3 to Inspire with Aimee.

Yay! Welcome to Saturday's 3 to Inspire. I love, Love, LOVE IT when I score a 3 to Inspire post because no only is it a challenge for you but it's a really great way for me to break out of my usual supplies and way of doing things. So without further ado, shall we get started?

1. Choose 3 colours from your photo to use as your design palette.
2. Add some paint.
3. Use an acetate embellishments.

When creating this layout I was trying to incorporate a fun and whimsical theme. I took the grey from the headboard of our bed, the blue from Eva's eyes and the orange from her PJs. I painted a watercolour background for the photos and added a few black paint splashes to the side for contrast. Finally I embellished with some of Paige's amazing fancy free die cuts and ephemera.

Now it's your turn! Use the three prompts to create your own projects and share them with us here in the gallery and/or our Facebook Forum. You can also upload to Instagram, but remember to tag us @citrustwistkits. Looking forward to seeing what you can do!

Aimee Xx

Mini Album tutorial with Mira

Hello Everyone!
I hope You're all having a really nice day so far and that You are ready for a mini album inspiration today! Please, sit down comfortably because I have a ton of pictures presenting step by step on how I created my very simple mini album using really colorful May PL "Beach Glass" Kit together with Embellishment one. I hope You will enjoy this tutorial!

First - we need to create pages for the album. I used white cardstock and trimmed the paper into eight 6x4 cards.

Then I gathered them all together on my desk and added a bit of color using Heidi Swapp color shine and splashing it all around.

Then I picked the most colorful papers from "Beach Glass" PL Kit and started playing with them.

I decided to follow the pattern-idea from those papers inside my album, so the pages of my album were totally inspired by these.

First - rectangles:

Next, these awesome colorful stripes:

Then, the circles:

I used scissors and a small circle puncher to provide various sizes of the circles:

Confetti is such a delightful idea, that I decided to cover the whole page with this paper!

Same here - with the flower pattern:

For the rest of my pages I used the scraps of paper that were left. I simply mixed them together or matched with the neighboring page:

For the cover I've chosen these lovely flowers:

I punched the holes through all the pages and bound them together with a single ring:

Then I created and printed a photo collage - all pictures in the same size:

I trimmed them and adhered a few layers of white paper underneath:

Then - attached to the pages:

This way I was ready for embellishing!

I wanted the cover to stay very simple, so I attached this lovely Becky Higgins Project Life button and the label. Simple indeed:

Here are the pages of my album in details:

I also used a few bits from previous - April Kits (transparent words again are my favorite!):

And finally second cover to finish my mini well:

Thank You Guys, for stopping by! I really hope that You enjoyed this photo tutorial and thank's for a chance to inspire You today. I hope You are ready to play with Your May kits right away! I am pretty sure that this colorful collection of goodies will make You OPTIMISTIC!
Have a great time!