June BYOC at The Lilypad

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Hello and happy June! This month’s BYOC collection from The Lilypad has some earthy colors and pretty floral designs that are perfect to document some outdoor summer fun!

Here’s what I made with it.

Supplies:
Bon Voyage | Templates, Bon Voyage | Papers, Bon Voyage | Elements and Bon Voyage | Alpha by Pink Reptile Designs
Exuberant Tattered Graffiti by Tangie Baxter

I loved the template with the mountain scene!

Supplies:
Bon Voyage | Papers, Bon Voyage | Elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Exuberant Tropical Graffiti by Tangie Baxter

Wishing you a wonderful month of June!

So Sweet

| cristina

Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I am sharing a couple of pages made with some of the great products that are on sale for 50% off today only at The Lilypad.

Supplies:
May ’18 template challenge – template by Sabrina’s Creations
Juliette by Lynne-Marie
Stringbats 8 – Birthday by Kim Jensen Designs

That floral background has my heart!

Supplies:
Kaleidoscope by Rebecca McMeen

I love these pops of color with the black ink. Have a great rest of the week!

Ready for Summer

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I went shopping when my mom was visiting, and ended up with a few fun outfits for summertime. So I documented them in a traveler’s notebook spread.

The background is made using an old stamp set from Studio Calico, Cotton Candy, which I inked with distress oxide inks (in picked raspberry and carved pumpkin) and spritzed with water before stamping, to get a watercolored look. Then I added the title using two of my favorite new stamp sets: Conrad and the alpha from the May scrapbook kit, Hey Girl. Here’s closer look at the embellishments:

I look forward to filling up this TN with our summer adventures!

Catching Up

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Hello there! I have been super quiet lately because work has been swallowing me, and then my mom came to visit us (yay!) so all my free time was spent with her. But I did manage to work on a few projects earlier this month, so I thought I’d share them here finally.

This was a fun page I made to document a few things I am loving right now. It’s made using the Confidant scrapbook kit from Studio Calico.

Here’s a look at a couple details:

I added some gold acrylic ink splatters. I love the shine and texture they add!

This next page is also made primarily with the Confidant scrapbook kit.

Finally, an all purple page. It’s a color I don’t use often, but I went all in on this page! 🙂

I have also been keeping up in my weekly traveler’s notebook documentation (in my Hobonichi weeks). Here are a couple recent spreads I made.

I hope to be back soon with some fun projects! Until then, have a great rest of May!

Shopping

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Hello and happy Wednesday! Things are pretty hectic around here, since I am swamped with work, but I couldn’t resist making a page using a couple products from the weekly 50% sale at The Lilypad!
Supplies – 50% off on May 16th!!:
Oleander templates by Sara Gleason
Blake by Rebecca McMeen
Have a great rest of the week!

Fun Neon Spray from Acrylic Ink

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I recently bought 3 bottles of acrylic ink by Daler-Rowney. (here’s a set of neon colors, and I also bought the gold).

As you can see the colors are incredibly vibrant and fun! The bottle they come in has a dropper and I was planning to use that for making drops on my projects, but then I had an even better idea – to use a mini mister bottle and make my own spray!

The acrylic ink is very fluid so I used it straight from the bottle, without diluting it. It worked like a charm!

 

Here’s an example used in my traveler’s notebook (Hobonichi weeks):

(it’s really hard to photograph these vibrant colors, but they are so vivid in real life!!)

I’m so happy to have found these inks – especially since my go-to gold spray (Heidi Swapp’s color shine) has been discontinued!