Fall Flowers Layout by Angela

Hey friends! It's Angela back on the blog with a brand new scrapbook page featuring October Scrapbooking Add-on kit and it's all about my love for fall, my preferred season at all.

This month scrapbooking kit has plenty of goodies from Crate Paper Marigold collection. Its warm colors are perfect to document the season we are diving in, here in Italy.

For the background of my page, I couldn’t resist to use this beautiful pink tartan plaid matched with a darker brownish patterned paper that peek from two of the borders.

The photo is from a flower shop in my town, where a friend of mine works. I love flowers so I always find a way to go to see her and the flower setting outside the shop, amaze me every time.  

Since I am documenting Autumn, I decided to use one of the Citrus Twist cut-files, the one called Seasons that has the word FALL. You can find it here, together with SPRING cut-file too, for those who live in the Southern Hemisphere. I cut it with my Silhouette Cameo out of the woodgrain patterned paper from Flourish Life Crafted kit and I sticked it to the page using foam adhesive.

I surrounded the cut-file and the photo with pieces from the Marigold ephemera pack. I used one of the old book pages that comes in the add-on kit to backed the photo and I placed other two little pieces of the same old pages along the borders, sewed between the two patterned papers of the background, just to add a bit of interest.

I used one of the cards from the die-cut pack to write a little note, typed with my old typewriter. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall' from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

To balance the design, I added a few strips of patterned paper at the top and on the bottom of the page.

Last, I stamped a few branch leaves from Ready For This stamp and added a few tiny puffy sticker flowers and voilà!

If you like, here is the process video for the page.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you liked the page and got inspired some how to create with October Citrus Twist kits.

Xo, NG

Pocket Page Challenge with Sheree

 

Hi everyone!

It’s Sheree here with you today and I have a new pocket page challenge to share with you!   I’ve used the gorgeous “Flourish” Life Crafted Kit to put together this double page spread about what’s happening around our place so far this October.

I absolutely adore the fun colours in the kit this month and it wasn’t hard to pick out the perfect cards to use for my project.  

I always like to add typed journaling to my cards so using the digital version of the kit cards makes it super easy to do in Photoshop.  For the title card on this spread I added text to this yellow card before printing it out.  I added some machine stitching, then adhered the “October” title down the side using the beautiful green puffy alphabet stickers.  A couple of enamel dots finished this card off perfectly.

For the photo next to this card I added the “Love” ephemera piece and layered a word sticker and a puffy heart sticker on top.  Stitching was also added with my sewing machine for a little texture.

At the bottom of the first page is a photo of my blooming cactus.  I simply layered puffy stickers onto a word sticker and added a row of stitching.

The pretty floral card is one of my favourites!   I stamped a phrase from the 3” x 4” FLOURISH Life Crafted Kit Stamp Set onto some white cardstock, adhered it across the middle of the card and added a row of stitching.

At the top of the second page I added another word sticker to the bottom of the photo along with a puffy heart sticker and stitching.

For the blue “noted” journaling card I printed some text onto vellum and stitched it onto the card. I like that this added an extra layer instead of just printing straight onto the card.  I also adhered a couple of enamel dots at the top of the card too.

At the bottom of this page I have a 4” x 6” photo of the fair that’s on right now around the corner from where we live.  I snapped this photo on one of our afternoon walks and I love how the colours in this photo work with this kit!  I created a little cluster in the top left corner of the photo using ephemera, a piece from the digital cutapart sheet, a word sticker, a puffy star, some enamel dots…and more stitching of course!

You can watch my process in the video below if you'd like to see more detail...

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing how I put this spread together and that I’ve given you a few ideas you can use on your pocket pages!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sheree x

Sparkle & Joy with Patricia

 

Hello CTK Friends!  It seems like this year coming to a close soon and it will interesting to document December this year.  I'm so thankful to be documenting it with the gorgeous Sparkle & Joy kit!  Before December comes, I love to take my time and create with the kit contents with techniques, even stamping, anything that can take time, so that when December comes, I can be inspired to work on it in the evenings.  The first technique I did was to use the We R Memory Keepers Button Maker along with the pattern paper from the kit.  Once you get the hang of this amazing tool, it doesn't take long to create, and how nice to have my own flare ready to use.  

My idea for these buttons is to use them on the cover of my Peacock Life Crafted Album.  I think they will just pop off the cover.  I created the three different sizes available, and will decide when time to adhere to my cover if I will use the large flare with the stamping or not.  I do have two other buttons with stamping, so I may leave it to just those two.

My next technique for preparing is using the kit cards with the Nuvo Embellishment Mousse.  These are going to give my album the magical feel I love to show and express in my December album, and will be ready to just decide which day to use them on.  

