Clique kits is looking to expand our horizons and is currently seeking designer educators from many different genres of papercrafting to build a collective of supportive and productive creatives! Talented mixed media artists, scrapbookers, card makers, art journalers, travelers notebook documenters, and anyone trying to live their best creative life  are invited to apply for this call. Whether you are someone who already knows and likes our kits, or whether you have never thought of being on our team because you are not primarily a traditional scrapbooker, we want to hear from you!  Read on to learn more!

Looking for paper crafters from all over the world but especially any of the following countries (these will change for future calls! So if your country is not listed- it may be in the future! Assignment will be scheduled for one month during the August 2019-July 2020 term. Applications will be taken until the calendar has been filled.
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• U.S.A. (of course)
• New Zealand
• Australia
• Spain
• Poland
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• The U.K.
• Canada
• India
• Japan
• Any South American country
• Any African country
• Eastern Europe or Russia
• Any Middle Eastern country
• Other European countries not listed
• Other Asian countries not listed

Submit a letter briefly telling us about yourself, your creative activities, and places to find you on the internet to info@cliquekits.com with "Passport DT" in the subject line. English language ability is helpful, but feel free to use a translating tool. Please attach to the email some photos of your best work in any genre. If there are any special techniques, folk art motifs, or other ethnic or cultural traditions or aesthetics that distinguish your artwork please point this out! 

If selected, the duties of our international guests will be to provide a biography, answer a Q & A interview in writing or in a video, submit 2 projects shown in photographs with captions using product supplied to you to be shared publicly, and post a challenge in the Clique facebook group with one of your projects as a sample. Compensation will be either a box of product shipped to you from Clique Kits for your scheduled month, or an honorarium and/or payment to cover expenses for you to obtain product from your local supplier, or both depending on what works best for your location. Our objective is to learn as much as possible about you and your culture using our hobbies as a common ground to make positive and lasting connections! No experience on a design team is necessary but you are required to have a Facebook and Instagram account.

Clique Kits is also soliciting proposals for designer educators to teach online courses in conjunction with limited edition kit releases. The educator will be responsible for designing a project or technique based class using an existing or future Clique Kit. The educator will be able to collaborate on the selection of kit contents to be used for their class and will receive the kit used for the class as compensation along with an honorarium. The class will be accessible to those who purchase a kit exclusively for a limited time on the Clique Kits website (usually 1 month). After this time, the educator will have unrestricted rights to the content they have provided to use as they wish.

Small business owners are welcome to submit proposals to teach an online class and incorporate their own products in the kit for the class provided the class products are available to Clique Kits at wholesale cost.  To qualify, the educator must be the owner or a partner in the small business or the designee of said owner(s). The kit will be listed for sale along with the class on the Clique Kits website and social media. Products may be tangible items or digital downloads such as printables or cut files to be included in the kit. Educators may also use and link to additional supplies available for sale on their own platform, with or without providing a coupon or code. 

Proposals should include a written description of the objectives of the class as well as the project. Please link to other videos you have made for You Tube or other platforms that demonstrate proficiency in the production of quality video content.

​If selected, classes will be required to feature at a minimum: 

• the project or technique or sneak peeks of it in a photograph/series of photos
• one to three 10 minute videos of the process or technique either narrated or with captions instructions (in English or translated to English)
• A word, google doc,  or pdf. file listing materials and instructions preferably with accompanying photos.

​Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the calendar is full for the term November 2019-October 2020.

If you have any questions or are interested in other opportunities to help Clique Kits build our international collective for papercrafters feel free to contact me! gia@cliquekits.com

Aloha friends! I apologize in advance if this post is a bit wordy, but I am hopping on the blog today to give a more detailed update about what is going on behind the scenes at Clique Kits. Since shipping out our last monthly subscription boxes in June I have had some time off to take care of some self care and think about future plans. Taking a page from Marie Kondo's book I have decided to focus on the aspects of Clique Kits I know "spark joy" for me! 

Everyone knows what value is: it means getting a lot for your money. That can mean value in terms of quantity of stuff in the kit, but it can also mean value in the quality of the experience... from customer service, to the fun of unboxing, to  the convenience of beautifully coordinated product literally delivered to your door. Clique Kits will continue to curate and release kits but not on any particular rotating cycle. Subscriptions will not be needed or offered as discounts are readily available through our website rewards programs! You won't have to accumulate monthly boxes at times when you don't have as much time to create with them.  As a member of our Facebook group you will have frequent opportunities to provide input into the collections and products you love to influence future kits. The reason no commitment is necessary is because we will take pre-orders for upcoming kits. The only deadlines to pay attention to are therefore the end of the pre-order period, after which time only kits left over will be listed in the shop once the kits are "in stock". This is not guaranteed to be the case for every kit and you must pre-pay for your kit to be guaranteed to receive one after the shipping date! 

About values...plural, I am talking about the principles and guidelines behind the choices we make. Values have always mattered at Clique Kits, and this continues to be the case. Because we are a worldwide community, we are open and accepting of artists and crafters spanning every race, country, religion, and orientation.  The passion for our hobby is the thread that binds us all together and we embrace diversity! 

