Hip Kit Club | Scrapbook Layout | Halloween Themed & Cutfile
Hey friends, how was your Halloween? Did you celebrate and go trick-or-treating? This week the theme for the projects on the Hip Kit Club blog was, of course, Halloween – which was a bit of a challenge for me, to be honest. Because since we don’t really celebrate Halloween, I don’t have any of the typical photos you would use on a layout like that. And on top of that, I was also asked to use one of the Hip Kit Club cutfiles for my project.
This meant that this layout was going to be SO out of my comfort zone: Halloween-themed, use a cutfile, colours that I don’t often use, let alone together, and so on 😉 But I dusted off my Silhouette die cutting machine*, cut this cutfile (which you can download over on the HKC website) and soldiered on. I actually had only really one set of photos that I could use for this page: the photos of my Halloween treat bags and gift boxes that I made two years ago (and I shared them on the blog here).
Hip Kit Club | Let’s Get Spooky | October 2018
I used the October 2018 Hip Kits for this project and they are filled with the new Pink Paislee/Paige Evans “Whimsical” collection, parts of Vicki Boutin’s new “Field Notes” collection and some Pebbles/Jen Hadfield “Along the Way” and I think they all coordinate beautifully! Since there are no actual Halloween-themed products in the kits, however, I had to get creative. So what I did was search for all the orange, purple and black and white pieces in the kits to pick up on the colours in my photos.
For my title I mixed the gold Thickers from Crate Paper’s “Willow Lane” collection with the purple puffy alphas from Pinkfresh Studio’s “Indigo Hills 2” and I added some “spooky” eyes with some enamel dots 😉 I even added some handwritten journaling to document the fact that – although we don’t celebrate Halloween, and I don’t usually like working with orange and purple too much – I absolutely enjoy creating Halloween-themed projects!
Finally, I sprinkled some paint splatters and enamel dots around my page and added some machine stitching in orange (along the top and bottom edge) and gold (for the spider descending from the spiderweb).
I am really happy with how this layout turned out, especially considering how much out of my comfort zone this was. I always love creating projects for challenges like this because they usually turn out being some of my favourite since they pushed me to try something new.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this layout and it inspires you to get out of your comfort zone as well and try something you normally don’t!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Kathleen
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