Hi friends!  Today I’m sharing a layout I made for Hip Kit Club.  I was challenged to use the Project Life kit and the Hip Kit Club exclusive papers from the July 2018 hip kits.

Here is what I created:

I cut the SUMMER cut file, which is one of the freebie July cut files found on the HKC website, from white cardstock and backed it with some exclusive papers and a few of the project life cards. I love that the colors coordinate so well together, and they are perfect for pool and summer layouts!

I used the blue Pinkfresh Studio watercolor from this month’s color kit, as well as the blue shimmer from last month’s color kit to add splatters in a diagonal across the blue cardstock.  I also splattered watered down white paint across the layout, and drew some tiny circles with a white gel pen.  Once everything was dry, I used thin foam squares to adhere the cut file to the layout.

I added most of the embellishments around my photo to draw your eye to my 3 smiling cuties in the pool.  (They love the water!  Thank goodness for our neighborhood pools!)

I love those HKC exclusive wood veneer.  They are so thin and easy to work with!  I used 3 of them on this layout.

Next I added my journaling to the bottom left of the layout, and a few little embellishments.

I really like how my layout turned out. I hope you’re inspired to get crafty.

If you haven’t already, check out the July 2018 Hip Kits; they are packed with lots of exclusives! I used the Main kit, Project Life kit, Embellishment kit, one of the blue cardstocks from the Cardstock kit, and I used the Sky Blue Pinkfresh Studio watercolors from the Color kit.  I also used the Frost Bit Shimmerz from the June 2018 Color kit.

Happy Saturday!