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Clique Kits September Challenge

Hello and happy Saturday! I hope you are all having a great weekend so far! I am excited to be bringing you our September challenge! If you have not seen our September kits yet you can check them out HERE and if you have been wanting to get your hands on one you can purchase them in the Clique Kits shop HERE!

 

 

I want to thank everyone who joined The Clique Facebook group last month and linked up to our August challenge! A big congrats to our randomly selected winner, Alison Krogsgaard!

 

 

Please email erica@cliquekits.com to claim your prize! We hope to see you linking up again this month!

We are excited to have another sketch from Creative Scrappers to use as inspiration for our September challenge! The challenge this month is all about highlighting fun ways to use the plaid washi tape-get creative and try thinking outside the box for this one!

 

The winner of the September challenge will receive a washi tape grab bag! Here is a look at what our design team has created for the challenge!

Donna Espiritu

 

 

 

 

Audrey Yeager

 

 

Maryam Perez

Hannah Lemieux

Evi Cortes

 

 

Here are a few details to go along with this months challenge!

  • You may combine our challenge with other challenges
  • You may enter our challenge up to 3 times
  • Link up your projects by October 5th, 11:55 pm CST
  • You are not required to use a Clique Kit to link up
  • Create any type of project

Thank so much for stopping by today! To add your project into our monthly challenge please head on over to The Clique Facebook group and add your project under the September Challenge album!


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Clique Kits Fall/Winter Design Team Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Clique Kits blog!  If you are here for the 2017-2018 Clique Kits Fall/Winter Design Team introduction Blog Hop you have come to the right place.  You should have arrived from Donna’s Blog but if you did not you can start the blog HERE at Maryam’s Blog!   Clique Kits has so much planned for this term and we cannot wait to meet you, create with you, and inspire you.

If you have not already joined The Clique Facebook group we would love to have you!  The Clique Kits Design Team with be active in the group sharing, challenging and inspiring all term!  We are so excited to have these five ladies with us and they are already busy working with our October kits to share with you later this month!  Speaking of October kits we will be giving one October kit to one randomly selected winner!  It wouldn’t be a celebration without a giveaway right?  To enter to win, simply like and follow Clique Kits on Facebook and/or Instagram, and follow the Clique Kits blog. In addition, leave a comment with some love on each blog. We would love it if you tag a friend along the way, and both you and your friend will be granted additional entries. The more you share, the more chances to win. So here we go!

 

Here is the list of blogs to visit in today’s hop. In case you get lost, these links will be posted on every blog including your final destination…the Clique Kits Blog.

Maryam P.  http://maryamperez.blogspot.com/

Hannah  L. http://www.scrapbookpagesandcupcakes.com/blog/

Khristina  S.http://redefinedkreative.blogspot.com/

Reka T.   http://laceandcase.blogspot.hu/

Donna E. http://scrappydonna.blogspot.com/

Clique Kits https://cliquekits.wordpress.com/

Thank you all so much for stopping by today!  We hope you enjoyed the hop and getting to know our new Design Team! Have a great rest of your day!

 

 

 


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Designer in the Spotlight-Ashley Horton

Hello Clique Fans!  Erica here with you today to bring you our Designer in the Spotlight!  Our September Travelers Notebook kit features the Wish You Were Here collection designed by the super talented Ashley Horton!

We are so excited to have Ashley as our Designer in the Spotlight!  You can find Ashley’s collections at Pretty Little Studio and also her fabulous cut files and digital products at The Cut Shoppe!  You can check out Ashley’s blog HERE for a ton of inspiration!

 

 

We want to thank Ashley for taking the time out of her busy day to share a little bit about herself with us!  So grab your drink of choice, curl up in your favorite place and say HELLO to the fabulous Ashley Horton!

What are 3 of your must have tools?

Silhouette Cameo, sewing machine and tape runner

Who are some of your favorite designers?

Paige Evans, Flora Farkas and Zsoka Marko

What inspired you to design the Wish You Were Here collection?

I wanted to do a travel collection, that include a lot of bright colors and different travel icons. And my biggest inspiration came from the super-cute llama that’s a part of the collection!

