Meet our February Guest Designer - Jessy Christopher-Tham!

We are so happy to share our February Guest Designer with you - Jessy Christoper-Tham!  We've been so lucky to have her create two projects for us this month and today we're excited to share her first project, a beautiful 12x12 layout!  You can see more of Jessy's stunning work on her blog and Instagram!

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Hello there. Jessy here to share with you a layout created with the February Life Crafted kit. As always before I picked out my supplies, I will sure draw inspirations from the photo. For this layout, the flora designs on my daughters' Chinese costumes gave me inspirations for the overall look. 

I started with pleating ruffles with tissue papers. The ruffles sure added interesting textures to the layout. Next, I positioned the 2 patterned papers. They were carefully picked to match the photos. 

Then I positioned the photos somewhere in the middle. I added doilies to further enhance the girly feminine look I was going for. 

To complete the layout, I adhered all the cute butterflies and other cute details like chipboard stickers, acetates and cute sentiments all around the layout. 

It's always fun to create with any CTK kits, really! Thanks for joining me today! 

Xoxo Jessy

PL Challenge with Alena

Alena here with  Pocket Life Challenge for you!  In my spread I used the wonderful February 2019 Life Crafted “Love Stories” Kit

I like to use pastel / white cards for my Project Life. This allows me to add a variety of embellishments. 

So, my challenge for you:

Add as many titles and phrases as possible to your spread.

Very good-looking pieces of acetate. You can place them on top of the photo.You can play around with making little clusters of ornaments or just keep things really simple with a single stamped image. The possibilities here are endless!

Remember to share your creations with us on the Citrus Twist Kits Friends page on Facebook or by using #CTK, @Citrustwistkits on social media.

Alena

Bible Journaling -- Life Crafted with Cece

Hiya, friends! Cece here with a Bible journaling entry using this month's beautiful Life Crafted kit!

I love how beautiful and versatile the Life Crafted kit is. It is perfect for memory keeping/ documenting, scrapbooking, and even Bible journaling.

This kit came with a bunch of butterfly die cuts and hearts (which are some of my favorite elements to work with) in different sizes and colors. It also came with different labels to choose from. It made creating this page in Psalms so fun and easy. In lieu of Valentine's Day, I created this entry as a response to Psalm 145. It is my love letter back to God to show how grateful I am of His love for me.

How are you using your Life Crafted kit? I can't wait to see what you are doing with this month's kit. Please don't forget to share it over on the Citrus Twist Fan Page.

Have a great rest of the week.

Sunday Sketch with Amanda!

Hi CTK Friends!

Amanda here, and I am so excited to be joining you for today's installment of the awesome Sunday Sketch challenge! I hope you'll get some time to craft & play along!
Here's the fabulous sketch we're being inspired with.....

Wow! What a terrific sketch! I love this design & can see it working for both scrapbook pages AND as a page for my Life Crafted Album!
So naturally,  I've created both pages to inspire you with!
First up is my scrapbook layout, "Sweet"

CTK Supplies: Life Crafted February Love Stories Kit, February Scrapbooking Add-on Kit.

Sigh! Isn't this divine! Such a young, fresh & feminine page of my daughter & niece! I just adore all those pretty pattern paper layers & colors! Gorgeous!
With such a fabulous sketch, I really didn't want to alter it. I mean, seriously, that design rocks! So my layout follows it fairly closely.
I especially loved the shipping tag feature, & just had to use the 4" x 8" cream tag that was included in the Love Stories Kit!
Here's a closer look at my layout....

I switched the messy thread in the sketch for the hearts, butterfly & acetate die cut. The larger hearts are fussy cut from one of the Crate Paper La La Love papers. That bright blue one coordinates perfectly with the puffy sticker heart & die cut butterfly, and really pops against the soft colors. 

And need I mention how amazing the acetate die cuts are in this month's Love Stories Kit?! Love!!!!!!

Here's a look at another acetate shape on my layout.......

Beautiful!

I use the crisp white Heidi Swapp Thickers from the Scrapbooking Add On Kit for my layout title, and embellish this cluster with more of those pretty ephemera butterflies, and puffy sticker hearts.

Oh.so.pretty!!!

For my Life Crafted Album page, I rotate the sketch 90 degrees so it will better suit my narrow 5" x 8" layout....

CTK Supplies: Life Crafted February Love Stories Kit, February Scrapbooking Add On Kit, February Subscriber Printables. 

Oh how beautiful! I've used a similar color scheme, but this time I opted for warm red accents instead of mint green. I used one of the February Subscriber Printables in place of my layout title, & positioned my title where the journaling may have featured. Those exclusive gold puffy alphabet are simply stunning! Such a sweet lil page for my Life Crafted Album! 

And there you have it - one sketch, two ways! 

I hope my layouts have inspired you to play along and get creating with your Citrus Twist Life Crafted Kits! 

Be sure to share your creations in the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page HERE.

I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks so much for joining me today, 

til next time, 

Happy Arty Days, 

Amanda xo 

3-to-Inspire with Anna

Hi dear CTK friends!
Anna here with you today to host one of my favourite challenges, the 3-to-Inspire, YAY!
I think it's so inspiring and a perfect kick of to start playing with my stuff.
Hope you will join in and play along with me , can't wait to see your goodness.

Here's my promts for this week.

1: Pick up one main color from your photo/photos and stick with that, not necessarily in a monochrom way but mainly your chosen color.
2: Use ephemeras/Die-Cuts
3: Incorporate stamping

And here's what I came up with using my three prompts and the February Life Crafted "Love Stories" kit.

I think you can tell what color I went for, lol! And i opted for a pretty monochrom page as well. Don't you love those triangle enamels? You find them in the beautiful February Add On Kit. Eye candy!

My next prompt was use Ephemeras/Die-Cuts and you find lots of them in this months kit, both Cardstock ones and in Acetate. Pure awesomeness.

More Ephemeras, love to use them in layers and look at those Enamels again, so shiny and beautiful.

My third and last promt for this week is stamping. I've used the lovely CTK Life Crafted - This is Life - Heart & Soul stamps. You find them in the CTK shop.

Here's some of the fabulous Acetate Ephemeras. I love the bright and happy colors in the pack.

And there you have it! Hope you find it inspiring and also I hope to see your take on this weeks edition of 3-to-Inspire. Be sure to share with us on the CTK Fan Page and/or tag us on Instagram #citrustwistkits @citrustwistkits so we can give you some love <3

Thanks for stopping by! Anna xo

Life Crafted with Melanie

Hello CTK friends, Melanie here today.
I am sharing some more pages in my wonderful Life Crafted Album. I used the lovely February Life Crafted Kit  and the This is Life 'heart and Soul stampset.
The first layout is a double page, one 8x4 inch size and a smaller insert (8x3 inch). I love to vary the page sizes in my album, that  makes for a lot more interest.

For the first page I trimmed the gorgeous flower paper to size and added my picture with the die cut title and some tags and hearts to the bottom of the page. I sewed along the hearts to add a little more texture.

I stamped a label by using the stamps from the kit, cut it out and glued it on top of my layout, then I slid everything into the pocket before attaching a butterfly on top it. When I work with pocket pages I love to stick some pieces outside the pockets. It adds a lot of texture and makes everything more interesting when flipping through the pages.

I repeated the same technique on the left hand side of my spread where I used two of the cards from the kit to fill in my pockets. I placed my journaling on one of the cards and called my spread done.

For the backside of the 3x8 pocket I also used two of the cards. I created my own embellishment by using the heart stamp on a red card and punching it out with a circle punch.  I stapled it on the card and journaled about our evening strolls, playing Pokémon Go, which I love right now. 

I stapled the 24/7 diecut on my bottom card to finish this page.

I hope you all love your Life Crafted Albums like I do and I can't wait to see what you're creating. As always, don't forget to share your work with us on Instagram (#citrustwistkits) and in our Facebook Group ! Until next time, 

Melanie

Using stamps in Project Life

I love using stamps to embellish my Project Life spreads? The sentiments in Citrus Twist stamp sets are always magic and this month is no different. I used the February Traveler's Notebook set for this week's spread and I LOVE the results. (And a coffee stamp is always going to be a winner in my book!)  

I'm just about always stamping on photos, and I put most of my success down to printing my photos at home on Canon Photo Glossy II paper. It has the kind of surface that ink soaks into, rather than sits on top of so it is easy to get a crisp and sharp stamped image. My favourite inks to use are Memento Tuxedo Black and Brilliance Moonlight White. But I forgot how great coloured inks can look too!

I love the way this red ink looks on my photo. And when combined into a stack with another black stamp and some gel pen lines, it really makes an impact. Don't forget that if you use coloured dye inks on photos, they really need a white or light coloured background to show up well!

Here's how I used my February Traveler's Notebook stamp set to embellish my Project Life spread ...

How often do you challenge yourself to stamp on photos? They really do add the perfect finishing touch! Don't forget to post your layouts in the Facebook Fan Page so we can all see!