3 to Inspire with Aimee

How lucky am I? I got the Christmas Day post AND the New Years Eve post. Better yet - I scored the last 3 to inspire of the year. So lets aim for a fresh start and a real challenge to send the year off in style shall we? Here are your 3 prompts.

1. Mix your patterns.

2. Use a product your not hugely fond of.

3. Use an up an entire packet of embellishments.

I often struggle with the mixing of patterns. It's certainly easier to manage when working on a base of white cardstock but I really wanted to challenge myself. So instead I choose to layer my spots, stripes and woodgrain. I think in this case it really works because they all share the mint green colour.

I'm just going to come out and say it. I hate cork... and burlap, but thats another story. I admit Pink Paislee certainly made it better with the gold glitter, but it's never going to be my go to embellishment. It really does suit this layout though. It added blog and detention but without adding a ton more colour. I'm glad I saved the packet after all.

Finally I used up the last of my Pink Paislee Puffy Stickers from this months Embellishment Kit. I must confess it wasn't a 'full packet' when I started the layout. There was just over half a packet maybe, but if feels so good not to have to find a home for it not that it's time to break this months kit down. So you can relax, the embellishment police are going to come knocking if it isn't a full packet. I will however award bonus points for more than one packet. Wink, Wink! 

Now go forth my beautiful little twisties and create!Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us here in the gallery and/or our Facebook Forum.  I really can't wait to see how they all turn out.

Aimee Xx

'Dream a Little Dream of me' with Karen

Hi, It’s Karen here today. I hope that you had a lovely Christmas and enjoyed spending time with family & friends. Today I want to share a layout I created with the December Kinsley scrapbook kit and Embellishment Add-On.

I feel as though I haven't scrapbooked in a while, & I've been itching to create, so once Christmas was over I could really concentrate on my craft, it felt so good! This kit has some beautiful papers in it, really dreamy colors & embellishments. When I saw the 'Pink Paislee' Moonstruck Cork Stickers with 'Dream' on it, my inspiration hit overload. Does that happen to you? I sometimes have no idea of what I want to create & use to design a layout, so I take my time to really look at the papers & embellishments & with luck, I usually am inspired. Fail that I use Pinterest, ha ha.

I loved stitching around my hand-cut 'speech' cloud using plain white embroidery thread & couldn't resist adding some more stitching on my layout elsewhere.

The kit also comes with 'We R Memory Keepers' Layered Tags, they are gorgeous & I had a hard time choosing which ones to use on my layout, in the end I went for the 'eyes' tag & my fave - black & white stripes. I love adding more layers to my photos & deciding what papers to add underneath is my fave part. My final embellishment to any layout is paint splatters, I love this part. I use colors that will accentuate my layout, I add water to my palette, get my brush full of paint & then splatter until I am satisfied. I never over do it, I glance over my layout after each splatter & ask myself is it enough? If not, I keep going!

I hope I've inspired you to create a layout today using your December Kits. Thanks for joining me, see you in January 2017! Can you believe that? Wow time certainly goes by too fast.

Karen xx

Happy Mail Layout with Veera

Hi, It’s Veera here today. I hope that you are enjoying the holidays and spending quality time with your loved ones (and maybe even with your favorite craft supplies)! Today I want to share a layout I created with December Kinsley scrapbook kit and Embellishment Add-On.

Recently I have enjoyed creating layouts with a diagonal design and that was my choice for this layout too. The design creates certain kind of flow to the layout. I placed my title on a diagonal line too and added embellishments to emphasize the design.

I used the exclusive die-cuts as my embellishments too. The beautiful flowers matched the photo and paper perfectly!

I hope you are enjoying your December kits!

-Veera

3-To-Inspire with Emma

Hi everyone!  Emma here with this weeks 3-To-Inspire challenge!

We offer this new challenge every Saturday for those who need a little extra push to get scrapbooking, to keep scrapbooking, or those of you just looking for a challenge (and the chance to win a little something is an added bonus!).

I hope you'll join in with me this week using the following prompts:

1. Create a banner using die-cuts (be they your own or those in the kits).  Bonus points if you are able to include layers in your banner!
2. Use word stickers
3. Include the colour BLUE

 And here's a look at the page I created:

I absolutely love the die-cuts included in this month's main kit!  I mean the colours are spot-on but the actual die-cuts themselves are adorable.  I'll be honest in saying I set the rules of this challenge just so I could make good use of them!

The banner was so easy to make, I just layered my die-cuts over the width of my page and stitched straight over the top to keep them in place.   To help create a border on my page (and reduce having all that white background) I used one of the 6x6 papers from the Pocket Life kit and added it to the top/bottom of my page. 

I actually picked my photo based on the colours of the die-cuts for this page ;)  The pink in M's dress and blue in Z's t-shirt were a perfect match!

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us here in the gallery and/or our Facebook Forum.  I really can't wait to see your pages!

Thanks, Em xo

December Kit Love with Wendy & Mira

Hello all!  New month, new kits and some new love....December Kit Love, that is!

Wendy here with a special collab post with the talented Mira.  We are tag teaming today to share up some December Kit Love for you!

We are revealing up the contents and/or creativity 'behind-the-scenes' of the December Scrapbook Main, Embellishment, Pocket Life, and Sprinkles Kits with a couple of videos for you.

The Scrapbook Main is themed "Kinsley" and features a beautiful medley of mixed blues, peach, soft umber and other colors with LOTS of embellishments for the perfect kit to kick off to in the New Year!

The Embellishment Kit sparkles with glittery, colorful frames, tiny stickers, puffy stickers and paper tags.  Bright and fun to mix in with your "Kinsley" kits!

Mira's video features the Pocket Life and Sprinkles kits with close-up photos of projects created by two of the CTK Creative Team Pocket Life Designers, Diane Williams and Mira Jurecka.

The Pocket Life kit has the deepest cobalt blue with softer tones of blue, peach, yellow ochre and other soft colors as the perfect documenting start to 2017.

Also, don't forget we have the Gracebox kit that is perfection for bible and faith journaling.  The December "Shine Bright" Add-On kit has happy and playful embellishments and papers.  

Hope you enjoyed the sneaks and get ready to see your December kits delivering soon to your doorstep!

Wendy