Weekly Sale and Month of Challenges

Have you been playing along in the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad? It’s not too late to join! And you can take advantage of today’s 50% sale on select products to stock up on new supplies. 🙂 I grabbed a few items from the sale and made this page for the Jan. 2 challenge – using blending modes.

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The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

I love how it turned out! I thought that those triangles resembled Christmas trees, and I love the bright colors.

Clean and Simple

I am hosting the January 4th challenge for the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad. Today’s challenge is to make a clean and simple page. Obviously this is right up my alley, but I have some tips for you if that’s not the case for you. Check them out here. Here’s my page:

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A Slice of Lemon papers and A Slice of Lemon elements by Pink Reptile Designs
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

You have all month long to play in the Month of Challenges. I am blown away by all the gorgeous pages that have been created so far! Inspiration overload! So far I am keeping up quite nicely, with 3 pages made out of 4. Let’s see how far I can get. If you play in all 31 challenges, you get a free $20 gift card to the store, plus the chance to win a spot on the Creative Team!

Hello 2015!

Hello, and Happy 2015!! I hope you had a great start of the year!

The January BYOC is in the store at The Lilypad, and I used it to scrap this page:

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A Slice of Lemon papers and A Slice of Lemon elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Lanky Alpha by Amy Martin

January is the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad: one challenge each day, and if you complete them all you get a $20 gift card to the store! And a chance to become a Pollywog like me (= creative team member.. best gig ever!!). 🙂 I hope you will play along! I am hosting the Jan. 4th challenge, so look for my post on Sunday.
I played along with today’s challenge.


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White Out Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Silver Linings elements by One Little Bird
Let’s Go overlays by Paislee Press
Sprinkles v31 by Valorie Wibbens

This is my first page scrapped in 2015, and I am in love with it!!

I also have a page to share from the January monthly gallery at write.click.scrapbook. This month’s theme was “decades”.. I was stumped at first, then I took this occasion to document something I don’t think I would have documented otherwise: my love for 50s music! 🙂

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Straight Up papers and These Are the Days by Kaye Winiecki
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

I worked on my Project Life album today, but my printer is dying and I am unable to print pictures. So frustrating! I have my eye set on a new printer, but until that happens I guess I’ll have to stick to digital pages. 🙂

December MPM

The December Memory Pockets Monthly kit at The Lilypad is just what I needed to get in the mood for starting a new year.

In truth, I am *so* not ready for a new year to start.. but with some scrap therapy I was able to focus on the good things and stay positive. I’m actually pretty excited for what’s to come.

Credits:
The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Joyce

What about you? Are you ready for 2015??

December M3 at The Lilypad

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.

Credits:
Woodsy Winterland by Stolen Moments Design and Wishing Well Creations
Doodled Borders no. 1 by Pink Reptile Designs

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!

December BYOC at The Lilypad

It’s BYOC time at The Lilypad!!

I have been running all week but I did manage to squeeze in two pages last night with some of the BYOC products. They are soooo good!

Credits:
Chalet papers and Sprinkles v30 by Valorie Wibbens
Every Day of the Week alpha by Pink Reptile Designs

This next page uses a set of digital brushes by Ali Edwards. I used them to build a template for my page. I love how it turned out!

Credits:
Chalet papers by Valorie Wibbens
Daily Digital brushes by Ali Edwards

This one will get printed in 6″x8″ size for my Week in the Life album. 🙂
And it is now December 5th, and I have not even started my December Daily album yet. It is not looking good, the next couple weeks are riddled with deadlines and long work hours.. but it will all happen at some point. 🙂

Christmas Preparations

The new releases at The Lilypad have gotten my gears going and my December Daily preparation has begun! This month’s Memory Pockets Monthly made it so easy..

I know it’s only the second month, but this month’s kit is a big favorite of mine!! I made a few pages that will go in my 2014 album. I am planning to assemble the album from scratch. These pages are 4″x6″ or 4″x4″ in size.

Here’s a closer look at a couple of pages.

Hot pink, white and black?? I am digging this combination!

I wasn’t planning to make Christmas cards this year, but this card right here is making me reconsider!!

I also combined this gorgeous kit with a bunch of the add ons to scrap a few digi pages. I simply couldn’t stop using it.. I am in love with the colors SO much!!

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Arboretum {Joy} and Joy papers by Sara Gleason


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Templates: Polly Love by Amy Martin
Joyful Papers, Joyful Elements and Pocket Full of Joy by Stolen Moments Design

 


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Joy word art by Sara Gleason
Holiday Word Art by Designs by Lili

But that’s not all to get your Christmas crafting going. This month’s Mixed Media Monthly (M3) kit is super festive:

It includes papers, elements, cut files, alpha, and even a gorgeous template that I used in this page.


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And it gets even better.. the Mixed Media Monthly kit is a perfect match with all the Document Your December products! I didn’t have time to use them last week when they were released, but I definitely did use them now. 🙂 I love them!

Credits:

DYD Collection by Sara Gleason
Pocket Stuffers no. 4 by Valorie Wibbens
Journal Junkie: Shine by CD Muckosky
Woodbitsy Christmas by Pink Reptile Designs

I love the gold and pink bits! Finally, I made another page with the M3 with more traditional colors (and some pink thrown in for good measure :)).


Credits:

DYD Collection by Sara Gleason

My plan for today is to put up the tree. Feels about right, doesn’t it? 🙂

Finally, there are also some great new products in the store that don’t fall under the MPM or M3 umbrellas. Of course I had to scrap with a few of those too. 🙂


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Background paper from Joy papers by Sara Gleason

 


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Loving Life by CD Muckosky

 


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Merry Everything card template by Paislee Press

Don’t miss the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales at The Lilypad! Nothing beats online shopping as far as I’m concerned! 🙂

Merry Fall

The new Christmas brushes in Ali Edwards’s store are perfect for December Daily! I am not quite in Christmas mode yet (waiting for Thanksgiving to be over) but I found that they were perfect to scrap the crazy weather we’ve had this past week! 🙂

Credits:
Nutmeg papers and Cut It Out: Gather by Valorie Wibbens
Noel Brushes by Ali Edwards

Here are a couple of details of these lovely brushes:

I also stamped a cute little squirrel to match the one in my photo.

The snow’s all melted now, but I think it will be back soon. What a merry fall indeed! 🙂

Never Too Late

There is still over a month to go before Christmas, but Christmas scrapping is well under way here. 🙂 I never end up scrapping much of Christmas at Christmastime, but here I am now scrapping photos from last year. The deals in the Something Old, Something New (SOSN) sale at The Lilypad were perfect for this.

Credits:
Clearly Christmas and Hello Clearly Alpha by Amy Martin
Season of Joy by CD Muckosky

I have to say I really love how this page turned out!! For some reason my other page has a similar color background, but the feel is quite different.


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Tinsel and Tinsel Journal Cards 2 by Lynne-Marie
Masquerade no. 1 by Pink Reptile Design

I do hope we get a white Christmas this year too! I think we’ve only gotten one non-white Christmas in the 7 years we’ve lived here, and it was raining to boot – no fun at all!

That’s all I have for now, but be ready because some new Christmas products will be in the store this weekend for Document Your December!

Winter Is Coming

As we transition from Fall to Winter (we did get the first snowflakes last week after all), I find myself still not quite in the mood to scrap Christmas, even though I am warming up to the idea. The products on sale 50% off this week for SOSN at The Lilypad were the perfect mix. I started out with a fall page.


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Oak Tree by Sara Gleason

And then I moved on to Christmas. 🙂

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I haven’t started playing Christmas music yet, but I am >> this << close! 🙂