Little Nugget Creations: Adventure Today / Hip Kit Club

Friday, August 26, 2016

Adventure Today / Hip Kit Club

It's Friday! Woo hoo! Today I'm sharing another layout I created for Hip Kit Club. I used the 2016 August Hip Kits, and they are just so fun! My theme assignment for this was to "supersize" it. I wanted to cut the large letters in various patterned papers on my Cameo, but it got a virus and I couldn't get it to work for a few days. So I used some large old letters from my MME stash and traced them like stencils. I ran them off the page and created a big background title for the design. Since that was so big and took up the entire page, I went with two smaller photos on both sides of the page.

I alternated using patterned papers in some letters and using the Prima Oil Pastels from the Color Kit to create color shading in the other ones. I machine stitched around each painted letter and then embellished all around the layout.

This was a very different color scheme for me, but I love how it looks. I really loved using those pastels to create the shading in the letters. It just took a little bit of color and a little bit of water to blend it. I used one of the Dear Lizzy Thicker words as a smaller part of the title. I also used a fussy cut scalloped piece that was black, but I lightened it up using the white pastel.

I used a few die cuts & Project Life cards to layer behind my photo here, and I layered some of the Amy Tangerine Oh Happy Life clear stickers and die cuts. That cute wood veneer arrow is from the Pink Paislee Take Me Away collection. I finished this area off with some grey tangled thread.

I'm obsessed with how this looks! The grey pastel looks so good blended with water! Here I added another heart die cut, more clear stickers and a fussy cut doilie. I think the machine stitching really gave the letters a nice pop and clean edge.