This month’s featured kit by Sahlin Studio is New Year’s Eve, a collab with Valorie Wibbens. Check out Krista’s blog for a discount and a chance to win a gift card! Here’s a Happy New Year card I made with it and the coordinating add on:
I added Stickles on the glitter alpha, it’s so sparkly! 🙂
There is a great new Christmas Collection out today at The Lilypad. It’s called Document Your December, and it is basically a BYOC with Christmas products. How cool is that?? I have mixed and matched a bunch of these products to make the base pages for my December Daily album. I am loving how they’re coming along so far!
I also used two products by Sahlin Studio to make a quick welcome card for my mom. 🙂
I bought a cheap watercolor set this past weekend, and I am loving it! 🙂
I have been busy creating this weekend, since it will be a while before I can craft again, with my mom being here. I have started my December Daily album and i am loving how it’s coming along! Jenn Barrette and Krista Sahlin have teamed up to make this fabulous Christmas kit that inspired my to start on this year’s December Daily project. 🙂
It is available at The Lilypad and at Sweet Shoppe Designs. Plus there are some fantastic add on packs:
This is what my first pages look like. I recolored a few items to match my color scheme. More peeks to come towards the end of the week! 🙂
I have not decided what date these pages will be for yet, that will depend on what pictures I have for each day.
Another big project I have committed to for next year is Project Life. I am in the process of buying the binder and the paper kit, and I am excited to start. I will also be printing out digi goodies to fill my album, and the new collection by Jenn Barrette and Kristin Cronin-Barrow is simply perfect for this!
The colors are really versatile, and I am crazy about those journaling pieces! 🙂 I made this card to start with. 🙂
I also made a card for DH’s birthday this week. I had fun making this – it uses a digital stamp and it is my first time using one!
That owl is so cute! I followed a tutorial by Trish on how to digitally color stamps (well… truth be told, I skipped a few steps, but it worked for me 😉 and I will be using digital stamps again for sure! 🙂 ).
Have a great week! 🙂
My 2010 December Daily album is finally done!! I only went up to day 27, instead of doing the full month as I’d originally intended, but that’s OK because it’s when our trip back home ended so it made sense to the album there. I am so happy to be done with it, and it looks so pretty! Unfortunately sharing pictures of my December Daily is a daunting task (I have to take at least 60 pictures, edit them, and try to round up the credits – I kept track of the things I used but I ended up mixing and matching some of the elements on different pages…) so I’m not quite sure when I’ll tackle that. Perhaps next weekend if I get some decent natural light. Now I can seriously think about what to do for this year. I’d love to do an album again, but one that requires less work. In the meantime, I have a card to share; I finally had time to play with the gorgeous collection that Krista of Sahlin Studio released for DSD weekend. I printed it out yesterday along with the last bits I needed for the December Daily album. 🙂
The patterns of these papers are absolutely gorgeous, and I am so in love with that card alpha! 😉
8 days to my mom’s visit, and I have about 15 pages to scrap for the album of her last visit… I’ll do the best I can! 🙂
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With all the excitement for the Halloween Bash at The Lilypad this past weekend, I forgot to post a new card I did with lots of Sahlin Studio goodies, including some new releases and some October BYOC products.
How gorgeous are they?! 😉 Here is my card:
It’s Wednesday (yay!) and this means it’s SOSN at The Lilypad: select old and new products are 50% off! Including these gorgeous new flower pack by Sahlin Studio:
Check out the preview in the store – there’s a close up of the flowers and you can see how fantastic they are! I made this card last night:
ETA: I got a gallery standout at MeSoScrappy!
Also, the October featured kit by Sahlin Studio is Art and Soul. This means the kit is 30% off and if you do a page and post it in Krista’s gallery at The Lilypad, you get a chance to win a gift card to her store! Details here.
Here’s a card I made using this gorgeous kit:
and a detail:
I bought some Distress Stains by Tim Holtz and I had so much fun using them on this card!
ETA 10/19: I got a GSO at MeSoScrappy for this card too! 😉
ETA: My card was picked on a new website, One Story Down!
But this isn’t just a plain white paper pack. The textures on these papers are fantastic!! And a gorgeous pencil sketched alpha by the queen of alphas, CD Muckosky:
I used them to make another page for my 2012 calendar:
Up next, a really cool kit by The Tattered Pear:
some unique acrylic elements by Amy Martin:
and an extraordinary alpha by one of this month’s guest designers at The Lilypad:
I made this page about the book club at The Lilypad:
and this one about my new e-reader!
Whoa, that was a lot of stuff to share! 🙂 Have a great weekend!
It’s BYOC time at The Lilypad, and this month’s BYOC has such a pretty palette!
And here’s what I have done with it so far!
I hope to have more time this weekend to scrap a bit more with this BYOC, because it is too gorgeous to pass!
New releases are out today at The Lilypad and I have lots of hybrid goodies to share! 🙂 First off, a collab by Sahlin Studio and Sugarplum Paperie:
I love the blue and yellow combination!
I haven’t had time at all to create this week, but when I saw this new element pack by Valorie Wibbens I knew I had to grab it right away!
Isn’t it utterly adorable?? And here’s the cards I made:
The backs are quite pretty as well:
I’m having a hard time picking a favorite.
The fox, maybe, although I am always partial to fawns. 🙂
And the owl is so cute too!
These adorable critters would make great thank you cards as well! Oh, and make sure you check out the coordinating kit!
This is probably the most last minute trip DH and I have ever done… but we’re off to Alaska!! We bought the tickets just 1 week ahead of the departure, which left me in serious panic mode to get ready. I decided I had to make a journal album to bring on the trip with us, so I had to put it together very quickly. I loooove how it turned out!
How to bind the book is what I pondered most. I love stitched books, but, alas, I do not own a stitching machine. Nor do I have a Bind-it-all or a similar fantastic machine. Since I already bound my previous travel book with rings, I wanted to go with something different. After much consideration, I found the simplest solution: use masking tape! It’s easy, quick, cheap, and fun!! The fact that it comes in a pretty blue too was an unexpected bonus! 🙂 In the process, I also finally fired up my Silhouette after a couple months of laziness and cut a bunch of cute elements for my album.
Here are a few details:
I used Mod Podge to glue down the tree and the title, but since I have now fallen in love with said masking tape and wanted the book to have a cohesive look, I added a few bits on the cover as well. 🙂
In the inside cover, I printed a pretty map of Alaska.
The inside pages are done with the new ledger papers by Sahlin Studio from this month’s BYOC, printed on plain copy paper.
I bound the internal pages with regular masking tape. I love the look!
And here’s my favorite part! Lots of colorful word strips to glue inside the journal!! I am bringing a glue stick with me (sigh, Mod Podge is liquid and I cannot bring it with me) to glue them as I go. That envelope (from the post office) is what determined the size of the journal. 🙂
Isn’t it cute that the tree continues on the back?
I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to follow up and print some pictures to put in the album after we’re back, but at least I will capture all the journaling while we’re there.