Sommer - Citrus Twist Kits

Sharing my work with my first Citrus Twist Kits. I have used the Main kit - Are We There Yet? and some add-ons.

Troy playing in the inflatable pool in front of the house.

Here is my background before I covered it with paper. I have used some of the colors in the kit and tried to make the transition between the white cardstock and layers of papers as smooth as possible.

This is the kit I have played with - July Main kit - Are We There Yet?



July 2014 Best of Days Embellishment Kit



Don't forget about this: The Citrus Twist Kitshave two specials going on this month! New subscribers to either the Main or Pocket Life kit will receive a free kit with their first order! We also want to show our current subscribers a little love, and during the month of July you can receive a $10 credit to the Citrus Twist shop for each friend you refer who subscribes to the Main or Pocket Life kit! Simply have your friend add your name to the comments field when they subscribe, and we'll take care of the rest!

Just go to the Citrus Twist Kits site.

Citrus Twist Kits July Sneak

Last weekend I got the inspiration to work on my first Citrus Twist Kits July kit.  I made 5 layouts and I worked on all five at the same time. First I prepped all of them and some more with clear gesso, then I made all the backgrounds. Then I cut the papers on all projects and layered them one by one. THEN I started to assemble them and stapling/taping them to the cardstock.. I wanted to make sure that I had enough embellishments and papers for all of them. The layouts will be in the blog after the reveal on the 5th.

Here are some sneaks from before I stapled my layouts.

No inspiration...

I am having another one of those - where is my inspiration - kind of weeks.  I have been sitting at my scrap table several times this week and nothing seems to happen. Today I even cleaned my scrap area and prepped a few white cardstock with clear gesso. I even have a lovely Citrus Twist Kit waiting for me... I even got new Ecolines this week....

This is my desk right now wanting to be filled with paper.

Two peas closing

Sharing my FB post..

Inspired by others to make a screen shot of my Twopeas account while it's still there. I can't say that I was very active in the forum, it says 16 posts and almost 200 public projects, but the gallery was a great inspiration for me - especially the first years as a scrapper before I dared to go to crops and join forums and step out of anonymity. Pre-Pinterest i downloaded hundreds of layouts to my computer hoping I some day would be able to make anything as good.
I was also lucky enough to have a few projects picked out as a featured project -last one was just 1 month ago...

Påskesol - tutorial May Issue Inzpira magazine

 This layout was made for the May Issue of Inzpira magazine and included a step by step instruction on how to make it. 

Start by covering parts of the white cardstock with clear gesso and let it dry 

Use a water brush to spread water over the gesso

Drop mist over the cardstock and use the water brush to spread it out, wipe away parts of it – and then drop more mist. Let it dry and drop more. It’s important to let it dry if you want tiny drops on top, otherwise the mist will spread out.

When the mist has dried use distress ink together with stencils.

Stamp in black and grey to get different shades of colour

Pick out some coordinating leftover papers and papers from 6x6 paper pads.

Staple the pieces to the cardstock and place out the embellishments.

And a few closeups

Material & Tools 
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics – white
Patterned papers American Crafts – Amy Tangerine Plus One 6x6 paper pad; Papirdesign – Data, Glitz Design – Diamond; Finnley – 6x6 Paper Pad; Teresa Collins – Everyday Moment 6x6 Paper Pad
Stamps: Kaisercraft; Wycinanka; Glitz Design; You Do
Paints, inks & effects: Homemade blue mists, Studio Calico Mr Huey – Warm Calico, Peerless Watercolors – Japonica Scarlet
Embellishments: You Do – Metal star; Studio Calio – wood veneer, flag clips; Panda Eight Design – flair; October Afternoon – buttoms; Create Paper – washitape, vellum star; Heidi Swapp – letters, journaling, doily
Tools: Waterbrush, Kelley Purkey stencil – Chevron; Hero Arts stencil – Tweed; Crafters Workshop stencil – Stacked Triangles

Me @ One - for Shimelle.com

Today I am sharing a layout I have made for the Shimelle.com blog.

My kids loves to look through the layouts that I have scrapped with them. I actually emphasize WITH and not FOR, because I don’t scrap to just capture every memory or just document their lives, I scrap to enjoy myself with papers. Back to the point… When they look through all the albums (well most of the layouts are still piled up in boxes..) they often wonder how I looked when I was little. They ask – did I look like you when you were small, mom ?? So I decided to make a layout of myself from when I was little.

When I started scrapbooking some 11 years ago – my plan was actually to scrap my own baby pictures – I didn't want to take my parents albums with me – I thought they belonged there – so I scanned my old pictures in order to scrap them. I even bought lots of cute babystuff to use on double layouts. I never got to it, and somewhere deep under stuff are those old papers and decorations – never used. They look cute – but they are not me – now – when I scrap.

I love to use mist when I scrap, but you will hardly ever find a page where I actually use it to spray. The first way I use it is almost as I would use watercolors. I start with adding a layer of clear gesso. The clear gesso give a very different texture than white gesso and it doesn't give the white cardstock a yellow ting. While mist almost runs off white gesso – the clear gesso sucks the color right in. I used a water brush to add water and spread out the drops of mists. When it all dried I added drops of mist. If you add drops of mist before it has dried – you will get an ice crystal effect – the color will spread out like an ice crystal. Then my tons of layers were added, in the same colors as the mist. I actually picked out a lot of the papers and embellishments AFTER I picked out the Mister Huey mists. My biggest secret when it comes to scrapping is to staple the layers. That is what gives me the freedom to add small pieces in between here and there.

Here is the link to the post in the Shimelle blog.

Tegner en prinsesse - Inzpira magazine

This layout was made for the May issue of Inzpira magazine using mostly the Plus One collection from Amy Tangerine American Crafts.

New Inzpira Magazine issue - June issue

I am so proud to be part of the Inzpira Magazine team and can present a new issue - the June Issue. I have three projects in it - you can see sneaks from my projects further down.

Fabulous

During Easter we went for small hikes near the water and these photos are taken at Jerdalstranda.   Amazingly he didn't get all wet this time - unlike his baby sister who we discovered had holes in her wellies....    He enjoyed throwing sticks in the water for Gaiza to pick them up, balancing in the water, jumping between rocks, jumping from higher places and just being a boy allowed to run around.

På stranda - May Issue Inzpira Magazine

Vi har med Tøffen til Villa Malla.  Layout laget til Inzpira Magazine - May Issue.
Noen ganger bare glemmer man tittel- det kom jeg må når jeg så det på Ipaden.....  Papir er fra Pion Design. (sponset)