3 To Inspire with Jennie Garcia

 

Hey Citrus Twist Friends! This is Jennie with the 3 to Inspire challenge for this week! 

The first prompt is to use a simple stamp to create a cool background. I used gold ink and the Mischief & Mayhem Stamp Set to stamp stars on the photo. It's better to use this method when the background is only one color. If the background is busy, the details will be lost and overshadowed by the elements on the photo. 

The second prompt is to document current trends of the moment or a specific age. I remember my niece and my oldest kid reading a lot of Dork Diaries books at this age and now that my little one is 10 she is reading the same books! I also added a postcard from a subscription box from a movie that recently came out. You can also add these trends with screenshots from online shops or photos of store aisles. 

Your third prompt is to embrace randomness. Throw cohesiveness and the cookie cutter aesthetic out of the window. Life is random, and this spread will reflect that! I have so many colors and stories in these pages! I wouldn't have it any other way. 

The journaling cards are from the Change Is Beautiful. 

To recap, here are the three prompts:

1) Use a simple stamp to create a cool background.

2) Document current trends.

3) Embrace randomness. 

We would love to see what you make! Share it in the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Facebook Group!

3 to Inspire with Jennie Garcia

Hi Friends! This is Jennie with today's 3 to inspire prompts! 

The first prompt is to use packaging, tags or cards included in products or online orders. Some subscription boxes and Etsy shops add a postcard or business card that can be easily saved. The ones I added this week fit perfectly in a 6x4 pocket.

I used a paper from the Life in Motion Digital Papers for the title card. I love the pattern so I kept the card really simple. This square from the Life In Motion Digital Elements is perfect for journaling or as a label for dates. I am in love with the Foam Alphabet Stickers in every color, but here I used Sun Yellow.

The second prompt is to add numbers to your photos to document your life with lists! 

I added a number to some of the photos to pair it with the journaling card with the information about each photo. It's an easy method for those, like me, who have a hard time journaling.

I love to make little clusters with washi tape, digital elements, and shaped puffy stickers like these Sunshine Puffy Heart Stickers. 

The third prompt is to use a neglected product from your stash. I used a brad. I have a LOT of them in my embellishments drawers. Instead of gluing down this tag (check out the first prompt), I chose to use a brad so I can see the back of the tag in the future. 

To recap. the prompts are:

1. Save the packaging of a product, or a business card or postcard.

2. Use a list to document your life.

3. Use a neglected product from your stash. 

I hope you find these prompts inspiring!

Take care!

Jennie

3-to-Inspire with Desiree

 

Hi friends! Today I am here with this week's 3-to-inspire.  Here's what I chose.

1. pocket pages

2. hearts

3. patterned paper

For this spread, I chose to work in my Blueberry Life Crafted Album and the #2 page protectors with 3x4 pockets. These fun pictures from a recent visit to the World of Coke were perfect for this month's kit.

I started by selecting my patterned papers, there were so many good ones to choose from. I chose a 6x8 paper from the Flea Market Findings V2 Papers, a journal card, and a digital paper from the Flea Market Findings V2 Digital Papers. I used the blue diamond patterned paper as my base page and cut hearts from the remaining papers.

I layered the hearts vertically on the page. I also cut my photo into a heart shape to add to the layers. I love working with hearts, there are many ways to use them and add them to your projects. Once I saw all the pretty papers, I knew hearts would be perfect for this spread.

To make the page a little more fun, I decided to unevenly layer the hearts instead of stacking them in a perfect line. I couldn't resist adding the Flea Market Findings V2 Puffy Stickers and the Flea Market Findings V2 Tiny Word Stickers to the hearts. The colors were the perfect balance of softness that I was hoping for.

I saved my pockets for last. I reprinted this brown and white journal card with the flowers and butterflies because it is my favorite. I thought using the design twice would help to create a more cohesive layout. I popped a few of the Flea Market Findings Enamel Dots through my spread. To complete the layout, I added a phrase sticker to the 3x4  picture of my husband and me.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's spread. I hope you take a moment to try out this week's 3-to-Inspire with the lovely Flea Market Findings V2 kit. Stay crafty!

