One More Kit Club Layout

After publishing the January kit club post, it occurred to me that I hadn't used the optional add-ons that I got. I'd put them aside from the main kit and forgot about them. I had a bit of paper left from the kit, so I made this last simple layout.

Never Stop Wandering

I love the bold reds and greens on this layout; a beautiful contrast of colours. The photos were taken at a waterfall during our Japan trip in October.

I die cut some embellishments and inked them with distress inks. I love the Petaloo flowers which match the flower colours in the background floral paper.

Still loving the clear word stickers and placed some rub on sequins around the page. The tiny geotag die cuts are too cute.

I've recently been reorganizing and streamlining my photos better so hopefully I'll be able access my photos more efficiently and get more layouts done. That's one of my resolutions for this year. Do you have any scrapbook/craft resolutions?

Thanks for dropping by,

HK Memory Chest Kit Club - January 2015

Happy New Year to everyone. 2014 has been quite eventful but good year with lots of holidays and ending with moving flats and a wonderful Christmas. December was definitely busy but we're all settled in now and I could finally sit down and do some layouts.

The January kit is lovely and bright, with lots of gold scattered in the kit - I'm loving this trend. It also comes with some enormous clear word/phrase stickers; great for layouts, albums, diaries or even as laptop cover art - so fun.

January Kit 2015
Heidi Swapp September Skies – Alpine Rose
Heidi Swapp September Skies – Aspen
Heidi Swapp September Skies – Mountain Trail
Heidi Swapp September Skies – Dusk
Heidi Swapp September Skies – Open Air
Heidi Swapp Hello Today Puffy Glitter Stickers – Silver Shapes
Heidi Swapp Hello Today Spot Varnish Chipboard Window Frames
Heidi Swapp Hello Today Rub-Ons – Confetti
Heidi Swapp September Skies Attachment Clips
Me & My Big Ideas Large Word Stickers – Be You
Little B Foil Tape – Gold Chevron
Studio Calico Essentials Cork Shapes – Cameras
Bo Bunny Kraft Laser-Cut Wood Embellishments – That’s Life

Optional Add-ons
Petaloo Penny Lane Mixed Blossoms – Antique Red
Sizzix Thinlits Dies – Notebook Base/Layering Shapes
Papermania Mini Pigment Ink Pads 20/Pkg – Assorted Colors
Heidi Swapp September Skies Clear Stamps

Here's the sketch for this month:

 Beautiful Mind Spirit Heart

A bright, airy layout with green and white as the main colours.

I love these transparent word stickers; you can cut them apart or keep them whole. Also loving the rub on sequins.

I added some stamping to the background for more visual interest.

I love the wood accents; I kept some plain and added pink glitter to the geotag to pull your eye into the photos.

Be Awesome

 I decided to go with circles on this layout, scattering them across the page in a visual line. I like the background paper as it reminds me of wood and goes with the nature photo.

 I added a rim of gold archival marker around each circle to emphasize them more.

I love the pack of silver puffy stickers - full of hearts, stars and arrows to add that extra bling to your page. The little cork cameras are too cute.

Be Brave Be Bold

 Such a bright red polka dot paper, I knew I had to use it with the swing photos even if I had done a previous swing layout already.

I love the huge titles which you can lay under or over other embellishments.

I freehanded some circles with an embossing pen before embossing with gold. For the heart, I layered the foil tape edge to edge over some scrap paper before die cutting out the heart shape.

Some layouts from the rest of the DT:

 Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful by Belly Lau

Friends Forever by Belly Lau

 You Are Enough by Belly Lau

 Less Is More by Belly Lau

Happy Color Runners by Erika Lui

Be Brave Be Bold Be You

Chai Wan Crop

13th January (Tuesday)

10:30am - 12:30pm

Hosted by Belly Lau

15th January (Thursday)

10:30am - 12:30pm

Hosted by Grace Wong

Note that my crop session is on Thursday as I'll be away on both viable Tuesdays and Belly's crop will on Tuesday instead. Just for this month. 

Hoping to see you at crop,

HK Memory Chest Kit Club - December 2014

Apologies for being a little late with the December kit post - been moving house (flat), this week and boy, was that tough. We spent last week packing up everything - and I can tell you there were 19 large boxes for my scrapbooking stuff alone!

When hubby first moved to Hong Kong, he only had 21 boxes for all his belongings. How far we've come in fifteen years - now we just have so much, it's hard to keep track of all our items. Time to downsize, maybe? Ha! We won't be starting with my scrapbook stuff, that's for sure. It took us five full days, working until 8pm every night to get the flat in order and everything out of boxes. Quite a feat, but the flat is now a home. If I have time, I'll have to do a photo tour of my scrapbook area.

