A View from Our Gallery: Tina Feng (U.S.)

This week we picked Tina Feng's layout for a View from Our Gallery. Tina is a regular Gallery contributor and this scrapbook page caught our eye.

Tina used the June "Beautiful Life" Main kit for her layout and pulled some items from her stash and past kits. The result is  a delightful mix of paper, photos and embellishments. We love how she used the kraft bag from her kit as a backdrop for her photo collage.

Thanks Tina!

Simple Strategies with Tanya

Hello and happy Monday! It´s Tanya here today to show you a simple strategy post using gorgeous June Seriously Happy Add-On Kit. Well, I have a simple strategy tip which always works for me - making you own pattern background. 

I decided to use white textured cardstock from the kit as a background 

and add cut triangles to make a pattern.

After gluing all triangles I added some yellow and green watercolour to make it look more bright and fresh.

I used the same strategy to make my card - triangles plus watercolour.

I made four marks with a pencil in a place where I'm going to glue the frame before apply the watercolour.

Thanks for stopping by today! This is my last post for Citrus Twist and I want to thank you all, this was a great time :)

Sunday Sketch with our Guest Designer

It’s Mary Ann here with my take on the sketch challenge. When I first saw the sketch, my eye went right to the great sunburst pattern! 

 

It reminded me of the “Our Travels” paper in the kit that has a similar pattern, so that became my starting point. To make the starburst rays, I cut sections from the paper, then backed it with various patterned papers from the kit.

I added my die cut title in the same place as on the sketch, and then added all the cute star custom wood chips, the pretty blue washi tape, sequins, a few splatters of paint from my stash and the custom flair badge.

I love how a sketch can give you a starting point, and then you’re off on your own to create!

And remember, to play along with our sketch challenge, upload your layouts to our gallery by June 28th to get your name in a drawing to win a $5 gift certificate to the CTK store. When uploading to the gallery you can name it as you would normally but please include "Sketch 6/22".

Saturday Inspiration

Hi Jen here, I was inspired by this awesome paper in the main kit to use a circular photo for this layout. I also used an Exacto knife to cut pieces out of it and backed with patterned paper and cardstock. The kraft Thickers and cork elements were the perfect touch!

Hi, this is Nathalie with a baby card for a change! When I saw the Dream Come True paper from Allison Kreft in the main kit, I knew I was going to use that adorable hot air balloon design for a card! The rest was simply designed around it! (alpha stickers from my stash)

 

 

 

Hi, Gina here, I've used the Beautiful Life main and Day Tripping embellishment kit on these cards and on the first one, inked the CTK exclusive wooden stars.

One the second card, I've layered some paper scraps and hand cut balloons.

 

 

Tuesday Tutorial with our Guest Designer

It’s Mary Ann here with a layout to share and a fun tip for using the custom stamps in this month’s June Main kit!

To start, I added a few scraps of paper behind my photo, adhered it to my cardstock base, and then I added some of the custom wood chip stars and a few sequins.

 Next are the Thicker letters and a die cut for the title, and a few more star wood chips and sequins on the other side of the layout.

Confetti and sequins etc. are so popular in paper crafting right now, and I love the look! It’s a nice way to add a bit of color and texture to a layout. Here’s where the custom stamps come in!

I used the dot circle stamps along with a black ink pad to add in with the sequins and star wood chips. It was a perfect way to add more of the confetti look!

To finish off my layout, I added the American Crafts newsprint tag along with the bakers twine that is tied so lovingly around each kit.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope this has inspired you!

Memories packed mini album with Kasia

Hello and happy Monday! Kasia here today with a cute mini album made with fresh and shiny June kits! For my mini I combined the main June kit and the embellishment add on- no surprise that they work great together! What is my mini about? Well it collects memories from a little weekend trip we had with my boyfriend at the beginning of May and I hope it'll inspire you to document your summer trips too!

The album is really chunky and memories packed! We had a great trip which combined some sightseeing and a run event and I wanted to include both of these adventures in my mini. Get ready for some photos! :)

I still have to add some journaling to the pages of my book (you see the 2 pages with washi tape and "K" and "F" letters- the journaling will go there) and one missing photograph but other than that the book is finished. 

