Tuesday Tutorial with Our Guest Sandra AKA Fearless

Good Morning.

Fearless ( http://www.dreamsareforchasing.com/) here today to share with you my photo tutorial using fantastic April Kit.

I have had so much fun putting this all together for you, the photo is of me and my soulmate on our way back from the trip we took down to London this year.

1.  Using March kit please cut 2 papers (seen) to approx 2 squares and glue it down to white based provided in kit.

2. Using any kind of floral (or any kind of different pattern, it's up to you!) stencil just spray using orange or yellow mist/pain in the right/middle of our pink fresh paper.

3. Using any kind of tags you might have just glue 2 of them down in approx place where I have. Than using a black ink pen just draw around it and around the pink paper which is under the pink fresh one.

4. Time to get our photo in the right place, but just before that add some flowers, it can be any kind (paper, handmade, ready made etc) + the ones you have included in Citrus Twist Scrapbooking Kit. Once you do it, place the photo on it as well as seen on photos below and again using black ink pen please draw around the photo (best be square )

5.  Time to do my favorite part: paints and decorations. Using any type of similar embellishments (some of it comes from Citrus Twist Kit March Pocket Life Kit) some of it comes from my own stash, try to add it around the places I have, than using a gold paint (available in Citrus Shop) just add it in two places as seen on photos with a tiny bit of black ink on the top of it and some stamping around (on the top of the photo) using paint brush or mists just do some random drops around with paint (remeber to cover the photo!)

it's all done!

Now it's time to show you some closer looks so you can see it better:

Material List:

Scissors, Glue, Black Ink Pen, 1 Mist/paint spray,  Citrus Twist Kit PL kit, March, 1 Stencil (any kind of your choice), Citrus Twist Scrapbooking Kit, April Main, Gold Paint, any kind of your own stash embellishments.

(Most can be purchased in Citrus Twist Store here!) [link to store]

Thank you so Much for popping down today.

love

xoxo

Layout + PL Spread with Jessy Christopher

Hello friends!! I'm back to share with you what I created with the April "Flight of Whimsy" Main kit & April "Adorable"Embellishment kit. I always love how all the kits in Citrus Twist Kits could match each other so well. That's just so amazing rite?

 This layout was pretty fun to put together. I used this beautiful paper by PinkFresh Studio and fussy    cut the bird + house and also the triangles. I love how the yellow pops out with the green color. 

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  And also with the main + embellishment kit, I created a project life spread. This time round, I wanted a bold + bright & whimsical spread. Love the big words spread all around the page. So inspired by all the goodies in the kit. Absolutely loved how this one turned out!

I hope you are inspired to create something with your CTK kit today! 

Xoxo Jessy 

Sunday Sketch With Sandy

Hi everyone! Hope you are enjoying your Sunday. Today is sketch day and I present to you the latest sketch from Kaisa. We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches, so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, if you upload your take to our Gallery by 2nd May, you will be entered to win a $5 coupon to use on anything in the CTK store! Make sure to add "Sketch 4/26" to the title line when you upload. Have fun! 

I've adapted the sketch to a 8.5"x11" format which I'm most comfortable working in, otherwise I remained pretty faithful to the sketch. When I saw the Amy Tangerine circles paper from the April Pattern Play No 1 Kit I knew it'll be perfect for this sketch.  I fussy-cut a bunch of blue and black circles and layered them around the photo of a cyclist, the spokes of the circles adds a suggestion of bicycle wheels spinning. In place of the two tags in the sketch I use two text labels again cut out from pattern paper. Journaling I printed in two columns directly onto the background paper. To finish things off I embellish with few small pieces including a re-purposed light-blub paperclip from the April Sprinkles Kit.  

I hope you'll be inspired to play along with our sketch challenge. We welcome layouts that stick pretty close to the sketch and also layouts with creative interpretations. Have fun scrapping and I look forward to seeing your takes in our Gallery.

3 To Inspire with Emma

Hi everyone, Emma here to share a new page for the "3 to Inspire" series! We offer this new challenge every Saturday for those who need a little extra push to get scrapbooking, to keep scrapbooking, or those of you just looking for a challenge!

Your take on this challenge can be in the form of a layout or a PL spread and you'll want to include all 3 elements on your project.

This week I'd like to challenge you to:

1. Use alpha's to create your background "pattern"
2. Use the colour green (or shades thereof)
3. Try a 6x8 page (eek!)

Now I cheated a little with that last one (because 6x8 is all I scrap!) and if the change of page size freaks you out then please just stick with what you usually do, but I'd really love for you to give it a try.  The smaller size really is a lot of fun!  If you are trying this for PL you could incorporate a insert at 6x8 OR have your photo/card be more than one 3x4/6x4/etc pocket (so print your photo bigger, etc!).

