Life Crafted with Patricia

Hello CTK friends!!  I hope you are inspired as much as I am from not only this team but from everyone in the Facebook group.  I am always inspired by product, even when I go shopping and looking at marketing and clothing.  But seeing what and how others create or document really is another great way to either give you an idea to try or to give you an idea to incorporate into your own style.

For this Life Crafted spread, I used the October Add-On.  I am very drawn in by these amazing colors!  So the first thing I wanted to do was use one of the pattern papers with a bold design.  I'm addicted to the digital elements and cut files from Citrus Twist, and I was recently inspired by Lorilei's 3 to Inspire Life Crafted Post here.  What inspired me to try is to use one the Screen 4 cut file in a different way.  I have always used it to either layer photos directly on or under them or as my second page with embellishments.  But I loved her idea of having it under one Life Crafted pocket!

The screen cut files really can serve so many purposes in our Life Crafted albums and be totally functioning whether they are a divider, an opening page, a place for more photos, embellishments or a title.  I am always looking for new ways to use them.  For another fun and unique way to use them, please see my Featured Video from September here where I used it as a stencil and then cut it to add directly to my page.  

I used the Life Crafted Page Protector #2 for documenting using one of the cards from the Life Crafted kit, and then used the die cut leaf and heart from the Add-On.  

  

For bottom pocket with four photos, I was totally inspired by Nathalie's Life Crafted post here where she used four photos in her Life Crafted Page Protector #3.  Doing this in my smaller 3x4 pocket worked with printing my photos small enough to still have a border around them and the photos' subjects balance each other without overpowering one or the other.  The die cut from the Add-On and heart puffy from the Life Crafted gave me the color, sentiment and texture.

This left lots of room for creative fun on my left page using the October Life Crafted and Food Stories Stamp Sets.

Using the cardstock from the Add-On kit, I stamped along mostly on the edge of it using the Life Crafted stamp, then I cut the inside out and backed with Life Crafted kit paper.  The scale of the images on the papers were perfect for this small space.  Then I used the die cuts from the Add-On to tuck either under or above some of the stamped and cut out areas, raising some of them with foam adhesive.  Then I used one of the gold puffy embellishments fro the Life Crafted kit for my title.

And finished it with the stamping from the Food Stories stamp set.

I have a few more projects to share using the Halloween Add-On kit.  I will have a mini album video using the kit coming to the Citrus Twist Kits YouTube Channel on the 19th, so all of these projects are leftovers from the kit!

First I have a set of cards.

On some of the cards, I added some stamping from the Travelers' Notebook stamp set and some of the cut files I used in the mini album that were leftover.

The Heart + spider web = instant inspiration to document when my daughter read Charlotte's Web and had to do a PowerPoint presentation about it.  We set up a spot in the house for her to do some filming.

I love 6x8 size layouts these days ;)

And I could have still created more projects with the kit!  Hope you picked it up.  It is an excellent complement to either the Life Crafted or the Add-On available this month.  Definitely pick up the Travelers' Notebook stamp set either way.  I think it is a great stamp set for all your Fall/October activities and memories!

Pocket Life Challenge with Krystal

Hi everyone! This is Krystal, and today I have a fun Pocket Life page and challenge to share with you using the October "At My Table" Life Crafted Kit.

I decided to use the kit to document a fun weekend with friends here in our hometown. The theme of the kit was perfect for these photos! Of course, there was lots of delicious food to document, but the kit also has a lot of elements to document happy times with the people you love, which made it perfect for this spread.

I used lots of embellishments from the kit to create clusters on my photos, including several pieces from the printable cutapart sheet that comes with the kit. I love that this gives us extra bits that coordinate with the kits!

To give myself someplace to add my journaling for this spread, I created my own journal card using the This is Life "Food Stories" stamp set. This buildable stamp makes it easy to create customized cards to add to you pages, and I was able to make one that was absolutely perfect for my story.

And that is my challenge for you. Create your own journal card using the "Food Stories" stamp, the stamp set from the Life Crafted Kit, or other elements from the kit, such as the cutapart sheet, ephemera, or stickers. Use your creativity and see what you can come up with!

Of course, I'd love to see what you create, so be sure to share your pages in the Facebook Fan Page or tag me on Instagram! I'll also be sharing some of the other pages I made from this event on my Instagram account later this month, so be sure to look for that.

Here's the process video I made for this spread, so you can see how I combined the stamps to create my journaling card.

I hope you found some inspiration, and I can't wait to see how you're using your "At My Table" kits. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Pocket Life Challenge with Patricia

Hi CTK Fans and Friends, I have a Pocket Life Challenge to share with you today using the new October Life Crafted Kit called Here at My Table!

Lots of great cards, embellishments, and stamps to document your favorite foods, events or holidays with friends and family, perfect for documenting this time of year!  For my pocket page today, I used Pocket #2 Life Crafted Page Protector along with one of my 6x8 protectors with 12 2x2 pockets.  Even though I do not include any photos of food, there are three events from these photos that brought us together to enjoy lunch or dinner.  Have you ever gotten together to eat and realized you forgot to take a photo of your food?!!  A scrapbook crisis! 

My first challenge is to use those photos you do have from the time together.  Then my second challenge is to make sure you journal about it.  Since I am using small pockets, I used the October Digital Elements to type my journaling onto them from my computer and then print them out and detail cut.

My third challenge, is to use stamps to create layers.  I used the Food Stories stamp set to stamp 'gather' first in lavender and then offset it with stamping over it in black ink.  I used the same stamp set to combine 'enjoy' and 'these people this food' on my top pocket using different inks.  Using the same stamp set along with the Traveler's Notebook stamp set I added stamping to the die cuts or digital elements or right on top of my photos.  Fun ways to add layers to your pockets.

 

For the pockets without photos in my 2x2 pocket page, I used a lot of the pattern papers from the Life Crafted kit.  The colors are always so beautiful from the kits.  With this being a Fall pocket page, the added color was perfect for the season.  Because I have so much color and texture on the right, I kept the left side lighter, by using a simple card with lots of white from the Life Crafted kit, which allowed me to still add stamping, a die cut, and embellishment.

And for my photo in the bottom pocket, I just added a die cut and embellishment from the kit.  Those hearts are amazing!!

Hope you enjoy your October Life Crafted kit and can't wait to see what you create.  Please share in our Facebook group here.  Happy Creating!!