A View From Our Gallery

Hi everyone! It's Sandy back with another View From Our Gallery. We love how our subscribers and customers use their Citrus Twist Kits and are always excited to share their creations with you. Here's a sampling of projects made with our October Kits. You can find more inspiration by heading over to our Gallery.

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A View From Our Gallery : August Kit Layouts

Hi everyone! We've had a terrific response to our September kits with the Main kit, the Project Life kit and the Add-On Kit all selling out. Thank you so much for your support and for sharing the wonderful layouts you create using Citrus Twist kits. As I look through the Gallery I am inspired by many of your pages. Here are a few lovely creations by our members using the August Main kit and Add-On kit.

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Please continue to inspire us with your Citrus Twist projects by sharing them in our Gallery and on our Facebook Fans Page. We love seeing them and I look forward to featuring more of your layouts next month. Cheers and happy scrapping.

A View From Our Gallery

Today we are featuring this darling layout titled You Had Me At Hello by member ginajo15. She's a new Project Life Kit subscriber. Combining our December Life is Better Kit and our November Happy Blessings Kit, she created a lovely page with a 4"x6" photo and lots of little embellishments placed to form a large visual triangle.

Thank you for sharing your kit creation with us ginajo15.

Process Videos From Our Customer

We love it when our customers share process videos featuring our kits. Today we are featuring two videos from Angie Chiazzese as she demonstrates how she goes about creating layouts using our March 2014 Fireflies Main Kit and soldout April 2014 Picture Perfect Main Kit. To see more of Angie's creative designs go to her youtube channel where among other things you'll find a video of how she killed the January 2014 Main and Project Life Kits by making eleven layouts!

Featuring Our Customer

Today we are featuring one of our international customers : Adele from down under Australia. She's a Project Life subscriber and has added some extra supplies from our shop to her November order. As she said "In Australia  it's often hard to get your hands on a variety of the latest supplies, so I went all out and spoiled myself :)". Here's her haul video and if you'd like to see Adele's layouts and project life spread you can visit her blog Inkie Quill.

A View from Our Gallery: Tina Feng (U.S.)

This week we picked Tina Feng's layout for a View from Our Gallery. Tina is a regular Gallery contributor and this scrapbook page caught our eye.

Tina used the June "Beautiful Life" Main kit for her layout and pulled some items from her stash and past kits. The result is  a delightful mix of paper, photos and embellishments. We love how she used the kraft bag from her kit as a backdrop for her photo collage.

Thanks Tina!

A Video from Our Facebook Fan Page: Stamp Organization

We get many requests from our subscribers and fans for ideas on how to organize stamps. For today's A View from Our Gallery post we thought we would share this video that a subscriber and Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page member Rebecca Kvenvolden made.

Rebecca has put together this wonderful little film on stamp organization and tips for storing kit contents and embellishments.

Click here for the stamp organization video link

All you need to organize your stamps is a Simple Stories (or Handbook-style) album, 6 x 8, with a variety of sleeve styles plus plain journaling cards to put behind each clear stamp so you can better see what is on each stamp.

Thank you Rebecca! We loved seeing this gem of a video.

A View from Our Gallery: Thamar van der Hoef

Welcome to a View from Our Gallery. This week we have a visitor from The Netherlands, Thamar van der Hoef. Thamar made this layout with her first (August) Main kit she received from Citrus Twist Kits.

Each week we tie a challenge into our View from Our Gallery post and we'd love to see what you do with this challenge! Upload your product to our Gallery by September 30th. For each project you upload to our Gallery between August 26th and September 30th, you earn one entry into a drawing for 1 embellishment grab bag (valued at $100).

Here are our September kits. We have a new Main or PL subscription special this month: sign up for your 3 or 6-month subscription and we'll email you a coupon for 10% off a store or add-on kit purchase.

The Challenge

Here is your challenge: Use string or bakers twine on a layout or Pocket Life page. You can stitch with string, loop string like Thamar did or show us how creative you can get with it. We can't wait to see what you do.

Thamar van der Hoef

With the August main kit ( My firtst kit ) “all that glitters” i created this layout about my son and his father ( My boys) during our vacation in France “ Mulhouse “  last month. I chose the title “A HAPPY DAY” because it was very nice weather and the boys had so much fun together. Unfortunately, we had a lot of bad weather on our holiday, but we had a lot of fun as a family and thats what counts.