For today's Simple Strategies part I thought I could share with you my favorite idea to include the real life memorabilias into to the album. When we go somewhere we always collect lots of brochures, tickets and other souvenirs which I rather include in my projects than let them hang around our home. This time I simply cropped the extra stuff to the size of the album and treated the brochures like patterned paper. It's great way to add more interesting details to your mini album, layout or PL spread and also makes your projects super unique! Here are the examples from my mini book:

It's always fun to look through memories captured in the mini albums so I hope you will find some time to create your owns this summer! Have a great week!

Kasia

Pocket life with jen chapin

Hello and happy Friday! Today I am sharing a Pocket Life layout with you using the June kits. These kits were so fabulous for documenting our Memorial Day celebration.

For this spread, I used a sheet from the patterned paper add on as well as one of the PL cards from the PL kit. I embellished with chipboard, wood veneer and enamel dots and hearts.

Also I'm loving the star wood veneers in the main kit this month! I love stars period so you can't go wrong there ;)

I am loving the flair this month in the pocket life kit!

For this side of the spread I printed a photo out in 3"x4" sections to create a panoramic type view in the middle of the page.

Shh, I used a polka dot PL card from the April kits, I've been hoarding it! :)

 

I really love these chipboard sunglasses from the embellishment add on! The sequins from the main kit were also a perfect addition :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you've already grabbed your June kits! Don't miss out, they are really awesome for scrapping those summer memories this year!

It's June Reveal Day at Citrus Twist Kits!

Welcome to the June kit reveal. It's time to roll out our new kits. They promise lots of play time and variety.

Thank you to all who applied for our recent Design Team call for 2014-2015. We were flooded with applications and the work we saw was beautiful. We'll do a blog post later this week to welcome our new Design Girls. Next month we'll be adding a number of new DTs to the team so you'll find even more art and projects to be inspired by.

You can view the kits here at June 2014 kits. As a mid-month kit club these kits begin shipping in just 10 days!

If you haven't visited a reveal blog for a couple months, you'll see that our kit photography has changed and we hope you love what you see.

Let's start off with the Main "Beautiful Life" scrapbooking kit:

The "My Happy Place" Pocket Life kit features a full 6 x 6 paper pad from Studio Calico's new South of Market collection. You'll get 2 sheets of each paper in the collection

Here is a photo of the paper from the South of Market collection featured in the June Pocket Life kit:

This month's "Seriously Happy" Add-On kit is like a kiss of tropical sunshine. You can mix bright colors with bold black for layouts with a punch. There is so much ephemera in this kit you will have leftovers for other crafty projects! Here it is:

We've named June's Embellishment kit "Day Tripper." Chipboard, resin and cork come together to add fun embellishments to our Main or Pocket Life kits:

June's Pocket Life Embellishment kit is "Made for You." The Design Girls have some fun projects to share this month on our blog coupling this kit with our June PL kit. You can see how they used some of the many elements from this kit:

This month's Stamp Add-On is "Bring It On." Our stamps are designed and manufactured here in the U.S. and are made from high-quality polymer for perfect stamping. Also, new in the Citrus Twist Kits store are stamp cleaning pads from Color Box here at our store. These cleaning pads are small and perfect for roller stamps and regular rubber or clear polymer stamps. The stamps are available for purchase as a subscription ($3.25 for kit subscribers; $4.25 for non-kit subscribers) to ship with your monthly subscription or singly for $5.00 (shipping anywhere in the world):

"Going Places" is our monthly Pattern Paper Kit.

Every month we offer a solid paper kit for those of you who love extra coordinating cardstock:

Citrus Twist Design Girl and social media queen, Melissa Stinson, has put together a great reveal video so you can see what is in each of our kits. She will walk you through each kit, item by item:

 

Thank you for stopping by for kit reveal day at Citrus Twist Kits. Have a happy month of scrapbooking!

Trina