Challenge Winners

Today we are happy to announce the challenge winners for both January and February!

Each week our Design Team provides you with three challenges to help you get your creative juices flowing. Pocket Life Sketch Friday gives you sketches to use in your pocket style scrapbooking. Saturday's 3 to Inspire challenge brings you three creative prompts to incorporate on a project of your choice. On Sunday, our Sunday Sketch challenge goes live.

To participate in either or all challenges, all you need to do is upload your project to the gallery within a week of the challenge date, noting the date of the challenge in the title of your project. One winner is picked for each challenge and announced here on the blog.

Thanks to all that participated during the months of January and February! Here are the winners:

Sunday Sketch: $5 Gift Certificate to the CTK Store

     1/1: stefcia  1/8: mamkven  1/15: jinnynewlin  1/22: mamakven  1/29: sandy r

     2/5: mamkven   2/12: barbp  2/19: barbp  2/26: annau

 
3 to Inspire: A small prize from the CTK Store

     1/28: mamkven  2/25: mamakven

Pocket Sketch Friday: Fun Mail

     1/13: mamkven 

**Winners: To claim your prize, please email Trina at citrustwistkits@yahoo.com and include the date and name of the challenge that you have won in the subject line!

Pocket Life sketch Friday with Alena

Hello everyone! It's Alena here today with Pocket Life Friday. I am going to share with you my new PL spread using the September 2016 "Maggie" PL Kit + September 2016 Embellishment Kit

 And for your Pocket Life sketches...

And my PL for your inspiration.

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, September 30!

Pocket Life Sketch Friday

Hi everyone! It's Trina here today sharing some simple pages I've made for my pocket life album this month. I'm working with the August "Kaleidoscope" pocket page scrapbook kit and August Embellishment kit.

Here is my finished spread:

Here are your PL sketches for the week. We have one for a 4-pocket pocket page and another for a 6" x 8" mini scrapbook layout, so all of our scrapbookers and pocket page scrappers can find something to use here:

Now onto more photos for the sketch. I love the new Dear Lizzy Saturday puffy stickers. They are adorable! The heart cut file is part of our free cut file for the month that you can download over on our Facebook Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page.

Close-ups next!

I used a script font to cut the word "weekend" out on my silhouette. I wanted a title that was script-looking that would fill the width of my page. See that soft yellow acrylic paint? That was used to cover up some journaling that smeared badly. I painted over it using my Illustrated Faith Paint Card (any credit-type card will word) to spread the acrylic evenly. Afterwards I journaled on one of the cutaparts from the August kit and stapled it over the yellow paint.

I don't shy away from working with a mistake on an almost-finished page! The Nuvo Crystal Drops in Buttermilk (a must-have Nuvo color available in our Shop here) were perfect little enamel dot additions that I applied directly on my layout over and around the yellow acrylic paint. 

I saved the cut out heart fills from the cut file to use as templates to cut the pattern paper to put behind  the outlined hearts. The last think I did before applying the Nuvo onto my page was stitch some of the cut out heart fills down on my page:

Here is a close-up of my pocket page. The rainbow-striped card and yellow "A History of Magic" strip are from this month's Sprinkles kit (now sold out), from Crate Paper's new Cute Girl Ephemera. 

Next, I kept my journaling simple for the pocket page using my retro typewriter and the PL kit stamp:

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 sketch in this blog post, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, August 12th 2016. Be sure to include PL 8/5 in the title!

Happy scrapbooking!
Trina

Pocket Life sketch Friday with Alena

Hello everyone! It's Alena here today with Pocket Life Friday. I am going to share with you my new PL spread using the July 2016 "Driftwood" Pocket Life Kit +July 2016 Embellishment Kit

And now for your Pocket Life sketches...

 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, July 22!

Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Tara

Hello, Friday how I have missed you! It's Tara here and time for your weekly PL sketch challenge. Join in the challenge and earn your chance to win some happy mail from Citrus Twist Kits (read all the way through)!