I would like it if you visit my blog.

Here are two close-ups of  my layout:

Thank you for visiting A View from Our Gallery today.

A View from Our Gallery: Barb Prendergast

Welcome to another week of A View from Our Gallery. This week we are sharing the work of a scrapbooker from the midwest (United states), Barb Prendergast. She uses the Citrus Twist kits so creatively and loves to scrapbook up a storm. This layout was made using a mixture of our August kits.

Make note of these two things:

1. For each layout you upload to our Gallery (Pocket Life or traditional scrapbook) between August 26th and September 30th, you'll earn one entry into a drawing for an embellishment kit grab bag valued at $100.
2. Each week we build a small challenge around our A View from Our Gallery Post. So if you like a challenge to keep you moving forward in your scrapbooking, read on!

The Challenge

Create a layout or PL page using fussy cut shapes and a strong vertical column.

Barb Prendergast

This is my take on the September 7 sketch on the blog. I used the August main, embellishment and patterned paper kits. My 6 year old granddaughter loves to scrap; last weekend I took her some designs I cut with my Cameo and helped her start a Disney "remember book", as she calls her albums.

Our September kits were revealed on the 1st and begin shipping on the 15th. You can see them (and some of the August kits) here.

Pop on over to our Gallery and share some of your work this month and earn a chance(s) to win an embellishment grab bag.

A View from Our Gallery: Alissa Wells

We are back with our new weekly feature where we get to share what someone has been doing with our kits, has been inspired by our sketches or challenges or uploads to the Citrus Twist gallery.

And, of course, we have built a challenge based on Alissa's (U.S.) layout for those of you who like a scrapbooking challenge.

Your Challenge

This week your challenge is to create a layout using a "filmstrip" of photos. We'd love to see your results posted in our Gallery and/or on our Citrus Twist Kits Facebook Fan Page.

Alissa's placement of the tilted photo over her filmstrip of small photos is a perfect way to highlight the best photo of the group.

Alissa's Layout

This layout is all mixed up with Teresa Collins, Studio Calico, and Authentique. I started with blues and yellow as my primary colors and threw in a punch of pink just for fun. The accents include Elle's Studio, American Crafts, My Mind's Eye, Basic Grey, K & Company, and Fancy Pants. My style seems to match my little guy's ability mix fun into his daily life. I loved watching how he carted Pooh around Washington DC for all the sight seeing!

Here are a couple close-ups of my page:

Thank you for visiting!

A View from Our Gallery

It's A View from Our Gallery day at Citrus Twist and we've combined it with another challenge for you. This week's View actually came from our new Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page as one of the very first few postings. 

Your challenge is to create a layout using one photo, with at least 3 layers of patterned paper behind your photo, plus a frame. We'd love to see what you do with this challenge in our Gallery and/or on our Facebook fan page. (Not a member of the fan page yet? Send us a request to join!)

Meet Christina

Hello, my name is Christina I am from Greece and living in Sweden with my husband and 5 year old daughter. I am an Interior Designer and I love photography, reading and cooking. I started scrapbooking a few years ago creating cards, mini albums and occasionally layouts. 

Concerning this particular layout I had this picture of myself from last summer and when I saw the May Citrus Twist kit, I thought it would be perfect! I loved the embellishments and the gold frame the kit had! For me it's easier to work with a kit because I have everything in front of me.  

My style is characterized by simplicity, so it doesn't take more than an hour to create a layout. Some layering, embellishments and it's done. I hope this will inspire you! 

Here is a close-up of Christina's layout showing how she positioned her simple patterned paper layers:

Thanks Christina for your inspiration!

A View from Our Gallery

This week's View from Our Gallery comes out of Texas from subscriber Tina Feng. We love the beautiful simplicity of this layout using color, cut file, embellishments and a single photo. 

Your Challenge

Are you ready for a small challenge? This week create a layout using an entire sheet of patterned paper as your background with a light, solid paper backdrop over the patterned paper, 1 photo and 3 small embellishment clusters. Be sure to share your finished work in our Gallery!

