I used a sketch by Khristina Sorge, who is the force behind The Secret Not Secret Kit Club. This was a challenge in the private Facebook Group for those of us who receive kits. Each time you receive a kit, it is personally curated just for you! You can check it out here.
On to the pretty stuff.
This is the FINAL, yes FINAL layout for the 2 Seconds of Summer concert I took my girls to last year. HOORAY!
I had explicit instructions to NOT scrapbook either ticket that belonged to the girls, but "Could (I) please make sure to scrapbook (my) ticket so it makes it into an album?" Of course, I would. I definitely didn't need or want to memorialize this ticket any other way.
This page was a lot of fun to create. I used gelatos and glitter paste. Anytime I can do those kind of things, it is a win!
The kit arrived! The kit arrived! Hooray! In case you were not aware, I decided to continue with this subscription. I even upped it to 6 months!
And now to get down to business with it! So far loving this kit more than last month's. And that really isn't fair. I LOVED about half of last month's kit.The parts I didn't love? Well, they are in a new "Great things other people might love" pile for the next crop/retreat I go to. I love when there is a swap table like that!
Okay, on to the kit:
And get this! I actually used the stamp set that came with the kit! This is the 4th stamp set and the very first time I have used it! I had an epiphany why I don't use a lot of my stamps as well. I mostly have Distress Ink. You and I both know they do not give the clearest stamped image-that isn't really their purpose anyway.
"sweet" was stamped with the CT stamp set
This page was created for the Disney Girls Trip in 2016. That album is going to be teal, pink, black, gray, and white with tiny pops of color thrown in for fun. I pulled plenty of supplies from my kit and added a few things from my stash.
This layout included:
Citrus Twist Kit:
White Cardstock (American Crafts)
Patterned Paper - Help Clear the Table, Mind Your Manners (Bella Blvd)
Patterned Paper - Summertime, Carousel (Crate Paper) August 2017 Kit
Patterned Paper - Dazzle, Carousel (Crate Paper)
Stickers - Carousel (Crate Paper)
Ephemera Pack - Turn the Page (Pink Paislee)
Stamp Set (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
Cut Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
Epoxy Stickers (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
From My Stash:
Self Adhesive Pearls (Want to Scrap)
Puffy Stickers - Life's Sweet V2 (Evalicious)
Twine (Lawn Fawn)
Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry (Ranger)
Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers (Ranger)
Want to see this page come together? Check out the video below:
Good afternoon, crafty friends! Today I was able to scrap this page using the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge posted by Moira in the Mercy Tiara's 27 Day Scrappy Challenge Facebook group.
I completed my line with frames, tone on tone patterned paper, and wood veneer or cork. As you can probably guess, I used cork since I am trying to bash my stash of it away.
For this page I used:
Patterned Paper - Summer Vibes, Yellow Wood/Grid (Simple Stories)
Patterned Paper - I Love Family, Family Time (Echo Park)
Patterned Paper - Border Strips, Family Time (Echo Park)
Frames - Summer Vibes (Simple Stories)
Word Phrases - Small Talk (Tim Holtz, Idea-ology)
Thickers - Hello (American Crafts)
Chipboard 'Hello' - Recollections (Michaels)
Die Cuts - Flower Scak, 9 to 5 ( October Afternoon)
Bread IS beautiful. I love bread. Especially a nice crusty, but oh so soft on the inside type of bread. I hope that my love of bread came through on this layout, as I was not loving the products so much.
I am using my Citrus Twist kit from September 2017 for this layout. This is the first page I have created from this kit. I decided to go for some of the products I was not loving as much and just scrap!
There are loads of great things in this kit...and a few that really aren't my thing. But that is the beauty of a kit club; it kind of pushes you to use something that you wouldn't normally purchase. Either that, or you stick it way down in the depths of your stash never to see the light of day again.
One of the things I did to try to make this kit more "me" was to take the mountains with a motivational saying under it and turn it into a banner strip that hangs from the top of the page. I used a label from the cut-apart sheet and sprinkled some pearls from my stash.
So while this page is definitely my style, it is not the usual products I would have chosen. The goal was to not flip through my album and have a jarring "WHAT IS THIS?" moment when you got to this page. In my mind, I have done it.
From the kit I used:
Patterned Paper - Escape the Ordinary "Search" (Pink Fresh)
Cut-Apart Sheet (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
Mini Word Stickers (Citrus Twist Exclusive)
Ephemera Pack - Escape the Ordinary (Pink Fresh)
Thickers - "Swing" (American Crafts) August 2017 Kit
Today I am playing along with the gals over at Stuck?! Sketches.
I used a ton of scraps and some bits and baubles from my Rediscover Your Stash kit as well. Really love this sketch and it pushed me a little outside of my comfort zone as I am not a stacking up scraps kind of scrapper...usually.
See that little bit of meshy stuff? That has been in my stash for over 15 years. Crazy! And it has been used on at least two pages so far in the Rediscover Your Stash challenge this go-around. HOORAY!
Scrapbooking IS always fun, right? It should be! I have always enjoyed playing with paper. What a relaxing hobby for me. Thanks for sharing in it?
Today, I used my Citrus Twist August 2017 kit to start documenting a trip to Muir Woods. If you haven't been to this National Park, I highly suggest a trip. The beauty and magic of the woods are definitely not to be missed.
Today I used a sketch that was provided by Citrus Twist in the August 2017 kit. I used two of my favorite photos cropped down to 4x4 squares. This page doesn't move along the story, it is just a pretty page for my scrapbook.
First Day of School layouts often contain primary colors and heaps of school themed product. I have never been a scrapper who feels the need to have loads of school themed product. That may be because we have homeschooled. You know, that cute yellow bus die cut just doesn't apply to us. However, I do document the first day of school and random things we do throughout the year in the family albums.
Here is the first day for our two daughters. Now, I did save this 6x6 paper pad sheet for this particular layout. However, I have no idea where it came from other than it was in a paper pad. And I only know this because some of the paper pad glue was still stuck to the top of the paper!
No hashtag, just school. That title came from a conversation I had with my daughters about whether this photo would be hashtagged and what it should be. Well, there was no hashtag when I shared the photo, so it's just school. Had I not received this Thicker word in a Citrus Twist Kit, I am sure the title would have gone in a completely different direction.
For this layout, I used my Stash Kit, along with a few more letter sitckers and that saved sheet of paper thrown in.
Cardstock, unknown
Washi, unknown
Chipboard Stickers - Family & Co, Fancy Pants
Die Cuts - Family Stories, Teresa Collins
Color Shine - Black Velvet, Heidi Swapp
New Bradz - Sunshine & Happiness, Simple Stories
Enamel Dots - McIntosh, Bella Blvd.
Thickers - Skylar, American Crafts
Thickers - unknown, AMerican Crafts
Stickers - Capture Life, Echo Park
Baker's Twine - Recollections, Michaels
6x6 Paper, unknown
Letter stickers - Sweet & Sour Soup, Jillibean Soup
If you want to see how this layout came together, check out the process video here:
