Life is better on a bike

Hi crafty friends, Melanie here today! I am so excited to be sharing my first layout here on the CTK Blog with you today. When I first opened the gorgeous July kits one thing that caught my eye immediately, were these cute Chipboard Alphabets in the Skyland Scrapbook Kit. I knew I wanted to use as many as I could on a page and decided to make a layout with a long title.

I printed a picture of me on a bike which is almost black and white so that I could to use any color I'd like.  Anyone who knows me knows that I love bike trips. To me it's such a great way to recharge, enjoy nature and remain fit. I started by matting the photo with some of my favorite papers and cards from the Pocket Life Kit.  I also used some bits and pieces from the July Cut Aparts, which are free on the website and perfect to use  with any of the July Kits, to add some layers to my photo.

After that I added some of the embellishments form the Pocket Life and Scrapbook Kit to add more texture and interest.

Then I arranged my title around my photo, trimmed the white cardstock down and glued it on the fun striped paper which is included in the main kit. To make it stand out a little more I also added some stripes of a darker paper from the kit. I added my journaling next to my photo and used the July Travelers Notebook Stamp to stamp out the cute little box with the stars and the 'rated', I love the 3D effect on this! To finish my layout off, I used some black ink to make some splatters on my page and stamped some phrases from the Conversation Starters stamps which I love! These small phrases are perfect to add some interest on your pages or to use them a starting off point for journaling.

I can't wait to see how you all are going to use the Alphas. Be sure to share your projects in our Facebook Group and on Instagram so we can see what you have created.

Happy crafting,

Melanie

Skyland Scrapbooking with Amanda!

Hi Citrus Twist Friends & Fans! 

Amanda here, & I am super-dee-duper excited to be posting my first official layouts with our gorgeous kits! For today's post I'm sharing the Skyland Scrapbook Kit love!
This kit is just magical! So many beautiful papers and embellishments, with sooooo many creative possibilities!

I have created two very clean & fresh designs - here's the first,
"Present & in Awe"

Sigh! Isn't this divine?!! 

I just LOVE our printable Digital Files, and am determined to feature them each month - they're SO good! I've combined the Skyland Journaling Cards & free Cut Aparts with the white cardstock and Pinkfresh Studio: Simple & Sweet Die Cuts with Golf Foil, Epoxy Stickers and Fabric Die Cuts. Did I mention that I love me some Pinkfresh Studio?! The Simple & Sweet line is so soft and dreamy, and the pastel tones partner perfectly with our Skyland Digital Files. 

I love layering patterns and colors, and with our awesome Digital Files, you can print and cut as many layers, tabs and die cuts as you need! 

I matte my photo onto an array of Skyland Journaling Cards, and Cut Aparts, and then embellish my photograph with all those pretty blooms! For added impact, I mount my title onto foam, and position it over the base of my sweet girl's picture. 

Both the top and base of my layout are embellished with Skyland Cut Aparts and Die Cut Ephemera tags, and tabs. 

The Pinkfresh Studio Fabric Die Cuts are SO cool, that I just have to include one on my layout, as well as a couple of the Epoxy Stickers for good measure! Love it! 

Simple & Sweet indeed! 

Next up is an 8.5 x 11" masculine layout, 

"Seek Out The Joy"

Let's hear it for the boys!!!

What a crisp, clean and super fun page for the special guys in my life! I should add that I have included the Webster's Pages: Pretty Plaid paper from this month's Pattern Paper Play kit.

That plaid woodgrain paper is just divine, and I could easily use another 10 sheets of it!

Vintage book paper, on the other hand,  isn't something I feature in my creating that often. So I set myself a challenge to use it in my layouts this month. I am so glad I did! The 'raw' and somewhat edgy look of this ledger paper is just awesome for embellishing a masculine layout with! And yes, I may have to get back on the vintage band wagon - I totally loved this!

To maintain the masculinity of this page, I drew on the black embellishments from the Pinkfresh Studio Die Cuts & Epoxy Stickers, as well as the chambray Fabric Die Cuts. Bold, strong and striking adornments for my two boys!

I also embellish with gold foil accents throughout my page, including those Chipboard Alpha Stickers from Echo Park's Imagine That collection.

Yes, this! Seek Out The Joy!!! 

Such a wonderful everyday moment to document. 

And there you have it! Two very different layouts from our July Skyland Scrapbook Kit. 

I hope I have inspired you to get creating with yours! 

Be sure to share your kit creations with us in the Citrus Twist Fans Page HERE

Thanks so much for visiting today! 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Sunday Sketch with Emma & Anna

Hi dear CTK friends, Emma and Anna here today, sharing our projects with you, based on this fun sketch!

We hope you can play along as well and we would love to see your take on this sketch. To enter the challenge, post your project in the CTK Fan Page at Facebook with today's date (July 8) in the title.

We can't wait to see where this sketch will take your creativity.

Anna's first out and here's what I came up with using the July Skyland Scrapbook kit. I'm just blown away, it's divine so if you don't have signed up for one yet do it right now since it selling fast :)

I've sticking to the sketch quite closely, just flipping it a bit. I love how the sketch invites for lot's of white space which I love. I  totally fell in love with the citrus papers and die cut's by Pinkfresh Studio so I proceeded from that.

I did some stamping (using the stamp set from the Scrapbook kit) as sort of my journaling. I didn't get it stright but  saved it with one of the gorgeous yellow CTK exclusive puffy stickers.  The shape of the heart and how I positioned it kind of strigthened it up at  least I think so, lol!

I love labels and especially to stack them together in layers, YUM! And a few stitches doesent make it worse, lol!

That's all from me right now. And here comes Emma (I adore her work) with her absolutely gorgeous layout. Take a cup of something you love and just enjoy! 

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Hi friends!  I absolutely ADORE Anna's take on this sketch (so clever!! wish I could remember to spin them around like that!) and her page is stunning.  

I've been a little less creative in my interpretation ;) of this sketch but that's the best part about sketches - they can spark different ideas or (if you're like me and having a bad week) you can whip a page up in no time by following the design and end up with a page you love!

I've used the Skyland Main Kit (along with a couple stickers from the Pocket Life) and the awesome Conversations Starters Stamp for my  page.  I love that background striped pattern paper but found the colour were a little too over powering for the page so I popped a bit of the vellum on top to tone it down.  

I've placed my photo and title just like the sketch (how fun are those chipboard alphas?!) and machine stitched them in place.  I did make a small change from the sketch, in that instead of having another photo in the top left of my page I popped one of the big epoxy stickers to the right of my photo instead!  I'm such a rebel I know ;)

For my embellishing I tried to make sure I kept with the rainbow pattern and added coordinating pieces to the striped pattern paper as well as adding a few mist splatters to fill some of that white space I have on the right of my page!

To finish it off I added a bit more machine stitching on the left side of my page and popped some of the adorable puffy hearts on the edge of my vellum paper (in matching colours, of course!) and called it done.  I am so happy how this page turned out - using the sketch made this such a huge time saver for me!

Now it's your turn - Anna and I can't wait to see how you interpret this weeks Sunday Sketch. Remember to share them with us in the CTK Facebeook Fan Page!

Take care, Em xo