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

Sunday Sketch with Desiree

Hi crafty peeps! I am excited to share the Sunday sketch with the new, awesome, exclusive 2023 Travelogue kit. Let's take a look at this week's sketch.

I thought that this sketch would be perfect for me because it is simple enough for me to put my own spin on it. The first thing I thought about was layering the beautiful, bold color patterned papers from the Travelogue kit on this page.

For this sketch challenge, I decided to do a spread in my Sunshine Life Crafted Album.  Before layering the digital Travelogue papers under my picture, I smudged a bit of yellow ink on the paper to peek from under the cluster. 

I added a smaller picture to the lower right side of the larger picture. Then I layered the Travelogue Ephemera through the page. Below the cluster, I placed my typed journaling.

I decided to have a lot of fun with the left page. I started by smudging yellow and green ink on my paper. Once I saw the travel-themed polaroid picture die cuts, I knew wanted to vertically stack them on my page.  To add more interest, I staggered the die cuts vertically over my smudged ink, layering them over floral ephemera from the Travelogue die cuts.  I added the "journey" and "explore" die-cut words to the vertical cluster.

I used the Chloe Alphabet Stamp to add the small "into the city" title to the bottom of the page. Then I completed the spread by adding black splatters to tie in both pages.

I absolutely love the finished results of this Sunday Sketch. My favorite has to be the Travelogue papers in the cluster and the stacked polaroids from the Travelogue Die Cuts. 

I am so happy you joined me today. I wish you a happy, crafty weekend.

XO Desiree

 

3-to-Inspire with Marci

 

Hello CTK friends! It is Marci here. It is the first of the month which means there is a new release in the shop. I am very excited to bring you the first 3-to-Inspire with the new Travelogue collection! 

Here are the 3-to-Inspire prompts for this week:

1. Tone on tone embellishing
2. Use a tag 
3. Incorporate something “older” from your stash

I was drawn to the digital paper number 9. It reminded me of a map and the stitch marks across the green portion looked like lines on a road. I wanted to take this picture of my son and his friend driving an electric toy vehicle and make it look like they were driving on the road. Digital paper number 10 with the black circles made me think of tire tracks so I used that to mount my picture. 

To embellish the page, I got the idea to add tone on tone pieces to the three color portions of the paper. I used several die cuts from the Travelogue ephemera pack. I needed more pieces to fill in the spaces so I turned to the 2022 Travelogue chipboard stickers and some older enamel dots. Now I had enough pieces in the matching colors to make my design. These are my “older” items for the challenge. (I am using older in quotes because we all have stashes with different ages. Some of our older items might be a month older while other items are 10 years old! Go with what you have available to you.)

This month’s kit comes with a large Kraft shipping tag. I liked the idea of using it as the second page to my spread but the color didn’t work. I used the shipping tag as a template and cut my own out of one of the other digital papers. Now my tag coordinates with one of the colors from the left side of my spread. I added my title, journaling and more embellishments to the tag to finish out my spread. 

I hope you find the 3 prompts this week inspiring and give them a try. 

SUNDAY SKETCH with Nathalie

 

Hi there!

Nathalie with you today to share this week's sketch challenge with you all.  We love sketches around here, it is probably one of the easiest ways to build a page in a short amount of time.   Let's take a look at this week's sketch...

And here is what I have created using the Spring Dreams Digital collection and the new Gingham Garden 6x8 paper pad in my 6x8 Blueberry Life Crafted Album...

And just in case you ask, I built a wintery layout with the help of the Spring Dreams collection, well welcome to Spring here in Canada!!1

For my spread, I chose to flip the sketch 90 degrees clockwise.   The rotation of the sketch helps me to set my images onto the left side of the spread, and combine them with the larger photo on the right of the page.  I pretty much followed the sketch, and build the layers behind the photos using some of the Spring Dreams Patterned Paper, Spring Dreams  Journaling Cards, and Gingham  Garden 6x8 Paper pad.

I am using the placement of the tags to add pieces of Spring Dreams Digital ephemera and Spring Dreams Cut Apart Elements to my page.   I am using snowflake die cuts to tie the page all together.  The main difference comes to the placement of the title. 

In my page, I am using the Cherish Stamp set to add a few sentiments at the bottom of the picture as a subtitle for the page.  I moved the title to the right side of the spread and placed a top of the picture.  Love how the white foam alphas pop from the color of the mittens to match the snow!

I hope this week's sketch provides some inspiration for a new project of your own. Remember to share with us your finished projects

XO

  

3-To-Inspire With Diane

 

Hi there, it's Diane here with this week's 3-To-Inspire Challenge!

For this layout I used the Spring Dreams Digital Collection, papers and ephemera from the Gingham Garden Collection (Crate Paper) and the Rose Gold Puffy Alphabet Stickers from the shop.

Here are my three prompts:

1. Go Vertical. Use strong vertical lines with patterned paper and photos.

2. Use a photo frame in at least one spot to highlight a photo.

3. Create a large title using puffy alphabet Stickers.

For the first prompt I printed out the digital patterned paper twice and cut those in half to create the vertical elements. Next, I selected two photos to be printed vertically in the same size as the paper.

For the second prompt I then selected two frames from the Gingham Garden Ephemera Kit and printed photos to go behind them. 

I love using frames to spotlight my favorite photos!

For the last prompt I used those gorgeous Rose Gold Alphas to create my title. I added some strips of journaling, a few more embellishments and this layout was done!

I hope you will play along this week! If you do, make sure to tag Citrus Twist Kits so that we can see your beautiful projects!

Happy Scrapping!

Diane

Sunday Sketch with Lory

 

Hello everyone!Happy Sunday! new Sunday means new sketch and inspiration oh yeah! And here I am! Happy to inspire you with a new page following the adorable  sketch below. I love the minimal style but filled with little details ;)

Here my page

It's a 9x12 layout with a single photo of me and my little boy walking to his school. Love these little moments and I am proud of me, to have taken this picture, these moments will not come back. They are a treasure.

I have played with the adorable March Spring Dreams digitals, they are lovely, I cut our some butterflies and  Patterned papers  and mixed them with some ephemera from the past kits, the Cherish Die Cut ephemera.

Here some details

I  have finished the page using my favorite ever stamps , I am completely in love with all the stamps from Citrus twist they are gorgeous in quality and design:)

Hope this page will inspire you to create your and have fun.

Have a wonderful Sunday

Love, Lory 

3-TO-INSPIRE WITH KATARINA

Hey friends, Katarina here with you again. Today I am coming with my 3-to-inspire project using the beautiful SPRING DREAMS digitals with some other shop exclusives.

My prompts for this week are:

1. Use a big B&W photo

2. Layering

3. Embellish tone on tone

And here’s my project.

I am in love with all the digital products this month. The colors are so fresh and beautiful. I chose three of them and decided to create three sections in the left side of my project. I cut three rectangles from the digital papers and layered multiple digital ephemera, elements and other products – all tone on tone. 

For my right side I used a whole-page black and white photo of me and my son. To make both pages more cohesive, I used the left over frames from the patterned papers. I layered them in two corners of my photo.

To bring a little bit of the B&W vibe to the left page, I used a combination of black and white Foam Alphabet for my title.

I hope you feel inspired by my prompts and my project and all the beautiful products in the SPRING DREAMS release. Thank you for stopping by and wish you a great weekend full of crafting!