Hello, lovelies! Donna here with a new scrapbook layout using the September "Farmhouse" Main kit. This kit is just beautiful, I so love it.

There's still a couple of kits left so hurry and go to the store to grab it!

Here is the layout I made for today. It's really simple but I love how it turned out

I cut the "thankful" cut file several times and adhered it together so i has depth even without foam tape. I used one of the papers in the kit to mat the stenciled/color splattered  white cardstock. I also cut a couple of strips of paper to create vertical edge borders.

Embellished the layout with a mixture of fussy cut and ephemera die cuts.

I love the combination of colors in this kit, super pretty

I hope my project inspired you to create something today!
Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

Hello, everyone!!!! Donna here today with you sharing my first layout using the  May 2018 "Riga" Main  Kit.  I love the fresh and soft colors in this kit which features different collections from Pinkfresh Studio.

And this is the scrapbooking layout I came up with for today's post:

I added a bit of texture by splattering some yellow, coral and green mists and also stamped images using teal, green and yellow inks. I used  a Vicki Boutin stamp from a previous kit.

The layout design is pretty simple but because I used a cut file and added colors to the background, I think it's safe to say it turned out really cute! To add height, I adhered the doily and photo with foam tape. Then, I embellished the left side of the photo with a small cluster of floral, leaves, and tassel bow.

The cut file is from The CutShoppe by Ashley Horton. I backed it with one of the papers in the kit that has multiple patterns. I used foam tape again to add height. Then, I alternated some of the itty bitty pennants in between the XOXO letters. 

And for the final touch, I randomly adhered sequins all throughout the layout.

That's all from me today! I hope you liked my layout as much I do. Have a blessed day! 
Happy crafting,

Hello lovelies, Theresa here today to share a layout featuring the April Butterfly Cut File! As soon as I saw this beautiful file I knew I had to use it! Take a peek at what I did with it.

I have a favorite project I like to create for, and it is called Things I Need to Hear. I started this project a few years ago as a way to create layouts about myself, using selfies, and to remind myself of the things my Mom might say to me, if she were still alive. I also hope one day our daughters will read these affirmations in *my voice* as reminders to them! So this layout is for that project, using a selfie I took in March of this year. I have titled it Embrace All That You Are and journaled about how people will try to tell you all kinds of not nice things, but don't believe them Embrace all that you are!

Cut files are full of possibilities, aren't they? My favorite thing to do with them is to paint them! And oh my word, the Clique Kits shop has a  most beautiful paint you are going to want to grab right away. It's the DecoArt Metallic Paint in Rose Gold. Once I cut my butterflies out and layered them over my patterned paper, I arranged my embellishments and titles on the page, and then grabbed my paint brush. This is so easy to do, even if you don't feel very *painterly* because all I did was echo the lines of the cut file using simple brush strokes and dots! I used the very tiniest paint brush I had to create the dots, but you could also use the end of your brush as well.

Once I had painted my butterflies, I wanted to repeat the dots around the page as well. I have placed my title in a circle around the page, and so it seemed natural to echo the title and add a few more dotted lines that lead your eye directly to my photo. I also used the dots from the i's and j's in the Maggie Holmes alphabet pack to add a bit of dimension to the butterflies, just in their centers.

I added just a few embellishments, some are from the April Winter Park kit and some are from the Traveler's Notebook kit. I absolutely adore the deer, so she is layered on top of a rose, and the vellum bird directs your eye into the photo as well from the other side.

Notice how everything is placed so carefully to lead your eye right into the photo on this page, from the title, the bird, the pretty deer, and the painted dots. 

This has been so much fun to create and share with you! Thanks for joining me! Have you ever painted your cut files before? I hope this will inspire you to use them in new ways!

Hello! Donna here with a new scrapbook layout using the April "Winter Park" Kit featuring the beautiful Flourish collection by Maggie Holmes. 

I also used one of the exclusive cut files designed by the talented Maryam Perez

This is what I came up with.  I splattered a mixture of watercolors and glimmer mists to create a colorful mixed media background. 

I trimmed about a quarter of an inch off two sides of the white cardstock and then adhered to the blue patterned paper which is a leftover from the offset of the cut file "Enjoy Life". I used foam tapes to adhere it onto the base. 

To make the white cardstock cut file stand out a bit more, I slightly brushed the edges with pink watercolor.

Then, I popped some of the cute stickers with foam tape as well  for a bit of dimension

I really love how this turned out! It was so easy to create because everything is in the kit already! If you haven't yet, do subscribe because the kits always sell so fast! Don't forget to use the code DONNA10 for a discount when you purchase from the CK Store.

Hope you liked my project today. Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

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!!