Happy Birthday The Lilypad!

January 18, 2013July 31, 2017 | cristina

It’s The Lilypad’s 6th birthday, and celebrations are in full swing!

There’s a 30% store wide sale, and games galore in the forum, including my personal favorite – kiss the frog! 🙂

And to top if off, Sahlin Studio has a fabulous birthday collection new in the store today!

I used it to make a page for my 2012 Project Life album (one of the many weeks I haven’t quite gotten to yet.. ;)), for the week of my husband’s birthday back in November.

I made backgrounds from the gorgeous papers, and used the vintage cutouts and cards, borders and snipettes to embellish my page. All that was left to do was journal, and add some sewing. 🙂 Here are some details. 🙂

There’s a story behind the “cake #3” (and “cake #4” in another card below): this year DH actually got 4 birthday cakes with candles! Two were at a restaurant, one with friends, and the last at home. 🙂

I used the photo collages by Designs by Lili to fit all my restaurant photos in this pocket, an I added some journaling on a strip cut out of the papers.

Those vintage cards are so much fun! And this blue “happy birthday to you” is my favorite paper in the set, tied with the one I used in the title card. 🙂

This doggie was so cute, I thought it deserved its own pocket. 🙂 I used my Silhouette to cut it out, as well as the Happy Birthday sign below. I sized the sign to be slightly bigger than the pocket because I wanted it to stand out, and I attached it with glue dots to the front of the page protector.

Yup, cake #4. 🙂

This one shown here looks like a paper, but it isn’t – I just repeated a few times one of the borders, slightly shifted, and printed them out, because I loved the look! The presents were also cut out with the Silhouette.

Well, I hope you will take part in the celebrations at The Lilypad over the weekend!

Recent Photo Challenge

January 16, 2013 | cristina

My challenge for the January Month of Challenges at The Lilypad is posted! I hope you will play along! The challenge is to scrap a recent photo (taken in the last 7 days). I used a variety of products that are on sale 50% off today for my page. 🙂

Credits:

Say Cheese by Kaye Winiecki

Lined Up – This Week journaling cards by Amy Martin

Outlined Alphas by Pink Reptile Designs

Random Type by CD Muckosky

The Damsel Series fonts by Heather Joyce and Valorie Wibbens

Have a nice day!

January BYOC at The Lilypad!

January 4, 2013 | cristina

I am so excited for all the inspiration at The Lilypad! Not only is the January BYOC in the store, but January is the Month of Challenges: each day a new challenge is posted! I’m loving it and I’m super inspired! And this isn’t only a great motivation to start off the year well and get those memories scrapped – if you complete all 31 challenges by Feb 2nd, you could win a permanent Polly spot (best team ever!!)! Check it out:

I’ll be hosting the challenge for Jan. 16th, but I’m playing along in the challenges too – I want to see how many I can get done! 🙂

After several weeks of little to no scrapping, with the end of the semester and all the holiday activities, I am finally back on schedule and scrapping – and I love it! Here’s what I’ve done with the January BYOC so far.

First off, I was inspired by Valorie Wibbens’ new frames to make a compilation of all my favorite TLP pages from 2012:

Credits:

My Gallery by Valorie Wibbens

In Review elements by One Little Bird

Smudge Alpha by Gina Miller

ETA: this page was picked as a weekly highlight at the Club CK blog! 🙂
Fun!! This next page is for the Jan. 1st challenge – Clean and Simple – which is right up my alley.

Credits:

New Beginnings elements and New Beginnings papers by Kaye Winiecki

Simple Things elements by Pink Reptile Designs

Yellow paper from In Review papers by One Little Bird

The Chickens font by Heather Joyce

And since I was loving the frames so much, I made another page with them. 🙂

Not my usual style, but I love how it turned out! 🙂

50% Off Specials

December 26, 2012 | cristina

It’s the day after Christmas, but it’s also a Wednesday – this means that the Something Old, Something New sale is on at The Lilypad, with some awesome products 50% off! Here’s what I scrapped with a bunch of them:

Credits:

Record It by Sabrina Dupre

Lookie Here and Shimmer Me Summer alpha by CD Muckosky

Lupine confetti by Sara Gleason

The Royal Invites font by Heather Hess

Hare a nice day!

December Daily – Days 8-14

December 23, 2012 | cristina

I am not on holiday break yet (yuck!), but I conceded myself some time over the weekend to catch up on my December Daily album. 🙂

Not much happened these days that was Christmas-related, so I only had elf pictures for my album. 🙂 I also included a funny joke DH forwarded to me on Facebook. The next spread took me a little more time to put together, and I love how it turned out!

The green paper is from Basic Grey Fact & Fiction.

I stamped a pretty pine stamp by Martha Stewart on the little tag with green ink – so pretty! The date stamp is done with my latest favorite number stamp purchase. The Ho Ho Ho is from a set by Valorie Wibbens, and the glittered stars card is by Paislee Press.

I had lots of fun stamping and embossing here! The number stamps (from Kelly Purkey’s December Daily kit) were embossed with gold glitter zing on vellum. The other stamp (from Studio Calico) is also embossed in gold glitter zing, and then I sprayed Estate Green Mister Huey on top – it really makes the gold shine even more! The little stars are punched out from a foil wrapping using this awesome punch – another of my recent purchases, and you’ll be seeing more of it soon. 🙂

I finally bought myself a tiny attacher by Tim Holtz, and I’ve already put it to use to hold down those sequins. I love it!! Here are a few other things I used to make this page.

