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Scrapping & Making your own kit with Lauren Hender

Scrapping & Making your own kit with Lauren Hender @ shimelle.com

Hello hello friends! Please welcome today’s guest artist, Lauren!

We all have them, they are all over our crafty spaces and tucked into our crafty totes. Yes, you know what I am talking about, those much loved and most treasured favourite scrappy purchases that you just can’t bring yourself to use. As a 20yr + scrapper I know this situation well. Reflecting on this I thought it is time to bring out those treasured items and start enjoy using them to document some meaningful moments. One way of doing this is by making your own kits.

Scrapping & Making your own kit with Lauren Hender @ shimelle.com

Often those treasured items are just one or two things in a collection so taking sometime to go through your stash and making your own kit is a great way of including those much loved items and having them ready on hand for the right photo to come along. Don’t be frightened to mix collections or manufacturers as long as they all coordinate in colour and/or theme you will be on the right track. The kit I used to create this layout had beautiful products from Shimelle, Dear Lizzy, Heidi Swapp, Simple Stories, Crate Paper and Pink Fresh Studio. All these different collections and manufactures have different styles but when I put them all together it created a beautiful kit.

Scrapping & Making your own kit with Lauren Hender @ shimelle.com

To create this layout I used some fundamental techniques which include using a photo where the subject, in this case my beautiful daughter and her puppy, is looking directly into the camera, bordering my photos, creating cluster groups with flowers and embellishments and having a title that stands out. These few basic layout rules along with a hand crafted kit with all your favourite scrapping supplies will ensure that you create a beautiful layout that you will treasure.

Scrapping & Making your own kit with Lauren Hender @ shimelle.com

Having been scrapbooking so long my motivations for why I create have changed overtime. Early on my motives were about documenting my life and then my children’s lives, but now as a middle aged (yes, I’m 43 this year and therefore I feel I can officially call myself middle aged lol) woman, who is busy working full time and raising a family, scrapbooking as evolved into a therapeutic retreat for me. The joy is now in the journey from taking the photo, to selecting the supplies or in this case creating a kit, to making the layout and admiring the creation. It gives me a little time to switch off from this crazy busy world and recharge a little. I feel blessed that I have a hobby that is able to bring me so much joy while at the same time allowing me to have some much needed time out. I hope this layout inspires you to dig into your supplies and put together some kits using all those favourite goodies you are hiding.

Lauren Hender lives on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. She is mother to three beautiful children who have been the subject of most of her twenty plus years of scrapbooking. Lauren loves scrapbooking because it provides a little time out in this busy world. She also runs a local scrapbooking group supporting creative women who get together to nurture and share with each other. Follow more of Lauren’s work on her Instagram account.
24 March 2022



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