12 Kits of Occasions - January '17

 

Good morning!  I'm so excited that not only is this the first 12 Kits of Occasions post of the new year, but it also is my month to host. :) I chose my color scheme about 8 months ago, and it is one that I love, so I packed my kit full of things that I love.  We have a few new faces joining us this month.  Birgit Norton is joinus us as our newest Design Team member.  Yay!  I invited my friend Leigh Penner (who I love!) to be my guest designer, and we have a second guest designer as well, the super sweet Kathy McCloskey who won my kit giveaway. 

I have so much fun collecting supplies throughout the year for my kits.  This kit was extra fun to use because with the exception of just a couple things, I hadn't used any of the supplies before I created my cards.   First up is one of my favorites.  I love this little fox.  He's a digital image (Fantastic Mr. Fox by Just ME Prints), and I think he is adorable.  I'm also so excited to finally use this floral spray from Clearly Besotted's Fairytale Ending set and MFT's Jumbo Peek-a-Boo Circle Window.  I've loved them both since the first time I saw them. 

Next up is a super simple card for my husband.  I absolutely love this line of word dies from Simon Says Stamp and wish I had every single one.

Next up are the fun Flashy Florals from MFT and a favorite Concord & 9th set of mine, Kindhearted.  After all, to be kind is one of my biggest goals in life.

On a trip to Michael's a few months ago I stumbled across a pad of DCWV Favor Boxes that just happened to be almost the exact colors from my kit.  There are a bunch of different patterns and styles all pre-cut and scored, which made putting the box together easy peasy.

The paper pad even came with different tags/bows/banners to embellish the boxes, but I used a flower form Altenew's Beautiful Day to top it off instead.

This next one was kind of fun.  I had stamped out a few of the images from Altenew's Adore You set on a paper for everyone with fairly big spaces around each image, so they could cut them out.  But when I got my paper out to cut out the flowers, I really liked the black and white images all together, so I got my stamp set back out and filled in all the spaces with smaller stamped images.  The little scallops are actually a row of circles from one of the patterned papers that I cut out.

My final card uses the Big Hugs Die from MFT and Concord & 9th's Hello Lovely, which I have had for month's but never used.  I was a bit intimidated to color it, which was silly because they have stamps that do all the work for you!  I did, however, opt to try out my Zig markers to color the images.  I'm still trying to figure out Zigs.  I decided to use a paintbrush this time instead of a waterbrush like I usually use with them, and I liked the results a lot better.

One last shot of my cards.  I hadn't realized it, but apparently I was in the mood for flowers when I sat down to create because I think I used nearly every single one from the kit.

And as I mentioned before, with the exception of two things, all the stamps and dies I used on my cards today were NBUS, so I am entering them into Darnell's awesome NBUS #10 Challenge as well as Simon Says Anything Goes Wednesday Challenge.  And as a fun side note: Darnell's optional theme was to use whatever holiday it is to inspire your card (you know, the silly holidays you've probably never heard of).  For instance, did you know that today is National Inspire Your Heart With Art Day?  Seems fitting for the occasion, huh?

  

I have several more cards in the works from this kit to hopefully share soon.  I'm consistent in that I always run out of time, and since I truly loved everything I included in the kit, I want to use it all!  If you'd like the full supply list for my kit, you can find that on the 12 Kits Blog HERE.  Oh, and you'll definitely want to head over to the 12 Kits of Occasions blog right away.  First, you will love what the other designer's created.  Second, you do not want to miss out on the giveaway there!!!  The oh-so-generous Jeanne is giving away two of her upcoming kits, and they are guaranteed to be packed chock full of fabulousness!  Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you have a wonderful week!
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