Having values also means there are lines we won't cross, since they violate our integrity.

• We won't purchase counterfeit products made using stolen intellectual property and the designs of others! 
• We won't use products that do not meet our standards of being safe for the environment and we will try to source products made sustainably with easily renewable resources and/or with re-usable packaging or recycled materials whenever possible. 
• We WILL prioritize small business vendors, especially if their first run products are not available directly to the consumer or in the massive discount craft supply outlets. 

Having these values means that we will definitely be undersold for certain brands and products, and we know we cannot match the variety or amount of stock these places have. And that's okay! (wink)
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Clique Kits has always been all about loyalty! When we started as an ecommerce website we started out by keeping track of our customers manually and rewarded participants in our monthly blog shares with reward points we tallied by hand! We also gave reward coupons based on the length of time as a customer and we maintained a close circle of our lifetime VIP tier members "for life." About a year ago we migrated our webstore to a platform with the capacity for automating these programs. Whew! And next I'll show you our old dial up internet and rotary phone. Kidding! Adding to these great programs, Clique Kits has added a "stamp card" program which is called a "Passport" to go along with a new series of kits we are releasing one at a time: The International Series. It is super easy to participate in the Clique Kits Passport Challenge! Keep reading for the details! 

There is only one thing I love as much as papercrafting and mixed media: it's travel! I absolutely love to learn about life in other countries! This really sparks joy for me, and I love having friends in this industry all over the world. As papercrafting spread throughout the world, it is so amazing to see the amount of scrapbooking going on in places like Australia, Canada, Europe, and even South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East! For those who are interested, each time we release an international series kit, we will introduce you to a vendor from one country and curate a beautiful kit for you to order! For each international series kit purchase, you will receive one passport stamp! After every 3 stamps, we will automatically send you a coupon for 50% off your next kit. 

It is so easy to play along!

• Make sure you are registered on the website and log in to your account to make your purchases. You don't have to purchase every kit...just the ones you want! You will automatically receive a stamp for any purchase above $25, so if you prefer another kit you can also save up stamps for 50% off your free kit. But we hope that you will also join us in The Clique for challenges and classes offered to correspond with recent Clique Kits releases.
• Click on the Rewards box on the home page
• Scroll down to the CK Passport Challenge to see your stamp card.
• You will continue to earn reward points under the other loyalty campaigns.

As with any new program and technology...please keep in mind that there may be glitches we have to fix in starting this process. We promise we will keep in touch with you. If you have already pre-ordered the Indigo Mist kit we will be manually stamping your passport for you on the back end.

If you have made it this far reading all the way through this post, you DESERVE to know a little secret! Clique Kits Co-Founder and Amazing Designer/Educator Erica Rose Creates (Erica Thompson) will be teaching an online class based on the Halloween Lovers Kit! More on this will be announced very soon! I am super super excited! The Halloween lovers kit and class is open for pre-orders through mid August. ( *Clique Kits reserves the right to substitute one or more of the advertised kit content with an item of equal or greater value and that is similar to the posted component)

Hello, CK friends! This is a bittersweet post since I'll be sharing my last layout for the Clique Kits design team. It has been a very wonderful creative journey and am so thankful to the CK leaders esp Gia for giving me this amazing opportunity. I'm gonna miss my fellow team members as well but I know for sure we're still gonna see each other around the scrapbooking world. 

​I used the June kit "Sweet Tea" main and junior kits for my project today and once again did my fave technique, fussy cutting.

I cut two strips of papers from the Main kit and placed it horizontally on the white cardstock background. I made tears to the edges of the bottom layer and lifted the edges of the paper on the top. Then I placed the two fussy cut flowers with leaves from the 6 x 6 paper pad and adhered the photos in the middle of the two. 

From there, I started to embellish with flowers and stickers. I used one of the chipboard phrases as the title. 

I love how this layout turned out because it's full of the things I love in a project. There's fussy cutting , layers and clusters of embellishments and interesting bits and pieces of details.

I hope you all like my layout as much as I do. This may be my last project to share here on the CK blog but I will still continue to create and inspire all of you. See you all around.

Happy crafting,

Hi Everyone,
Sadly this is my last post for the wonderful Clique Kits! 

I have used papers and embellishments from previous kits. I especially loved all the Vicki Boutin ephemera in the May kit.

I have also used the lovely Mountain Range cut file from the CK shop. I cut it in 2 sizes and layered them over and under the photo.

Thanks, Gia for all your wonderful kits and scrapbooking passion! 
Best wishes everyone!
​Sue :)

Hi everyone! Nicole here and today, I'm sharing with you my final project for Clique Kits. 

I want to start off this post by thanking Gia for this wonderful opportunity and for believing in me that I can create projects to inspire you! Over the past three months, I've met so many new people and have learned so much and I hope it all continues to grow! What a sweet experience this was...definitely one I'll never forget! ~Thanks Gia from the bottom of my heart!!

