Pocket Life Sketch Friday with Marie-Pierre

Hello everyone!

I've been working with the gorgeous and very colorful May 2016 Pocket Life and Embellishments kits and it's just so much fun!!

Today I have a Pocket Life spread to show you as well as a sketch to inspire you! I hope you like it.

The colorful journaling cards can make a big impact on your layout and bring lots of joy and happiness. Even when you think your photos are colorful enough, a card with lots of colors can shake things up and make everything else calm down.

I always love the small embellishments in every kit! This month we get to play with rubber charms, cork and acrylic shapes. i like to mix and match them and to use them several times on my layout. 

As you can see, I placed my rubber charms forming a visual triangle to guide the eye through the photos. I tried to pair the color of the charm with the color on the photo or journaling card. I did the same with the red label that I placed on the reddish part of the journaling card.

I loved to used these little numbers and alphas. :) I stitched on my journaling card before adhering them on top.

Here is a small cluster of embellishments/die cut. You can't really see it on this picture but the die cut is foiled in silver. Just gorgeous!

I added little words that I typed with my typewriter onto white cardstock.

On this page I played with the wide white spaces on my photos to add titles.

Here I made the title with the epoxy alphas.

More epoxy stickers mixed with cord embellishment to tie both pages of my spread together. Here my photo couldn't be cropped to a 4x6 so I simple printed it a little smaller and backed it on patterned paper. It's a nice way to make a picture pop off the page.

More embellishment clusters.

And I found a tiny little post to add some more words. :) I used a white gel pen to write on the black cardstock. Worked pretty well.

Stitching around a picture is also a nice way to frame it without adding too much weight to it. Oh and did you see this beautiful hello card? Love the horizontal lines to write strait. I like my handwriting, but I can't write strait, so that's a little trick to help me.

And here too, I used the white space to add a nice title.  Love the simplicity of this.

And now here are the sketches:

I hope you use them and I hope they inspire you to create. 

Thanks for visiting Pocket Life Friday, where every week we share PL sketches and a chance to win. For your chance to win, create a layout based on the sketches in this blog post, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, May 13th. Be sure to include PL 05/06 in your title when posting!

Marie

Kit Love with Wendy

Hello May! The start to a new month and the big reveal of new kits from Citrus Twist Kits!  

The colors in the kits this month will have you ready to plan a vacay! 

Check out my video reveal below sharing up the May 2016 "Sparkle" Add-On kit and May 2016 "Beach Glass" Pocket Life kit.  

Don't be late to grab them up over at the shop!  

There are LOTS of new goodies in the shop too!  Yeah, I couldn't resist adding a few 'must haves' into my cart this month.  

Wendy

Note to Self

Good morning! It's Tara here and today I'm sharing another way I like to use my Pocket Life kit - for faith journaling. I love how versatile our kits are; you can use them in so many ways and tailor them to fit your needs.

I love this journaling card that was in our "Beach Glass" Pocket Life kit this month. Our very own Diane, created this lovely brush lettering found here and in the stamps as well. The washi tape is from my stash. I love flip cards! You can add extra writing or hide it for only you to see.

I am using my traveler's notebook as a way to write down bible verses, take notes, and write out prayers daily. It's the perfect size and I love the paper! Here is a little spread I made:

Here is a closer peek:

I used some watercolor to make a few roses. They are far from perfect and a couple aren't my favorite but I'm embracing the imperfections. Then I did a wash of blue throughout the page. I also added in the GraceBox v2 stamp here and there. Again, loving the word "joy"! It actually was from the phrase "joyful heart" but I made it work. I really loved the Simple Stories white alphas that were included in April's PL kit, so I added them here too. I used a die cut tab from the "Currently" die cuts included in the May PL kit.

I'm reading a mini study called Unshakeable Moms. I took a few notes that really spoke to me behind the journaling card. These words are a reminder to help me focus on how I'm refueling myself and what I should be filled with.

