JANUARY 2016 HIP KIT REVEAL!!!

I am so thrilled to share the January 2016 Hip Kits today!  This month’s kits feature products from Hello Love, B-Side, My Story and more!  I love the bright colors splashed with gold accents.  The black & white & grey are great neutrals that give this collection the perfect balance.  There are tons of fabulous embellishment that will make adding texture, dimension & detail to your projects a breeze.  

I hope you like what we have in store for you as much as we do! 

Note:  our January Kits will begin shipping the week of January 8th – as several of the products aren’t expected to be received until January 2nd.

HIP KIT CLUB JANUARY 2016 MAIN KIT

Hip Kit Club Member Price:  $29.95 (requires a 3 month minimum subscription)CLICK HERE to join!Individual Kit Purchase Price:  $34.95

Products Included:

• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – You & Me Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Smitten Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – My Valentine Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Blush Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Maggie Holmes Shine – Sweet Life Paper
• 1 sheet – Basic Grey – B-Side – Maybe Paper
• 1 sheet – Basic Grey – B-Side – Prom Date Paper
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Typewriter Paper
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Take Aim Paper (gold foil)
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Grandma’s Quilt (gold foil)
• 1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Wood Veneer Shapes
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Chipboard Shapes
• 1 pkg. – We R Memory Keepers – Crush – Gold Thickers
• 1 pkg. – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Designer Brads
• 1 pkg. – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Rub-Ons

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HIP KIT CLUB – JANUARY 2016 EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $27.95**Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 set HKC Exclusive Vellum Words (length 3″ – 5″)
• HKC Exclusive Acrylic Confetti – 20 assorted pieces
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Everyday Cardstock Stickers
• 1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Layered Tags
• 1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Resin Hearts
• 1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Maggie Holmes – Puffy Stickers
• 1 roll – American Crafts – Pink & Gold Wide Washi Tape

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HIP KIT CLUB – JANUARY 2016 COLOR ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $20.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 6×6 HKC Exclusive Heart Confetti Stencil designed by Kim Watson
• 1 jar – Shimmerz – Dazzlerz – Pucker Up Pink Texture Paste
• 1 tube – Heidi Swapp – Gold Texture Paste

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HIP KIT CLUB – JANUARY 2016 PROJECT LIFE ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $29.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 set – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Journaling Cards
• 1 pkg. – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Stickers
• 1 pkg. – Heidi Swapp – Aqua Glitter Puffy Alphabet Stickers
• 1 pkg. – Heidi Swapp – Black & White Number Puffy Stickers
• 1 book – Heidi Swapp – Gold Clear Accent Stickers
• 1 pkg. – My Mind’s Eye – Chipboard Buttons
• 4 assorted – Heidi Swapp – Glitter Bows

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HIP KIT CLUB – JANUARY 2016 PAPER ADD-ON KIT

Price:  $12.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – You & Me Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Smitten Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – My Valentine Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Hello Love – Blush Paper
• 1 sheet – Crate Paper – Maggie Holmes Shine – Sweet Life Paper
• 1 sheet – Basic Grey – B-Side – Maybe Paper
• 1 sheet – Basic Grey – B-Side – Prom Date Paper
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Typewriter Paper
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Take Aim Paper (gold foil)
• 1 sheet – My Mind’s Eye – My Story – Grandma’s Quilt (gold foil)

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HIP KIT CLUB – JANUARY 2016 CARDSTOCK ADD-ON KIT
Price:  $10.95*
*Hip Kit Club members receive a 15% off on all Add-On Kit purchases

Products Included:

• 2 sheets – American Crafts White Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts White Vellum
• 2 sheets – American Crafts Begonia Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts Light Kraft Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts Granite Cardstock
• 2 sheets – American Crafts Fountain Cardstock

35 minute challenge!

Do you ever find yourself slipping into the 'take-forever', 'gotta be perfect', 'up a bit', 'down a bit' scrapbooking type of mode??
Hmmmm, well I do :o/ & some-days it just takes forever!!

So every now & then I challenge myself to try some 'quick', 'grab whatever is handy' kinda pages. I did these a little while back when I had a gap & needed to just scrap for scrapping' sake. It was such fun setting the kitchen timer & then saying 'on-your-marks-GO!' & seeing what happened.
So even though the page styles are a lot simpler than I normally scrap, & the product is older I am SO happy with the results.

I challenge you to try this too sometime.

Best buds by Kim Watson

Supplies: American Crafts, Sassafras, Pink Paislee, Basic Grey

Hot Summer by Kim Watson

Supplies: October Afternoon

24*7 action by Kim Watson

Supplies: Sassafras, October Afternoon, American Crafts, Adornit

Thanks for stopping by...and remember to link me up to your projects so I can take a look too .
Have a super Monday!
KJ

Loving patterned paper!

