July Kit Love with Veronica

Hello my sweet crafty friends! Can you believe it's days away from August? I can't fathom the idea that our summer break is weeks away from ending. I'm here to share a project that I have diligently worked on throughout the year. I used July's gorgeous Life Crafted kit in my memory planner for the first week of July. These kits are perfect for all the small spaces in a memory planner. So, I'm here to share this week's spread:

I love to type on Illustrator using the traveling typewriter font and I print that onto clear sticker sheets. That's how I get the journaling so neat. I used many bits of the pattern paper and cut them to 1.5"x2.5" rectangles. I also added lots of bits of embellishments throughout this spread. I did some stamping throughout as well. I love that the stamps come with many phrases! 

The right side of this "fold out" is a printed TN digital sheet and patterned paper. I enlarged it to fit the planner's right side. I then sewed it onto the planner page (see below):

I had so many photos from the weekend because we went out to a secluded beach and cypress tunnel. This demanded that I find a way to fit more pics in my planer.  On the inside of the TN page is another sheet of pattern paper from the kit. I sewed more bits and tags up top. The inside is also the planner sheet with more fun pics from the week as well:

If it looks like we are having a splendid summer, that's because we are. I have found all the secret spots in California with very little traffic and people. When we see people, we immediately move away. ha! These are THOSE  times...we are living in a crazy world right now and making the best of it!

Hope to see more memory planners out there. Please find me on Instagram for more planner pages and to share your planners with me. Find me at: veronica_creates.

Thanks for stopping by!

Pocket Page Challenge with Erica

Hello crafty friends! It's Erica here with your weekly Pocket Page Challenge. Today I am sharing a Project Life spread in my 2020 album using July's Wild at Heart kit. I picked out a lot of the warmer tones in the kit to match my photos but also tried to stay as colourful as possible!




I started with this striped 4x6 card from the kit that incorporated all of the colours I wanted to use in this layout. I added a quote and a couple flowers from the ephemera pack as a focal point, and added my week with the black puffy stickers in the kit.





I had more journaling than usual this week so I grabbed this beautiful pink card from the digital ephemera elements and used it to print my journaling on Photoshop. I also took three of the labels from the pack and added journaling to them. I can certainly write small but not that tiny!





I also printed out a lot of the digital elements to use as ephemera. The ombre 'Fresh Air' piece was one of my favourites. I printed it in several different sizes and chose the one that worked best with my food photo (and saved the rest for future projects). I love all the circle elements working together!





I then added a healthy dose of enamel dots to most of the cards, and a little bit of stamping to finish it off.





Thank you for joining me on the blog today and I hope this have given you a few ideas on how to use your July kit and digitals!

Life Crafted with Sheree

Hello friends!

One of the things I love about the Life Crafted Kits is how they make it so quick and easy to put a spread together.  Today I have this project to share with you featuring some of the journaling cards, stamps and ephemera pieces from this month's gorgeous "Wild @ Heart" Life Crafted Kit…

I was really drawn to the colours, especially the green, in the “LOVE” and “reasons to smile” journaling cards and I thought they co-ordinated so well with my full page photo.

For the “reasons to smile” card I used my typewriter to type out the text strips, cut them out and then adhered them into the spaces on the card.  I then used my sewing machine to stitch across each strip.  By using the strips instead of typing directly onto the card it added layers and texture to the card which is what I love on my projects.

The “LOVE” card is one of my favourites from the kit and I love the combination of colours!  To add some lovely texture to this one I used a paper piercer to create stitching holes in each letter, then hand stitched each letter in matching embroidery thread.  To finish it off I simply added the date using a date stamp from my stash.

For the full page photo I thought it would be fun to add a butterfly with a stitched flight path.  I used a template from my stash to help pierce the curved line (although this could be done freehand too), then used some pink embroidery thread to stitch along to trail.  The butterfly was adhered into place then I used my sewing machine to secure it onto the page.  I love that the wings are still able to lift up creating some dimension.

