3 To Inspire with Emma

 Hi everyone!  Emma here to share this month's 3 To Inspire challenge!  We offer this new challenge every Saturday for those who need a little extra push to get scrapbooking, to keep scrapbooking, or those of you just looking for a challenge!

Your take on this challenge can be in the form of a layout or a PL spread and you'll want to include all 3 elements on your project.

This week I'd like to challenge you to:

1. Use 2 different alpha fonts for your title.
2. Use white cardstock as your background.
3. Use thread to create movement on your page.  If you can, have the thread be a bold colour that contrasts against the rest of your page (i.e. I used pops of red with the grey/white background which tied in with the red t-shirt Zack was wearing in the photo).

 

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.  Can't wait to see your pages!

Thanks, Em xo

Sunday sketch with Suse Fish

Hi everyone and a very happy Sunday to you. I've had a lovely time playing with this week's sketch...
Considering last month was the first time I'd ever worked from one, I'm really understanding why they're so popular now! They're fabulous for taking away the guess work and ensuring that your final layout will be balanced and pretty to look at.

I stuck fairly closely to the sketch as I liked it so much. In fact, I deliberately chose a short title to be able to pop it on it's side: I chose my daughter's initials, which I realise don't make much sense to anyone else, but they do to us of course.

I was really pleased to have this chance to work with two photos, as it's something I've rarely got the confidence to do - one photo is my 'go to'! But this overlapping design took away any guesswork and I'm so happy with the result.

I fell in love with these little frame embellishments from BasicGrey: anything handwritten and graphic like this always grabs me.

The delicate little washi stickers from Pink Paislee were another hit for me - though I found that you do need a gentle touch when applying them!

I don't even need to start with how much I love those acrylic stars, do I? It's all I can do not to hoard them! 

I filmed the little process video below for this layout, so do be sure to check it out when you have a spare moment. And then it's over to you with this lovely sketch: can't wait to see what you create! Thanks so much for joining me today.

3 to Inspire

Hello! Michelle here with this week's "3 to Inspire" challenge!

Your take on this challenge can be a layout or a PL spread and remember that you must include all 3 prompts on your project. This is what I have for you today:

1. Include two or more tags/labels.
2. Add in a bold black. 
3. Put some flair on it.

Here is my take using the October Main Kit:

I really went to town with the label requirement and made them a main feature of my layout. I embellished them with shapes from the Memorandum Washi pack and some stitching. I added in a few pieces of black from the diecuts included in the package of Basic Grey frames and layered in the fun black plus sign patterned paper (my fave from the kit!). 

One of my last steps was to place a piece of fun, lavender flair right next to my photo.

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own project, share it with us here in the gallery, and you will be eligible to win a small prize from the CTK Store. Make sure to include the date of the challenge in the title of your gallery submission.  Can't wait to see what you all do!

 

Michelle

Creating your own stars with Emma

Hi all! It’s Emma here to share a quick tutorial on how to make your own dimensional stars! I’m a big fan of stars– I use them often on my layouts as they’re cute and they match in with just about any page, no matter what it’s about!

To make these you’ll need a couple things:

• Either die-cut machine or a pair of scissors 
• Scoring board. 

First up you need your stars, so pick your favourite papers and cut them out. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the stars but you can easily do this by hand with your trusty scissors.

 

Once you have those cut out you’ll need your scoring board. Line the star up so you can score a line from the inside edge out to the point opposite.

Repeat this for all sides of your star.

Once all the lines are scored you need to start bending it to shape. This can be a little tricky depending on how small your stars are. For the “points” of your star you want to fold downwards and for the inside edges you fold upwards.

Repeat for however many stars you need for your layout.

For the page I was making I wanted to have the stars following a circular type of shape – given my page is 6x8 doing a circle and filling a page isn’t really possible so I went with a wonky oval and used my sewing machine to stitch the shape.

Once the stitching was done, then it was just a matter of putting the photo in its place and adding my stars and embellishing with the other goodies from the kit!

At this point nothing is actually stuck down so that if I want to rearrange things, I can do so without ruining the paper.

When I’m happy with things I just stick it all in place! To adhere the stars to the page and ensure they maintained their shape (raised in the centres) I used some foam pop dots behind them in the middle.

For the acrylic stars and veneers I use the Martha Stewarts glue pen – I love how its blue so I can see where I’m sticking but dries clear!

