Bonita Rose - May Grace Box | Inside My Journal

Hello there CTK fans and subscribers!
It's Bonita Rose here!
Happy Memorial Day Monday! 


Today I wanted to share with you

a page inside one of my journals!

I'm using this smaller leather bound journal

(found at my local Barnes & Noble)

as an Art Journal/Faith Journal of sorts -- 

so I had to use! some of the stamps included

 in the May Grace Box for this page!

Creating with your monthly stamps doesn't have to be hard!

For this page, I swooshed on some paint, let dry,
stamped my text.
Next I added some journaling lines, I wrote what was
on my heart, added some puffy hearts, some washi, and a flower!

What I wrote here is something
I never want to forget.

Choose Hope

My journaling reads: 

When life changes, and there are times when I am struggling,

Lord, help me to trust in You.

Strengthen my HOPE. 

During the hard times, 

help me to turn my eyes to You.

Only YOU.

Supplies used:

- stamp set, May Grace Box

- puffy hearts, May Grace Box

- washi tape, Illustrated Faith

- Flower and leaf, Prima Marketing

- date stamp

Sunday Sketch

Hi everyone!  It's Sunday which means I have another amazing sketch to share with you :)

This sketch is fantastic to work with so I decided to throw another challenge into the mix by using a colour I typically shy away from - purple!  This month's add-on kit, Tropical Zest, is full of bold colours, including shades of purples and I really wanted to use them.  I actually really love purple/lavender as a colour but struggle using it on my layouts.

First up, here is the sketch:



And this is my take on it!  Changed slightly to fit my 6x8 format.  I used papers from the Add-on kit plus some extra's from the Main and Sprinkles kits.  Purples + Golds = LOVE! I think this kit really pushed me to finally get over my fear of using purples ;)

 

And I have a serious crush on that skinny washi tape from the Main kit this month.  I'm not overlay washi mad but this has managed to sneak its way onto a few pages (plus my planner) this month!

Now it's your turn to take on this week's sketch! We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, by uploading your take on today's sketch to the gallery by June 6th, you will be entered to win a $5 Coupon to use on anything in the CTK Store! Remember to add "Sketch 31/5" to the title line!

PL FRIDAY WITH AMELIE

Hello!

Here is Amelie with you today with a new PL spread. It is not exactly a new spread but the beginning of a little album for my son. I decided to do one for each of my son. Such great memories for them! I use to create these pages my May PL kit and Embellishment kit.

 

 

Now, some PL sketches to play with!

Thanks for visiting Pocket Life Friday, where every week we share PL sketches and a chance to win a piece of weekly fun mail. For your chance to win, create a layout based on the sketches in this blog post, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, June 5th. Be sure to include PL 5/29 in your title!
See you soon,
Amelie 

Tuesday Tutorial with Janine

Hey everyone, Janine here today with a photo walk-through on how I created this layout using the wonderful and versatile May Kit. :)

I wanted to create a layout with only gold, yellow, black and white as well as an interesting background that goes along with it. So I decided to finally use some modeling paste again.

I really do love the way this turned out, just decide what stencil to use and play with modeling paste. It gives some structure to your background but it is not too distracting from the photo.

Next I grabbed some scraps that I had left from the kit and from the background paper as well as some white cardstock and vellum from my stash and layered everything behind the photo of my cute baby sister.

On the photo on the right you can also see the effect the modeling paste gives. It's so great!

Then I added some splatters with my favorite black paint when it comes to adding splatters. You can either drop them directly from the pipette that comes with the bottle or if you want some smaller splatters you can use a small brush as I did here.

To add some of the stamps of this month's stamp set (love them!) I used some black and yellow ink, stamped on some left over white cardstock and cut it out. Though I ended up using only one black stamp image on the bottom left of this layout, I didn't want to skip this step.

I used a quote as journaling and I wanted to add some words to highlight it. So I cut out three words of a patterned paper that came with the Main kit and added them as well as the title using the chipboard alphabet.

To emphasize it a bit more and to make sure it doesn't fall off I used my sewing machine to stitch over it.

Last but not least I grabbed some embellishments from the Main and Sprinkles kit and added them here and there. I especially love those gold foil stickers, they make beautiful little accents!

On the right picture you can see me sticking the top of one of the stamped images behind the photo. I cut it apart and used the black and white part for layering and I adhered the word stamp part on the bottom left of the layout.

And that's it for today, here you can see some close-ups of the finished layout:

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful week! :)

Sunday Sketch

Hello, Angie here to share this week's sketch challenge with you. First, here is your amazing sketch:

And here is my take on the sketch. I stuck pretty close to the sketch.  I love that you can use 6 pictures or change it up and add less pictures and some square papers.  Let your creative side kick in with this sketch. 

I used the May Main Kit and May Sprinkles Kit.

Are you inspired by this sketch? We love to see what you do with our kits and sketches, so please make sure to upload your projects to the Citrus Twist Gallery. And remember, if you upload your take to our Gallery by May 30th, you will be entered to win a $5 coupon to use on anything in the CTK store! Make sure to add "Sketch 5/24" to the title line when you upload. Have fun!

3 to inspire with Diane

Diane here, with my first "3 to Inspire" challenge. You can find this challenge here every Saturday for those who need a little extra creative push to get scrapbooking, to keep scrapbooking or for those who just like a challenge! Your take on this challenge can be a layout or a PL spread and remember that you'll want to include all 3 prompts on your project.

Your prompts this week are:
1. Use 3 photos
2. Use 3 different patterned papers
3. Use 3 pieces of wood veneer

Here’s my take on this challenge using the May "Be Happy" PL kit and "Celebrate" Embellishment kit:

For my page I used 3 pieces of paper from the Pocket Pages kit and cut them down to 3x4 cards. I also used the wood veneer numbers from the kit to label my journalling. Keeping all my photos black and white doesn't compete with the more neutral color scheme.

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us here in the gallery and/or our Facebook Forum. You can also upload to Instagram, but remember to tag us @citrustwistkits. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

POCKET LIFE SKETCH FRIDAY

Hi everyone! It is Pocket Life Friday. New starting today is a weekly giveaway associated with completing a PL page using the sketches we provide. (See details below.)



Here are your sketches for the week:

Thanks for visiting Pocket Life Friday, where every week we share PL sketches and a chance to win a piece of weekly fun mail. For your chance to win, create a layout based on the sketches in this blog post, post your layout to our Gallery or our Facebook Fan Page by Friday, May 30th. Be sure to include PL 05/23 in your title!

Layered Love

Hello! Today I just wanted to share a fun layout I did using the May Main Kit and May Sprinkles Kit.  I don't know about you but I'm loving the new Sprinkles Kit.  It is full of little embellishments and fun little extras to make my pages look amazing!

Any way today I'm sharing a layout I did lots of layering on.  I love to layer papers upon papers.  I even used the piece of fabric in my layering.

Here is my layout.

Hope I have inspired you to layer and can't wait to see your layered layouts in the gallery!