At the bottom of the large photo, I decided to create an embellishment cluster.  I used the leaf border stamp from the This Is Life “Wild @ Heart” Stamp Set with green ink and white cardstock to create a strip to go along the bottom of the page.  I stamped a phrase from the same set onto a rectangular label, then stamped the word “Weekend” using the Bailey Alphabet, Number, Month Stamp set onto some white cardstock and cut it out to use on the larger pink label.  The labels were then layered together and I also added some hearts and a little green enamel dot.  A little machine stitching helped to finish it all off.

You can see more details in the process video below...

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing how this project came together!

Thank you for stopping by the blog today!  I look forward to sharing another project with you soon!

Sheree

Open Post: Life Crafted Pages Ideas with Angela

Hi everyone,

It's Angela back on the blog. I keep filling up my Peony Life Crafted album, documenting my and my family summer. Today, I have a couple of pages to show you that are the continuation of my previous post. You can find the previous pages in the post here.

To vary the style of the pages, I adhered two papers of 4.25" x 8" to an Adhesive Page Strip, cutting off the excess. Then, I scored the papers along the strip so to allow them to open.

Here is the spread opening the pages. The two papers are from Wild At Heart July Life Crafted kit and they are printed on a single side. This allowed me to play freely with the white space.

I am documenting my second visit to the hairdresser after the lockdown. Finally, I had my hair cut. Yeah! It's not easy to go to the hairdresser, now. We have to take an appointment because no more than one person per time is allowed in small salon, like the one where I go. 

I took a few selfies, I should say many, of my hair done and their new gorgeous color and I chose four photos.  Now, it is very hard for me to show myself in my projects. It's different when it's a picture of me and my family but it's hard when it's only me. I guess it is because I am not enough self confident and I do not like to be the protagonist. Whatever is the reason, I forced myself to do it because one of the things on my list is to take more care of myself. 

The spread was inspired by the beautiful big numbers that are in the Exclusive Die-Cut Ephemera pack. I adhered them in the corners and next to each one I placed one photo. Below every photo, I stamped a phrase using the stamps of the kit. I stamped the phrases on a strip of white card-stock and embellished with little pits and pieces like die-cuts and enamel dots.

I placed a fourth photo on the top right corner. I used a slide shaped die-cut with a beautiful phrase that really spoke to me and I embellished with a big pink flower. This is by Pink Paislee and it comes from the July Scrapbooking Add-On kit. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you liked this little idea of mine and feel inspired to create with Citrus Twist Wild At Heart kit. Have a great day!

Lots of Layers with Shannon

Hey there, scrappy friends! I have a fun new Life Crafted album spread to share with you today. If there is one technique that I love to do over and over again it's layering. I often find that once I start it's hard for me to stop. Anyone else? I mixed and matched the July 2020 "Wild At Heart" Life Crafted Kit and the July 2020 Add-On Kit to create this spread. I also used some Digital Tags and Digital Cutaparts. Did you know that Citrus Twist has a whole page of digital product? Be sure to check it out! Anyway, on to my spread...

I cut the base page to 5x8.25 so I knew this would give me plenty of room on the sides of the photo. I also punched my holes before beginning so I didn't accidentally ruin my design by punching them after the fact. I use a 6-hole punch but you could do it with a single-hole punch and use Citrus Twist page protectors as a guide. I like to do a mix of pages in and out of page protectors in my album. I used plain white cardstock for a clean background because I knew that I'd be incorporating a lot of color.

Like I said, layer upon layers! I went with a 3x3 photo here so I'd have enough room on either side to build out my layers. I also added a white border in Photoshop to give some separation between the photo and the papers. I used 5 pieces of paper behind the photo and cut each one about .25" bigger than the one before it. When building my layers, I try to offset them slightly so it's not perfectly even on all sides. It gives it a bit more visual appeal. When adhering each layer, I try to keep the adhesive away from the edges. This allows me to tuck in embellishments in various places. I actually build everything up on the bottom layer, adhere it all, and then attached the whole piece to my page. That gives me some freedom in placement. Once my layered block was placed, I added a few pieces to the top and bottom edges to pull everything together.

All the layering and colors on the right side meant that I needed to keep the left side pretty simple. I'd been waiting to use that large "2" die cut since my kit arrived. I love how it looks bold but clean against a white background. I used a few pieces of ephemera and some scrap paper at the bottom to create a small cluster. I cut a piece of paper from the July 2020 Add-On Kit to finish off the top of the page. After adding, adding, adding to my layers on the left side, it was actually pretty difficult to keep it simple on the right side!

