Life Crafted TN Spread by Anna

Hi dear CTK friends! Anna here with you today sharing some coffee love. This month's Life Crafted "Make it a Venti" kit worked like a charm for this spread.

Here's what I came up with this time.

I'm totally in love with all these puffy and Chipboard Stickers in this month's kit. This time I got a little bit crazy using them, but I couldn't help myself, lol!

Also I've a little crush on all these gorgeous patterned papers this month ( actually it's the same gorgeousness each and every month, right? ) Therefore I decided to try to use as many of them as I could for this spread and made a stripe design with some additional stitches. I love how it turned out.

Now it's your time to grab your kit and have some fun. Don't forget to share your goodness with us on Facebook, CTK Fan Page or/and on Instagram, #citrustwistkits. We can't wait to see your creations and give you some love.

Thanks for stopping by here today! Anna xo

PL Challenge with Kelli

Hello, Kelli here and I am excited to show you a pocket page I made with the April kit. I used a mix of the Life Crafted kit, and the add on kit. Both were perfect to document our 14th wedding anniversary. 

The 4x6 and 3x4 card from the Life Crafted kit are so adorable and I love that outline text. I added some journaling to the small card with my typewriter. 

My challenge for you is to place 2 vertical 3x4s in a 4x6 horizontal pocket. Whether its a photo or a card, you can easily make the pocket more versatile for your project. I use white cardstock behind so its easy to slide in. 

Thanks for joining me today! Have a great day. 

3 To Inspire with Alena

Hello, crafty friends! Alena here today with a 3-to-Inspire challenge for you!

For today's 3-to-Inspire, the categories are:

1. Use fringe.
2. Stitch (machine, hand).
3. Use labels.

For my PL spread I used the Life Crafted Kit only and I really love the patterned paper in the kit this month.

I love how this fringe/sewing /Ephemera combo turned out! 

Sometimes I use small square photos on my page. This way I can place more photos.

Use the three (3) prompts to create your own project and share it with us on our Facebook Fan page!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you have a great day!

Life Crafted with Diane

Hi everyone, Diane here to share a couple of pages in my nephew's Life Crafted album with you! I really do treasure the chance to sit down with this album and create a pages with this gorgeous little face.

For this first spread, I created a mini layout on one side and then a cut down page protector for the other. To create the mini layout, I used a page protector from the album to give me the full page size and placement for the holes. Then I layered my photo with paper, labels and die cuts from the Pocket Life kit. I stitched the paper to the background to both adhere it and to give it a bit of texture.

For my title, I used both types of alphas from the kit, as well as the Heidi Swapp alphas from the Scrapbook add on kit. I love all the pinks, blues and teals together. Who says you can't use pink for a baby boy?!

I kept the left hand side really simple but used coordinating colours in the 3x4 journal cards to tie the two sides together. Its super simple to cut down a 6x8 page protector to give yourself a place for 3x4 cards.

For my second page, I created my own segmented pocket page to fit a 4x6 card. I filled the smaller space at the bottom with sequins and then used my Fuse tool to close it off. This left me with a 4x6 pocket at the top.

I didn't have enough of the grey alphas from the kit to create my title and I really didn't want to introduce a second colour to the page, so instead I used a permanent marker to colour in my alphas black. It's a really simple way to coordinate any alpha to the page you're making.

I used a single sheet of exclusive 6x8 pattern paper from the kit and trimmed it in half so that both sides of my page protector would be coordinated. I matted both my photo and my journalling with a darker shade of green and then added a few labels to both sides.

Apart from the paper and labels, the last method I used for tying the two sides together, was to add a little detail stamping to both pages. I love how the little cross stamp adds a tiny detail, looks like a sprinkling of embellishments but doesn't add any bulk at all!

I love the size of this album, it is perfect for quickly putting together pages and getting these precious memories documented.

Sunday Sketch with Marsha

Hello friends!  It's Marsha, and I'm back with a layout for the CTK Sunday Sketch challenge.  This is another awesome sketch, and I really hope you will play along with us.

Here's the sketch:

Here's my version- converted to a traveler's notebook layout:

As you can see, my layout follows the sketch pretty closely.  Why mess with perfection, right?!?  

For my TN layout, I used the April "Make It a Venti" kit and the April Cut Aparts.  I LOVE coffee, so I thought it would be fun to create a page documenting my favorite recipe (coffee and creamer). 

To begin the spread, I chose several papers from the kit.  There were so many beautiful papers, that I wanted to use them all :).  I layered them and adhered them to the page, trimming the papers down the middle to allow for the fold in the traveler's notebook.   I chose the LOVE ephemera piece to begin my title and also used some of the puffy alphas.  I like the fun look of mixing the colors of the letters for the title!  The chipboard "details" sticker completed my title.