This is my take on the challenge:

I love, love, love the new epoxy stickers from the Main kit this month.  They are perfect to use on the smaller pages too *winkwink*.

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us here in the gallery and/or our Facebook Forum. You can also upload to Instagram, but remember to tag us @citrustwistkits. Looking forward to seeing what you can do!

Words all over with Christin

Christin here today to inspire you to mix the different letters and words in the April main kit + embellishment kit.



I started by cutting out the word remember from one of the papers in the kit and then fussy cutting the number 2 from the backside of the paper.  For the word YOU I chose a piece from the epoxy letters, the word Always is from the washi tape and the rest of the words are typed using the two alphabets in the kit.





I would love to see how you use different kind of lettering in your layouts.

Let's Get Digital: April Free Digital Cut File

It's time for our monthly free digital file. To download the file(s), request to join our Fan Page over at Citrus Twist Kits (Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page) on Facebook.

These stars were first hand-painted with gouache, then converted to cut files for your die-cutting pleasure:

Here is a layout made using some of these cuts, plus pieces from the April Main "Flight of Whimsy" scrapbooking kit:

Now for some close-ups. The background was built up by laying down a piece of yellow crepe paper, placing a smaller piece of white cardstock over the crepe paper, then tucking stars up under the paper and on top of the paper and sewing it down:

We love that Pinkfresh has teamed with our scrapbooking kit club for some fun kit embellishments. The new exclusive Citrus Twist/Pinkfresh epoxy stickers are perfect to play with:

And one last close-up. I didn't glue the "SHINE" title down . . . just stitched through the center of the letters instead:

Thanks for visiting our Let's Get Digital monthly blog post.

Trina

Sunday Sketch

Happy Sunday!  Today brings another fun sketch challenge!  This sketch has lots of fun elements to it so have fun with it!

Now for my take.  I use the April Main Kit and April Embellie Kit.  To start I machine stitched the circle.  Then I took the washi tape stripes that come in the main kit and I layered them behind the picture.  Then I went to town embellishing my page. 

Are you inspired by this sketch? We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches, so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, if you upload your take to our Gallery by April 25th, you will be entered to win a $5 coupon to use on anything in the CTK store! Make sure to add "Sketch 4/19" to the title line when you upload. Have fun!

Hello Card With Michelle

I am a big admirer of cardmaking. I love all the little details and bits and pieces that are put together to make beautiful and fun cards. Unfortunately, I always find myself facing a big mental road block when I set out to make one of my own. So imagine my suprise when I was sifting through the rements of April's Flight of Whimsy Main Kit and a solid, fully formed idea for a card popped into my mind! Ha ha. 

 

 

I layered two strips of the Amy Tangerine washi tape--one was ran through a border punch- under neath the pretty triangle patterned paper. Next I grabbed a pink tag from the ephemera pack, the wood veneer "hello," and a cork circle and quickly played around until I came up with an arrangement that I liked. Since I layered the "hello" on top of my cork circle, I cut up another cork circle into tiny strips to place under the right side of the sentiment to keep it level. Last up was a gold arrow and a few of those fun, yellow stars and then I had a card that I loved and had fun making!

 

Michelle

 

 



Sunday Sketch with our Guest Designer Fearless

Here is this weeks sketch challenge.  Our guest designer will show you her take below.

Now it's your turn to take on this week's sketch! We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, by uploading your take on today's sketch to the gallery by April 18th, you will be entered to win a $5 Coupon to use on anything in the CTK Store! Remember to add "Sketch 3/12" to the title line!

Hello everyone..

Fearless here again to share with you my take on the sketch, I think it is absolutely fantastic and I always find 2 page layouts more challenging, do you? ;)

 

 

However, I have had much fun creating this, the photos come from my journey to London (yes, again!) I just love the memories we made there ;)

 

here's some closer looks for you :

 

 

 

I hope I have inspired you and I cannot wait for your stunning creations!

have a lovely day

 

xoxo

Sunday Sketch with Nathalie

Happy Sunday CTK fans and Happy Easter if you celebrate it! I am here today to offer you a new sketch challenge and to share my interpretation created with the brand new April Main and Embellishment kits.
Here is Kasia's fabulous sketch for this week:

My first thought was: square photos = perfect for IG/phone photos. Also, I loved the large circle right away, which then became the placement for my title:

 

KITS USED: April 2015 "Flight of Whimsy" main kit, "Adorable" embellishment kit

NON-KIT ITEMS: date stamp, yellow enamel dots, ink

The Pink Fresh puffy stickers were my favorite item in the embellishment kit! They are modern and  add just the right amount of color and texture.

Are you inspired by this sketch? We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches, so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, if you upload your take to our Gallery by April 11th, you will be entered to win a $5 coupon to use on anything in the CTK store! Make sure to add "Sketch 4/5" to the title line when you upload. Have fun!

✄Nathalie