I am guilty of using a kit only once then for the most part never touching it again. I mean let’s face it the designers crank out amazing new kits every week so I’m always tempted with something new. Last week I purchased Amy Wolff’s “Brother’s” kit and after I made my first page with it I immediately thought of a second one I wanted to do with it and then I thought I would challenge myself to see if I could make a 3rd page work. I have to be honest that it was so much fun challenging myself to that 3rd page and I even love how it turned out so much more girly than the first 2 that I used it for with my boys. Soooo... that got me thinking that I might start challenging myself more to try and get at least 2 pages done with a kit more often. Do you scrap more than once with a kit? What’s the most pages you have ever done with 1 kit?
I'm not really a kit scrapper (I mix and match), so it is hard to say how many pages I've made with a kit. I use Paula Kesselring's CU/PU Basic White Papers on almost half my pages, and I use the white paper from Soco's Dear Dad kit on the other half! I also re-use Allison Pennington's Subfloors Vol 1 and 2 over and over. I also use Amy Wolff's Mega Solids Paper Packs (vol 1 - 5) over and over. I go in waves where I will use pieces from a kit in a few pages, like Sahlin Studio's Enjoy the Moment Kit (mainly the fabulous papers) on about 3 pages that I've done recently.
Yes, I use kits multiple times. I use them to tie events together most often. Years ago when I did an album for a cruise, I used certain kits to tie all pages together for each port stop we made. I did the same thing with a trip to Disney a few years back. Each area in a park used the same kit. Other times the colors are the reason the kit is used multiple times. I usually scrap by event which is why it works so well for me.
I am a very prolific scrapper, doing 30 plus pages a month. I can do 6 pages all with the same kit! I have a few that have items I find myself returning too, cause I know it will work. I am a recolorer of elements too, to make them fit to my photos! That being said, I have so many beautiful kits, I have used once...and truth... some I got, and never played with at all!
I would love to know the answer to this question. I like my facing pages to coordinate or even match, so often I will use the same kit for 2 pages. I tend to use just 1 kit at a time unless it is missing stuff I really want. And yes, I have kits I have never used -- sigh...
I have favourites. There are some I've used for over 20 pages. I have some that I mix and match with other kits and those have probably been mixed and matched more that 20 times too. But then I have some kits in my collection I've not used yet (shhhhhh.)
I re-use kits often, especially Just Jaimee & Bella Gypsy. And templates are limitless! It's funny you mentioned Amy Wolff. She has a kit that's red, white, & black. I have used that too many times to count. It's my go-to red kit.
I'll be honest - I was a one-kit scrapper with no mix and matching and only used a kit once. And I will still use one kit for a layout. I think that was primarily because I was doing a LOT of CT scrapping, so I was needing to show off a product. And then I had to move on to the next product, so I often didn't go back and reuse a product. It wasn't a hardship. LOL Now that I've been at TLP as a designer and a scrapper, I find myself mixing and matching quite a bit. I really feel like the products here work incredibly well together and make some unique pages. Here are some recent layouts where I mixed and matched! This one uses SIX different products by Pink Reptile Designs - and they are kits I have used more than once: This one uses FIVE different products from Bella Gypsy, Kristin Aagard, Sahlin Studio, and Mommyish. This one uses over FIFTEEN different products, and again, products I've used more than once.
I always scrap multiple times with kits! I'm also not a kit scrapper. Instead, when I make a page, I scroll through or search my files and pick from multiple kits. I don't have much money to spend on digiscrapping, and plus I've been collecting stuff for many years, so it's easy to reuse. If you look through my gallery there's a good chance you'll see items repeated.
I, too, have quite a few I’ve never even touched yet. I am quite the hoarder of beautiful kits. I always think that there may come a time I will need that certain kit so I go ahead and pick it up. I might be able to scrap for several months just on kits I’ve never used . Of course, that’s not going to stop me from buying new ones.
I have kits that I haven't used as well. I buy them knowing that I don't have a use for them now but may in the future. I have gone back to some of my older kits that haven't been used when scrapping these last few months. During the eclipse a couple years ago, I bought kits even though I didn't have photos but in the future (2024) I will be in the 100% totality of the next one. I'm ready to go! I am also trying to think outside the box about my kits as well. Using a themed kit for a page that has nothing to do with the theme has been fun. Using a workout kit for wedding pages was fun to do... only kit with the exact colors I needed! Thankfully the same designer did have a wedding kit I could pull neutral colored elements from.
That was part of what I challenged myself with when I was making the 3rd layout from Amy’s “Brothers” kit. I had just finished making 2 boy pages and I wanted to make a girly page with it and something totally unrelated to brothers or siblings. It was so fun!
There are definitely kits that I use over and over... for instance, when my kids were both playing soccer, I used every soccer kit out there at least 5 times each. Same with any kit to do with reading. I use those all the time. And travel kits... use those a lot too! Then there are some that I get for a really specific layout and I only use them once.
I usually have a few favorites that I go back to. The longer I'm at TLP the more I tend to mix and match. I have my favorite "go-to" designers for certain things. I also have my favorite "go-to" kits when I can't seem to find anything to work with what I'm doing.
Watch for some "Stretching Your Stash" challenges coming from Lynn Grieveson's team in the next few months. Dates not yet established.