Tuesday Tutorial with Nina

Hey everyone it´s Nina again here on this fantastic Tuesday. Today I’m going to share a layout tutorial using the Citrus Twist Kit May Main "Sparkle and Shine" and Embellishment Kit "Happy Girl". Lets get started:

To begin the page you need a picture in the size of the golden chipboard frame. You can use some 3D pads to add photos layers with a little bit more of dimension.  

In the next step cut a strip and card out of the Webster´s pages paper for the use in your background.

To make the layer more fluffy use a piece of silk paper (this one is from my stash), fold a bit bigger than the frame, and fix it with a tiny attacher.

It´s a great detail to use a paper straw also on a layout. You can cut it lenghtwise with a sharp knife, add some liquid glue and press it down careful onto the cardstock...  

Add some pink ink splashes onto the background. 

To get a great feeling for the measuring of the page cut out the rub-on words with the back foil. So you can easily find the final place for it. Do the same procedure with the embellishments you want to use. If everything looks great you can flip up the edges to add some glue behind.

And this is the final result....

Thanks for visiting today the CTK blog.
Nina

Simple Strategies - Creative Titlework

Hello and welcome on Monday with a "Simple Strategies" post. Mostly journaling is a huge part on our layouts and it´s great to capture all things happened, but I also love doing simple pages. On the day I received the kit I had a MONSTER ear worm with the song "It´s a beautiful life" from Michael Buble. So it´s a kind of "scrapping the music" with a special title work.....

This American Crafts chipboard kork thickers are simply adorable but I like to mix up different fonts.  It makes simple pages a little bit more interesting, I think. The word "beautiful" is made with the Silhouette Cameo and white cardstock. To complete the title work I add a piece of the paper straw and those golden heart rub-ons.

Thank you so much for visiting today. See you tomorrow for a layout tutorial...
Nina

Be inspired with Nina

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It´s no secret that I´m addicted to frames and also butterflies. I´m always on the run to find great new inspirations and mood boards like this one.  Normally I don´t use often the color black for backgrounds of my pages because I love the bright airy look. But if I got the kit with those chalk black and black dotted paper I knew I would like to give them a try. And I like the result. Sometimes it´s great to leave your own comfort zone, right?!

Behind the Insta frame I add again a piece of the black chalk paper. The butterfly is made with a die and my Big Shot machine.  I used acrylic painted white cardstock and transparency paper (both included in the kit) to make this 3D butterfly shape. The phrase is stamped with the Citrus Twist Kits Stamp Set....

Products used:
April Main Scrapbook Kit
April Embellishment Kit
From my stash: Acrylic Paint, A piece of a paper doilie, sewing machine

Sunday Sketch with Nina

Happy Sunday, everyone! Nina here with this week's Sunday Sketch and my layout based on this one.

But let´s start with Kasia´s beautiful sketch....

It´s a beautiful one, isn´t it? It was the prefect reason to use (after a long time) the great Studio Calico sunburst mask in combination with the Heidi Swapp Color Shine Spray "Coral" to create this kind of background.  

To play along with our sketch challenge, upload your layouts to the gallery by April. 7th 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 23/3".

Thank you so much for visiting the Citrus Twist blog today!

Products used:
March 2014 Fireflies Main Kit
March 2014 Happy Little Moments Embellishment Kit
March 2014 Solid Paper Kit

Other: Mask, Color Mist, white Silk Paper (to layer the photo)

"Be Inspired" with Nina

Hello and welcome to a new "be inspired" post at Thursday on the Citrus Twist blog. Today I would like to show you a teenage boy layout inspired by those cute exclusive Citrus Twist wood veneer frames. I´m always in LOVE with little chipboard or paper frames but the wooden ones from the March Scrapbook Kit are my absolute favorite. 

It´s so easy to give the page a touch of something special and I think it´s one of the embellishments you can use also great for boys pages.

Products used:
Citrus Twist Scrapbooking March Kit *click*
From my stash: a piece of a paper doilie, Mister Hueys

Thanks for visiting the blog today!
Nina

Inspired by paper flowers with Nina Ostermann

Hi everyone, it´s Nina here on monday to start a new week full of beautiful inspiring projects....

In the last days we had in Germany a little bit of spring feeling and I decorated our house with lots of flowers. This inspired me to use also flowers of a page which are created with papers from the awesome Citrus Twist February Kit in combination with a rosette die. 

Every time I use this die I´m totally in LOVE with it and I´m asking myself why I don´t use it more often?! It make scrapbooking pages something special in just a few minutes.....

(All products are included in the kit, I only used some sequins and a half doilie from my stash...)

Whats about you?! Are you also in spring mood?!
Thank you for visiting the Citrus Twist blog today....
Nina

Tuesday Tutorial with Nina

Hi, it´s Nina here today sharing a fun, yet simple tutorial using the Citrus Twist February Kits.  The focus of this page are these cute little October Afternoon chipboard frames in combination with brush writing.  

Choose four different frames from the sheet and group them under your picture to measure up the space for your painting. 

 

To write your title use watercolors, Mister Hueys or other black paint you have in your stash. 

 Add Thickers under your dried painting to complete your title work.  

To create the bottom of your page add the number strip (Elles Studio Patterned Paper) as well as a double loop using the packaging twine. 

Stamp journaling phrases with an acrylic block, black ink and Citrus Twist execlusively Kit stamps directly on the page and on a white strip of paper. Add the strip flag at the top of the photo using a tiny attacher. At least add some wooden hearts and October Afternoon "Pop Drops" on the layout.  

Tuesday Tutorial with Nina: Clustering

Hi there, it´s Nina here today on this years last day, sharing a scrapbooking tutorial with you. 

To create this page I used the beautiful CTK December Main Kit as well as the Embellishment Kit.

For the background I used a bright green card stock with the Glitz Design triangle paper. 

To layer the picture I used the CTK paper bag where you get all the tiny kit embellishments. I cut the bag in the right size and add the picture.

For the next step I used the twine and tag (using the back) from the December Mail Kit packaging to make a bow and a self stamped tag for the picture.

 The "it´s all in the details" stamp phrase fits perfect in here.

 I add the tag with the little CTK die cut heart on the top of the picture.

To find the perfect place for the title I always use a ruler with the alphabet on it. This helps a lot and prevent to pill off the Thickers on different places.

At first I tried to use the Heidi Swapp words directly on the patterned paper but they disappeared completely with the background. Therefore I add the white paper packaging from the HS word sticker under the picture to add all the sticker on it.

To find the best place for the words you can cut them out with the backing paper. With this method you can switch the words several times...

 The next step means a lot of fun. Place lots of stickers around the words to complete the look...

 To give these layer a frame I sewed around the white paper...

 And here is my finished page....

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today!
All of us here at Citrus Twist would like to wish you a wonderful start in the new year 2014. We can´t wait to see what the new year brings up!