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Hey, You/Nicole Martel

9/30/2021

Good morning! I am sharing a fun layout I created using the "Me Time" kit. I really love the papers and die cuts in this kit! Super cute! And I had just the right photo to use with the die cuts.

The Hey YOU paper is 12x12. I carefully cut the paper down to measure 8 1/2x11 since that is the size I like to scrapbook.

I matted the photo using two different pieces of patterned paper from the kit and then layered the gorgeous die cuts at the bottom of the photo. I punched a tab out of one of the dies using my Sizzix machine.

To pull the layout together, I added a few stickers and die cuts at the bottom of the layout. Some of the flowers were mounted down with foam squares to add dimension to the layout.

At the last minute, I decided to add some journaling to tell the main story of the photo... Overall, I love the design of this layout. It's a little different for me. I'm not used to working with big bold patterned papers, but I really love the way this turned out. There's still a kit available in the shop! Click here to grab yours today! Thank you for visiting today!

Let's Go! | All The Goodness of Today | Piroska Czako-Radvanyi

9/29/2021

Hello Everyone, it's Piroska here today with my latest post for Clique International. For our 10th anniversary we went on a holiday to the Danube bend. This is a curve of the river Danube in North-Hungary, on the left side of the river there are the Transdanubian mountains, and on the right the North Hungarian mountains. The river and the mountains are a popular travel destination, the view is beautiful, especially from the Visegrad Castle Hill, where our picture was taken.

For my layout I first chose a cut file of CUT to YOU. The whole holiday to Visegrad was so amazing, I enjoyed our stay in the hotel, and the view from our room to the Danube bend very much. So I thought, the All The Goodness of Today cut file of CUT to YOU is a perfect title cut file for my Let's Go! layout.

I used the Sunkissed Sampler Kit of Cocoa Vanilla Studio for my layout. First I backed the cut file with the Summer Lights, Good Vibrations and Bright Side patterned papers.
Then I coloured the word goodness in the cut file with Catherine Pooler ink pads, I used the colours Limoncello, Sauna und Catching Rays.

Then I cut down a 1" stripe from a white cardstock, and glued a 1" patterned paper stripe on both sides from the Good Vibrations paper. I really love the bright colours of the Sunkissed Sampler Kit!

I glued down the cut file and my photo and started to embellish the layout. Therefor I fussy cut some flowers from the Growing Wild patterned paper of the Sunkissed Sampler Kit of Cocoa Vanilla St udio. They are beautiful, and make every layout easy to decorate with!

I added my journalling, and was ready. This post was my last for Clique International, so I'd like to thank all of you for all your likes, comments and kind words. I hope you liked my inspirations here and do follow me on socials, if you'd like to, it would make me happy. :-)
I also want to thank to the Design Team for their love and kindness, for the always inspiring ideas. I am so grateful for the new friendships I made through this team. I hope we are going to stay in touch!<3
And for last but not least, I would like to say a big thank you to Gia Lau, who invited me to this Design Team 1.5 years ago, which is still a little wonder to me. I am so grateful that you've believed in me, and gave me the chance to get known internationally. I'll never forget my months here, your generous gifts and love. Thank you. <3

Inspired by Autumn - Valeska Guimaraes

9/28/2021

Hello Clique Friends
Happy to be here again with another project.
These last days were very busy here. My family and I moved to Portugal, and we are still adapting to the new house, and the children to the new school.
Here in Europe it's already autumn, and this is definitely one of my favorite seasons.
Inspired by one of my favorite seasons, I made this layout documenting a simple walk around my new neighborhood.

I used the beautiful Riconoscenza Base Kit with papers and die cuts from Pretty Little Studio. As a base for my layout, I used a white cardstock and made a yellow distress oxide background using the kissing technique.

I really enjoy using machine stitching in my projects. In this layout, I sewed on top of the paper strips just to give the paper texture.

One of the things I like most about autumn, besides temperatures, is the colors. I love the tone of leaves and trees in parks and streets. The fresh wind smells different. What is your favorite season of the year?

I hope you enjoyed this inspiration and are excited to create beautiful projects with the new kits available on the online store.
See you soon!

