Kitting Sneak

I affectionately call my front room “Kit Central”. It's a formal living room and dining room right off my scrap room, right where everyone walks into my house. It is usually a huge mess with lots of kits going at one time–little plastic bins filled with embellies, stacks of paper, baskets filled with the pieces I plan to us to create a future class, and so on.

When I host a crop, this is where we crop so I have to move everything out. Since I am hosting a crop on March 19th, I need to get everything kitted up and out of the way.

I figured I'd just share a little bit about what “kitting” looks like for those of you who wonder how I put together a kit for a class. These kits are for the “Singing In The Rain” class I am teaching for Prima.

I have a huge dining room table and this is what it looks like:

I lay out one cup for each kit and all the embellies for each kit are passed out into each cup. After all the embellies are in each cup, I put them in a little bag to go inside the big kit bag.

If there are diecuts in the kit, I cut them and lay them out. Sometimes I put them in the cup with the embellies but the cups I used this time were to small.

While I was watching RHWOC I paperclipped all the pages of the book together in stacks, in order of the pages in the book. To kit, I just pull each page from the stack and place it in the bag in the order it goes in the book.

At the same time I placed the Chipboard stickers and Alpha Stickers in the kit bags too. I still have to add ribbons, bag the embellies and add those, add the diecuts…there is alot of work to do yet!

If something is missing I put a sticky note inside the front of the bag so I will see it and put the missing item in before the kit is given out.

So there you have it, a little sneak peek into what I do to make sure everything is in your kit an ready for you the day of the class or when you buy and etsy kit.

Author: Jennifer Priest

It started with jewelry, beading, sewing, home decor, painting, basket weaving, pottery, and cross-stitch. Marry that to an entrepreneurial spirit & at 9 years old a girl is selling her wares at craft fairs as far as her parents and grandparents would drive her. These days, Jennifer enjoys crafts of all genres from sewing to scrapbooking to jewelry with a little dabbling in the mixed media world. Her style is approachable and she wants everyone who sees her work to feel that they too can embrace creativity and make their home and life beautiful.