3-to-Inspire with Marci

 

Hello CTK friends! It is Marci here. It is the first of the month which means there is a new release in the shop. I am very excited to bring you the first 3-to-Inspire with the new Travelogue collection! 

Here are the 3-to-Inspire prompts for this week:

1. Tone on tone embellishing
2. Use a tag 
3. Incorporate something “older” from your stash

I was drawn to the digital paper number 9. It reminded me of a map and the stitch marks across the green portion looked like lines on a road. I wanted to take this picture of my son and his friend driving an electric toy vehicle and make it look like they were driving on the road. Digital paper number 10 with the black circles made me think of tire tracks so I used that to mount my picture. 

To embellish the page, I got the idea to add tone on tone pieces to the three color portions of the paper. I used several die cuts from the Travelogue ephemera pack. I needed more pieces to fill in the spaces so I turned to the 2022 Travelogue chipboard stickers and some older enamel dots. Now I had enough pieces in the matching colors to make my design. These are my “older” items for the challenge. (I am using older in quotes because we all have stashes with different ages. Some of our older items might be a month older while other items are 10 years old! Go with what you have available to you.)

This month’s kit comes with a large Kraft shipping tag. I liked the idea of using it as the second page to my spread but the color didn’t work. I used the shipping tag as a template and cut my own out of one of the other digital papers. Now my tag coordinates with one of the colors from the left side of my spread. I added my title, journaling and more embellishments to the tag to finish out my spread. 

I hope you find the 3 prompts this week inspiring and give them a try. 

3-to-Inspire with Shannon

Hello there, friends! Shannon here with your 3-to-Inspire for the week. I love this challenge. Picking three things to focus on when I'm creating my layout makes it come together so much easier. It's such a great starting point! Let's get to the list:

1. Use an old photo

2. Use a sketch

3. Use multiple embellishments to make a title

And now let's look at the page I created using these prompts.

1. Use an old photo

I knew that I wanted to use the Travelogue products for this page so I started looking through my photos for one that hadn't been scrapbooked yet. This photo from a few years ago is one of my favorites. It was taken during my long scrapbook hiatus so I knew it wasn't documented anywhere. All that I had to do was pull it into my phone for a quick edit. Sometimes I'm hesitant to document older photos because the quality isn't as good as new photos. I'm really trying to get over that so hopefully this challenge will give you a push to do the same!

2. Use a sketch

I always find that sketches help flip my brain into creative mode. This is helpful when I want to scrapbook but my brain might be feeling a little fried. Or when I want to break out of my box a little. Did you know that there is a new sketch every Sunday on the Citrus Twist blog? You can find them all through the Sunday Sketch tag. I chose a sketch from May 2020 for this layout. I made several changes - there is only one photo, the journaling is in a different place, I made a cluster of stamps, chipboard stickers, and puffy stickers at the top, and my page is in a Life Crafted album. That's what I love about sketches. You can interpret them as literally or as freely as you want.

3. Use multiple embellishments to make a title

This part of the challenge was so fun! I gathered up some Travelogue ephemera and chipboard stickers that had words on them. From there, I decided what I wanted to use for my title. There are so many possible combinations! You could also add in some stamped phrases or words too. 

I hope these 3 prompts will inspire you to get one of your old photos documented! Thanks for joining me here today!

More Travelogue with Our Guest Designer Ashley Horton

 

Hi there!

We are so excited to have Ashley back with us today.   She is working her magic with our Travelogue kit, and we are loving what she has created....  Here is Ashley!

Hey CTK friends!  I'm excited to be back for April with a couple of new projects using the Travelogue mini collection.  Today, I have a Disney themed layout and make sure you check the CTK Instagram later this month for a super cute layout!

 

We love the new Star Wars land in Disney World, and we've been several times since it opened up.  I wanted to document a few of the photos of us outside the Millennium Falcon ride.  I chose the cloud patterned paper from the digitals for my background.  I opened the paper in Adobe Illustrator and copied and pasted it.  Then I flipped one of the papers vertically, so I could print out two to create a full background.

 

I placed my photos in a random pattern on the background paper and then I used the two sets of alpha stickers to create my title.  Once I had my title in place, I went through the embellishments to choose the ones that would work best with my layout.  I filled in the spots between my photos and title with ephemera pieces, puffy stickers, and the chipboard pieces. 

 

 

I loved how my embellishments ended up being Teal, Yellow and Black.  It was a great color scheme for this layout and it fit well with my photos.

 

I hope you have found a bit of inspiration today, for using your Travelogue mini kit!  Don't miss my last Guest Designer project, coming up later this month!