Hey there Citrus Twist friends! It's Aimee here today with this week's Sunday sketch. First things first lets take a look at the sketch and I'll tell you how I've adapted it.
As you can see this week's sketch is just gorgeous— as usual. Now, this sketch is giving me fall vibes but I want to focus more on Halloween today. Therefore I will be using the new Hocus Pocus Halloween Mini Kit available in the shop!
First, I chose some of the gorgeous 6x8 patterned papers from The Stamp Market that are included in the mini kit and did my best to layer them according to the sketch. I wanted to keep this layout very pink and girly since my daughter is wearing pink in the photo. I went for a mix of pink and orange patterns and even added a sweet little doily for some extra playfulness.
I tucked bits of the, "Thirty One" ephemera from Prima between the paper layers just like shown with the leaves in the sketch. I topped the vintage girl holding a pumpkin with a chipboard witches' hat from the Prima chipboard set and tucked a leaf die cut and a nest of thread behind her. What a perfect compliment to my photo!
For my title I stamped out, "31" using the Luna Nos. Stamp, fussy cut it out and popped it up on foam dots. I added some black acrylic paint splatter and stamped the year the photo was taken. Next, I added some stitched paper at the top of the page to mimic the cluster seen on the sketch.
Having this sketch as inspiration made the whole creative process a breeze! I definitely added my own spooky twist to the page and I could not be happier with the result. How will you use this week's sketch?
It's Shu-Wen here, sharing another interactive spread that I created for my Life Crafted Album! I couldn't resist one last spread using the September "Bungalow Lane" Add-On Kit from the Citrus Twist Kits shop (it's still available in the Citrus Twist Kits store, so it's not too late to snag a kit for yourself!) I had one last idea featuring one of my favorite patterned papers from that kit that I just had to try out!
This week's 3-to-Inspire prompts are: 1. Triangles 2. Interactive element 3. Foam Thickers
Here's a photo of the layout that I created!
I wanted to document some photos of a recent boat tour that we took to visit Spirit Island, and the patterned paper #3 from Paige Evans' Bungalow Lane collection that was included in this Add-On Kit reminded me of the beautiful mountains around Spirit Island, both in terms of the shapes of the triangles and the blues/greens in the paper.
I decided to cut out some triangles of varying sizes from the patterned paper, as well as print out some triangle-shaped photos of the same sizes, to create a background of triangle shapes on my page and imitate a mountain range going across my spread. To create these triangle shaped photos, I used Microsoft Word. That's right, no Photoshop required! I'll leave a link to my process video on YouTube at the end of this post if you're interested in checking it out!
After I had all my triangle pieces, I decided to create an interactive pull-out to allow me to fit even more photos onto this layout! I created a hidden pocket beneath the right side of my layout with some white cardstock and the patterned paper #17 from the Bungalow Lane collection. I printed out a strip of 3 landscape photos and mounted them onto the piece of transparency from the Bungalow Lane Add-On Kit for added stability. Then, I cut out another triangle shape from patterned paper #11 and folded over the bottom edge to create a hinge to attach to the back of my transparency, and this triangle became an oversized tab to allow me to pull out the hidden photo strip! I also printed out some journaling in a triangle shape and adhered that to the top of my triangle pull-out tab. You can see the hidden pull-out in action in the next two photos. The picture below shows what the tab looks like before the photo mat is pulled out. I adhered a triangle shape of the same size to the white cardstock just beneath the triangle with the journaling attached onto it; both these triangles have a hidden magnet in place to ensure the oversized tab lies flat when it's not in use.
When you flip the triangle down and pull down, that's when the magic happens, and the hidden photo mat on the transparency appears!
And here's a picture of the photo mat itself below. Because the triangle shaped photos on the page itself weren't very big, I liked the fact that I could still include these larger photos without ruining the esthetic of my triangle page.
I finished off the spread by adding some alphabet stickers from the Add-On Kit to spell the words Spirit Island, as well as some foam Thickers that came in the kit as well! I love the fact that these foam Thickers provide some more interest and dimension to the otherwise flat page, and I love how the yellow of the alphabet stickers matches the yellow on the back of my triangle pull-out tab!
You can check out the full process video for this spread on my YouTube channel.
I love how this spread turned out! If you'd like to give this challenge a shot, feel free to tag me on Instagram or on the Citrus Twist Kits Facebook Fan Page so that I can check it out! And make sure to check out the Citrus Twist Kits shop for all the new goodies this month! Thanks for stopping by!
How are you? The last days of September to dive in the super autunnale month of October and I can't wait to participate in one of the beautiful crafts iniziative to tell the October Stories using one of the beautiful Citrus Twist albums and the amazing october products! Stay tunnel!
Ok let's go! I'm going to show you the page I have created for this Sunday Sketch, so clean, so dreamy so airy sketch! In love with it and as always I have done some little changes ;P
This is the Sketch.
And this is my page :)
As you can see I have a little changed position of the center block of the sketch on the left side of the page. I have mixed a lot of previous Citrus Twist kits leftovers creating a lovely background for the picture I chose, to have more contrast I decided to print the picture in black and white.
Love the result, the contrast of the picture with the bright colors of the papers.
Before to place my picture bloc I used some colors and a stencil to create a very soft watercolor background, I choose the yellow for this.
Some drops of black ink here and there and some drops o white acrylic ink. Love the effect they give!
