3-to-inspire with Anna

Hi dear CTK friends!

Anna here with you today bringing you this week's 3-to-Inspire challenge. Actually it's one of my favourite challenges. This month's Life Crafted Kit, Here at my table, is amazing as always so easy going. Let's have a look at the prompts I've choosen.

1. Use your CTK stamps, physical or digital.
2. Use more than three patterned papers.
3. Use a b&w photo.

With these prompts (and a few more goodies) my 12x12 layout came up so easily and I had so much fun while creating.

Now it's your turn to dig into your kit's and play along with us in this challenge.

Here's what I came up with, enjoy!

I've used the circle stamp and the coffee mug from this months Add On stamp set, This Is Life "Food Stories Stamp". Then I used a circle punch to cut out my stamped images.

I used not less then five different patterned papers for my page. Three for my circles, one for backing my photo and also one (I used the digital paper and printed it out in A4) for the edges of my background.

And I did edit my photo in b&w. Actually I like b&w pics a lot since then you are not limited to the colors on your photo.

And there you have it!

Hope you have got some inspiration here today! Now it's your turn to dig into you scrappy things and start creating. I can't wait to see what you create using these three prompts. Don't forget to share with us on Instagram @citrustwistkits #citrustwistkits and/or our CTK Fan Page on Facebook.

Until next time! Anna xo

Life Crafted with Diane

Hi everyone, Diane here with a fun spread in my Life Crafted album.

The whole idea for this page came from that one little photo strip die cut in the ephemera pack! I measured out the little spaces and printed the same photo three times to fit. 

Then I went through the rest of the pack and picked out all the pretty floral pieces I haven't had a chance to use yet.

When it came to choosing a patterned paper for my spread, the floral paper I liked the most had huge lime green leaves on it. Not really the colour scheme I was going for. So I opened up the digital paper in Photoshop and easily changed the colours to suit my pastel theme. Check out my process video below for a very simple tutorial.

Once I had my paper printed, the rest of the page came together very simply by creating three floral clusters and adding little pops of black with some thread and a black gen pen! I'm a cheat I know, but I just couldn't risk destroying all that pastel-y goodness with black ink flying everywhere! 

Here's a look at the process this layout took ...

Thanks for stopping by today and I'd love to see any page you create using this technique so don't forget to tag me and share in the Citrus Twist Facebook Fan page!

MEET OUR GUEST DESIGNER: BARBARA PICINICH

we are so lucky to have Barbara join us on the blog one last time with one of her beautiful  projects...

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Hello everyone, I’m back today to share the second project I made with the At My Table Life crafted kit. This project was 1,000% inspired by the You Are All Heart die cut that came in the kit. I love bold titles on projects and new the minute I saw it that this would be the jumping off point for a project for sure.

One of the best things about having a preteen in the house is that she likes to take a lot of photos and many of them end up being really, really great selfies like this one. It’s also a bonus that she loves my scrapbooking projects and is super agreeable to allowing me to use the cute photos she takes. I of course couldn’t be happier since she is after all my number one source for scrapbooking inspiration. It’s also super important for me to leave behind layouts that will tell her how proud I am of her and how much joy she brings to our lives. This project is that for me, a simple layout that sends a simple message, you make me so proud and I love the person you are becoming so deeply.

Because the photo had so much impact and I wanted it to be the primary focus of this spread I printed it full size. I made sure when cropping the photo to leave as much space in the bottom right corner for some embellishments. I always try to leave a little space when I’m cropping full size photos because I always end up embellishing the photo in some way. I find it helps keep the weight of a layout even if there are some embellishments on both sides of the spread. Plus I really had my heart set on using these two pieces in particular because the sentiments really hit home for me and are important ones to make sure she knows these days. Adding in the little floral elements also helped tie this side in to the floral background paper on the left side.

