Introducing Cupcake Kits to APOCD!

I am pleased to announce the newest addition to the APOCD Store....CUPCAKE KITS!

These kits have all the great flavours as our usual Main Cake Kits, but are bite sized pieces of perfection! Yum!

How are these different to all the mini kits out on the market you ask? Well, scrappers now tend to love to get messy and create their own recipes. That's where APOCD Cupcake kits come in. 

These kits are packed with a range of 6x6 papers and other coordinating embellishments. But, what I love about these kits is that they will contain either a mask, stamp or mists, paints, inks, pens, etc. You get the idea! It allows you to add that texture and dimension that you love to a page. All packaged up, coordinated beautifully, waiting and ready just for you! If you love Project Life, these could work for you too.

So without further adieu, here's the May Cupcake Kit:

As you can see from the image, this kit is beautiful. It contains 12 6x6 papers from the new My Minds Eye 'Find your Wings and Fly - Up and Away' line, 1/2 a pack of coordinating enamel dots, a Doodlebug Designs Alpha sheet that contains three different alpha sets, A Studio Calico Mask, Sei Mint Tumble Dye mist, 2 Exclusive APOCD Flair especially made to coordinate with the kit and a selection of veneers, tickets and sequins. 

We will also have 'Cake Bases' available in store which is card stock, available in packs or in individual sheets.

Here is the kit in more detail:

I CANNOT WAIT to share who I have Guest Designing with our first ever Cupcake kit!!!! So excited as this lady is just oozing creativity. 

Sale of the kits will be this coming Monday with our Main Cake Kit and Cherry Flair. They are limited in number. 

Subscriptions are not currently offered and this kit will be sold on a first come, first serve basis for the month of May. There is a possibility of beginning subscriptions from June onwards for either a 3, 6, or 12 month duration. Email me at raquel@apieceofcakedesigns.com.au if you are interested.

Would love to hear what you think of our first ever Cupcake Kit. 

Last share from April Guest Designer Felicity Wilson

Hi, It's Felicity here today!

I have had so much fun creating with the April kit and want to take a moment to say THANK YOU to Raquel for having me as Guest Designer :)

These next two pages I used the contents of the kit, but couldn' t help myself, I had to add some Prima flowers. I am just so in love with the colours and the texture that you can create using the kit! 

My first project I used quiet a few of the flairs. They just coordinate so well and just really tell the story I guess.

Some close ups:

My last project I tried to co-ordinate all the bright colours, the reds, greens, yellows and some blue!

And some close ups:

Thanks so much again for having me as a Guest and I really hope I have inspired you all in some way to crack open that kit and simply have fun!!

Felicity XO 

April Guest Designer Share - Felicity Wilson

Hi sweet people, 

Felicity here today to share a page using the most colourful bright April Kit. It is not surprising it has sold it, its just perfect to bring the sunshine into your studio. 

Firstly, most of you all know that I am a scrapper that clusters and layers like mad! Well, I put myself to the challenge to only use the contents of the kit! I say challenging, because I normally load my pages with embellishments - maybe I go a bit over the top, but anyways. I was pretty stocked to create a page that I like with only kit contents. 

Here it is: 

Layout title: Mr Chatterbox

Some close up images:

We love how Felicity has used the patterned paper to create embellishments like the rays coming out of the left side of the photo and the large chevrons

Thanks so much for letting me share, I will have a couple more projects for you next the day or so!!

In the meantime here is a sneak of what I have to share next

Felicity

XO 

hello there!

That is the title of my next layout to share with you!

 Once again I created my own background on white cardstock using scrappings of paint and misted circles and then used lots of scrummy things from the kit! Like the spotted vellum and the snippets paper. I have used a sticker from the "Jilliebean soup" sticker sheet to use as my title...yep easy hey!
I have used the 'studio calico" stars and painted one a bright yellow to work better with the colours I have used! but that's why they are so awesome because you can alter them yourself to suit your layout if you need to.
Of course I had to use one of the exclusive flairs in the kit! AWESOME!!!
This is a really simple layout but I loved how it turned out!

 This is the last one I have to share this month. I have used one of the "echo park" journalling tags paper and cut out he word HAPPY from one of them to create an easy title! I have also cut out the red heart from another tag. A tip is to think outside the box with papers like these. Just because they are large rectangle journalling tags it doesn't mean that's all you can use them for. look at all the elements...the letters, the symbols , shapes etc and use them to cut out your titles, embellishments etc.
Once again a simple layout with a little photo I love of Will and I taken this summer.
I have used mists again and a "studio calico" mask with some texture paste to create a background.