And here is my finished page I created using the October Main kit! 

Super fun and easy page to put together using one of my favourite shapes! I hope you'll give them a try and remember to share them in the gallery and link back here or the CTK Facebook page so I can see them!

Thanks, Em xo

Sunday Sketch with Aimee Dow

Welcome to yet another Sunday Sketch - where we give you the map and you show us the magic. In today's example you'll see I went off on an adventure all by my lonesome, but that's okay. Here is your sketch:

And here is my very loose interpretation:

I did originally start out with just 2 photos, but 3 made more sense for the theme of my page. My gorgeous god daughter was playing with her mum. It was a really simple game - Count to 3 and show Leianna the keys. To this day I haven't the foggiest what was going through her head, but 'on' 3 she would burst in to hysterics. Didn't matter if the keys hadn't appeared yet. The anticipation was enough. The big fat laugh totally made my day.

The number tags come from Ikea's new gift wrapping section and the sequins are from my stash, apart from that everything else came from this months kits. Oh, but if you are wondering why you don't have black thinkers in your kit... well, my gold ones had a little play date with the black spray paint ; )

Now it's all on you my friend - go forth and create!

Aimee Xx

3 To Inspire With Janine

Hi everyone, Janine here today to share this week's 3 to Inspire challenge!

Your take on this challenge can be by creating a layout or a PL spread and you'll want to include all 3 elements on your project. We offer this challenge every Saturday for those who need a little extra push and today it's my turn. Can't wait to share the prompts with you! 

Your prompts this week are:
1. Use a cut file or something hand cut.
2. Use fall colors. 
3. Use a fall photo.

It's fall here again, so I would love to see some fall photos and fall colors from you. :)

I know, it is not fall everywhere around the world, but if it isn't on your side of the earth, I am sure you have some great and special fall photos from last year to use. :)

I haven't had time to take some photos yet, so I went through my last year's pictures. And when I looked at them, a photo of my son trying not to smile caught my eye. I love this smile. It reaches his eyes, and besides that Gabriel has one of the most beautiful smiles in this world anyway, this special smile, when he tries not to, it just melts my heart every time. 

As I wanted to keep the focus on the photo and use fall colors, I then decided to just add a few color bits and use a white cut file - that I created by using autumn/fall words and a leave - on a white background. I love how it turned out, it looks so light and fun, just the way I imagined it.

 

I then added just some more red accents and some bits here and there, and it was done. So quick, but so fun to do!

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us in the CTK Gallery and/or on our Facebook Fan Page by Saturday, October 24th, for a chance to win. You can also upload to Instagram and tag us @citrustwistkits, or just leave a link to your project in the comment section. I hope this one will be challenging and most of all fun for you!

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and have a wonderful weekend! :)

I hate Titles with Aimee Dow

I have been a Creative Team member for awhile here at Citrus Twist Kits and if you have been following my progress you will notice a peculiar quirk - I will go to extraordinary lengths not to have to use thickers. You come across really amazing members like Jesse, Mira and Michelle who just seem so adept at titles. They even mix and match thickers to create works of art. Yeah... that's never going to be me.

Give me a pre-made title any day:

I am so in love the current trend of foam words and the Dear Lizzy set in this month's embellishment kit is no exception. There serious is no right or wrong way to position them and it won't send you (*cough* perfectionists!) nuts with letter spacing and leveling.

Best of all though it means you can spend more time playing with our epically pretty main kit and photos that make your heart sing, such as this one of my two favourite peeps in all the world.

Only thing I had to raid my stash for was washi. Bonus!

Until Sunday - 

Aimee Xx

Fall cards with Christin

Christin here today to share two cards with you. I am not a big cardmaker, but every now and then I get inspired to make a few and this time I wanted to make a few fall cards.

For my first card I used a waterbrush and some distress ink with a stencil to make the background. I used the Main kit + Embellishment kit for the rest of the card.   I am using the ribbon as a normal layer for this card.

For my second card I wanted to get a kind of whimiscal feel and used different pens to make the drawn background. I used the thich black for contrast.  For this card I cut out leaves from the fabric. For this kit I used the Main kit and the pattern paper kit #2.

Some Layouts with Eve

Today, i will show what i did with the main kit and sprinkle kit. I made 5 layouts, but i have enough material to add 4 ou 5 more :) The kit of this month was really lovely !