Just a quick post to tell you about the weekly 50% off sale on select products at The Lilypad. I made a page with some of them.
This kit was perfect for me to document something that I rarely ever document: what we’re watching on TV. 🙂
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!
Whoa, what a fabulous release weekend at The Lilypad! I am blown away by all the gorgeous new products (20% off through the weekend). First off, a fantastic kit by One Little Bird.
And you get a free set of journaling cards (I used one below) if you purchase the kit this weekend. The kit totally inspired the theme for my page.
I am madly in love with that background paper!
Next up, an awesome collab by Valorie Wibbens and Lauren Reid.
Once again, the kit inspired the theme for my page, and I am in love with the background paper. I’m kind of predicable, ain’t I? 😉
I will be back later this weekend to show off all the new M3 (Mixed Media Monthly) releases and share a hybrid project I made with them. I just need to be home in daytime hours to take decent pictures!
I have two pages to share today, both made with products that are 50% off today for the SOSN sale at The Lilypad. It does not get any better than this!
I loved the bold colors of this kit, so I picked some equally bright, recent photos that I wanted to scrap.
I made two matching pages, something I don’t often do, but it was the perfect way to scrap all these photos and still keep that pretty owl front and center. 🙂
Ah, summer weekends.. I miss them already! The lovely new kit by Kate Hadfield was perfect to scrap a happy summer memory.
Here’s my page:
One more day till the weekend.. cannot come too soon! 🙂
Happy Friday! It’s BYOC (Build Your Own Collab) time at The Lilypad!
I love the deep colors, and especially the navy! So far, I made a card:
and a page:
I love how this turned out!
Have a nice Friday!
New month, new gallery at write.click.scrapbook. This month’s theme is Back to School.
As I am getting ready to start the second and last year of my degree, it was fun to sit back and look at the pictures I have collected over the past year. I decided to take a picture of me for each week of class, and I love looking back and thinking about all that I have accomplished.
There were a lot of colors in these pictures, so I decided to convert most of them to black and white and only keep a few favorites in color.
It’s kind of daunting to think I have nine more exams to go.. but one at a time, I will tackle them all. Let’s go!
It’s time for the weekly 50% off sale at The Lilypad! Lots of products on sale. There is also still time to play along in the challenges of the We Are Storytellers event: the deadline is next Tuesday.
Here are two pages I made with some of the discounted items.
I clearly love that big worn alpha template set. 🙂
Ready for fall?? Well, not really, but I sure am ready for a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks.. so I may very well be ready for fall after all. 🙂
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!
Happy Wednesday! Select products are 50% off at The Lilypad, including the lovely kit I used for this page!
My “me time” is really important.. I often say that scrapbooking is my sanity, and I really believe it! This is so much more than a hobby.. Is it the same for you?