Do you make page kits?

Only if I am going on a weekend away to craft with friends or to craft with friends at their house. Then I need to only pack what I think I will be using on a particular page (plus a few extras).  If I am crafting at home I do not.

I have never made any page kits. However, several of my scrappy friends do, especially ahead of retreats. I just shop from my stash... and often buy new items from the retreat / crop vendor. I love to use what I have in a random fashion.

I do page kits all the time.  I kit everything.  And when I am ready to scrap, I just page through them and select one. 

I keep lines together in their own 2 gallon bag for the most part. I also buy kits from Not Just for Boys and Hipkit. I have some left over from the old kit clubs that no longer do 12x12 paper.

But I don't usually mix brands in kits myself. I keep all of my alphabets, enamel dots, cardstock, wood pieces, metal pieces, etc. separate.

Usually when I'm making a page with one line and I feel like it needs something else I can usually remember where the other paper, sticker, etc. is. My brain is full of scrapbook inventory.

There is an exception when I go to crops, though. Sometimes I put a few kits together for that but it isn't often.

I made page kits for older photos that I wanted to scrap, I'm not a chronological scrapper so it made it easy to have these on hand. So easy in fact, that I've decided to change up the way I do things and go back through my older pictures and print the ones I want to scrap then make a page kit (paper + photos only, I don't want other supplies in with these) so they're easy to grab and scrap.

Sort of.

If I just got a photo order I'll go through and match papers to photos, and might throw in a sticker or stamp set or something.

Then I'll forget I put something in a kit and search my entire stash looking for it... or I have all this stuff gathered...might as well scrap the page right away.

I'm weird...

I’ve never made page kits but I’m starting to like the idea. Usually I look at my pictures and look through my stash for what will work with them. But I can see how a kit could be inspiring. Maybe I’ll try it.

For big projects like trips I will usually just pull all of my relevant stash together and work from that, picking and choosing which lines work best for each layout. So it's not really a kit, but also not just a free for all in my stash.

When I go out and crop, I usually do so at my LSS, so I will bring the lines that I think I want to use with the pictures I am scrapping (usually bringing way too much stuff) and then will either use what I brought or buy something new and pretty. Try and guess which option usually wins out there

Lately though, I have been trying to be much better about how much paper I buy. Awhile back I was watching a ton of RTS videos and Janet inspired me to organize some of my supplies by colour, so I have taken a bunch of odds and ends of paper and sorted them in a rainbow. Now, instead of just blindly buying a collection, I try to only buy my favourite pieces of paper, the embellishments that I like and then just supplement the "collection kit" with more basic b-side papers from my stash.

I will never be organized enough to be one of those scrappers who has a kit for every photo with exactly the papers and embellishments I want to use. I just don't think it fits my process, but I do love adding old stash to my recent purchases. It's a fun creative exercise and it gives me a chance to pet all of my lovely supplies and come up with some fun combos.

I've never done it, but I love the idea of it. I'm a Hip Kit Club subscriber and really enjoy using kits, but I realize they often are only a mix of 1-3 lines, so not incredibly diverse in their offerings.

My scrapbook stash paper and embellishments are sorted by ROYGBIV, so I think it would be easy to put a kit together based on a color palette. I would like to try this some day!

I make page kits if I'm going to a weekend retreat or crop but for home I don't although I do like to watch people make page kits on YouTube. 

I do for crops. It’s not my favorite way to scrapbook, but I am also tired of over packing!

I make page kits. I’m a tiny bit different. I tend to make one each season. I’m a in the moment scrapbooker so now I am scrapbooking this summers photos and occasionally I scrapbook a summer photo from years past.

So I make a page kit usually based on something new I have and then build around that. I will use it to make all of my pages for the 2-3 month period.

Ryann Shimelle has a really cool series on YouTube called "Best of Both Worlds". She provides a link to the specific products she will be scrapping with each month in her videos, but when she reveals the kit, she walks you through WHY she chose those specific things (like a paper with circles on it or a certain color palette) if you want to pull similar items from your own stash, rather than buying anything. It's really interesting to see why she selects certain items.

I don't do page kits, and I'm not sure I would actually enjoy having such a limited group of supplies to work with. As others have said, if I've gone to the trouble of pulling out all the things I will use on a single page, I might as well just glue all the things together and finish it.

I have made smaller kits, like a dozen patterned papers and a handful of embellishments, which I'll then use to scrap whatever photos I feel work with it, but I prefer to pull from my whole stash for every page.