Friday, June 12, 2015

Citrus Twist: Just Plain Wonderful

Happy Friday! Today I am back with a new project using the Citrus Twist June Kits!

My husband and I took our little girls to the Santa Barbara Zoo at the end of the April and I have been really having a whole lot of fun getting the pictures and memories into everyone's albums. The June "Sweet Thing" Main kit has really been perfect for scrapbooking all of my pictures. The color palette just works so well with the pictures in my photos. You can see that here in this layout:

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I think the addition of the orange is really what made these papers work with my zoo photos, especially with the giraffes and flamingos.

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Isn't that citrus wood veneer just the cutest?? I am continually pleasantly surprised by the wood veneer shapes that Citrus Twist includes in their kits. They are always so unique and amazingly intricate--how is it even possible to cut something like this without the wood breaking? 

Wishing you a great day!

Michelle

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Hip Kit Club: Oh, Hello

Hello! Today I want to share a new layout made using the beautiful June Kit and Add-Ons from the Hip Kit Club. When I first dive into a kit, I want to play with everything and I gave myself permission to do just that with this next layout, Oh, Hello.

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The addition of the dark, navy blue to the softer color palette is just so pretty and it really brings the focus right to the "heart" of the layout-the words, the photo, and the title.

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I had found that the kraft tags and the warm yellow really complimented the colors in my outdoor photo, so I made sure to include them as I was putting my layout together.

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The silver Thickers, if I had to choose just one, from the Embellishment Kit are probably my favorite single item. They are not too shiny and they really provide a nice contrast to the other colors in the kit-I can definitely see myself reaching for them again and again!

Wishing you a great day!

Michelle

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Elle's Studio: June Reveal

Lots and lots of fun stuff going on today at Elle's Studio, so I am going to just jump right in starting with the reveal of the exclusive June Kit!

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June Limited Edition Stamp, Printables, and Cut Files:

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June's Kit is Elle's Studio's largest kit yet and includes five vellum pieces! Yay ! And if you can't tell by looking at my first project, I am absolutely in love with the little honey bee that appears in the kit :).

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For my second project, I pulled out Elle's Studio's new Let's Eat collection (Which is available in the shop!) and documented one of my family's favorite places to eat.

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Now earlier I said "lots" of good thing were going on today, so in addition to the release of the June Kit, Elle's Studio has two super fun promotions kicking off today!

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Elle's Studio is starting off summer with a FREE SHIPPING special! All orders, USA and INTERNATIONAL, that $30+ ship for free with the coupon code SUMMERLOVE--this is one awesome deal that you don't want to miss1 It's a great time to stock up on the brand new collection Let's Eat, Cienna, and more! *Offer ends June 15th, 2015 and is for first class worldwide shipping. Offer NOT valid on wholesale orders.

And to make things even sweeter, check this out:

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New items have been added to the retiring section and they are all on sale too, along with a couple of bundle specials that will have you ready to scrapbook all summer long!  Elle's Studio is clearing some room for all the new items coming in the next couple of weeks and months!

Wow! Fun times are happening over at Elle's Studio right now! 

Michelle

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Cut Shoppe & Stuck?! Sketches

This past Friday, The Cut Shoppe teamed up with Stuck?! Sketches to take on their June 1st Sketch Challenge and today I want to share with you my take on this fun collaberation! First, here's the sketch:


This sketch was right up my ally with the stitching and layers, but what really caught my eye were the flowers because they gave me an opportunity to use the pretty Blooming Bouquet cut file.

The Blooming Bouquets cut file consists of two hand-drawn flowers, that can be used for your scrapbooking and papercrafting projects.

Here's what I did by combining both the Stuck?! Sketch and cut file from The Cut Shoppe:

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Now it's your turn! The Cut Shoppe is offering a $15 gift certificate to one lucky winner who links up their project using the June Sketch to the Stuck?! Blog. To see more details on how to enter the challenge as well as to take a look at what the rest of The Cut Shoppe Design Team did, head on over here!

Michelle

Monday, June 8, 2015

Citrus Twist Kits: This

Hello! Today I want to share the first project I made with the Citrus Twist June Kits!

When I set out to make a new layout, I always start with my photo and patterned paper. As I pick and choose my papers, my photo is always in my field of vision, guiding me on my color choices. For this photo, I really wanted to pick up on the yellow in my daughter's jacket as well as the pink and turquoise beads she is wearing. You can see here that I settled on four papers, the cut apart journaling card paper, and white cardstock which all came from both the June "Sweet Thing" Main kit and the Patterned Paper Play Add-ons. 


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Whenever I am working with a bigger element, such as these large letters from the June "Whole Lot of Love" Embellishment kit, I like to work them into the design very early on. At this point I hadn't adhered anything down, but I wanted to start playing around with the position of my title. Usually my title placement comes way later, but since it was going to require so much space, I needed to get the title into the design early on. To do this, I cut the individual letters out while they were still on the plastic that way I could easily move them around.

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After completing the layout, I immediately moved on to the accompanying pocket style page. I cut apart the journaling card sheet from the Main Kit, grabbed my photos, all edited with the Collect App, and a few small embellishments.  

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Here are the finished projects:

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As I mentioned before, I used a variety of products from several of June's Kits, but I also added a white tag from own stash and a copper banner clip that I had leftover from May's kits.

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Hello There

If you hadn't already noticed, I do like to keep my pocket pages simple and pretty flat, but this doesn't mean that I don't embellish my cards. Here I made them my own by adding mist droplets and stitching.

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Wishing you a great week!

Michelle


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Hip Kit Club: Today

As I was brainstorming ideas for this layout, I realized I hadn't used the awesome circle paper from the Hip Kit Club May Main Kit. Often times I find myself reaching for a certain paper over and over again. When I find something that I love, I want to keep going with it. And, because I don't often use big chunks of paper, I can really stretch and prolong the life of a single sheet of paper. However, I wasn't going to do the kit justice by going with what I had used before, so I pulled out the circle paper and went with it, despite the fact that the lovely stripe/large chevron Dear Lizzy paper was calling my name ;).

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When the new scrapbooking lines debuted at CHA in January, Pink Paislee's Citrus Bliss was in my top three. I loved the bright fresh colors and the fun icons-lemons, pineappples, flamingoes...and now, thanks to the inclusion of the line in May's Kits, I am even more impressed with the collection.  The colors are really quite beautiful.

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 Happy Wednesday!

Michelle

Monday, June 1, 2015

Citrus Twist: June Sneaks

Wow! June 1st already??? Are we sure it really isn't still March?? Ha ha.

Well, since it is indeed the first of June, I want to share some sneaky peeks of the new kits from Citrus Twist. I worked with the June Main and Embellishment Kits, along with both of the patterned paper add-ons.

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My heart sure did a big flip flop when I saw the gorgeous colors in the June Kits and the combination of manufactors-Pink Paislee, Studio Calico, Amy Tangerine, and Chickaniddy-is a match made in papercrafting heaven! Wow, I am thinking I might love paper products a little too much ;).

Michelle