3 To Inspire with Jennie

Hey Friends! This is Jennie with today's 3 to Inspire!

My three prompts are:

1) Get inspired by the holidays.

2) Use pops of red.

3) Use handwriting. This one is my favorite. I love to see my mother and grandmother's handwriting and I'm sure my daughters would see mine. I also include my daughters' handwriting because they are still little and it keeps evolving. 

For this post I chose to work on my December Daily. The Sonoma Pocket Life Kit has a few good bits that you can use on your December Daily. It also had good holiday colors like red, green and aqua. Inside the top right pocket I have a little magazine my Elf brought from the North Pole, This is the back of the magazine. Apparently Target is a big deal there too. 

I love the balance in the journaling cards set. They have enough filler cards and enough journaling cards. The best thing about journaling cards is that a lot of them have lines which makes me feel better when I use my handwriting.  

Of course I have to use the phrase "shenanigans afoot" when I talk about Charlotte! This day she wanted to go for a ride so the "going out" cork piece worked perfectly. 

If you have a little gap on your December Daily you can document your holiday or season favorites! I'm not a big fan of Christmas Music but I like most of the songs from this CD so I decided to record it.

The puffy stickers from this month's kits are awesome! They come with lots of little sprinkles! I also used the stamp set on my date card. 

I hope you enjoyed these little prompts. Show us what you've got at the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page on Facebook! 

Sunday Sketch with Emma

Hi friends!  Emma here to share my layout using this week's Sunday Sketch. First up, let's look at our sketch for today:

And here's the page I created:

As you can see I've not changed too much from the sketch - the layout is basically the same.

The page started with the ink splatters to match the sketch.  I have a love/hate relationship with "messy" things - particularly ink splatters.  They never seem to go where I want them to no matter how careful I am.  Took me 3 attempts to get it right, haha.  I mean I get that they're meant to be a little random but I obsess about the size and spacing..I know, I'm crazy right? ;)

Once I was happy with my splatters, I picked my photo - I love it because it has alot of gorgeous blue sky but what really I love is the sun flare in the top right of the photo.  I went with a yellow patterned paper (sun flare...sun....yellow....you seeing my logic? ha!) and teamed it up with a neutral pattern papter, then layered those underneath my photo just like the sketch.

My title on the RHS was the most fun to put together!  I brought together a few pieces from the Main kit and layered them all down the RHS of my photo (popping a few foam dots behind a few of them to give it a bit of dimension).  Those gold Thickers from the Main kit are gorgeous so I paired it up with a few of those die-cuts. 

Because the title/phrase words had extended the full height of my photo on the RHS I just popped my journaling on the bottom left of my photo (being sure I didn't block any of those rather specifically placed ink splatters!).

To finish off my page I machined stitched at the top/bottom of my page (in black cotton for a bit of contrast) and popped a few of the gold thicker stars around my page to match in with the gold letters of my title (balance things out given I didn't have gold anywhere else).

This sketch was such a fun and easy one to work with.

Now it's your turn! To play along with this week's Sunday Sketch Challenge, create a layout based off of today's sketch, upload it to the gallery with today's date (12/17) in the title, and you are in for a chance to win a $5 gift certificate to the CTK Store!

Thanks, Em xo 

Let's Get Digital with Nathalie

Hi there!


Nathalie with you today bringing you some  Christmas inspiration using this month's gorgeous Sonoma main scrapbooking kit, and this month's digital file.

Upon receiving the kit, I fell in love with this month's stamp ( it is all about crafting!, and those starburst!!), and that was the inspiration for this month's cut file (which is available for free in the  Citrus Twist Kits Fan Facebook page).

To create the soft and winter-like background, I chose to cut all the star images from white cardstock , and backed them with white vellum.   I love wood grain paper!, so I chose the American Crafts paper as the background for my page.  A few drops of shimmer white and gold watercolor  was added before gluing the die cut stars.   All the negative pieces from the die cuts were glued to the paper, while the stars were attached with a bit of foam adhesive, just to add dimension to the page.

To bring the focus to the picture of my 3 kids a few years ago, I chose to layer papers and pieces from the Sonoma main kit, but also added a few splashes of pink by adding some stickers from the Embellishment kit ( love all the new Crate Paper goodies added to the kits!)

This month's add-on stamp worked perfect to add sentiments around the page, as the picture is from a few years ago.  I kept the color combo in each of the clusters similar so that they complete the visual triangle in the page. 

Though  the cut file had the word "create" in it.   I just loved the  the look of the gold alphas that are included in the kit.

I hope you all stop by the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Facebook page, and pick up your copy of the cut file.    Remember to share the projects created with the cut file, and tag CTK when sharing them  on social media.

Let me  know if you have any questions on how this came together.

XOXO

Nathalie

Kit Love

Hello! I's Mira Jurecka here and I have a Kit Love post for You today, which is all about December  "Sonoma" PL Kit.
First I'll show You the kit in details, and at the end You will see what I made with it!

Cards.
Although this is "December" kit, it is not about Christmas. You can simply document Your everyday life not depending on where You are in the calendar right now. Obviously the kit can support creating Your December album if You wish so!
The cards are bright, with a lot of space for journaling:

Papers.
These are exclusive Citrus Twist Kits 6x8 colorful papers that were included in the kit this month:

I especially love that flower pattern - I used it to create a few PL cards.

In the package You will also find two sets of exclusive puffy stickers - blue alpha-stickers and colorful words and shapes - perfect for project decorating!

I am impressed by these stickers, because they are really funny and help documenting not only happy moments but also some difficulties of life - like the one with thundercloud - isn't it great?

As always - in the pack You will also find great exclusive CTK stamps - these are perfect for documenting december moments, as they are about celebrating, home, the end of the year and the beginning of new year. Awesome.
And there is set of cork elements with words:

Another exclusive product that You will find in the kit is the set of paper die-cuts - awesome colors, both bright and pale, fun words, tags, labels and shapes. Look at this set of yellow emotikons - is't it cute?

I really love this month kit - for it's variety. I used it to document both seasons summer and fall - our honey moon and everyday moments from November. In both cases it wasn't difficult at all. The kit was just great!

Here's the summer:

Here - in this project I added a stickers packaging from December embellishment kit to create this card on the left:

I also made my December to do list in my traveler's journal using December "Sonoma" PL Kit:

And November moments from my album:

Here's the card that I made from this awesome paper with flower pattern:

In my projects I also used colorful word stickers from December Embelishment Kit, which I think add some nice final touches to my pocket pages, everything else is from PL Kit.

I hope You like this month's PL Kit and You will enjoy documenting Your awesome life with it!
Thank You for stopping by!
Have a great week!

M