Scrapbooking Kits

I've started ordering Scrapbook Kits as a means to help me scrapbook quicker. One of the challenges I face when I sit down to put together a layout is making different patterned papers and embellishments match. I can usually do colours, but them matching the hues and tones can sometimes be difficult. And I tend to stick with monochromatic colours because I know I can make them work. I find it more challenging to put completely different colours together. Sometimes, it's a mental block as I know that red and green are complementary, but whenever I think of them together, I think Christmas and so I don't do it. But I need to get past that because when I do manage to get it to work, I really like the result.

I was at the scrapbook store the other day buying some soccer paper and embellishments so that I could do Eric's soccer layout (which has a group photo, so I don't want to post it here) and I noticed these really pretty glitter chipboard Embellishments by My Mind's Eye. There was a display with matching paper, so I bought the chipboard embellishment sheet, and two each of two pretty double sided patterned papers. From that, I created 8 different pages with my Christmas photos from last year. They are all part of a larger theme, but yet each one is unique to its purpose. I was so happy when I was done and the pages came together really quickly. I think I did all of them in less than 2 days with my sister(while that sounds like a lot of time, that includes dealing with work and house stuff and 6 kids between us). I know I should probably split them up into several posts, but I just wanted to showcase what you can do with matching papers and embellishments. And again, a page/card/layout doesn't have to take hours for it still to be nice. I actually quite like most of these and they came together very quickly.