Friday Sketch with Kasia

Hello! It's Kasia here with a new set of pocket pages and sketches for you!

You know that I love bright pages with lots of white and pops of happy color - in April's kits I've founs my favorite ones to play with and I think mix of yellow and mint will stick with me for longer. Just have a look!

I used some backs of paper from 6x6 pad to create more white cards to fill my pockets and than played with stickers and embellishments from Pocket Life kit, as well as Main and Add-On kits.

I love mixing small pieces and adding with them details to my layouts - don't you think they look adorable?

Creating this month's pages was also a good excuse to practice my lettering! I recently started playing with hand lettering and why not incorporate it in my Project Life?

it will be fun to see it changing as I improve my skills! Also such a great way to add more personal touches to the album, don't you think so?

There are of course sketches waiting for you if you would like to repeat any of these simple compositions :) Remember that the way you play with sketch is up to you - you can rotate it, flip it or use its design upside down - just have fun with it!

Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Mira

Welcome Pocket Life Fans!

It's time for the first Pocket Sketch Friday this month! It's Mira here and I'll be sharing two sketches with You together with a couple of spring-related pocket pages that I've made with April Kits. This month I've played with Pocket Life and Sprinkles kits mixed with Add-on (which I think will be my monthly choice from now on). These kits are always filled with so many gorgeous stuff, especially tiny and colorful embellishments that I love the most! What about You? What's Your favourite part of each kit?

Here are the two sketches that I prepared for You:

And the pages from my album:

My pages are filled with pictures from our little walk when we were searching for the first signs of spring. Obviously after 30 minutes we ended up at playground - our daughter's favourite place! :) Luckily we took a few spring-related photos, so I can still pretend we were searching for those signs.

To highlight this uniquely fresh character of every spring season I kept my pages bright and colorful. Papers and cards from Pocket Life Kit helped a lot.

Also those colorful alpha stickers from Add-on kit did the job!

I used two Heidi Swapp flower stamps from Add-on kit to create my own springish journaling cards.

And here You have more details :))

I really love those white foam word stickers from Sprinkles kit and the word hope was the very best choice for my spread, since I miss sunbeams and flowers and nice temperatures so much! What about You?

Okay, that's it for now!
I hope the sketches will help You with Your pages! Don't forget to share them with us! You have a chance to win a price from Citrus Twist Kits! All You need to do is:
Create a layout based on the sketch of Your choice, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, March 14th and be sure to include PL 04/14 in the title!


Thank You for reading and I have a delightful weekend!

Friday sketch - pocket scrapbooking in 2017!

How is your memory keeping in 2017 going so far? Did you make any changes in your albums this year?

For me the biggest change was picking the album - after years of doing my pocket scrapbooking in 6x8 and 9x12 format I decided to upgrade my album to 12x12 and I love it!



Bigger album gives me more room to play with photos and beautiful papers, I have space to use some of the bigger embellishments (like the pink camera from February Citrus Twist Kit!) and my compostition still looks airy and light!



In album like these I love especially the page protectors that allow me to use 6x4 cards. It's so easy to fill album with them! Also cropping 6x6 paper from small paper pads allows me to make matching compositions on my pages in few little moments.



As you can see photos in my album are also a real mix - I use some of the pictures taken with my DSLR camera, throw here and there photos from Instagram and make mini collages of images downloaded from my Insta Story. I love that this mix of different pictures makes my album look real and eclectic.


In 2017 I also decided to take on more relaxed approach to memory keeping. I don't fill my album weekly, instead I document in here important moments and little. everyday joys. In January we moved our home, settled down in new place and enjoyed some fun days out - it all has space in the album.



I made two above pages using papers and embellishments from February Citrus Twist Kits - I loved the pop of yellow in them, it just screams spring to me and although it's still winter in Poland it definitely makes me smile when I look at these pages :)

Of course there are also sketches for you to follow if you would like to play with any of my compostions :)



Have fun documenting memories in 2017! As always we are looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations made with Citrus Twist Kits!

Pocket Life Friday sketch with Kasia

Hello on Friday in another Pocket Life inspiration post! It's Kasia here with some fresh pages for you :)

We are about to finish November and I have to admit that with very busy few weeks I decided to take my life documenting a bit easy.

In 2016 I was trying to capture memories in my album week by week, but in November I changed things up and documented only snippets, little highlights and everyday moments of the month.


I created 5 pages for November in total and here you can have a look at 2 of them - there are also sketches attached at the end of this post if you feel inspired by my spreads :)

As you can see I focused on little details and things that made my November - there are lots of photos of at home activities (actually all middle row is about them!), some family pictures and a little bit of journaling and embellishments. 

I like the free look and feel of this pages. I think sometimes when it comes to documenting memories we put so much unnecessary pressure on ourselves rather than focusing on enjoying the process itself. With December approaching I wanted to have some time to prepare for my christmas album, so changing things up in the main Pocket Life album was a sensible choice!





I really enjoyed mixing and matching here cards, papers, stickers and embellishments from November kits - they all aligned perfectly, don't you think so?

