Happy DSD!

It’s Digital Scrapbooking Day! It’s one of my favorite times of the year, with great sales and fabulous new releases! The celebration at The Lilypad this weekend will be lots of fun. To kick off the party, the November BYOC is in the store, and there is a free with $15 purchase kit – it’s a huge and beautiful collaboration called Things That Matter Most:

I used it to make a page for one of the special DSD challenges that give you a chance to win a gift card:

Things That Matter Most

Credits:
Things That Matter Most collab by The Lilypad Designers – free with $15 purchase over DSD!!
The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

This picture was by no means a great picture, but I love how it turned out after the photo processing. :)! Here are some of the BYOC goodies I played with:

This pack is huge and truly fantastic. It is more than a template pack – the templates come with some very cool elements too (like paint splatters and frames), plus there is a paper pack and an alpha. A really cool concept!

I combined all of these fabulous goodies on this page:

Mom's Visit Day 13 - Simply Lovely

Credits:
Life Tale Sketches 4 by Kitty Designs
Owl’ll Always Love You by Emily Merritt
Hometown elements by Lauren Reid
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

And here are more BYOC products that I have used and love:

I love how the cutout frames made it easy to do this multi-photo page! And I am totally in love with that deep green color!

Mom's Visit Day 14: Soft Shell Crab

Credits:
Fall Cutouts and It Is Paint by Amy Martin
Owl’ll Always Love You paper (used on the frame) by Emily Merritt
For the Boys Paper Pack by Amy Wolff (background)
Cottage Sunrise alpha by CD Muckosky
The Dot Connector font by Heather Hess
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Last night I went on a scrapping marathon and did another page with more BYOC goodies:

I hadn’t realized I never scrapped DH’s cake pictures from last year, I’m so glad I dug them up! 🙂

Autumn Birthday Cake

Credits:
Milkweed by Sara Gleason
Hand-Drawn Alpha Circles by Designs by Lili
Awesome Sauce Alpha by Karah Fredricks
Love Is {Keely} Dates Pack by Karah Fredricks
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Happy DSD, and make sure to stop by tomorrow for more exciting releases! 😉

New Kit by Leora Sanford for DSD!

I am so excited to share my first page for Leora Sanford’s CT! She has this gorgeous new kit out today for DSD and her store is on sale 30% off!

I spent the weekend and beginning of the week in Washington, DC for a conference, but the first thing I did when I came back home was scrap with this gorgeous kit. The colors are sooo perfect for pictures of autumn!

First Frost

Credits:
Bittwersweet by Leora Sanford
Font: Jellyka St. Andrew’s Queen

Have a great DSD celebration!

New Team!

Leora Sanford opened up her store at Oscraps a few weeks and recently had a CT call. I applied, and… I was picked! I’m so excited to be on this team! Leora has a new kit coming next week for DSD, and she’s having a giveaway on her blog! Click on the sneak peek to go to her blog and enter to win. 🙂

This kit is sooo gorgeous! The colors are just beautiful!

Leaves Are Falling

I don’t have much to share today, just one page, but I’ve been busy this week! I am leaving Sunday on a business trip so I’ve been trying to get as much scrapping as I can before that – BYOC is next week, and then there’s NSD weekend, so there’s so much to scrap with! Here’s the kit I used out of today’s beautiful new releases at The Lilypad (20% off throughout the weekend):

The colors and the doodled elements in this kit are just gorgeous, and I love how this page turned out!

Leaves Are Falling

Credits:
Leaves are Falling by Emily Merritt and Kate Hadfield
Topography Set No. 14 by Valorie Wibbens
Font: Typewriterhand

I am happy to say that the leaves in our front yard have mostly been blown away by the wind, and this saves us from a lot of work. Unfortunately our backyard is fenced in so we do have to pick up the leaves there, but they haven’t all fallen yet. I will try to take pictures before and after our yard work so I can use the pretty rake and leaves bag elements in this kit!

DVD Folder

I must share a project I recently made with a great hybrid template by Simply J Studio and some of the ScrapMatters September Mix-a-Kit. I love how it turned out!

DVD Folder

Credits:
CD/DVD Folder Template by Simply J Studio
Hopes and Dreams Patterns by Down This Road Designs
Out of This World Alpha by geniaBeana Designs

I’m going to burn a DVD with photos of this year to go in it. 🙂

CD/DVD folder

DVD Folder

Grateful

Jenn Barrette has a new kit out today. It’s a beautiful collaboration with Shawna Clingerman.

I love all the gorgeous elements in this kit, so much that I used them as the main component for this card:

Thankful for You card

Have a fabulous weekend! I have a few fun events planned, so I ‘m looking forward to that!

Hope for Melissa

I have something very, very special to share today. The designers at The Lilypad have put together an amazing collaboration kit for a very sweet girl, Melissa, who is on the CT at The Lilypad and is fighting hard against ovarian cancer. I did not know Melissa prior to joining the CT, but by checking out her blog I soon found out what a special person she is. And this kit is in honor of Melissa; all proceeds from the sale will go to her and her family as they keep fighting this battle.

The kit is gorgeous, truly gorgeous, and it is special in so many ways. So if you buy just one kit this week – heck, if you buy just one kit this month! – let this be it.

I can see myself scrapping many, many page with this kit – it’s so big and versatile! Here are two pages I’ve made so far:

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: Filled with Love

Credits:
All (including template) from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: Art

Credits:
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Incidentally, these are the first photos I edited with RadLab and scrapped – love them!

I have more great news, and another page to share. It’s time for the quarterly 30% off sale at The Lilypad, so make sure you take advantage of it this weekend!

I used this gorgeous new kit by Jenna Desai and Micheline Martin:

to scrap this page:

Togetherness

Credits:
Template by Sara Gleason from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Togetherness by Jenna Desai and Micheline Martin

Sigh. I’ve scrapped that photo before, but lately DH has been particularly reluctant in taking pictures. I will force him to take a few this weekend, so I can swap the new photo in this page. 🙂