Sunday Sketch with Angela

Hello friends, happy Sunday!

It's Angela here and today I am on the blog with our Sunday Sketch Challenge. This is the sketch I played with this week

It is a beautiful 12x12 inch sketch with a single photo and a fun banner on the side. I created my page using The Best Parts Life Crafted kit as well as September Add-on kit. Here is what I came up with!

At first I planned to use the pink patterned paper from the Add-on kit, paper Blooming from Fresh Bouquet collection  by Crate Paper, but I preferred to save those gorgeous flowers on the reverse side for another project. Also, I wanted to get messy and create my color background. So, after the initial hesitation, I chose white card-stock for as the base of my page. This came with the Add-on kit too.

Just a little side note; the layout is dedicate to my friend Valentina, my sweet girlfriend I spent the summer with. Here is the meaning of the title, Vale is the abbreviation of her name and I stamped it on the layout using my favorite stamp ever, Citrus Twist Kits Madison Alphabet.

Now, back to the background. I used Distress Oxide inks in yellow, pink and green. First, I added some water to the pigment and used them with a brush, like watercolors. When the color was dry, I added a second layer of color of pure pigment using a brayer.

Instead of using tickets and numbers like the sketch, I fussy cut a few tags from paper Old School by Heidi Swapp and hanged them to a piece of string to create the banner.

I stamped a few phrases from September Traveler's Notebook stamp in black, to balance the page with the black title. Last, I added a few die cuts and stickers from the kits and voilà!

If you'd like to see me in action, here is the process video of the layout.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you like the layout and feel inspired to create your own version of the sketch. If so, please share it on the Citrus Twits Kits Fan page on Facebook, we would love to see your pages!

Love, NG

Life Crafted Album Spread with Shannon

 

Hello there, crafty friends! Shannon here with a Life Crafted spread mostly using the September 2020 add on kit. I used a mix of Instax page protectors (coming to the Citrus Twist shop soon!) and a full-size page. I really enjoy the variation in sizes on either side! Plus, the alpha in the add on kit is large and certainly calls for a larger page size.

I did use one item from the September 2020 Life Crafted kit, and that is the journaling card in the upper left corner. I used the digital version of the card so I could resize it to fit in the Instax-sized pocket. All I had to do was type my journaling on it and print it out. Next to it, I added a photo that I made into an Instax print using a Photoshop template that I made (you can find the free download in the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page group on Facebook). To jazz it up a little, I added a few bits of ephemera from the September 2020 add on kit. I wanted to make sure I had some silver/holographic ephemera on there to be a common thread throughout my spread. 

In the wide horizontal Instax pocket below that, I created a cluster full of all the pretty ephemera pieces from the September 2020 add on kit. The ephemera pack included is from Heidi Swapp and it's so full of a wonderful variety of pieces in her eclectic style. I pulled out pieces that matched the color scheme that I used throughout the rest of the spread. The polaroid frame would have been perfect for a photo but I chose to use the Good Life stamp set to fill it in with a sweet sentiment instead. I also used the True Life stamp set to do some repeated stamping on the "today was" label.

I tried to keep the right side of the spread fairly simple and neutral since the left side has a lot going on. I used the woodgrain paper from the September 2020 Life Crafted Kit for the background. The kit and paper pack are sold out but you can get the digital version still. I picked out a few pieces of ephemera from the September 2020 add on kit to put around my photo. I liked the photo corners but I didn't like them on my photo so I put them behind it for a different look. The tag at the top of my photo pulls the silver/holographic color onto this page. I finished it all off by splitting my title on top of and below my photo using the large coral foam alphas from Simple Stories.

I hope you enjoyed this walk through my process. I can't wait to see what you create with the September add on kit!

Life Crafted Double Spread with Angela

Hi friends! It's Angela back on the blog. I am so exited to share with you my very first September project using The Best Parts Life Crafted and September Add-on kits.

I have almost finished documenting this summer and my Peony album is quite chunky. Soon, I'll start a new one but before that, I still have a few photos I would like to include in it. 

My today pages are focusing on my two sons, their cheerfulness where during the holidays and how different they are now that the school has started. I made two layouts, one for each son. 

For both the layout I used digital files. In particular, I used number 5 and 8 of the TN basics. In Photoshop, I overlaid the photos to the TN pages and I printed on photo paper.

I decorated the with some physical pieces and stamps, adding a bit of texture with stitching and staples.

I also stamped a title for each son's page, using the Good Life stamp set. I stamped and heat embossed in black on a label in both the spread. The label where big enough to accommodate the big font sentiments of the stamps and come from the Add-on September kit. They have different shapes and colors and perfectly matches with the paper I chose for the spread, the City Grid from Old School collection by Heidi Swapp.

On the second page I added a sentiment in the grid space of the page, using the GORGEOUS Soft Mint Citrus Twist Puffy Alpha Stickers (sorry for the capital letter but I really love those one) . The soft mint is a new color available in the Citrus Twist shop and is in place of the Yellow/Orange Alpha Stickers of the original kit. So sorry for the inconvenience, and the changes! Nevertheless, I love it!

Underneath the alpha puffy stickers I added a phrase from The Best Parts Life Crafted stamp. I stamped it with black inch on a white strip of card-stock and adhered it with foam adhesive.

Above is a close-up of another stitched embellishment. One of the pages is interactive. The photo is folded so to hidden itself and reveals only the embellished band of the side.

To make the folded page fitting inside the page protector, I changed the page protector opening side. From Page Protector #1, I cut away the side closure and sealed the top with my fuse tool.

Here is how the double spread appears in my Peony album. It opens with Filippo and digital TN page #5

Turning the page, on the back of the colorful page, I stamped another phrase from Good Life stamp and wrote the journaling using my computer.

Beside is the interactive page inserted into the page protector. When the flap is closed, only the side bar of the page is visible.

Opening the flap, the full photo of my son Francesco appears! 

That's all for today, my friends. Thank you so much for stopping by the blog. I hope you enjoyed the pages and most of all you feel inspired to create with Citrus Twist Kit kits.

See you soon. XO