The Best Therapy

Hello and happy Wednesday! I am feeling a bit (ok… a lot!) blue after spending 9 wonderful days with my mom who came to visit… I already miss her a lot! But I am left with some beautiful memories and photos of her stay, so the next best thing to having her here was to start scrapping these photos.
I used some products that are 50% off today at The Lilypad. 🙂

Credits:


Have a great rest of the week!

Happy iNSD!

Happy interNational Scrapbooking Day!! There is a wealth of new releases at The Lilypad to help you celebrate this day! Here’s what I made with them – documenting a trip to Seattle.

Credits:

Everyday Overlays by Kate Hadfield


I simply cannot resist the cookies from Starbucks – they are so cute! 🙂

Credits:

Life is an Adventure collab (part 1) by The Lilypad designers
Everyday Overlays and Vegetable Patch by Kate Hadfield

I had so much fun piling up the veggies to scrap a page about this farmers’ market!!

May BYOC at The Lilypad

Hello and happy May! Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day (NSD) and the celebrations at The Lilypad have already begun! In addition, the May BYOC (Build Your Own Collab) is released today – here’s what I made with it.

For the May scraplift challenge – lift of hello sunshine by scrappydonna
Credits:
Insights Papers and Insights Elements by Sabrina Dupre

I love how easy it is to mix and match all the NYOC products!

Credits:
Viva la Vida papers and Viva la Vida elements by Little Butterfly Wings
Alpha Mega Pack by Amy Wolff
Be Fruity Elements and Brushes by Nancie Rowe Janitz
Sprinkles v43 by Valorie Wibbens
Bring on the Weekend by Pink Reptile Designs

Coral and green is an unexpected match.. but I love it!

Credits:

Be Happy ScrapART Starts by Nancie Rowe Janitz
Let’s Be Mermaids papers and Sprinkles v43 by Valorie Wibbens
Adventure Calls papers by Lynn Grieveson
Bring on the Weekend by Pink Reptile Designs

I simply cannot have enough of these gorgeous patterns!
Happy NSD!

Happy Wednesday!

Hello and happy Wednesday! Halfway through the week, and the weekend couldn’t come sooner! I have two projects to share with you today. The first one is a notecard set I made for the April Project Parade at The Lilypad.

Credits:
Pen and Wash Spring by Lynn Grieveson

I used my Silhouette to cut out the flowers and just laid them on top of kraft card bases. I love how they turned out!
Next, I made a page with some products that are 50% off today for the weekly Something Old, Something New sale!

Credits:

I hope you have a great rest of the week!

April Mixed Media Monthly at The Lilypad

I’m so excited for today’s Mixed Media Monthly (M3) release at The Lilypad!


Credits:

On the first page, I combined the M3 main kit with some of the fabulous add ons. This month’s theme is calm / passing the storm, and all the rain elements worked perfectly to document a very rainy but lovely day we had in New York City last week.

Credits:

Sketchbook 9 and Rainy Wordart by Lynne-Marie

It’s hard to pick a favorite in the M3 collection, but it’s probably the paper backgrounds – there is so much variety and they are the best way to stat your page! This month, they even included a coloring page. I have never done coloring (or at least the adult coloring trend that is so popular right now), but as soon as I saw this page I knew I wanted to try it. It’s such a cool design! So I did, and used it for this 2-page layout:

Credits:
Coloring page from the Mixed Media Monthly main kit- Apr. 16 from The Lilypad (left page)
Lollipop Guild scrapbook kit from Studio Calico (right page)

Here’s a closer look at the coloring page:

I printed it on heavy cardstock and then added my coloring – first with markers, and then with watercolors (my favorite). I decided not to fill the whole page because I loved the black&white look too. I love how it turned out! And it was the perfect complement for the right page, which is all made with physical scrapbook products.

I love that busy background and how it’s toned down by the colored page on the left.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great end of the week!