3-to-Inspire with Patricia

 

Hello and welcome to another 3-to-Inspire post with CTK!  This month and time of year is so full of not only inspiration but amazing products.  The new Halloween and Fall collections in the shop are amazing, and today I'm using the Mischief & Mayhem kit.  

'If' you are like me and haven't finished last year's October album, you will be really excited to know that if you purchased last year's Halloween kit, it will blend and mix in beautifully with the new Mischief & Mayhem, which leads me into our 3-to-Inspire for today:

1. Use embossing powder with your stamping
2. Create a foldout for multiple photos
3. ...and mix in some items from an older kit with the NEW!

Even though I'm not finished my album, I had photos and stories waiting to be told.  So I already had pattern papers used for my foldout for my photos from last year's kit and decided instead of starting fresh to see how well it worked with the new papers and items.  In order to make it work, I pulled the black pattern paper with the moon and stars.  

That then inspired me to use black cardstock and add stamping to emboss in gold powder.  It really repeated the look of the moon and stars pattern paper so well!

I'm including a lot of photos in the spread and have a few more on the opposite side to show you as well.  But since our new ceramic jack-o-lantern changed colors, I thought it would be to include that by creating a foldout.  I just trimmed scrap pieces of cardstock to insert in between the photo and the pattern paper on the back and then made it fold in the way I wanted it.  To repeat the look of the pattern paper from the left, I trimmed pieces from it to add to the bottom of each photo.  

For my 2x2 pockets, I included my photos in every other pocket, then trimmed light pieces of white paper to layer on die cuts and stamping from the kit.  I added the 'R' from the black alphas to add to the center of one of my photos and really helps add that pop of back throughout.

The backside of this spread had more photos but since it was a new page, I decided to pull more of the playful colors from the new kit.  After trimming them to 2x2, I trimmed them again diagonally to adhere to the backside of the white paper, then finished each one with either a die cut or sticker from the kit.

This kit and stamp set is AMAZING and I don't know how each year they get even better!  But what I love most is that they can all work so well together.  I hope this 3-to-Inspire truly do inspire you to mix your new with old, heat emboss and stamp, and create a foldout for multiple photos!  Have fun creating!

3 to Inspire with Kira

 Hey there!  It's Kira and I am so excited to be back on the Citrus Twist blog to share a look at what I've been working on.  And today I've have a challenge for you, use these three items on a layout:  

1.  Cut file 

2.  Multiple photos

3.  Patterned paper

Here's a look at what I came up with:

 

I am working with the Hocus Pocus Halloween mini kit to document our 2020 Halloween, so I started by choosing my photos.  I picked two of my son in his Captain Hook costume, one sized to a full LC page (4.25x8.25) and the other to 2x3.  

 

Then I decided on the color scheme I was going to use.  I love the floral print paper included in the kit, so I wanted to play off the colors on that:  pink, orange and yellow.  I pulled out other papers that I felt coordinated well.  

I love the leaves in the Fall Days cut file, and thought they could work well as layering pieces on my layout.  I cut out the outline leaf in pink and yellow and the solid leaf in orange.  They were sized to about 5" wide, but I cut most of the clusters apart before using them on my layout.  

 

Now it was time to start piecing this layout together!  I cut three pieces of paper into strips and layered them on top of each other on white cardstock.  I added some machine stitching on top of a few of the strips.  Then I brought in my leaves and layered them under and over the strips.  I adhered my smaller photo down and added some die cuts and chipboard pieces in the corners.  

On the reverse page I chose the chipboard "October 31" piece as my title.  I thought it felt a little plain so I decided to layer some of the cut file leaves under it as well.  A small chipboard heart finished off the layout.  

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

xo, Kira 

Scrapping with the Add-on Kit with Kira

Hey everyone!  Kira here to show you a couple layouts I created with the Fall Harvest Add-on Kit.  Any other fall lovers here?  It is definitely my favorite season, but it's my first year in San Antonio and apparently Texas hasn't received the memo that it's October.  Lol.  It's 90 degrees as I type this.

Anyway, I pulled out some older photos to work with to get me in the fall scrappy mood.  The first layout I created was for a few pictures of my son picking out his pumpkin last year.  He picked it out by giving it a kiss.  Awwwww! 

I created the large title on my Cricut and used that gorgeous blueberry paper that was included in the kit as my background paper.  I backed the cut out title with the orange and white plaid paper (B-side of "Whirling Leaves").  I decided to add some hand stitching around the word "pumpkin" in a blue that matched almost perfectly to the background paper.  It added the perfect amount of textural detail to my page. 

I'm going to be completely honest here though...the stitching was a nightmare.  This layout gave me so much grief and I've never had as many issues with the stitching ripping the paper as I did on this layout.  I had to cover up one of my "happy accidents" with a fussy cut pumpkin from the "Pumpkin Patch" paper.

But it looked so cute, that I added a few more around the page!  I brought in more of that pumpkin paper by tearing the blue cardstock and tucking the pumpkin paper underneath.  I stitched it down with the blue thread and just loved how it looked!

I added a few of the rubber charms from the Amber Moon collection, which was such a fun added piece of texture.  I finished off the layout by adding some of the Perfect Autumn enamel dots under my title and under the little torn flaps.  And finally I added some white paint splatters around the page.

After I finished this layout, I still had so much product left!  And was still totally in fall mode.  So I decided to make a quick layout of my son in his Halloween costume from last year. 

Can you tell who he went as?!  My husband and I are big 80s pop culture fans...so we dressed our kids as Marty McFly and Doc Brown (my baby was THE CUTEST Doc Brown!). 

I started with some white textured cardstock and decided to use this leaf cut file, also cut from white textured cardstock on top.  I used a few of the patterned papers from the kit to back a few of the leaves, creating a scatter of color across the page.  I didn't glue the cut file to the patterned paper leaves to give it a bit of added dimension. 

I backed my photo with the Dandelion cardstock and added a few pieces of ephemera from the 1canoe2 die cut pack, along with a few of the rubber charms to create two clusters around my photo.  Then I added my title using the Escape the Ordinary Golden Foil Wood Alpha Stickers.  Bonus points if you get the reference.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  And make sure to check out the Add-on kit this month!  You will not regret it!

xo, Kira