Favorite movie – The King & I

Favorite color- Yellow

Favorite book- Anne of Green Gables

Favorite food- Fish/Shrimp Tacos

What are your trend predictions for 2018? Do you think we will still see pineapples and flamingos?

It’s always hard to predict what will show up in the paper crafting world, but I think it would be fun to see some collections that reflect the farmhouse look that is so popular in home decor right now. And I wouldn’t mind, if the pineapples and flamingos stick around, because let’s face it, they are always fun to use!

Thanks for connecting with our readers Ashley!  Shrimp tacos are some of my favorite too! Yum!!  Ashley has also created a fun cut file to share with our readers and a couple spreads in her Travelers Notebook using her Wish You Were Here collection!   This file is perfect to use in your travelers notebook or scrapbook layouts and you can download it HERE for free!

Love that llama die cut and how the cut file is the perfect size for the travelers notebook!!  We would love to see how you use this free cut file so make sure to tag Clique Kits and The Cut Shoppe in your projects!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Make sure to follow the Clique Kits blog and Ashley Horton for more inspiration using the September Sundance Travelers Notebook kit and the Wish You Were Here collection!  Enjoy the rest of your day!


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Yearbook with Evi// Electric Love

Hello scrappy peeps!  I am so excited to have the ability to play with the Pink Paislee Summer Lights collection that is featured in the August 2017 kit.  For today’s Yearbook spread, I documented a weekend with family and friends.

The holographic elements in this collection are my favorite.  Once I figured out the photos it was easy to use some of the cut apart elements.

I used the stickers on the outside of the page protector from the 6×12 sheet.  I like doing this to add some interest to my pocket pages.  This months kit also comes with 5 dimensional sea shells that are so amazing but did not use them on this layout but I wanted to include them in the photos.

I did my journaling with a metallic silver pen to go with the holographic elements used in the layout.

I am 23 weeks pregnant here so I like watching my bump grow.  My scrappy friend, Katty Miranda also came by to say hello that day.  I am grateful to live in Florida so photos of palm trees are always needed to document summer.

Hope you have some inspiration for your next pocket page layout.  Enjoy your scrapping.

~Evi


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Give me Sugar! Layout by guest designer Rachel Lowe:

 

Hello everyone well this is my last share as a guest designer for Clique Kits and it has been such fun!

I have loved working with the stunning Malibu Kit!

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And here is my layout titled Give me Sugar! for obvious reasons!

I just adored the CK August exclusive ice cream cut file and just couldn’t resist using it.

I used the ombre striped paper from the main kit papers for the ice cream cut file and then used the sequin mix to finish them off.

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I loved the puffy stickers and I have used the quote puffy sticker in keeping with my theme….give me sugar!

I have foamed mounted my photo so I could tuck embellishments under it like the ice cream and popsicle die cuts. The hexagons are from the sticker sheet.

I added the emoji face die cuts, because who isn’t happy eating ice cream!

I have finished my layout off with sewing a border around my page and adding the cut file word Sweet (in white to keep my page soft).

Here are some close up photos for you:

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I love scrapping ‘no people’ photos like this, it is important to remember such things as favourite foods, seasons, books etc as they are a sum of us!

Thank you so much for stopping by this month to check out my layouts and I hope they have inspired you in some way!


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Field Notes | My Travel Journal

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to share with you a few of the entries of my journals created with this month’s MALIBU TN kit.   The colors of the papers from the Pink Paislee’s Summer Light collection are dreamy, and perfect to document all those vacation, and every day moments.

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As you all know, our family took a long vacation to Ecuador, which means there are plenty of memories to document.  Though i brought some supplies with me,  and actually managed to document a large number of our adventures, there were those days, that only got sketched in hopes to finish the page once i  got to all my supplies.

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This is how one of the planned pages of my travel journal looked like  down in Ecuador.   As you can see I penciled all the story on the right of the page, and actually used the Imaginisce stamp (available at the Clique Store for $1!) to add some hot air balloons to the other page of the tn -most of this pictures were taken on the Gondola ride and up on the mountain at 4100m above sea level, so the air balloons fit the mood-.  Since there were so many pictures taken, i wanted to create a collage for this post, which meant that it will have to be finished on my return home.

