Pocket Life with Pamela

Good morning everyone!  This is Pamela back with my October pocket life spreads.  October's kit is just full of colours, fun embellishments and loads of alpha stickers. Did I mention there are lots of alphas?

I made two very different full week spreads with the kit - one that is a bit more simpler, cleaner and whiter and one that's full of colours.

I'm loving those cloud die cuts, the cut out shapes and the adorable alphas! I did a very simple title card for Week 38.

 

I used up some of my remaining goodies from the September kit (like the Crate Paper journal card). I don't mind mixing kit contents together - it often leads me to create a spread that has a different mood than the main month's kit!

I love that geometric pattern paper so I pulled out some journal cards with similar colours from the previous months.

I just love these cute cutouts!

And here you get to see the cork stickers, the label stickers and the alphas (from the PL embellishment).

Now my second week has a more Autumn-vibe to it.

I made another simple title card using the alphas and a few of the die cuts from the PL embellishment kit.

The CTK exclusive journal cards are designed in the same colour scheme as the PL kit so it was easy to coordinate the colours.

My other side uses some goodies from the previous kits. Can you spot the contents from the September kit?

I cut up the 4x6 journaling card from Crate Paper from last month's kit and trimmed it down to 3x4.

I had a few more of those arrows left so I stitched the onto a solid colour pattern paper and did some journaling in the center.

Here are your PL sketches for this month!

 

Pocket Life with April

Hi CTKers!  April here to share my Pocket Life Week 34.

To be honest, the colors from this month's kit were out of my comfort zone, but I have to say, I ended up really LOVING the kit.  I think part of it has to do with the fact that I don't typically gravitate toward such warmer colors like oranges, but I thought this kit was very nicely coordinated.  Thanks Trina!

And just as a weird coincidence, the tint of my photos this week ended up being more orange-y than usual because of the lighting at the restaurants we were at, so I thought most of my photos matched the kit well!

Left side - This week, I had dinner with my girlfriends and I found out that I failed my one hour glucose test and had to take the three hour test later in the week.  Luckily, I passed the three hour test!

Detail shots:

Right side - A birthday dinner for my cousin and the hubs going to the beer fest with some friends.

Detail shots:

I made a simple flip-up pocket this week by just adding washi tape across the top of the pocket!

Oh, and before I forget, here are your sketches:

Thank you for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Pocket Life With Sam

Hello hello there! This is Sam to share a Pocket Life spread with you today. So sorry I just gotten my box few days ago and haven't had chance to play with the kit much + film a process video. Anyway, I am loving the colours of the kit this month, particular the huge alphabet sticker sheet from Basic Grey.

And here is my take on the Pocket Life page that I used a lot of warmer tone / fall colours here. Not the usual colours that I would always use but I like that I get to change my usual work flow / preference a little. It is a little challenging for me, but its a good challenge ;)

I like the geometric print (triangle) pattern paper and decided to use it as a title card for this month page.

I have also printed a few photos in Black & White to match the papers that I use here. I think B&W photos really work well with these warm colour palette.

I like the banner tags from PRetty Little Studio this month and had so much fun fussy cutting them and add them to the page. The Black and White sticker with sentiments are ctually embossed just like how you use Motex / Dymo label makers.

So here's my simple page for this month Pocket Life kit. I am planning to do a process video (hopefully with voice over to explain the way I work) later this month. Will post it on Citrus Twist FB page when I have uploaded the video.

Have a great day!

XoXo
Sam

Pocket Life with Olya

Hello, dear Citrus Twist friends.

Today I'm sharing 3 spreads of my Pocket Life weeks with you, all using October PL kit and PL Embellishment kit. Ready? Let's have a look.
This is my week 38, from September 14th to 20th. I loved the colours in October PL kits. Everything just flowed so well together, so it was easy to pair up all the papers and embellishments for the pocket pages.

Here is a close up of the left hand side.

I particularly had lots of fun photos from the day my best friend and I hang out and took lots of silly photos together. I wanted to include lots of them and was running out of page pockets. So I decided to make a flip page, using another page protector pocket of the same size, that I trimmed, and a simple clear tape. I wasn't sure how it would turn out and whether the flip pocket would just keep flying out or not, but it actually turned out well and you can't even tell it's DIY :)

Open and close. Ta Da!

Here is the right hand side.
My sweet husband likes to leave little love notes for me, so beginning of the year I gave him some blank 3x4 Project Life cards, saying that there is no pressure for more love notes, but if the inspiration for love declaration strikes, he's welcome to channel it onto the PL cards, so I can just slip them in our album. And so he's been doing that ever since, unaware that his love notes will be photographed and displayed on all the social media outlets possible. Oh, well. That's the life you sign up for, when you marry a scrapbooker. :)

Here is my week 39, from September 21st to 27th.
Again, I had lots and lots of photos that I wanted to include that week, so I chose page protectors with lots of pockets in it.

Here is the left hand side.

And the right hand side.

Those craft dies in the October kit are to die for! (see what I did there?) I loved getting a little creative with them and adding the stitching effect by using a black pen and drawing tiny dashes.

And here is my weekly spread #3, Week 40, going from September 28th to October 4th.
Again, I used and abused all the lovely embellishments in the Pocket Life kits, to the point that I practically ran out. Oops :)What can I say? I loved them all that much.

Left hand side close up.
I knew that there was a reason I was hoarding September's PL 'happy moments' card. When my husband and I found our new dream apartment, I thought it was a perfect card to use for documenting how we were feeling after signing a lease.

And here is the right hand side of the week 40.
That week my two talented friends Caylee and Vanessa released their first collaboraton planner. As part of the presale they gave away a calender as a free printable. Once I saw it, I knew I had to use it in my spread. I added some watercolour under the word October to match the rest of the October kits colours.
By the way, that Autumn card is my absolute favourite PL card, probably in the history of ever. I posted a sneak peek of this layout on my Instagram and gotten quite a few positive comments on it as well.

And again, close up of the craft LOVE circle. I put another paper embellishment under the see-through letters, glued everything down to my photo, and used a black pen to write 'rainy days' around along the edge. I just love how it turned out. (okay, I'll stop with the puns :) )

And here is a close up of the title card, created with the wood veneer, quote card and some orange alphas.

And that's it for today. As always, we would love to see your PL pages, so be sure to upload them to our Facebook Page gallery.
Happy Friday and creative weekend ahead!
xo

Kit Love with Pamela

Hello and welcome to this month's kit love!  Let me show you my process in getting the goodies out of my box and into each pocket of the protectors!

First: Unbox. I usually take out all of the goodies from the bags and put it into my CTK box. I put all my kits into this rubbermaid bento box, the larger items in the middle and the stamps and wood veneers into those little compartments on the side.

Second: Gather. I prepare all my photos, grab all my pocket life tools and I start laying down where things go.

Everything is pretty empty as this point. No journaling, no embellishments, no cutting. This is just a rough framework for me to start working with. I can also make sure that the colours coordinate and balance with each other :)

Third: Start journaling! I used some of the clouds to journal on so that they show up against the pattern paper.

Having everything laid down for me allows me to start putting things together quickly. Sometimes I start the journaling and assembly with the photo and journal cards in the middle and things wouldn't go out of order for me since everything is there already.

Hope this gives you a rough idea as to how I make pocket life work with me and how I put my pages together!