Sunday Sketch with Lory

 Hello everyone!

Happy Sunday! Sunday means quality time with family, friends, crafty time, outdoor time, so it means whatever you love to do to unplug e recharge yourself, don't you think?

Today I am happy to share my entry for this week Sunday sketch! I'm going on with my September 2021 album and I can't wait to see it complete definitely.

Here the sketch

I have used the beautiful September Retro mini kit and the adorable digital files.

I started from the sketch to create a double 4x8 page for my life crafted album, I used the sketch as the starting point to create something new and tell my stories.

I played with the digital patterned papers, the journaling card, the puffy alphabet stickers. The story of the school adventure for my second boy. Love him to the moon and back.

You can find the kit in the shop together to gorgeous album and stamps :)

Hope you like it and it will inspire you to take care of your everyday memories.

Have a wonderful creative week,

love, Lory

3- to-Inspire WITH NATASHA

 

Hello CTK friends! A new month is here bringing a brand new mini kit, "Explore", and I am here to kick off this month's 3-to- Inspire challenge! For today's 3-to-Inspire recipe I have selected:

1. Tiny Words Explore Stamp

2. Assorted 3mm washi tape from the Life Crafted Explore Mini Kit

3. Puffy Sparkle Stickers from the Explore Puffy Stickers

For this layout in my Memory Planner, I envisioned creating a stamped background using a variety of word phrases from the Tiny Words Explore Stamp set. I selected a few sentiments that reflected my weekly moments and stamped the tiny word several times in a cluster to be able to create a background for the photo. Using the same ink color throughout helps with building a cohesive look throughout the whole spread with the color and balance.

After my stamped backgrounds were completed, I started building onto these stamped clusters. Using a combination of ephemera from the Explore Mini Kit along with a coordinating patterned paper from my Citrus Twist Kit stash. I wanted to stick within a selected color palette, so I used pieces that I thought worked well together.

I utilized the washi tape, as if it was stitching done my a sewing machine. For each photo that really brought me joy this week, I tore a small strip of washi tape and overlapped it on my photo and onto the page. I love the look of stitching in layouts but without a sewing machine I am always looking for ways to accomplish a similar look without it. As this washi tape is so narrow I think it does the job beautifully!

The last item I selected in my recipe for this memory planning layout are the small sparkle and tiny starbursts puffy stickers from the Explore Puffy Sticker sheet. When pulling a layout together, especially a memory planning layout with lots of photos from various events often with varying colors and lighting, I am always looking for ways to pull it all together. Similar to the use of the repeat stamping in the same ink color, I used these small puffy stickers to help pull my selected colors around the two planner pages. I think of them as sprinkles like on a cupcake- it is such a small detail but makes a huge impact! 

With so many beautiful products from this release, I encourage you to try my 3-to-Inspire recipe or create your own. Narrowing down your supplies is one of the best ways to really use your supplies, fight the overwhelm that can sometimes come around when documenting, and most importantly get your cherished memories down in your albums. I promise you, it's easier than you think using the Life Crafted products.

Sunday Sketch with Lory

Hello everyone! Happy new year! Yeah!

New year is coming and before to start telling new stories and showing you a new approach I would like to use it's time to complete my December Daily 2021 album, don't you think?

Put your hands up is you are part of the team "I finish my album in January" LOL! I am part of it and I love this because to be true I'm enjoying every single moment I spend telling these stories and creating beautiful memories of them.

So today I am happy to share with you Day 14 of my album created using the sketch we purpose you today.

Here it is.

This time I was inspired to create a 6x8 page adding a 4x8 tag that I love so much. 

Here you can find my entry...

To create this double page I have played with the Merry and Bright kit , I love it to pieces! I have a sort of minimal style and to be honest I can't put in so many embellishments, I need to have the idea that everything is clean and the photos and the stories are the main thing you see when you look at the pages.

I have mixed some old embellishments and the beautiful November chipboard frames. Love them! Some die cuts here and there and many papers leftovers! They are perfect to fill the page .

Some details follow...

The little details make the difference always.  Play and have fun telling your stories. I do and I love it, this is the perfect "me time" ;)

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!

