At the previous crop I went to I bought the Spice kit from 49th & market because the art work for these kits is superb – but I guess I hadn’t realised quite how they work as kits and I then got a little stuck in working out how to use it. I had at some point in the last few months chosen some photos that work with the colours in the kit but realised it was highly unlikely I would end up using the kit as it is designed as that just isn’t how I scrap! After all I never follow instructions!
At the crop on Saturday I did however make and stab at using the kit and managed one page! I started by choosing the page to work on and trying to find all the elements from the original page idea – after all this is what it was designed to do and didn’t want to mess up future pages by using the wrong elements!
So the original page idea is on one side of the printed paper and then I pulled out elements from the die cut and chipboard sheets that matched. Then I turned over the paper so it was just the background – loosely followed the idea of the colour matching but totally made it all up in terms of placement – because the photo I wanted to scrap was a single 6×4 not lots of little ones…
So my page finished up very different from the plan in the kit but I think worked well.
I did add to the kit with a bag of chipboard elements (still 49th & market but an add on!) so that helped with the title for the page.
Slightly later than these photos I did add in some journalling and added an extra rectangle chipboard for that just under that circle on the left hand side too – I just needed some more space to write the story of the picture and the one with the purple moth element wasn’t big enough!
After the crop (whilst watching strictly) I did separate out all the die cut elements for each of the other three pages in the kit (plus the leftover elements) to make my life easier in tackling these kits again – I was at the end of my patience level in trying to find the right elements and fitting die cut sheets back in the pouch neatly – so knew I had to do this otherwise I’d be ready to throw them out the window next time!
The kits are beautiful – I just don’t do well with being told what to do – so note to self – don’t buy the kit again – just buy things separately as it works better pretending there isn’t a plan for my brain!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
These are beautiful kits, though!
They are indeed beautiful