After placing the title I know the left side needed just a smidge more interest and the arrow die cut was perfect to moving the eye around the page, the little floral sprig also helped tie the two sides together. And anytime I can add in a little tab to the edge of the page I’m all in. I really love when items hang off the edge of pages like this. And because I also had some of the flowers hanging off the page I opted to just punch holes directly into the photo and the page and add them into the album just like this. I really enjoy the mix of items in and out of pockets and I’ve never had an issue with anything getting damaged.

Of course once I know this was going outside of the protectors I decided to go for it and add foam tape the back of the title die cut to lift if off the page. Its crazy how just the tiniest bit of lift can bring so much life to a page. I probably should have added foam tape to my list of three products I couldn’t live without because I really love it!

thank you so much Barbara for join in us this month, and all your beautiful work.   WE have loved each of your pages and i am sure our followers have too.

Remember to leave Barbara some love and to follow her on social media, she is always adding amazing inspiration in it!

Christmas Daily with Tina

Hello CTK friends! Tina here today with a few pages and a process video created using Christmas Stories 2019 Kit for my favorite scrapbook project ever - December Daily!

I love everything about Christmas, snowy winter days and holiday traditions, for me this is really the best time of the year! But when December comes I always struggle to find time to document all the memories while I'm too busy making them. That's why I started with some base pages which you can prepare ahead although I decided to work on December 2016.

As I don't usually use lots of embellishments on album covers I decided to add only the words "Merry & Bright" to my Christmas album. And after that I started working on my title page. First I trimmed the green grid pattern paper to fit into the Life Crafted album. Then I matted the vellum calendar die cut with a piece of white cardstock, added puffy candy cone numbers and a few embellishments around the calendar. That's it!

Next I wanted to create a page divider using this awesome buffalo plaid screen cut file that is included in the Christmas Stories 2019 Kit. All you have to do is to cut two circles out of the "Paper 12" from the Together for Christmas collection by Pink Paislee, mat them with cute litlle paper doilies and some a few embellishments from the kit.

For the next page I used the other side of the same "Paper 12" pattern paper which is also so cute. I trimmed it to fit into the page protector #1, adhered puffy golden sticker "Merry" in the center and added a snowflake border at the top and bottom of the page. This beautiful snowflake frame is also one of the many wonderful cut files included with the kit.

And here is a spread made with my favorite pattern paper of the kit. For me it's too gorgeous to be cut to use the other side of the paper and I simply couldn't imagine not using it in my album. So I started by trimming the paper and adjusting the house image to fit into the album. After that I cut small squares out of the windows and backed them with photos and journaling. But you can fill these tiny windows with whatever you want, it can be Christmas movies you watched, or a few best memories of the season, or something you're grateful for, etc. In the end I added some puffy and word stickers here and there.

You can see my process in the video below:

I love how easily these pages came together using the Christmas Stories 2019 Kit. I hope I've given you a few ideas to use on your December Daily project! Be sure to share your projects on the CTK Fan Page on Facebook or use #citrustwistkits on Instagram so we can see what you come up with!

Let's Get Digital with Kira

Hey there!  It's Kira and I am back with another 8.5x11 scrapbook layout, using one of the exclusive cut files.  I loved the sunflowers on some of the cut files for this month, so I used the Cozy Days cut file, enlarged it, and snipped off the hexagons so I could use it as a focal point on my layout.

I used the add-on kit exclusively on this layout, backing the flower with papers from the kit, and choosing the amazing blue grid paper as my background.

I tucked my photo (my youngest son at the duck pond) into the leaves of the cut file.  And bumped the cut file and photo up on some foam.

I used the floral die cuts and die cut ephemera to add some clusters above and below my cut file.  And added in some wood veneer, puffy stickers and sequins (all included in the kit).

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hybrid Scrapbooking with Nathalie

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today with a few layouts of my Life Crafted album using the beautiful AT MY TABLE kit.   I love paper, but i think i equally love digital files, having the chance to build and customize my pages always comes in handy when you do daily documenting.   Every month CTK subscribers get a lot of perks that can easily stretch your kit and help you create one-of-a-kind pages.  Let me show you...