I used the Christmas Icons Cut File.  I cut and trimmed the bell to use as a stencil.  For the holly leaves, I cut them twice, once from pattern paper and the second way by altering it in the Silhouette Software to offset it and cut from white cardstock to use as a stencil.

For the star ornament with the poinsettia, I used it as a stencil for the inside part and a mask for the outside part.

I didn't discard the cut file for the star ornament, it was too pretty!  I am going to reuse it on another card I used the branches to stencil onto.  I love all the greens with that font in red on the card!

And here is a video showing you how I made my buttons and the cards!  Hope to give you some ideas to get ready for December with Sparkle & Joy!

Fall Love with Veronica

 

Hello Sweet Crafty Friends,

Veronica here sharing another fun layout with tons of layers in my crafted life album. I love crafting during the fall. It's my second favorite time of year. Winter being my first! Something about a crisp breeze blowing through my window and crafting with a nice warm cup of coffee. This layout documents my love for coffee and my silhouette machine.  

I used the long 3X8" card that reads "everything is going to be okay".  I thought this went well with my attitude lately. LOL I have been working from home and homeschooling and I wake up extra early to scrapbook so I start my day happy and content that I have had some "me time".

 

Up next, I used a insert with 2 3x4" pockets. I placed a cute 3X4" card at the bottom. At the top I placed a digital tag that I printed and cut. I added a twine piece and then filled this pocket with some sequins.

 

On the back side I added more digital tags from this months set.  On the main layout I added many layers with tags, puffy stickers and enamel dots. 

 

Here is a quick close up of my pockets:

 

Hope you too are crafting and enjoying fall where every you are! Happy crafting!

Sparkle & Joy with Krystal

 

Hey everyone, Krystal here with a first look at my December album for 2020. This year, I'm taking a simple photo-a-day approach using the idea of finding joy in the everyday as my inspiration. I know this holiday season isn't going to be like other years' and I'm hoping this project will help me focus on the good parts and find joy and gratitude in the simple things.

I'm starting my album with a "Reason Why" page. I want to use this page to set the tone for the album and remind myself why I'm creating this project in the first place. I plan to add some typed text later on as we get closer to the holidays, but for now I wanted to create the base page to make the whole process easier later on. 

I used the Joy Screens cut file to create a cover for my shaker pocket. I cut the screen from red cardstock from my stash and the "Joy" overlay from white cardstock. I love this candy cane effect!

I added some of the red alphas from the Sparkle & Joy kit to finish the sentiment. Then I embellished with a piece of patterned paper that I cut into a little banner to hold one of the phrase stickers from the kit. I finished the whole thing off with a little gold puffy heart, also from the kit. 

For the left hand side of the page, I used the same blue & green plaid paper as a background. I cut a large tag shape from some smooth white cardstock, then used the Bailey alpha stamps to stamp out "Reason Why" in red. I left the tag loose from the page so that I could run it through my typewriter later on.

You can see both pages come together in the process video below.

I hope these pages inspired you to start laying the foundation for your December documenting. Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday sketch / Marivi

Happy Sunday!

Today I show you a new challenge and this is the sketch.

For this design I have used an Add-on Kit, which in addition to the latest Crate Paper collection, includes some vintage elements such as book sheets and ribbons that I love.

It is a design of layers of paper, a pink paper and on top one of the book sheets. I have sewn a strip of paper with a wood motif and on top an ephemera card and finally the photo.

In the photo I have sewn an ephemera with a stamp motif and underneath a vellum flower and a golden sticker in the shape of leaves.

With the strip of paper I have also sewn a piece of lace and underneath the sewn a butterfly appears with a sticker in the shape of a corsage.

I have placed the title on the upper part that I have also sewn and as a small detail a bee.

I hope you like it and are encouraged to participate in the challenge.

 

3 to Inspire with Amy Jo Vanden Brink

 

I'm so excited to be back this month with another 3 to Inspire challenge.  I always love this challenge because I find that limiting my supplies always increases my creativity!  For this week's challenge I used the puffy stars, the alphabet and the pink word phrases (love these sentiments!).

I decided to document my summer reading list (and this was only the recent portion, thanks to my local library's amazing e-reading system I have read a lot this year!).  I also had a few fall photos to add into the mix, and I based most of the design off of the "currently" doodle card (wish I had ten of this one!). 

The stars added into the mix to bring colors across both sides, and the alphabet was such a great color this month, it allowed me to have a nice matching title.

Here is a closer look at the left side.

And the right side.

Thanks for checking out my project today, I hope this inspires you to grab 3 quick supplies and get documenting!