Hi all! Decorator Shannon here with your second week of 4 Play. I’ve picked four different kits that we’ve mixed and matched into 4 unique layouts. Using multiple kits is one of my favorite things to do. I hope you’ll play along with us!
The four kits I chose this week are:
(Remarkable elements by Karla Dudley, Clear Essentials 1 by Karla Dudley, Oceanside by Robyn Meierotto, Barely There Masks by Tiffany Tillman)
Layout by Shannon Dombkowski
I love the bright colors in Robyn’s kit and wanted to play them up by pairing the papers with more neutral kits. The colors make me think of having fun outdoors so, naturally, I chose a picture of my daughter playing outside. And I love using Karla’s clear elements because they add a bit of decoration without needing to add any more color.
Layout by Allison Waken
Allison says: “It was fun playing with these 4 kits and seeing them in new ways! I chose to keep my layout pretty simple while still adding some fun elements here and there.”
Layout by Jen Papadimitriou
Jen says: “Combining these kits made it super easy to find enough product to create my page. There is something so freeing about being told what to use! I loved the silver rimmed tags – it reminded me of my ‘old school’ stash, so I clipped a bunch of patterns to each one. I then used the grid brush behind everything to add some texture and finished it off with an awesome word art!”
Layout by Renee Fink
Renee says: “I loved the challenge to combine kits that, at first glance, didn’t seem to match. I tend to be a kit scrapper and don’t mix and match kits very often but found the challenge to match the papers and elements to be interesting. I was able to combine the red and white papers with the navy element to create a page that doesn’t resemble any of the kits that were part of this challenge. After adding the grid brush element and a set of staples this page is ready to put into the album.”
It’s awesome what you can come up with when you limit the supplies you use.
Don’t forget that today only (ends Monday at midnight PST), you can get each of these kits for only a dollar, and one is even FREE! So go grab them, and then play along… Upload a layout using these four kits to the DHD gallery by Sunday, then come back here and post a link to it. Not only will you learn to stretch your kits, but you could win a gift certificate to DHD!
(Congrats to MamaBug, our winner from last week! You’ve got a gift certificate coming your way!)
