Documenting Fall with Shannon

 

Hello there, friends! Shannon here with a spread that I made in my Fall Favorites travelers notebook. When the October add-on kit arrived at my door I knew that it was meant for fall pages. The muted colors and gold are just perfection. I made this travelers notebook myself using cardstock filler and patterned paper for the cover. Since I made it myself, I took some creative liberty and made a few 3x4 "flips" within the notebook. This spread features one of them! I used the dictionary paper as a backing on the flap and then layered it up with a tag, patterned paper, and a ribbon. The blue house grounds it all and ties into the theme of this layout - which is my fall decor.

The opposite side features a photo of my front door. I didn't want to embellish over the photo so I used the 4x6 Bailey alpha stamp to add a sentiment at the bottom of the photo.

The right side of the spread features photos from around my house arranged into photo strips. At the bottom of the strips, I used the October Travelers Notebook stamp and the Ready for This stamp to fill in the white space. I tucked a few pieces from the October add-on kit behind the photos because I can't ever stop layering! And that deer? Well, I'd wanted to use that from the minute I saw it.

The left side of the spread acts more like my title page. I made my title pop from the background by placing it on a piece of darker patterned paper. The gold leaf ties into the gold accents on the opposite page. I knew that I wanted to use the house card on this page so I backed it with the same woodgrain paper for continuity and then added some details around it. The pieces of ribbon add subtle finishing touches. 

And here's a look at the full spread. I really love the contrasting papers backing each side. I tried to stick with mostly neutral colors since there is so much color in my photos.

Did you grab yourself an October add-on kit? I can't wait to see what you make with it!

Sunday Sketch with Marsha

 

Hey friends!  It's Marsha here today with this week's Sunday Sketch challenge!  I used the October Scrapbooking Add-on kit, the Life Crafted "Flourish" kit, and the This Is Life "Ready for This" stamp.

Here's a look at the sketch:

Here's my layout based on the sketch:

I loved the design of the sketch and followed it pretty closely, with only a few minor changes.  I chose to convert the sketch from a 12x12 layout to a Life Crafted album layout.  Instead of two smaller photos, I chose to use one larger portrait photo.  I followed the sketch and added some layers behind the photo using several ephemera pieces from the Add-on kit.  I also added a fussy cut floral, a few ephemera die-cuts, and some gold puffy leaf stickers around the photo.  The vintage lace trim from the Add-on kit was perfect to add to the ephemera tag.

I typed my journaling and added it in strips below the photo.  I also added some pink tiny word stickers to the edge of the photo, following the placement of the labels from the sketch.

On the right side of the layout, I trimmed a ledger patterned paper to fit as a full page in the album.  I created the title using a gold puffy word sticker and the Soft Mint Alphabet stickers, both from the Add-on kit.  I also used some pale pink alpha stickers from a previous Life Crafted kit.  I added some stamping to both pages of the spread using the "Ready for This" stamp and the LC kit stamp.  A trimmed ephemera tag was the perfect touch below the title. To finish off the layout, I added a bit of machine stitching using black thread to several areas around the spread.

I love how this Life Crafted layout turned out using this month's gorgeous kits!  I hope you will join in on this sketch challenge and share your layouts with us on the CTK Fan Facebook page or on Instagram using the hashtag #citrustwistkits.  I will see you again soon!

xo,

Fall Flowers Layout by Angela

Hey friends! It's Angela back on the blog with a brand new scrapbook page featuring October Scrapbooking Add-on kit and it's all about my love for fall, my preferred season at all.

This month scrapbooking kit has plenty of goodies from Crate Paper Marigold collection. Its warm colors are perfect to document the season we are diving in, here in Italy.

For the background of my page, I couldn’t resist to use this beautiful pink tartan plaid matched with a darker brownish patterned paper that peek from two of the borders.

The photo is from a flower shop in my town, where a friend of mine works. I love flowers so I always find a way to go to see her and the flower setting outside the shop, amaze me every time.  

Since I am documenting Autumn, I decided to use one of the Citrus Twist cut-files, the one called Seasons that has the word FALL. You can find it here, together with SPRING cut-file too, for those who live in the Southern Hemisphere. I cut it with my Silhouette Cameo out of the woodgrain patterned paper from Flourish Life Crafted kit and I sticked it to the page using foam adhesive.

I surrounded the cut-file and the photo with pieces from the Marigold ephemera pack. I used one of the old book pages that comes in the add-on kit to backed the photo and I placed other two little pieces of the same old pages along the borders, sewed between the two patterned papers of the background, just to add a bit of interest.

I used one of the cards from the die-cut pack to write a little note, typed with my old typewriter. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall' from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

To balance the design, I added a few strips of patterned paper at the top and on the bottom of the page.

Last, I stamped a few branch leaves from Ready For This stamp and added a few tiny puffy sticker flowers and voilà!

If you like, here is the process video for the page.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked the page and got inspired some how to create with October Citrus Twist kits.

Xo, NG