Sunday Sketch With Aimee

Hey there Citrus Twist friends it's Aimee here to welcome you back to another Sunday Sketch! Let's take a look at the sketch: 

Isn't she lovely? I decided to go ahead and flip the sketch on its side. Remember — sketches are meant to strike inspiration and don't necessarily have to be in the same orientation or even format for that matter. 

For this particular layout I wanted to use the Market Square Add-On kit that's available in the shop— I still have a bunch of this kit left to work through. I selected a beautiful deep green paper from the kit and oriented it vertically behind my photos. I like how the green pairs really well with my photos and I loved the scripty title shown in the sketch so I chose my own puffy word from the Fresh Starts Puffy Phrase & Icon sticker sheet. I thought the black, "happy" was more fitting for my color scheme. 

Next I layered in some of those beautiful florals from the Market Square die-cut and Chipboard sets. They aren't shown in the sketch but since I am using it more as a guide this is okay! I also added neutral toned die-cuts from the Fresh Starts Die-Cut Ephemera pack and precious doilies from the add-on kit. 

The sketch indicates a place for handwritten or typed journaling but instead I decided to create my journaling with the All The Things stamp set and I'm so glad I did! I think it turned out adorable and it's definitely something I will be doing again. I added black acrylic paint splatters to the page by wetting my paint brush before dipping it into my paint and took care not to splash my photos. 

After my splatters dried I embellished with a few hearts and voila— there is my Sunday Sketch complete! You don't have to follow sketches down to the letter and I'm so glad I let this sketch inspire me to make this sweet and priceless page. I hope you enjoyed following along and I'll see you next time! Happy creating! 

Affectionately, 

Stamping with Kira

 

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another layout in my life crafted album.  Today I wanted to focus on one of my favorite Citrus Twist products:  the stamps!  Here's a look at the layout I made today:

I started this layout with a story:  a story about my youngest son and what he says around our new puppy.  I didn't have any pictures that necessarily ~fit~ the story, so I found one of my favorites from Halloween and decided to use that. The colors in the photo are very autumn-ish:  browns, yellows, reds, so I pulled out a few ink pads from my stash that I thought would work well wish the photo. 

 

Before stamping, I printed out the paper I wanted to use as my background.  Typically when I am looking for a background paper with a subtle print, I opt for a grid pattern.  But while searching through my CTK digital files, I stumbled upon this polka dot from October.  Since I knew I wanted to stamp on one side and type on the reverse, I changed the opacity so it was more of a grey dot than the original black dot.   

Then I started my stamping!  I grabbed the three stamp sets from this month:  This is Life stamp set, Travelers Notebook stamp set and the Life Crafted stamp set.  I chose a few stamps from each set that I thought would work well with this story, and stamped in a 2"x3" area on my paper, using four different colors.  The stars worked well to fill in any gaps I had in my design.  

On the reverse page, I typed out my journaling before I printed my background paper.  Then I backed my photo with some patterned paper from the add-on kit, which coordinated with the colors of ink I had chosen.  I placed a cut apart on some foam tape and added it between my photo and my journaling.  

To tie the pages together, I took a strip of the orange patterned paper and adhered it to the bottom of the stamped page.  I added some stitching with my sewing machine.  And finished it off with my title, using the white foam alphas from the Life Crafted kit.  

Thanks for stopping by!

xo, Kira 

Layout & Life Crafted álbum with Marivi

Hello everyone again, today a little inspiration with this month's kits.

First a layout, I have used decorations and papers from the Add-on kit

A stitched paper band and an ephemera motif also sewn on top.

The photo in the center with a tag and several more sewn decorations, I have also left the excess thread as one more decoration.

 Here you can see in detail how I zig-zag the paper.

At the bottom a strip of paper sewn with a flower and a word.

The following is a double page with a piece of paper from the Life Crafted kit, and the ephemera as decorations.

The other blank page with a phrase stamped and decorated with the butterfly and two enamel dot.

I have glued the flower ephemera on top of each other to create a bit of volume.

And to finish another double page, another paper from the kit where I have pasted the black and white photo.

To contrast the other page I have filled it with color with pieces of ephemera , and the word "photo" with the alphabet included in the Add-kit.

