Sunday Sketch with Katarina

 

Hi CTK friends,

Katarina back with you, bringing you another Sunday Sketch inspiration. As always, we have a beautiful sketch that can be used as inspiration for any format of layout.

Here's the sketch:

I created a layout in my 6*8 Life Crafted Album and used the gorgeous Travelogue '23 Kit and the new Sadie Upper and Lower Alphabet Stamps. Let's have a look:

The sketch really inspired me a lot and I decided to follow it almost fully. The only problem was to keep so much clean space, with so many beautiful products at my desk.

For my background I used one of the Travelogue '23 digital papers and I used some more as layers under my two photos. For some added texture and for journaling purposes, I added one of the tags from the Travelogue '23 Ephemera.

I embellished my photos with some of the Tiny Words stickers and Circle Stickers from the Travelogue '23 Kit. They were a perfect addition to my hiking story.

Then I enjoyed some stamping. For my title, I combined the new Sadie Alphabet Upper and Lower Stamps. Next I used the Cravings Stamp to add some more stamping to fill in the space between my title and photos. To add some more interest, I used two colors of ink.

I found the "Let's Go Explore" sign die cut so perfect for this layout, that I just had to add it next to my title. If you look closer at the sketch, there are very subtle splatters in the top right side of the design. Here I decided to go for more stamping and used some of the tiny stamps from the Cravings Stamp and a subtle grey ink to add some words related to my story.

As a final touch, I added a bunch of CTK Jewel Enamel Dots in perfectly matching colors. I really love how my layout turned out, it is always so refreshing to use a sketch as inspiration for my projects. Will you try it? 

Thank you for stopping by today, friends and have a lovely rest of your weekend.

3-to-INSPIRE with Nathalie

Hi there!

It's Nathalie with you today with a new 3-to-Inspire challenge.    This week we are using the new Travelogue kit and this week's 3 prompts to create a double 6x8 Life Crafted spread.   Here are the prompts for the week:

1. Use lots of photos
2. Use the Digital Journaling cards in a creative way
3. Embellishment Clusters

Here is what I have created using the prompts and the beautiful TRAVELOGUE '23 Kit:

First, I pulled a few pictures of one  of our Ecuador trip adventures for this spread.  I have added one 7x8.5in, one 4x6in , and  five 4x3in photos in the spread.   That is a total of 7 photos for the pocket spread.    Having page protector #7 helped to bring all the landscape photos in a spread seamlessly.

I decided to use the larger photo as the title for this spread.   I am using ephemera from the Travelogue'23 kit and combination of two white alpha stickers from the shop ( White Foam Alpha Stickers,    ) to create the title, and frame the monument in the page

Once, I filled the 4x3in pockets from page protector#7 with the photos,  I needed to create an extra insert to add more photos, and that gave me the chance to also add my journaling lines to the spread.

I decided to transform one of the Travelogue'23 Digital Journaling cards from a portrait to landscape mode to fit inside the 4x3in pockets.

Then it was all about creating the small card that fits  in the small pocket of page protector #7(4x2in).

Once again, I am using one of the Travelogue'23 Digital cards to create the bases for these, as well as the 3x4 card for the last page in the spread.

Since all the pictures in the spread are taken at night, they are very color saturated and a bit dark.  That lead me to add a few pops of black to the embellishment clusters in each of the journal cards.  I mixed pieces of ephemera, cardstock stickers ( Travelogue  kit) and a few Digital Cut apart elements.

Finally, I decided to alter one of the bookmark cards into a 3x4 journaling cards and added the rest of the journaling here

I love how these turned out!   It was so easy to mix and match pieces from the TRAVELOGUE'23 kit into the spread.   I hope these give you some inspiration to use this week's prompts in a project of your own!

XO