3-to-Inspire with Angela Tombari

Hello firends!

It's Angela here with a new Life Crafted layout made with the beautiful June Cravings Life Crafted Kit. Today, I have a 3-to-Inspire challenge for you. Here are the three prompts to follow, if you'd like to play along with us:

1. Use three photos

2. Use a digital file or a cut file

3. Use stamps with at least one colored ink 

You can create a layout on your Life Crafted album, a Traveler's Notebook layout or a pocket page spread too. What is important is to follow the three prompts I've just listed above.

Here is what I came up with:

For my spread I used three photos of 3x4 inches and I put them into two page protectors #2. I embellished each photo using a few pieces of chipboards and puffy stickers from the kit, in purple and in yellow.

Between the two page protectors, I created a transparent page out of a piece of acetate. On the acetate I sticked one of this month cut files that says 'Focus on the good stuff'. I cut it using the purple patterned paper of the kit and I sticked it on the acetate using my little Xyron. You can find the cut file here, on the Citrus Twist shop.

Along the side of the acetate page, I attached a label that I cut from the label cut apart sheet. I decorated it with some die cuts and I stamped the phrase 'Only This' from June 2020 Traveler's Notebook stamp set using purple ink.

I hand wrote the journaling directly on a 3x4 inches journaling card. On it, I stamped a few words and phrases, too. The ampersand stamp is from Yes stamp set. I stamped it first in black and then with purple ink, keeping it a little bit off set from the first black stamp. 'This' is from June 2020 Traveler's Notebook, as well as the purple phrase 'my favorite show'. I stamped it in black and colored the inside with a yellow marker.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you'll play along with us and the 3-to-Inspire challenge, sharing your projects on the Citrus Twist Facebook Fan Page. I can't wait to see your beautiful projects! 

Pocket Page Challenge with Lisa

Hi everyone! I'm excited to be back to share a little pocket page spread I put together in my Life Crafted album using the June Cravings Kit.

For these pages I used the included bonus TN basics digital files from this month. Cravings was such a fun theme. I don't know about you guys, but my kids are eating us out of house and home. This picture of my daughter standing in front of the fridge is such a common occurrence, I wanted to make sure and document it.

As I mentioned, for the left side of this spread, I used the digital TN papers. I also added a digital stamp, "the heart wants what the heart wants." I'm so thankful that they do want healthy snacks, at least part of the time. I also added a puffy sticker to the bottom of the photo to repeat the shape at the top of the page. When placing this picture in the document in photoshop, I created a custom shape using the pen tool that echoed the shape of the banner at the top of the page. I then embedded the photo using a clipping mask. I love that extra detail on this page.

On the right side, I used the two 3x4 pocket page protector. I included a filler card that repeated the theme with a puffy sticker. To finish off these quick pages, I included another shot of Ava staring at the the fridge, holding the door open. Especially in these weird times, I love being able to include the little things I may forget as time goes by. I hope you all loved this month's kit as much as I did.

3-to-Inspire with Ashley Horton

Hi there friends!  I'm here today with a layout in my Life Crated Album using the gorgeous June Cravings Life Crafted Kit!  I've also got a 3-to-Inspire post to give you some ideas for working with your Life Crafted Kit.  You can create a layout, Traveler's Notebook layout or pocket page spread using the 3 following prompts.  Make sure you use all 3 prompts on whatever project you choose to do.

Here are this week's 3 prompts:

     1. Use at least one Digital item on your project
     2. Add dimension by using pop dots or some chipboard pieces
     3. Use numbers in some way on your project

This is what I created!  Hopefully, it will help give your creativity a kick-start.

 
If you haven't tried out any of the CT Digitals yet, you definitely should!  I love finding ways to use them each month with the physical kit.  My new favorite is the Traveler's Notebook Basic Digital Papers.  They are so easy to use!  You can just print them out and add your photos and embellishments for a quick and easy page.  I also like to add my  journaling directly to the TN papers before I print them out.  I used two designs from the Cravings TN papers for the background of my layout.

Once I had the TN papers printed, I placed two small photos vertically on the left-hand page.  Then I went through the embellishments to find some book themed ones that would go with my layout.  I always like to mix the different embellishments because it adds fun variety to your pages.  And I decided to use pop dots behind the book ephemera piece and a chipboard piece to give some of the embellishments more dimension.