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Upon receiving the MALIBU TN kit, i fell in love with one of the papers -since it had this soft blue stripes on it-, as it reminded me of the sky’s color.  First i stamped the image at few times on white paper, cut them, and set them apart for a bit.  Then using some watercolor, I created a blue background on top of the stamped images, and glued the newly created images on top  (this cover all the smudge color inside the air balloons).  Next I pulled some of the cloud chipboard stickers from the MALIBU main kit and attached them here and there.  The title was then created using the Pebbles alphas from the POOL PARTY kit.

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My idea to create the collage changed as the  paper was added to the other side of the TN. Instead, i opted to use LR to create picture strips which were glued to a piece of vellum cut to fit inside the TN.   I folded about 1/4 in on the long side of the vellum so that it could be glued to the tn.  A few CK exclusive printables were then added to the strips to bring some interest to the pictures.

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Since the papers in the MALIBU TN kit are 6x6in, and my TN’s length is of about 8.25in, i had to be crafty to complete the page – i cut some small strips, and added them in the middle of the page.  To hide the seam, the journal of this outing was then wrote on plain copy paper with one of the Prima Neon pens, included in this month’s TN kit,  and then trimmed, and attached to the center of the page.  I really like how easy it was to incorporate the MALIBU kit into my Travel Journal, but it was a pleasant surprise to see how versatile the kit is when documenting every day moments.

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I love how versatile all CK kits are, but i want to show you how easy it was to document the aftermath of  my vacation on my Personal Journal.  Since the house was a mess from unpacking all the bags, I opted to convert the picture to black and white.

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Next I matted the picture with a piece of one of the papers from the MALIBU TN kit, and glued it to the TN insert included in the kit.  I fussy cut some of the words, and images from the Pink Paislee papers, as well as the CK exclusives to create the cluster on this page.

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Though unpacking is never pleasant, i chose to add cheeriness to this memory by combining the tissue paper (that the kits come wrapped with) with this month’s printables, and alphas included in the kit.   The color combo matches that of the picture, and brings the spread all together.

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AS you can see this month’s MALIBU TN kit is not only gorgeous but versatile, too.   It can easily be used to scrap all those special summer/vacation memories, as well as those simple every day moments.  Remember there is still a few TN subscriptions available, so take some time to visit the Clique Kits website to check all the kits and exclusives.

I am a comment away if you have any questions on how these came together.
See you all soon!

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Clique Kits August Challenge

Hello and happy Saturday!  I hope you are all having a great weekend so far!  I am excited to be bringing you our August challenge!  If you have not seen our August kits yet you can check them out HERE and if you have been wanting to get your hands on one you can purchase them in the Clique Kits shop HERE!  Don’t forget our Back to School sale!  Use the code SCHOOl17 at checkout to save 25% off your total order!

I want to thank everyone who joined The Clique Facebook group last month and linked up to our July challenge!  A big congrats to our randomly selected winner Bethany Roisland!

Please email erica@cliquekits.com to claim your prize!  We hope to see you linking up again this month!

We are excited to have another sketch from Creative Scrappers to use as inspiration for our August challenge!  The challenge this month is Title Play -create a fun title with a mix of thickers, stickers, cutfiles!  Here is a look at this months sketch!

The winner of the August challenge will receive a prize pack of fun and trendy alpha stickers!  This sticker bundle is amazing and has a ton of great alpha stickers!  Here is a look at what our design team has created for the challenge!

CANDACE PERKINS

EVI CORTES

HANNAH LEMIEUX

MELISSA ELSNER

NICOLE MARTEL

REKA TUROCZI

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR RACHEL LOWE

Here are a few details to go along with this months challenge!

  • You may combine our challenge with other challenges
  • You may enter our challenge up to 3 times
  • Link up your projects by September 6th, 11:55 pm CST
  • You are not required to use a Clique Kit to link up
  • Create any type of project

Thank so much for stopping by today!  To add your project into our monthly challenge please head on over to The Clique Facebook group and add your project under the August Challenge album!


