Extend Your Kits | Kristel & Tara

Happy Monday friends! Today Kristel and Tara are sharing a different spin on how they used their kits in other ways than the norm. Kristel is working with the Sugarland PL kit and Tara is using the January GraceBox kit. 

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Hi all! So, today Tara and I wanted to challenge ourselves to use our kits for something totally different than what we were used to.
I have been working with the Pocket Life kit, which is perfect for all sorts of memory keeping; whether it's Project Life, scrapbooking, using a traveler's notebook, etc.
But, I have found out it is also perfect for decorating your planner, for example :-) And I'm sure there are many more ways to use your kit.

To keep track of my DT projects and deadlines, social media and personal crafty ideas, I'm using a (medium) Happy Planner this year.
These have a weekly overview in which the days are vertically divided into rectangle little boxes which you can use in all sorts of ways.

Since I don't need to break up my days, I just use one or two boxes to write down all my notes and the others I like to decorate.

I chose a few of the papers in the kit, including the awesome book page, and cut rectangle boxes in the same size as my planner's.

I always like to create some sort of a pattern with these boxes and leave open space where I can write down all my notes.
As long as I leave enough white space for my notes, I'm all for decorating, so I got out some of the included embellishments and played with them.
To finish this week's layout, I got out (CTK) November's TN stamp set, which has a couple of cute hearts included, and stamped a couple of hearts to act as bullet points.

I absolutely loved this challenge and its results, so I guess i will be using my PL kit more often for my planner and maybe more :-) 

Have a lovely week and until next time!

Love, Kristel

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Hello! I am so excited to work with Kristel today on a different take of how to use our kits. I use the GraceBox kits mostly for bible journaling and faith journaling, but really wanted to try something different.

This year I purchased a Hobonichi Cousin planner to use for my faith catchall. Instead of planning in it, I am using the daily pages for reflections on bible readings.

I wanted to use the first page of January for mapping my faith this year. I took the concept of mind mapping and tweaked it to faith mapping.

I'm a huge fan of all Citrus Twist Kits stamps and used this month's stamp set along with a few others from past GraceBox kits - V2 stamp, V4 stamp, V8 stamp, V13 stamp, Scripture doodles stamp, V17 stamp, and V19 stamp found here.

I really want to work on my walk with the Lord and strengthening in my faith. I decided to use the "walk in faith" stamp as my focus this year. I then chose key points to help me in my daily faith walk.

I added color to my page with Tim Holtz distress inks and water. I love to add it to extra packaging and smoosh it all over creating a watercolor effect. I also used the stencil and layered a few different colors of chalk ink to make the messy dots.

I added a few bullet points of what was on my heart regarding each key point.

I loved layering the cute Pretty Little Studio cutapart sheet and layering it with the vibrant Vicki Boutin diecuts for a pop of color.

I had so much fun going out of my comfort zone with this challenge. I plan to incorporate more faith mapping in the future. 

Have a wonderful week and thank you for stopping by. I hope Kristel and I inspired you to try a few new things with your kits.

Blessings! Xxo, Tara

Pocket Life Challenge with Diane

Hi guys! Diane here with another Pocket Life Challenge for you!

Have you ever documented something non-weekly in your album? As I was finishing up my 2017 album, I decided I wanted to document some of my habits from the year. So I started with my favourite – coffee!

The BY THE NUMBERS stamp set was a perfect addition to my Sugarland Pocket Life kit to create this simple insert. And, of course, I had to add a few sequins as well!

So my challenge for you this week is: Try documenting something other than your usual weekly photos. Pick a habit or hobby and get those numbers down!

It's On. Pocket Life Time!

Hey Everyone! This is Jennie with today's project. I used the January Pocket Life Kit. The Sugarland Pocket Life Kit is sold out! Make sure you subscribe to join the Citrus fun on February. 

This kit is perfect for starting the year but I am still working on my 2017 album and guess what, it works for that too! 

I love that the kits come with pattern papers because I can either make little die cuts or I can play with smaller photos.

I kept my title card super simple. I used the awesome Puffy Alpha Stickers for the title, the label where I stamped the dates is from the cut outs and to decorate I added puffy stickers.

This spread had a lot of color so I used black and white papers to bring a little balance.

I used my favorite method to journal, I put a number in a photo and then I write all the journaling in one card. I used the card with the ampersand to write the journaling. These cute cork hearts come in the January Kit.

I used a card from the kit to create a filler card. The llama is a cut out from the 6x6 papers. I layered it with washi, a die cut and puffy stickers.

I hope you enjoyed these pages! If you need help to catch up on your PL check out the first challenge of the year.
Take Care!