Life Crafted with Angela

Hello friend! It’s Angela and I have a new spread of my Life Crafted album to share with you. Cravings June kit is so inspiring and seams to be designed on me and my everyday routine. For example, let's talk about Pizza die cuts and stamps! You have to know that we, my family and I, eat pizza every Friday! I used to make pizza myself when my sons were small. Later, when I started working on night shifts, I stopped making it. Recently, during the lockdown, despite it was very difficult to find flour and yeast, I started again and since mid March, I've been making pizza every single Friday. Sometimes, I’m also able to engage every family member in making it.

So, the protagonist of my spread today is pizza!

To document those hilarious days of making mess rather than making pizza together, I wanted to create something fun. So, I made an interactive page and a shaker pocket. I stamped a big photo of a pizza and I cut it round, following its shape. To make it fit inside the album, I cut a portion on one side. This way, I've been able also to make four holes. Then, I cut a triangle of the photo in the shape of pizza slice and I glued it on acetate. 

On the acetate, I stamped the phrases 'I want some more' from June Life Crafted Travelers Notebook stamp and 'get in my belly' from Cravings Kit Stamp. The photo of the pizza is interactive. In fact, the triangle of the photo slides up and dow. To make it, I backed the photo with white card stock, without gluing the triangle so to allow it to move.

The first page of the spread is actually the one with the two photos of my youngest son Filippo while is kneading pizza dough. The photos are 3x4 inches and I put them in page protector #2. 

Beside, I used another page protector #2 with a journaling card in the lower pocket. With the top pocket I created a shaker, to remind the fun of cooking together. The confetti inside the shakers are red sequins and slices of pizza that I stamped and fussy cut using Yes This Is Life stamp.

Moreover, I used the same pizza slices to create a background on the journaling card, simply stamping with light grey ink.

On the opposite side side, I placed the photo of my men preparing pizza with their favorite ingredients. Beside is the photo of the big pizza with the slice portion 'closed'.

To decorate, I used just a few pieces here and there, like a chipboard, a die cut, a puffy sticker heart, all from Cravings kit.

On the back of the photo, I wrote another bit of journaling. I adhered a title using the die cut Pizza Night! and a label where I stamped Food Is Culture using  Cravings Kit Stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked my fun page and hopefully feel inspired to create with June Cravings kits!

Life Crafted with Sheree

Hello friends!


Sheree here to share a Life Crafted spread with you featuring the super gorgeous “Cravings”Life Crafted Kit! 

With some of our pandemic restrictions recently being eased, my husband and I enjoyed a lovely Saturday morning coffee date at one of our favourite coffee shops for the first time in weeks.  It’s something that we had really missed so we enjoyed every minute of it!  That’s what I chose to document in this spread today.


For the journaling I used one of the subscriber bonus printable journaling cards and added the text in Photoshop before printing.  I then stitched around the edge with my sewing machine, stamped the date and added the chipboard coffee sticker.

Next I added the gorgeous yellow floral die cut with foam dots to another journaling card, tucked some leaves in underneath and added a stamped phrase from the June2020 Life Crafted Traveler’s Notebook Stamp Set.  I also stitched across the stamped piece and added a border on this card too.

For the full-sized page I used the yellow patterned paper for the background.  At the top of the page I added two puffy stickers and stamped the word ‘yes’ from the June 2020 This Is Life “Yes” Stamp set onto white cardstock before adding it above my photo.


My photo was cropped to a square and I added the die cut frame from the ephemera pack over the top.  I used a paper clip from my stash in the top right corner of the photo, then added a little tag that I made from white cardstock, stamped with the little coffee cup from the “Yes” stamp set.

Under the photo I added another stamped sentiment from the “Yes” stamp set and the ‘documented’ piece from the June 2020 “Cravings” Digital Tag Printable.  To finish the page off I added stitching to the stamped and printed pieces and a border around the edge.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing how I’ve put this page together using this month’s life crafted kit!

Thanks for much for joining me on the blog today.  I look forward to sharing another project with you soon!


Sheree x

Meet Our Guest Designer: MELANIE FUNKE

Hello CTK friends!
Today we are so excited to welcome and introduce our June 2020 Guest Designer : MELANIE FUNKE.   Melanie is a past design team member, subscriber and overall awesome designer and friend.   Her clean and colorful designs are always a joy to find in our feed, and we think you are going to love her as much as we do! 
Here is Melanie...

I live in the north west of Germany in a small town near Cologne called Bergisch Gladbach with my life partner. In my spare time I love being outside riding my bike or going on hikes. But I also enjoy cooking and baking and love cuddling up on the sofa listening to a good audiobook or watching a show on netflix. 

When it comes to scrapbooking, Layouts are my favorite but I also love working in the Life Crafted Album, it’s such a great format to document every day life, and making a mini every now and then.

Q & A with Melanie

When did you start Scrapbooking?

 I started scrapbooking in 2013 by documenting our December. I was lucky enough to
have a local scrapbook store where I could try out things like different inks or die cutting and was taught some techniques by the nice owner while I was shopping for supplies. After making some Minis I started to create layouts and was hooked ever since.

What is something most people would not know about you?

When I’m not in the mood for scrapbooking but want to make something anyway I crochet. It’s so relaxing and I can do it even when I’m not feeling my best and don’t have a lot of creative energy.