Once I did the basic I started decorative my page so following the sketch, using the tag "loving" , the flower, the word " wonder", many beautiful phrase stamps from the gorgeous Citrus Twist stamps, and a puffy sticker from the September embellishments!
Here some close ups of my page:)
Hope you like the page and I can't wait to see what you will do with it :)
Hello, my crafty friends! Happy fall. Are you excited about all the holiday goodness from Citrus Twist Kits? I am so inspired for my fall memory keeping with the Citrus Twist September releases.
Today we are here for a 3-to-Inspire challenge. Let's take a look at the three items that made the cut.
1. Citrus Twist Kits digitals
2. puffy stickers
3. ephemera
This week, I worked on my pocket pages. I usually start my pocket pages with the 4x6 cards. I like to treat these cards like my creative space, then I use them to guide the style and design of the remainder of my cards.
I chose a coordinating 3x4 card from the Coming Home Digital Card. To make the remaining 3x4 cards, I use papers from the Bungalow Lane Collection that can be found in the Bungalow Lane Add-On Kit. I love how all the colors match so well from the Citrus Twist exclusives and add-on kit. it really made this spread fun.
I finish off my 3x4 cards by adding more ephemera from the Feels Like Home ephemera. I attached a little note card from the ephemera pack to record my journaling. I grabbed the "Get Creative" stamp from the Get Messy Stamp Set to stamp onto the picture of my weaving. I'm hoping to get a good bit of that done this fall.
Last, I complete the remainder of the 4x6 cards using more ephemera and Happy Heart Puffy Stickers. I included the "routine" ephemera phrase next to my daughter having her after-school snack because this layout is all about routines.
Thank you so much for joining me for this Saturday's 3-to-Inspire challenge. I hope you find a little time to get crafty today.
Here's the sketch that I used to create my spread:
I love square sketches because they can be used for both 12x12 layouts or Life Crafted Album layouts!
For the left side of my page, I used a 3x4 landscape oriented photo. Since I knew that it would have to span across both sides of my Life Crafted Album spread, I made sure to pick a photo where it wouldn't matter if I cut the photo in half! I substituted the circle shaped embellishments on the left side of the sketch with some of the smaller floral ephemera pieces from the ephemera pack that came in the add-on kit, substituted the label below those with one of the foam stickers from the Thickers pack that came in the kit, and used some coordinating enamel dots (a Citrus Twist exclusive) to finish off that page. I even added some 3D foam adhesive behind one of these floral ephemera pieces to give my page more dimension!
For the right side of the spread, I used an Instax photo as the focus point for the page. I used one of the butterfly ephemera pieces and one of the larger florals from the ephemera pack to put on opposite corners of my photo and framed them with some leaves that I tore off one of the branch ephemera pieces in the ephemera pack. Since I didn't feel that my page needed any journaling, I decided to substitute that with another Thicker sticker from the add-on kit. Then, I finished off my page with more enamel dots from Citrus Twist Kits!
Here's what my full page looked like in the end! I love how the warm colors of the patterned papers and embellishments in this kit went so well with the warm tones in the photos I took of us hanging out by the fire.
You can check out the process video that I made for this spread on my YouTube channel!
I love how this spread turned out! If you decide to make a layout using this sketch, feel free to tag me on Instagram or on the Citrus Twist Kits Facebook Fan page so that I can check it out! Make sure to check out the Citrus Twist Kits shop for all the new goodies this month!
Nathalie with you today this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge. Every week, we issue a challenge based on 3 prompts in hopes they inspired a project of your own. These are this week's prompts:
Use numbers to tell your story
Limit your color palette
Create a grid design
Here is what I have created using the prompts and products from the September release.
I started by printing two of the same 6x8 Digital Ledger paper for the background of my page. I chose this color as it contrast nicely with the yellow alphabet sticker that is included in the Add on kit.
I printed my three photos in black and white to the same size -this will help to build the grid design on the page-. I mentally drew a grid in the center of the layout, and glued the photos to sit inside of the grid.
I pulled the new Luna Numbers 6x8 Stamp set, to stamp the outline of the numbers next to each photo. Here, I used the puffy mini stickers from the add on kit to help me tell the story of an elevator malfunction,
I chose to create a pocket -from vellum- to house my journal lines. I used the Luna Alpha Numbers stamp set to add the title for the page to the front of the pocket.
I added my lines of journal to a tag, and slid this in place! To finish the page, I simply added a few of the new enamel dots around each of the numbers on the page.
I love how this turned out, and now it is your turn to use the three prompts to create a project of your own. Remember to share with us your finished projects. We would love to see what you created!
Hello CTK Friends! I hope all of you are well. I love these Sunday Sketches because I can either be inspired to create exactly as it is or I can be inspired by what I see. For today's sketch, I turned it to the left to fit in the Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters album.
I decided to gain inspiration from the layers under the photo by punching out small tags from the Jen Hadfield Reaching Out Paper Pad from the shop. The colors from the pad go great with the September goodies!
For the left side, I gained the inspiration from the top of the sketch and the right side with the layered piece having a notebook edge to it. I just punched my edge of the pattern paper, trimmed it and layered September Ephemera over it. For the journaling part of the sketch, I used a September Ephemera tag.
I still have layers of the ephemera, puffy stickers, the photos, and a little fussy cutting from the Jen Hadfield pattern paper pad all inspired by the sketch. The last detail I added was the True Life V2 stamp.
Hope you are inspired by the Sunday Sketch and maybe you want to try taking the inspiration and changing it up a bit. Happy Creating!