Handmade with Love - Card Making Process Video

9/27/2021

Hello my crafty friends!! Happy Monday!! Sanjana here with my latest post for the Clique Kits Design Team. For this video I did something very special. I decided to make cards for sick kids and their families. For the cards, I have used few bits and pieces in my stash from "Keeping it Real" collection by Pinkfresh Studio, "Bloom Street" by Pink Paislee, "Garden Party" by Maggie Holmes and "Reaching Out" by Jen Hadfield. I was glad that I finally got to use these beautiful collections together and I think I liked how my cards turned out at the end. Here are some close ups.

Also please don’t forget to check out the process video for this card making video linked below.

Pieces of Me - "Dreamer" Mini Album

9/24/2021

Hey all my lovely creative peeps! Michelle here and today I'm sharing a mini album I created to document my family's legacy of business ownership, artisans and creatives. I've always had my eye on these old wooden store signs in my parents garage and it dawned on me that those signs were small business that were owned by my family. I was inspired to decorate a space in my home and hang them up in a predominant spot in my kitchen where I can see them every day and be inspired by the grit and determination that came before me.

Seeing these sign every day truly does inspire me but I wanted to document it well so my children and grandchildren will understand what this meant to me and why they hung in our home.

For the foundation of the album I used an old box set of 45 records, using two of the records as the album cover and box as the housing for the album. I placed the sequins from the Champ de Mars kit in a ziploc bag and taped it inside the album sleeve so it would show through the round center hole, giving it a shaker cover effect and used an American Crafts sticker over the top for the title. The inside cover of the box was covered in a piece of marble paper from the Taste of Tim Holtz Sampler Kit.

For the construction of the pages, I used thin masking tape and taped square pieces of pattered papers, accordion style to form the album. Inside the pages I added stories of these signs and the family that owned them. I used more papers from the Champ de Mars kit for the pages themselves and embellished them with paper bits from Tim Holtz, Mintay Papers and washi tape by AALL & Create from the Artefacto Mixed Media add on kit

More paper bits and embellishments from Tim Holtz Sampler kit as well as from the Champ de Mars kit were used on the cover of the album box

I finished it all off by inking up the edges a bit with some Distress Oxide ink pads and added some gold brush strokes along the edges of some of the embellishments with an opaque gold brush marker by Marvy.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired to make something beautiful!

Tabletop Mini Album | Aadhira Sambasivan

9/23/2021

Hello everyone! Aadhira this side. I am back again with another free project for Clique KIts. I have crafted a Tabletop mini album using the basic kit from Clique International. This kit has beautiful pattern papers, ephemeras and stickers from Paige Evans' wonders collection and also patterns from Amy Tangerine's paperpacks.

I have shared a process video on my YouTube channel.

Happy Crafting!

Boooo! | Alexandra Skifton

9/23/2021

Happy Fall Y'all! I am so excited that Fall has arrived and my favorite holiday is on its way. I already started decorating the house for Halloween and had to share my latest decoration with you. I fell in love with this cute spooky ghost and had to have him.

I created this layout with the Spooky Night by Simple Stories Sampler Kit that is in the shop. I love this collection! I thought the polka dot paper was a perfect match with his cute hat. I added a few sequins that were included in this kit on some of the polka dots. The sequins added some bling bling sparkle to it!

I added a few cute dies cuts to the bottom of the page. I added some foam tape to add some dimension to the back of the haunted house, ghost and his pumpkin treat bag.

I added the wonderful Booo foam sticker to the page for the title. There is a spider in the last O and I decided to stitch the web from the top of the page to connect it to the word title. I love how it turned out!

I hope you enjoy my spooky Halloween layout and go check out the cute new kits in the shop! There are so many good ones!

Happy Halloween!

Love, Ali xoxo

Pieces of our Story | Storyline Chapters Notebook

9/22/2021

Hi crafty friends! Rita here with my last official project and blog post for Clique International. Today I want to share a spread in my Storyline Chapters Notebook. I use the Planner Notebook right now, but if I have many pictures of one event (mostly of day trips on weekends), I love to make a double page layout in between weekly spreads. I documented a fun Saturday afternoon at Lake Constance.

Some of the projects I've used are still available in the shop, so make sure to check them out. (Especially if you still have some summer memories to document!) Here's a list of the products:
Summer Feels Cut Apart Paper Pack
Watermelon Sugar Modern Documenter Kit
Heidi Swapp Sunny Skies Paper
Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters insters | Planner

As you can see I cut apart the tags from one of the Simple Stories papers which were included in the Summer Feels Paper Pack and put them on the Sunny Skies paper from the current Heidi Swapp collection. I also used stencils from my stash. The leaf is from Heidi Swapp, the other one from Kesi'Art. The rest of the embellishments are from the Watermelon Sugar Kit.

