Special Saturday Releases!

To make the DSD celebration extra special, after the gorgeous November BYOC releases yesterday the Lilypad designers have prepared some fantastic new releases for today as well! There is no way I could possibly scrap with all of today’s new releases, but I tried to use as many as I could, because they are all irresistible! First off, I scrapped with this super sweet kit by Kaye Winiecki:

Chocolate is a must in our family 🙂 and I happened to have some very recent pictures of chocolate covered strawberries that begged to be scrapped. 😉

Heavenly Chocolate

Credits:
Chocoholic by Kaye Winiecki
The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

Then I used a gorgeous travel kit by one of the many talented guest designers, Fruitloop Sally, which was perfect to scrap our car ride when my mom came to visit:

Mom's Visit Day 16 - Road Trip

Credits:
Roadtrip by Fruitloop Sally
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

And more from guest designers Sabrina Dupre, Kitty Designs and Fruitloop Sally!

I love these bright colors!

Mom's Visit Day 15

Credits:
Everyday Memories by Sabrina Dupre Designs
Also a Very Small Alpha by Allison Pennington
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Happy DSD!

It’s Digital Scrapbooking Day! It’s one of my favorite times of the year, with great sales and fabulous new releases! The celebration at The Lilypad this weekend will be lots of fun. To kick off the party, the November BYOC is in the store, and there is a free with $15 purchase kit – it’s a huge and beautiful collaboration called Things That Matter Most:

I used it to make a page for one of the special DSD challenges that give you a chance to win a gift card:

Things That Matter Most

Credits:
Things That Matter Most collab by The Lilypad Designers – free with $15 purchase over DSD!!
The Future Freaks Me Out font by Heather Hess

This picture was by no means a great picture, but I love how it turned out after the photo processing. :)! Here are some of the BYOC goodies I played with:

This pack is huge and truly fantastic. It is more than a template pack – the templates come with some very cool elements too (like paint splatters and frames), plus there is a paper pack and an alpha. A really cool concept!

I combined all of these fabulous goodies on this page:

Mom's Visit Day 13 - Simply Lovely

Credits:
Life Tale Sketches 4 by Kitty Designs
Owl’ll Always Love You by Emily Merritt
Hometown elements by Lauren Reid
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

And here are more BYOC products that I have used and love:

I love how the cutout frames made it easy to do this multi-photo page! And I am totally in love with that deep green color!

Mom's Visit Day 14: Soft Shell Crab

Credits:
Fall Cutouts and It Is Paint by Amy Martin
Owl’ll Always Love You paper (used on the frame) by Emily Merritt
For the Boys Paper Pack by Amy Wolff (background)
Cottage Sunrise alpha by CD Muckosky
The Dot Connector font by Heather Hess
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Last night I went on a scrapping marathon and did another page with more BYOC goodies:

I hadn’t realized I never scrapped DH’s cake pictures from last year, I’m so glad I dug them up! 🙂

Autumn Birthday Cake

Credits:
Milkweed by Sara Gleason
Hand-Drawn Alpha Circles by Designs by Lili
Awesome Sauce Alpha by Karah Fredricks
Love Is {Keely} Dates Pack by Karah Fredricks
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Happy DSD, and make sure to stop by tomorrow for more exciting releases! 😉

Leaves Are Falling

I don’t have much to share today, just one page, but I’ve been busy this week! I am leaving Sunday on a business trip so I’ve been trying to get as much scrapping as I can before that – BYOC is next week, and then there’s NSD weekend, so there’s so much to scrap with! Here’s the kit I used out of today’s beautiful new releases at The Lilypad (20% off throughout the weekend):

The colors and the doodled elements in this kit are just gorgeous, and I love how this page turned out!

Leaves Are Falling

Credits:
Leaves are Falling by Emily Merritt and Kate Hadfield
Topography Set No. 14 by Valorie Wibbens
Font: Typewriterhand

I am happy to say that the leaves in our front yard have mostly been blown away by the wind, and this saves us from a lot of work. Unfortunately our backyard is fenced in so we do have to pick up the leaves there, but they haven’t all fallen yet. I will try to take pictures before and after our yard work so I can use the pretty rake and leaves bag elements in this kit!