Love, Lory

Sunday Sketch with Ashley Laura

 

Hey y'all, Ashley here. I am so excited to be sharing a Sunday Sketch with you all. 

Take a look at the sketch I have for this week:

I'm not great at following things exactly how they are and I normally love to add a little bit of my own touch to projects like these, but I loved this sketch so much that I wanted to get it as close to the original as possible. 

I started with choosing my photos. These pictures were taken at a Tea Party that my daughter was invited to for one of her friend's Birthdays. I thought they went perfectly with the scrapbook paper from the October add-on. 

I then built my layers, adding strips of paper behind one another and mounting embellishments on the left side of the photos.

I even used packaging as one of my layers, which I just love! Lastly, I added stitching across the top of ht page and even vertically down my embellishment clusters. 

I hope you all will find inspiration from this project and I can't wait to see if you try the Sunday Sketch this week!

Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

XOXO

Ashley

Sunday Sketch with Lory

Hey friends! How are you? Happy Sunday!  It's Lory  here with you today, and I'm happy to share my take on this week's Sunday Sketch challenge.  Citrus Twist always has the best sketches and this one is no exception!  I love the little details included and enjoy altering them to fit my crafty style, my ideas! This Time I wanted to adapt it to a Life Cratfed spread. 

Here's a look at the sketch:

Here's my take on the sketch:

I chose to convert the sketch and create a layout in my Life Crafted album.  I literally adore all those tiny details I can inserti into my little pages, they give me so much joy the  I create and they help me to to add meaning to my pages and photos.  I started from a white background and then I firstly added some stripes of papers on the top. they are taken from some 4x6 journaling cards of the past kits on the left page and on the right page I played and had a lot of fun using many different little phrases stickers from May release. 

The details make difference I think ;) Then I added the squares on the right page filino the spaces with hearts, stamps , frames and pictures, everything you see is from the beautiful products of Citrus Twist, I am always so in love with every little piece, there is nothing to do, I am in love! I used two little pics and the third one on the left. 

Two complete all I used the wonderful, gorgeous, so full of meaning and so perfect stamps! I LOVE THEM TO PIECES!

I hope you found some inspiration today and will create a layout or a pocket page spread or a life crafted spread based on the sketch! Be sure to share your project with us on Instagram using the hashtag #citrustwistkits, in our Facebook group as well.  We can't wait to see what you create!

Love, Lory

3 to inspire challenge recipe with Lory

 

Hello Friends! It's Lory here today! So happy to celebrate the weekend with a creative jump! Today I'm happy to share some new pages about my January 2021 Life Crafted Album. I am in love with the Seagrass album and super excited because it's almost complete! Wooohoooooo!

Today I have a a little and easy recipe to share with you to have the right creative inspiration jump to keep telling your everyday stories. There's nothing better than being at my creative disk and play with colors, and with all these so yummy goodies from Citrus Twist!  To be true these products , looking at them  using them make me feel so happy, I mean really happy, the sadness the bad thoughts go away from me when I create with Citrus Twist Products. I have a deep love for them it's so something that I can't explain with words. 

So stop me Lol  I could write an entire book, LOL . 

Here the recipe:

1. Stamps
2. Cut file
3. Ticket and tags

TIPS FOR THIS RECIPE:

• With stamps I usually create a title or I create a key word for my story. In this spread I have told with just pictures and many little phrases stamps what I would. My family, how much it means to me. I have used the gorgeous 6x8 Felicity ALPHABET  STAMPS .  

• I have used the cut file to create a sort of handmade patterned paper behind the little vellum door I created.  To give more attention to  the amazing cut file from Citrus Twist I used the foam double siede tape and the tone on tone tecnique. I have used one of the Placemats group cut files.

• I love to add many details to my pages because they are what complete my creative flow. I added three lovely tags and tickets on the vellum door holding them with a little natural twine. Ticket and Tags are one of my favorite embellishments ever.

The beautiful wooden hearts Bites on the tag and on the cut file are from the beautiful embellishments from Citrus Twist.

On the right page I have inserted many pictures made in the same moment to create a Photo Booth. Everything complete with chipboards stickers, I love them to pieces!

