Citrus Twist Kits DT | Project Life

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to let you know that I have a blog post over on the Citrus Twist Kits blog today with a Project Life  spread. If you are interested, follow the link.

I also created a sketch to help you create your own Project Life spread and you can play along with us and post your project to the Citrust Twist Kits Facebook Fan Page or Gallery and maybe win some goodies!!

Here's a look at the spread you'll find over there!

See you over there guys!!

Marie-Pierre xo

Citrus Twist Kits | Project Life

Hello everyone!

I have some project life to share with you today.

I used the September kit from Citrus Twist kits. I didn't know that it was my last month on the Project Life Kit Team (I started on the scrapbooking teaming October). It was a very nice kit. Easy to work with. So many great pieces from the Reset Girl ephemera pack. Take a look:

I kept everything so simple!!

I left many pictures as is, without adding anything.

I preferred to use 3x4 cards to write my story.

And 4x6 cards as well, to write my story. I wrote a title with my brush pen.

I focussed on the color scheme and my favorite embellishment pieces.
I was a lot of fun to play, just add a little bit and let it be.

I like that black and white sticker added to the black card.

And since it's so simple, I'll show you right away the 2nd layout I made with the kit.

There was some orange in the kit and I had this picture I wanted to use of our favorite candies... Also the range of the roofs and the orange cast from the setting sun on the picture of my girls... I'm not sure if the whole thing is too orange or if I like it because of the stark contrast with the blues in the page... I think I do like it.

These little wood veneer leaves are just floating around in the pocket. I didn't even bother to fuse the pocket. For now they are pretty much staying in place.

I played a bit here and printed my photo on cardstock. I didn't want to whole attention of the viewer on the candies so I thought I'd print it very pale and journal on it, but I didn't quite like it so finally I reprinted the photo in a smaller format and here's the result. ...

There you go!

These might be the last Project life pages you see from me. Unless people come running and pleading that I continue posting them. lol I will try ti keep doing my album but now that I'm not on the official team anymore I'm pretty sure I will not be as productive with this album which makes me sad a little but at the same time I'm glad that I'll have more time to make bigger pages about bigger stories. We'll see how it goes. My favorite saying right now is: "If you say yes to something, you have to say no to something else." I'm saying yes to a bunch of things at the moment, including hanging out with friends, playing with my kids, designing products, I want to finish my December daily from last year before December this year.... I can't possibly do it all. It's just not healthy and possible.

Ok, have fun my friends!!
And see you again soon!

Marie

Citrus Twist Kits DT | Project Life

Hello everyone!

So it looks like the earth turns quicker than I can walk and yesterday there was a blog post published over on the blog of Citrus Twist Kits and I haven't had time to post it here at the same time!

So I won't double the information and I'd like to redirect you over there.

Here's what you are going to find:

This and some close up shots and also some explanations of what I did + some ideas to push you to create your own memories :) Also, if you want to play with me, I post 3 things to inspire your next project. Follow along and post your creation on the Citrus Twist Kits Facebook page and you might win some goodies! :)

Come on over!!

Marie

Citrus Twist Kits | Project Life

Hi everyone,

as promised, here's the 3rd Project Life spread I made with my August Project Life Citrus Twist Kit.

Again, I added some white cardstock because I didn't want to let any journaling out. Love these owl stickers as the kids were called owls in our school in the US.  Also, I thought that this puffy sticker looked so much like a beach ball. :)

For this spread I felt like adding a little bit of layers. Just like we do on 12x12 layouts. I didn't go overboard though, I didn't want to overwhelm the page.

To get a polaroid look, simply leave some white under the photo when you cut it out from it's 4x6 canvas.

I absolutely loved that camera paper this month. Any scrapbooking project can use a little camera :)

I used the number puffy stickers to create some kind of story scheme.

And I carried the number over to the right page too.

There was a little piece of cork that said "Sleep in late". I used it to create a cute tiny frame around the "fingers crossed" piece of paper I cut out from a piece of patterned paper in the kit.

I did some stamping here with the before (which is right before the taxi picked us up at our house).

Saying goodbye to our lovely neighbors :'(

hat a sweet PL card! I wasn't sure if I could use it or if I should hoard it forever. So sweet these little pastel lines.

And I have the After stamp here, for when we arrived in Prague...

Some more layering and journaling. And the speed is done. I feel happy about it. Not too much, just enough. Perfect!! :)

Marie-Pierre 

Citrus Twist Kits | Project Life

Hi everyone!!


