SUNDAY SKETCH with Katarina

 

Hi CTK friends,

Katarina back with you bringing this week's Sunday Sketch challenge and inspiration. Let's have a look at the gorgeous sketch first.

Now let's see my take on it. I created a layout in my 6x8 Life Crafted Album featuring the beautiful new Gratitude digital release and the Change is Beautiful digital ephemera.

I love circles on layouts and this time I wanted something really special. My son recently discovered my crocheting supplies and I had an idea to make a crocheted circle on my page. I love how it turned out! It goes perfectly with my title and the theme of the layout.

As a background I used two patterned papers from the Gratitude digital collection. My two photos are slightly bigger as I really wanted them to stand out.

For my title I used the White Foam Alphabet, and on the right side I also used the Pumpkin/Coffee Alphabet Stickers to write another small title.

I used the Change Is Beautiful Digital Ephemera and All About Me Tiny Words/Phrases Stickers to embellish my photos and circle. I cut one of the tags from the ephemera in two pieces and used one for journaling and the second one for adding date.

I really loved working with this fun sketch and hope that you got inspired too and that you join our challenge with your beautiful creations.

3-to-Inspire with Ettiene

 Hello Citrus Twist friends.  Im here this week with another 3-to-inspire.  If you are feeling crafty I invite you to join along with the following 3 items:

1. Stamp set

2. Page of digital supplies

3. An interactive element

Before I show you my finished page I thought I would give you a sneak peak ay my process for using the digital kit.  This year I have been really trying to use up what I have and reduce my physical supplies.  Digital kits are a great way to do that but I noticed I was printing everything and then adding agin to my physical stash.  Instead now I just print what I need.  Here a look at my page of supplies for this project using the gratitude digital kit. 

I really wanted to document some of the little things I am thankful for this month around the house that make me feel cozy.  I took 3 photos and arranged them using a smaller version of the 3"x4" card.  The photos themselves are around 2"x2".  

For the interactive element I made little flips out of each card with the photos.  I stamped each flip on the left side with the Gratitude stamp set.  

If this inspires you I would love to see what you create, 

SUNDAY SKETCH with Marsha

Hey, CTK friends! It's Marsha here today, and I'm sharing a layout for Sunday Sketch. The sketch I'm working with today is so fun- one of my favorites ever! 

Here's a look at the sketch:

This sketch is in an 8.5x11 format, but it was easy to convert it to a Life Crafted spread by separating the design down the center of the page and rotating it ninety degrees. 


Here's my layout:

This month's Gratitude and Change is Beautiful digitals were perfect for this spread, documenting a photo from Thanksgiving last year. I began by printing a few digital patterned papers from the kit. I followed the sketch by trimming the papers into a layered arrow design. Next, I added machine stitching to each paper and adhered them to the page. I also printed some digital ephemera and enlarged leaves from one of the patterned papers to use as embellishments.

I followed the design by adding my title on the other page of the layout. I stamped the word "together" using the Ginger Upper Alphabet stamp and a trimmed floral piece from one of the digital cards. The edge of the page looked bare, so I added another trimmed piece of the green patterned paper I used on the opposite page. This helped to make the spread more cohesive. Then, I printed my journaling on clear matte label sticker paper, added it to the page, and stamped the date with a roller date stamp from my stash. To complete the spread, I added enamel dots to a few areas and a yellow puffy heart sticker.

I hope you are inspired to make a layout based on this week's sketch! Happy creating!

xo,

Life Crafted with Sheree

Hi everyone!  It’s Sheree and today I have a new Life Crafted spread to share with you using the gorgeous November Gratitude Life Crafted Kit.

I’ve been wanting to document this photo of the beautiful flowers that appeared on a little cactus that one of my sons gave me for Mother’s Day earlier this year.  The flowers were such a happy surprise and to have two bloom at once was so lovely!  I thought the Gratitude Kit was a perfect match for this project.

I used the digital version of the ‘Today’ card so that I could add my journaling to it in Photoshop and print it out.  Then I simply added some stitching and a chipboard circle, then stamped the date using the date line stamp from the new 2” x 3”Life Crafted stamp set.

