HOPE SCRAPBOOK PAGE WITH ANGELA

Hello dear friends,

It's Angela here with you today, with a scrapbook page I made with Weekender kit and the Wish Dream Do cut-file Citrus Twist cut file.

Scrolling my phone, I came across a photo of flying balloons in a bright blue sky. It's a picture from last summer that my son took during a religious event in my town. I know that a lot of countries don't allow flying balloons anymore but they remind me a feeling of hope, especially in this uncertain moment of our lives. 

Luckily, this month we have two gorgeous balloons Wish Dream Do cut-file, available in the shop and I decided to use it to create a layout. 

The base of the page is a 12" Bazzil White. To back the balloons I used scraps of papers from Life Crafted Weekender kit an before adhering it onto the page, I created a soft background of blue clouds with oxide inks and a stencil.

For the title Hope, I used gold puffy sticker alphas, always from the kit. To make it stand and add a bit of texture to the page, I created a white stitched line underneath. 

I stitched again a line under the photo and the houses at the bottom of the page. The line of houses is from Weekend Life stamp, March 2020 This Is Life and it's absolutely adorable.

To mat the picture, I used some journaling cards that I cut slightly bigger than the photo except one. I liked the phrase 'Well, aren't you just a ray of sunshine'. So, I changed the journaling card in a tag that peep under the photo.

I added a few other stitched lines on the balloons strings and I finish up framing the page with some strips of paper and some stitching.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked the page and feel inspired to create your page with Citrus Twist kits.

Love, NG

Sunday Sketch with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with two layouts for this week's Sunday Sketch!  Here's a look at the sketch for today:

The first layout I made is for my fall TN:

I decided to flip the sketch on it's side and split it in my TN.  I used the add on kit for this layout and absolutely love the fall feel of the kit!

For the left side cluster, I used an exclusive cut file and layered it with a die cut flower and tag and added some puffy sticker thickers for some added texture. 

The second layout I created is 8.5x11 and I used the Life Crafted kit (and one piece of paper from the add on kit).  I kept the sketch in it's upright position and stuck closely to the sketch.  

I used the vellum die cut leaves to layer under my photo and added some chipboard pieces and yellow thread to add some texture. 

The bottom cluster was created using vellum speech bubbles, stamped with some phrases from the LC kit.  I added some additional thread and a chipboard heart as well.

I can't wait to see how you use this sketch! 

Kira

"Find Joy" with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another layout in my Life Crafted album.  At the beginning of the year, I didn't have any set plans for these Life Crafted albums.  I thought I would just randomly do a layout here and there, and it would be a nice switch from my everyday scrapbooking.  But then I decided to use one as a vacation album, and I just fell in love with this size as a way to document events, rather than random stories.  So I am going to be using my teal one as my beach day album!  Here's a look at the layout I made today:

I love this subscriber exclusive cut file that says "find joy everyday".  I thought it worked perfectly with this photo of my youngest carefully observing a hermit crab on the beach.  He is totally obsessed with anything sea creature related, so seeing a crab in its natural environment in real life pretty much made his day.

To decide which paper I would cut out this cut file on, I first needed to decide on what products I planned to use.  All of my beach pictures are printed in color since I couldn't bring myself to dull out the vibrancy of the day by printing in black and white.  This means that its a tad harder to pick out a color scheme since I have to work with the colors in the photo.  So while looking through the papers from the Life Crafted Kit, I stopped on this pretty floral with pink, red, blue and yellow.  It was easy to find some papers to match, using both the Life Crafted kit and add-on kit for the month.

I used the floral paper to fussy cut some flowers out.  And I used the Signs of Life paper to cut out the cut file.  I layered the fussy cut flowers around the cut file, adhered everything down and then stitched around the cut file in pink thread.  I added more embellishments around the page from both kits.

On the reverse page, I used one of these pocket pages.  I used one of the 4x6 cards from the LC kit, and adhered my photo in the upper left corner.  I added some more fussy cut flowers to make the whole layout feel cohesive.  I added my journaling and a puffy sticker from the LC kit.

In the 2x4 spot, I fussy cut the library type cards from the Signs of Life paper.  I know that the study of crustaceans isn't technically entomology, but I thought it was close enough for the picture of the hermit crab.  I cut the library card down to fit, and added more fussy cut florals.  I added a tiny word sticker with some foam adhesive.

Here's a look at the entire layout again:

Thanks for stopping by!

Kira

Sunday Sketch with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another Sunday Sketch.  Here's a look at our sketch this week:

My favorite part about this sketch is the sewn strips of paper, so I started with that, and sort of built my layout up from there.  Here's a look at my finished layout:

I used the September Add-on kits only for this page, and I am obsessed with all of the Maggie Holmes Heritage that is in here!  I started with the navy floral paper for my strips.  I originally cut up different patterned papers and thought I would do a variety, but I loved the navy floral so much that I decided to just stick with that.  I cut the paper up in 1/2" strips, and then cut them at varying widths.