I have used the cute little long stem green roses and a yellow flower along with some more stars and another new release barcode flair to create a cluster!I did add a little wooden arrow from my stash.

Well I ll see you all again next month with another amazing kit!!!
Eb xx

I know, I know......!!!!

I know I say this every month but this kit is my favourite!!! I LOVED the colour combo! So bright and fun and so easy to work with. So easy in fact that I created 4 layouts in a day ( well less than a day really) so that's how user friendly this months kit is!!! I even have enough product left over to create at least 2 or 3 more layouts!

Ok so I would have to say nowadays that my style is not the "usual" run of the mill scrapping style of most, but I hope these still inspire you to create!
You all know that I love creating my own backgrounds and using lots of paint, mists, stamps and colour on my layouts so I warn you these layouts contain all of the above!!!

So here is the first of my layouts. Lots of mist and texture paste added to the awesome aqua dotted background!

I have used the two polaroid vellum frames, manilla tag and the gorgeous red spotty vellum and the awesome camera washi tape to create texture and depth behind my photo.
I have used also the "studio calico" stars which I chose to paint some aqua to match my layout!
And I am in LOVE with these "Jilliebean Soup" sticker words!! oh my gosh! I have to have more LOL!!
You can see I have used both styles of the alphas to create my "Happy Feet" title and some of the cool sticker elements and words on the sticker sheet by "jilliebean soup".

This is a closeup of the twine which I unthread a little and stapled to my layout and of the AWESOME new "cherry flairs" released as well as the kit this month. LOVE these!!!!! 

I have added some "Studio calico" wooden veneer chevron arrows and stars which came in past kits that I had left over.

 So my next layout  ( sorry not cropped very well :/ )is of my son on his 9th birthday last year. I am really trying to scrap my instagram photos at the moment and catch up on those "every day" moments as well as these special occasions! Do you like scrapping your camera photos too??
Well for Will's birthday we took some of his friends to play mini golf and then followed by a swim at the local pool!

Once again lot's of bright coloured paint, stamps and doodling! I really love creating interesting backgrounds and then adding all the yummy things from the kit to complete my pages!! This was a background page from the kit!
Once again i have used the vellum ( love it!), the "studio calico stars", studio calico snippets paper which is awesome to use as strips, and another "Jilliebean soup" word but this time the colour didn't suit.

 
So my tip to you is if you want to change the colour of your alphas or cardstock stickers get out your sharpies and colour them in!!! I must say though colour it in on the sheet, giving it a couple of coats first and then peel it off and use!

So I have added some chevron washi tape from my stash and a "studio calico" wooden veneer arrow also from my stash.

So there is some inspiration for you to create with your kits! i will share some more very soon!

Eb xx

April Guest Designer Share - Felicity Wilson

Some words from Felicity:

I was totally drawn to and inspired by the different textures in the kit.

I had to use the vellum, the glitter tape and washi tape as my background. A real mixed media page, with lots of gesso, twinkling H2O's, gelatos and sprays. I then let those gorgeous vellum polraid frames inspire me and amongst all that I came up with a very different but fun page. 

Here is the page Felicity Created:

Page title: Love you

Close up detail of the Flair, background work and layering! Lovely!

Close up of the gesso and washi.

Another close up!

Thanks for your first share Felicity! I am sure this will inspire everyone :)

Stay tuned for a share from our designer Ebony really soon, in the meantime here are some sneaks of what she has to come!

Introducing April Guest Designer - Felicity Wilson

Please join me in welcoming our April Guest Designer the lovely Felicity Wilson to our team for the month. 

HI :))) I am Felicity Wilson, married to wonderful husband and a Mummy to two little boys! 

I have always been a crafty kinda girl, but I guess scrapbooking came about mainly when my son was born. I scrapped before that, mainly good ole ‘selfies’!!! But now I am into it hook, line and sinker!! I love putting different textures together, colour, reminiscing about a photo....

I am a White paper covered in the colours of the rainbow with lots of fibres to make it lumpy and bumpy, type of scrapper!! Through in a bit of mixed media & a bit of simple and stylish and thats me!
I love creating in my art journals, scrapbooking pages, cards and the odd mini album is thrown in for good measure!! tee hee


Felicity, Ebony and myself will be sharing creations using the April kit to inspire you this month :)

Check back soon for some more layout shares :)