Life Crafted with Angela

Hello friend! It’s Angela and I have a new spread of my Life Crafted album to share with you. Cravings June kit is so inspiring and seams to be designed on me and my everyday routine. For example, let's talk about Pizza die cuts and stamps! You have to know that we, my family and I, eat pizza every Friday! I used to make pizza myself when my sons were small. Later, when I started working on night shifts, I stopped making it. Recently, during the lockdown, despite it was very difficult to find flour and yeast, I started again and since mid March, I've been making pizza every single Friday. Sometimes, I’m also able to engage every family member in making it.

So, the protagonist of my spread today is pizza!

To document those hilarious days of making mess rather than making pizza together, I wanted to create something fun. So, I made an interactive page and a shaker pocket. I stamped a big photo of a pizza and I cut it round, following its shape. To make it fit inside the album, I cut a portion on one side. This way, I've been able also to make four holes. Then, I cut a triangle of the photo in the shape of pizza slice and I glued it on acetate. 

On the acetate, I stamped the phrases 'I want some more' from June Life Crafted Travelers Notebook stamp and 'get in my belly' from Cravings Kit Stamp. The photo of the pizza is interactive. In fact, the triangle of the photo slides up and dow. To make it, I backed the photo with white card stock, without gluing the triangle so to allow it to move.

The first page of the spread is actually the one with the two photos of my youngest son Filippo while is kneading pizza dough. The photos are 3x4 inches and I put them in page protector #2. 

Beside, I used another page protector #2 with a journaling card in the lower pocket. With the top pocket I created a shaker, to remind the fun of cooking together. The confetti inside the shakers are red sequins and slices of pizza that I stamped and fussy cut using Yes This Is Life stamp.

Moreover, I used the same pizza slices to create a background on the journaling card, simply stamping with light grey ink.

On the opposite side side, I placed the photo of my men preparing pizza with their favorite ingredients. Beside is the photo of the big pizza with the slice portion 'closed'.

To decorate, I used just a few pieces here and there, like a chipboard, a die cut, a puffy sticker heart, all from Cravings kit.

On the back of the photo, I wrote another bit of journaling. I adhered a title using the die cut Pizza Night! and a label where I stamped Food Is Culture using  Cravings Kit Stamp.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked my fun page and hopefully feel inspired to create with June Cravings kits!

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! 

SUNDAY SKETCH with Nathalie

Hi there!
Nathalie with you today with this week's Sunday Sketch challenge.   I love working with sketches as they provide a blueprint for your project, and makes it easier and faster to create a project.   This week's sketch is a fun one, and i am sure you are going to love it:

For my first project, i chose to follow the sketch, and used only the June Add-on kit to build the layout

For my 12x12 layout, i chose to start the page with a bit of mixed media.   I created a rainbow impression of a stencil on the background of the page ( using Vicki Boutin Art Crayons).   My choice of colors in the paper layers are guided in part by the rainbow colors on the background.

I loved the ephemera from Maggie Holmes Sweet Story collection ( featured in this month's Add on kit).  One of the pieces featured a sentiment that matched the story of the page, so, i chose to  use it to create an interactive element for my page, and cover the journal lines with it.  For this, i used a brad to hold the pieces together, and make it able to swivel to reveal the story.

The biggest changes from the sketch are my choice of hearts instead of stars, the title placement and all the stamping around each cluster of hearts, but who can resist all the beautiful stamps each month.

Well, now let me show you how i was inspired by the sketch to create a page on my Family album:

This time, I used a combination of the Add on kit, Cravings Life Crafted kit and this month's Digital TN papers in my page.

For this layout, i rotated the sketch 90 degrees counterclockwise and then treated the photo and journal spot as one big picture, hence my film strip.   I added layers of papers from the Add on kit, and Digital papers as to follow  some of the layers in the original sketch.  I made sure to place the pictures and layers close to the center line of the layout ( i worked the page as a whole before splitting it up and punching holes)

I hand cut the stars from the Add-on papers and layered them as per the sketch.  Along the way, i added a few embellishments and stickers just as the sketch shows.  Once everything was secured, i trimmed my page in half and punched the holes.

The last change comes as i replaced the small label on the paper strip with the title for my page.  I used the ephemera and puffy alphas from the Life Crafted kit to complete my page.  I chose to add my lines of journal under the title and capped the page with a stamped sentiment from the This is Life: YES Stamp set.   

I loved working with the sketch and using it as inspiration for my layouts. Like i mentioned before, a sketch is a great starting point for your imagination, the rest is up to you.   Though our kits are sold out this month, it is always a good time to start a subscription for the upcoming month! 

Remember to share with us what you create inspired by the sketch!!

XO