The photos I am using are of my son at Target.  We sneak off to Target about once a week and have so much fun just browsing the aisles.  He loves the home goods areas where they usually have a few chairs set up, he calls it the "cozy spot".  So for my title I chose "together" because that is what this time at Target is all about, just us having some fun together.

I stuck pretty close to the sketch as far as placement so my pictures are set apart from each other on different levels of the page.  I bumped them both up on some foam.

I added a final strip of paper at the top of my page.  Then I did some simple embellishing with the die cut pack and sticker book.

I can't wait to see how you interpret this sketch!  Make sure to tag us on social media and share in our Facebook group!

xo,

Let's Get Digital with Kira

 Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another 8.5x11 scrapbook layout focusing on some digital elements.  Here's a look at my layout for today:

One of my favorite things to do with digital elements is to use them in ways that they weren't necessarily intended.  While looking through some of this month's digital pieces, I fell in love with this floral piece (from the digital cut aparts):  

I'm such a sucker for florals, so when I saw this, I really wanted to turn it into a cut file.  So I imported it into my Cricut design space software and did just that! I sized it to 8" wide and cut it on white cardstock.

I used the lemon paper from the Life Crafted kit to back the flower portion of the cut file, but didn't have the just right color for the leaves.  But that's an easy fix when you're using the digital elements.  I just imported one of the Chasing Rainbows digital papers into Gimp, and colorized it to a blue-teal color that coordinates perfectly with the lemon paper.

I used white embroidery thread and stitched around the edges of my cut file using a simple backstitch.  Then it was time to start assembling my layout!  I adhered my flower directly to my grid background (paper from the add-on kit) and placed my photo to the right of the leaves.

I used the "hello" acrylic and "happiness" acetate as my title (both found in the LC kit).  And I created three embellishment clusters around my page using elements from both the LC kit and the add-on kit.  I finished the layout off with some black splatters and some typed journal strips.

I hope this has inspired you to get creative with your digital elements!  Thanks for stopping by!

Kira

Sunday Sketch with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with your Sunday Sketch.  Here's a look at our sketch for today:

And here's my take on the sketch:

I love scrapbooking in 8.5x11, so it's always a fun challenge to take a 12x12 sketch and convert it to a smaller size.  I started by choosing my photo(s).  I had taken a really great photo of my son at the park the other week, and printed it at 4x6 in color.  But I loved the photo so much, that for the second photo on the page, I printed it at 2x2 in B&W.

Since I had some "white space" in my photo to the right of my son, I decided to flip the sketch.  It just made more sense, visually, to do it this way.  Next I started pulling papers from both the Life Crafted kit and the Add-On kit...but there were seriously so many good choices, that I didn't end up using half of what I had pulled!  I ended up backing my large photo with a pink paper from the LC kit and adding some layers with some aqua/teal papers.

I pulled in some of the teal to the top of my page, and love that the sketch called for two different papers up there, because I would have never attempted the look on my own, but it seriously looks so cool!  I also used a strip of the teal paper to ground my title (title was in the Add-On kit).  I added some stitching for some additional texture.

Instead of a strip of paper at the bottom of my page, I fussy cut around some florals of the pink/yellow paper and layered on the bottom left side of my page.  I also added a piece of the fussy cut paper below my title.

I finished off the layout by embellishing with cork stickers (LC kit), vellum stickers (LC kit), acetate die cut (LC kit) and some ribbon from my stash.

I can't wait to see how you use this sketch!  Make sure to post in our Facebook group, or tag us on Instagram!

Kira

Father's Day Layout with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another 8.5x11 scrapbook layout. It's been awhile since I have done a full sized photo layout, but when I got this photo of my husband and son, I knew it needed to be printed extra large.

I used the cut file Smile Sparkle Shine, cutting the flowers out of white cardstock.  I used a couple of the papers from the add-on kit to back them.  Then I placed them around the edge of my photo, adhering some with foam adhesive to give them some dimension.

I used a cut apart from the add on kit to stick my date.  Technically the photo was taken in May, but the "journaling" is for Father's Day, so I chose 2019 as the date.  I added a couple more pieces from the add-on die cut pack around my page.

My "journaling" is my son's annual Father's Day questionnaire.  I try to do this every year, it's so fun to hear his responses, and my husband loves receiving them.  I printed the answers on regular printer paper, then adhered it to a piece of patterned paper.

I punched a half circle at the top of my page to pull the journaling up from.  On the patterned paper, I used the tiny alphas included in the Life Crafted kit to spell the word "pull".  I adhered a piece of white cardstock to three sides of my photo to create a pocket for the journaling.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

xo, Kira