GUEST DESIGNER - HEBA ALSIBAI

We are so excited to have Heba join us for one last time here in our blog.  She is an amazing designer, and her project is just gorgeous, so i let her tell you about it

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Hello everyone, I’m excited to share my second project as a guest designer for Citrus Twist. I’ll be using the new Gratitude crafted kit. If you follow me on social media you know that I am my sons biggest marching band fan. Every Friday night, my daughter and I get together with our friends to create a cheer squad to cheer on the marching band kids. So when I saw the Gratitude Kit with all its colorful pattern paper, I know I had to document our cheer squad.

I’m a huge fan of multiple photos on one spread especially when working in a traveler’s notebook. It’s my go to when I have a lot of photos from one occasion. You never have to choose which ones make it on your spread:). Just make sure you use small photos to be able to fit them all.

For this spread I decided to go with my go to sketch for adding multiple photos on one small layout. It’s to add my photos in a straight line creating a column of photos. This helps your spread stay uncluttered and neat. I started by adding one of the brighter pattern papers from the kit for my background. This paper worked well with my bright and fun photos.

Once my bright background was added I needed to mute it down a bit. So I ended up using the navy blue paper to help mute it down. This also gave me space to add a title. I ended up using the glittery alpha stickers that came in my kit to add “Cheer Squad”.

I embellished my photos with puffy sticker, chipboard and word stickers from the kit. This is my favorite way to add layers and texture to my spread. I used a 3x4 card from the kit to give me that space I needed for my journaling. This also helped the colors flow from the left side of my spread to the right side of my spread. I finished my layout by stamping a little subtitle above my card and called my layout done.

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Thank you Heba for such beautiful projects, we have loved having you this month as our Guest Designer, and cannot wait to see your next creations.  

Remember to leave Heba some love, and be sure to follow her -you will be inspired by her creations!-

 Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/hebaalsibai/

 YouTube channel  http://www.youtube.com/c/MyLittleJournal

Pocket Life Challenge with Patricia

Hope this blog post finds all our CTK friends and fans doing well and enjoying some creating time for yourselves!  I wanted to stop in today to share a Pocket Life spread using one of the CTK Life Crafted Protector #2 with a 6x8 pocket page.  I love mixing these formats in my 6x8 album.  I feel like I have the best of both formats!  This project is my last of five projects using just the November Gratitude Life Crafted kit.  Leftovers always always inspire me...in this case to create layers in my pocket life page and hopefully give you a fresh perspective to creating in your pocket pages!

I used one of the 3x4 cards from the kit for the first pocket.  The pink strip at the bottom was a perfect spot to create some layers using one of the labels from the 4x6 card in the kit, the new "Weekish" stamp, and a puffy sticker from the kit.

Instead of using the sentiment on this card as is, I layered a die cut star and sticker from the kit over it.  Then using the 3x4 Typewriter Alpha stamp, I stamped the days of the week next to my typed journaling.

For the next 3x4 pocket, I used trimmed down pattern paper as the base, and then used a leftover piece of pattern paper to layer on top, then added a square photo, finishing it with a puffy sticker.

I really loved this butterfly from one of the 3x4 cards, but I decided to detail cut it from the card.  I also detail cut the square image from another 3x4 cards, then layered the square, a die cut transparent circle, and then the butterfly on top of a trimmed piece of 4x6 pattern paper.

For the two 3x4 pockets on the right, on the top pocket, I used a card as is, but added the alpha stickers from the kit to spell out 'full' with the 'u' being the image in the center.  'Full' also goes with the sentiment on this card.

For the last 3x4 pocket, I trimmed pattern paper from the kit, printed a smaller photo, and just stapled it with one of the die cuts from the kit that tied in with the pattern paper and my spread.

I have a combination of heavy, medium and light layers, and balanced them across this pocket page, along with colors and the patterns used.  Hope this gives you a fresh new perspective to take your kit leftovers, do some die cutting and start layering them with the kit embellishments.  This might be my new favorite pocket life!  

Pocket Life Challenge with Krystal

Hi everyone! Krystal here with another Pocket Life Challenge! For my pocket page spread, I decided to use the November "Gratitude" Life Crafted Kit to fill in a page from my 2017 album.

I love all the bright, colorful elements in this month's kit, and I knew it would work perfectly with this week's darker, more neutral photos. It really helped brighten things up and make the page more colorful!

I used the gorgeous glitter foam alphas to add my title for the week. Because there weren't any numbers in this set, I decided to pull out the white tile alpha with copper foil letters that we got a few months back to spell out "forty five." It matches this month's alpha perfectly!

I also added a card behind my title to give myself an extra place for journaling. That way I was able to use more of my photos and the beautiful cards in this kit and still get all of the week's stories told. To make the journaling accessible, I created a tab from one of the papers in the kit and added it the top of my journaling card. I also used the 2"x3" add-on stamp to stamp the word "recorded" on the tab. 

When it came time to embellish the photos in this spread, I decided to keep things simple for myself and use a kind of formula. I added a tag from the cut-apart sheet, a chipboard or puffy sticker, and if the photo needed journaling, a label to each of the photos on the spread. This simple formula took a lot of the decision-making out of the process and allowed me to finish the page in no time!

For the filler card in the middle of my spread, I decided to add one of the hoard-worthy vellum leaves to the bottom, just to bring in a bit more color and texture to the spread. I also stamped the "this right here" stamp from the set included in the kit at the top of the card and added some doodles with my pen to add some more pops of black. 

Overall, the page came together very quickly thanks to the little formula I used. So that's my challenge to all of you this week. Try using a simple formula for embellishing your pages and see how quickly it will all come together. And the best part is that because there is so much variety in the kit, you can use a formula without it looking too repetitive. You can see how my spread came together in the video below: 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you were able to take away some inspiration for using your kits this month. Until next time!

KIT LOVE November 2019

Hi there!

November is here, temperatures are changing and bringing with them lots of new adventures and memories for us to document and keep.    Our November Life Crafted Kit - GRATITUDE - has been designed to help you  safe keep all those special memories ( we will be celebrating Thanksgiving here in the USA while our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are welcoming Spring).

We are sure you are going to love the soft colors of  this kit and how it will enrich your memories.  Trina will give you a more in depth look at what is included in this month's kit in the following video:




Such a lovely and versatile kit, perfect for all types of documenting formats.   AS it is customary, each month we also release a Scrapbooking Add-on kit that complements  the  Life Crafted kit.   The Novemeber add- on kit features a selection of papers from the most recent paper collection and has been curated to suit all types of documenting formats.  Join  Nathalie as she shows you what is included in the November add- on kit:

We are so excited to see how you will use our kits and to share all the inspiration our Design team has created for you all.  Remember to stop by our shop to check all the kits and add ons.

Happy Crafting!