For  my first page, i chose to work with the cut files (available for free to subscribers) to help me create my spread.   First of, i wanted to add lots of journaling  - all about my son and his tree- so, i used the Digital TN paper  as the base for my 3x8 insert.

I created the 3x8 insert in Photoshop, then added the Digital TN paper, followed by my lines of journal.    For my title, i used one the  sentiment from the Picture Perfect cut file by simply using the PNG format of the cut file and sizing the title to fit on my page.   After printing it, i backed the insert with a paper from the Life Crafted kit and slipped in the pocket.  A small chipboard sticker was then added atop the pocket at the bottom of the page.

For the picture side of the spread, i enlarged the picture to fit to the page, then cut one of the Life Crafted screens from white cardstock.  I backed the screen with the picture and used a black fine liner to emphasize the writing on the cut.   A small cluster of ephemera complete this page.   This was easy and really time effective when putting together.

Let me show you another idea:

As soon as i saw this floral pattern in the kit, i  had this idea for one of my spreads.  So i used the Digital PL cards to create the two sides of the page.   For the right side, i enlarged the 4x6  digital PL card to fit to the page, while the left side of the spread was built using the 3x4 digital  PL card.  I enlarged two of the 3x4 cards, and rotated one so that i could complete the left side border with the patterned -if you see up close, you could see where i joined the cards-.

To build my page, i decided to cut a panel of vellum to fit inside the page, and cut one of the 4x6 cards from the Life Crafted kit.  The picture was then glued to the card and a small cluster of ephemera and puffy stickers complete this page.

For my lines of journal, i simply typed them when i was building my pages, so i can print them all at once, but chose to add my title by mixing the puffy stickers from the At My Table kit with some stamping using the Typewriter font stamp set from CTK.  Once again, completely in love with how this turned out.

Remember to check the Digital Shop to find the files used to create these layouts.  As always consider subscribing to Citrus Twist Kits as you will have access to so many perks that will stretch your kit each month.

AS always, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions!

Sunday Sketch with Marsha

Hey friends!  Marsha here with this week's Sunday Sketch challenge.  Today's sketch is so fun, and I hope you will be inspired to play along!

Here's a look at the sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

For my layout today, I chose to use the beautiful October Life Crafted "At My Table" Kit and the This Is Life Food Stories Stamp.  This kit and stamp set are perfect for any type of food-related documenting!

To begin my page, I decided to rotate the sketch so it would work better in my Life Crafted album.  I printed one of the traveler's notebook digital papers and trimmed it so I could use it on both sides of the spread.  Like the sketch, I decided to use two photos.  I trimmed a patterned paper from the Life Crafted kit and layered my photos on top, tearing a section of the paper at the bottom.  I love the texture this adds to the page.  Next, I fussy cut the floral piece from one of the journaling cards.  I thought it worked perfectly between my two photos.  I stamped a sentiment from the This Is Life Food Stories Stamp and added it over the wording on the card.  I thought it worked better with my layout.

Next, I used some of the digital cut aparts, that are available for this month, to embellish the page.  They are such a nice addition to the kit and are free for kit subscribers!  I added some stamping to the labels and added a few of the puffy and chipboard heart stickers from the kit to finish off the page.

For the other side of the layout, I trimmed a few of the patterned papers into strips and adhered them to the page, also tearing one of the strips.  Next, I added some machine stitching along the edges of the paper.  I love the interest and texture this adds!  For the title, I used some of the mint tiny alphabet stickers and a metallic puffy phrase sticker.

To embellish the page, I added some labels and a puffy scallop sticker.  I just LOVE the metallic puffy stickers in the kit this month!  I typed my journaling, trimmed it into strips, and adhered it to the page.

My layout came together so quickly using this awesome sketch!

Thank you for stopping by today!  I hope you will play along with this sketch challenge and share your project with us on the CTK Fan Facebook Page!