fun to put this page together. I hope you like it. Have a great end of the week!
Happy Friday!! The Memory Pocket Monthly release for July is in the store at The Lilypad, and I am 100% in love with it!
Such fun colors! I used it to scrap a page with a photo of me as a child.
Credits:
I love how the colors pop against the gray background!
Next, One Little Bird has a kit that looks like it was made for me!
We love our food around here, and I always have many food pictures to scrap.
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Also, there’s a Christmas in July sale going on that you don’t want to miss!
Ali Edwards is gearing up to document her Week in the Life next month, and in addition to a physical kit she also has some digital products available.
I have done my first Week in the Life album last year, and look forward to documenting one week again this year. But for now, I started playing with the digital items, and I love them! Those 3″x8″ strips have so many possibilities!
I printed out some elements from the digital kit and made this 8.5″x11″ hybrid page. So simple and easy to put together!
This month’s theme for the Story Kit at Ali Edwards’s is Roots. I was inspired to dig out some old polaroid photos of me with my grandparents. I love these photos! I used the brush in the kit to make the backdrop for the photos.
I printed the designs onto kraft cardstock.
And the title says it all… so much love!
I love how this page turned out.
One of the things I love the most about scrapbooking, other than it gives me a chance to be creative and play with pretty paper, is that it makes me slow down and reflect on what are the things that really matter in my life. These past few weeks have been rough at work as I am waiting for some big news that has been delayed by over a month now. I am trying to cope with the uncertainty the best I can, but the stress has spilled into my whole life. Which is not good. So I made this page, to incite myself to keep going.
This is a hybrid page. I printed the text of the song (using the High Jump font by Amy Martin) and the “jump in” brush from Ali Edwards on a patterned background, then I added all the embellishments.
It’s funny, I usually am not inspired to use lyrics on my pages.. but this time it was just the perfect jumpstart for this page.
It’s time for the July M3 (Mixed Media Monthly) collection at The Lilypad! The theme for this month is heroes, and it was just perfect to make a motivational page for me.
I also combined some of the add ons for my page.
And that’s it from me for today, have a good end of the week!