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Post by cannmom on Dec 8, 2020 2:32:55 GMT
Kit subscribers, how quickly do you break apart your kit and put it in your general stash. I just started getting Cocoa Daisy’s TN memory keeping kit. I was using November’s for a Gratitude album and I just broke apart everything left in it because I was honest with myself that I was done for this year with that album. It felt good to let myself do that. In the past I would have kept everything in that little yellow box for a long time. It would have been just shoved away somewhere though.
Do you have a system for your kits? Keep them together forever or break them up when the new one comes in the mail?
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Post by grammadee on Dec 8, 2020 3:46:48 GMT
I tend to keep my kits together until I use some of the pieces. Then because I store my supplies by season &/or theme, if I have the leftovers from a kit, I will store it with like-minded supplies.
I subscribe to a couple of kits, but I am ambivalent about them. I like them because they often introduce me to products I might not find on my own and they provide ideas for combining different supplies. But I either love them on sight and wish I had the WHOLE collection rather than this sample of it, or I can't seem to figure out what to DO with items in the kit, and then don't end up using it at all...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 5:38:44 GMT
I am at a little over year of SC documenter kits that are still together (have subbed since 2013). I use bits here and there from them, but I am determined to get through more of my old stuff if possible and I like pulling cards from my categories rather than digging through kits. If there is a special set of cards/embellishments that I want to keep together, I'll put them in little glassine envelopes to keep them separate in my stash. The really old stuff I have mostly weeded out passed along to others or tossed if I haven't used it by now.
For my old 12x12 SC kits, I still have a lot intact and went through them again this fall and maybe pulled a few more to sort into my stash. For whatever reason, when I go to scrap 12x12 I just like the ease and variety of grabbing those kits so I'm holding out on those for now. I'll print pics and then grab the most likely kit candidates for them. If I didn't have them, I'd be making my own kits which is usually a huge time suck for me, I get overwhelmed with too many choices and it slows me down.
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Post by dawnnikol on Dec 8, 2020 11:37:11 GMT
I started out keeping kits and all their bits together. It was not a good way to organize for me, so I started putting the embellishments / alphas in their own areas away from the papers / cards. It didn't work for me, so I basically dumped it all onto the floor and sorted all my papers and cards by color and put them away. The exception was a specific collection (like Glitter Girl) that I knew I'd want to keep together, but still got sorted-ish by color.
Now when I get a kit, I'll leave it together until that season passes and then break it up. It works for me. I also rotate out my stamps on my desk by season, but know I can always find my others if I need to.
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Post by kitbop on Dec 8, 2020 12:26:45 GMT
But I either love them on sight and wish I had the WHOLE collection rather than this sample of it, or I can't seem to figure out what to DO with items in the kit, and then don't end up using it at all... Oh my gosh, I'd never thought about it this way, but this is exactly it! One thing I miss is some "exclusives" - like SC, Hip Kits, and another kit I used to belong to and for which I'm drawing a TOTAL blank - it was a very popular kit - argh. Anyways, to answer your question - I'd keep my kits together for 2-3 months and challenge myself to use them. Then I'd break up into my stash. I still have 1-2 kits "together", and I've ADDED to them over the years, because the feel of them was different than anything else I used, and I felt that I had no good home for the contents. Like MME papers that I don't have a lot of in my stash. One in particular is pink, grey, black and yellow. I reach for it every now and then. |
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Post by mikklynn on Dec 8, 2020 13:56:30 GMT
I subscribe to Hip Kit and Felicity Jane. HK I break up after I have created a few layouts.
FJ I break up almost immediately, but into an Iris case and paper holder dedicated to FJ. All the kits tend to coordinate, so I find I use them more if they are all together.
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Post by mom on Dec 8, 2020 14:18:54 GMT
I usually keep the most recent 3 kits all together and break down everything else. I then store embellishments by type, journal cards are sorted by theme first, then color. Paper is sorted by color unless its Christmas.
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Post by boymom5 on Dec 8, 2020 15:00:28 GMT
For my kits I have been slowly taking them apart. At first I was admit about keeping them together since that was the concept I paid for, but then I kept searching for things I remembered getting in them and then couldn’t find. It became a time waster so I am only keeping together mostly complete kits and challenging myself to use those up. I no longer sub to any 12x12 kits since I found I wasn’t using them completely since the days of my Scrapbook generation kits (I miss those!)
I do currently sub to Elles a Studio since I’m taking up pocket pages and those kits are currently together for the month and then get incorporated into my stash once I’m done with that month. Her things tend to coordinate well throughout the year so it’s easy to use it up
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 17:57:15 GMT
I subscribe to Hip Kit and Felicity Jane. HK I break up after I have created a few layouts. FJ I break up almost immediately, but into an Iris case and paper holder dedicated to FJ. All the kits tend to coordinate, so I find I use them more if they are all together. I do the same thing with my FJ kits. Makes life easier.
When I subscribed to kit clubs, I kept everything together in an Iris container until it was completely used up. I'm horrible at coordinating things so this works for me.
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Post by jediannie on Dec 8, 2020 17:59:56 GMT
Dearly Dee and Krystal Becker have made "mega kits" on their YouTube channels from their leftover kits. I'm sure there are more people that have done this but these are the 2 that I remember off the top of my head. When I actually use one of my hoarded kits this is what I'm planning to do with the leftovers. I do the Elle's Studio kits like boymom5 and love that they coordinate so well so that makes it easy to combine all the kits.
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