Product Showcase - GraceBox - Amy Tangerine Die Cuts

Hi crafty friends! 

Ashley here and I am so excited to share with you how I used these vibrant Amy Tangerine die cuts in my Bible! Jessy and Rachel will also being sharing how they incorporated their shapes today. I just love seeing how different people use the same products and their pages look completely different or so similar! 

Here is a WALK (see what I did there?!) through of my page.  

 First thing I did was get messy with come acrylic craft paints. Fingers are best for soft edges.

 Next I took the AWESOME patterned stamps that come in the MARCH GraceBox.

 Next I grabbed the pack of Amy Tangerine Die Cut Shapes. They are colorful, bold and whimsical! I loved the variety. There are several that are over three inches, so a few can really go far on your page. These beauties will go everywhere on my pages!

One die cut that I loved right away was this sweet cactus. But there was only one of them. I really wanted to frame my frame with cacti so one trick I like to do is cut a shape into two. If you know you will be layering and tucking the pieces in somewhere, no one will ever know that it was cut. Two for the price of one!

 

 In the picture below (dont mind the yellow lighting, I may have been crafting into the wee hours of the morning) you can see that I was going to tuck the cactus behind the pink oval. You will never see the cut edge.

 Here is how is looks glued behind. The other half of the cactus in at the bottom of the pink oval frame. Slick trick!

 Ah, dawns early light and things are look clean and white again. :) 

 I loved using so many of the treasured die cuts this month! What can you do with your GRACEBOX to create a fun layout this month. 

Happy creating! 

Ashley Haake

@magmagandme

Product Showcase March GraceBox : Amy Tangerine Die-Cut Shapes

Hello everyone! It's Jessy here today. I'm here today with Ashley & Rachel to showcase one of March GraceBox products, that is the Amy Tangerine Die-Cut Shapes. Seriously love how vibrant these die-cuts are! I'm sure you gonna love them!

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I absolutely love the colorful die-cut shapes in Amy Tangerine’s products. As this month’s theme is WALK, I went on to explore products that I can use. Instantly I got the idea when I saw the words “today” & “adventure”. I knew they would be great addition to this verse Psalms 86:11-12, that I’m working on.

I love the how colorful are the die-cuts and how cohesive they are together especially when cardstock pieces paired with transparency pieces. Then I completed the page with a prayer, a combo of my handwritten words + stamped words. They look great together!

Thanks for coming by! 

Xoxo Jessy

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Tuesday Tutorial with Tara - Smooshing

Hello friends, I hope you had a good start to your week. It's Tara here sharing my "smooshing technique" -

making a bright background (resembles watercolor) that you can use numerous ways. I used this

technique today on smaller cards to give sunshine and encouragement to send off in the mail. The colors

in March's GraceBox kit were so beautiful and it worked well with this technique.

Here is a step by step guide to get you to smooshing. You will need:

• Distress ink pads (you can test out other types of ink pads too!)
• Plastic packaging (I keep all the Citrus Twist Kit’s stamp packaging)
• Paper (I recommend heavier cardstock or watercolor/mixed media paper)
• Spritzer/water bottle
• Water 

First, grab an ink pad and stamp it directly onto the plastic. You will have to practice how many times you want to stamp the ink on the plastic to vary the intensity of the color.

Next, get a mister, spray bottle, or use a brush with some water and get some water on the stamped ink spots. Again, you will have to see how much or how little water you want to get the right color for your background. I practiced on some plain printer paper a few times, but usually I just wing it.

Now is the fun part! Carefully take your plastic and smoosh it onto your paper a few times. Feel free to add more water, more ink, and go crazy. The best part is you can never have too much color.

I added one of Amy Tangerine’s ‘Sunshine and Good Vibes’ die cuts and used the exclusive GraceBox stamps to add sentiments. I finished one card with a label sticker from the kit and some heart cork pieces from my stash.

