Hello loves! My February kit is still in another city 10 hours away from where I live so I created a new scrapbook layout with what's left of my December "Lemonade" kit. I used one of the exclusive cut files this month designed by Maryam Perez and I love how it turned out.

How cute is that background cut file?! I see so many possible designs using this one and I will definitely use it again when I finally get my Feb kit.
So, anyways, here is my scrapbook page

I used all the light colored patterned papers to back the cut file. After adhering all the papers. I used foam tape and placed it on top of another white cardstock. I like how it doesn't look like too flat.

Then I brushed the empty spaces with some watercolors and splattered some as well for a mixed media look.

I layered a doily and some messy thread first before adhering my photos. I converted one photo into black & white and left the other colored. I wanted to add contrast to my colorful layout and I think the black & white photo did the trick.

I also used another oldie but goodie cut file and painted it with metallic gold acrylic paint. I like layering several pieces of the same cut file for dimension.  

A scatter of sequins and a bit of journaling completed my layout. 

That's all from me today. I hope you liked my page!
​Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

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Aloha!! It's Hannah here with you today! I am using the Main October Girl Tribe Kit. 

I love Geek Lab days. I love this thinking outside of the box to use my kit. I don't know about you but if I don't change things up I get bored. I can have amazing products with all my favorite color combos and cute little embellishments, but in the end if I don't challenge myself I find myself sitting at my desk just staring at all these pretty products. 
And then that makes me guilty and irritated because I love scrapping, it's time for me to be me. So how do we challenge ourselves without losing our own style and self as scrap? I try to think outside the box, how can I tell the stories I have pictures for in a fun and colorful way. 
I was thinking about how I could use this month's cut files. The designers at the Clique are amazingly talented and these files get added to my download folder each month, I really don't want them just sitting there taking up precious computer space. Unless I use them. This month we have some coffee cups and a unicorn. They match the kit so well, but I how do I mesh that with my pictures? In the end if I can't make them work with the pictures I have or the stories I could tell they sit on my computer. 
Well I will be honest I have no idea how I will use the unicorn. It would make an awesome mini album shape, but that really wasn't screaming at me to run to my desk and scrap right away. The coffee cups though, are my style. I love coffee. How can I make this cup file work in a way to tell a story or use a photo I have in a different way. Because let's face it, I don't really need 50 layouts of my love for coffee. I could do it, because it's my albums but I really don't want to do that. 
​I decided to do something different with the cut file and drop a photo into the cut file in the silhouette software. To do this, you open your cut file in the silhouette software. Then you go to your file of photo and grab your desired photo with your mouse and move it over your silhouette software with the cut file open. You will need to have kept your silhouette software program open in order to do this. Drop the image over the cut file and it should fit into the cut file. It sizes the image to fit your cut file. This is so helpful because if you use the print and cut feature in the silhouette software you can then add this cut file with the image in it on the page with the registration marks and print your photo first then add it to your silhouette mat and feed it into your machine and the silhouette will recognize the cuts and cut your file. 
I used the coffee cup cut file and added a picture of a screen shot from one of my scrappy friends group chat. I didn't really need the whole image to really be showing I just wanted the cup file to have something in it, that wasn't patterned paper but added interest. What better than our own words chatting to each other?!
Here is how it looks all down. 

It's really subtle but gives the effect I was looking for. This same technique would have looked really cool using the unicorn cut file and printing off pictures in the unicorn shape and adding papers in that shape too. 

I did back the cut file with the chat bubble patterned paper from the kit. I used wet glue to make sure all the little lines from the cut file were adhered. Also, one piece of advice, use a really sharp blade when cutting this file. I found with the file not expanded to the 12x12 size and on thinner cover stock, it did not want to come off my silhouette mat and was really thin in some areas. Overall though I love how this looks. To help tie in the conversation aspect of my layout, I printed off some of the screen shots I had saved from previous conservations we have had in the past.

I cut out more of the speech bubbles and found some of them in the die cut pack. I popped some of them on pop dots and spread them around with white card stock as a background. I even added one of the star shaker speech bubbles.

The holographic stars are so much fun, I scattered them around too. I actually felt like I didn't need to add much embellishing. I was fully prepared to add those fuzzy pom poms or the little hearts. As I added the speech bubbles and the stars I listened to my gut and let the bubbles do the talking. 

I used the main kit printables that Gia designed. I loved this #tribe, and really it was one of the things that sparked this layout or at least the direction I wanted to go. I have been wanting to tell the story of my tribe. I have been wanting to document just how special it is to me and what it means to me, I really feel it is so important to me to document these things for my family, my girls. How important it is to find and keep friends close to you and how important they are to having a healthy life. I want my girls to know I loved not just them but others too. What it look like to have real friendships that are positive. If we as women don't tell our story how will those after us now what real friendships and positive relationships and fun looks like. 