One final tip about layering. I like to build up my layers completely before adding any adhesive. This lets me make sure I'll like the final product before I make anything permanent. It also lets me see where I might need to add more of a certain shape or color. Moving things around freely is key to ending up with a final product that I love!

I hope I've inspired you to try some layering in your next project. Maybe you'll find that you're like me and you just can't stop once you start! Happy scrapping!

3-to-Inspire with Erica

Hey crafty friends! Erica here and today I am on the blog with your 3-to-Inspire challenge! Today's recipe elements include:

1. Use digital files in creative ways

2. Include a pop culture reference

3. Stamp a bunch 

I'm a big advocate for making the most of your digital files on your physical spreads. Print out all those babies and mix them up with your physical product. I found the perfect card to go with this spread, it just so happened to be one of the Wild at Heart Basic TN Papers. So I brought it into Photoshop and resized it to 3x4 and used the journaling space for a photo instead.

A lot of my current weeks deal with documenting a stressful unplanned house renovation, so I never want to miss the chance to include some of the fun pop culture things that make me smile. I look forward to Star Wars day every year. I took a screen shot of one of my favourite SW artists to celebrate the day and stamped a title using the Bailey alpha. 

And the last element is to include more stamping! Stamp quirky phrases onto your cards and make those sentiments your own. Stamp in the negative space on your photos. Or stamp on labels and layer them with banners and flags from the digital cutaparts. The possibilities are endless.

Thanks for joining me on the blog today! I hope you give these recipe elements a go on a crafty project.

Open Post - Life Crafted Album Set-up and Intro with Angela Tombari

Hi everyone!
It's Angela back on the blog. I have started a new Life Crafted album. My Goldenrod album was about to explode because so full. I bought a few of the new colors, not only because I needed them, I admit it, because the are so pretty! I thought that the bright Peony was just perfect to document this Summer.

I am working with Wild At Heart kit together with the Add-on kit and July stamp. In July and August I will travel a lot between the place where I live and work and our beach house where my family has moved to spend the Summer, about 150 kilometers far away. For this reason I decided to arrange some foundation pages to work with when the time available will be limited.

First, I decided to open the album with an intro page with the name of the month. I wrote it myself with a black marker and then fussy cut it. For the page I used one of the papers from the Add-on kit and on the left I created a pocket with a strip of card-stock from Life Crafted kit. Pockets are always useful! Along the side of the strip, I adhered the name of the month. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Luglio is the Italian for July.

I added a few embellishments at the top right of the page. The 2020 is made with  the little yellow alphabet stickers. I placed them on a yellow label together with some flowers.

Peeking from the pocket is a 3x4 journaling card with number 7, 7 for July, that I created with the Crate Paper card-stock from the Add-on kit.

Turning the page, I recreated the same sketch of the intro. I used white card-stock for the base and a strip of paper on the right. In between the two pages, I inserted an Adhesive Page Strip. For this Life Crafted album I decided to go for a clean look, no wide pages that peeks from the album rings. 

On top of the page I adhered a white tag I created for writing the journaling. A mix of die cuts and enamel dots decorate the bottom of the tag and of the journaling card of the opposite side.

Next page is a 3x8 inches journaling card from Life Crafted kit. Here too I used an Adhesive Page Strip. On the back there is a list of 'resolutions', a few things I would like to do more to take care of myself... For the list I stickers from Let's Stay Home collection by Pinkfresh Studio and the July Wild @ Heart stamp.

Last but not least is the page with the Title. Here I am announcing to myself that I need to make more lists. I know, it sounds weird but I need to get more organized in the future and take a few important decisions. The beautiful paperI used for the page is from Wild At Heart kit and the bow by Crate Paper is from the Add-on kit.

On the label at the bottom of the page, I put together two stamps from July Life Crafted Travelers Notebook stamp and I love it, it's so me now.

That's all for today. I hope you liked the spread and feel inspired to create with Citrus Twist Kits. I will share a few other pages next week so stay tuned. Happy life crafting!