Here is a look at the finished cards:

And a little closer look at each one:

I hope this inspired you to get more color on your layouts, bible journaling pages, and other fun projects.
Thank you for stopping by today.

Have a great week! Xxo - Tara

Product Showcase with Kira, Anna and Veera

Hey everyone!  It's Kira and I am back with Anna and Veera for another product spotlight.  This month we wanted to highlight and show y'all a few ways to use the Here and There ephemera that was included in the main "Lemon Drop" scrapbook kit.

First off, how perfect are the colors in this collection?!  I chose this photo of my son Elliott outside and I played off the blue in his shirt and the orange of the pot beside him.  I also loved the neutral pieces along with the rose gold, which played off the other colors in my photo.

I personally LOVE ephemera, but sometimes, does it ever feel like you're drowning in it?!  Which is why I like to create really ephemera-heavy layouts at times.  I started with a couple of the journaling cards that were from the "Photo Op" paper.  I layered one behind my photo and another beside it, but slightly lower.

Then I started layering my ephemera.  I don't think there is any wrong way to create a layout like this.  Grab pieces you like and tuck them every which way around your photo!  Seriously, have fun with it!

I also used a frame from the ephemera pack, but felt like it was missing something.  Easy fix!  I grabbed one of the stamps (I chose "snapshot") from the kit, and stamped right on it for a unique piece of ephemera.

You can watch my entire process here.  I can't wait to see how you use the ephemera in this kit as well! 





Hi CTK friends! Anna here with my Product Showcase page. But first I want to say that I adore my team mates, Kira & Veera, stunning pages. Super inspiring indeed!

Well, here's what I came up with.

This is one of my absolutely favorite views. The sunrise in California, from the kitchen of one of my best friends. This silhouette is super exotic for a Swedish girl, lol!

These gorgeous Here+There Ephemeras are just perfect for my page, love them all!

Hi, It’s Veera here to show you our last product showcase layout. It’s no secret that I love ephemera and this time wasn’t an exception. One of my favorite ways to use ephemera, especially when there are bigger pieces of ephemera included like in this case, is grid design.

In this grid layout I have used mostly elements from the ephemera pack. With all the different colors and shapes I was able to create a loose grid. I layered the ephemera pieces to create additional interest. I tried to use a variety of shapes and sizes.

Tip of the day: It might be a good idea to use ruler when starting the grid so that it’s not all crocked like mine!

We hope that you are now inspired to use the Here+There Ephemera pack from your kit!


-Kira, Anna & Veera

Sunday Sketch with Kira

Hey everyone!  It's Kira and I am back with TWO layouts for you using the Sunday Sketch.  Have you used the sketches for your travelers notebook layouts yet?  I consider myself a TN newbie...or a TN dabbler?  Lol.  I don't know, I do TN spreads occasionally, but it's definitely not my main form of documenting.  So I find sketches really helpful!

I used the sketch originally for this 12x12 layout.  I chose this picture of my dog since it was horizontal vs. vertical orientation.  And then I stuck very closely to the sketch.

I started with all my paper layers.  I used the 6x6 papers that were included in the Pocket Life kit.  I wanted to use ALL THE COLORS on this layout.  So I loved the public transportation map paper, and loved that it also served as a neutral to break up the other patterned paper I chose.

I created a small cluster to the left of my photo using the camera from the thicker pack, a couple stickers from the Here & There sticker pack and finished it off with a puffy sticker from the PL kit.  

I added a small amount of stitching on top of the layers in black thread.  Along with a few puffy stickers from the embellishment kit and Pocket Life kit to add another pop of color above my photo.

I used the Here & There thickers for my title.  And layered it with a sticker from the Here & There cardstock stickers.  I brought the puffy stickers down to my title to create a diagonal design along my page and incorporated some more black by adding some splatters.

I added my journaling strips and a date stamp and called this page done.  You can watch the entire process here.

Now see how I used the same sketch but in a TN format. 

