3- To-Inspire with Traci!

Hey, hey, hey! Traci here today with this week's 3-To-Inspire challenge using mainly the All About Me collection!

My 3-to-Inspire:

1. Scrapbook about a place in your home that makes you happy.
2. Include something interactive
3. Use Numbers

 

When I saw some of the home-themed items in the ALL ABOUT ME - Ephemera, I knew I wanted to scrapbook these vignettes from around my home of little corners that make me happy.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Life Crafted page for me unless I included something interactive, so I used a cardstock hinge to create a flip out for my 3rd photo, numbering each photo with the 1, 2, 3 pieces from the ALL ABOUT ME - Ephemera.

I finished the page with various die cuts from the ALL ABOUT ME - Ephemera,  ALL ABOUT ME - Digital Elements, and Life Crafted - ALL ABOUT ME FLORALS - Ephemera. I also stamped "FAVORITE" using the new Citrus Twist 6" x 8" STORYTELLING V2 All About Me Stamp and added the Citrus Twist Life-Crafted Pumpkin/Coffee Alphabet Stickers to finish off my title!

Easy, peasy and an oh-so-effective way to frame these photos! I hope you'll join me for this 3-To-Inspire challenge!

3-To-Inspire with Traci Reed

Hey, Hey, Hey! Traci Reed here today bringing you this week's 3-To-Inspire Challenge!  Since it's February, the second month of the year, I was inspired by the number TWO for this challenge!

1. Use a TWO color palette like the pink and yellow one I chose from the Cherish release!
2. Use TWO Stamp Sets (I used the Cherish Stamp Set and the Ginger Alpha Stamp for my page)
3. Use TWO frames (I've got the fun cork one from the Cherish Mini Kit + one from the Flea Market Findings Chipboard on my page!

BONUS CHALLENGE

Use two of the SAME photo on your spread!

This large stamped motif I made with the Ginger Alpha Stamp is SO fun and it was neat focusing on stamping for a page - not something I normally do!

Bonus points if you make a patterned paper your own by adding stamping like I did to the yellow dot paper in the Cherish Digital Papers by adding pink hearts stamped from the Cherish 6x8 Stamp Set.

I can't wait to see what you do with this challenge!
 

Process Video:

3-to-Inspire with Traci

Hey, hey everyone! Traci here today with the 3-to-Inspire challenge and my first layout using the lovely Gather Mini Kit and Printables!  I love the rich colors in this collection and was especially drawn to the hunter green and marigold yellow!

Without any further ado, here is your 3-to-Inspire challenge, should you choose to accept it!

1. Use 2 different size page protectors or inserts. This can be a regular page protector + a pocket page protector if you like, but I used a full page insert (8.25"x5") and a TN-sized (4.25"x8.25") tag insert!
2. Paper tears! It's one of my favorite techniques for adding texture.
3. Pull a stamp set out of your stash that's at least a year old.  I used a CTK stamp that I can't even find in the store anymore!

For this page, I chose to focus on vertical lines and mat my photos with coordinating torn papers. I used the yellow paper from the tag on the left hand side and the pink woodgrain journal card on both sides of the spread to make sure it was all cohesive.

I also added a sentiment below my main photo by combining a few stamps from the stamp set. 

To increase interest, I also made sure to add a few different kinds of embellishments to the page in addition to the papers, like puffy stickers and gold string. 

You can see my process video below:

I hope you enjoy this challenge and get a chance to play along!

 

3-to-INSPIRE with Traci

 

Hey everyone! Traci here with this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge! I love a good layout recipe, so today I'm inspiring you to use these three things on your layout:

1. Something shiny - check out those GORGEOUS rose gold alphas on my page!
2. Circles - I had a ton of fun using a mix of chipboard and puffy sticker circles to make my page
3. Woodgrain - it's the time of year to incorporate allll the rich wood textures into your pages!

For my layout, I used mainly the  Retro Mini Kit and Digital collection with a few friends from my CTK stash like those gorgeous Rose Gold Alphabet Puffy Stickers!

This page was super fun to make and I tried to stick to replicating the vertical lines of the right hand side with my composition on the left hand side.

I really couldn't leave that gorgeous retro paper well enough alone, so I leaned heavily into the circles on the chipboard and puffy stickers, "capping off" each loop with a circle to make the composition more fun and coordinate with the "playtime" title.

Lastly, I added in a few more circles on the left page to draw your eye across the page! You can check out the process video for this layout below:

I hope this page inspires you to dig into your stash and make your own page! Remember to share your projects with us using the hashtag #citrustwist!

Life Crafted Inspiration with Traci

Happy Friday everyone! Traci here with some color blocked Life Crafted inspiration!

If you know me, you know that I LOVE color in my albums and never shy away from using all the bold, bright colors in a collection.  For these photos of a painted rock installation from our Miami Beach vacation, I decided to go BOLD and double down on the color with the papers from the Flea Market Findings V2 Kit!

That bright stripe was the perfect accent to the multicolored stones and then because my photos didn't have teal, I drew out the teal from the striped paper by using a teal paper on the right, that way the teal in the striped paper didn't look out of place on my layout.

Then I started layering with alllll the fun ephemera from Flea Market Findings V2 kit, both to create some visual division between the bright background paper and photos and also to create some vertical height on the page to mimic the photos!

I hope that gives you some ideas on how to work with bold color on your pages!

3-To-Inspire with Traci

 

Hey, Hey, Hey scrappy people! Traci here with the 3-to-Inspire challenge and today I challenged myself to go SIMPLE. If you know me, you know that I am BIG on alllll the layers, so keeping this page clean was HARD for me!

Your 3-To-Inspire challenge, should you choose to accept it, is:

1. Use a cut file or be inspired by one if you don't have a cutting machine
2. Use a white background
3. Use less than 10 embellishments

I chose to keep my whole page light and airy by using only light colors to back my cut file and letting my photos be the main focal point through their rich colors

Because the cut file took up so much space in the composition of the layout, it was easy to only lightly embellish the rest of the spread with the gorgeous butterflies and florals from the Explore collection, as well as a couple word bits

Have fun and remember: KISS - Keep It Simple and Smart!

Check out my process video here:

Life Crafted Inspiration with Traci

 

Hey, Hey, Hey, scrappy people!  Traci here today with a Life Crafted layout in my Bienvenidos a Miami vacation album using the Travelogue collection! I have already used this collection so much for my albums (check out my instagram posts here, here, here and here for more examples) but today I wanted to show off how quick and easy it can be to pull together a Life Crafted page using the Citrus Twist kits!

I created this page in about 10 minutes using a technique I like to call "dream boarding" where I just stick and plonk layers of lovely ephemera down, kind of like I was creating a dream board or mood board instead of a scrapbook page.

I love the way it feels like I just emptied my purse on the table after a long vacation and all the receipts and brochures and business cards and post cards fell out of it and onto the table. Of course, it's a little more thought out than that, especially on the right hand side with the tags I used to back each of the photos.

After I get all the ephemera and paper layers down, I like to finish off my "collage" with puffy stickers and chipboard over the top to give it a bit more dimension.  As you know, when making a vacation album that you're trying to not have span more than a binder (or two) it's imperative that your pages aren't too bulky, so this is my concession to a little texture without the bulk.  The Citrus Twist chipboard is PERFECT for that because it's not too thick!

You can watch this page come together and hear more of my thoughts on the process in the YouTube video below!