Sunday Sketch with Marsha

Hey friends!  It's Marsha here with you today, and I'm happy to be sharing my take on this week's Sunday Sketch challenge.  Citrus Twist always has the best sketches and this one is no exception!  I love the little details included and enjoy altering them to fit my crafty style.

Here's a look at the sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

Instead of creating a 12x12 layout, I chose to convert the sketch and create a layout in my Life Crafted album.  One of my favorite details was the layered hearts. I followed this pretty closely and used the Capture the Moment digital cut file to cut out hearts from a patterned paper and some digital TN papers.  Next, I added stamping to the smallest heart with the Storytelling stamp and black ink.  I added machine stitching down the middle of the layered hearts and lifted up the edges for additional dimension.  I love how this heart embellishment turned out!  

I continued following the sketch and trimmed digital TN papers into banner shapes and used the Woodgrain Chipboard Alphabet Stickers and the Bright Pink Puffy Alphabet Stickers to create the title.

I layered more digital TN papers behind my photo and added a few of the One of a Kind Cardstock Tiny Word Stickers to the layout. 

In place of one of the photos included in the sketch, I used a die cut from the Summertime Florals Ephemera.  I also embellished the layout with the floral die cuts.

I stuck pretty closely with the sketch this week and love the results! 

I hope you found some inspiration today and will create a layout based on the sketch!  Be sure to share your project with us on Instagram using the hashtag #citrustwistkits.  We can't wait to see what you create!

xo,

3-to-Inspire with Desiree

 

Hi there!  It’s Desiree here to join you this Saturday.  If you’re looking for some crafty inspiration, I invite you to try this week’s 3-to-Inspire challenge.  I’ll be working in my life crafted album.

I knew I definitely wanted to include certain items in my layout.  I had already pictured floral edged pages and stamped words. 

So this week’s selections are:

1.  florals

2. alpha stamps

3. cut files

For this project, I wanted to do a regular layout in my life crafted album.  I started with a simple patterned piece of pink cardstock paper and graph paper.  I like using graph and grid sheets as my base pages because they are easy to build on.

The next thing I did is build my floral layer on the graph page with florals from the Citrus Twist Life Crafted Floral Ephemera pack and the Citrus Twist Hearts & Such Ephemera pack.  With all the lovely color florals to choose from, I stacked my florals starting with the biggest on the bottom, leading up to the smallest, and adhered them to my page. 

Then, I used the Citrus Twist Chloe Alpha and Number stamp to make a fun list.  I took this opportunity to stamp out all the beautiful qualities of my daughter.  I love that this alpha stamp set comes with uppercase alphas, lowercase alphas, and numbers all in one, it is just so convenient.

For the cut files, I had a little fun. I used the white floral cut file that is layered under my picture from January’s cut files in the Citrus Twist Kits digital shop.  I layered the cut file under my photo, then cut off the overhang to the shape of the page. 

I also included the love and hearts from February's cut files in the Citrus Twist Kits digital shop.  I really wanted to use the fun speech bubble with the heart inside at the top of my page, but it would not fit.  So  I cut the heart from inside the speech bubble and topped my page with it.  I used the "love" part of the cut file as part of my title “love you”. 

To complete my clusters on each page, I used the wood veneers hearts from the Citrus Twist Heartbeats Vol. 2, Ltd Wood Veneer Hearts. Of course, I used the Citrus Twist January 2021 Puffy Hearts.  All the sizes and colors make them so easy to use.

I hope you give this a try and have a little creative fun. Happy Saturday!

XO, Desiree