To finish my layout I doodled with a black journaling pen around the outside of the white card stock. I added my journalling under my title. I used the word foam glitter Thickers to finish the title. I love the way a patchwork title looks. I finished with my trusty date stamp in just the year. I did this because many of the images were from different dates, and really it didn't matter to me the date as long as I can remember what year it was. 
Here is one last look at my finished layout.

Don't forget to check out the store for all the cut files and printables I used one this layout, as well as quite a few more. There are tons of other cool add ons in the Store as well, use my code Hannah10 and you will get 10% off your order.  Be sure to check out our Holiday Kits (Christmas and we also have some fall workshops ) too. They are still in pre-order but once they are sold out they won't be making more. 
Until next week I hope you stay inspired and let your supplies help guide you to tell your stories and show off those pictures you love!!

Hi there, Gia here bringing you my first Geek Lab post in quite a while. As a very simple scrapper, I don't usually  try anything that involves more than scissors, paper, adhesive...but I am an old dog willing to learn a few new tricks! How about you?  I have a disclaimer right off the bat- I do own a Silhouette Cameo, but it is not the latest one, and my software version is possibly quite out of date. I honestly was still using the very first cartridge only Cricut machine until I broke down and got this Cameo. I am having some issues with it due to the humidity and salty air in Maui and my blades get rusty and dull and the mechanisms of the machine also seem to be making noises they shouldn't be making. I have had to figure out how to work around these issues and keep my cuts on the fairly simple side. That doesn't mean they can't be effective in a layout! So if this tutorial is simple for you, I apologize in advance and understand if you scroll down just to take a peek at the final result! 

I was very excited to get to design a unicorn cut file for the October kit. If you ask any of my friends they will tell you I definitely loved unicorns before it was cool. LOL. So of course it was the first thing I wanted to use when I received my October Clique Kit. Even though the cut file is just one unicorn, I used this simple process to create a background of many unicorns that I wanted to back with the different fun patterns in the Shimelle Glitter Girl collection. We do provide several different options of file types for each cut file design, and if you have the newest machine and/or software you might select the Silhouette Studio file. For this purpose I am using a PNG file.

And here are some close-ups.

I had these Snap Chat selfies and the kit this month was perfect for them.  The unicorn washi tape was one of many awesome add ons this month. I hope you liked this layout and see you again soon!

Hello Clique Kits fans!  Erica here with you today to share a pocket page layout I did yesterday.  Baseball season has started which means my nights will be spent at the baseball fields from now until June!  This year we have two of our kids playing so that will be 4 games a week!  Crafting time will be cut short for this mama but that is ok with me!  Clique Kits has put together kits that make creating quick and simple with coordinating and exclusive products!   

Today I want to share with you what I created yesterday late afternoon right before my son's first baseball game!  I have had these photos of our two youngest boys sitting on my desk and I knew this kit would be a perfect match for the photos!  Debutante has some great black and whites to use as neutrals but also has great pops of color!  The color I wanted to really make pop was the yellow from the swing in the photos!  I knew this kit had a great yellow flair badge that went perfectly and just happens to have the word PLAY on it and the heart shaped colorblock wood veneers with yellow from Pinkfresh Studio are also a perfect match!  Here is a look at my completed pocket page layout!

This style pocket page has room for 4 4x6 photos or cards.  I used two of the 4x6 Clique Kits exclusive journal cards for the top two spots and for the bottom left corner I created my own card using pattern paper from the kit and a white piece of cardstock.  The last 4x6 spot I ended up using the two 3x4 Clique Kits exclusive journal cards together to create one 4x6!  I love how it looks!  These Clique Kits exclusive journal cards are not your typical cardstock journal cards.  They are nice sturdy journal card with a bit of a shine to them!  The quality is amazing and our very own Lacey Gasper has designed each and every one!  I used a regular thin point sharpie to add my journaling and there is no smearing or smudges!  This kit is great for both girl and boy themed projects.  Adding pops of pink instead of the yellow would have made for a very cute girly page for photos of my daughter!  I love that this kit offers the great black and whites and the colorful embellishments so that you can add pops of color where ever your heart desires!  The possibilities are endless with this kit!  Here are a few close ups of my pocket page layout.

Thank you so much for stopping today here on the Clique Kits blog!  I hope you are having as much fun with our first kit as I am!  Please join us next week for our Blog Share featuring Debutante!  We have added a few new items to the Clique Kits shop that coordinate with our first kit that you are just going to love!  So make sure to head on over and check them out!  Also if you missed the sneak peek of our May kit please CLICK HERE to check that out!  I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day!  If you do not already please subscribe to our newsletter and also check us out on Facebook!