LIFE CRAFTED WITH KATARINA

 Hi everyone!

Today I am very excited to share my very first Life Crafted inspiration on the blog with you! And what story would be better for this purpose than me joining the Citrus Twist Kits Creative Team. Such exciting news needed documenting. I used my new Blueberry Life Crafted Album together with the beautiful Fresh Starts Life Crafted Kit. Let's have a look!

I am a big fan of yellow and blue and was immediately attracted to the blue/white striped and yellow paper with tiny triangles from the kit. I used the striped paper to add a little detail on both sides of my spread and also to connect the two pages together.

I also love to combine scripty and blocky fonts for my titles. For this one I used the scripty word "new" from the Fresh Starts Die Cut Ephemera and I stamped the rest of the words using the Sophie Alphabet Stamp. I love how it works perfectly together! I also stamped a little sentiment under my title using the new All The Things Stamp.

I added a couple of Fresh Starts puffy stickers for more dimension and detail.

On the other side of my spread I used the bookmark from the kit and one of the papers from the Basics & Ledgers Patterned Papers. I created two tags that I layered over each other and finished them with blue/white and yellow details to complement the right side. I used the trimmed bookmark for my story.

I hope my project inspired you to play with your Life Crafted Fresh Starts Kit and create something pretty. Thank you so much for stopping by, see you next month!

3-TO-INSPIRE WITH NATASHA

 

Hello Citrus Twist friends, Natasha here and I’m so excited to share my first project as a Creative Team Member with CTK! For today’s 3-to-Inspire blog post, I will be using the stunning new Life Crafted Kit, Fresh Starts.

Here are my 3-to-Inspire:

1. DIY word phrase background

2. Blue floral embellishments 

3. Build your own title  

I thought it would be a lot of fun to create my own DIY background using a stamped repeated pattern of phrases from the All the Things Stamp Set along with the new tiny word stickers in the Fresh Start Life Crafted kit. To create a seamless pattern, I recommend placing all the desired phrases onto the stamping block in an organic pattern and stamping it all at once versus each stamp individually. 

Once I finished my background, I backed my photo with an assortment of patterned papers from the Fresh Start collection and adhered it to the 6x8 paper from the Basics and Ledger Patterned Paper pack. Next I moved onto building my clusters of embellishments with the blue floral embellishment from this month's Life Crafted kit as the main anchor to create a visual triangle. I really enjoy placing my embellishments on the different layers throughout my layout to build more depth and texture. 

Last but not least, I moved onto building my own title. Using the kit's puffy stickers I built my own title and even did a little sticker surgery, and trimmed down  the "sweet"  sticker to "we" to create my title of "together we cherish this moment." 

I hope you find some inspiration in today's challenge with the gorgeous Fresh Starts Life Crafted kit. 

Happy Crafting,

LIFE CRAFTED WITH DIANE

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be on the blog today sharing a layout I created for one of my Life-crafted albums! Oh how I love these albums!  They are the perfect size, and so much fun to fill!  I used the gorgeous January kit and Flea Market Findings kit.

 I LOVE the feeling of fresh starts and clean slates in January and I wanted to have a place to document some of my goals for the new year.  The colors and feel of the January kit were just perfect to start this album out.  

One of the things I love about the Life-crafted albums are all of the different page protectors. For this layout I decided to go with a full page spread on the left and two 3x4 cards on the right. I had so much fun layering all of the beautiful florals and butterflies...the perfect touch to a page all about fresh starts and welcoming a new year.

I am so looking forward to filling this album and documenting the big and small moments, the loud and quiet moments (and everything in between), that make up my 2022.  I will have other albums to document our family adventures, but I am setting this one aside for me.

How are you using your life-crafted albums?  I hope you will share on Instagram and Facebook and tag Citrus Twist Kits so that we can see your beautiful layouts!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look!

  

 

Sunday Sketch with Alena

 Hey everyone!  It's Alena with  layout for Sunday Sketch.

Here's a look at the sketch this week:

And here's what I came up with using the wonderful products of the January release. 

I created a layout about my son. I changed the sketch a bit. Instead of photo #2, a cluster of embellishments was added. 

I love Ephemera this month, it's just perfect for kids photos. 

 I used one of the puffy stickers for the title. Also I made origami stars and arranged them together with puffy star stickers.

 I love these new stamps with handwritten font! I added a few phrases as a journaling.

Well, then it is time for you be inspired by the sketch to create a page of your own.  Remember to share your creations with us on the Citrus Twist Kits Friends page on Facebook or by using #CTK, @Citrustwistkits on social media.  I cannot wait to see what you create with this sketch.