In the photo I have stamped a phrase with a seal from the Wild @ Heart Stamp.

For today I say goodbye, I hope you like it and see you soon.

Sunday sketch with Marivi

Hello everyone!

Today we are going with this week's sketch, an 8.5x11 layout with several layers of paper.

I have used the Pinkfresh papers that come in this month's Add-on kit, they match great with a couple of photos of my husband working out at home during confinement.

I have cut a long strip of paper as a background and on top I have cut others horizontally to place the photos.

I have added theme related ornaments, stickers and I have also used my sewing machine.

Very easy, I hope you have fun creating your sketch.

July 4th Life Crafted Layout with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another Life Crafted layout using the July Add-On kit.  Today I am sharing a little 4th of July inspiration.  I am 100% a seasonal scrapbooker, so I prefer scrapbooking holiday photos prior to the holiday, which means I am always scrapbooking my holidays a year behind.  And since 4th of July is just days away, I thought it was the perfect time to scrap my 2019 photos. 

This just so happened to be the first year we got the kids fireworks.  So I dressed them up in some red, white and blue and got some really cute shots of them playing with and watching fireworks.  I decided to pick a few favorites and go from there.  Shannon (another member of our fabulous creative team) shared a layout last month where she printed a photo to span the entire width of her life crafted album and when I saw it, I knew I needed to try it in my album.  I chose a photo of my kids standing together watching the fireworks and my oldest was so excited he threw his arms into the air.  I printed it at 8.25" tall by 8.5" wide and then cut it down the middle so that each half would fit in the page protectors. 

I purposely cropped my photo so that half of the photo would feature my children and the other half would be "white space".  This made it easy to add a title to the empty left half.  I fussy cut the "4" from a patterned paper in the add on kit and added the "th" using the thickers (also from the kit).  I wanted something that looked like fireworks on my page, so I found a cut file that looked like a fun explosion, placed them above the 4 and stitched around them in blue thread.  I used one of the new alphas to create the "July" part of my title.  I stamped on white cardstock, laid it on top of the photo and used my piercing tool to trace around the letters, then I stitched in red thread. 

To add my additional photos, I trimmed one of the papers down to 3x4 twice and adhered the photos to each card.  I embellished them with die cuts and puffy stickers from the kit. 

I typed up my journaling on my computer and printed it out on 3x4 white cardstock cards.  I added a puffy sticker above one of the cards for a pop of color. 

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday!!

Kira

Sunday Sketch with Marivi

Hi everyone,

Today I bring a layout for which I have used April 2020 Scrapbooking Add-on kit.

I have placed the photo on top of two sewn papers and I have adorned it with various ephemera details, puffy stickers and splashes.

At the bottom I have sewn two different strips of paper to finish.

The title this time is small, a label.

In this detail you can see that I have also sewn the background paper.Sometimes I like to leave the excess thread as an ornament, I don't cut it.

You can see a quick video on how i put this together as follows:

Thanks for stopping by and see you soon.

Sunday Sketch with Tina

Hey CTK friends!

Tina here on the blog today to share a new Sunday Sketch Challenge with you! I loved playing with this sketch along so much and should say that my layout came together really quickly and easy thanks to the gorgeous February Add-On Kit !

First I decided to rotate the sketch 90° around to use a portrait style photo instead of a landscape one. After that I started to work on the background for my page and chose my favorite rainbow pattern paper from the Add-On Kit for this. I've fussy cut rainbow curves leaving a little bit of white paper on both sides of them and also I drew a few clouds on the rest of the paper and cut them out.

Next I punched holes along the edge of all the pieces I've prepared before and hand stitched them using matching embroidery thread. And then I adhered all the rainbow pieces and clouds onto the textured white cardstock from the kit.

After that I created a paper cluster behind the photo of my daughter and added journaling instead of the second photo on the sketch. Using lots of beautiful bits and pieces from the Add-On Kit I embellished the photo and journaling.

To finish my layout I added a title using the "Hello" puffy sticker and dark green alphabet thickers. It was such a pleasure to create this page with the help of such a gorgeous kit! I hope I was able to inspire you to use this week's sketch!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy crafting!

XO,