Just a quick post to tell you about the weekly 50% off sale on select products at The Lilypad. I made a page with some of them.
This kit was perfect for me to document something that I rarely ever document: what we’re watching on TV. 🙂
Yay! It’s mixed media monthly time! Or M3 for short. 🙂 This is only the second month of this new product offering from The Lilypad, and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised both times by how much inspiration I get from these products. I am not a messy mixed media artist / art journaler, but I absolutely love all the projects I have made with the M3!
So how does this work? A new kit is released the 3rd Friday of the month. The subscription is only $7.99 per month, which includes the M3 kit, 50% off all add-ons and access to a private M3 subscribers forum with challenges and tutorials (including some tips from me!).
The designers are Just Jaimee, Little Butterfly Wings, Lynne-Marie and Quirky Heart. The M3 kit is a collaboration, and then each designer also has three individual add ons. I used these ones by Lynne-Marie:
Last month I made two hybrid layouts and 2 digi pages. This month, instead, I was inspired to make a hybrid mini album. This all came together very quickly Wednesday evening, in approximately 2 hours, and I am so thrilled with how it turned out!! The design part (done on the computer) took me 1.5 hours (this includes designing several cards for some pages of the mini album, while I also used ready made cards that are in the kit and add ons for other pages. I just love to give my own twist to things.), and another half hour to assemble the album.
I started by designing the card that became the cover, and that’s how I got the idea to make a little album. All the pages were printed out on Canon matte photo paper.
I placed a black/white photo on each spread, and then have room to add my journaling on the side.
I also printed out some digital elements to add on top of my pages.
This is probably my favorite spread in the album – the paper on the right is gorgeous!!
The theme of this album is this summer, so I picked a few of my favorite photos of my husband and me taken over the last few months.
The photos were printed on Canon glossy photo paper.
I bound the little book using blue masking tape and some sewing.
I hope you enjoyed this little project!
Hello and happy Friday! I have a page to share with a lovely new kit by Mari Koegelenberg today, and I will have even more projects to share tomorrow. 🙂 This has been an excellent scrappy week indeed!
Here is my page.
I love that “summer” stamp – it comes also as a journaling card, and I’ve already printed out to add it to my Project Life album!
Whoa, what a fabulous release weekend at The Lilypad! I am blown away by all the gorgeous new products (20% off through the weekend). First off, a fantastic kit by One Little Bird.
And you get a free set of journaling cards (I used one below) if you purchase the kit this weekend. The kit totally inspired the theme for my page.
I am madly in love with that background paper!
Next up, an awesome collab by Valorie Wibbens and Lauren Reid.
Once again, the kit inspired the theme for my page, and I am in love with the background paper. I’m kind of predicable, ain’t I? 😉
I will be back later this weekend to show off all the new M3 (Mixed Media Monthly) releases and share a hybrid project I made with them. I just need to be home in daytime hours to take decent pictures!
Hello! I am sharing here the post I made yesterday for the write.click.scrapbook blog on letterpress. I just started letter pressing last week, and I am in love! A while back I showed you how to create a faux letterpress look using embossing folders, but today I want to show you how to do real letter pressing.
Here is what you will need:
I have two pages to share today, both made with products that are 50% off today for the SOSN sale at The Lilypad. It does not get any better than this!
I loved the bold colors of this kit, so I picked some equally bright, recent photos that I wanted to scrap.
I made two matching pages, something I don’t often do, but it was the perfect way to scrap all these photos and still keep that pretty owl front and center. 🙂
I was nominated by Jennifer Larson to be part of a scrap blog tour. Thank you so much Jenny!
1. What am I working on right now?
I am working on getting as many pages out of the Studio Calico Poet Society kits as I can. I have a tendency to hoard rather than use, and I am challenging myself to make the most out of this kit before it’s time to go shopping again. 🙂 Here’s what I’ve made so far with it.
2. How long does it take me to create a project?
Digital page – 30-45 minutes, or less (from when I download the kit to when I’ve uploaded my completed page online).
Paper page – ~2 hours.
Project Life spread – several hours. Printing photos seems to take forever! I do it over multiple days/evenings.
3. What are my favorite things to create with at the moment?
Die cutting machine and Letterpress
Screenprinting has been super fun lately too.
4. How does my writing/creating process work?
I usually start either from a new product I want to use, or a photo I want to scrap. I get easily distracted, so I don’t like to spend hours on end on a project. 🙂
5. How do I become inspired and stay inspired?
It’s usually from the photographs I take. I get excited and want to scrap them right away. 🙂 I love my DSLR camera – I have a Canon 6D and I love it. Along with my 28 mm, 50 mm, 24-105 mm zoom and 55-300 mm zoom lenses.
6. What is my signature style?
I would say my projects tend to be on the simple side, not over-embellished, but I definitely love COLOR and STAMPING.
I nominate Lisa Truesdell, Nirupama Kumar and Celine Navarro. To my knowledge these ladies have not been on the blog tour before so I hope they’ll take part in it now!
ETA: Here’s Celine’s post!
Ah, summer weekends.. I miss them already! The lovely new kit by Kate Hadfield was perfect to scrap a happy summer memory.
Here’s my page:
One more day till the weekend.. cannot come too soon! 🙂
Happy Friday! It’s BYOC (Build Your Own Collab) time at The Lilypad!
I love the deep colors, and especially the navy! So far, I made a card:
and a page:
I love how this turned out!
Have a nice Friday!
New month, new gallery at write.click.scrapbook. This month’s theme is Back to School.
As I am getting ready to start the second and last year of my degree, it was fun to sit back and look at the pictures I have collected over the past year. I decided to take a picture of me for each week of class, and I love looking back and thinking about all that I have accomplished.
There were a lot of colors in these pictures, so I decided to convert most of them to black and white and only keep a few favorites in color.
It’s kind of daunting to think I have nine more exams to go.. but one at a time, I will tackle them all. Let’s go!
