Each month, Krista of Sahlin Studio selects one of her products to be featured in Memory Lane: if you use that product and post a page in her gallery at the LilyPad, you get a chance to win a gift card for her store! For May, these are the Memory Lane products:
They’re both gorgeous and I had never used them before, so Friday night, while I was waiting for my mom’s plane to land, I made a quick card. I think the colors of this kit are perfect for Mother’s Day:
Have a great week!
We’ve been having some nice sunny days here lately, but the temperature has been pretty low, in the 40s or low 50s. We went running Saturday AND Sunday and it was great. I’d take the cool weather over the heat any time, for anything, actually, but especially for running. 🙂 Anyway, despite the still chilly temperatures (the highs are in the low 40s this week…), spring really is in the air. The first crocuses have popped up this past weekend in our garden, along with many tulip leaves. So it’s the perfect time to use one of my favorite kits ever by Sahlin Studio, Sunshine and Daffodils. I made this card last week:
This is the featured kit for April, so this means that if you use it for a project or a LO and post it to the Sahlin Studio gallery, you get a chance to win a GC!
Sahlin Studio is the featured designer for April at DigiShopTalk, and she made a gorgeous kit called Sunny with Blue Skies for DST Gold Members.
I love the soft colors and gorgeous patterns in this kit! I used it to scrap this page:
Have a nice day!
The new BYOC products by Sahlin Studio are soooo inspiring! Check them out:
As soon as I saw these gorgeous designs, I knew I had to print them out and make something pretty with them! So I made a Spring mini album.
I did lots of layering and used pretty lil’ things:
It’s just a darling little album and I love how it turned out! The inside pages are empty because I am planning to fill in the album with pictures and journaling about my mom’s visit next month, but I already printed and cut out the embellishments too (they aren’t adhered yet) so the album is ready to be assembled.
The BYOC products are 20% off as usual, and The LilyPad is having the quarterly 30% off sale, so make sure you stock up on the other Sahlin Studio goodies while they’re on sale!
ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters gallery standouts blog for this project. 😉
I have a couple of cards to share from the past couple of weeks. The first one is a very simple little card made with Sahlin Studio goodies.
The texture of that paper is to die for!! Next, a card I made to celebrate the first day of spring, last Sunday.
Isn’t this bunny adorable? I used glossy accents on the carrot.
There’s a new great date pack at The Lilypad today by Sahlin Studio:
It is really cool and versatile! Here’s how I used it:
I’m so glad it’s Friday, I have not been faring well at all this week. I’m blaming daylight saving time… 😉
ETA: I got a GSO on the ScrapMatters gallery standouts blog for this page. 😉
Britt-ish Designs and Sahlin Studio have teamed up for a very sweet collab! 🙂
The wordart is fantastic too:
I used this collab to make a thank you card for a new friend:
I think the picture doesn’t do the card much justice (as usual…) but the card turned out quite cute. I covered the bears in glossy accents so they really look like gummy bears! I cut out the alpha and the candy in 3 copies and layered them, so they have a nice dimension
Krista of Sahlin Studio is one of my favorite designers ever, and I am so happy to announce that I recently joined her team!! 😉
She sells at The Lilypad and you can find her blog here. Make sure to subscribe to her newsletter on the blog, because she sends out beautiful inspiration. Every month, she picks one of her kits to be featured in Memory Lane: if you make a page with the featured kit and post it to Krista’s gallery at The Lilypad, you have a chance to win a $10 GC to her store! And the best news is that you can also just use her blog freebie. This month’s featured kit is Make a Wish, a collab with the oh-so-talented Valorie Wibbens:
With my mom’s birthday coming up at the end of the month, it was just the perfect timing to get her card done with this gorgeous kit:
I had so much fun adding all the dimension to this card! After I finished putting it together, I was left with too much open space between the “happy birthday” word art and the music strip, so I added in some wrapping ribbon. It was just the perfect touch!
I’m thinking I’ll probably take it off though, since I have to mail this card and the ribbon would get squashed. 🙁 I had lots of fun cutting out all the pieces with my Silhouette and inking them all up with distress inks. I glued three layers together to make the letters and the round bits, so they have a nice thickness. There’s glossy accents on the round bits too, though you can’t tell very well from the pictures.
So I was all proud of my card until I showed it to DH. The only thing he said was: “I really don’t like the staples”. Yes, that’s all he had to say! 🙁 Ugh!
ETA: Since I got a comment that agrees with my husband’s criticism, for full disclosure let me specify that I added the staples for decorative purposes only, since the paper is glued down with Mod Podge. I thought they were cool and added some variety. And I still do! 🙂
So…. have you seen the amazing baby collection Sahlin Studio has out today??
Let me show you the kit up close:
Isn’t it just adorable?! I don’t have kids, but this collection was just too pretty, so I made me some cards. 😉 I made them all in one night, I was on a roll! (and of course all the bits fit nicely on one sheet of paper… you know me! 😉 ) First off, a couple of mini cards that will go great to go along a shower gift:
Then there’s this card. I am so in love with that teddy bear, it’s the cutest ever! I can totally see using this to make a pretty wall art for a nursery!
Finally, I made a simple love card. I totally see this collection working great to scrap LOs even for kid-less people like me!
I am going to try to add some gold glitter to this over the flourish, but didn’t have time during the week. Glitter can get messy and I didn’t want to risk a major spill on the kitchen table! 😉