3-to-Inspire with Amanda!

Hi Citrus Twist Kit Friends & Fans! 

Amanda here, & welcome back for another inspirational installment of our favorite 3-to-Inspire challenge post! The August Kits are simply STUNNING! & I just had to use both of them for my layout today! (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you better head over to the CTK store now before they're completely sold out!)
Before I share my layout, here's the 3 things you'll need to feature in your projects to play along too....

1. Use floral pattern paper  I love a good floral & to be completely honest, both kits are sporting some very pretty designs! Infact, it was hard to pick which floral paper to use!

2. Put a heart on it  There are a myriad of heart embellishments, digtial items and even stamps  for August. Show us how you like to feature hearts on your creations.

3. Make it messy  Feature any form of mixed media on your project - be it stamping and inks (the stamps this month are aaah-mazing!!!), watercolors, or even some texture paste. Whatever medium takes your fancy - just be sure to include it on your finished project.

Now with the formalities outta the way, here's my layout to inspire you with...

"Hello"

Isn't this dreamy & divine?!

As I mentioned previously, I couldn't decide on which gorgeous August Kit to create with, so in the end I combined both the Life Crafted Chasing Rainbows Kit with the Scrapbook Add-On Kit. I think they coordinated pretty well together! You'll also spy that I used this months Traveler's Notebook Stamp, and some of our wonderful Digital Cut Apart Elements too! Simply stunning!

Here's a closer look for you....

I used the divine floral pattern paper, New Thoughts from Pinkfresh Studio that was included in this month's Scrapbook Add-On Kit. I just LOVE the colors in this pretty floral paper - they complimented my photograph beautifully, & became the color scheme for my entire design. I used the white cardstock as my layout base, and then created a painty, watercolor background using the Pinkfresh Studio Liquid Watercolors. The colors I used were Lavender, Sapphire, Bubblegum & Sky Blue and you can find them all in the shop HERE! To this background, I also repeat stamped the heart icon from the Life Crafted Traveler's Notebook Stamp. Gorgeous!!!

In keeping with my color scheme, I decided to print & fussy cut a number of the Digital Cut Apart Elements. Believe it, or not, my larger lilac banner base is actually the same banner as the tiny one with the blue rose on it (simply enlarged and printed singularly).

 So cool! I just love how versatile the Digitals are! 

Over this banner, I built my photo cluster using lots of lovelies from the Life Crafted Chasing Rainbows Kit. If you look carefully, you'll even notice that I fussy cut the Kit Title Note Card, & used it both above, and to the side, of my sweet photo! To complete this cluster, I adorned my photo with that fabulous printed cork embellishment. 

The hello acrylic word included in the Chasing Rainbows Kit was too amazing not to use! I positioned mine over my mixed media base so that it was more visible on the white cardstock. 

For a finished look, I added cotton floss & sequins from my stash, as well as the blue puffy alphas & acetate hearts from the Life Crafted Kit. Voila!

There you have it! My take on this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge! 

Now it's your turn! I can't wait to see what you'll create! 

Be sure to upload your creations to the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page HERE.

Haven't shopped your kits yet? If you're super fast there *might* be one or two still available in the store HERE but, to avoid disappointment be sure to sign up for a subscription & never miss a kit again - YAY!!!

Happy Creating!

Thanks so much for visiting, 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Customized Embellishments

Hey crafty friends, Melanie here with a fall layout today.
Autumn is my favorite season, I love everything about it I am taking a lot of pictures at this time of the year. You can imagine how excited I was about using the 'Falling' cut file from the shop this month. I cut it out of white cardstock with my silhouette with some additional leaves.
I placed the cut file on the beautiful paper from the Scrapbook Kit, which makes such a nice background for my page.

I colored the leaves with the Pink Fresh Studio water colors (available in the shop) so they would go with the  colors of the paper.

I placed my photo in the middle of the page and layered it with some papers from the Scrapbook Kit and some of the cutaparts. I also tucked in a flower embellishment and white leaves for more interest.

I placed the leaves all over the page on a slight diagonal, like they had fallen down, using some foam adhesive for more dimension.

For some contrast and to complete my title (this song always reminds me of my granny), I stamped the word 'leaves' in black ink making it a little crooked, so that it looks like fallen leaves. I used the Griffin Alphabet, which is gorgeous, love me a serif font! And look how perfectly it goes with the cut file!

I really love, how the page turned out and how my leaves look! I hope, I inspired you to make matching embellishments for your project. When you don't have a Silhouette, you can always cut out some leaves by hand or use any other shape for this technique. 

Don't forget to share what you created in our Facebook Group and on Instagram using the hashtag #citrustwistkits so we can find your work!

Happy crafting, Melanie

Tuesday Tutorial with Nathalie

Hi CTK friends! Nathalie with you today to show you how you can create two different pages by  using both one single sheet of paper as inspiration.   This month's  Little Things kit is packed with goodies from Pinkfresh Studio's Indigo Hills 2 collection, and as soon as i saw the Ridge paper from Pinkfresh Studio all i could think about is all the possibilities.

For my first page, I decided to use the b  side of the paper.  The ombre effect of the paper gave me the idea to use all the colors to back some of the new free cut files - this one is called Floral Cluster-.

For the background, i used some of the Pinkfresh Studio watercolors to add some of those purple accents to the background, and this ensures all the details of the cut file and soft colors show.

I used the Indigo Hills 2 ephemera pack  and the Crate Paper's WIllow Lane collection included in the Little Things kit to create interest around the picture and also the title of this page.  A few of the stickers and wood stickers from the Embellishment kits were perfect to add small interest to the page.
The following video will give you a more in depth look at how the page came together:

Love how this turned out!  The soft colors of the paper are accented by the watercolor background, and then all the stamped sentiments from this month's Add On stamp just complete this page.

But like I mentioned, I wanted to fully use the paper, so after backing the cut file, i used the leftover piece to create some crosses and a layer for the Sunday Sketch project, and then carefully cut the hexagon shapes from the A side of  the paper  and used them to create this new page:

Once i had all the hexagons cut from the Pinkfresh Studio Ridge paper -included in the Little Things Scrapbook Kit-; I pulled the Embellishment kit's hexagon wooden stickers to create this rainbow layout.

Once again, i used the Pinkfresh Studio watercolors to create the background of the page.  My idea was to create hexagon shapes that mixed and matched with long watercolor brush strokes.  Then used the fussy cut hexagons, some of the ephemera pieces and the wooden stickers to add interest to the colorful background.

Since the background is colorful and filled with texture, I chose to keep the embellishments simple and instead added lots of sentiments around the hexagons using some stickers from the embellishment kit and stamped sentiments from the Little Things TN stamp.  The following video will give you a look at how this was put together.

Isn't it amazing how the Little Things Scrapbook Kit can yield such a diverse look to your scrapbook pages.   I only wished i could have bought the Patterned Paper kit so that i could have played further with the kit.    Remember to check all the kits and stamps in the CTK shop, and if you have questions on how this came together, just contact me!

XO