I used the TN paper on the right-hand side to document some of the books our son likes to read.  It's taken a while for him to become interested in reading, outside of school work, but I am so glad he has found some books he enjoys reading.  This paper had the different colored boxes that were numbered, so the page worked perfectly for documenting the books and authors.

I finished the right-hand side with a mix of ephemera, puffy stickers and stamping.  If I use a certain thing on one side of the layout, I usually like to bring it over to the other side to create a balanced look.  I also used two more Digitals from the Cut-aparts to make extra embellishments.  I sized the "I read past my bedtime" circle to 1 inch and punched it with my circle punch.  And I printed the "only this" tab as well, and used the paper trimmer to cut it.  The Digital files give you so many fun options!

I'm so glad you stopped by today, and I hope you will play along with the 3-to-Inspire challenge!  Please share your projects in the Citrus Twist Facebook Fan Page.  I would love to see your take on the challenge, so make sure to tag me when you post!

3-to-Inspire with Marsha

Hey friends!  Marsha here today with this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge! 

Here are the prompts:

1. Use a patterned paper background (or 2)
2. Add puffy stickers (the more, the better!)
3. Add stamping

Here's a look at my Life Crafted layout using the prompts:

I combined the amazing Life Crafted "Cravings" Kit and Scrapbooking Add-on Kit to create this spread. 

To begin the layout, I trimmed a striped patterned paper from the Add-on Kit to fit as a full page in the album.  I am always tempted to begin a project with white cardstock, but I wanted to change it up a bit and challenge myself to use lots of color!  I layered ephemera die cuts and stickers to create a large embellishment cluster.  There are so many fun pieces in the kits, I wanted to use them ALL!  I added some white twine to the tag and strung a puffy sticker coffee cup onto it.  Love this added detail!  I typed my journaling onto vellum and stapled it below the embellishment cluster.  To finish off the page, I added some stamping using the This Is Life "Yes" Stamp.

For the right side of the layout, I trimmed a graph patterned paper from the Add-on Kit to use as the background.  I adhered my photo to a piece of the same striped paper that I used on the other page.  Using the same pattern helps to create continuity between the two pages.

Next, I embellished the page with cardstock stickers, ephemera, puffy stickers, and stamping (using the "Yes" Stamp and the Traveler's Notebook Stamp). 

Be sure to stop by the Citrus Twist Kits shop and check out the gorgeous June kits!  I can't wait to see your take on this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge!

xo,

Life Crafted with Erica

Hey guys! Today I wanted to show you a few different ways to use the June Scrapbooking Add-on Kit and June digital files. I have two layouts in my Life Crafted album of activities I enjoyed during lockdown. And I ended up with two very different colour schemes!


I had lots of fun bird watching at home and trying to photograph these beauties before they flew away. Thankfully, they set up camp for a few minutes across the fence so I could snap a couple of pictures!




I started off with this amazing bird paper from the add-on kit and knew it was too perfect not to use. I toned it down a bit with a grid paper from the digital TN Basics papers, and backed my photo with a few more papers from the kit. I dug into the Maggie Holmes ephemera pack and created a cluster in the bottom right leaving some space for jounaling on the left.

The alphas in this kit from Pinkfresh Studio are adorable and have so many colours to choose from! I stuck to the colours found in my spread for the title, and it really highlights the greens and yellows in the papers. I also used the centers of the '0's and 'Q's as enamel dots to sprinkle around.





On the opposite page I created two clusters- one for fun and one for a photo. I used another digital TN Basics paper for my background. In my first cluster I used a bunch of scraps to layer and a square element from the digital Journal Cards with a label and a puffy sticker. I finished it off with a few more alphas and puffy dots.





On my second cluster, I layered a few pieces from the ephemera pack and a ticket from the Cravings Digital Tags and topped it off with a cute bird puffy sticker.





For my second layout I wanted to focus on the cooler tones in the kit. Namely the pinks, purples and blues- since this was early evening and my photos were quite dark. I had the idea to create a long title with the puffy alphas and was inspired by the adorable couch icon in the puffy stickers. Luckily there was also a bicycle!





On the left hand side of my spread I used a strip of patterned paper from the kit and layered two large photos with embellishments from the sticker sheets and digital Cutapart Elements.




I popped the lower photo up on foam to make it pop, and layered one of the acetate frames over the top.





Thanks for stopping by today and I hope this have given you some ideas on how to get multiple colour schemes out of your kit this month!