With that being said, I've created a "sweet" layout to share with all of you today featuring the June Sweet Tea kits!  Here's a look at my completed layout...

I just adore the strawberries in this kit! The papers, ephemera, puffy stickers and even the watermelon! There were a lot of smaller embellishments, but I wanted to create two large strawberries to use as a focal point for this layout. After drawing and cutting out the basic shape, I drew in the seeds and fussy cut out some leaves and small white flowers.  To accent the leaves, I used two of the yellow flowers included in the kit. 

I found two pieces of the ephemera that fit this photo perfectly! "be human to the fullest" and "Best Human." This picture is of my "brother," Odie. He's literally the funniest dog I've ever known! I have him trained to sit on the chair at our dining room table nicely without begging and if he listens, I give him fruit. On this day, he tried watermelon for the first time and I couldn't hold him back.  I thought his ear was so stinkin' cute and when I snapped the photo, his tongue was in a funny spot!

For an extra hand made touch, I added the bee to the top right of the layout and then hand stitched a line to simulate him flying.

Lastly, I added some of the watermelon from the kit and one from my stash to the bottom left of the page and added my date.

Thanks so much for joining me today and every post for the last three months!
I hope you will follow me on Instagram @colebys1981 for more projects and inspiration!
Thank you again Gia and best of luck, many thanks and lots of love!!

Hello Everyone! Maryám here with you today to share my last post of the month and my last official project as part of the Clique Kits Design Team. If you haven't heard about it yet, Clique Kits will be closing at the end of this month. It's really sad and hard to say goodbye to a company that I love and worked with since 2015. I am incredibly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to be on the team for so many years.

Okay now, let's get into the project. For today, I created a layout using the June Kits and the wonderful acrylic paints from Bad Girls Couture which came in this month's color kit. Here is a look at the paints from the kit.

What I did was to paint an 8 1/2 x 11" inches white cardstock with the light pink paint called "Broken Doll". I ended up cutting the cardstock at 8 x 10 1/2" inches because I added a border of 1/4" of patterned paper all the way around my page.

The rest of the process was very simple. I fussy cut some flowers from the Dear Lizzy "Blossom" vellum paper, and from the Golden Rod 6x6 Paper Pad. I created a diagonal design using the flowers I fussy cut before, put a photo in the center, added the title using a die-cut from Dear Lizzy as well, and to complete my page I added my journaling. 

Here are some photos.

I hope you liked this project. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments below. And if you want to see more project from me, make sure to visit my blog.

Have a wonderful day!

Hello, CK friends! Donna here back with another project using the June kits "Sweet Tea". I created a scrapbook layout mixing stuff from the main and junior kits. I also used the Color Kit as well.

I used a white cardstock as the background. Then I used the 3 acrylic paints in the Color Kit to draw a circle. in the center. This will be the base of the wreath design I will be doing. After creating the circle, I used a couple of brushes to splatter some more paint diluted with water.

I fussy cut the peaches from the Dear Lizzy paper Peachy Keen and mounted them with foam tape following the circle drawing to create a wreath design. I alternated between the colors of the peaches and then tucked in here in there some fussy cut leaves and flowers from the vellum paper.

I placed my photos in the middle of the wreath design and then tucked in some Prima flowers around. I used some pieces from the ephemera pack as well then I've written a short note about the photo using the American Craft pen from a previous CK kit to complete the layout.

I really love how this turned out! The colors and patterns in this month's kit are super sweet! 
That's all for today and I hope to see you again in my next post.
​Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

This is my last mock-up of my friend's happy day. I created it using a nice cut file.
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Hi Everyone! The trees in our driveway looked stunning this autumn and we had perfect days for autumn walks.
Seeing as this is our last month I have a couple of layouts using papers and embellishments from previous kits. I am sure most people have lots of treasure bits hoarded away!
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The cut file is Fall Leaves and available in the CK shop under digitals.
The background papers, file backing papers, and little bird sticker are from the April kit, Full Bloom.

The other embellishments are from the Crate Paper, All Heart Collection,  in the May kit.

Hope you are inspired to use all your leftover kit treasures!
​Sue :)

Well today is my last time I will blog sharing my projects with the kits as you all know June is the last kit to be released. I have had a wonderful time on the Clique Kits DT, it has been an awesome team and I LOVED all the kits I received to work with. So here is my last share, a tag flip album which are so fun to make, it's all about the embellishments. When I make these I add photos also it tag form.

I use different size and shapes tags for visual interest, I have created a fringe tag too and I like the finish of using eyelets .

I have added lots of machine stitching to the tags to add texture, and to add word and phrases to the tags I cut them from the Dear Lizzy paper that has typed # phrases. I used foam tape on many embellishments so I could tuck other embellishments under others which add great dimension. I also made a tassel from the gold vellum speciality paper and added some gold thread. I love how this turned out and it looks so pretty!

Thank you to all the CK friends who have taken the time to pop in here and have a look at my projects over the last year and I hope I inspired you in some way. I know I have made many friends through Clique Kits and I thank you for your support.

​Rachel X