Thank you for stopping by! We would love to see the different ways you use your kits. You can share it with us in our Gallery and Facebook Fan Page .

Have a lovely day! Xxo, Tara

Citrus Twist Kits Instagram Hop Happening Now (Today Only!)

Good morning! We have an Instagram "blog" hop going on over on @citrustwistkits today with 3 to Inspire-type challenges to get you scrapbooking and creating for National Scrapbook Day. Pop on over to visit our Instagram account and find out how you can earn a chance to win. (Prize hint: $25 gift certificates to our website)

Have fun and get creative for this National Scrapbook Day!

Trina

Tuesday Tutorial with Brenda

Good morning everyone.  Today I am sharing with you one of my favorite techniques for my simple pages.

Often I want to add more interest to my page but still want to keep things from being too over cluttered.  Plus the colors and patterns in the May kit are amazing.  I really wanted to use every paper for this first page.  Adding a cut file to the background and filling it with pretty papers usually does the trick.

Start with the cut file.  You can cut this on any size of paper and it doesn't have to be white.  White backgrounds are just my favorite.

I created this file in Illustrator just for this page,  If you want to use it, I have the PNG for you HERE.
Once you open it in your silhouette software all you need to do is resize, trace and cut.  Be sure to select "trace" or the inside of the letters won't cut out.

The hardest part was choosing the patterns I wanted to use.

Then I just hand cut a few pieces and laid them on the back of the background page.

 There wasn't enough room to glue them down so I just grabbed an old roll of washi and taped it all down.

See how pretty that is!

And here is the finished page.  Colorful, fun and still true to my simple style,

Happy scrapping all!

Brenda

May Pocket Life Goodness

Hello there, everyone. Elizabeth here today to show off some of the lovely goodness that make up Mays Pocket Life and Embellishment kits.. This time I have two full PL spreads for you.

This one features the May Pocket Life kit as well as the Embellishment kit.

Look how delicious those embellishments look all layered together..

and this spread was made using only the Pocket Life kit..

There are so many wonderful elements in these kits, as always. I look forward to seeing what you all create with them! I hope you have a happy May.

Sunday Sketch with Missy Whidden

Happy Sunday!  Missy here with you, and I'm sharing this week's awesome sketch!  It's a really fun one, and you can make great use of your new May Kits with it!  Check it out:

I used the new and beautiful May Main Kit for this.  I wanted to create a bright and fun sunny layout, so I scrapped a few photos of my daughter down at the pool.  She jumped out and wanted to play with the hose.  I used a bit of watercolors to create a water splash look on the background.  I used lots of aqua, pink and yellow elements from the kits, which have some Maggie Holmes, Pink Paislee Paige Evans Fancy Free, and some beautiful exclusives.

I used several acetate pieces from the Paige Evans line here.  I added a few colored circles under this "Live a Colorful Life" circle and then added some tangled thread from my stash for an extra pop of blue.  Those awesome sequins are exclusives this month, and they are gorgeous colors!

I used some light pink ink spray and some gelatos to color these silver glitter Thickers, and it turned out so pretty!  You can do this with any color gelato and smudge the color with your finger.  Super easy!  I fussy cut the little flower under the journaling from one of the patterned papers.

Here's another angle for the bottom area...aren't those sequins so pretty?  I love how the colors here look against that beautiful yellow paper.

I did use white gesso over this before I used the watercolors.  I wanted to blend out some of the yellow pattern just a bit, and I like that you can still see it slightly.  That's the beauty of gesso...it can really change the look of the paper depending on how much you add.  I also did some machine stitching here as well.

 

Here's the top above the photos...more paper, watercolor and thread.  These are my three favorite colors together, for sure :)

 

Now it's your turn to create something awesome using this sketch!  We hope you play along with the Sunday Sketch Challenge.  You can upload your layout to the Gallery and make sure to add the date 5/1 in your title.  You could win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Citrus Twist Store!

Here's my process video if you'd like to see how I put this  layout together.  I hope you enjoy!!

Have a great day!

Missy Whidden