July 2025 Mini Kits

 I'm back again to look at the idea of making a mini kit.  First a reminder of this month's kit.

Noel Mignon Balboa.

It's mid-summer there in USA and some of you will be heading out on holidays. If you don't have time for a full kit maybe you could do a mini kit.

It can be as small as you like. Traditionally with CKC it used to be 2 or 3 papers and some embellishments that go with it. Enough to create a page or two, or some kind of mini project.  As an example, I found this from an old mini kit of mine. I chose black papers plus a bright floral and a neutral. (You can do similar from your kit) Use the recipe one dark,one light, one colourful.

Next, I found a few embellishments to match

Pack them in a 12x12 bag and there's your mini kit! It can be taken away with you and made during your vacation.

 For example, the above produced 2 layouts.

Enjoy your kit. Make it work for you.

Master forger Tara 

I created a mini kit-well, a not-so-mini-kit for most of you, but for me, it's definitely a mini version of what I normally curate each month!  I always start with paper and so I went through my stash of papers and chose a bright Basic Grey collection.  I had three pieces of patterned paper and a set of stickers in my stash.  Then, I found papers from other Basic Grey collections that went with it and a few from other manufacturers.  My next step was to add alphas and phrases.  I really didn't add any other embellishments because I made a couple of forgeries, which you can view on the July 4th FoF blog post.  Here's my full kit with a couple of close-up photos as well:

 

 

Here's the first layout that I created with my mini kit:

 

 I used two sheets of my patterned paper and tore the edges to create a patterned border on the left hand side.  The text pattern is the B side of the polka dotted paper.  I cut a few stars out of the icon patterned paper, using both the A and B sides to cut them.  I cut my title with my cameo and did some stenciling on my kraft background.  I used a journaling block and a phrase from the sticker sheet.  

 

My second layout I used my tag forgery embellishment as a base for my title.  I used some of the papers from my first layout to create this one as well.  I had five sheets of the polka dot paper in my kit because it seemed like a versatile paper with the text on the back so, I used the text as my base paper.

 

 

 My third layout I used a sketch from Janet that she created for the March 30 Days of Sketches With Christy's Beautiful Life, Series 17. It was perfect for these folders of my oldest son wearing an old (CLEAN) cloth diaper as a Batman cape.  

 

I used lots of cardstock to create the splats with my Cameo!!  I backed my white cardstock background with the star paper from my kit.  I used one of the yellow frame stickers from my sticker set as a frame on my larger photo and matted all three photos onto one black mat.  

 

  

Here's what we have left for you for the month of July.  Please come back and check these upcoming posts out!  

 

July 12th - Challenge #1 

July 18th - Challenge #2 One,two,three

July 22nd - Challenge #3 Scraplift

July 24th - Follower Showcase

July 28th - July Sneak Peek

July 30th - Baby Use Those Scraps