This week I have two sketches for you. I am smitten with July's PL Driftwood kit. It is filled with so many wonderful bits and bobs that I used just this kit for my spread:

I wanted to capture some memories from June 2012. It's so fun to go back in time and create flashback spreads. My boys really enjoy looking through photos and seeing where they were in their younger years.

Here are some close ups. I loved Paige Evans' Fancy Free patterned paper in the kit along with the amazing cut outs from Cocoa Vanilla. I used some roller stamps in my stash to add more fun words.

I couldn't get enough of the cut outs and this month's selection of journaling cards. They worked so well together to add a little finishing touch.

 This blue journaling card serves as my title card and month marker. I'm trying out adding more titles in as well as an easy way to see the transition month to month. I used the same roller stamp to add a bit of interest on the photo.

I need more of these exclusive acrylic words!!! I love adding a little more layering by adhering things to the outside of the pocket. It was a little tricky at first, I applied too much glue and then I put the glue on the wrong side! Third time was the charm for me :).

Here are your sketches:

Thank you for stopping by Pocket Life Friday. For your chance to win some happy mail, create a layout based on these sketches. Remember you can use these sketches to brainstorm ideas for Pocket Life and/or traditional scrapbooking. Post your layout to our Gallery and on our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, July 15, 2016. Be sure to include PL 07/15 in your title when posting!

Happy weekend everyone!

Xxo, Tara

Pocket Life Sketch Friday

Hello. It's Friday and time for your weekly PL sketch challenge. You can play along with this challenge and earn a chance to win Happy Mail from Citrus Twist Kits (see below).

This week we are bringing you 4 PL sketches. These pages were made with the March "Sonoma" pocket page kit (still available here) and bits and pieces from the March scrapbooking kit.

What I like about these sketches is they are quick and easy to do.

Here is my two-page 6" x 8" spread:

Here are close-ups of the left and right pages:

I like to layer. The slide frame was made using Maggie Holmes Open Book dies (I just love that die set!) The loose thread is the leftover thread from stitching down the chevron pattern paper. I looped the thread around and behind the little Pinkfresh die-cut heart that is lifted off the page with a pop dot.

This "hello" script pattern paper from the new Maggie Holmes Bloom collection has my heart. I especially love the petite 6" x 6" version. (The little puffy bird is from the March Embellishment kit.)

I really enjoy seeing Swiss crosses in scrapbooking and decided to mix white, pink, yellow and black shapes and sprinkle them across the page. The sprinkling was completely random and I fit my journaling around the crosses.

Here are your PL sketches for the week:

 

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, April 1, 2016. Be sure to include PL 03/25 in your title when posting!

Pocket life sketch friday with Diane

Diane here with another Pocket Life Sketch Friday for you. Don't forget that we have a giveaway associated with the sketches at the end of this post.

I used the Citrus Twist Kits February Pocket Life kit for this week and it has plenty of sunshiny yellow goodness in it! I'm rather fond of my hand stitched title card, I find the stitching quite therapeutic and it doesn't really take that long for such a lovely end result.

Here is the process video of how this layout came together... 
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And here are a few close ups...

And now for your Pocket Life Sketches ...

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, March 4th 2016. Be sure to include PL 02/26 in the title!

Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Elizabeth

Hey there. It's Elizabeth here to share my first Citrus Twist Kit blog post. Happy to be here! My first assignment was to come up with a pocket page sketch for Sketch Friday. I thought I'd share one from my 2016 title page.

and here's the sketch..

Have fun with it and enjoy your weekend!

Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Diane

Hi everyone, Diane here and it's time for Pocket Life Sketch Friday again! Don't forget that we have a giveaway associated with the sketches I'll give you at the end of this post.

Sometimes when I'm in a bit of a funk, I find the best way to get out of it is to try to do something a bit different. So for this week, I challenged myself to use a circle on EVERY SINGLE CARD!And it turned out easier than I thought.

Here is the process video of how this layout came together...



And here are a few close-ups...

And now for your Pocket Life sketches...

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, December 4th. Be sure to include PL 11/27 in the title!