I have a special love for patterned paper & enjoy the challenge of mixing patterns, colors & suppliers together in a way that eventually says...wow! Over the years I have gotten more confident when mixing unorthodox patterns & designs. It has become more of a feel than a science.
How do you go about choosing which patterns to combine together? Do you stick to collections or suppliers or is it by design type or color, or is it whatever is lying close to the top of the pile on your scrap table. I'd love to know.

Here are a few examples for you to enjoy:

Vintage nut by Kim Watson
I used a huge collection of American crafts loveliness here, from their Junior line.

**As seen in the  Tips & Tricks Paper, Special issue 2010 of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.

You & Me by Kim Watson

**As seen in the  Tips & Tricks Paper, Special issue 2010 of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.

Know this by Kim Watson

**As seen in the Tips & Tricks Paper, Special issue 2010 of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Copyright Creative Crafts Group. Posted with prior permission from the publisher.

For this page I hauled out my stamps & fancy stamp markers courtesy of American Crafts & Close to my Heart. They really give a new angle to stamping by allowing multi-colors to be added to one stamp. I'm a convert to stamping because of them!

Thanks for stopping by!
KJ

Pretty in Pink.

The Color Rooms palette #6 is up, & looking gorgeous!

I made this page, You & Me, for the palette using a lovely mixture of papers from:

• American crafts
• Studio Calico
• Basic Grey
• Prima marketing
• Fancy Pants

This page below is one made from Cocoa Daisy's May kit, Jack &
Jill.The gorgeous sticker sets I used are from:

• Little Yellow bicycle
• American Crafts Dear Lizzy
• October afternoon

 NOW the good news is that while I was making my tissue paper flowers for this page, I actually got my act together & photographed my process. So was able to put together a little tutorial together. ENJOY!

If you have a moment pop over to The Color Room. There is so much inspiration in the gallery, you will be blown away!
Happy Friday to you all.
KJ

Creative feeling!

When I open my January Cocoa Daisy kit this month...I was swamped by 'the creative feeling' of one who hadn't scrapped for the 3 weeks while the children were on vacation. I succumbed.....and scrapped my fill in two days, these are the result.

The American crafts Letterbox line & Basic Grey Origins collection makes up the bulk of this kit. If you haven't grabbed yourself any, you don't know what you are missing.....look at these colours!! Tricia still has a couple to buy in the store.

Thanks for stopping by.
KJ

Holiday antics!

This post is a mish-mash of pic's and things we have gotten up to lately. Being school holidays Cas is with us until Sunday and needless to say her brother is CRAZY happy that his sister is around........although it didn't take long for him to get over his euphoria and start harassing her. She protests @ the antics he subjects her to but secretly I think she loves the attention she gets from her nutty 'fan'! It all started this am when she asked me to take some photo's of her outfit she was wearing: "For Grams to see on your blog, mama". It started off well but the shoot got hijacked by Maxi on his trike......I did manage to get a few pic's for you tho' Grams before hand>>>>

SUCH A POSER!!!!

Then the TERROR ON A TRIKE..... STRUCK!!


CHAOS ENSUED!!!

Even tho' there is a six year age gap, Cas & Max play really well together. I love eves dropping on their conversations.....yesterdays one was a real hoot.

M: Cas why are you not talking to me???
C: Silence
M: Cas just talk!!!
C: Silence
M: Cas not talking is unacceptable behaviour! {just like that folks...with perfect diction} if you don't get your bad attitude right you will have to go to the barf-room!!!
I almost pee'd in my pants laughing.......he repeated a sentence, I obviously say to him quite often, word-for-word. From the mouth of babes, hey?

The other thing that is high on my list of YUKKIE things to do, is grocery shopping. I hate it, finding parking, locating a trolley who's wheels actually turn around, convincing Maxi that we'll be quick {ha! joke of the century} & then finding everything we need is either out of stock or been relocated to isle 13....that doesn't exist. Why on earth they haven't just developed a pill so we could by pass the cooking/eating thing, I dunno???? Maybe the answer is a replicator machine....like they have on the Enterprise in Star Trek Next Generation......life would be far less complicated if we had a dozen or so of those.

To make grocery shopping bearable for Moeks I tend to visit the Pick 'n Pay's stores with those pay and ride 'toys' for the littlies. The way it works is, good behaviour "might" mean a ride....I tend to keep my options open just in case 'Murphy' shows up. Maxi has 'been there & done every type of ride there is and has every T-shirt' as they say. These are just some of them.



Well folks, thats all for now. I better take advantage of Maxi napping & Cas being at a friend to play.....the quiet will probably only last another hour.....and I have a million page calls to get finished....aaarrh!! I am about to crack open some of my new basic grey run-ons.......beautiful or what girls??????

Now the challenge is to work out how to use the darn things.....LOL!

Have a lovely day & hopefully I will chat again soon.

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