Hope for Melissa

I have something very, very special to share today. The designers at The Lilypad have put together an amazing collaboration kit for a very sweet girl, Melissa, who is on the CT at The Lilypad and is fighting hard against ovarian cancer. I did not know Melissa prior to joining the CT, but by checking out her blog I soon found out what a special person she is. And this kit is in honor of Melissa; all proceeds from the sale will go to her and her family as they keep fighting this battle.

The kit is gorgeous, truly gorgeous, and it is special in so many ways. So if you buy just one kit this week – heck, if you buy just one kit this month! – let this be it.

I can see myself scrapping many, many page with this kit – it’s so big and versatile! Here are two pages I’ve made so far:

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: Filled with Love

Credits:
All (including template) from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: Art

Credits:
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Incidentally, these are the first photos I edited with RadLab and scrapped – love them!

I have more great news, and another page to share. It’s time for the quarterly 30% off sale at The Lilypad, so make sure you take advantage of it this weekend!

I used this gorgeous new kit by Jenna Desai and Micheline Martin:

to scrap this page:

Togetherness

Credits:
Template by Sara Gleason from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Togetherness by Jenna Desai and Micheline Martin

Sigh. I’ve scrapped that photo before, but lately DH has been particularly reluctant in taking pictures. I will force him to take a few this weekend, so I can swap the new photo in this page. 🙂

SOSN

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This week the 50% SOSN sale at The Lilypad is especially tempting! There are lots of products too good to pass! Here are a few I have used:

and here are the pages I did:

Mom's Visit Day Thirteen: Pretty Outfit

Credits:
Love Is {Keely} Wire Alpha by Karah Fredricks
White and Black papers by Emily Merritt
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Mom's Visit Day 14: Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Credits:
New by Allison Pennington
Template by Sara Gleason from the Hopping Halloween collab by The Lilypad Designers
Finishing Touches 2 by Karah Fredricks
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

I’m trying really hard to finish scrapping all the pictures from my mom’s visit in spring before she comes to visit again next month, otherwise I know they’ll never get scrapped! I have been making slow and constant progress, but this is going to be a huuuge album! I’m at about 45 pages scrapped, and I will have to do at least 10 more. Help! 🙂

Almost Forgot!

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With all the excitement for the Halloween Bash at The Lilypad this past weekend, I forgot to post a new card I did with lots of Sahlin Studio goodies, including some new releases and some October BYOC products.

How gorgeous are they?! 😉 Here is my card:

Happy Halloween card

Credits:

Halloween Blog Hop

What better kit for a blog hop that the awesome Hopping Halloween by the designers from The Lilypad and Oscraps? 😉 The collab is on sale this weekend, so make sure to grab it now!

My favorite Halloween picture is one from kindergarten. I was dressed up as a witch, and my mom had made me a lovely lil’ broom. So I scrapped this page with it:

Little Witch

and I turned this into a quick page for you all to have! I hope you like it! Make sure to leave me a comment if you download. 🙂 ETA Nov. 5 – thanks for your interest, the freebie has expired.

Now, it’s time to head over to the next spooky fabulous stop of the blog hop, Diane’s blog. If you get lost, head back to the blog at Oscraps and keep in mind the blog is scheduled to go live on Saturday, so be patient if not all the links are there. And have fun! 🙂

Stop by the forum at The Lilypad for fun games and prizes!

Autumn

It’s my favorite day of the working week: SOSN day, with beautiful old and new products 50% off! Simply irresistible! Here are a few of the goodies on sale today at The Lilypad:

And here is my page:

3 Days of Autumn

Credits:
White and Black papers by Emily Merritt
Wax Werx and Funk-a-Dellic Falling by CD Muckosky
Girls Rule alpha by Kelly Schmidt
autumn moon papers by Sahlin Studio
Glue and Scraps element pack by Karah Fredricks
Halloween Kraft Alpha by Kelly Schmidt Designs
The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

Autumn is such a beautiful season. We’ve had gorgeous weather for the past week, although it looks like it will soon turn for the worse.