6x8 Life Crafted Inspiration with Lory

 

Hello everyone!

It's Lory here today happy to share some new pages created with the adorable and super cute September Retro Mini kit, are you ready for October stories? I am and I am so excited to tell my stories.

I have told the stories of the September morning routine, wake up, going to school, having a yummy breakfast and especially I have written about how much I love to take time to observe them while they are sleeping and how much I love listening the silence before the beginning of our days. It's something so beautiful. Usually we take some selfie pics before to go to school and I love this! They are beautiful memories.

So to tell this story I have chosen a 6x8 full page photo where I added many details and a 3x4 and 4x6 page protector to add many details. The September digitals are perfect! I love mixing different embellishments together!

I mixed digitals, puffy and chipboard stickers from the kit. Love so much the effect on the full page photo. And here the right side of the spread. To finish my page I can't stop to use all the gorgeous stamps, to be true I'm making a stamp collection from Citrus Twist because I love them to the moon and back, it's a kind of obsession! The album is the 6x8 Clementine, Love it!

Stitching details in the same color palette! Lovely, don't you think?

Hope you like it and it inspires you to be creative and tell your extraordinary everyday stories.

Love, Lory

SUNDAY SKETCH WITH MARINA

 

Hello everyone! Here's Marina and today I brought you my first page in my new 6x8 album (btw, it's a gorgeous Sea Glass color and I love it!).

Let's take a look at the sketch - it's very simple and straightforward and I enjoyed following it literally! :)

And this is what I ended up with:

Here I combined two great mini-kits RETRO & EXPLORE and added a large header at the top to balance out the composition and create a visual triangle with the photos and these beautiful floral die-cuts.

I also used our September Traveler's Notebook digital Basics and Pattern papers to create these frames and add a decorative stripe at the bottom.

Since my page tells the story of how my daughter is visited by the tooth fairy (our version in Ukraine is a mouse that takes a tooth from a special "tooth pocket" under the pillow), the beautiful clocks from the RETRO Kit say that it's time for new teeth! :)

A little touch of puffy magic here and there ;)

And to conclude, an inscription from the September Digital Cutapart Elements - oh, I love it!..

I hope that you enjoy this sketch as much as I have and I can’t wait to see what you will create!

Happy crafting!

XO

Marina

Sunday Sketch with Lory

 Hello everyone!

Happy Sunday! Sunday means quality time with family, friends, crafty time, outdoor time, so it means whatever you love to do to unplug e recharge yourself, don't you think?

Today I am happy to share my entry for this week Sunday sketch! I'm going on with my September 2021 album and I can't wait to see it complete definitely.

Here the sketch

I have used the beautiful September Retro mini kit and the adorable digital files.

I started from the sketch to create a double 4x8 page for my life crafted album, I used the sketch as the starting point to create something new and tell my stories.

I played with the digital patterned papers, the journaling card, the puffy alphabet stickers. The story of the school adventure for my second boy. Love him to the moon and back.

You can find the kit in the shop together to gorgeous album and stamps :)

Hope you like it and it will inspire you to take care of your everyday memories.

Have a wonderful creative week,

love, Lory

3-TO-INSPIRE WITH KATARINA

 Hi friends!

Katarina with you today with this week's 3-to-Inspire Challenge. My three prompts for you to get your creative juices flowing today are:

1. Use a whole page photo

2. Modify a (digital) product to make it work for you

3. Add an insert with more photos and journaling.

And here's the new layout in my 6x8 Peacock Life Crafted Album that I created using the beautiful Retro Mini Kit, Retro Digital Journaling Cards and the Vintage Love Stamp.

Together We Will Make It! That's the first of my two titles and the words my hubby was telling to our son at the moment this photo was taken. It was a very strong story for me to tell and I love that I have this moment documented. 

I printed a whole page photo and used the big grey space at the bottom to add words "dream team" because - these two simply ARE a dream team. For that I used the white puffy alphabet stickers and one of the scripty Puffy Phrase and Icon Stickers from the Retro Mini Kit. I embellished the photo only with one beautiful heart die cut from the Retro Die Cut Ephemera.

For the left side of my layout I enlarged one of the 4x6 Retro digital journal cards to fit in my album. I used a combination of exclusive white puffy and black foam alphas to create my title and added one of the beautiful stamps from the Vintage Love Stamp.

I added an extra insert using one of the exclusive page protectors to accommodate more photos and journaling cards with text. Then I added some puffy and chipboard stickers from the Retro Kit and called my layout done.

Hope you find my layout and the prompts inspiring and that you can find some time to create and enjoy our challenge this weekend. Thanks for stopping by, friends!

3-to-INSPIRE with Nathalie

 

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to share a new project created with this week's 3-to-INSPIRE prompts. I love this challenge as it gives you a starting point for your project.  Here are this week's  three prompts:

1. Add a Pocket
2. Add a Pop of Shine 
3. Use Digital Files

and here is what I have created with the Retro Digital Collection, and the new Beautiful Things 6x8 Add on kit:

It was so easy to pull this spread together using the prompts as a guideline.   Plus the color  combination just worked beautifully for the story.

I started by creating a frame for my photos using one of the journal cards from the RETRO Digital Journal Card collection.  I simply enlarge it to fit 7x8.25in.  

I used my exacto knife to trim some of the flowers and leaves that are set inside of the frame.  This allows me to set the photos as if nested in the flower clusters of the frame.  Since there is already built-in embellishments in the page, I just added a few extra small embellishments from the Beautiful Things 6x8 Add-on kit

I created a pocket out of vellum - it fits  a large tag- and attached it to a patterned paper from the Beautiful Things 6x8 Add on kit.   This time, I created a small cluster of embellishments using some of the Retro Digital Cut Apart elements page, and a doily from the add-on kit.

I am in love with the new Rose Gold Puffy Alphas (included in the Beautiful Things 6x8 add on kit). These were the perfect complement, and touch of shine that my page need to be complete.   I repeated a few extra copper stickers and enamel dots throughout the page.

That pocket was just the perfect spot to house my journaling, and also providing  a spot for my title, and extra embellishing!

I hope you are inspired to use this week's prompts to create a project of your own!

XO