Here is Tina's Together at Last layout:

Tina is here to share a little about her layout:

This layout was made with the Fireflies Main Kit from March.  This was already my fourth layout using this kit, and there were still so many wonderful things left! I love the variety of wood elements included in that month's kit and used several wood veneers along with the My Mind's Eye wooden enamel dots across this page.  I also love the bright yellow chevron background paper--it just screams "summer" and "fun" to me!  

I used my recently acquired Silhouette Cameo for the title work. Two different scraps of patterned paper were used to back the letters to make the title stand out more. I printed my journaling under the title using a typewriter font. I typically hand-write my journaling, but I wanted a more structured look to this layout.   

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Tina Feng

A View from Our Gallery

This week we're featuring a layout posted to our gallery all the way from Malaysia. We love Phei Chee's take on a recent sketch challenge on our blog. We've also got a scrapbooking challenge for you based on Phei Chee's sweet page. Here it is:

Create a page (or work the challenge into a PL page) that uses these two elements: circular stitching and an embellishment cluster that has at least 5 embellishments. We'd love to see the results of this challenge posted in our Gallery.

Now, let's meet Phei Chee!

Hi, I‘m Phei Chee from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, working as a Fashion Buyer.

I started scrap-booking in May 2013 and I've been hooked ever since. I love making mini albums, travelogues and also seasoning cards for my loved one, to record those precious little moments in my life. I started my pocket life two months ago and I am really in love with it.

I love playing along with the sketch challenges. All the sketch layouts from the DT are always so inspiring. Here is my layout based on the 6/29 sketch:

Love this 6/29 sketch so much! I decided to play along with it immediately, pulling out my leftover May PL kit, and got it done within 2+ hours.
I was able to fit 4 pictures in my layout and very coincidentally I'd forced him to take this series of selfies last weekend! Ho ho Ho! So I think this is just nice for this layout!

I printed those pics 1.75" x 1.75" by using my lovely canon CP900.Then I found that the color palette of the 6x6 Webster's Pages paper matched my pictures so well! It makes this layout an easier one.

The "original circle" on the paper makes my jobs easier, I just had to add two rows of machine stitching and call-it-done.

Can you spot the gold color title from Maggie Holmes? Love it so much as it looks seriously elegant!Those white color stickers are awesome too. I just feel like putting everywhere! Can you spot some of them on top of my picture? Since I used a white color background I stuck those white stickers on green color card stock and randomly fussy cut it.

Last but not least . . . sprinkles! Since I'm not good at handling that, I changed it to be little stars, and used my lovely star puncher, then stuck them everywhere randomly as I like.

I hope my layout has inspired you.

Thanks for looking, too :).

Phei Chee

A View From Our Gallery

We would love to celebrate our very first "A View From Our Gallery" and challenge with you. This week's "Here You Go Again!" layout comes from Barb Prendergast (United States). Barb loves to take on our weekly Sunday Sketch challenges and we love seeing what she does with them.

 

Here is a challenge to go with this week's layout inspired by Barb's sunburst. 

 

CHALLENGE: Create a layout with a starburst or use a starburst on your Pocket Life pages this week. Be sure to share the results in the Citrus Twist Gallery!

 

 

Here is a little more about Barb:

My name is Barb Prendergast, and I live in central Illinois. I'm a former newspaper reporter and public relations specialist, so scrapbooking is a perfect way to combine my love of photos and storytelling. My husband, Mike and I have four adult children (three married and one engaged) and seven grandchildren. I treasure my scrapbooks because they're full of layouts that preserve special moments with my family, as well as travels and snapshots of everyday life. I also enjoy creating my own greeting cards. 

I love sketches because they provide a shortcut to my creative process. I can use the sketch as a sort of "road map" and get right down to the part of scrapping that I love best: working with my photos, beautiful papers and embellishments to preserve special moments. And I love kits because I don't have to waste time looking for the perfect embellishments or finding papers that "go together"; they're all right in my kit and I can get down to business. 

 

This layout is one of my current favorites because Kasia's sketch inspired me to try something new. Instead of cutting out a sunburst design and adhering it to my background, I cut the sunburst design into my background paper and then put the patterned paper behind it. Kasia's sketches always take me a little bit out of my "comfort zone", which I love.  I used the June main kit, adding some pearl dots, thread and title alphas from my stash. I stamped a piece of kraft cardstock to make the tag.

 

Thank you for visiting our blog today. We look forward to seeing your starburst-inspired layouts in our Gallery!