Honey, I Shrunk the Kit!

Honey, I Shrunk the Kit! was an idea inspired by a beautiful concept called The 12 Kits of Occasions. I loved the idea that card-makers could take turns ‘shopping their stash’ to send a theme-based card kit to other card-makers, with a view to create a variety of different cards with the same material. In essence, HISTK is a shrunken version of The 12 Kits…, hence the name. More details can be found here.

Since its inception, our little hive of ‘Honeys’ have grown from three to six, and back to five, namely:

Current Designers:

Creator/ Coordinator: Hazel Hodgkins (Hazel’s Paper Designs)

Sarah Gray (Funky Fossil Designs)

Shona Chambers (Twine Around)

Sarah Platt (Sazzle Dazzle Crafts)

Anita Bowden (Neet & Crafty)

Retired Designers:

Sandie Munro (London Days)

Take a look at our most recent kit and associated post:

September 2017

Theme: All things Summer

HISTK supplies 13

Hostess: Anita Bowden (Neet & Crafty)

Supplies:

Stamps:
Your Next Stamp – Flippin’ Fabulous (crab/sentiments)
Clearly Besotted – Life’s a Beach (flip flops/sentiments), So Sweet II (ice cream), Hung Up on You (mini cocktail/sentiments), Good Times II (sentiments), Petite Plushies (lolly/pinwheel)…
Hero Arts – Let’s Chill (palm/hibiscus/cocktail/beachball/sentiment)
Avery Elle – Sip Sip Hooray (sentiments)
The Greeting Farm – Rain Snow Shine (girl)
Little Claire (beach huts)
Clear Impressions – Sea Breeze (deck chair)

Dies:
Paper Smooches – Warm Wishes, Birthday Words (cheers)
Echo Park – Flamingo Palm die set
Newton’s Nook – Hibiscus
Clearly Besotted – Scalloped Edges die collection

Patterned Paper:
First Edition – Paradise Crush (floral)
Decotime – no name (ice creams)

Ribbon – Dovecraft

Gems – Papermania Glazed Gems Iridescent

Reversible coloured card from stash

June 2017

Theme: Going Up

Hostess:Hazel Hodgkins (Hazel’s Paper Designs)

Supplies:

STAMPS: Gerda Steiner Designs – You’re Koalafied/ STAMPlorations – Noteworthy 2/ Bella Stamps – Tomorrow’s Dream & A Beautiful Day/
DIES: MFT – Brushstroke Birthday Greeting/ Clearly Besotted – Let’s Party Die Collection / Spellbinders – Day Dreams (sun and clouds) / Butterflies (not sure)
OTHER: Patterned paper: Stampin’ Up! – Birthday Basics (retired) / Yellow twine (my stash)
CARDSTOCK: the heavier white watercolour cardstock used for most of the die-cuts (minus the mini koala) is Arches Watercolour Medium 300gsm. The stamped images are on X-Press It Blending Card for Copics.

May 2017

Theme:

Hostess: Shona Chambers (Twine Around)

Neat & Tangled:

Sequins
Big Hugs die-cut
Awesome die-cuts
Awesine Stamp Set (sentiments)

Winnie & Walter:

Friend die-cut

My Favorite Things

Hugs die-cut
Cool Cat stamp set
Beast Friends stamp set
Otterly Love You stamp set

Studio Katia

Stitched Creative Nested Squares (on watercolour cardstock)

Pretty Pink Posh

Stitched 3-window die cut
Stitched Rectangle die-cut (on watercolour cardstock)

February 2017

Theme: Heartfelt

histk-10-heartfelt

Hostess: Sarah Gray (Funky Fossil Designs)

Cardstock: Sheena’s Stamping Card (from Crafters Companion)

Stamps: including: Mama Elephant – Holidays, Winnie & Walter – My Precious, Paper Smooches – Blossoming Buds, and Neat and Tangled – Heart of Gold.

Die-cuts: Simon Says Stamp Wafer Dies: Sending; Sketch Heart; Nested Hearts; Avery Elle: Simply Said You Elle-ment, and Tonic: Layering Basics-Traditional Hearts.

Sarah’s stash: doilies, patterned paper and chipboard hearts