Welcome to my first month back on the Citrus Twist Kits team. I mean, I never left the team, but as you know, with the move, I had to take some months off. I actually took 2 months off. And I am back creating with the August Project Life kit. Ah how I missed my kits! And my studio!!!

So I made 3 Project Life spreads (for now).

For the 2 first one, to get back onto it, I took advantage of the photos I had left, unscrapped, in my album. It brought me back to the beginning of April where we went to the Zootastic zoo in North Carolina and where we had an encounter with baby Li-Liger (dad is a lion, mom is a Liger - half lion, half tiger) and with baby hyena who was pushed aside by his parents from the day he was born. :( He quickly became friend with baby Li-Liger and we had so much fun with them.

I played with dimension by adding foam adhesive. I thought the contrast was pretty cool with the transparency of the clear Amy Tangerine stickers.
 

I also placed puffy stickers under and over the label which also gives more depth.

I kept things really simple. I was trying to find my groove and get back to it. Leave my sorrows behind and let the creativity flow.

I used the pictures that were there, didn't dare to print new ones.  I guess the task of looking back to my thousands of photos I take monthly was too daunting. And that is why I have mixed some pictures from a field trip with my daughter to another zoo with the Zootastic experience.  I don't love it. I don't love that we can't clearly see what is what, but it's ok. I gave myself permission to just go with the flow and not worry about anything.

The second spread brings us to Atlanta, where we had to go to renew the girls swiss passeports. With my husband being in Prague often at that time, we didn't have much family time. That weekend was a good one spent all together.

Again, we went to the zoo...

And I'm finding my groove to create this time. I love that!!! :D

I've cut out some & in a piece of patterned paper, layered them with foam dots again and added clear stickers from the Amy Tangerine clear sticker booklet. I printed that small label with my computer on normal typing paper. I don't have my typewriters anymore :( One had a broken key (I should have brought it anyway! mhhh, why didn't I think of that?!!! and the other one was electric so I had to leave it in the USA)

Another clear sticker adhered directly on the photo, while I layered the little clear sticker hear on white cardstock before adhering it with foam adhesive so that it pops out better.

When I saw the million tiny things quote I thought of all the things we still had to do before the move! I wanted to used it in a pockets with a "million" tiny things like sequins for example and then the paper with the tiny cameras caught my eye and I figured I could use these instead of sequins. I decided to glue them in place on a card instead of leaving them floating loose in a pocket. I don't know yet if my fuse will work here. Suspense...

Some photos don't need much to shine!

For my journaling, I decided to use white cardstock. I rarely do this but I quite love the result. I dressed the white card with a piece fo patterned paper that grounds my yellow cab sticker. I wrote my text and added a cork star and some stamping.

I then spotted the yellow clear "weekend" sticker and added it to the card with some more stamping. The tiny stamps that always come in the Citrus Twist Kits are very versatile! I always find an interesting way to use them.

Meet Melissa, owner of Pretty Little Studio!! Melissa is the one who gave me the opportunity to become a paper designer. I already told you this I think so I won't make it too long here, but after I was on the Pretty little Studio design team, I stayed in touch with her and we became friends and she offered me to become a designer under the Umbrella Pretty little Studio. A dream come true!

So when we came back from Atlanta we basically drove by her town and I texted her, out of the blue, and she came and met us in a Chick-Fil-A. :) This was our first time meeting in person. It was so nice!!!

In the Amy Tangerine sticker booklet I found a Pretty and a please, which is the name of my brand. I paired them together to put on this photo. :)

Here are some more clear stickers and a puffy sticker on a couple of PL 3x4 cards.

On this plain white card on the right I added a small piece of patterned paper that i stapled in place and I added a clear sticker and a puffy sticker. I journaled a bit and finished my card with a feather clear sticker.

To add more journaling here i used a 4x6 card (I never have enough of these!!!! Love them for journaling!) and I added some small clear stickers to embellish. I really love the look of the clear stickers touching each other a bit. I also let one of the circle lead a bit out of the card. I find that it looks more organic. 

Join me tomorrow for my third Project Life spread made with my August Citrus Twist Project Life kit and go visit the Citrus Twist Kits blog for more inspiration or the Citrus Twist Kits website to get your own kit for next month! :)

Thanks for passing by and leave me some comments if you feel like it! :)

Talk to you soon!

Marie-Pierre 

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