So how about you? Join me to use these three and let me see your creations! You can share them also in our Facebook Fans group :) 

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Love, Lory

3-to-Inspire with Shannon

 

Hey there, crafty friends! Shannon here with a fun 3-to-Inspire to share with you. I tried to think of something I could do differently with this page and I kind of love the result. Let's get to my three things!

1. Write your journaling different than usual

2. Use florals

3. Stamp your title

Now let's look at how I brought that all together on this layout in my Life Crafted album.

I started with the Documenter Travelers Notebook Basics, Version 1, Digital Papers as the base for my journaling. I knew I wanted my journaling to be a full page so I used a paper with a faint patterned background. To make my journaling different than usual, I wrote it as if I was writing a book. There are a lot of quotes and inner monologues in my journaling. I've never journaled like this before but I can assure you that it won't be the last time. It was really fun!

Need some inspiration to switch up your journaling? I shared a few ideas in this post from December 2020.

Next, I pulled out the florals. When I decided to use florals I really went all in on the idea! Thankfully, the Florals Ephemera Pack gave me plenty of options. Since the opposing page is full of journaling and my photo contains neutral colors, I was able to use all sorts of colors for my florals. I just made sure to space them well around the photo.

To layer them, I held the photo in place and tucked everything behind it. I started with the largest pieces as the base and then built up from there. I then carefully lifted my photos. Underneath was a wreath of sorts. I applied adhesive to the outer edges on the back of my photo and carefully stuck it back down. When I lifted it up again my ephemera "wreath" was stuck to it. I carefully moved around the wreath with my adhesive to stick down anything that needed to be stuck down. Then, I used stronger adhesive to attach the whole stack of ephemera to my page with the photo on top.

Finally, I stamped my title at the top of my journaling page. The Chloe stamp complemented my typewriter-style journaling perfectly! Lining my title up along the top line of the page helped me keep everything straight. This is especially helpful if you have to stamp a word using only a few letters at a time, as I did here since the "u" appears twice. If you're not stamping along an existing line you can use the lines on your acrylic block or draw a faint line with a pencil. 

I hope I've inspired you to try something new this week! If you follow these prompts, be sure to share on social media and tag Citrus Twist. Happy crafting!

3 to Inspire with Shannon

 

Happy New Year, Citrus Twist friends! Shannon here to kick off 2021 with a 3 to Inspire recipe to help jump start your next page. I used some products from the January 2021 and December 2020 shop updates for this layout. The recipe?

1. Alpha stamp

2. Wood hearts

3. Make a grid

Let's look at how this played out on my layout.

I used the Felicity alphabet stamp on the left side to do repeated lettering for my title. This stamp has such a clean, graphic look and the thin letters lend themselves well to a large title. I did a bit of a test with uninked stamps down the side of the page to see how many rows I could make. I didn't want letters being cut off at the bottom so a little bit of pre-planning was necessary. I didn't draw lines to keep things straight and even but you could totally do that as well!

On the opposite page, I created my grid. I used 2x2 squares to form the grid. To maximize the amount of space I could get between each square horizontally, I aligned the top and bottom squares with the edge of the paper. The patterned paper that I used is from the Marigold and Sweet Story 6x8 paper packs. Although they're different lines with very different designs, some of the papers mix and match very well. 

I chose three wood veneer hearts from the Heartbeats Vol. 2 pack to add to the page. I was so excited to see these added to the shop! I've always been a fan of wood veneer pieces. I arranged them on my page in a visual triangle with each of my patterned paper squares. To bring a little more to the page, I added some ephemera from the Hearts & Such ephemera pack to each square as well. I chose pieces that had pink in them to keep a consistent feel to the page.

Finally, I wanted to share my new favorite way to add journaling to my page! I've discovered printing on clear sticker paper. I type up my journaling in Photoshop on a shape that's the same dimensions as where the journaling will ultimately go. In this case, I typed it onto two 2x2 squares that were on a 4x6 canvas. Before saving, I deleted the squares so the journaling was only on a transparent background. I save the file as a .png. This is important! Saving it as a .png will result in a clear background. Then, I open the file and print as normal. If you have any questions about this, pop into the Citrus Twist Kits Fan Page on Facebook and I'll be happy to answer!

I hope this recipe has given you a starting point for your next page. You could interpret it in so many ways. I can't wait to see what you create!