February is here, and we are so excited to share with you our new Life Crafted Kit: POSSIBILITIES with you all. This month we have designed a kit that will help you document your story in every format. Our soft focus is the magic of everyday! Whether you are at home, at a pleasant beach, had a good/bad day, our kits are the perfect complement to your story.
Along with our Life Crafted kit, we also are releasing our new Scrapbooking kit and a two new stamp sets that will sure inspire and help you document your memories.
Our Design Team has been working projects with the kits and stamps and are ready to inspire you throughout the month. Here is peek of the inspiration coming to your screens soon:
We are so lucky to have your continuous support, and are so excited to see how you document your memories using our Life Crafted Kits and albums.
We are so excited to have Heba join us for one last time here in our blog. She is an amazing designer, and her project is just gorgeous, so i let her tell you about it
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Hello everyone, I’m excited to share my
second project as a guest designer for Citrus Twist. I’ll be using the new
Gratitude crafted kit. If you follow me on social media you know that I am my
sons biggest marching band fan. Every Friday night, my daughter and I get
together with our friends to create a cheer squad to cheer on the marching band
kids. So when I saw the Gratitude Kit with all its colorful pattern paper, I
know I had to document our cheer squad.
I’m a huge fan of multiple photos on one
spread especially when working in a traveler’s notebook. It’s my go to when I
have a lot of photos from one occasion. You never have to choose which ones
make it on your spread:). Just make sure you use small photos to be able to fit
them all.
For this spread I decided to go with my go
to sketch for adding multiple photos on one small layout. It’s to add my photos
in a straight line creating a columnof photos. This helps your spread stay uncluttered
and neat. I started by adding one of the brighter pattern papers from the kit for
my background. This paper worked well with my bright and fun photos.
Once my bright background was added I needed
to mute it down a bit. So I ended up using the navy blue paper to help mute it
down. This also gave me space to add a title. I ended up using the glittery
alpha stickers that came in my kit to add “Cheer Squad”.
I embellished my photos with puffy sticker,
chipboard and word stickers from the kit. This is my favorite way to add layers
and texture to my spread. I used a 3x4 card from the kit to give me that space
I needed for my journaling. This also helped the colors flow from the left side
of my spread to the right side of my spread. I finished my layout by stamping a
little subtitle above my card and called my layout done.
Sketches and I are like two peas and a pod. Sometimes I get stumped when it comes to 12x12 layouts, and when that happens I turn to a fabulous sketch. There’s nothing like a great sketch to get the creative wheels turning, and this CTK one is no exception.
For this particular sketch I knew I wanted to keep the ripped pieces at the top, and I also wanted to keep the great grid in the middle, so I started with some ripped bazzil colored cardstock. I love that it comes in any color I could ever need.
I layered up a bright pink and a yellow for my ripped sheets at the top. I decided I wanted my accent on the upper and lower sections, including the background of the grid, to be a scrap of pink book page from a prior project. It brought in the great peachy color, that tied in it all together with that vibrant striped patterned paper.
Next I got started on that great 3x4 grid section. I decided I’d arrange my photo on the right side, as in the sketch, and I’d stick pretty close to it on the opposing side too. I decided to fussy cut the great bright pink star sheet of cardstock from this month’s kit. Those stars were the perfect addition to match my “Pink Space Buns” theme.
I layered in some wax paper, my old book page, fussy-cut stars, and various ephemera pieces to create a bright and vibrant layout from this sketch. I wanted a super colorful layout, with big punches of pink, so I think I achieved my goal!
I finished off my layout with some journaling, and just like the sketch, I added my giant title to the bottom, with the amazing chipboard alphas in this month’s kit!
I am clearly a proud lover of CTK kits, but guys, this month's kit is everything my crafty heart loves! I'm so completely smitten! All the bold bright summery colors just align perfectly with my bright shiny soul. I already know I'll be smashing this kit to bits, because I'm obsessed with every single element!
This little Life Crafted spread was all about these great photos of my little man in the pool this past weekend. They turned out so lovely and cute with that amazingly clean water in the background. I've always been a sucker for a good pool photo! This month's kit was the perfect addition to that blue background! I couldn't wait to scrap them.
I snuck in one of the 3x4 cards to document the date and location of the photos. I love the way it just pops behind the lower photo on this side of the spread.
I also chose to pop my photos off the page with a little wax paper packaging. This is one of my go to tricks for adding eye-catching dimension to any project including photos. I then layered up some pieces from the ephemera pack and a couple puffy stars.
I added this amazing 4x6 card to the right side of my spread and decked it out with a great title, using the new chipboard alphas. Aren't they amazing?! I added another few of my favorite bits from the ephemera pack and some enamel dots. I'll add all my journaling for our weekend at the pool on this card! I just love how it turned out!