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Guest Designer Rachel Lowe – Love Summer Layout:

I am so thrilled to be here as a guest designer for Clique Kits all the way from Australia!

When the Malibu kit arrived it was a swoon moment, how beautiful is it!

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I have created a 12 x 12 layout today.

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I love white on white and so I started with using this wonderful Clique cut file Love, which is the Valentine 2016 cut file.

I knew I wanted the theme of my layout to be Love Summer.

I then chose another Clique cut file which was the August 2016 cut file as it reminded me of a Hibiscus flower.  When I cut this I kept the centres of the leaves and then cut the petals from the patterned paper.

I wanted my Hibiscus cut file to have height so I foam taped the petals and leaves.

Now for the fun part, embellishing! I created a polaroid shaped mat for my photo and added some random machine sewing on it to add texture.

I hand cut the mermaid from the journal card paper and scattered the sequin mix around her.

I created a cluster embellishment to the left of my photo, layering for visual interest.

I added a sticker heart to the top of my page adding a word sticker Summer. Often my title is not prominent on my page but more of a subtle theme that is evident through out my layout.

Here are some close up photos for you:

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I love simplicity and pretty, that being my aim of this layout. I hope you agree!

Thank you for joining me today and I will see you again soon.

If you would like to see more of my work please head to my blog:

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Or my Instagram account

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Mood Board – August 2017

EEKS!!! Yes, I’m screaming because I’m SO EXCITED about the August kit! Today I’m going to share with you the August Kit Mood Board and of course some SNEAK PEEKS!!!! I hope you love this kit as much as I do! Lets first start with our kit name. We have titled our August 2017 Kit: Malibu!! I feel like this name is a PERFECT fit for the kit and it’s contents.

If you love that logo, WAIT till you see the Mood Board! I love putting mood boards together. This was one of may favorite things to do in design school and I love doing it for my clients as well. It’s a great process to really find the feel of a project. So creating mood boards for Clique Kits is one of my favorite things to do. This mood board came together so easily. I had so many images it was hard to choose what to use. So I hope you find this board as inspiring as I do!

Do you have ANY clue yet what paper line we may be featuring in our August 2017 Kit? If you don’t yet, maybe these sneak peek images will help you out!!

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Travelers Notebook Sneak Peeks

Subscriptions: If you are interested in subscribing, please e-mail us at info@cliquekits.com. We have a few subscription spots to fill. We will fill on a first come first serve basis.

Don’t Forget to join us on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 for

  • the FULL Kit reveal
  • join me on the Clique Kits Facebook page for a LIVE Facebook video of the kit!
  • Our INSTAGRAM Pep Rally (Project Share of the July Kit)
  • August Add On Products in our Shop (Already available for subscribers if you sign into our website The Clique > Clique Market)

Subscribers can view the FULL kit now on our website (The Clique > Kit Preview) and purchase add on products.

Finally don’t forget our Christmas in July Sale is happening NOW!!! 30% off all store products. Use discount code: SALE at checkout.

Have an amazing Sunday!!

 


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Clique Kits July Challenge

Hello Clique Fans!  Erica here with you to bring you our July challenge!  First thank you to everyone who added projects in our Clique Facebook group for the June challenge!  The randomly selected winner for June is Denis Montecinos!  Please email erica@cliquekits.com to claim your prize!  We hope to see you again this month for our July challenge!

This month our challenge is ANYTHING GOES so have fun and lets so those projects everyone!  I know a lot of you are scrapping your summer memories so add them to the July challenge album in the Clique Facebook group for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Clique Kits shop!

Here is a look at some inspiration from a few of our design team members using the July 2017 kits!

HANNAH

NATHALIE

EVI

Remember you can link up in The Clique Facebook Group HERE!

Here are a few details about the challenge!

  • You may combine our challenge with other challenges
  • You may enter our challenge up to 3 times
  • Link up your projects by August 3rd, 11:55 pm CST
  • You are not required to use a Clique Kit to link up.
  • Create any type of project

Thank so much for stopping by today!