MERRY & BRIGHT with our Guest Designer - JENNIE GARCIA

 

Hi Friends! This is Jennie with more holiday pages! Last year and even this year, crafters we a bit worried their albums would be boring or that they wouldn’t have many stories. One thing you can look for are online games, websites, and memes. I took screen shots from the Naughty and Nice List. I added a puffy gold star sticker next to my daughters’ names. It’s also a story that you can use any day. 

 

I used the Luna Stamp Set for the number. I stamped it with red and left a white border to create contrast with the green background. 

 

I love having different page sizes. This page protector is 4x6, perfect to squeeze a few extra pages. I used the Merry & Bright Stamp on cork to create this embellishment. The punch I used is 1.5 inches. 

 

One combo that I use all the time was washi tape and little word sticker. I almost used the entire sheet of word stickers and the gold puffy phrases and icon stickers.  

This day was a busy one with lots of photos, so I cut the top 4 inches of a 12x12 page protector and folded it in half. Use a bone folder to make sure it stays folded. To add my journaling, I used a card from the Sparkle & Joy Digital Journal Cards.  

I used the Busy Sidewalks paper pad to make this card. This circle die framed the photo perfectly! This was my favorite card in the whole spread.  

I hope you enjoyed these pages! Take care! 

MEET OUR SEPTEMBER 2021 GUEST DESIGNER: NATHALIE LEONELLI

 

Hi there!

We are so excited to welcome our second guest designer for September.  She is one of the sweetest ladies ever, plus she has an amazing eye for design, and creates the most beautiful pocket mail packages.  She was also part of one of our first  design teams many years ago.   We are so excited to welcome Nathalie Leonelli to our team for this month.  You are going to love her, too!

Hello, my name is Nathalie Leonelli and I am thrilled to be back here as a guest designer (I was part of the very first CTK design team forever ago!). I am married and the mother of two boys in college. I love dark chocolate, visiting new places and playing with paper.

 

 

Q&A with Nathalie

 

·   When did you start scrapbooking? 

About twenty years ago! Shortly after my wedding, I didn’t know what to do with all my photos and I found a kit at a craft store. Shortly after, I found an online forum and then I was hooked.

 ·    What is something most people would not know about you? 

      In my before-kids life, I worked in Los Angeles doing product placement on TV shows and movies.

     What are the 3 scrapbooking products you can’t live without?

     Anything that brings dimension and texture such as foam dots, chipboard and puffy stickers, oh and I also love die-cuts, stamps and…. how can anybody stick to just three products?!

 ·    What do you love about the September release? 

The soft and warm colors, the Feels Like Home Ephemera which is perfect for everyday memories and the Merry & Bright Gold Puffy alphabet which is so stunning I’d love to have three more packs!

 

·    Finish this sentence “If you could see my scrapbooking space now . . . “

… it looks nothing like this photo but “creative minds are rarely tidy”, right?

 

Nathalie's project

Hello Citrus Twist fans,

It's Nathalie and I am honored to be here to share one of my projects with you. The September release inspired me to work on my 2020 pocket album and I found so many great elements to create a monthly "everyday life" spread. 

When I am sitting down to create, I get a lot of ideas from the products themselves. As soon as I received my box of goodies, I opened the "Feels Like Home" ephemera pack and I selected my favorite die-cuts that ended up being my starting points.

 I enjoyed layering them in several spots on my pages.

 

Because most of my photos were rather dark, I chose to use the light pink, peachy and yellow toned journaling cards from the "Everyday Life" pack and printed a sheet from the "Coming Home" Ledger digital papers (one sheet is perfect to create two 4x6 cards).

 

 

I absolutely love the look of the “Merry & Bright” gold alphabet puffy stickers on my photo!

I added stitching details and enamel dots here and there for texture and typed my journaling on a manual typewriter.

 

 

If you are short on words, like I usually am, try using bullet points organized in highs and lows. They give a good snapshot of your week or month and don't require a lot of thinking!

It's with this final tip that I leave you and I hope you have found a couple of ideas for your next project. Thank you for having me!

Oh wow!  We love what Nathalie has created with our latest release, and learning a bit more about her.  She is one of the sweetest ladies we know.    Remember to check for more of Nathalie's work on Instagram @anounceofcreativity  You are going to love her work!

Nathalie will be sharing more of her talent with us throughout the month.    We cannot wait to see what she creates next!

