Month of Challenges at The Lilypad – Week 2

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I am so happy to day I completed 7 more challenges at The Lilypad (check out the Month of Challenges here – it’s not to late to play along!!), which brings me to 14 for 14! “Only” 17 to go to finish up the entire month! 🙂

Day 8 – Bingo

I chose the row with: washi tape, something glittery, doily/lace, handwritten font, stitches
Supplies:
Curated no. 2 by Paislee Press
Memory Pockets Monthly: SPARKLE from The Lilypad
Shiny + Happy: Elements by Allison Pennington
washi tape from Gifted elements by Allison Pennington

Day 9 – Advice to Your Future Self

Supplies:
From Where I Stand Papers, From Where I Stand Elements and Typo Viewpoint by Valorie Wibbens
Shadows {Dressed Up} by Fiddle-dee Designs

Day 10 – Clean and Simple

Supplies:
Permanent Press by Paislee Press
Shadows {Dressed Up} by Fiddle-dee Designs
From Where I Stand Elements and Typo Viewpoint by Valorie Wibbens

Day 11 – On This Day

Supplies:
Makers Gonna Make collab from The Lilypad – free with $15 purchase!!
Date It 2018 by Sabrina’s Creations

ETA: This page was chosen for a Gallery StandOut!

Day 12 – Throwback Photo

Supplies:
Generations by One Little Bird and Paislee Press

Day 13 – Filled Template

Supplies:
Fiddlesticks Number 30 template by Fiddle-dee Designs
Permanent Press by Paislee Press
Oak Tree by Sara Gleason

Day 14 – Document Your Day

Supplies:
You Are Here by Paislee Press and Queen of Quirk
Oh Happy Day alphas by CD Muckosky

Yay me – I can’t believe I have completed the first two weeks already! Yay me!! Are you playing along?

2017 Weekly Traveler’s Notebook – Catching Up

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I haven’t posted my weekly traveler’s notebook spread in ages! The truth is I stopped documenting in this format over the summer, when some very stressful events, including a death in the family (my father-in-law), occurred. Then in the fall we moved and I have been super busy with life. But I love this form of documenting too much to quit, so I am now catching up. I also started documenting 2018 in that format, so keep an eye out for a post on what I’m using this year too. 🙂

OK, here we go – this is from July:

Most of the stamps I use are from Sakuralala – they are just perfect for the small TN format! She has put her shop on hold since her move to Japan, but I hope to see some new products soon, since they are always fantastic! In the meantime, I have no shortage of stamps among her earlier releases so I am really happy to work on these spreads. Luckily I am keeping daily journaling in my Hobonichi so it’s very easy to remember the events I need to include.

I also use stamps and stickers and other things from Studio Calico – mainly from their Planner and Documenter kits.

Each week I start from a roll of washi tape from my stash, and that is the starting point for my color scheme.

This process is so much fun, and I love that each week can be totally different from the previous one. Each week I fall in love with what I am creating, and I feel like it’s my favorite ever. 🙂

This was the week my father-in-law got diagnosed with cancer… I couldn’t embellish this week as usual, so I went with a black&white scheme.

As you can see in this photo, I use pigment inks for all of my stamping since it has the least bleeding; I love these little VersaCraft cubes and own 35 colors of them. 🙂 I also use Distress Oxide inks quite a lot (they are a hybrid of dye and pigment, and ghost just a bit more than straight pigment inks), but I love the colors too much – the only issue I have is that they take longer to dry, so I often end up smudging them because I forget to let them dry! 🙂

This week I went a bit crazy with tape and stickers, so I kept the stamping at a minimum. 🙂

And that’s where I am at right now. I caught up 5 weeks this week so I am happy, but this has brought me to the end of August, so I have 4 months to go still!

Happy New Year!

| cristina

2018 is here… and can you believe I haven’t scrapped [a paper page] since before moving to our new home, back in September?!? But that is no longer true, because today I scrapped a page!

Of course it had to be a page about the new year. 🙂

I used some old and new supplies, and I love how it turned out!

Happy New Year!

Month of Challenges at The Lilypad – Week 1

| cristina

I have successfully completed the whole first week of challenges at The Lilypad! 24 more to go… 🙂 Check out the first four days here.

Day 5: Photo-less page

Supplies:
Shimmer by One Little Bird
Winter Vibes Elements and Monthly Vol 5 by Paislee Press

Day 6: Dispersion (technique challenge)

Supplies:
Gifted by Allison Pennington: papers, elements, journal cards alpha
Memory Pockets Monthly: GIFT from The Lilypad

Day 7: Collage

Supplies:
Dec. ’17 Month in Review template by Scrapping with Liz — left page
Photocentric no.2 Templates by Paislee Press — right page
Gifted papers and Gifted elements by Allison Pennington
Memory Pockets Monthly: GIFT from The Lilypad

It’s been a great start to the year for sure! Are you playing along?

Month of Challenges at The Lilypad, and January BYOC!

| cristina

January is an exciting month at The Lilypad – there’s one challenge a day, and if you enter them all you get a chance to win a spot as a Pollywog (creative team member). Let me tell you, it doesn’t get any better than that!! This is the 6th year we are running Month of Challenges, and I am off to a good start, having made a page for the first 4 days. I used the new BYOC collection for most pages.

Day 1: Blind Scrap

Supplies:
Watch the Stars Paper Pack, Watch the Stars Elements and Watch the Stars Frames by Lynn Grieveson
Shoot for the Moon Cards by Becca Bonneville

 

Day 2: Sketch

Supplies:
Shoot for the Moon Papers, Shoot for the Moon Cards and Shoot for the Moon Elements by Becca Bonneville
Cheers! paint, Cheers! elements and Cheers! alpha by Lynne-Marie

Day 3: Moodboard

I made this mood board:

Sources: image 1; image 2; image 3; image 4; image 5

and this page inspired by it:

Supplies:
Memory Pockets Monthly: SPARKLE from The Lilypad
Shiny + Happy: Elements and Shiny + Happy: Sparklebets by Allison Pennington

Day 4: Change Your View

 

Winter Wonder

| cristina

Hello and happy Friday! Today is a big day for my husband – last day of school! And just about time to get ready for Christmas now… I am so behind this year! We did put some lovely decorations around our new house, but I am at a standstill with December Daily and my other crafting projects… no time this year! Ugh!

So digital comes to the save – I made these pages with the new releases at The Lilypad, and I love how they turned out!

Some of our neighbors go all out with Christmas lights – we only have some, but I love them!

This year we planted 3 baby spruces in our garden. They are so little and cute! 🙂

How is your holiday prep going??