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.
What about you? Are you ready for 2015??
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!
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!
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!
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. 🙂
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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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!
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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 :)).
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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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Don’t miss the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales at The Lilypad! Nothing beats online shopping as far as I’m concerned! 🙂
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! 🙂
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! 🙂
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.
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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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!
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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And then I moved on to Christmas. 🙂
I haven’t started playing Christmas music yet, but I am >> this << close! 🙂
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.
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The second spread documents my favorites of the week.
Now, I can focus on writing some of the stories for this week.
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! 🙂
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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Happy DSD, and Happy Halloween!!