Citrus Twist Guest Projects - May 2017

If you've been following the Citrus Twist Kits blog or Facebook fan page the past few weeks, you may have seen a few projects that I've shared as their Guest Designer for May. I was blessed to join their amazing creative team this month, using the main scrapbook kit. The products in this kit were just GORGEOUS, and perfect for a huge week I had to document which included a school event for my daughter, pre-Easter activities, and multiple family gatherings on Easter.

When I have a large week like this that I'm documenting in my Project Life album, my go-to approach is to create what I call an "insert"... essentially, an extra layout or pocket page that is narrower than 12" wide. Keeping these inserts narrower helps the left and right pages act as "bookends" and make it clear they are a PART of a larger whole. This particular week ended up consisting of the base layout (left & right Design A pages) plus TWO inserts- an 8.5x11 layout and a pocket page with 3"x3" squares. All 3 of these have been shared on the Citrus Twist Kits blog here, here and here.

In this post I wanted to share the 3 projects and how they all look together. As you can see, the main kit was plenty of product to create multiple projects!

Here is the overall base layout...

And a few details from those pages...

Here is the first insert, an 8.5x11 layout...

A few details...

I added a tab along the edge, to help it stand out from the base pages...

Here is the 2nd insert, which is a pocket page of 3" squares. Front...

I have a tutorial for the confetti pocket below, on the Citrus Twist Kits blog...

Back side of the insert...

Here's a final look at how the inserts look in the album...

I had a great time joining the Citrus Twist Kits Deisgn Team for the month and hope they'll have me back again in the future!

A Scraplift for National Scrapbook Day (weekend)

Hi scrappy friends! I've had a busy and tiring weekend so I haven't had much time to participare in National Scrapbook Day events, but I saw an amazing layout today that inspired me so much, I had to scraplift it immediately!

Here is the original layout I was inspired by. This was done by Aimee Dow, and posted on the Citrus Twist Kits Facebook fan page...

Awesome, isn't it!?!?! I was really drawn to the stitched strips of paper, and the square grid layout. For my layout, I reduced the size to 9"x9" (I plan to use it as an insert in my PL albums, and I like those smaller than 12"x12"). I chose papers and embellishments from the Cocoa Vanilla "Endless Summer" collection to feature in this layout. I'm planning a beach vacation in July, so I don't even have photos for this layout yet, but I know I'll be able to use it in a few months. I don't normally create layouts without having photos, but seriously, I just could not wait to scraplift this one!!!

Here's my scraplift...

In the top right square, I added a tag from the Crate Paper "Oasis" collection. It matched perfectly, in both color and theme!

In the lower right square, I placed my title using an acrylic piece from Color Cast Designs paired with a stamp from Citrus Twist Kits.

Throughout the layout I've used a few woodies from the Cocoa Vanilla collection and sequins from SpiegelMom Scraps. I'll probably add a few more bits once I have the photos added, but this one is otherwise ready to go!

And that's pretty much it. I love a great scraplift, don't you!?!