Before all the upheaval and packing, I was able to finish a layout and a mini calendar with the December kit. This kit was very interesting as it is themed with cats and dogs, but that doesn't mean you must be a pet owner to use it. I think it's cute to use them as accents to compliment your layouts and if you look at my calendar, it doesn't really shout out "pets" to me. Again, this kit is packed with gorgeous embellishments to adorn your pages.

December Kit 2014
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs – Cats Meow
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs – Check It Out
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs – Precious Pets
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs – Well Bred
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs – Animal House
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs Chipboard Die-Cuts Sheet – Journaling
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs Cardstock Die-Cuts – Banners
Maya Road Vintage Alterable Lace Trim – Mini Mums
Maya Road Vintage Metal Charms – Umbrella
Maya Road Vintage Linen Burlap Trim – Lime
Maya Road Transparencies Die-Cuts – Time Flies Clock/White
Jillibean Soup Beanboard Thin Chip Alphas
Jillibean Soup Wood Sprinkles Self-Adhesive Embellishments
Petaloo Penny Lane Mixed Blossoms – Black
Doodlebug Doilies

Optional Add-ons
Kaisercraft Wood Flourishes – Umbrellas
Prima Lifetime Shaped Metal Paper Clips – Clocks
Prima Gem Embellishments – Clear
Graphic 45 Raining Cats & Dogs Cardstock Stickers
Sizzix Framelits Dies with Clear Stamps – Beautiful You

Here's the sketch for this month:

Meowy

 It's so hard to capture good photos of animals and after several attemps, I finally got one where Miss Molly looks bright eyed and bushy tailed. I love the subtle newspaper print on the background page and wanted to show more of it, so kept a lot of white space. The row of cat postage stamps are too cute.

Miss Molly's my little meowy cat, as I call her. The green letters stand out from the browns and blacks of the page.

 A few fussy cut flowers soften the layout and provides a 'frame' around the photo.

The brass umbrella and clock are too cute and there are loads of them in this kit so you can use them everywhere.

2015 Calendar

The calendar is around 4"x6" in size. I created a small monthly calendar through excel and matted each one with black cardstock. I gathered similar embellishments to tie the pages together (lace flowers, chipboard, clock transparencies, flowers and umbrellas). The letter pack was more than enough to make up the months in the calendar, although I did need to turn a W into an M for May. For the life of me, I couldn't get March to upload to this post, mainly because I'm hotspotting off my phone, not having any internet for the last six days and my service provider dragging their feet.

Here are the other layouts and projects from our team:

Mini Album Box Set by Belly Lau

 Care by Belly Lau

 Folding Mini Album by Erika Lui

White Dragon by Erika Lui

All You Need Is  Love And A Dog by Erika Lui

This kit is so versatile; mini albums, calendars, layouts and project life layouts. Such fun to work with.

Chai Wan Crop

9th December (Tuesday)

10:30am - 12:30pm

Hosted by Grace Wong

 

11th December (Thursday)

10:30am - 12:30pm

Hosted by Belly Lau

Looking forward to seeing you at the crops on the above dates.

Happy scrapping,

Swing

Oh gosh, this month has me chewing my fingernails to the quick. We made the very quick decision to sell the flat we live in and had to find another place. Anyone who's moved knows the stress that comes with it. Lots of packing, sorting, arranging, hair pulling. We've been in our current flat for five years; not a hugely long amount of time, but we've accumulated our fair share of "junk". Packing boxes will come on Sunday and then it's pack, pack, pack! Oh my, my scrapbook stuff!! Just the thought of moving all of that has me breaking out in hives.

And all before that, I still have a few layouts I need to get out for HKMC's December kit. In the last week, I did manage to get one layout done during our crop session. This one features the main kit from MCS and I also used the sketch they sent with my kit. It's the same sketch that they are using for the November sketch challenge - of which I haven't submitted any work for the last few months. Time to get back into it again.

This is the sketch from My Creative Sketches

Here's my layout for the sketch

Swing

I love this kit so much as it had a TON of embellishments - die cuts, vellum cut outs, flower cut outs - all to match the papers. It made it so easy to put pages together.

 I love how the die cuts had a mix of normal, gold foil and glitter ephemera for you to pick and chose from.

 Look at the vellum pieces. I so love the hand written vellum pieces.

I added a wooden butterfly from my stash to this cluster.

Products Used

Papers, embellishments and ephemera from Crate Paper Open Book collection

Wooden butterfly from Studio Calico

Chipboard alphas from American Crafts

Photo mat pink cardstock from Bazzill

There is still so much of the kit left and I hope I have time after the move (and before Christmas) to do another layout with them. 

Thanks for dropping by and wish me luck on the move.