Our two sponsors this month, Kiss This Designs and Jan Hosford Designs, have some great kits out there, which gave the sponsor team at RAKScraps some great kits to work with! Here are the reviews and pages made by our very own sponsor team here at RAKScraps to give you some inspiration on how and why to use these fantastic kits! Kiss This Designs Store and Jan Hosford Designs Store.

Kiss This Designs

Candy Coated Dreams

“Candy Coated Dreams is quite the cute kit! It has such fun elements and some really pretty papers! Flowers and ribbons and candies, it would be perfect for a girl page or those birthday pages.” - sarahwhithers

Perfect Disaster

“Perfect Disaster’s colours are darker and a bit grungy so would prob be better suited for boy pages more than anything. But the colour selection of the papers and the fun elements to add on are so much fun! There are ties and fun stars and tags, tons of elements to keep your pages looking great!” - sarahwhithers

“Love how grungy and “dirty” this kit is—soooo perfect for my two boys! The colors are perfectly masculine (or tomboyish, if you prefer), and the imperfect star and the clods of dirt are some of my favorite pieces!” - ronagavino

Peaceful Easy Feeling

“this is a very fun kit for the men in your lives… although i can see baby photos or photos for people relaxing.this kit i just great. the frames really caught my eye when i first saw this kit.” - rosefire

Summer Time Baby

“great colors and great patterned paper. i just LOVE how bright and fresh this kit is. great of summer days in the yard or at the pool. really anything that has to do with summer time. Oh and the cluster just rocks !!!” - rosefire

Touch of Sunshine

“Touch of Sunshine is a good kit for the batch of late summer and those fall layouts that are coming soon. Earthy greens, shades of soft yellow, coral and pink in subtle patterned papers work well on their own and are wonderful multiplied in layers for deeper tones too. The wordart, ribbons, distressed frame, detailed brads and larger-sized florals and buttons all complement the papers nicely.” - sosumi

Building Castles

“This kit just screams girly, feminine and dainty! With dreamy colors of shades of pinks, yellows, reds and light blues, this kit is just perfect for my two little princesses (when they choose to be!). Elements of flowers, buttons, butterflies, swirls, birds and hearts are hard to keep OFF my page!” - ronagavino

Red, White, and Blue Celebration

“”Red White and Blue Celebration” is just that. Take the colours of the American flag and add some grunge - and you’ve got the idea of this kit. I really like the papers with their interesting textures. I also like the stars, again with their touch of grunge. While this kit does have a USA slant [with a USA ribbon, brads, and phrase], it can still be used for other LOs.” - DaraGolden

This Boy of Mine

“Don’t let the name of this kit fool you - there are items in this for girls! Okay, per my son, it’s a “boy” kit - word art about dirt, a boy rope, and some boy frames - but there’s glitter [outlined stars] and rhinestones [on a tab], so some girls and tomboys may discover some layouts done in this kit. I really like the colours - orange, blues, yellow, and greens. The included tags are adorable, too.” - DaraGolden

Jan Hosford Designs

Playing Hooky

“”Playing Hooky” is a cute, fun kit that reminds me of hanging by the pool or being at the playground. The foil elements for this kit are really interesting - I don’t know if I’ll ever use the foil border, but it def. caught my attention! I like the colours of this kit - blues, oranges, and a neutral beige. A fun kit for kicking back, attending a ball game, or hanging out with friends.” - DaraGolden

“Playing hooky is bright, fun, and has a great summer feel to it. Lots of blues and reds to work with in this kit. This kit could work wonderfully with those 4th of July pics or any of your summer pics! The elements are great with an assortment of ribbons, buttons and foil!” - sarahwhithers

“Red blue and white are some of my fave colors in a kit. I think they ALWAYS work well with most pictures, especially in the muted shades they come in this kit. The foil border and stars add that special “oomph” for your page. With some tans to neutralize the rich colors, Playing Hooky is versatile enough to use for both boys and girls.” - ronagavino

“Playing Hooky is truly unique as a kit. There are subtle papers in blues and neutrals paired up with geometric patterns and brighter shades. My original “grab” of this was for the foil elements in it which are bright blues and reds and so creatively built by Jan but there are also buttons, stitches, a staple, word art and frame details.

What also makes this kit interesting is that it has multiple “feels” to it that open it up to a wide range of themes for almost any age. I ended up choosing between using it for my road trip to the States (fireworks, red-white-blue…would have worked) or for my family’s time at a local fun fair; very different sets of photos. Both worked but the fair won out. One tip: for the foil elements, they work well layered and blended as a luminosity or overlay, which is how I used one of them in my layout.” - sosumi

“Love the reds and the blues! Great for boy and girl layout! the foils are wonderful addition to the elements coz it give sparkle to any layout!” - redscrapper

Groovy Garden

“”Groovy Garden” is appropriately named. The colours in this kit are bright, colourful, and bold with a touch of the late 1960s thrown in for fun. The papers include circles, dots, swirls, and solids. I really like the grid alphabet too.” - DaraGolden

“Groovy Garden is for sure a feel good kit. It has a funky feel to it with retro circles and bright colours. It was so fun to work with. There are a ton of great papers as well as an assortment of elements and a really neat alpha! This kit just really pops out at you!” - sarahwhithers

“LOVE the bright colors of this kit! There are alot of elements to choose from and they are all great!” - redscrapper

Dreamy

“Dreamy is deliciously pink, orange and yellow. Love the bling, the delicate word art, as well as the glittery swirls in the kit. I see a few pages oozing with girliness from this kit.” - ronagavino

“great girly colors make great layouts for the little ladies in your life. and the wonderful word art and doodles make this kit is awesome.” - rosefire

“Dreamy is appropriately named, full of warm sun-filled colors in all papers and elements. There are touches of glitter, butterflies, fabric florals and word art. From girlie to beachy, anything you might dream of will work with this kit.” - sosumi

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