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Week in the Life

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I have never done Week in the Life before, but last week I followed along with Ali Edwards and as I was taking pictures all week I thought about all the stories this photos could tell. But at the end of the week, I wasn’t quite sure what to do with those photos. But then when I saw the new templates by Paislee Press for The Lilypad, I knew it was the perfect way for me to get started scrapping my Week in the Life. I paired them with the lovely November BYOC.

The first spread documents the places I’ve been. Mostly autumn scenes.


Credits:

Around Here 6×8 Templates by Paislee Press
Colored In Papers by Quirky Heart
Sweet November Journal Cards by Little Butterfly Wings

The second spread documents my favorites of the week.

Credits:
Faves 6×8 Templates by Paislee Press
Darker Marker Alphas by Amy Martin


Now, I can focus on writing some of the stories for this week.

Make a Wish

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The November challenges are up at The Lilypad, and I made a page for the template challenge using one of the lovely new kits released this weekend.

My mom sent me this picture of my dad blowing out a candle on his birthday. I am so grateful for technology and for a tech savvy mom! 🙂

Credits:
Fete and Fete journaling cards by One Little Bird

And I am SO happy to report that my wish is coming true and my parents will be here in a little over three weeks!!! Eeeeek!

DSD at The Lilypad

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Oh my goodness… I don’t even know where to start!! But there’s one thing I know. The Lilypad sure knows how to throw a DSD party!! There’s fun games and challenges going on; a store-wide sale and free with purchase collab, and some amazing new releases. And then… wait for it… there’s a new monthly subscription called Memory Pockets Monthly. Seriously, I was blown away with all the gorgeous new designs!
Let me start with the Memory Pockets Monthly. Here is this month’s collaboration kit.

And here’s my first page with it.

Credits:
Background paper from Documentary papers by Sahlin Studio
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

Isn’t it funny how well our clothes matched the kit colors?? 🙂
In addition to the monthly collaboration, the designers also made coordinating add ons. The next page uses the add ons by Sahlin Studio.

Credits:
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

I left the page simple to let the word art and that lovely leaf shine.
The shop has lots of new releases as well. Here’s what I made with some of them.

Credits:
Nutmeg papers and Cut It Out: Gather by Valorie Wibbens
Sweet Boos by CD Muckosky
Layers of Leaves by Amy Martin
Monthly by Paislee Press
Font: CK Chloe

I will leave you with the gorgeous free with $15 purchase kit:

And here is a page I made with the fabulous free with purchase kit! Did you grab part 1 on the free hop?


Credits:

Currently collaboration by The Lilypad designers – get part 1 on the freebie hop and find part 2 in the store (it’s free with a $15 purchase over DSD weekend!)
Sweet Treat Cards by CD Muckosky
Font: gimme space

Happy DSD, and Happy Halloween!!

Fall Favorites

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I scrapped some more pumpkin pictures using a new release from The Lilypad.

This kit is 20% off through the weekend. The pops of orange and those cute pumpkins were perfect to scrap these pictures.

Credits:
Sweater Weather by Valorie Wibbens and France M Designs
Border It Up #1 by Studio Basic
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

I decided to make two matching pages because I wanted to keep the photos big.

Credits:
Sweater Weather by Valorie Wibbens and France M Designs
Border It Up #1 by Studio Basic

Happy Friday!

October M3 at The Lilypad

| cristina

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.

Credits:
M3 Add ons by Lynne-Marie: Artsy Bits, Sketchbook 03 and Dymo Family Edition
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

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??)! 🙂

Credits:
M3 Add on by Lynne-Marie: Artsy Bits
M3 Add ons by Quirky Heart: Build a Mess 2, Home Sweet Home and Journal Spots
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens


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! 😉

Credits:
M3 Add ons by Lynne-Marie: Artsy Bits, Sketchbook 03 and Dymo Family Edition
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

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!

October BYOC

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I am so inspired by the new BYOC  (Build Your Own Collab) at The Lilypad! These colors are soooo pretty.

I had very little time this week, yet I scrapped these four pages in one day.. so yeah I guess that I was indeed inspired by these lovely products! 😉

Credits:
Just Right papers and Sprinkles v28 by Valorie Wibbens
Oh Layers Alphas by Amy Martin
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens


Pumpkin spice latte = fall for me for sure! Yummy..

Credits:
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

This one is probably my favorite page of this bunch. I just love these warm colors.

Credits:
Nutmeg papers, Nutmeg elements by Lynne-Marie
Sprinkles v28 by Valorie Wibbens
Oh Layers Alphas by Amy Martin
Good Morning elements by Paislee Press
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens


This adorable bear was perfect for me to tell this story! I used one of the elements to create a distressed mask to blend my photo in the background.

Credits:
Oh Layers Alphas by Amy Martin
The Dirty Dame font by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

And now.. the weekend may commence (OK.. one more day)! And I definitely need it after a rocky work week this week *sigh*.
I do have some good news to share in the next few days

The BYOC is 20% off through the weekend. Do yourself a favor and get this alpha… it plain ROCKS!

Hello October

| cristina

The end of summer / early fall is such a lovely time of the year. I am savoring it.
Today I want to share the page I made for the October write.click.scrapbook gallery. The theme was “scraps”, so I used up some products I had in my stash, namely the September BYOC from The Lilypad. The October BYOC is being released this Friday, so I was happy to get another page done before that.

Credits:
Documentary papers by Sahlin Studio
In the Orchard elements by Stolen Moments Design
Fonts: NeoRetro Draw, DJB gimme space

September M3

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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!