That’s all I have for now! I’m a little over a week behind, but it’ll be easy to catch up – as soon as I have some free time!

December Daily 2012 – It Has Begun!

December 7, 2012 | cristina

I am so excited to be working on one of my favorite projects: December Daily. Put together two things I love – Christmas and crafting – and I’m in heaven! Dec. Daily is a concept started by Ali Edwards to document the Christmas season day per day. I completed a mini album both in 2010 and 2011, and I’m at it again this year. 🙂

For my first page of the 2012 December Daily, I used a paper by Sahlin Studio, in the gorgeous December BYOC at The Lilypad (25% off through the weekend!):

This is the first page you see when you open my album:

The picture at the bottom was taken on Dec. 1st, and it’s the only snow we’ve seen so far, but I hope we’ll have a white Christmas this year, so I thought it was perfect to put it at the front of my album. 🙂

Come back tomorrow to see the rest of my Day 1! I’m so excited about how it turned out!

Document Your December and Black Friday at The Lilypad

November 24, 2012 | cristina

Yesterday was Black Friday in the U.S., the day for crazy sales and holiday shopping. Last year (for the first time) we braved the crowds and went shopping at ~6am, but this year I decided not to. We’re too busy, and didn’t really have much to buy. Instead, I did some very rewarding online shopping, followed by a quick dash to the mall at 10 AM – we visited 3 stores and didn’t have to fight the crowds. 😉 But hands down, online shopping rocks. And the sale that is going on at The Lilypad on all Christmas and winter products is perfect to gear up for December Daily!

I successfully completed a December Daily album in the past two years, so I know what works and what doesn’t work for me. This year I decided to combine the December Daily album with Project Life (I wouldn’t have enough material and motivation to keep up with two albums at the same time!), so I’ll be using the Project Life concept (document the little things, use photo pocket pages) but in a mini album format. I am using an 8.5″x5.5″ binder by Martha Stewart from Staples. I chose this size because it’s perfect for hybrid, and I’m all for saving paper when I print. 🙂 In 2010 I made all my foundation pages of the album ahead of time, because I was traveling in December. In 2011 I didn’t, because I was home and wanted to have the freedom to choose the design based on the photos I had for each day. This year, I will also go with the freedom approach :), but since the holiday products that have already been put in the store are so tempting, I have done a few pockets already. 🙂 Here’s what I used.

Last year I started the tradition of our Elf on the Shelf, and I am excited to bring him out again this year. The tree went up yesterday, so I have a feeling he’ll make an apparition soon. 😉 Here are a few other goodies I’ve used so far.

It’s no mystery that I love deer and reindeer (and glitter too! LOL), so these cards by Paislee Press had to go straight in my album. 🙂 Here’s a peek at the pockets I’ve made so far.

Credits:
A Christmas Tradition by Jenn Barrette and Valorie Wibbens

Christmas Journal Cards and Ephemera: Trimming the Tree by Sahlin Studio

Peace and Love word arts by Little Butterfly Wings

Pocket Stuffers no. 2 by Valorie Wibbens

Press cards no. 18 by Paislee Press

The Serif’s Sister font by Heather Hess

Reindeer paper from Kitschy Christmas by Jenn Barrette and Sahlin Studio

I will be rearranging my pockets around once I start actually working on the album, but I think I’m off to a great start! 🙂

Thankful

November 23, 2012 | cristina

So much to be thankful for this year, and this season especially..

Credits:

Hello Gorgeous papers and Hello Gorgeous elements by Mari Koegelenberg

We Were Here elements by Paislee Press

Good Harvest by CD Muckosky

Thirty Days of Gratitude by Little Butterfly Wings

Font: Strangelove

I hope you are all having a lovely time too!

Fall Favorites

November 10, 2012 | cristina

I couldn’t be happier that Mari Koegelenberg is guesting at The Lilypad this month. 🙂 She released two new products yesterday, and they’re both very versatile!

Here they are, paired with some goodies from the Nov. BYOC.

Credits:

Hello Gorgeous papers, Hello Gorgeous elements, Map It Out alpha and Vellum Pockets Set 1 by Mari Koegelenberg

Good Harvest and Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky

Sprinkles v9 by Valorie Wibbens

Heart tag from We Were Here elements by Paislee Press

The Hammer Head font by Heather Hess

I have become addicted to instagram, and I love documenting my favorite things of this season through these little shots. 🙂 I only wish I had a better camera phone, since these pictures are less than 2.5 inches, way smaller than I’d like to use on a 12×12 page, and for my Project Life album.. It doesn’t stop me from using them anyway, though! 🙂

Happy DSD!

November 3, 2012 | cristina

It’s DSD at The Lilypad, the November BYOC is in the store, and two of my designers are guest designing there, so I have been busy this week! 😉 First off, here’s what I did with Mari Koegelenberg’s bits,
mixed in with a couple of other BYOC products.

Credits:

Templates: Shaped Up v4 – Banners and Needed More Stitching Bundle by Amy Martin

Hello Gorgeous papers, Hello Gorgeous elements and Block it out alpha by Mari Koegelenberg

Messy Marvin vol. 3 by Amy Wolff

The Hammer Head font by Heather Hess

I made this page for one of the DSD challenges in the forum – check them out (this is challenge #2)! Next up is a card I made with Sahlin Studio goodies and some gorgeous word art by Paislee Press.