XO

3 to Inspire| Tell your 2021 stories

Hello friends! Happy Saturday everyone! It's the weekend YAY! And this is the second weekend of the year, a fresh start, a new beginning, in this time of the year I feel full of strenght , of good purposes and I would like to start new projects, to come back to good habits and to work to be happy every single day! 

The past year has been so hard in many different ways for each of us around the world so my intentino this year is to treasure what I have learned and so to focus on the good, the good in life, in every situation, in people surrounding myself and my family with people who improve me. I want to spend what is called the  quality time!

Quality time? It's the time spent with my family, reading a good book, playing with my kids, cooking a new recipe, take exercises, eating well and of course creating and telling my everyday stories! Creativity is make me happy and free! Writing my feeling down I feel better with myself, I feel myself.

Today these are the 3 to inspire you to create your pages telling your stories:

1. EPHEMERA| from the amazing  packages of die cuts to alphabet stickers, tickets to the gorgeous digitals you find in the shop.
2. STAMPS | Those little and meaningful phrases that give something different to your pages, I love to use stamps to underline a thought, a phrase.
3. JOURNALING| Focus your attention on the story, what you would like to remember, what are your intentions for this upcoming year, your dreams, your goals, what did you learn from the past 2020? Write it down, use your computer or your typewriter or simply your handwriting and feel free to write down what you have inside.

To create these pages I used the beautiful TN NEW STARTS digital pages and some from NEW STARTS digital elements from January release. At the "hello" page I have stitched some different dies from the digitals and just added some phrases from the GET MESSY 6x8 stamps. Then I added my story in the perfect TN page and I finished my first pages just using one of my favorite page protector size with the last picture of the 2020 and some little details.

I focus always on the picture and my story and then all the tiny details I add are there for a reason , they all have a meaning, a precise meaning when I create my pages. I don't know if you can feel what I feel when I tell my stories, but these little pieces make me happy, it's pure magic, this is what I know when I create and tell my stories and especially when I look back at them going through my albums.

Hope to have inspired you and can't wait to see your pages :)

Love, Lory

Open Post| 2021 starting page with Lory

 

Hey friends! How are you?

2020 is almost came to an end and to be true for so many reasons we are all so happy and relieved that it comes to an end! It was a very hard year even if I think it has taught us to be careful about what really matters in our life! Don't you think?

I'm already thinking to the size of my 2021 PL and I tanto to try the idea to do a 4x8 album for each month telling a little story each day or something like this, random.  So at the end of the 2021 I'll have 12 Life crafted albums and this idea makes me feel so excited! 

So as each year I have preapred my starting page with my intentions, hopes, dreams, writing about my expectations and my goals to achieve! I have written to myself a sort of letter remembering what I have lived this past year and what I want to focus my attention. 

Ok let's start showing you what I have created!

First of all I wanted an envelope to gather together something from the 2020,  a sort of link with the past year. So inside the pocket I have inserted a jumbo 4x8 manila tag ( to be true I am obsessed with them) and some tags and journaling pieces from the Marigold 6x8 paper pad. 

To create the pocket cut a rectangle of a paper of your choice of 16 cm width and 14,5 cm length. On three sides fold at 2 cm on the right and the left and 1,5 cm on the bottom. Then with the double side tape stick the pocket to the inside cover of your Life Crafted album. I have chosen the Sea Glass album.

I added a sort of truck in with another paper and I created the opening of the pocket with a circle punch.Inside the pocket I have added stories, thoughts, pictures. To embellish the pocket some tickets from the amazing new products, a little phrase from the ephemera and a bow.

For the first page my idea was to create a background with the 20 and then to give attention to the 21 , the new year. I have created the 2020 background with the beautiful BIG Numbers stamps, using the white embossing powder and the heat gun. I love this so soft effect. To print the 2 and the 0 in the right way I drew a sort of grid and in each little box I stamped the number 2 or 0.  The result is an effect I see I don't see :)

At last but not the least I played with the other number font of the same stamp set, the stencil one that I love to crazy and a flower, some leaves, some little phrase and some different stamps from Citrus twist. The mix of different fonts and different sizes of what you write is a beautiful mix! The True Life stamps, Simple Words 3 stamps  ,  Conversations starter 1 stamps,

To finish some black ink drops, one picture and the sewing machine.

I hope to preserve memories and build the life I dream to live together who I love.

I wish you all a very happy new year, full of love, dreams come true, health, freedom and beautiful memories.

Love, Lory