Hey friends, its Kelli here. I've been really looking forward to this blog post because I had so much fun making the first 2 spreads in my Life Crafted album. I want my album to be a mix of traditional pages in their sleeves, and also interactive pages. The Life Crafted album is perfect because you can creatively document your life in different ways.
My 6 year old was soo excited to lose his front tooth. It left quite the big hole in his cute smile, and deserved a layout. The kit this month was perfect for this because it had that "Big Life Change" card and that "New Chapter" stamp.
For the interactive page on the right, I used white cardstock to make 8 rectangles, folded them in half, and glued them on. Then I got to add photos and embellishments to each fun flap. This is one of my favorite things to make with paper!
The next spread in my Life Crafted album is all about READING. The theme of the kit is obviously what inspired me to make this.
The pocket on the left is filled with pull out slips of paper including each of our favorite books. I think they will be so fun to look back on in a few years.
The page on the right includes an instax pic of my son Radley reading his favorite Wimpy Kid book. That Library Borrower's Card is my favorite!
Thanks for joining me! I hope you get lots of scrapbooking time in today!
Hello Lovelies, it's Theresa here today with a fun Pocket Life Challenge for you! I absolutely love how easy it is to document our family members using pocket pages, and the March Life Crafted kit has everything you need to get those pages completed. Here is my layout I created for the month of October in my 2018 album.
One thing I do to help me get these pages done is to repeat my favorite techniques over and over again, and I thought for today's challenge I would give you a list of those favorite things so you can choose. Feel free to try one, or try all, and see how it helps you as well. My first technique is:
1. Use alphas to create a working title or journaling on a card. The white puffy stickers included in the kit are perfect for this! I used these alphas for the working title with my photo, which works perfectly for journaling as well.
My title card has a working title using the same alphabet to spell October. On that card you can also see my second technique, which is as follows:
2. Use different stamp sets on your layout together and see what sentences or sentiments you can create. The March kit stamp set works beautiful with the This Is Life stamp set this month!
Up next is a technique that helps give a layout consistency:
3. Repeat an element across the page, whether it is an element, a shape, a label, or other. I have repeated the circle chipboard in several places on my layout, which not only adds a bit of dimension to the layout, but it also leads your eye around the page. You also may notice I have used the word stickers in several different places around the layout too.
You can also see another favorite technique which allows you to get more mileage out of your journal cards:
4. Cut up journal cards to create layering elements. I really love the sentiment "bits & pieces (of our day)" but felt like the blue would be a bit overpowering for the color palette on my layout. So I cut out the sentiment itself and layered it onto the strip journal card. Don't forget to look at your journal cards for opportunities to cut them up and create your own embellishments.
Notice how the pop of blue makes a nice contrast on this layout compared to the muted colors of the layout. The key to making this work was to be sure to use your contrasting color somewhere else on the layout, as I did on my filler card. I used a scrap of the blue to layer along with the stamped label and the stars.
One last technique that I have been using in order to uncomplicate my memory keeping process:
5. Leave one photo or journal card (or both!) unembellished. It can be really tempting to want to put all the things on all the pockets, but it can be really freeing to leave something just as it is. Of course, this allows that element, whether it's a photo or a journal card, to stand all on its own, just as it is. In the photo above of my studio, you can see it needed no journaling or embellishment, just the photo itself that captures a moment in time. There is incredible beauty in that!
I hope you are inspired to try some of these techniques in your pocket pages today! If you are interested, you can view my entire process in the video below.
As always, be sure to tag us when you create from this challenge and share online! We would love to see. Thank you for participating, see you again soon!
I'm still in a little shock that I get to play with the amazing CTK goodies each month! What a blessing I feel to be welcomed to this amazing team! For my first project, I'm working through my Life Crafted Album.
This spread is all about achieving Master level on my Audible membership last year. Audible had re-posted to their Instagram account someone who had joked about adding MA to their post-nominal initials, and I just thought that was so funny and clever, so I had to document that myself in true papercrafting fashion!
Using the amazing white-scalloped pocket that comes with this month's Life Chapters kit, I slid in a selection of books I'm currently reading, and stitched it down on my spread. I then layered on a screenshot of my master level to document the achievement.
I finished off my spread by adding a great 3x4 card from this month's kit. I wanted to document my book count from last year, because it was quite a feat for me! This pretty, little yellow card summarizes the idea behind my title, Lydia Cost MAud!
If you want to see how this spread came together, feel free to check out the process video below! I'm so excited to get to know all of you over the next couple months!
