A new month and a new kit!

Well it is not quite midnight here yet but it will be within the hour so lets just go ahead and post the December kit details shall we?

Rugged. I think that is the best word to describe the December Big Boy kit. It has the perfect balance of elements and paper. The burnt orange, handsome brown and grunge green will make the perfect pages for boys.

This month kit features Scrap with Reach's District 406 Collection and I think you will agree it is just simply exciting!Each kit has 2 pieces of double sided papers in ninth and elm, 406 eighth St, flat branch, north village, the district, courthouse square, note blocks, fourth and cherry and border strips. A little bit of olive green and burnt orange ribbon paired with a zipper! (how cool is that?) The coordinating brads are this month's exclusive embellie...so fun!

Don't you find sometimes you need to says something quirky in your layouts? How about a smash date stamp to do that? It's in the kit :) Nifty little thing it is.Technique tiles in stars, one 12x12 sheet. You can cover them in pattern paper or you could ink them with your inkers included in the kit. You will receive 4 Ingvild Bolme inkers in old road, rusty bucket, brick wall and farmer jeans. While your at it you will want to ink your Pink Paislee Daily Junque wood alphabet, or maybe just leave it plain, the choice will be yours.

You can go here to purchase your kit :)

On the eve of kit reveal....

Good morning ladies! I survived Black Friday shopping and had tons of fun picking up some deals for Christmas!
If you are thinking of applying for the design team today is the last day for submissions. I would like to take a moment to thank all of those who have applied so far, I'm so excited for what is going to happen to Boys Rule in the coming days :)
Tomorrow the December kit goes up and there will be a few for sale that are not spoken for by subscriptions. The sub list grows every week so if you are thinking about it don't wait too long :)
See you back here tomorrow morning with our December kit!

One more sneak before I take off for the weekend...

So....before I take off for the weekend to do some crazy black Friday shopping.....here is another sneak of the December big boy kit for your viewing pleasure....enjoy your weekend where ever you are ladies!

Update!

The November kit is sold out!!!

Watch for the December kit....it's just around the corner!

Only 2 left.....

If you are thinking about picking this kit up I thought I would let you know that there are only 2 left....

Go here to puchase :)

Just sayin'

TIm Holtz Resist Paper....

Pretty neat stuff that resisit paper is. This is the layout I created with the November kit, I used Tim Holtz idea-ology kraft resist paper with wild honey distress ink and the walnut distress stain. The steps of creating the actual layout are in a blog post further down. The gears are a Tim Holtz die and the metal ones are his as well.

I have some cards to make and I'm going to use this kit to achive the grunge look I'm looking for. They will be posted soon. Happy weekend!

It's time....

It's finally the time....I need a few girls to design with the kits. This will be the formal design team call. The window for submissions will be short as I don't want it to be along drawn out process and frankly because the club is new I can only have a handful of girls....I know that will be temporary though, we are growing and more and more girls are learning about us and soon we will lots of inspiration to share between us. So please keep passing the word along about the club so we can have a gathering place of our own :)

If you would be interested in a 6 month term designing with the boys rule kits. Please email boysrulekits@hotmail.com (also in the contact us link) with the following information:
Name and address
Blog link
4 layouts or cards which best shows your typical work
Ideas or initiatives for the club and what you think you could offer Boys Rule Kits

As a design team member you must paper craft (layouts, cards, or projects) about boys. No girls allowed (hee hee, sounds funny as it's all girls that create these pages) Not to discriminate but lets face it, there is enough pretty stuff out there that we have to make work for us so this is not the place pink flowers but for gears, stars and game controllers. Boys are the priority here :)
Designers will take turns posting on the Boys Rule Blog each week showcasing their creations with the kit. Designers will be required to create 4 paper crafts which could consist of a combination of layouts, cards or a project.

You will of course receive a kit each month and you will be recognized on the blog as a team member with a link to your blog. Periodically you will find additional surprises in your kit as well :)

This call is wide open....we have so many followers from one end of the earth to the other....who would think there would be so many boys out there??!! LOL just kidding :)

Submission closes on November 30 at midnight EST. Also, when emailing could you please put "design team call" in your subject line. Thank you :)

If you have any further questions please feel free to send me an email :)

December sneaks...