What are the 3 scrapbooking products you can't live without?

patterned paper, die cuts, stamps

What do you love about the June - CRAVINGS Life Crafted kit?

I love the colors of the kit, the soft lilacs combined with the mustardy yellow and the pinks look so pretty together.  The die cuts are so versatile and I love the frames, flowers and butterflies.  The theme of the kit is great, too.  I had so many ideas on what to document with the kit!

Finish this sentence “If you could see my scrapbooking space now . . . “ 

 you would see a mess. I’ve just finished a project and inks, die cuts, stamps and papers are  scattered all over my desk. I’m a neat and tidy person and love having my things organized, but when I’m creating my desk becomes messy very quickly.

  

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Hey crafty friends,

I’m so thrilled to share my first project with you today I made by using the gorgeous June Cravings Kit. I created some spreads in my Life Crafted Album using some pictures I took during May, the Kit is just perfect for documenting every day life.

For the first spread I used two 3x4 cards on the left hand side and a page protector with 8 2x2 pockets for the right hand side.

I didn’t fill in all of the pockets, so that you can see through and you get a peek of the picture of my second spread.

I kept the left side pretty simple by putting the lovely rainbow text card and a picture into the pockets. I stamped a text on a label and used my attacher to secure it onto the picture. When I work in pocket pages I love to add something outside the pockets. It gives a different texture and makes it more interesting while flipping through the album. So I stuck two of the puffy stickers to each of the pockets.

For the spread on the right hand side I used some 3x4 cards from the kit and cut them into 2x2 inch squares. I added some  diecuts and used my sewing machine give it a little more texture. On this page I used some of the chipboard stickers and put them outside the pockets.

I added some stamped images to my pictures and placed the title directly onto the page protector with one of those cute small puffy hearts. I love how you can see through to the other spread.

For my second spread I filled the same pockets on the backside of the 2x2 page protector again using some stitching and some embellishments outside the pockets.

As I didn’t have room for my journaling, I made a little flip card to write down my text and put it into one of the pockets.

I added some stamping to my full page picture using this month’s stamp set and a chipboard to finish the spread.

For my third spread I used two patterned papers to create my background. I stuck one of them  inside the page protector and punched holes into the other one so that I could put it directly into the album.

I created kind of a grid layout on the left hand side by using the frames of the die cuts and my picture and added some puffy stickers and stamping onto the page. To finish it off, I glued the cute butterfly onto the page protector.

I also used one of the frames on the right hand side but this time for my picture. I added three embellishments around the picture to make the eye glide over page and placed my journaling at the bottom of the page, using a stamp to add more interest.

I hope I have inspired you to create something pretty with your Life Crafted Kits and I can’t wait to see what you’re making.

Have fun creating,

Melanie 

These layouts are amazing, Melanie... we just love how she used the kits in her Life Crafted album, so many beautiful details.   Be sure to leave Melanie some love and follow her on  social media...  https://www.instagram.com/mefunscrapt/ you are going to love her style and projects.


XO

JUNE 2020 KIT LOVE

Hello everyone!
June is here, and after a few months enjoying the comfort of our homes, the world is slowly opening back.   This month's Life Crafted kit: CRAVINGS is the perfect mix of color, design and sentiment to help you document all those meals, sentiments and things we yearned for while in isolation.

The  colors of the palette this month are ideal to document all sorts of memories and feels.  Our friend Tina Stepanova always helps us with fun unboxing videos, so sit back and enjoy our new Life Crafted kit:





We know many of you enjoy creating memories in  a larger format, so we have carefully curated a Scrapbook Add-On kit that will help you stretch your Life Crafted kit, or simply work on its own.

So much goodness in this kit and a few more goodies arriving at the shop!  Join Nathalie as she shares a detailed unboxing of this month's add-on kit:




How beautiful are both kits!  We cannot wait to see what you will create with them, and how you will document your memories. 

But a new month also means lots of new, fun and citrusy things arriving at our shop just in time... We have added a new collection of Life Crafted Albums that are the perfect bright rainbow for your memories and shelves.

Do the words: Calyso, Turquoise, Clementine, Flamingo, Candy Apple and Peony just make you think of warmer vibes?  Stop by our shop to check the new albums as well as a restock of our most popular ones: black, Charcoal and Goldenrod and all the insert configurations.

As it is customary, this month we are also releasing two new add-on stamp sets that combine perfectly with the Cravings kits:  our June 2020 Traveler's  Notebook Stamp set and the This is Life: Wild at Heart stamp set ( digital format also available)

This month, we also want to introduce 4 new sets of stamps that will help you document your days in a beautiful way:

First of is the ALL THE FEELS  stamps set  which was designed to help you add sentiments to all your memories ( during and after isolation).  The new IT'S WEATHERING stamp set is so fun, and it is all about weather and seasons.  The design will easily combine with the popular This is Life: LET'S WANDER stamp set to give you an infinite number of possibilities!  Finally this month we are releasing 2 new Alphabet stamp sets that are a must for all your documenting.

I think now it is time to welcome you all to the shop.  Remember that subscribers receive free digital files as part of their monthly perks, and also can take advantage of bundle shipping.

We are so excited to see your CTK projects, and have a CT ready to share inspiration with you all

Happy June everyone!