August Life Crafted with Amanda Baldwin

Hi CTK Friends & Fans!

Amanda here, sharing some more August Life Crafted: Chasing Rainbows Kit inspiration!
If you missed my scrapbook layout post earlier this month, you can go back and check it out HERE.

For today's post,  I am totally focusing on documenting the everyday stories in my Life Crafted Album. Nothing fancy or time consuming - just simple, beautiful everyday moments recorded!

Here's what I have created with the Chasing Rainbows Kit....

"This Kid"

How sweet is this?!

I've been going to scrap these photos for sometime now, but never really found the right collection to do it with. Until now! The designs on the exclusive pattern papers are similar to the one on my son's shirt, and partner perfectly! The cool blues & teal with the white base create such a refreshing, and modern look. A light & fun color palette for Summer pages. Love it! 

Here's how these pages look in my Life Crafted Album.....

To add emphasis to my photographs, I layered both of them on 3 x 4 note cards, and kept embellishments to a minimum. You'll spy a few tabs and hearts, and of course, those incredible printed cork stickers. The cork adds a touch of warmth & balance, and connects the color photograph to both pages. 

I used the vellum tape stickers for a tiny spot of journaling, and finished with the Turquoise Puffy Alphabet Stickers title.

Simple, but so effective! 

Next up, I created a page for my darling daughter, using some of the gorgeous florals in this month's kit....

Sigh! SO pretty! 

Another really simple design that only takes a minute to create. 

Here's how.....

Simply trim the pink floral pattern paper to 5" x 8". 

Adhere the 3" x 8" bookmark onto the pink floral paper, about half an inch from the left hand side. 

Next, back your photograph onto the yellow bloom 3" x 4" note card, and mount it to the bookmark with thick foam tape. 

Embellish with an acrylic heart, sentiment from the Digital Printable Cutapart Sheet, and that awesome Printed Cork adornment. 

Voila! 

Super pretty & with minimum fuss!

The Life Crafted Kits make memory keeping a breeze, especially for those of us who are time poor! 

Here's another double pager from my Life Crafted Album, recording the simple things in life....

Life's little pleasures, indeed! I absolutely LOVE the colors in this month's kit! So much variety, and a perfect mix of Summer blending into Fall! 

For the page on the left, I have used a 5" x 8" sheet of smooth white cardstock and layered it with note cards. I used the acetate ephemera for my title at the base of my page, and then embellished with printed cork, a chipboard sticker, and a vellum tape sentiment. 

For the page on the right, I  opted for a pattern paper base, which I mostly covered with smooth white cardstock. I oversized the bloom pattern tag from the Digital Printable Cutapart Sheet, & created a book mark to layer my photograph and embellishments onto. Here's a closer look for you.....

Such a simple, but oh so pretty page! 

And there you have it! 

Daily documenting made super easy, and really beautiful with the Life Crafted Kits & Albums!

I hope I have inspired you to dive into your kits, and start documenting those important everyday stories! 

Thanks so much for visiting, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

Focus On Stamping with Nathalie

Hi there!
Nathalie with you today!  Have you checked all the awesome stamps that have been released along with the Excursions kit; I mean, the Excursions kit is gorgeous, but the coordinating stamps are just the perfect complement to the papers, and embellishments.  Let me show you:

For this entry, i chose to stamp the outer border of backgrounds with the leaf patterns of the This is Life "Free Spirit" with Distress Oxide Inks in colors that coordinate to the ones in the kit.  The Monstera leaves were also stamped on a piece of white cardstock and fussy cut so that they could be used as embellishments for this page.

I used this month's Traveller's Notebook stamp to add the sentiments to the picture with Archival Ink, and then added a few of the papers from the Excursions kit as layers before placing  it on the background.

The stamped-then-fussy-cut leaves along with florals from this month's Floral Element cut apart are just the perfect touch to decorate the page.

To add my lines of journal and title, i used some of the cut apart elements and layered them along with the stamped-then-fussy-cut leaves as well as added more repetitive stamping using the This is Life and Traveler's Notebook stamp.   The following video will show you how it all came together:

Don't you just love the  colors and the feel of the kit, but  what i love most about the kits and stamps is how versatile they can be, so i set to build a second entry in my Life Crafted album  using the same stamps and an everyday picture.

This time i created a border for the layout using the This is Life "Free Spirit" stamp's sentiments in a repetitive way with black ink.   I just chose a sentiment and repeated it until the ink had worn out, and then switch to the next one until i had completed the border.

I pulled pieces from the kit, cut apart elements and the extra Subscriber PL cards to create  the clusters in the pictures.   Love how the colors combine easily when using pieces from the same kit.

For the title, i added a cluster of embellishments and added a stamped sentiment using the This is Life "Free Spirit" as the title.   You can see  a step-by-step tutorial on how this page came together in today's Citrus Twist Kits Intagram stories feed.

It is always a joy to work with the Life Crafted kits, but this month's Excursions kit and add on stamps is probably one of my most favorite, and i am sure it will be yours, too!

If you have questions on how this came together, please contact me, and don't forget to check the kits and  all the add ons ( they are quickly selling out!)

XO