Did you enjoy your weekend? I was busy in my scrap room...what a mess it is in there....looks like I have some serious clean up in store for this week.

I still have some clean up to do around here too! We need to see a list of all our guest designers and more layouts are ready to be uploaded into flicker :) Please feel free to email me your layouts so I can upload them into Flicker ....and a DT. We do need a DT. I need just a few girls to help me out here....the official post will happen later this week :)

So today I have been busy creating the exclusive embellie for December, so here is a sneak of the December kit and of the embellie you will receive in your kit!

Have a wonderful Monday friends!

time to get your hands dirty....

with some distress stain...can I say wow! I love that stuff! It goes on strong but dries very quickly and softens a bit to leave a really nice shade of brown. Does not streak either, the lines all soften together....love it!


So to start I emptied my kit onto my messy table and decided on a sheet of resist paper, there are 5 in this kit

This is the entire sheet just after I applied the distress stain....it dried softer, and it looks really good as a back ground layer.

First I used the honey distress ink on the paper applying it with the blending tool, I was pretty rough in using it with darker spots here and there. The I used the brown distress stain on top of the paper and left some gaps (on purpose?? LOL) I love how it turned out not perfect like that.

I'm working on a layout and I have some work to do on it but here is a piece of it...I will post it later this week when it is finished

Yes there are kits left!! I ordered lots of these fabulous things for this month so we would have plenty to share :) and have fun creating brown finger nails :)

You can purchase the kit here

I also have to share Tim Holtz links as well, there is no use explaining how to use distress ink pads and stain when it's already been done by the pro himself. You can see his video here

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

ok girls....first I would just like to thank all of you for your comments! Great ideas in there and I will address them shortly....you have given me some ideas about the current kits in the store too.

Don't forget the kits are posted in the website and there are sports and grunge stuff in there...so check them out, they are posted under the current kit at the bottom...

Michelle said...
Just found you and I'm sooooo happy. I've been looking everywhere for a boys kit club. Love, love, love the grungy look and anything with Tim Holtz...which it looks like this month's kit got it perfect! Thanks for the opportunity to win and I look forward to seeing future kits!!

November 5, 2011 9:48 AM

Congrats Michelle!!! please email me with your address so I can mail out your RAK!!

Vicki said...
Sandi sent me your link and now I'm a follower. My idea would also be anything grungy.

November 6, 2011 8:48 PM

Sandi and Vicki!!!! please email me your address....a small RAK to you girls too!!

Happy weekend and a give away!

Yea it's the weekend! I will be playing with resist paper and stains this weekend, how about you? What are you working on?

We are looking for some facebook fans and new blog followers....spread the word and have your chance to win this RAK....could be more than one RAK going out too....just sayin....depends on how many newbies we can find :)

Leave a comment with a new kit idea for your chance to win this fabulous RAK! Comments will be accepted until Monday noon (EST) and then a winner or more will be posted.

Spread the word :)

The boys are cleaning up around here!

Wouldn't you say? Things are looking tidy and clean! Kristine is fab....she truly is awesome to work with, if you are looking for a new blog design you really do need to check out what she can do for you. You can find her blog here. I love what she has done with the boys club here.

Notice the new website link? Yep, it's up and running too, that's where you can purchase your kits now. Except for my international friends, those subs need to go through me due to the differences in shipping costs.

The gallery is where all the layouts the guests have created will be, there are a few in there right now, the rest will follow shortly.

I am posting a card I made with some of the November kit...I just couldn't' wait to get my hands dirty with the spritz on the resist paper....and wow is that stuff neat! I sprayed the paper with the olive spritz from the kit and then used the blending tool a little bit and it's simply amazing! Looking forward to using the resist ink now.

Had to laugh at myself though, I was slightly annoyed when I saw my white hand towel in the bathroom with a faint green tinge to it.....that is until I realized it was me! LOL I didn't wash it off my hands properly and it left some behind...oops :) and I thought it was the boys!

So here is the card and a close up....looking forward to the weekend we are going to have a giveaway and more kit examples....