We are already halfway through October.. but today is a good day because the October Mixed Media Monthly collection is released at The Lilypad, plus there’s some great fun to be had with the Halloween Bash celebration!
Here’s what I made with it:
Have a great end of the week!
It’s time for the July M3 (Mixed Media Monthly) collection at The Lilypad! The theme for this month is heroes, and it was just perfect to make a motivational page for me.
I also combined some of the add ons for my page.
And that’s it from me for today, have a good end of the week!
Hello and happy Saturday! The May Mixed Media Monthly (M3) is in the shop at The Lilypad, and I love the colors!!
I kept my color scheme to blue and pink, and I love how this page turned out!
It’s time for the new Mixed Media Monthly kit at The Lilypad!
Here’s what I made with this pretty kit.
The background papers are so cool that they totally make the page on their own!
It was so quick to put these pages together! I love how well everything in the kit goes together.
I have a few pages to share today. One is a Christmas page, and the other two are made with the December Mixed Media Monthly kit and add ons.
The December Mixed Media Monthly kit and add ons has such a lovely color palette!!
So refreshing! The theme is also very inspiring for the new year (less than 2 weeks away!!).
The fun painted backgrounds in the M3 make it so easy to build a page!
One more day of class before my winter class break. Yay!
Hello and happy Friday! I’ve been quiet around here lately.. just dealing with a couple emergencies at work. But I have two three pages to share made with the new Mixed Media Monthly collaboration and add ons at the Lilypad!
This was so much fun to play with! I especially found the background papers amazing.. All my pages were inspired by the backgrounds in the kit.
We did a couple of outings last weekend and I got some great shots.. this is one of them. Can’t wait to scrap the rest (pumpkin patch anyone??)! 🙂
A picture from our trip to Chicago at the end of September. Seriously, I would never get tired of that view.. breathtaking!
ETA: and yay, this page made Gallery Standout! 😉
This is a last minute page I made last night.. Once again, using one of the amazing background papers in the kit. I’m in love!
Yay! It’s mixed media monthly time! Or M3 for short. 🙂 This is only the second month of this new product offering from The Lilypad, and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised both times by how much inspiration I get from these products. I am not a messy mixed media artist / art journaler, but I absolutely love all the projects I have made with the M3!
So how does this work? A new kit is released the 3rd Friday of the month. The subscription is only $7.99 per month, which includes the M3 kit, 50% off all add-ons and access to a private M3 subscribers forum with challenges and tutorials (including some tips from me!).
The designers are Just Jaimee, Little Butterfly Wings, Lynne-Marie and Quirky Heart. The M3 kit is a collaboration, and then each designer also has three individual add ons. I used these ones by Lynne-Marie:
Last month I made two hybrid layouts and 2 digi pages. This month, instead, I was inspired to make a hybrid mini album. This all came together very quickly Wednesday evening, in approximately 2 hours, and I am so thrilled with how it turned out!! The design part (done on the computer) took me 1.5 hours (this includes designing several cards for some pages of the mini album, while I also used ready made cards that are in the kit and add ons for other pages. I just love to give my own twist to things.), and another half hour to assemble the album.
I started by designing the card that became the cover, and that’s how I got the idea to make a little album. All the pages were printed out on Canon matte photo paper.
I placed a black/white photo on each spread, and then have room to add my journaling on the side.
I also printed out some digital elements to add on top of my pages.
This is probably my favorite spread in the album – the paper on the right is gorgeous!!
The theme of this album is this summer, so I picked a few of my favorite photos of my husband and me taken over the last few months.
The photos were printed on Canon glossy photo paper.
I bound the little book using blue masking tape and some sewing.
I hope you enjoyed this little project!
Yay, it’s Friday!! 😀 And it’s a very special Friday at The Lilypad, because not only is the shop filled with awesome new releases and the quarterly store-wide 30% sale is going on and there’s a free with purchase kit.. but especially because today is also the kick off of a new exciting monthly subscription called Mixed Media Monthly (M3).
I made 2 digi pages with the August M3 collab and add ons, and 2 hybrid ones. I had so much fun with it!! Are you ready for an overload of color?? 🙂 Let’s start with the digital pages.
I would say that my digital scrapping style leans towards the minimalist side, but I had so much fun adding brushes and embellishments on my page! These colors are right up my alley!
Credits:
This page was inspired by the gorgeous butterfly in Lynne Marie’s Sketchbook 01 add on, and then I layered brushes and stamps on top of the colorful background to tone it down a bit and add interest. I love how it turned out! OK, let’s move on to the hybrid pages now. These were done with the August M3 collab.
I used the gorgeous cut filed in the M3 collab to cut out a stencil with my Silhouette machine out of transparency paper. It worked beautifully!! Then I painted over the mask using Tim Holtz distress paint (picked raspberry, fired brick and spiced marmalade, top to bottom) and Heidi Swapp mists (gold and citron). Here’s a closer look:
{ENABLER ALERT} I’ve only had this gold mist by Heidi Swapp for less than a week, but let me tell you… I am in L-O-V-E! It’s the most perfect gold color ever! I bought the Studio Calico gold Mister Huey in the past but it’s not nearly quite as good. The Heidi Swapp one has such perfect coverage, it looks like liquid gold! These pictures don’t even do it justice, but it is so good.
I added some doodling in black pen on the background to tie in with the digital printed out elements (everything printed on Canon matte paper). And yes, that is indeed the same picture I scrapped in the digi LO above. What can I say? Our outfits were just perfect for this M3! 🙂
On to the next page. This one came about because after painting and misting the background for the page above, my stencil was covered in paint and looked very pretty, so rather than just rinse it off I pressed it onto white cardstock to create another background.
I keep going back and forth, but I may love this background even more than the previous one..
I misted the wood veneer using Peach and Primrose Heidi Swapp mists.
I placed the wood veneer in the holes of the mask, and added more splatters of gold mist.
Gold stitching of course.
Finally, I also made a page with some non-M3 new releases.
I love how this page turned out. The design was inspired by the “Change Ahead” element and I went with it!