Next, I layered more ephemera pieces, chipboard stickers, and puffy stickers, creating embellishment clusters around the layout.  I stamped a coffee cup from the kit stamp set, using some mint colored ink from my stash.  One of the cut apart labels was perfect for adding a little bit of journaling.  

I love how these page came together using the coffee themed Make It a Venti kit!  I hope you will play along with the Sunday Sketch Challenge and share your project with us on the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page on Facebook.

3 to Inspire With Anna

Hi dear CTK friends!

It's Anna here today sharing this week's 3 to Inspire. One of my favorite challenges for sure.
Here's my three promts for us to play around with.

1. Use a black & white photo
2. Use PL card(s)
3. Use stitches

And here's what I came up with using the CTK April Life Crafted "Make it a Venti" kit.

Let's start with my first promt, a black &white photo. I love this photo of my son and I and his hand in my hand. I just want to freeze these precious moments and keep them forever close to my heart.

My second promt was PL-card(s) and I immediately knew which one to use for this page and it was that pink card that decided my color scheme for my project. For sure you can use pink and blossoms for a boy page if you ask me.

My third and last promt, of course, stitches!! I hardly can leave any of my layouts without some stitching, lol!
Also, don't you just love those flowers on this gorgeous cut file from our Subscribers exclusives. It's designed by the super talented Nathalie.

Now it's your turn to make your own take of this fun challenge. I hope you will enjoy playing along as much as I did! Be sure to share your creations with us on the CTK Fan Page or/ and on Instagram #citrustwistkits. We can't wait to see what magic you will create.

Until next time! Anna xo

Product Highlight with Emma

Hello CTK friends :)

Emma on the blog today and I am so happy to be able to share one of my projects using the April kits.  For this layout I wanted to focus on using the fun Maggie Holmes Sunny Days Accent Stickers that are included in this months Add-on Kit!

First up, here's a look at the page I put together :)

This is sized to fit in my Life Crafted album and as usual I've gone with a white cardstock background (I just can't break out of the habit!).  I added a few black ink splatters at the top and bottom of my page and centered my photo.

I love layers so I've gone added one of the stickers at the very bottom then on top of that I've popped one of the die-cut pieces (also from the add-on), one of the 3x4 LC cards and a small section of one of the digital TN papers before laying the photo on top!  Yes, I love layers :)

Once I had my photo cluster all set I had some fun picking out my favorite stickers to add around it.  That yellow "sunshine" sticker was a must have but I wanted to add a bit more dimension (rather than have it stick straight onto the photo) so I added a scrap bit of paper behind then used a foam-dot to give it some depth). 

The "so this happened" title is actually from the digital journaling cards - I just pulled the words out and re-sized it to fit my page then fussy-cut around the lettering - super easy!

The stickers are such a quick and easy way to add dimension to the page - and I'll often bend them up slightly on the edges just to give the page a bit more movement (like the yellow sticker, I'll add a bit of scrap paper behind to stop the sticker sticking properly!).

That umbrella sticker is so cute, knew I wanted to use it straight away but I couldn't find any photo's with an umbrella to match, but I figured a beach shot was close enough :) 

To fill a bit of the white space at the top/bottom of my page, and to balance things out, I've used a bit more of the digital paper I'd printed (I just printed it onto plain copy paper so it's nice and thin!).

At the bottom of my page I've created a small cluster on the left side using the seashell stickers, which are a perfect match for a beach photo, then layered a print & cut word (something I created using silhouette studio).  And those flip-flops on the right side just finish it off :)

Love how this one finished up and even though I've used all those stickers I've still managed to create a page with lots of dimension!  Thanks so much for joining me on the blog today - I hope this will inspire you to use those fun stickers on your projects!

More caffeination using cut files!

Hi guys! I've got one more caffeine themed project to share with you today, this time in my Traveler's Notebook!

One again, I used that amazing stamp and some puffy stickers from the MAKE IT A VENTI Life Crafted kit, as well as the beautiful Scrapbook add on kit. Then I got busy altering one of the subscriber-exclusive cut files to create a coffee bean cloud for my page!

Once I had my coffee cloud all backed (in pink, of course!), I added my photo onto a background of even more clouds! To create the effect of the coffee cups raining down, I added stamps and puffy stickers directly underneath the cloud and then stitched in some lines using light pink embroidery floss.

The page was busy enough without adding a title, but I did want to a couple of lines of journaling. I wasn't sure where I could fit the journaling in, so I tested writing above the clouds by placing a piece of tracing paper over my page and writing the words in before I committed to placing it on the page. And it worked a treat!

For a bit more detail on how this page came together, as well as a tutorial for altering the cut file, here is a little process video for you ...

Have you got your April kit yet? How many coffee themed pages are you planning on making? I can tell you, I have no plans of stopping any time soon!