Crafty Templates: Quirky Kit: Making [with] 'Resolutions'.

For me, making pages with the new Quirky Kit: 'Resolutions', has been a lot easier than making [and keeping] the kind of resolutions I used to make at the start of a new year. Partly because I'm not as self-disciplined as I'd like to be and can't really stick to rules I set for myself!! But mainly because this kit is so flexible that it allowed me to tackle scrapping with a range of photos and in a range of styles with just one new kit.

At the time of writing I have made three layouts and have two more planned and they all look quite, quite different. Let me make a start on demonstrating just how wide ranging in styles the kit actually is.

Here's the first layout in which I combined three of the brightest and boldest patterned papers. As you might be able to tell from my leopard print cardigan with stripey dress combo - I love to mix patterns! So I had great fun combining the sharp floral graphics of the Crate Paper 'Rose Garden', with the circles and houndstooth of the two Hambly papers:

The photo was taken at my parent's Ruby wedding anniversary party this October and due to a combination of my clothes and the camera it was taken on, it feels like a rather nostalgic, retro-looking snap-shot. More 1959 than 2009 in some ways.

Once I had the main body of the page completed I turned to play with the fabulous, totally retro-inspired glitter cabouchons!!! I chose the red, purple and teal cabouchons and set about forming a festive, glittery, vintage cluster down the side of the photo: The extra buttons I used in the cluster were a pack of the 'Vintage Chic' buttons from the 'Embellishments' section of the shop.

After using many of the brightest, most vivid, elements from the kit on one layout I was ready for something quieter and which used the grey netting from the kit ....something a bit like this in fact: I'll share with you very soon how I pulled out the more neutral tones within the 'Resolutions' kit for use on an atmospheric and wintry double layout.