Also I mixed some photos - there is random stuff from my iPhone and camera and honestly - I love this happy mix of captured memories!



Below you can grab the sketches if you also want to try this simple, yet pleasing composition in your album! I think that mix of sketch and working with already matching, kit products is a great way for stress free documenting memories!

Here is sketch for page 1



and a close up for my results using it!



And page 2 for you guys ....



... plus some inspiration from me!




I hope you will have a fun weekend, maybe you can even find some time to play with those! Let us know! And also remember about all Black Friday offers in Citrus Twist Kits shop - there are some great deals still waiting for you!

PL Sketch Friday with Trina

Are you ready to grab your crafty supplies (and scrapbook kit or pocket page kit if it has arrived) and get to some guilt-free playing? It's Trina here today with PL sketches to get you scrapbooking this weekend.

I was feeling a little stressed when I sat down to create this spread but by the time I was 5 minutes into it my stress had melted away.

My challenge to you is to finish a spread and keep it simple. Use only 3" x 4" cards on one of the pages.

Here is my finished spread:

Here is the right side of my sketch layout:

Here is the left side of my spread:

Confession: I fell in love with the piece of paper from Paige Evan's new Fancy Free line (from Pink Paislee and in this month's Beach Glass PL kit) that has little rectangular snippets of all different patterns and colors. I cut that page into individual strips then layered them behind my black-and-white photo. Book lover that I am, I had to tuck in a vintage book strip:

At first I glued down a little red snippet of paper in the lower right part of my page but it drew my attention a little too much. So I covered it with a small strip of torn fabric to "mute" the red. Next I glued another tiny strip of pattern paper over the top and added the (adorable) "yay" puffy sticker and cork heart:

I layered my Silhouette cut title over the top of the photo and layered strips. I like how the strips of pattern paper peek through. The font I used to create my title cut is Fabulous Script from Hungry JPEG. I finished the page off with splatters of yellow mist, totally random splatter placement:

When I was done, I had my little pile of 3" x 4" cards and 6" x 8" mini layout ready to tuck into my PL album:

Are you ready for your sketches? Here you go! One full-page layout for your pocket pages:

Here is a second page using four 3" x 4" journaling cards. I challenge you to keep it really simple and complete a page with 3" x 4" pockets:

Thank you for visiting Pocket Life Sketch Friday. We hope you have fun playing with your Pocket Life scrapbooking kit. Be sure to share your results. We would love to see them!

Trina

Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Tara

Good morning! It's my favorite day of the week and time for your weekly PL Sketch challenge. Today I'm sharing how to get your Pocket Life done quick and easy. These days, I don't have much time to spare.


The everyday moments fill up my heart more than I imagine! Here are a few:

I can't get enough of our April "Santorini" PL Kit! The colors are bright and bold - the exclusive 6x6 paper gave me a ton of mileage out of this month's kit. There can never be too many embellishments in my book, so I added another layer of stripes by using a Pinkfresh Life Noted chipboard sticker. The Life Noted acetate cut out words that came in the April Sprinkles Kit was just perfect to use here as my title.


Here is an up close shot:

To keep it simple, I used the Carpe Diem tiny word stickers instead of journaling. I love the little phrases in typewriter font. This month's PL kit had an arrow stamp included and it worked great here.



Luke and I are getting in a little cuddle while I do some meal prepping.

I'm smitten over the sleep journaling card this month! I wanted to hoard it but found it perfect with this layout. I also used one of the cut outs included in the PL kit - they are great in adding a little more to a photo or journaling card.


Here is your sketch:

Thanks for visiting Pocket Life Friday, where every week we share PL sketches and a chance to win. For your chance to win, create a layout based on the sketches in this blog post, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, May 6th. Be sure to include PL 05/29 in your title when posting!

Happy Weekend! Xxo, Tara

Pocket Life Sketch Friday | neutral spread with pops of color

Hello and welcome in another Pocket Life Sketch post! It's Kasia here with some pockets inspiration!

I love bright and airy spreads and try to keep my 2016 album in this style. I focus a lot on neutral, cool colors through all my pages - I pick white, grey and shades of blue and love building the base of my pages on them - so as you can imagine April kit was perfect for me! I love the double sided cards and possibility to choose more neutral color scheme.

But I also know that neutral spreads can be a bit boring - both to look at and to make. We all love some color, don't we? So every week I try to add different splash of color to the pages I make. This time I picked green - my tiny herb garden was an inspiration for this move!

Just two green elements - the week number and big, transparent title helped my pages come to life and look much more interesting. I used other bits and pieces from "Santorini" Pocket Life kit and April Sprinkles kit to finish off my pages. Below you can see more photos!

I also have some fun sketches for you this week. Most of the time I stick to same pockets, but sometimes, to change things off a bit I pull out my fuse tool and create a custom pocket. It's so much fun!

Don't worry if you don't have a Fuse Tool - you can also use a sewing machine or just create a layout following the sketch and slip it into full size page protector. Experiment! And have fun!:)

Show us which side of April kit you felt inspire to use - did you go for neutrals or for bold colors this month?