6x6 Paper Play with Jen

I was thrilled to get back to creating again with the beautiful March Pocket Life kit, after a month off for the birth of our third child. The patterns and colors in the Day Dreamer 6x6 paper pad are so happy and bright that they were perfect for creating a layout around a favorite photo of my daughter.

With so many pretty designs in the pad, I decided to pull out seven of my favorites to mix and match as both background and accents. I matted my photo with the muted pink pennant paper and cut slightly smaller rectangles from the multicolor and yellow florals and the heart design to spread across the page. As soon as I saw the "never grow up" piece on one of the cut apart pattern sheets, I knew it was a must, trimming it in to a flag and adding two additional small snips of red and blue.

For my title, I used a Silhouette cut, some of the kraft Elle's Studio letter stickers and two of the October Afternoon memory cards. The "you should know" speech bubble on one of the memory cards was perfect to cut out and use as part of a message to our sweet girl.

TUESDAY TUTORIAL WITH Eve

Hi there!! Here is Eve and today I am going to share with you how to make this layout:

I used white cardstock as background. I added some colors to my background with my Mister Huey and water, and stamped with stazon and the beautiful stamps of the kit.
Finally, add the your title and the other embellishment :

Then I added some papers, making tape and two stickers :

After that, just put your pictures 

 

Have a good day!
Eve

Simple strategies with Jen Chapin

Hi there! This morning I'm sharing a layout with you using the March kits. Today's post is all about simple strategies. My simple strategy this week is making your own title. I decided to use the sketch pens with my Silhouette Cameo to create a title for my page. After drawing the words (font is Blackout) I colored them in using watercolors and Gelatos.

I used patterned papers from the Main Kit and layered them up under my photo adding stamps, stitching and washi.

Isn't the love die cut fab? You can grab that American Crafts die in the CTK shop, as well as the gelatos! 

I encourage you to get your sketch pens and try this technique out! If you don't have them, it would still be fun to do a hand drawn title and color it in the same way I've shown here. Thanks for stopping by today!

Sunday Sketch with our Guest Designer

Here is your sketch for this weeks challenge. 

 

 

 

Mette here to share with you my take on this weeks sketch.  The layout “No map” is with my oldest daughter Mye. She often thinks ahead in her life and she has so many plans and things she wanna do or see.  So I try to tell her to slow down and live here and now.  There is no map for life!

 

 

 

To play along with our sketch challenge, upload your layouts to the gallery by March. 1st to get your name in a drawing to win a $5 GC to the store. When uploading to the gallery you can name it as you would normally but please include "Sketch 2/23".

Saturday Fireflies Inspiration with Nathalie

Good morning! I am very excited to be here today to share not one but two layouts created with the Fireflies main kit and some bits and pieces from the Happy Little Moments embellishment kit. I love both pages dearly but they are quite different. That is one of my favorite things about Citrus Twist Kits, you can use them for very different styles....

"You are so very awesome"

KITS USED: March 2014 Fireflies Main kit and Happy Little Moments embellishment kit

NON-KIT ITEMS: Doily, washi tape and ink from my stash

"Edible Petra"

KITS USED: March 2014 Fireflies Main kit and Happy Little Moments embellishment kit

NON-KIT ITEMS: Vellum, date stamp, blue mist and blue alphas

I loved playing with these kits and I hope that you will too! As always, if you have any questions, let me know in the comments and I will answer them there :)

Nathalie

Playing with Pocket Life with April

Happy Friday! And happy pocket life day! :)  April here to share my weeks 4 and 5 with you.  [Beware: this is a pretty photo heavy post!]

This year with my pocket life I decided not to force myself into doing a two page spread every week.  Sometimes my weeks are just boring and I don't have much to document, so I'm giving myself a break and letting myself do a one page spread if need be.  (I'm still pretty OCD with having some sort of structure which is why I'm still doing it by pages vs just going with the flow.. lol.)

Anyway, weeks 4 and 5 are an example of this.  Week 4 was pretty low-key, so it was a one page spread.  Week 5 was pretty busy, so it was a 3-page spread!  This month I used the PL kit, PL Embellishment kit, and the pieces from the Main Embellishment kit.

Week 4 (one pager):

Week 5 (1 of 3 pages):

Week 5 (2 of 3) - BTW, look who it is, our very own Nathalie!!

Week 5 (3 of 3):

(PS. That glare on the top left photo isn't because of the way I photographed this spread. It was in the actual photo itself.)

And here's some close-ups from some of my favorite elements from the March kits:

Here are your sketches:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend, all! :)

Winners!!

Sketch Winners $5 Gift Certificate to CTK Store:
2-2: Barbp
2-9: Cecilescrappe
2-16: anitatina
2-23: michelle wedertz

Guessing Games Winner ($5 Gift Certificate):

Zoey and the furballsMarch 2, 2014 at 6:06 PM

Looks like some Amy Tan Plus One in there.

Guest Designer Top 5 Winner (One of her favorite items):

The Robertson ClanMarch 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM

Enjoyed perusing your blog. What a wonderful style. Love all the white with BRIGHT colors! Look forward to seeing what you do with the new kit!

Please Email Trina at CitrusTwistKits@yahoo.com to claim your prizes!