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.

 

 

Playing with Pocket Life with April

Hi everyone! I'm excited to share a few catch-up weeks in my Pocket Life album with you!

For anyone who follows me on other social media outlets (mainly Instagram and my blog), you may have noticed I was MIA for awhile.  And I think my Pocket Life Week 12 will help provide an answer for that!  It was a big week for me.  To start the week, I found out that my closest girl cousin was 12 weeks pregnant!  And then, to end the week, I found out that I WAS PREGNANT! :)

The left side of my spread documents the night my cousin told me she was preggo.  We went to a paint and wine event and she didn't drink with me which I thought was weird!  Later in the evening, I got my answer why.. she was pregnant!  And yep, I totally took a photo of her bump!

The right side of my spread documents a few big things, but most importantly, the day I took the pregnancy test!  I wasn't sure how I wanted to document my pregnancy.  Should I put it in my PL or not?  I eventually decided that I should.. all my appts that I've been to have been the highlights of my weeks, so how could I not include them?  But on top of documenting them in my PL, I also decided that I would create a separate pregnancy album as well and document all the little details of my pregnancy journey.  (Yes - I'm totally just adding yet another project to my to-do list! :P)

The transparency journaling cards that were included in the PL kit were the perfect addition to the photo!

I wanted to share the other spreads I created using the June PL and PL Embellie Kits since I have been so behind on PL and because they had other pregnancy related events. 

I skipped Week 13 because it was pretty uneventful.  I have one layout that I created to represent week 13 and you can find that here. 

Week 14 marked our first OBGYN appt where my doctor confirmed our pregnancy with an ultrasound.  It really didn't show much since our little peanut was super tiny, but we did get to see a little flutter of a heartbeat on the screen.  At this point, I was measured to be 5.5 weeks.

Week 15 and 16 were combined into one because they were the weeks that I was in Japan.  The events that are documented here happened in the weekend we had arrived back home from our trip.

We had a follow up OBGYN appt the morning after we arrived from our trip.  Our doctor did another ultrasound and we were surprised to see how big our peanut had grown in just a couple of weeks!  We also got to hear it's heartbeat!  Seriously, what an amazing experience!!!

That's it for my catch up spreads.  I'm pretty much up to date now and as of the date this goes live, I will be 17 weeks into my pregnancy.  My first trimester wasn't too bad, I just had pretty bad fatigue.  I've since gotten my energy back being in my second trimester, so I'm trying to stay on top of PL and just all my projects in general!

For those who stuck around to read through this loooong post, thank you!  Have a great day!

A Big Goodbye to Some Citrus Twist Kits DTs & a Scrapbooking Challenge!

Hi everyone! We have enjoyed all the talented designers on our team who share their creations with you every month on our daily blog and in our gallery. At the end of June we have 3 DTs who will be moving on to share their talents in other parts of the scrapbooking world.

It has been our pleasure to work with Gina Rodgers (with Citrus Twist Kits since day 1!), Nina Ostermann and Tanya Batrak. Ladies, thank you for all of your beautiful design work.

The Challenge
We love the title of Nina's "It's Going to Be a Good Day" layout (below) and decided to base a challenge on her title. We want to see what you come up with for a scrapbook page or Pocket Life layout that uses the phrase "It's going to be a good day" for inspiration.

To earn a chance to win please upload your project to our Gallery and put "DT Challenge" in the name and leave some love for our departing DTs on this blog post. Please post your entries by Saturday, June 28th for a chance to win the grab bag. We'll be giving away a dreamy box of wood chips!

Here are some memories of some of their work for Citrus Twist:

From Gina, shares of her unique style:

Here are some fun shares from Nina:

And some of Tanya's artsy creations:

We look forward to seeing your entries into our "It's going to be a good day" challenge.

Thank you Gina, Nina and Tanya for sharing part of your scrappy world with us here at CTK. We wish you every happiness!

6x6 Paper Play with Jen...

Hello all! I'm sharing a layout today featuring an easy way to make use of multiple patterns from the 6x6 paper pad in the Citrus Twist Pocket Life kit on a traditional scrapbook page.

If you love a number of patterns in a paper pad and can't quite choose, creating a grid of different designs is a great way to solve the dilemma and take the guesswork out of coordination. For my background grid, I simply cut six 2x3" rectangles, one from each pattern. Why 2x3"? I like to make my own journaling and filler cards from my paper pads, cutting two 3x4" pieces from each sheet. What I then have left is a 2x6" strip. This layout makes great use of those leftover strips!

I chose three that were primarily black and white, to play off my b&w photo, and three color prints. Rather than lining them up evenly, I laid them out in a slightly overlapping, tilted manner to add visual interest. Here's a closer look:

I used a length of the baker's twine from the kit packaging along with pennant stickers from the PL Kit to "hang" from the top of my background.

And, simply added a few other details with the Add-On Stamps, stickers from both the PL and PL Embellishment kits and a title cut with my Silhouette.

Tuesday Tutorial with Eve

Today, i will show you, how to scrap a photo frame from Ikea.

I will use this material :




First, i take the paper on the photo frame, to use it as background, and the paper music.



I cut the paper music to the right size :



I paint with some gesso :



Add 2 patterns papers, grey and yellow ink on background :



Add the yellow tulle :



I cut the hot air ballon from the paper and paste it with 3D adhesive, and the add white yarn on the right :




Then, i paste my photos : one with normal glue, the other one with 3D adhesive :



I add masking tape on the left , and my frame is finished.





Hope you love my project :)

Have a nice day.

Sunday Sketch with Melissa

Hello, everyone! Melissa here with you today, and I have another one of Kasia's fantastic sketches for our regular Sunday Sketch challenge post!

I quite often use two photos on my layouts, and sometimes I feel like I get stuck in a rut with ways to arrange the photos and the papers and elements around them. Having a sketch to work from helps me to shake things up, and I loved how the offset layers in this arrangement added something just a little bit different, but still balanced, to the page.

All of the supplies for this layout came from the main kit, and I loved all of the "star" themed items this month- especially the exclusive wood veneers!

To play along with our sketch challenge simply upload your layouts to our gallery by June 21st with "Sketch 6/15" in the title. You'll be entered to win a $5 gift certificate to the Citrus Twist store!

Saturday Inspiration with Gina

Hi everyone, I'm here to share a couple of pages with you, created with the gorgeous 'Beautiful Life' main kit and a couple of items from the 'Day Tripping' embellishment kit. The main floral paper used here, made me think of vintage florals and was perfect for this funny pic of my daughter and her friend trying on what they call "granny florals" (or something your grandmother would wear) then taking selfies in the changeroom.. I've added some patterned paper squares down the side (after scraping a little white gesso over to soften the colours) then machine stitched in plain and zigzag for a patchwork effect..

along with a couple of handcut stars, journaling, flair and chipboard arrow..

to finish, I've added a few Studio Calico chipboard stars and stamping using the main kit stamp and "Bring it On" stamp add-on

I've kept this layout quite simple, leaving quite a lot of white space, because I wanted to show off this beautiful white woodgrain cardstock, which has such great texture.. I really like mixture of white and cream together, along with mint, woodgrain and yellow. I've added a few paper layers behind the gauze and doily. A little machine stitching helps to hold it all down.

I hope you're enjoying your kits as much as I am..happy scrapping!

Gina x