The first thing I did for this TN spread was flip the sketch on it's side.  Most of my photos are portrait orientation since I take them on my phone.  So it made more sense to me to flip the sketch.

I also went a little lighter on my layers.  And honestly, finding the right balance was harder in this format than it was on the 12x12 layout...but that's probably because I am a TN newbie/dabbler.

You might notice that I did add some stitching on my layers here too.  I did that before I adhered on layers into my album, and chose black since I knew I was going to add black throughout the rest of the layout.

When I started working on the reverse side, I knew I wanted to use one of the adorable Amy Tangerine paperclips as my title.  This led to me deciding on sort of flipping my orientation again.  I think it added a really whimsical look to the page. 

I added the phrase "Photo Story" from the TN stamp set.  Then added journaling strips underneath.  I finished the page off with black splatters.  You can watch the entire process here. 

I can't wait to see how you interpret this sketch!

Until next time,

Kira 

 

3-to-Inspire with Kathleen

Hey there, it's Kathleen here again and I'm so happy to bring you another 3-to-Inspire blogpost - these are definitely one of my absolute favourites here on the Citrus Twist Kits blog!

I hope you already had some time to play with your March "Lemon Drop" kits and love them as much as me :) The fun, bright colours together with the black and white patterns are my favourite thing in the kit! So it's no surprise that I'm showcasing those on my project for today's blogpost.

For my project I used the Scrapbook Main and the Embellishment kit.

And here are the three prompts:

• Use at least two black and white patterned papers
• Add hidden journaling
• "Frame" your layout

You don't have to use a lot of the black and white patterned papers, just a strip of it peeking out from behind something or using it to mat your photo totally work, too!

For my hidden journaling I used a piece from the Crate Paper "Here + There" ephemera pack, typed my journaling on (my typewriter wasn't cooperating but since I had only one of those pieces so I couldn't redo it and because the text is hidden, I just went with it) and then tucked that piece on the left side behind my white cardstock.

When I adhered the paper strips around my white cardstock, I made sure to leave a space for that card where I didn't add any adhesive.

To add some colourful contrast to the black and white elements on my page, I decided to use some orange/coral red bits and pieces, like the patterned paper strip on the left, the tag from the "Here + There" ephemera pack and some of the Pinkfresh Studio "The Mix No. 2" puffy hearts.

But before that I thought I would try doing a mixed media-ish background using some watercolours, mists and a star stencil with some shimmery texture paste (it's difficult to see in the photos, but you can see it on the right side next to the photo and on the lower left side, too).

Mixed media is still "difficult" for me and I need to try things out and kinda find my groove, which is also why it's rather "light" on this layout, but I am super happy with how it turned out!

Then I added the date and some phrases with roller stamps from my stash and that's it!

I hope you like my take on the prompts and of course I would love to see how you interprete them! If you play along, don't forget to upload your project to the CTK gallery and/or Facebook group for a chance to win a $5 coupon to the store!

PL Challenge | Kristel

Hi all! Yay, it's Friday, so time to prepare some scrappy weekend projects :-)
Today I have another PL page for which I have used this month's
"Lemon drop" PL kit and if your up for a fun challenge, read on!

I normally only embellish a couple of cards and photos, so for this page I thought it would be fun to embellish all of them.
As I'm pretty minimalistic, I think it can become rather cluttered this way, but
if you don't overdo it or use too many different colors, it's lots of fun actually!

These paperclip words caught my attention immediately and so I had to find a way

to use it on this page. Combined with one of the puffy word stickers, it made

the perfect embellishment!

I've had a lot of fun making this page and I hope you will enjoy these next prompts as a way to create your own pages with this challenge:

- Add something to every photo and card
- Use at least one of the paperclip words from your kit onto a photo
 - Bonus, for extra fun: Create a page or spread with photos of just one particular moment.
Challenge yourself to find multiple ways to photograph the same instance.

I hope you have a lovely (and crafty) weekend and until next time!

Love, Kristel