I chose the pretty floral journaling card to go underneath the ‘Today’ card.  I turned it upside down so the floral image was at the bottom of the card, then stamped “Oh My” and a phrase from the Life Crafted Gratitude stamp set.  I also added a tiny word sticker with some stitching and a chipboard arrow to finish it off.

On the large photo I created a little cluster in the top right by adding a “love this” chipboard circle along with two tiny word stickers and some stitching for a little texture.

The gorgeous glitter alphabet stickers from the kit were perfect for adding the title down the side of the large photo page.

You can see my process in the video below...



I’m so happy with how this spread turned out!  The colours in this kit are just so beautiful!

Thank you so much for joining me on the blog today!  I look forward to sharing another project with you soon.

Sheree x

"BeautiFALL" Life Crafted with Tina Stepanova

Hello CTK friends!

It's Tina here, and today I want to share with you a new Life Crafted project I made using the beautiful November "Gratitude" Kit.

I decided to combine documenting one of our recent hikes and gratitude journaling as this month's kit is perfect for both of these. So I started by decorating the photos of the first layout with some kind of title at the top using glitter alphabet stickers and a "time to unwind" puffy sticker. Next I trimmed a 3x4 journaling card to fit into the lower pocket of a page protector #3 and printed my journaling on it.

After that I cut out the quote from the turquoise journaling card and adhered its words to the butterfly card. And that's it, the first layout was finished.

On the back of the butterfly card I printed my gratitude journaling (I must say I did it before I adhered the quote I was telling you above). And then I added a cut apart purple label and a puffy sticker at the top of another photo of my family.

For the last page I chose a page protector #1, trimmed a piece of white cardstock to fit into it and created a fallen leaves pattern using die-cut vellum pieces from the kit. To add a little bit of dimension to the leaves I punched holes along the middle line of each leaf and hand stitched them with a mustard yellow thread. In the end I added a few chipboard pieces in the upper corner of the photo and created a title with glitter alphabet stickers.

Thank you so much for stopping by! Until next time!

XO,

MEET OUR GUEST DESIGNER : HEBA ALSIBAI

Hi there!
We are super excited to introduce our Guest Designer for this month.  Her style is clean, innovative, inspiring, and she is one of the nicest girls you could ever meet.  Help us welcome, our November Guest Designer, Heba Alsibai.   You are going to love her and her projects.

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GET TO KNOW HEBA

Hello, everyone! My name is Heba; I’m a mother of two teenagers and a wife to a wonderful husband. My husband and I own a small medical supply company that keeps my husband traveling and me working from home. I love that I’m able to work from home; I get to see my kids go off to school and welcome them home when they get back. I live in the beautiful state of Georgia, far from the hustle and bustle of Atlanta. I'm a total homebody that loves to read and loves to watch reruns of Friends. But by far my favorite thing to do is crafting. I also love sharing my crafty projects on my YouTube channel and Instagram.

You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/hebaalsibai/

and my YouTube channel where I share process video http://www.youtube.com/c/MyLittleJournal

Q & A with HEBA

-          When did you start scrapbooking?

Back in 2001 When I gave birth to my first born, I started keeping a little scrapbook album for him. It wasn’t your traditional scrapbook album. It was more of journaling milestones and documenting pictures with dates. I also did the same with my daughter once she was born. But in 2007, I moved to Dubai and became really good friends with my next door neighbor who was an avid scrapbooker. Once she shared her beautiful scrapbooking layouts with me, I was hooked.

-          What is something most people would not know about you?

I play the piano! I started playing the piano at a young age and majored in music education but changed my major half way through to Early Childhood Education. I love music so much I even passed it on to my kids. Now my son is first chair Bass Clarinet and my daughter is first chair violin. We are definitely not a sports family lol.

-          What are the 3 scrapbooking products you can’t live without?

My #1 product has to be my Canon Selphy Printer. I can’t document anything with out great quality pictures. I love my printer so much I have at least three videos on my channel sharing tips and tricks on how to use a Selphy printer.