I also included a flip card (because I had too many pictures lol). It's a fun little detail and also a great way to add more space for photos or journaling. Let's take a look at the whole spread.

I hope you feel inspired to document your summer memories or even try out the Storyline Chapter notebooks (if you still haven't). Thanks for stopping by today and happy crafting!

Let's Go! | Alaska Layout | Dana Tatar

9/21/2021

Hi friends! Dana here today sharing a layout that I created using a photo that my child's tour guide took during a school trip to Alaska a couple months ago. I wish I could have seen this stunning view in person! The Fancy Pants Designs Lake Life Sampler Kit was just what I needed to document this shot taken in Denali National Park. The Fancy Pants What A View patterned paper was the perfect backdrop for my photo, which I think fit right into the center of the page.

Can we talk about how amazing this paper is?! This patterned paper has the look of a paint-by-number canvas, but is completely smooth. I didn't want to cover up too much of the amazing print, so I decided to add most of the embellishments to the corner of the photo. I used rub-ons and chipboard from the 49 and Market Map of the Forest Limited Edition Kit.

I added another chipboard sticker from the Map of the Forest Kit for a pop of color. The chipboard sticker pack offers a fantastic selection of colorful and neutral designs in nature and forest motifs.

The bottom portion of the base patterned paper had a wooden dock in the design that didn't go with my photo. I covered up that design element with a piece of paper cut from the Les Ateliers de Karine O Bois Fleuri Patterned Paper. The greens are a great match to this Fancy Pants collection.

I created a large title for this layout using a piece of patterned paper from the Memory Place Map It Out Limited Edition Kit and the Travel Digital Die Cut. I created this title WITHOUT an electronic die-cutting machine. I used a word processing program to print the file and then traced the letters onto patterned paper using carbon paper. The letters are large enough to easily cut by hand with a pair of scissors. I applied Ripe Persimmon Distress Oxide Ink, from the Clique Chromatics Forest Distress Oxide Set, to the letters to help them stand out from the background.

I added a small journaling die-cut to the bottom of the page to record the location and date.

Clique International Supplies:
Fancy Pants Lake Life Sampler Kit
Map It Out Limited Edition Kit
Map of the Forest Limited Edition Kit
Clique Chromatics Forest Distress Oxide Set
Les Ateliers de Karine O Bois Fleuri 12x12 Patterned Paper
Travel Digital Die Cut

Experiment: Having fun making ATC's

9/20/2021

Hi Clique friends. Tânia here today with you!
Today’s prompt is Experiment and so I did it! Nothing better than ATC’s to make experiments and have a little fun with our crafty goodies. Am I right? 😊

I never had use the stencil butter before until I received it in a CK design team package. The first time I used this supply was in this project here and decided to give it a go in today’s project. However, for today I mixed it with Dylusions paint to see how it would work.
Must confess that wasn´t like I envision but ending up liking the result. I thought the shades of pink would be more visible, maybe I should have used more! The most important is, despite the different result, I liked anyway and used to make this awesome ATC´s.

So…to start it I cut all papers into Atc size -2 ½ “ X 3 ½ “ . After mixing the two colours I used a stencil in two ways: First as it is to be used and after, to reuse the paint excess, I used as if it was a “stamp” to get a kind of negative image. You juts have to turn your stencil around and press it into paper.

Repeat as many times you like in different Atc’s. After drying I splashed some pink paint.

The, the only thing you need to do is having fun getting all pieces together. I decided to use embellishments and stamps that come with the kit to make an ATC collection based in a theme.

Hope you feel inspired and have fun making some experiences with your stash.

Links for some supplies and also my suggestions for the out of stock items:

Matryoshka kit is now out of stock but this one is awesome too: https://cliquekits.com/clique-world-heritage-mosi-oa-tunya-prima-marketing/
Stencil available in this kit: https://cliquekits.com/explore-learn-kit-slimline-stencil-starter/
Stencil butter: https://cliquekits.com/clique-explore-mixed-media-holiday/
Acrylic paint available in this kit: https://cliquekits.com/clique-chromatics-dylusions-shimmer-paints-ranger/

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