My #2 has to be Kokuyo Dotliner adhesive. If you haven’t tried this adhesive you are missing out. It holds up really well but if you change your mind and want to move things around on your layout, you can still do that without tearing your paper.

My #3 is my Scrapbook.com ink pads. You have 51 colors to choose from, they also have reinkers, and the quality is amazing. If you don’t want to invest in so many ink pads I recommend you start with their Premium black dye ink first. It’s the best black ink ever.

-          What do you love about the November  – GRATITUDE-?

I’m a sucker for puffy stickers and the puffy stickers in this kit is everything. I love the different shapes and sentimental of these stickers. They are very versatile and definitely fun to work with.

-          Finish this sentence “If you could see my scrapbooking space now . . . “

You would find all my unfinished projects on the floor. If I put my unfinished projects away then I will never finish them. So they sit on the floor to remind me that I need to work through them and get them done J

Hello friends! I'm delighted to be the guest designer for Citrus Twist this month, and share my first project with you using the Gather Life Crafted Kit. I can’t tell you how much I’m loving the Life Crafted Album. As a fan of the traveler’s notebooks, this size album is up my ally. I’ve been using my Life Crafted album to document my son's senior year of high school.  

The Gather kit had the perfect mix of embellishment, cards and papers to document my fun and bright senior. When I saw this beautiful yellow card I new I would be documenting him in his bright yellow mascot custom. I could have added my card in a 3x8 page protector. But I wanted to create an interactive element in my album and create a large tag. All I did was punch a hole for my twine, trimmed off the top corners and created a 3x8 tag. Easy peezy lemon squeezy :) 

I wanted to add some embellishments to my tag and picture, but I also wanted to keep it simple. So I added a few word stickers down my photo and a cute speech bubble. I’m all about, less is more, so by adding similar colored embellishments on my tag helped everything flow nicely. 

I had one more senior picture of my son to document so I ended up using the backside of my tag to document it.  I thought it would be fun to trim around my picture and make it look like my son was peaking out from the edge of the tag. I think it looks pretty cool, don’t you think? Using the stamp set to add words and sentiments around my image adds another fun element. 

To finish my layouts I used a 3x8 page protector with two 3x4 pockets. This gave me space to add two cards, one for my journaling and the other as a filler pocket. It was so much fun putting these spreads together. If you have a senior I recommend you document his/her senior year in the Life Crafted Album. It’s such a great size to document your seniors last year in high school.

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WOW!!!  Thank you Heba for sharing a bit of you with our followers and the amazing project.   We love it!  Remember to leave Heba some love and to follow her on social media.

 Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/hebaalsibai/

 YouTube channel  http://www.youtube.com/c/MyLittleJournal

  She will be back later this moth with another project  and a bit more of her!

XO

3-To-Inspire with Elizabeth

Hello friends.  Happy Saturday.  Can you BELIEVE it's November?  Time FLIES.  I'm EXCITED to share another 3-to-inspire challenge with you.  This weekly series is designed to help YOU channel your inner MOJO.  To participate, simply include ALL three of the following prompts in ANY project.

The prompts this week include:

1.  REPETITION of a word or sentiment.
2.  Create a POCKET.
3.  Journal in LETTER style.

Here's my take on this challenge...

As you can see, I chose to do a two-page layout in my Life Crafted Album.  The first prompt is to REPEAT a word or sentiment for emphasis.  In these photos, my son and his girlfriend look HAPPY.  I used repeat stamping, alpha stickers, chipboard AND journaling to repeat the word over and over again.

The second prompt is to create a POCKET.  I'm OBSESSED right now with pockets and photo strips.  For my pocket, I turned a 3x4 journal card on its side and used a circle punch to create a notch.  I adhered it to the background paper on three sides with redline tape.

The final prompt is to use a LETTER for your journaling.  A small change in writing style can create a UNIQUE, DIFFERENT voice.  You could even try writing a letter to yourself.

I hope this challenge provides some inspiration.  I can't wait to see what you create.  Please share with us on Instagram @citrustwistkits and/or our CTK Fan Page on Facebook.

HAPPY crafting:)